http://staples55.com In memory of our years at Staples Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:04:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Succumbing to illness after many years, our class spokesman/master of ceremonies, Don vonLiebermann, passed away peacefully at his home in Weston last Friday, April 2. His obituary is posted at westportnow.com which you can read here. From the obit: "Friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian burial Thursday, ... http://staples55.com/?p=915 A film about the 50's will be shown this coming week (April 5) at the Westport Library (thanks for email forward, Linda). It's a 40-minute film followed by discussion. Assuming it's a legitimate photo of a Westport gas station in the 1950s (click to enlarge), I cannot make out or ... http://staples55.com/?p=912 Remember Miss Comer's dance classes? With Don Freeman helping jog my low battery recollection, here is our best effort to date at identifying the young worthies in this group. If you'd like to comment on this post, please use the icon, below, to do so. In that way you can ... http://staples55.com/?p=907 UPS/FedEx/DHL Delivery Failure . This one's real. You can verify/read about it here. This latest virus that's circulating is the "UPS/Fed Ex Delivery Failure", initially launched in July, 2008. It will be an email from UPS or FedEx or DHL along with a packet number. It will say that they ... http://staples55.com/?p=904 Here, thanks to the contributions of several classmates—and in particular, thanks to the amazing feat of memory of Don Freeman (whom we used to know as Donnie Ohanian)—we have identified everyone in this photo. Or nearly so. Click the photo on the Bedford Elementary School Milestones page to read the ... http://staples55.com/?p=899 I found the following information posted at the Rootsweb website. The exact name spelling (Fraser Wood Smith), the fact that the birthdate is in range (August '36), and the fact that his Social Security card was issued in CT—all seem to confirm, according to my research advisor, John Ottinger, that ... http://staples55.com/?p=896 What I remember as a scout motto was "Be brave, loyal, courteous, kind...", etc. But that may have been the Boy Scout motto. "Do Your Best" is the current Cub Scout motto. In any case I found this 1947 scouting gem (bottom of page) in a photo album but was ... http://staples55.com/?p=877 Will someone please tell us the year in which this was taken? Which class: 6th? Or more like 3rd grade? Please click Comments link, below, to reply. We've had this conversation before, and there seems to be no authoritative answer—nor a consensus. Tom Saviano thinks it must be the ... http://staples55.com/?p=888 If we define "the internet" in very basic terms as "computer-to-computer communication" or "intercomputer communication", then our man, Larry, has every right to be known as the "father of the internet". Good grief! What an accomplishment by our own classmate! Thanks to Noel (who headed up an engineering firm, ... http://staples55.com/?p=879 Westport-Now.com Mario Sacco, long-time co-owner of Mario's Place in Saugatuck, died Sunday (July 5th) while on a visit to Mississippi, according to westport-now.com. The caption for the photo reads: Black bunting went up today across the entrance to Mario’s Place on Railroad Place in Westport’s Saugatuck section after word was ... http://staples55.com/?p=875