The narrative below was written in 1981 for the 10th Class Reunion for the Class of 1971. In a tongue-in-cheek manner, it told of where many of us were at that point in time:
WE’VE COME A LONG WAY…

     Jimmy Adams is an ironworker and, while he's up in the sky, Fred Schmidt is up there with him, doing window cleaning, but back on the ground are Bob Grimm, Richard Allingham, Dave Lindstadt, Danny Schantz and Tom McGee doing mechanical repairs. If they're smart, they get the parts they need from Mike Nicodemo at wholesale prices. To clean up after them is Karen Boble, who now owns a laundromat in Orlando, Florida, and, if they're good and hungry, they can visit Debbie Parise's Natural Gourmet Food Store, also in Orlando, Florida…or if they would like to sit down and be served, check out John Butler's restaurant in Washington, D.C. Better yet, on our own doorstep, Tony Lamacchia manages a restaurant right here in N. Y.,  where hopefully the food will be prepared by Ken Sette, our class chef. To start those digestive juices flowing, relax to the music by Richard Fliegler, whose taste in music we remember to be slightly beyond relaxing. As a last step, be sure before you eat that the restaurants are checked out by Karen White, a Health Department supervisor. Our beverages can be supplied by Frank Fazio who owns a beer distributorship or, for our non-alcoholics, see Ken Lukasiewic, a Pepsi-Cola sales rep. After eating, you may want to visit Marty Weinstock, our resident dentist, who may be assisted by Bonnie Blackwood, a dental hygienist. While you sit in the office, you can admire the wallpaper which may have been bought at the stores where either Tony Carbonaro or Frank Perez is manager. Afterwards, to show off your pearly whites, your picture may be taken by Frank Spinos or Alan Luftig, our professional photographers, who may be assisted by amateur photographer, Carol Montemarano. If they use your picture without asking permission, you may want to consult Jane Marks or Allan Mayefsky, our class attorneys who occasionally bump into Marion Hubner working at District Court and, if they need help, Kathy Duport is now a legal secretary. If you have trouble hearing the advice they have to offer, check out Renald DiFonzo, a hearing aid salesman. If the image we're trying to project becomes a blur, Vinnie Coltellino, an optometry student, may be able to help you. If your problems are more medical, we have our class nurses: Ginnie Smith, Gail Spector, Gloria Rapisard, Cathy Chillemi or Ann Marie DelPizzo. Ann used to care for patients, and now cares for their evening attire working as an Undercover Wear agent, along with Roberta Fox and Bonnie Blackwood. Who else would make medical tests a pleasure but Janet Deleonardis as a medical lab technician or Donna Felicio with a few jokes while she takes your x-rays and fills you with radiation?  Speaking about filling, Gary Jordan can fill your prescriptions as our class pharmacist. All your medical problems can be explained by Linda Kehres, a health educator, and, if your problem is mind rather than body, there's Bob Perrucci, our psychology graduate, or Karen Meyer, a learning disability specialist.
     Back to everyday living: on your way to work you may bump into Bobby Jinks who is a trainman for the LIRR or, if you take the LIE, hopefully you won't bump into Steve Phillips or Billy Marchesi. They drive the big 18-wheelers.
     In case anyone is interested in building a house, you can probably get the job done just using the special talents our fellow classmates have developed. Let's start with Barbara Austin, now an artist, to draw a picture of that special dream house with the help of Kevin McGrath, an architectural engineer.  Speaking of engineers, can you believe Nick Buonamico ever got serious enough to become an electrical engineer? Or that Bob Zagarello and Bob Kirsch have put horsing around in class aside to make their livings at technical writing? The only thing that tops that is the fact that Gary Brust is now an engineer technician and Howard Schild, an electrical technician, with Tom Noble in the field of electronics. Well, enough of can you believe this and let's get back to building our house. Tony Zilli can do the carpentry while Bruce Medlin, our electrical project manager helps out Bob Foy who is a union electrician. Incidentally, we hear Phyllis D'Angelo looks for his union label every morning before he goes off to work. To make sure everyone is following an efficient work plan there's Evelyn Angelopulos who makes her money as a planner. Now every job needs a foreman, so Silvio Colonna is your man (What type of foreman is he, you ask? He didn't say). To spruce up the interior, John Chandler is now in the cabinet making business, or, if you can't believe he's as good as he says he is, there's always Nassau-Suffolk Kitchens to buy from, where none other than Steve Nakash is the V.P. (What is a store like that doing with a V.P.? You got us!). Bob Wexler can supply the carpeting from his store in San Antonio, Texas . . .Hey, Bob, if you're looking to boost sales, Tom Mattone is now a marketing rep and he's a neighbor of yours, also living in San Antonio; get in touch, guys. All your hardware can be ripped off at Sears where Steve Mirro is department manager, and all pipefitting and welding can be put in the hands of Don Hynes. A good job must be done by all since Harry Lenz will be checking out the works as construction inspector. Now what is a house without a beautiful landscape designed by Susan Marchese and aided by Tom Fay, an irrigation contractor. To keep things organized, Jean Voges our activities director, may be on hand. But organization is only as good as the paper it's written on so our secretaries, Jean Bertolino, Joan Ochs, Cathy Pollock and Mary Scalia will do the necessary work, with James Stevenson as manager in charge. Now if energy conservation is your bag, speak to Fred Weingard, our nuclear engineer (who's still trying to explain Three Mile Island). Perhaps Nancy White, a research associate, can help him figure it out!
     If you need more manpower, there's always Bob Burke or Charlie Leinhop who are self-employed! (Doing what???) If you aren't sure who to call next try Debbie Bonowicz. She's a telephone operator. (We've got to hand it to her, getting paid to do what she does best.. .Talk!  We still remember, Debbie.) Now maybe, once your house is complete, you'd like to insure this God-forsaken mess through Frank Gaccione, our insurance agent, or if you change your mind and decide to sell (which is our advice!) have Richard Zuzzolo, our freelance artist, design just the right advertising blurb and send it to Fran Montalto, managing editor for a publishing firm. Our experts in the field of sales who might be of some help are Linda Pitisi, Kathy Zizzo and Tom Caggiano. But, of course, you wouldn't sell a house without consulting our real estate agents, Joyce Zabriskie or Richie Meyer. Now, once your house is sold and you have all that CASH, don't be tempted to do anything illegal or you'll have to deal with Tom Hughes, who's with the FBI, or Richard Roy, a corrections counselor. He just might be with Debbie Sutton, our class social worker visiting . . . E.B. who we found out, at the time of our reunion inquiries, was residing at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead. Who is E.B.? Use your memory and imagination.
     Speaking of the trials of life, we all know how important money is and apparently so did some of our classmates who have become involved in the numbers racket such as Kathy Dowd, Mary Clifford, Pat Werner, Petra Anders, Ralph Fusco and Marilyn Kahn, our class accountants! For a hot tip, contact the "bookies" of the class -- Donna Corcoran, Janet Smith and Roanne Marcus who keep their act clean by calling themselves bookkeepers.
     Off on another train of thought, we decided to start our weird school of varying studies. Our physical fitness people are Karen Uhlendorf and Wendy Burns - P.E. teachers (no one would have ever guessed). Jean Chandler who has her masters (in what? we don't know), Nira Schwartz, also a teacher, Marie Sgammato, a music teacher, and Sharon Shipp, a dance teacher. Your 1st enrollees should be Denise Spellman, now a student, John Ennis, who has already gone through Annapolis and is now a student at Yale, also Mike Dazenski, an MBA candidate, and last, but not least, the best student of all our former valedictorian . . . Nick Yaffe... are you ready for this?...a student once again--only now of Siddha Meditation in California under Swami Muktananda. Need we make any other comments on this??
     In our language department, we have Eileen Colucci, who is the assistant director of the Rabat American Language Center in Kenitra, Morocco. And for all you flower and tree enthusiasts, we have Lori Salzarulo living in Greece after receiving her Masters in Plant Science and helping her out is Bernadette O'Neill, our greenhouse caretaker now living in Arizona.
     Now every school must have its beauty department with Pat Donahue, as our Mary Kay consultant. We also have Vicki Feinstein, Tom Moncho and Lenore Solicito, our class hairdressers, and what would a beauty department be without Karen Leung as fashion coordinator? Now let's not forget Manuel Mangual--he could be our school custodian. Linda Forbes, who is a store manager, will take over our school store. Since Matt O'Beid is into the business field, he can help her along with our customer service repre-
sentatives, Debra Duffy and Lenore Ryder. And when the school store starts rolling in the dough, we will have on hand Bonnie Kimmel, our senior financial officer, and Bill Hiler, our CPA. If anyone needs personal credit, contact Iris Sondik, now an assistant credit manager.
     At about this time our creative computer minds are beginning to show the signs of overuse. So we sure could use some help from:
Bob DeMola - program analyst
Roberta Fox - word processor
Connie Jones and Mike O'Leary -computer programmers
Susan Muller - senior account clerk
Robin Bilkis - operating supervisor
     In the process of our investigation, we found Gary Ferrone working at Grumman. Karen Perrino is an assembler, while Mike Runko is a warehouse worker, but, of all our classmates, I truly found what God put him on this earth to be: Dave Preston followed his inborn talents and became a wildman in the circus (what woman could make a man like this happy you ask . . .) and his wife, a wildman's helper. How about Doug Hof, our one and only scientific glass blower. We also have some sea-loving classmates. Henry Horn is in the Coast Guard, while Stan Michalowski is a coastal engineer.
     If you are already feeling the aging process getting a jump on you, Susan Savage is our Gerontology specialist with Kathy Vitale as assistant chairperson of the Department of Gerontological Nursing at Rush University of Chicago. If you're feeling a little doggie, there's Bob Cartin, now a veterinarian, or, if you really feel your time is coming to an end, Colleen Raps may offer some spiritual enlightenment since she's a born again Christian or Pete Giosi,  who, shortly after graduation, joined the Sun Myung Moon followers and is now the director of the Michigan sector.
     Now a special word to all those unmentioned ladies we graduated with who have put their careers aside for a while to create and shape the minds of our future generation--to all of our DOMESTIC ENGINEERS better known as "MOM": without you ladies there would be no future.
     For any couples in the family planning stages, we have Sue Kropat, a childbirth educator in EI Campo, Texas, and to keep those kids busy, Fern Zayle is a graphic artist. She draws the greatest cartoons we've seen yet.
     At this point we'd like to throw in a special thanks to Kurt Rettig, our Reunion Committee comic. His wit and sarcasm through over a year of planning kept us enjoying the work that went into planning tonight. Thanks, Kurt and God bless Diane who tolerates him in everyday life. To end on a happy note, congratulations to Roy and Josephine Auerbach who just had their first baby July 19 "Alison Mary Auerbach". Thanks, Jo, for being so cooperative in delivering early enough to make it here tonight. Good work, Roy. Modestly, he told us the baby is gorgeous!