So nu?

It is so close to the end of August, it is unbelievable.

Not only that....school is starting the week before Labor Day. There goes my timely First Day of School Trip to Seaside! Not only is Sept. 2nd out because I have my first seasonal H&R Block class that morning, because it is before Labor Day they'll still be charging to get on the beach. Hmph!

I set the next DEAR lunch for the 24th and now I realize that's the NJREA Fall meeting/lunch date. Sadly, most of my people won't care, but I'm pretty sure Marge will go to that one. I can change it, but Jean Zensen changed her doctor's appt. so she could be there on the 24th and I already told people that was the date.....

No update from BCEA about the demise of my website (for the "new and improved" version). I guess it's off as of Sept. 5th as per original announcement.

We made travel plans- Florida in December, Arizona in March, Myrtle Beach in May. We were going to head down to FL and then back up from Myrtle Beach....until I realized that meant I wouldn't be home for the May 2016 h.s. reunion I've been working on and looking forward to.
So now we have different plans under consideration, but not yet booked.

The Brewins are going to be in town in mid-September. We definitely want to catch up with them this time.

I just found out that Corry, our cousin, was just operated on for colon cancer in a New York City hospital. He went in for other issues and they found it and hope that it was early enough to get it all, but he still needs chemo. Apparently he lives very spartanlike (without the fighting) in N. Jersey and is all alone there. Luckily Alex lives in Manhattan now and was instrumental in working with the hospital for him. His sister Vivien may be there now, staying at Alex's. I just happened to write an email to Sue and Jenn and Alex this morning and Sue wrote back with that news. He would much prefer to spend his recovery period in NC with his wife, Sharon. I don't know what is going to happen. I'm just glad they found it early and his prognosis is good.

We went out dancing last night and got Pat straightened out with her tax situation. Maybe we'll dance tonight too. :-)

Good-bye BCEA Webmaster

BCEA has decided to forego the current website format and use NJEAsites in its place. Just as was the case in yesteryear, the BCEA Second Vice President is going to be taking care of both the newsletter and the website. I wish him well.

In other news, we were all ready to head to AC for the Rascal Flatts concert when we checked the weather and saw the thunderstorm/heavy rain forecast for the showtime. Sadly, we decided to stay home. I hope our decision turns out to be the correct one for our situation.

Reunion Info Update

The May 13-15, 2016 reunion for Piscataway classes of 1965, 1966, and 1967 is being worked on.

 I am trying to gether classmates to let them know about it. This is not an easy task. (especially with a second reunion for the same group happening in October, 2016 with a big database of classmates from when we were all working together on just one event).

 Be that as it may, here are our avenues of contact:
 On Facebook, Kathy Klastava and I have been posting about it on our personal pages.

She has it as a Facebook event, but needs to get invitations to it out to people.

There is a facebook page called Fiftyish Reunion  that promotes the reunion as well as being a meeting place for relevant class members. There are limited participants so far, not only for the difficulty in contacting people about it (Facebook charges money to "boost" posts on it) (you can only invite friends or "share the site" with a proscribed list of email address on like yahoo or something....too wide a group) but also for the fact that many friends who were invited to "like" the page apparently didn't know how to click the button to do so. Oy.

So far there have been page posts asking questions, but the only responder, basically, is me!

Info about it is on classmates website  and the Piscataway alumni site

I sent a personal letter to almost every class of '67 member on classmates.com, but had a very limited response. The people who responded were interested and happy to hear from me, but I fear that site is outdated and people probably don't even have their same contact info as they did when they first signed on years ago and who looks at it if they don't notify you about a message?

There is an official reunion webpage- http://piscatawayreunion.homestead.com
and I am using the contact page on it to create a Directory so people can find out where everyone is now and what they've been up to....and to make life a lot easier for the contacting classmates for the next reunion.

Kathy handed out some flyers around town.

Erna has been calling people.

I was in contact with a Class of '64 graduate who forwarded a note from me to his group, asking if they had brothers, sisters, friends from our classes they are still in touch with. I have no responses from that avenue yet, except he sent it to teachers, too, and I heard from Pat Manfredi, my English teacher!

I am looking forward to seeing Eric Haines again after all these years. He is on the committee now and another meeting is going to be happening soon, hopefully.

I am also looking forward to seeing Norm Winter, the PTHS teacher who is going to be the guest speaker at the reunion and get back in touch with Sue Hayes Winter, my former Overbrook Rd. neighborhood friend.

I am looking forward to seeing all my classmates! I look through the yearbook and smile at all the photos and can't wait to see them in person!

The summer is flying by :-(

I posted a pool exercise video that looked very do-able so I could save it in case I ever run into a pool... Yesterday we drove to Brooklyn for Juni's first birthday party.

We had a lot of fun. Jackson was there and we met Karey's mom, Beverly, and sister, Lauren, who live in Florida. They have a lot of friends who came with their children...toddlers and babies. One baby was just a few weeks old! I loved that some of them became friends at their pre-natal yoga class. :-)

Here's the link for the party pics: https://tomro.shutterfly.com/nykayes/172

We found out that Doug Brewin was playing in Sea Isle City and really wanted to go, but we were exhausted after the high traffic four hours of driving to Brooklyn, and we never made it.
I see I haven't written for over a month or so. Lots of things have been going on. Maybe I should write here more.
Also, Margie Ferrare, what is going on with you (my only reader!) <3 you! Feel free to comment on this blog or write to me!

Wish I had a pool for these exercises!

Stay cool and get 6-pack abs with this easy pool workout:

Posted by PopSugar Fitness on Saturday, July 4, 2015