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News!Please note: this site has not been maintained or updated since early 2011. Visit the John Bowne Alumni Facebook Page (valid as late as 2013... will it last?) to contact classmates. For information about the late Susan (Shoshana) Rothazier, join her memorial page in Yahoo. The web update form for this site has been deleted. Contact Marion Leeds Carroll privately for more details.
Yearbook.com has posted the entire John Bowne '69 yearbook! I'm glad now that we never got around to scanning a random copy & posting it on this site. Okay, it doesn't have the note from that cute kid in Mr. Wisner's class, or the joke from your long-lost friend in chemistry... but it's better than the moldy old copy rescued from the basement flood, no? Email from Sue Rothaiser 6/27/10: Dear Classmates,
From the official John Bowne Alumni site: Greetings Alumni, The school does not financially support the John Bowne Alumni site, so to help cover costs we are having a Spring membership push. We are encouraging all alumni to become upgraded lifetime members. Get your full access lifetime membership right now for a one time fee of $10.00, before we change the fee to $10.00 per year. Use this link to become an upgraded lifetime member: https://www.alumniclass.com/johnbowne/login-spr?uri=/johnbowne/members/activate Thanks for your support! Thanks, Randy
Reunion Plans, 2009 The 40th reunion for the Class of 1969 took place on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Fill out this Reunion Questionnaire in Word & send it to Sue! More on our Reunion Page If you're coming to the reunion, and you already mailed your check, great! If you haven't replied, please do, because we need an accurate count in order to have enough food at the party. Also, at the reunion, people will wear a button with their photo copied from the yearbook, with their names in large letters, and this takes time. So, please let us hear from you sooner rather than later. Write to sue_bowne69@yahoo.com Thank you! If you are interested in joining the reunion committee, please contact Sue Rothaizer at sue_bowne69@yahoo.com or 718-261-9655 (or see discussions on our Reunion page!) We're looking for a volunteer to scan and print facsimile copies of our yearbook, to provide at the reunion. Contact Sue Rothaizer at sue_bowne69@yahoo.com or 718-261-9655 if you'd like to help! ==Our Yahoo Group, formed by Alice Gadeloff Graves, has an active discussion going about plans for the next Reunion. Join in!
Visit the group's home page to sign up and chat! ==We have a Facebook group: John Bowne '69. If you're a FaceBook member, contact Marion Carroll via Facebook, & I'll invite you to join the group. ==We're active in Classmate.com ... I've even found a faculty member (Alice Gross) there. ====Download a PDF of our Commencement Program! - provided by classmate Linda Falcone Murawski.
==Shameless plug: The 6th Annual Sing To Cure MS concert, which benefits the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, is planned for October 26, 3-5 PM, in Arlington, MA. Be in touch with Marion if you'd like to help out with the concert, which will be supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council! ==More news as it breaks! - Marion |
Where is John Bowne High School?
It's still there, at 63-25 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11367
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Memories: We, having avoided the fate of the mythical student who could not escape this block of schools, have survived to remember the year 1969: |
- the stupid '69 jokes
- the war (visit http://www.vietnampix.com/ for photos, or http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/ for a PBS story...)
- Woodstock (visit http://www.woodstock69.com/ for memories!)
- the trip to the moon (visit http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm for memories.)
and John Bowne during the school year 1968-69:
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Progress: We haven't stayed at John Bowne all this time. Even those who have returned (yes, there are such!) have gone far and done much that we never could have imagined when we were kids.
This is our web site. Let's share our memories! - both of high school and of the years since. Fill out the JBHS '69 Update Form to have your personal information included on this site, or just send a message to the webmistress at bowne@leedscarroll.com with ideas for what you'd like to add to this site.
Shameless plug! Since I am the Webmistress here, I'm including a link to information about my Fourth Annual Benefit Concert: Sing To Cure MS, to benefit the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. You can donate directly to the Cure Project, in my name if you'd like, or in the name of anyone else you know who has MS. You can also purchase a CD of the 3rd annual, October 2005. concert.
View a piece of history: our Alma Mater, in the original mimeographed version, provided by the composer, Alice Gross (fondly remembered as our music teacher, Mrs. Gross).
The myth: He started out in the grade school down the block, continued through the jr. high and high school, and matriculated around the block at Queens College - except that, before he could make it around the corner for his first class, he was hit by a bus and ended up in the cemetery across the street...
The joke: Okay, do you really need to hear the whole thing again? Isn't it enough to say, "What do you want with Beef-and-Broccoli at this hour?!"
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Marion Leeds Carroll
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last updated 12/13/13