Welcome to The Way We Were - the Class of 1970's 52nd Reunion Website.
Here you'll find information on the Oct. 22, 2022 reunion, which was held at
Charley's Ocean Grill in Long Branch NJ.
Explore the links to content related to our high school years and the 1960's.
Here is the link to a video montage from the Oct. 22, 2022 reunion
prepared by Sheila M. Fernekes.
Click on the links below to download OTHS Class of 1970 52nd Reunion information.
Click the description below each image
Note: Names shown here are those used in the OTHS Sandpiper yearbook.
Abrams, Joel
Aiello, John
Alderelli, Nicky
Arlington, David
Baselici, Alberta
Berman, Sanford "Sandy"
Bonosevich, Karen
Brady, Joseph
Busch, Bonnie
Bush, Jan
Cahill, Kevin
Chambrone, Ronald
Clayton-Helms, Duane
Cohalan, Chris
Cook, Deborah
Couto, Mark
Cucurullo, Sharon
Darwell, Elizabeth
Davidson, Deborah Joy
DeSanctis, James
Devine, Joseph
Dodd, Robert
Enda, Steven
Gamroth, Pater
Gerard, Judy
Gill, Eugenie
Gilliam, Robert
Gross, Jeffrey
Heard, Lois
Hiller, Bruce
Hipschman, Judith
Hoppach, Peggy
Horn, Walter
Kenney, Glen
Koitz, Barry
Kopf, Richard
Kurinsky, Belden "Denny"
Lang, Thomas
Lent, Wayne
Malikowski, Jon
Malikowski, Meredith
Mandel, Sol
Mansfield, Sherry
Martell, Merry
McAllister, Thomas
Migliazza, Frank
Miller, Jed
Murphy, Kevin
Olsen, Bobby
Paul, Richard
Regan, Kevin
Samaha, Carol
Schaefer, Bonnie
Scharber, Ann
Schlossberg, Robert
Scimeca, Jacqueline
Sharer, Frank "Paco"
Slater, John
Smock Nanette
Solomon, Jed
Sorrentino, Raymond
Tarrant, Geri
Tilson, Donna
Van Houten, Ronald
Vitelli, William
Webb, George
West, Deborah
Williams, Michael
Wolotsky, Edward
Woolsey, Bruce
Here is a selected listing of books on the 1960s that can help you learn more about this decade that shaped our lives and which remains iconic for so many Americans. I've chosen books that provide a broad overview of the decade, with some emphasis on popular music given its significance as a barometer of cultural change.
Brokaw, Tom. Boom! Talking About the Sixties. New York: Random House, 2007.
Bukszpan, Daniel. Woodstock: 50 Years of Peace and Music. Watertown MA: Charlesbridge Press, 2019.
Charters, Ann (Ed.). The Portable Sixties Reader. New York NY: Penguin, 2003.
Collins, Gail. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present. New York NY: Hachette Books, 2009.
Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. New York NY: Basic Books,
1977.
Farber, David. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York NY: Hill and Wang, 1994.
Farber, David and Bailey, Beth (Eds.). The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. New York NY: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Fraser, Ronald (Ed.). 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt. New York NY: Pantheon, 1988.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Revised edition). New York NY: Bantam, 1993.
Goodwin, Richard H. Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties. Boston MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988.
Isserman, Maurice and Kazin, Michael (Eds.). America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. 5th edition. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sander, Ellen. Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (Augmented edition). Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2019. Original edition published in 1973.
Savage, Jon. 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. London UK: Faber & Faber, 2015.
Sayres, Sonia, Stesphenson, Anders, Aronowitz, Stanley and Jameson, Frederic (Eds.). The 60s Without Apology. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Unger, Irwin and Unger, Debi (Eds.). The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader. New York NY: Crown, 1998.
Wilentz, Sean. Bob Dylan in America. New York NY: Anchor Books, 2011.
Many thanks to the following individuals and institutions who supplied photographs and related images for this website: Gary Edelson, Gary Falcone, Margo Hooker, Patsy McMahon, Township of Ocean Historical Museum, Ed Rainer, Bill Scheumeister, Bruce Stewart.
Sheila Fernekes provided invaluable website design and technical support in the development of this website.
Click on the links below to access PowerPoint slides of class reunions.
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