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Monica Kanopka (Borys)

Then

Children:	2
Occupation:	Retired
Comment: After Graduation, I went to the University of Maryland at College Park. Married my childhood sweetheart, Leon. and moved to East Brunswick. We had 2 boys- Leon and John - who have since married and given us 2 wonderful daughters-in- law and 5 grandchildren ( 4 boys and 1 princess). Leon worked as an Oracle consultant and I worked in Marketing for Thrivent Financial until I retired in 2012. Moved to Ocean County to be closer to the shore. We spend our time on LBI with friends at Spray Beach Yacht Club where Lee was Commodore. We love to travel and plan to go to Tuscany with friends this Fall. Looking forward to our reunion to see old friends and talk about what we've been up to.

Sharon Kulesza

Children:	1
Occupation:	home health care

Brenda Langan (Dilts)

Then

Now

Children:	1
Occupation:	retired teacher
Comment: It's hard to believe it's been 50 years since we've graduated from HCHS! I always look back with fondness of my high school years. After college, I spent 30 years teaching 1st Grade in Blackwood, NJ. I really loved teaching 6 & 7 year old children and thought I would miss it when I retired but I did not. I retired in 2004 and my husband Tom and I moved to Fort Myers, Fl. We love to travel and especially enjoy river cruising. We will be cruising in June on the Seine and Rhone rivers in France so unfortunately I'll miss the class reunion. I have a great daughter, a wonderful husband, had a rewarding career and now have a busy, active retirement life.

Bob Lewis

Then

Now

Children:	1
Occupation:	retired fed
Comment: Went off to West Point in the summer of ’68, but didn’t stay beyond the summer plebe program. Attended Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, 1968 to 1974, with (ahem) some breaks/brakes. For instance, I was at Trenton State for a semester in, I think, Spring of 1972. Might have been the Fall of ’71. College years, ya know…hazy. Graduated BA in Speech and Drama (and a “minor in ROTC”) in summer of 1974. Picked up another “minor” in waitering, bartending, and hotel catering during some of those academic breaks, including an interesting stint helping to run a dinner theater. Went around the world (quickly) the summer of ’71. (Its easier than the usual student hardship tour when your dad is still working for the airlines.) Saw a bunch of capitals (and airports), but had a pretty cool train trip from Istanbul to Copenhagen, with a side stop one afternoon to call on Kitty Tuller during her Student Exchange. I vastly improved my life and worth to the world in March of 1974 by marrying this cute redheaded science fiction fan named Beth, who used to be the only other one staying up til 0200 in the student lounge to catch the really weird movies. Immediately upon securing her promise of lifelong support, I hauled her off from Texas to Canada to ski for her honeymoon. She had seen snow actually covering the ground ~12 times in her life before that. (Skiing was another one of those “academic break” minors.) On Active Duty with U.S. Army 1975 to 1986. I was a Military Intelligence officer. (Pause for all the standard jokes about the juxtaposition of those two words, and the mandatory comment that if I told you more I’d have to kill you.) Served in Massachusetts, Arizona, Korea, Germany, and Texas. I guess the biggest thing I learned in those years is that leading people isn’t about telling them what to do; it’s mostly about getting them to want to do what needs to get done, and providing top cover. I worked for the DoD from 1986 to 2013. Still doing intelligence initially, then transitioned slowly to IT operations, via some crossover projects I worked on during the early days of networking. I studied North Korean roads, rails, bridges and ports, among other things – they stink, BTW. I was the 24/7 oversight & crisis management guy for a major agency IT infrastructure and some of the DOD’s global networks for the last dozen years of my professional career. That was during the years when we were learning to cope with the dangers that go along with massive networks (viruses, worms, etc), and I quess that the most memorable event (that I can mention) is the time I got to (had to, really) shut down completely a global network, to protect it. Well, that and the day that the renovation contractor cut all the 1500 phone lines into our HQ by accident. Had to go to the parking lot with a cell phone to tell my boss. Retired last day or 2013. Been playing games, skiing, and trying to get my post-teen son, Robin, through his high school years since then. Robin is autistic, and close support has been important. He is 20 now, and another year to go in his high school program. Beth still works as a Librarian for Prince George’s County here in Maryland. She done that at just half-time (20 hours) for the last twenty years, and still loves it. The right balance of “out” time and adult stimulation to go with the two children she has at home. (Ahem, for those who didn’t get that, Robin is our only offspring, but there are, in her view, still 2 children at home.) See y’all later, Bob The picture is the only one I had in e-form of all of us. Robin, Bob (blurry), and Beth at a taping of Jeopardy, Robin's favorite.

Jim Looloian

Then

Now

Occupation:	retired pilot
Comment: After college, I joined the Navy and by the mid 70's was stationed in San Diego. Harrie Copeland was also stationed in San Diego and we shared an apartment until we went on our Western Pacific Cruises. Harrie was on a destroyer escort and I was on an aircraft carrier. I was lucky enough to deliver an F-14 to Isfahan, Iran. I was invited to a birthday party of "real" Armenians, living in Isfahan, just because of my last name. After leaving the Navy, I was hired by PSA, a small airline based in San Diego. I met my wife, Eileen, at PSA and we eventually moved to Bakersfield, Ca. to a water ski lake. PSA was bought by USAir and then merged with American Airlines prior to my retirement in 2014. After the merger I was based in Philadelphia, so I commuted from California for eight years, then we moved back to the Philadelphia area in 1998. We still travel in our RV-10, a four seat airplane I built ten years ago. Last year we flew it to the Bahamas with friends in two other airplanes. We have flown it all over the U.S. with a few trips to Oshkosh for the annual E.A.A. fly-in.

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retired pilot

Comment: After college, I joined the Navy and by the mid 70's was stationed in San Diego. Harrie Copeland was also stationed in San Diego and we shared an apartment until we went on our Western Pacific Cruises. Harrie was on a destroyer escort and I was on an aircraft carrier. I was lucky enough to deliver an F-14 to Isfahan, Iran. I was invited to a birthday party of "real" Armenians, living in Isfahan, just because of my last name.

After leaving the Navy, I was hired by PSA, a small airline based in San Diego. I met my wife, Eileen, at PSA and we eventually moved to Bakersfield, Ca. to a water ski lake. PSA was bought by USAir and then merged with American Airlines prior to my retirement in 2014. After the merger I was based in Philadelphia, so I commuted from California for eight years, then we moved back to the Philadelphia area in 1998.

We still travel in our RV-10, a four seat airplane I built ten years ago. Last year we flew it to the Bahamas with friends in two other airplanes. We have flown it all over the U.S. with a few trips to Oshkosh for the annual E.A.A. fly-in.

Jola Maczynski

Then

Children:	2
Occupation:	Cardiac Nurse
Comment: Along with my 1964 GTO, I remember all the many muscle cars that filled the Hunterdon Central parking lots. After I graduated I lived in Panama for a year, my husband was in the military. We had a son Christopher, and a daughter Alexia. We then moved to Rhinebeck, N.Y. to work at the Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. It was a Pre and WWI airshow right out of the early 1900's. I acted in the shows on Saturday and Sunday, as Madame FIFI, the nurse, and Trudy Truelove when she was away. During the week I would work on the aircraft, covering wings, the fuselage, tail sections with fabric, then rib stitching it all together. I also painted the insignias for the different type of aircraft...French, British, German, etc.. It was a great honor to work with all the Old Timers that started the show. I got a divorce, raised my two little ones alone while I attended College for nursing, and continued to work on antique aircraft for a different company. Graduated, and worked as a Cardiac Nurse until I retired. My best to everyone!

June Manners (Van why)

Then

Now

Occupation:	Senior phlebotomist

myron maron

Then

Children:	2
Occupation:	family physician
Comment: hi after HCHS I started at Boston University where I was able to both take advantage of the joys of the 60s and graduate premed with majors in math and psychology. Then I attended Boston University school of Medicine, followed by a Family Practice residency on Long Island. Since then I had the priviledge of starting and developing a rural group practice. on the personal side, I am happily married to Suri. We have 2 children. a daughter with 3 children, and a son still in school. he is currently working on a masters degree in China. I have alo enjoyed various meditation practices, and untill recently we had 2 great horses. we also enjoy our wonderfull dog, Raffi. we have traveled and recently toured Vietnam and China with our son. Myorn

Fred Miller

Then

Children:	2
Occupation:	retired
Comment: After HCHS I entered the Air Force. I left the Air Force in 1972, married my wife Nipa, and stated my 39 year career in the phone business. We lived in Hopewell, NJ. I started my phone career at a small indepent phone company that eventually was purchased by United Telephone later to be Sprint, then Embarq, and now Century Link. I worked several jobs with the phone company and covered the entire state of NJ. Surprising I only met a few classmates over the years. In 2011 I retired and a year later we moved to Florida. I enjoy fishing ,site seeing ,and the warm weather. I also spend time on my daughter's vacation home, 3 miles away, that was damaged by 2 huricanes. Our son lives there and my daughter is in DC. I have traveled to 47 of our states only missing Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.

william moncrief

Then

Now

Children:	3
Occupation:	fishing, cars, rowing, opinion giving
Comment: What have you been up to these past 50 years or so… The reminds me of the classic lines of a Mike (Zane Raven) Kratzer song: “She’s got a smile so bright she looks like an Airstream trailer”. That song, at one point asks and answers: “So what the hell you been doing, these past few years…?” “Me I’m still down at the garage, doin’ rolled and tucked interiors…” The things we remember… 50 years is a daunting time line to give any sort of a concise accounting, especially when you consider that back when we graduated: there were no cell phones, no personal computers, no e-mail, no internet and no Alexa play lists. NASA wouldn’t get to the moon for another year and that very same next year, in college, was probably when we got our first face book, the stapled paper kind… 50 years, half a century… some things have changed mightily, yet some others, not so much… We were at war in Vietnam then, and still at war in Afghanistan today, (not counting Iraq and Syria…) We went from HS days when you couldn’t smoke in the bathroom, after graduation to when we could… back to when we can’t again… We can never go back to our Junior Prom (I must remark here that Miss Moira O’Dwyer was absolutely stunning! She wore a blue gown, if my memory’s vision is correct…) No, we can not go back to the innocence of the Junior Prom, but those of us who persevere and survive perhaps another few decades, will quite possibly, at some point likely be eligible for another “Senior Prom” …You know, the one down at the Senior Center …with 39 old ladies (each, no doubt, with multiple cats), and a few old guys, who finally find it a lot easier to get a date! Me personally, these past 50 years? Most importantly, I’ve been married to my College sweetheart, Eileen, for just shy of 45 years now. We have two Daughters and a Son. They are all married and so far, we have been blessed with 4 grandchildren. We are extremely fortunate that our family all reside within a 2-hour drive, and we see everyone frequently. We are both mostly retired now. Eileen is teaching her last Sociology course at the Community College. I have a few regular side jobs these days and still trade in old cars. I retired from a career of over 40 years in Govt. real estate, most recently with the Postal Service Facilities Department. One Washington DC carrier highlight, (besides many years of Federal softball competition), whilst at the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, was drafting the Federal Property Master Real Estate Lease documents necessary to implement the Cooperative Use Act. This “Master Lease” document enabled joint private sector and Federal Government development and is still in use today. It is the framework for the Federal Lease contract which provided for the current Trump Hotel, located within the Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Over the years, Eileen and I have lived in DC, VA, PA, CT and 5 years ago, we moved to Westport, MA, which we love! We bought an old farm house to fix up, ended up tearing almost half of it down, and then spent a couple of years to build, remodel and restore it. Westport, MA is actually Massachusetts’ western-most port, bordering RI, hence the name.… We love it. When we moved here, unfortunately we were about a $million short of being able to buy a house actually on the water, but we are close enough. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t drive to the beach, see the blue water, or at least drive to the ocean, often at sunset. Westport has much to recommend it, including a craft brewery, a winery, some great restaurants, lots of live music, and lucky for us, we are friends with Mike, Captain of the “Goose” lobster boat. (his black Lab is also named Goose…) I go Kayak fishing for stripers and cigars in the tidal Westport River with some pals and also belong to a local club where we row 7-man wooden ocean skiffs (which are built by our own Westport School system), although I am not on the racing team… Eileen remains active on the Board and writing grant proposals for the nonprofit we started with some other folks 15 years ago to purchase, preserve and restore “Hill Top”, the CT farmstead of George Hendee, who was the founder of Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Co.. She also keeps bees and gardens extensively. I remain unapologetically a “car guy” continuously afflicted with too many cars and never enough time or garage space… Fixing up and driving old Jaguars, Alfas and MGs with the occasional Lancia and Bentley thrown in, keeps me more than busy. I have had a long history with sports cars and club racing, including some driving, but mostly on the mechanic/crew side of things, many years for my Brother Jim and these days for son Kip.

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fishing, cars, rowing, opinion giving

Comment:

What have you been up to these past 50 years or so… The reminds me of the classic lines of a Mike (Zane Raven) Kratzer song: “She’s got a smile so bright she looks like an Airstream trailer”. That song, at one point asks and answers: “So what the hell you been doing, these past few years…?” “Me I’m still down at the garage, doin’ rolled and tucked interiors…” The things we remember…

50 years is a daunting time line to give any sort of a concise accounting, especially when you consider that back when we graduated: there were no cell phones, no personal computers, no e-mail, no internet and no Alexa play lists. NASA wouldn’t get to the moon for another year and that very same next year, in college, was probably when we got our first face book, the stapled paper kind…

50 years, half a century… some things have changed mightily, yet some others, not so much… We were at war in Vietnam then, and still at war in Afghanistan today, (not counting Iraq and Syria…) We went from HS days when you couldn’t smoke in the bathroom, after graduation to when we could… back to when we can’t again… We can never go back to our Junior Prom (I must remark here that Miss Moira O’Dwyer was absolutely stunning! She wore a blue gown, if my memory’s vision is correct…)

No, we can not go back to the innocence of the Junior Prom, but those of us who persevere and survive perhaps another few decades, will quite possibly, at some point likely be eligible for another “Senior Prom” …You know, the one down at the Senior Center …with 39 old ladies (each, no doubt, with multiple cats), and a few old guys, who finally find it a lot easier to get a date!

Me personally, these past 50 years? Most importantly, I’ve been married to my College sweetheart, Eileen, for just shy of 45 years now. We have two Daughters and a Son. They are all married and so far, we have been blessed with 4 grandchildren. We are extremely fortunate that our family all reside within a 2-hour drive, and we see everyone frequently.

We are both mostly retired now. Eileen is teaching her last Sociology course at the Community College. I have a few regular side jobs these days and still trade in old cars. I retired from a career of over 40 years in Govt. real estate, most recently with the Postal Service Facilities Department. One Washington DC carrier highlight, (besides many years of Federal softball competition), whilst at the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, was drafting the Federal Property Master Real Estate Lease documents necessary to implement the Cooperative Use Act. This “Master Lease” document enabled joint private sector and Federal Government development and is still in use today. It is the framework for the Federal Lease contract which provided for the current Trump Hotel, located within the Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Over the years, Eileen and I have lived in DC, VA, PA, CT and 5 years ago, we moved to Westport, MA, which we love! We bought an old farm house to fix up, ended up tearing almost half of it down, and then spent a couple of years to build, remodel and restore it. Westport, MA is actually Massachusetts’ western-most port, bordering RI, hence the name.… We love it. When we moved here, unfortunately we were about a $million short of being able to buy a house actually on the water, but we are close enough. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t drive to the beach, see the blue water, or at least drive to the ocean, often at sunset. Westport has much to recommend it, including a craft brewery, a winery, some great restaurants, lots of live music, and lucky for us, we are friends with Mike, Captain of the “Goose” lobster boat. (his black Lab is also named Goose…)

I go Kayak fishing for stripers and cigars in the tidal Westport River with some pals and also belong to a local club where we row 7-man wooden ocean skiffs (which are built by our own Westport School system), although I am not on the racing team… Eileen remains active on the Board and writing grant proposals for the nonprofit we started with some other folks 15 years ago to purchase, preserve and restore “Hill Top”, the CT farmstead of George Hendee, who was the founder of Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Co.. She also keeps bees and gardens extensively. I remain unapologetically a “car guy” continuously afflicted with too many cars and never enough time or garage space… Fixing up and driving old Jaguars, Alfas and MGs with the occasional Lancia and Bentley thrown in, keeps me more than busy. I have had a long history with sports cars and club racing, including some driving, but mostly on the mechanic/crew side of things, many years for my Brother Jim and these days for son Kip.

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