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Change In Format To Begin
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Effective with this 8th installment,
"High Lights Revisited" will be published quarterly,
as opposed to the previous every two months. This edition will take us through September.
We're not getting lazy. We just need that extra month from now on to seek out material,
which has gotten increasingly difficult to locate.
Please keep your eyes peeled for any and all items that would be of interest to your
classmates, either current or nostalgic. We're guessing that many of you have boxes stashed
away that contain some wonderful photos or press clippings from "the good old days". We
would love to include things like that in future newsletters. We will be sure to treat
anything you send with care, so if you mail something we'll make sure you get it back.
Contact us at this email address: newsletter@gables56.com
for where to send any items.
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Time Line
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Birthdays
July:
18th – Bill Holland; 19th – Dolores Domning Meo; 21th – Janet Reno;
29th – Lenny "Scoop" Kacher; 31st – Anne Jensen Harper
August:
5th – Marc Adams, 15th – Bill Gautier; 18th – Stewart Harnell;
23rd – Bill Schroeder; 26th – Council Kelly; 31st – Nancy Lomax Leslie
September:
8th – John DeMas; 15th – Cary Findlay;
17th – Bob Adams; 22st – Sally Moore Groth; 23st – Bill Cotton
Anniversaries
July:
July 10, 1960 – Laura Kavalir and Bob Wright; July 12,1958 – Beth McDonald and Gib
Johnson (Happy 50th!) (Beth found their bill from the Key Biscayne Hotel for their wedding night: The room
rate was $10.00 and breakfast was $3.00 for both of them. Ah sweet memories!);
July 15, 1963 – David and Donna Willis; July 15, 1963 – Ted and Florence Webb (Happy 45th);
July 25, 1993 – Kathy Bell and Chuck Thagard
August:
August 4 – Bill and Karen Sutton; August 6, 2007 –
Bill and Dorothy Schroeder (Happy 1st!); August 23, 1958 –
Rhona Berube and Ambrose Chabot (Happy 50th!)
September:
September 10, 1960 - Glenn and Diane McNew (48th!)
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Classic Movies from 1938 and 1939
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1938:
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Best Picture
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
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Nominated for Best Picture
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The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters,
Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot
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Also Made
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Kidnapped, Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm,
In Old Chicago, A Christmas Carol, Bringing Up Baby, Love Finds Andy Hardy, Room Service.
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1939 (a year many still consider to be the greatest ever for blockbuster hits)
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Best Picture
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GONE WITH THE WIND
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Nominated for Best Picture
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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Stagecoach.
Ninotchka. Love Affair. The Wizard of Oz. Wuthering Heights. Of Mice and Men. Dark
Victory. Goodbye Mr. Chips.
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Also Made
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Gunga Din, Beau Geste, Jesse James, Drums Along The Mohawk, Stanley And Livingstone,
Young Mr. Lincoln, Dodge City, The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, Northwest Passage,
The Roaring Twenties, Destry Rides Again, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Union Pacific, Intermezzo,
Rules of the Game, Sabotage, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Eat Pizza Like This. . .
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Article from the Miami Herald
Sunday, November 13, 1955
Man, how the teenagers
like pizza. With meals it's pizza. After meals it's pizza. Between meals it's hamburgers. But they're working on that.
Look at signs all over
Greater Miami. At drive-ins specializing in hickory smoked ribs, barbecued chicken, you'll see freshly painted
signs added at the bottom - pizza.
There are
restaurants advertising Mom's home cooking - and pizza. In the northwest section there's a German cuisine restaurant -
with pizza. It's added to the menu at a downtown French restaurant.
Even
Italian restaurants are swept along with the tomato and cheese tide.
Caption for top left photo
HAVING TROUBLE eating pizza? good-looking Bob Leidy, Coral Gables High's basketball center, shows what to do when
that melted cheese comes tumbling down. That's the only time when teenagers use their forks for the hand-to-mouth
method of eating pizza is most popular with them.
Caption for top center photo
JUST SCOOP IT UP with the fork, pile it back on the pizza wedge.
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DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU. It could, you know, for that melted cheese and hot tomato sauce can get all out
of hand. What an impression this would make on a first date. This is the horrible example picture teenagers dream
up when they ask, "What's the correct way to eat pizza?" If you think you'll end up like this, order a hamburger.
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WHAT TO DO NOW? Pretty Crystak Ashe, Gables senior, first folds the pizza wedge just like her home economics
teacher advised. This keeps the cheese and tomato topping from slipping.
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SEE HOW EASY? Not a misplaced piece of mozzarella. Not only that, but Crystal's pretty to look at across the table
too - not all fingers, trying to keep the topping on the crust.
Caption for bottom left photo
ASK FOR HELP in cutting if you use the knife and fork technique and still have difficulty. Your date won't mind.
Thanks to Bob Leidy for sending
us the newspaper clipping.
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Quarterdeck Club
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FISHERMEN GET AWAY FROM IT ALL AT A CLUB KNEE-DEEP IN BISCAYNE BAY
LIFE MAGAZINE, 1941
OFF THE FLORIDA MAINLAND -- riding on the shoals of Biscayne Bay, stands, an extraordinary American community
dedicated solely to sunlight, salt water and the wellbeing of the human spirit. Built on piles imbedded in
shallow flats where the water lies but two to seven feet deep, the Quarterdeck Club hovers between sea and
sky, a $100.000 play-place equipped with bar, lounge, bridge deck, dining room and dock slips for yachts.
Ranged about it in tile Bay's wide watery acreage are the green-and-white shacks of members and vice-commodores.
HOT FEET ARE COOLED off in an open-air shower. Most of the shacks are equipped with
running water, individual electric-lights plants, bottled-gas stoves and refrigerators.
FISHING IN BED starts the day for Quarterdeck Club's Commodore Edward Turner. Many
members catch breakfast before rising simply by thrusting rods out window.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE QUARTERDECK CLUB is by invitation, costs $150, involves no annual dues. Bay-bottom flats
on which shacks and club are built are leased from the State of Florida at the modest rate of $1 per acre
per year. Shack owners generally take five to 25 acres; spend $1,000-$6,000 constructing their homes. Most
own fast speedboats for commuting between club and mainland. Charter members are all vice-commodores with
facetious titles such as "vice-commodore of deck-necking," vice-commodore of the poop deck," etc. Here LIFE
shows you some of the homely pleasures of those who dwell in Quarterdeck Club's oceanic heaven.
HOT FEET ARE COOLED off in an open-air shower. Most of the shacks are equipped with
running water, individual electric-lights plants, bottled-gas stoves and refrigerators.
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GEORGE CARLIN'S VIEWS ON AGING
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George Carlin was a national
treasure. Here is a small sample of the wit and wisdom that is his legacy.
Do you realize that the only time
in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so
excited about aging that you think in fractions. 'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never
thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five!
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back! You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
'How old are you?' 'I'm gonna be 16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16!
And then the greatest day of your life . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU
BECOME 21! YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to
throw him out. There's no fun now, you're just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away.
Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60! You didn't think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH
bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; 'I Was JUST 92.’
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. 'I'm 100 and a half!'
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them.
That is why you pay 'them.'
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
'An idle mind is the devil's workshop' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life,
is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,
whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what
you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country...but
NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Links to the Past
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Here are three links to pictures from the past.
Rhona Berube
as majorette
1957 Miss Florida
contestants including Rhona Berube, Adrianne Goyette and Rosemary Pierce
A remembrance of the Novakowski
Cotillion, where many of us learned to dance
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Photo Gallery
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There were no photos submitted for this edition.
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The Class of 1954 is planning their 55th reunion.
All classes will be invited. We will have the information posted on our reunions page as soon as we receive their final plans.
They will be having it in Orlando.
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