| Date: Wed 11/2/11 6:22PM From: Steve Cohen Email: buzz5571@gmail.com Message: It is sad to report that Abraham Lincoln Junior High School will close next September. I was in the cla** of '58 and my picture lies here with 9sp1 a group of highly motivated bright boys and girls who went on to do big things. I was in a two year SP cla** and loved my time at 171. I went on to be a teacher in the same district (19) at I.S. 292 and eventually a new york city principal for a number of years, now retired. They may take down the bricks but they will never take away the fond memories I had during my two years there. The school is one of a number of schools that is closing due to poor test results. I salute all the former teachers, students and administrators who had success at this wonderful school. |
| Date: Sat 10/29/11 8:43AM From: Fran Polimine Fleming Email: fleming257@gmail.com Message: Message for Roger Gapinski.....no, sorry don't recall if I knew your brother Gerry. I graduated 171 in 1961 also, but entered the 9th grade very late in the school year. I really didn't have the opportunity to make many friends or remember names. I didn't attend FK Lane. |
| Date: Wed 10/26/11 7:29AM From: Roger Ski Gapinski Email: ski@gapinski.net Message: To Fran Polimine Fleming - did you know my brother, Gerry Gapinski? He was in 9-8 and graduated PS 171 in 1961. Then went to FK Lane. |
| Date: Mon 10/24/11 9:51AM From: Fran (Polimine) Fleming Email: fleming@gmail.com Message: This message is for Roger Ski Gapinski.....yes, I do have a younger brother named Joe. I will definitely pa** this information on to him. Great photos..great website. Thanks for writing. |
| Date: Mon 10/24/11 7:42AM From: Roger Ski Gapinski Email: ski@gapinski.net Message: To Fran Polimine Fleming. Do you have a brother Joe? If so, we were in 9th grade together at PS 171 in cla** 9-6 (1964). See photos under PS 171. |
| Date: Sun 10/23/11 3:02PM From: harold Smith Email: bixo31@yahoo.com Message: for Sam Pedalino, were you in my 8f cla** ps 171? |
| Date: Sat 10/22/11 12:14PM From: Fran (Polimine) Fleming Email: fleming257@gmail.com Message: This message is for Ray Colvin. I'm pretty sure I remember you from Herbies on Ridgewood Avenue. Back in the early sixties I would spend a lot of time there with a cherry coke and a bag of chips!! I remember Ronnie O'hara and his sister Eileen - Maureen Quinlin, Jeanette, Kevin and George Stutsky (sp?) I am in contact with Joe Fodera who lived across the street from Herbies. An old flame!! LOL. If you are the same Ray - please say hi. This site is wonderful!! |
| Date: Sat 10/22/11 8:43AM From: Sam Pedalino Email: sampedalino@yahoo.com Message: Ray did you have a brother Walter? Also, wasn't Herbies the place where the owner had TB or something and had to close down. |
| Date: Sat 10/15/11 4:06PM From: RAY COLVIN Email: HODADDIE@VERIZON.NET Message: LEFT B'KLYN IN 69 BUT MEMORIESARE STILL VIVID LIVED AT 45 CHESTNUT 1948 TO 1969.WENT TO BLESSED SACRAMENT WORKED AT HERBIES AT EUCLID AND RIDGEWOOD FOR SIX YEARS 58 TO 63. MISS IT ALL AN AWFUL LOT GREAT TIME TO HAVE GROWN UP IN A GREAT PLACE. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES. |
| Date: Fri 10/14/11 7:18PM From: Mellow One Email: mellowone@myway.com Message: See my Picasa web album entry for my family history in East NY at "https://picasaweb.google.com/1163632627 22377355677/WWPIX#5489353750635308962" |