Riverside HS Hall of Fame Dinner 08--IV

Nelson Hawkins, Linebacker

Left & right: Hall of famer Nelson Hawkins, the preeminent Rams' linebacker, together with Jim Bucci.

RHS Hall of Fame Dinner--3

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Left: Football Tackle Henry Lyczak & Right: Basketball Co-Captain, Harry Johnstone

Left: Henry Lyczak, 1959

Right: Harry Johnstone, 1959

Riverside HS Hall of Fame II

L: L-R Jim Kirk & Center, Gig Berkowitz;
R: Gig Berkowitz, 1959 & below Jim Kirk, 1959


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RHS Sports Hall of Fame Dinner--26 Oct 08--part 1

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left: Quarterback Charlie Zarelli [2008] who spoke representing the great, undefeated football team and its players--Charlie's teaching at a college in Kansas and has taught in China as well Right, Charlie in 1959.







Left photo: Left, Carol Rider & right, Pat Murray

Right: Carol Rider, 1959 & below, Pat Murrayt Murray
both members of the Rams' cheerleaders

Ed Rockstein & Family

Hi! I'm on the left, with my daughter, Ashley, next to me, then my wife, Linda, behind and to Ashley's right. Next in the back is my son, Geoff, and his wife, Vicki, and daughter, Fiona, in front and to his right.

I'm retired from the Department of Defense and now work teaching Korean language and translation as a government contractor. My wife is a librarian who specializes in children's literature. Geoff and Vicki met at MIT where he studied mathematics (my son?) and Vicki studied electrical engineering. They both have masters' from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Geoff has has his law degree from Columbia. Geoff is now a patent attorney in Boston. This picture was taken on Ashley's wedding day last year.

Linda and I met while I was teaching Korean language and literature at Indiana University and she was in graduate library school there.

Linda and I have lived and worked in Germany and Japan.

That's kind of my life in a nutshell since 1959.

I hope we can get you to send pictures and update us about what you've been doing these last 50 years!

Linda and I live in Maryland and plan to make it to the reunion. See you there, I hope.

Our Foreign Exchange Students

Can You Name These Strangers in a Strange Land?

Girls' Varsity Basketball Team

Whom Do You Recognize?

Senior ClassPlay

The Man Who Came to Dinner


Recognize any of the usual suspects?

Carol Bishop

Carol Bishop

I retired in 1998 and hopped on a bike. Cycled with my husband until I wore him out and then I found a group of retirees who go out from Medford twice a week for rides of 30-40 miles with stops at Conte's for an apple cider doughnut.

In 1996 my bike total for the year topped 3,000 miles. My goal is to see all 50 states. I've added 4 this year with Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Illinois.

My other hobby is that I am an avid birder (birdwatcher to you folks) and trips to see various birds have taken me to many of our states. My total North American species is 608. Two states left, Kansas and Iowa, which I hope to visit next year.

I do hope to see many of you in 2009!

Riverside High School Class Reunion 2009

October 9, 2008

Hello Classmates,


We’ve got some exciting news for you. The 50th Class Reunion will be held at the newly renovated Riverton Country Club on Saturday, Sept. 26th, 2009. Please save that date. We are trying to plan other weekend activities for those of you that might be making the trip from out of town, such as a possible visit to RHS. More details later on all of this – and if there are things that you want to see included, speak up!


Right now we need to decide what size room to reserve at the Country Club. We are hoping that because this is certainly a special number – our 50th – that many of you will make the effort to come and get reacquainted, talk about old times and the fun that we had for those four years. We are aware that these are tough times financially for a lot of people; so we are trying to keep the single ticket price to $55.00.


In order to minimize cost, we are utilizing email for those classmates for whom we have addresses. Please, if you have an email address, let Carol Bishop know at cabishop57@juno.com. If you have Internet access, check out the website that Ed Rockstein has added at http://59rams.blogspot.com. Add your comments there!

Your reunion committee- Carol Bishop, Mike Chiaccio, Sande Gamble Martin, Harry Johnstone, Marge Leusner Stokes, Joy Page Canduci, Joan Pfeil Chiaccio, Carol Rider Fitzpatrick, and Gail Wolff Fynan – have been meeting regularly and trying to plan a good time for all. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to call Mike Chiaccio – 856-764-7153, or Marge Stokes – 856-461-2463 or Gail Fynan-461-6882.

So now, be a dear and copy and paste Carol's email address above into your email address book and email the information below to help us plan for how many will attend. This is NOT a commitment. Thank you and see you next September, 2009!

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

email to Carol Bishop before November 5,2008


____ Yes, I am looking forward to the reunion and probably will attend.

_______ number attending

_____ Just not sure yet.

____ I doubt that I will make it

___________________________________Name and address


___________________________________ Your email address

Send Stuff!

Send me your jpg pictures scanned from our high school days or to show how great you and yours look today. Send stories about our old school days or about what you've done neat or interesting in your lives. No audio or video files please although links to such would be fine! Tell everybody if you think you'll make the big gathering! Let's hear from you. Email your stuff to me at ed4linda@yahoo.com and I'll organize it and get it up on line.