Long Island, New York. Here are a few more photos of Longwood High School and its students, courtesy of our unofficial class archivist, the indispensable Carrie Schor. These would be shots of the International Student Organization, between 1988 and 1990.
I miss skinny 1980’s ties.
Thanks again, Carrie! 🙂
Long Island, New York. Here’s a set of incriminating photos from someone who really should be named our class archivist — Carrie Schor (formerly Carrie Harbach). I believe most of these come from our junior and senior years (1988 – 1990). But I’m not sure. That snow-colored, skinny little gnome Nolan in the red Adidas t-shirt looks considerably younger than a high school student.
That shot at the beach is of a couple of members of the International Student Organization.
More next week.
This is from 1988 — it was my speech when I ran for president of the International Student Organization at Longwood High School.
I even had buttons made up. I was quite the extrovert back in those days (and a nerd too, in case you hadn’t noticed). But I wasn’t exactly Marcus Antonius, even if I wanted to be.
Note the use of a dot matrix printer! 😀
Some of my fondest memories of Longwood High School are of the International Student Organization (ISO). I met a hell of a lot of my best friends in life there (or joined the after-school club at about the same time that they did): Tim Gatto, Carrie Harbach, Shoaib Kamal, Sabir Naseer, Rich Schulz, Ahmad Butt, Julianne Whitehead, Keith Nagel and a whole gang of other great people.
It was a terrific idea for a club at Longwood. Suburban New York wasn’t as diverse as New York City, but our school had a disproportionate number of international students. This was partly because Longwood was less than a mile from Brookhaven National Laboratory, which drew employees from throughout the world. (I was surprised during my freshman year at a Southern college when people asked about it — Brookhaven actually is well known elsewhere in the country.)
The ISO was a club for both international students and their American friends. It was a hell of a fun time, and a recreational way to learn about other countries and their cultures. We took a lot of field trips to Manhattan — more so than any other LHS club, I think. (The credit for that goes to Gerda Barber, who was an outstanding faculty advisor.) The atmosphere was fantastic, and, as I said above, I made lifelong friends there.
Carrie allowed me to swipe the below photos from her Facebook. Thanks, Bud! I THINK they are all of ISO activities. (My memory is not so hot.) That one shot of me in the 70’s-tastic red Adidas shirt has GOT to be one that was taken earlier than high school. Because I look … nine. (Either that or I was so sullen because everybody else had beaten me to puberty; I’m not sure.) [EDIT: Carrie just told me that the red Adidas shirt pic was from JUNIOR high!!!]
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