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College Rememberances - AKPsi & ABX at SJU
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Hi,
The following piece captures some of the memories some of us have of attending SJU on Schermerhorn Street in the late fifties through mid-sixties. They may not mean something to everyone but they mean something to many of us. If something is missing that you want added please remind me... the memory is one of the things that's going.
College Rememberances - AKPsi & ABX at SJU
by Anna Busacca Grasso, Rudy Funke and Ken Thompson
(so far)
- Ken, Anna and Rudy remember the late fifties and the early to mid-sixties as very good times with great people…
- Ken remembers the School of Commerce, the predecessor to The College of Business Administration, at St. John's University in Brooklyn as a place with girls in classes with him…
- Ken remembers people from Bay Ridge, GreenPERNT, Park Slope, Flatbush, Williamsburg, East Flatbush, BensonHOIST, Carnarsie, East New York, Bushwick, Staten Island, Pennsylvania, Queens, etc. who were all the best…
- Ken remembers Manhattan Beach and the girlie/freak shows on the Coney Island midway, though this has little to do with the particular years he mentioned…
- Rudy remembers hot dogs at Nathan's Famous, Steeplechase Park and all the rides there that would now be a lawyers paradise and the peanut cart as you entered the train station going home at Stillwell Avenue…
- Rudy and Ken remember many of the parties, particularly a 1963 Christmas Party at 25 Bond Street that was awesome. Frankie Valli sung about it to honor the party and Rudy Funke and Fran finding each other…
- Ken remembers an Alpha Beta Chi (ABX) Roaring 20's party at the Red Knights on Atlantic Avenue…
- Ken remembers some pretty foul subway stations and Rudy remembers the equally unforgettable Myrtle Avenue El…
- Ken remembers Iggy the Iguana (not personally) who had more tolerance per weight that a number of party attendees…
- Ken remembers shopping at Martin's, May's, A&S, and Korvette's…
- Ken remembers the 69th Street Ferry, trolley cars, electric busses, and riding between subway cars to get cool…
- Ken remembers when "the city" referred only to Manhattan…
- Rudy and Ken remember GOOD Pizza!, Italian bread and pastries, BIG Danish, Italian ices (even chocolate flavored), Patricia Murphy's popovers and egg creams at Jahn's Ice cream Parlor…
- Rudy and Ken remember bagels and bialys, and even pretzels in the subway station. They remember hot dogs at Irving and Lenny's at the top of the stairs of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street subway station…
- Rudy and Ken remember subway station vending machines that sold two-piece little boxes of Chicklets or a handful of always stale peanuts…
- Ken remembers going with Lou Colucci and Rudy Funke to buy meatball heroes from a small shop on Bond Street even if Rudy doesn't…
- Rudy and Ken remember Joe's, Mama Leone's, Juniors, Bickford's, Nedick's (the Orange Room), Fat's, Horn and Hardart Automats, Mitchell's Drive-in, Chock Full O' Nuts, Gage and Tollner's, Meyer's, Foffes', Hamilton House, Spumoni Garden's, Chow-Chow Cup, Jahn's Ice cream, and, Yes, Queenies…
- Ken remembers pistachio ice cream at Chinese restaurants but doesn't get the connection…
- Ken remembers good Alpha Kappa Psi (AKPsi) brothers helping outfit Jamie Fernandez via price tag switching at May's and Robert Hall's…
- Ken remembers never really knowing what to expect from Dennis Cogan even when we brought in the "girls" from the Bickford's on Flatbush Avenue…
- Ken remembers a wind-chill of -72 degrees as he rounded the corner of Boerum at Schermerhorn to enter our vertical campus…
- Ken remembers road trips to Boston (behaviors were outrageous) and, on an impromptu basis, to a dude ranch so that Bob Stanzione could visit a friend…
- Ken remembers when people used the turn signal more than the horn, and the horn more than the finger and when "road rage" on the mean streets of Brooklyn was just about non-existent…
- Ken remembers, wishfully, co-ed touch football…
- Ken remembers John Gurreri taking a bunch of brothers to the IBM place at Sand's Point and having us hit golf balls. John Eppolito sure could wack 'em…
- Ken remembers Annette Filauro Alversa always running off, just in the nick of time to get to class… and with no time to talk right now…
- Ken remembers Pat McNicholas Bogusch as "being very mature, even beyond her years"…
- Anna remembers singing at any and every opportunity, with or without accompaniment, solo or en-mass and having the time of her life…
- Ken remembers Prospect Park rowboats and paddle-boats, the carousel (not merry-go-round) and the zoo with the seals and elephants…
- Ken remembers John Daly telling Joanne that the economics were all against affording children - we didn't listen and had them anyway and are glad we did. Rudy recalls that John didn't listen to himself either…
- Ken remembers the building of the Gowanus Expressway, the Prospect Expressway, the demise of the West Side Highway the construction of the world famous Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Chase Manhattan Bank building, and the World Trade Center…
- Ken remembers Dolores DeVito tutoring him in calculus - Thank You! D. …
- Ken remembers lounge and gym dances, nationality feasts (particularly GOOD sausage and peppers and onions), and block parties…
- Ken remembers Lamb's book store for almost never having the book he needed…
- Rudy and Ken remember going to the Loew's Met, the Albee, the Kings, Sander's, the Dyker, the Fox, and especially the Paramount and those Alan Freed shows featuring what are now known as oldies "but they were newies then"…
- Rudy and Ken remember (with their own partners) making out, submarine races, and dancing very, VERY close; so close that there was no room left for the Holy Ghost…
- Ken remembers Bart Frazitta and Ginny Buscema to be forever together…
- Ken remember Rudy Funke being the most articulate person he had ever met…
- Rudy remembers the Kennedy-Nixon debates, The Berlin Wall going up, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Blackout, and the Kennedy assasination…
- Ken remembers Barbara Brienza Casey seemingly knowing every detail of the assasination…
- Ken remembers being let out of class to watch President Kennedy's address on the Cuban situation and thinking his and future were at stake…
- Ken remembers guys getting into the ARMY reserves and Ed Romano coming back thin…
- Rudy and Ken remember getting working papers on State Street, his draft card after a visit on Livingston Street, and getting a driver learner permit on Atlantic Avenue…
- Ken remembers riding in Richie Blum's Edsel, and being in a chain accident while driving Pete and Barbara Casey's Corvair on Atlantic Ave. the night of the 1965 blackout…
- Ken remembers Richie driving the Edsel with the windshield missing, in the rain, with the windshield wipers on so that the police wouldn't suspect anything. Rudy remembers numerous incidents were Richie's shortcomings in driving skill were overcome by shear luck, good fortune, happenstance, and Claire and God having other plans for him…
- Ken remembers John Ricco and Vinnie Velotta driving him home after late Chapter meetings…
- Ken remembers the subway strike, the SDS, student uprisings, the demonstrations at the Board of Education building, the garbage strike, and the closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (the "Can Do" yard)…
- Ken remembers "fugeddabahdit", "longilandt", "liberry" "whachulookingat", and "chance" but refuses to use them…
- Ken remembers the Fall, 1961, AKPsi smoker, pledging, his pledge book, his Pledge Master, John Haas, "hell night", his initiation at the Hotel Bossert, and his fraternity pin (now in Joanne's hands) and how proud he was - and still is…
- Ken remembers Joe O. Gessell as just a super nice guy…
- Ken remembers his AKPsi blazer, bought through a guy in DPU…
- Ken remembers Claire Nahas Blum as looking at all of us with an expression saying: "How can they behave like this…have they no respect for themselves?"...
- Rudy remembers Claire Nahas Blum as looking at Richie and saying: "I could make something of him if he gave me half a chance… possibly even a Catholic." and succeeding...
- Ken remembers dressing Ivy League and Wall Street; grownup and expensive (Wallach's); and stylishly but never getting nearly as cool as Pete Casey with his pipe…
- Ken remembers nice Helenca sweaters, stretch stirrup pants, lacquered French knot and beehive hairstyles (trophy to Connie Mitchell), pink lipstick, and heavy eye makeup (primarily on the girls)…
- Ken remembers skirts getting shorter - then longer -- then shorter (he likes shorter)…
- Ken remembers the significant question of his time: How well endowed could a young woman be where she could no longer go braless? …
- Ken remembers ABX ladies (DeVito, the elder, and Connie Mitchell) purported to have been caught with a bottle of Scotch at a retreat at Graymore Friary…
- Ken remembers Carol David and leopard spotted half-slip and her disappearing into the unknown…
- Ken remembers College trips to Bear Mountain where Dolores DeVito charmed a selected few with veal parmagiana heroes that were delicious beyond belief…
- Rudy remembers a Bear Mountain trip where Ken Chaves and "others" got left behind with no money owing to an apparent lack of skill in reading schedules…
- Anna remembers boat rides and trips to many places… some successful and some not. She remembers a Law Club trip to Washington D.C. that was fantastic…
- Anna remembers a planned trip to a Shakespearean festival where, because of a fender mender with Johnny T's brother's car, the trip was cancelled, a picnic on the Brooklyn Bridge developed, and the day ended playing tourists in lower Manhattan…
- Ken remembers Mary Foley Brabender, everyone does, and beach parties out at her Rudy's parent's house out at Northport/Eaton's Neck…
- Ken remembers Richie Blum holding his underwear over an open fire on the beach there to dry them and dropping them in and having to go commando…
- Ken remembers SJU Communion breakfasts at the St. George Hotel on Palm Sunday…
- Ken remember retreats to the Catskills where cases of beer were left in a stream to cool and glasses of Scotch were brought into the priest, Fr. Peter Mahoney, as we went in for Confession…
- Ken remembers a retreat where the priest's VW bug was mis-appropriated…
- Ken remembers club and student council elections that were sooooo serious and important. Rudy remembers giving a speech where the losing candidate was accused of "mis, mal and non feasance in office" that was written late at night in Dolores DeVito's house.
- Rudy and Ken remembers remember Student Council meetings on Saturday mornings that were all politic and little substance… other than keeping "the Dark Side" out of office.
- Ken remembers (1) coffee in the Quonset hut/lounge that was really, really terrible, (2) male accounting majors in strange, big-person hats, as proof they were ready for the Big 8 (or was is 12 then?), and (3) the first time he saw the SJU emblem in entranceway to 96 Schermerhorn…
- Anna remembers hanging out in the Cafeteria and playing the Italian card game Brisk…
- Rudy and Ken remember a talent show where John Ricco, Pete Casey and Ken performed as the Nairobi Trio, Bob Stanzione and John Daly did a Mutt and Jeff routine, and Lou Marcucci, Ken Chaves and Rudy made like Dion and the Belmonts…
- Ken remembers the weekly Downtowner, professional committee presentations, and dances in the lounge and in the gym…
- Ken remembers Ed Romano decapitating a roach and Jim Reilly as Mister Smiley Face…
- Ken remembers playing sports against CBA fraternities and generally kicking their fannies from 1958 thru 1969. Ken remembers the BB game where Gerry O'Shea hit 17 3-pointers in a row and the winning 2-point sky-hook to beat the purported all-star team from the other three Fraternities. Gerry begged off being drafted onto Joe Lapchick's SJU team 'cause games would possibly be played on party nights……
- Ken remembers going to the Fordham University campus, in Ken Chaves' car, to play an AKPsi football round-robin and being quickly eliminated…
- Anna, Rudy and Ken remember the AKPsi Tri-Chapter, the ABX Bi-Sorority, and the Mission Ball formals and semi-formals. How great we all looked, how mature we thought we were, and how young we really were. It was wonderful…
- Ken remembers Jim and Gene's and taking one Prof there for a Christmas drink and the Prof leaving with a young, female, UC student…
- Ken remembers Pete Casey as photo editor for the yearbook in 1964 and him getting Ken's picture in the yearbook 26 times…
- Ken remember Jim Crumlish the day he found out he passed the CPA exam…
- Ken remembers AKPsi presidents Mike Clifford, John Gurreri, John Ricco, Barry Doll, Rudy Funke and Bob Powderly…
- Ken remembers Barry beating him in a landslide for 1964-65 Chapter President and Ken being allowed to come in a distant fourth…
- Ken remembers ABX Presidents Pat McNicholas Bogusch, Toni Frazitta Ricco, Rosemary Murphy Maher…
- Anna remembers a car with no heater and the frigid temperatures that required much body heat for a warm-up…
- Ken remembers Peggy McParland as always on her way to something else and hardly having time for classes…
- Ken remembers the induction of other AKPsi Chapters and going to the NYU Chapter house for parties… It sure would have been nice to have Chapter Alumni with money and who were willing to help support a Chapter house…
- Rudy and Ken remember (NOT) the names of the founding members of AKPsi other than Frederick Raney Leach…
- Ken remembers Richie Blum selling Littlest Angel Christmas Cards in October, November, December, and January at the entrance to the… eh, lounge…
- Ken remembers the AKPsi Chapter house on Livingston Avenue, the caricatures on the walls, the fire there, and the firemen getting drunk as the rescued the beer in the refrigerator…
- Ken remembers the Red Knights house on Atlantic Avenue with a real bar and a great need for disinfectant…
- Rudy and Ken remember, or at least recall via hearsay and/or observation, the well known rite of "end of Easter Season processing" of one Richard Blum which does not warrant any further explanation at this time…
- Rudy and Ken remember Christmas and New Year's parties as the absolutely best of times with the absolutely best of people…
- Ken remembers one Betty Boop as absolutely striking…
- Ken remembers the excitement of assembling and publishing The Shaft and having a crushed ego at his not being mentioned, at all, ever…
- Ken remembers George Killoran and Frank Wystepek as seemingly in-separable…
- Anna remembers Prof. Plaut and all the laughs during his classes…
- Ken remembers faculty members John Clark, Ted Fisher and Dr. Manfredo Mannetti who were inducted as Faculty Members…
- Ken remembers working on EOY Efficiency Rating reports for AKPsi chapters and on why we should get a designation as the absolutely best Greek organization at Brooklyn CBA. You win some and you lose some…
- Rudy and Ken remember John Gregory wearing red socks, Lou Marcucci taking tests, and Mike Sullivan ever smiling…
- Rudy and Ken remember Maritza Jimenez and Johnny Taliercio and Toni Frazitta Ricco and John Ricco dancing; Connie Mitchell and friends breaking a chapter house couch, and Anna Busacca organizing and singing, and organizing and singing, and organizing and singing…
- Ken remembers Loretta Lavezzo McKenna being shy about anyone looking up her skirt (very wise!), Carol Sabo wearing capes, and with no particular connection: the smell as you walked into McCrory's…
- Ken remembers Cecilia Walsh Doyle being the first bow-head he had every seen, John Eppolito taking a summer job with IBM and staying for 35 years, Claudia Milazzo Ryan needing a phone book to see over the dashboard when she drove, and Jim Ryan putting up a very modern, and strange, aluminum Christmas Tree (later features in a Charlie Brown Christmas Special) at the AKPsi Chapter House…
- Ken remembers Joanne O'Neill being the light of his life from the first time he saw her in a Money and Banking class…
- Ken remembers Charlie Buckley e-mailing him as a result of AKPsi/Beta Sigma website…
- Ken remembers Bob Powderly always willing to look at the other side of a situation. He also remembers Mike Sullivan and Tom Tunnington as always being with him…
- Ken remembers John English, ??? Anderson, and George Barrett; obviously not too well…
- Ken remembers Devil Dogs & Cokes & Playboys and cutting classes in the springtime and going to the Height's Promenade. We even considered, in passing inviting the owner of the Arthur Tickle Engineering Works to our wedding…
- Ken remembers girls getting their hair done EVERY Saturday…
- Ken remembers the 1993 Reunion where Fran and Rudy Funke won "Best Looking Couple and Most Unchanged"…
- Ken remembers Barbara Brienza Casey's parents (Minnie Pope and Mr. Minnie Pope) and their cabin in the Catskills and sanguinnach (?) at Easter…
- Ken remembers Vinnie Velotta's as his Best Man and Vinnie's Dad helping Joanne and him pick out wedding invitations…
- Ken
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
TV Weatherman
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Hi,
I figured it out ....
What I want to be when I grow up is a TV Weatherman.
As far as I can determine,
1... you don't have to be correct or accurate to keep your job,
2... you don't have to say you are sorry when you are wrong,
3... you don't even have to acknowledge that you were wrong,
4... you don't get rated with others who do your same job,
5... you don't have to be particularly good looking or even have good hair,
6... you can be corny and eccentric and do okay,
7... you can be nerdy and geeky as long as you don't over do it,
8... you can play with tech toys with scientific names and version numbers,
9... you can draw with markers and use as many colors if you want,
10... you can use terms and stats that just about no one understands,
11... you can just about make things up or dramatize mega exceedingly,
12... you can talk about the weather in places no one cares about,
13... you can be altruistic and visit grammar schools and get t-shirts,
14... you have to be able to read and speak without spitting much,
15... you don't seem to have to rehearse at all before you go on-air,
16... you can become a cardealer spokes-person if you, hard to believe (???), fail at being a weatherman, and
17... as a weatherman you can talk about the "weather" but you're not expected to do anything about it.
I know that this has little to do with Nostalgia, Memories and Thoughts of Brooklyn but I've come to accept that I'm not gonna get a call to come to Vero Beach to compete for a spot as catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers so I thought I'd move on with my life.
Whattaya think of my career assessment? Drop me a note.
My compliments to Paul O'Kane for supplying the instigation to make this decision possible.
After this was initially published I got some feedback that while my observations were "right on" I was not looking at the three significant drawbacks to the position of Weatherman. They are:
A. ... you have to get up early for the morning broadcasts...
B. ... you have to wear a suit...
C. ... you have to have a penis 'cause you are a weatherMAN.
Regarding this last point... it is MY career goal otherwise the position is for a WEATHERPERSON.
TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Hi,
Today is the birth anniversary for Elvis Presley and yesterday was the same for Millard Fillmore. Does anybody see the connection?
TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
Millard Fillmore Redux
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Hi,
Happy Birthday Millie
Okay, all of you know by now, I have a slight infatuation with the thirteenth President of the US, Millard Fillmore, who was born on this date in 1800. I don't try to hide it and I do try to make the best of the situation.
You also know that I feel that he doesn't get the proper credit for his "accomplishments" and is, in fact, the brunt of many jokes and humorous references. I admit that some of them I myself have foisted upon the this audience who simply may have become internet lost and wandered into my blog and who, by virtue of curiosity and an absence of apparent good taste, clicked on the link on the left side of this screen titled " Millard Fillmore" simply to see the significant connection of POTUS Fillmore and Brooklyn.
Now, that piece is meant as humor to show that I bear no grudge to those who take our thirteenth president EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY and postulate his performance and contributions beyond those that are attributed to other long deceased POTUS who's accomplishments seem relatively minor when viewed through a 100 year plus rearview mirror. Now I'm not going to name their names, to avoid getting into a pee-pee contest as to "Presidential Value" derived. (I digress, but I never know the rules for such a contest… is the contest measure height, volume, splash, distance, color, duration, style, or what?)
Because a few (VERY!) readers have challenged last years Millard Fillmore posting I have chosen to revisit the man and his contributions. All that follows is taken directly from other internet sited purported to be historical and truthful. URLs and available upon request.
Hear-ye, Hear-ye the "Fingers and Toes"Notables for Millard Fillmore, POTUS
1. … he rose from a log cabin to wealth and the White House…
2. … demonstrated … some competence … an uninspiring man… in many ways ...
3. … endured the privations of frontier life … attended one-room schools …
4. … fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers …
5. … in 1823 he was admitted to the bar… but wasn't particularly good at it ...
6. … presided over … nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. …
7. … POTUS Taylor's demise caused the sudden accession of Fillmore to POTUS in July 1850 …
8. … more militant northern Whigs (his party) remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for numerous things …
9. … he was deprived of the Whigs Presidential nomination in 1852. …
10. … when Whigs broke up, Fillmore refused to join the Republican Party …
11. … he accepted the nomination for President of the Know Nothing party and lost badly ...
12. … he opposed President Lincoln …
13. … Religion was Unitarian …
14. … 2 children: Millard Powers Fillmore (1828-89); Mary Abigail Fillmore (1832-54)
15. … first president to have a stepmother ...
16. … nickname: The American Louis Philippe" …
17. … refused an honorary degree from Oxford … felt he had "neither literary nor scientific attainment". …
18. … became chancellor of the University of Buffalo (aside: evidently U/Buff didn't have particularly high requirements) …
19. … The White House's first library, bathtub and kitchen stove were installed by the Fillmore's.
20. … died 1853 in Buffalo NY … buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery there ...
Those are the facts but there is more to it.
As I continued my research I found a noted claimant to the grandeur that is now Millard Fillmore. A direct quote follows…
"Forest Lawn Cemetery and Garden Mausoleums: Shade trees and rolling terrain lead the way through this lavishly landscaped historic cemetery. Started in 1849, the cemetery and gardens were part of a romantic movement to create aesthetically pleasing rural burial sites. Forest Lawn is the resting place of President Millard Fillmore and William D. Fargo. The grounds are exquisite and are listed in the National Historic Register."
Who can not say that our thirteenth President is not noteable even in today's world.
TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Hi, Happy New Year 2004!
Well we seemed to have made it into yet another year. This is very good, the alternative isn't good at all. I realize this with every passing year as more and more of my friends and associates don't make it With each year I recognize more the importance of Nostalgia, Memories, and Thoughts of Brooklyn.Don't get me wrong... there are many things in my life that interest me and demand my attention even more than reminiscing about days gone by but there is something to thinking back to a different time and a different place. It is all so wonderful.I again wish you Peace, Justice and Strength.
in your lives and in our world.TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
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