2016: GOODBYES ARE SO SAD; FAREWELL HARRY!

Harry Hall and I didn't re-establish contact until computer technology came on the scene. Harry surfed the web and found my Kuser School website www.kuser-school.blogspot.com and we became fast friends. How well I remember Harry and his neighbor Marty Majarowitz walking down Newkirk to Kuser School back in the 1940's Harry and I became very close e-mail swapping friends and carried on nearly daily email exchanges until he became ill a few years ago. I will always remember Harry and his reverence for our school days from Kuser School to Hamilton High. Even though I was a couple years his senior, we had enough in common to proudly claim each other brothers,, even to our birthdays; both of which occur in September; mine on the 29th and Harry's a couple days earlier on the 27th. Rest in peace and finally free from all that pain, Harry. We WILL meet again!

1954: CLEAR THE DECKS! HHS 1954 TO CELEBRATE 60!

This Sunday's "Sentimental Journey" column on page 2 of "The Times" will recall the year 1954 and the many friends I have from that Hamilton High school class. The 1950's are quickly moving back in time with distant memories still retained by those of us in the 70 to 80 age group who remember a much less hectic and slower lifestyle. Back then high school girls wore modest skirts and blouses, and the boys neatly dressed with a necktie or attractive sport shirt. Drugs were sold in a drug store, and Coke was a delicacy at Hamilton High's Park Avenue teen hangout,  "Toon Towne." Weather permitting, this week's Kuser Park Tom Glover music program will concentrate on the great songs from that era.