Elementary school years
Name of one Merrick parent who was a teacher at Lakeside School.
Who is Phyllis Weinstein?
Name of the other junior high school in Merrick.
What was Merrick Avenue Junior High School?
Type of animal that was Kennedy High School's mascot.
What was the cougar?
Names all the Merrick/Bellmore friends who have shown up for the Hamptons weekend at least one time.
Who are Jeff, David, Tracy, Brian, Neil, Zuck, Margie?
Theme at Brian's BarMitzvah.
What was a casino?
Names of the two girl's clubs during our elementary school years.
What are the Poochies and DumDums?
Name of Bellmore junior high school whose students attended Bellmore JFK High School.
What was Grand Avenue Junior High School?
Town where the wildest parties were held in high school.
Where was Bellmore?
Names of at least 6 games that we played during our Hamptons weekends.
What are spike ball, tennis, pickle ball, backgammon, corn hole, code names, rummikub, card games?
Name of Margie's mom's children's clothing store.
What was Calliope?
Name of the candy store everyone walked to during lunch time in elementary school.
What was the Bucket?
Type of animal that was Brookside Junior High School's mascot.
What was the bulldog or bobcat?
Name of someone in our friend group whose mom taught at Kennedy High School.
Who is Steven Orbuch?
Name of the old friend who showed up at the most recent reunion but did not graduate from Kennedy High School.
Who is Elliot?
Name of Brian's parents shop in Merrick.
What was The Paris Shop?
The type of machine that played music at Violettas and what we used to make the music play.
What is a jukebox and coins?
The part of Brookside Junior High School building where Ralph Malfatone's mother worked.
What is the cafeteria?
Name of best female basketball player of our era at Kennedy High School.
Who is Mary Padalino?
The breakfast food that Hannah cooked for us one summer.
What is pancakes?
Name of the best Chinese food restaurant while we were growing up in Merrick.
What was Hunan Gourmet?
The body of water right next to Lakeside Elementary school.
What is Cammanns Pond?
Place where the 9th grade prom took place.
What was the school gym?
Type and color of the large car that Brian drove during high school.
What was a brown taxi?
Names of one person who organized the most recent high school reunion.
Who are Helaine Whitman or Lori Brand?
Name of the sandy area behind some of our houses where people hung out at night or walked through as a shortcut.
What was the dunes?