Reunion Details and Mailing

Check out the details for the August 2009 reunion by clicking here.
A mailing went out at the beginning of February 2009. If you didn’t get one, you can click up there where it says “here” and download one.

Ms Edna Anderson’s 4th Grade – Lakewood

Back Row:
Deb LeRoy, Lori Niebank, Beth Arrison, Cindy Aizkalns, Katie Ebersole, Sue Koterass, Marilyn Osborne, Dave Denn, Shane Farnsworth, Jeff Nelson, Rick Sales

Middle Row:  Edna Anderson, Emily Erickson, Kristin Olson, Kevin Mosher, Dave Page, Tim Klenk, Walden Donelson, Steve Bush, Randy Fletcher

Front Row:  Jennifer Scott, __?__, Terry Ahlgren (?), Kevin Loomis, __?__, Wendy Peterson, Cathy James, Holly Hutchinson, Bruce Robbins, Steve Blake

Remembering the Seventies

Someone sent this to my brother, who sent it to me, and now I’m passing it along to you all:

Remembering the 70’s in Jamestown

You were a kid in the 70s in Jamestown, NY if you remember:

1. There were 2 hospitals in town: WCA and General, and there were 2 movie theaters downtown that really showed movies: The Wintergarden and the Palace
2. King Karl Gustaf of Sweden coming to town in 1976
3. You went to Evans Skateland when it was in Celoron and were shocked when it burned down.
4. Riding your bike on the bumpy brick streets and trying to avoid hitting holes left by missing bricks.
5. You watched Rocketship 7 with Dave Thomas* with Promo the Robot every morning before school.
6. You watched Commander Tom (Tom Jolls) and Dustmop the dog puppet every afternoon, and the Flintstones.
7. You watched Davey and Goliath every Sunday morning – not because you really liked it but basically because you only got 4 channels and nothing else was on.
8. You remember when they built Chautauqua Mall and everyone was upset because it would take business away from downtown Jamestown .
9. You remember downtown: Carnahans, Bigelows then Argersingers, Grants, Murphys, and Hush Puppy Shoe Store, Beneficial Finance, Robert Hall clothes, Day’s Stationery, Shea’s Cleaners, Busty’s Shoe Repair, The Humidor, Arthur Treacher’s.
10. You remember riding the elevator at Bigelow’s, the man or woman who manually stopped it on your floor, and opened the door for you with a crank and the cool payment system where the cashiers put your money into a vacuum tube and sucked it down to the mezzanine; then ladies made change and sent it through the tube back up to you.
11. You remember going to pay bills with your parents at the old City Hall before they built the new one next door with the huge fountain.
12. You remember eating out at Lums, The Red Barn and Colonial Whip
13. You remember buying groceries at Loblaws, Super Duper, Bells and A&P.
14. You shopped in Brooklyn square for shoes at Arcade Shoe Store (under the viaduct), and you ate at Sambo’s
15. On Fairmount Ave. You remember Zayre before it became Walmart (and always had to say the letters as they blinked on: Z-A-Y-R-E), Jamesway, and the Red Coach
16. Your parents took you shopping at Big N on Fluvanna Ave before it became Ames
17. The Mall: York Steak House, National Record Mart, The Front Porch, the big fountain in the middle, Orange Julius, Woolworth, Quality Market with the bins and conveyor belt that took your groceries outside (and we all wanted to ride), Red Baron, Chess King, Wilson’s Leather, The County Seat, Hot Sam Pretzel, Blue Danube,
18. The freaky huge Indian statue near the bridge all shot up with arrows
19. The Midnight Brotherhood Motorcycle Club
20. Marshall Dillons, then Generations, Mickey rats, Gatsby’s, The Big Tree, 2001, Top Hat, Pilly’s Harbor, The Stein, The Villa Capri, Jokers Wild, PDQ, The Chadakoin, The Bee Hive, The four O’Clock Club, Dugan’s, Melody Inn, The Muskie Lounge, The Roadhouse, The Other Side, Third Base Lounge, Trader Jack’s, The Ranch, The Swamp, The College Inn, The Inner Echo, Aardvarks $.10 wings and $.50 pitchers. Nuff said!

* Betcha didn’t know: Dave Thomas’ real name is David Robert Boreanaz and he is the father of David Boreanaz, TV Star (Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bones).

Facebook Group

Are you on Facebook?  If you are, join the group “SWCS 1974!”

Classmate Exhibits Work

Suzette Fischer Paduano’s photos are on display at the Prendergast Library now through February 6th. Read all about it by clicking here.

Way to Go, Trojans!

From a story by Scott Kindberg in the Post-Journal, November 30, 2008:

SYRACUSE – When Southwestern High School football coach Jay Siranni was a young assistant at Maple Grove in 1998, he often heard his boss, Curt Fischer, talk about how the best players perform their best in the biggest games.

They both got to see that first hand on Saturday at the Carrier Dome.

On the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s biggest stage, the Red Dragons and the Trojans proved to the rest of the Empire State that the best Class D and Class C teams do, indeed, reside about 12 miles apart in Chautauqua County.

Maple Grove junior Chris Secky, the most valuable player, tossed three touchdown passes to senior Joe Caporale and ran for two others to lead the top-ranked Red Dragons (13-0) to a 55-7 rout of No. 2 Moriah (12-1) in the Class D final.

Meanwhile, Southwestern junior Zack Sopak, who also earned MVP honors, threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for another to lift the No. 1-ranked Trojans (13-0) to a 35-7 throttling of Croton-Harmon (11-2) in the Class C championship.

The title was the second for Maple Grove – it earned its first 10 years ago – while Southwestern earned its first.

”It’s truly overwhelming,” Fischer said. ”I told our team before the game that there are two (Class D) teams on top of the mountain here today. Who’s going to push the other one off to be on top? Fortunately, we’re standing on top of the mountain today.”

Well, as it turned out, the Red Dragons are happy to share a place on the summit with the school on the other side of Chautauqua Lake.

”Chautauqua County should be proud of these two teams,” Sirianni said.

Go Trojans!

Bryan Bucklin sends this report:

We are going to the state finals for the first time Saturday 2:00 pm anyone wishing to follow the game  you may be able to listen on the internet but I’m not sure  http://wjtn.radiojamestown.com/  also the Buffalo News has been doing a blog with live updates  from the games I’m sure they will do this again next week. http://buffalonews.typepad.com/preptalk/ you can also read the ones from the last two games. Also Maple Grove is playing at 11:00 am Saturday.  GO TROJANS!!!!!

Class of 1964

Hey, look! The class of 1964 is having their reunion the same weekend as we are! From the Post-Journal:

BUSTI – The Southwestern Central School Class of 1964 Reunion Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Charles ”Chip” Stafford, 220 Pine Ridge Road, Busti. All classmates are welcome to attend. The class reunion is scheduled for July 31 and Aug. 1, 2009.

Southwestern Graduate Makes the News!

David Campbell graduated a year or two before us, his sister Laurie the year after.  They were both on the debate team. Some of you may remember their family?  Anyway, check out what David has been up to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

How to RSS Feed

If you have Windows Internet Explorer, do you use the RSS Feed feature?  If not, consider it.  Here’s what it does:  It allows you to mark websites or blogs that you like to visit so that they show up in a list.  It also monitors to see if the site or blog has new content.  Items in the list that are bold have new content that you have not read yet.  It can save you a lot of time!  No more going to check a site only to find out that nothing new has been added.

Here’s how it works.  Find the site you want to mark, then click the RSS Feed button:

After you click it, you will see a screen that looks something like this:

Click “Subscribe to this feed.”

Next you will see this dialog box:

You can change the name if you wan to tmake it more descriptive, or arrange your feeds into folders.  Click “Subscribe” once you have selected your options.

You will get this message indicating your success.

To use the Feed feature, click on the star on the left side of the screen (not the one with the + symbol on it).

Click on “Feeds” if necessary (it might default to “Favorites”).  The items in bold are blogs or sites with new content that you haven’t read yet.

Be warned:  this will only be “remembered” on the computer you set it up on.  If you set it up at home, you won’t see the same list at work.  But you shouldn’t be reading blogs at work anyway, right?

So now you can mark this site so you can monitor feeds and keep up-to-date with classmate news and feel technologically superior to your neighbors.