Dear Wheatley Wildcats and Other Interested Persons,

Welcome to The Wheatley School Alumni Association Newsletter # 144.

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We welcome any and all text and photos relevant to The Wheatley School, 11 Bacon Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568, and the people who administered, taught, worked, and/or studied there. Art Engoron, Class of 1967

San Francisco Bay Area Wheatley Reunion

The Third Annual (?) Unofficial San Francisco Bay Area Wheatley Reunion
Potluck—TTA(?)USFBAWRP-- will be held Sunday May 26, 2024, 12:30 -  4:00, in
my Berkeley back yard. Planning to attend are Peter Siegel (’66), Roy
Nierenberg (’63), Barry Gordon (’65), and Rich Weissman (‘72.) Interested
Wildcats, please email me at larros99@gmail.com.

‘Hood History

Writes Beth “Betty”Davidson (1959) - “ I have to comment on Super Drug, at the Albertson Train Station. I remember hanging out there eating French fries and drinking Cokes. It was so much fun! Bob Martin (’59) took me there when I first moved to Roslyn Heights right before Wheatley opened in the fall of ’56. Bob Martin and I went to First Grade together at PS 193 in Brooklyn, and our families remained friends after the Martins moved to the Roslyn Country Club. When I graduated from Junior High in Brooklyn and moved to Roslyn Heights, Bob was the only one I knew, and he introduced me to some of the people who became my best friends at Wheatley.”

Writes Rick Jalonack (1966) - “The Newsletter brings up long-forgotten memories. I had forgotten about the 4-store strip mall at the Albertson LIRR Station. For my 11th grade at Wheatley, I lived on I. U. Willits Road near Herricks High School, but I continued at Wheatley. In the summer, when I trained for football, I would ride my bike past those stores on my way to practice. I always stopped for a Coke in both directions. Funny what you remember.”

Writes Jane Colchamiro Schlanger (1967) - “Jimmy Paley (1964) was correct. Super Drug was right before the train tracks on I. U. Willets Road, coming from the Willets Road School and crossing over Roslyn Road. I remember feeling all grown up when I was allowed to walk to Super Drug and to take the bus to Roosevelt Field from the bus stop on I.U. Willets and Roslyn Road. Jimmy lived on the corner of I.U. Willets and Roslyn Road. I lived on Percheron, right behind Jimmy’s house. We are related by marriage. Jimmy’s father’s sister was married to my father’s brother.”

Writes Judith Oppenheim Darrah (1972) - “I remember the candy store across the tracks at the Albertson LIRR station. The door was angled across the corner. I remember the candy bar collection was huge. I also remember flattening pennies on the tracks.

The store on the other (north) side was a supermarket that became the public library, which was later moved to Shelter Rock. All the talk about the ‘S’ Section brings back so many memories. Three hills to ride our bikes down (without holding the handlebars and standing up on the pedals). Shelter, Snapdragon, and Shepherd Lanes were the best. We went sledding in the woods by the train tracks and played in the park.

I think I have a couple of old Ranchers - the phone book for the whole Roslyn Country Club. If I dig them up I’ll take pics for anyone who wants to download them.”

CORRECTED Partial List of Wildcats at Carnegie Tech/Carnegie Mellon (sorry for the earlier errors of inclusion and exclusion)

Judkoff Popolow, Patricia 1958 (Deceased)

Jalonack Blum, Carol 1961

Brautigam Carter, Betsy 1965

Gordon, Barry 1965

Levine, Andrea 1965 (Deceaed)

Orling, Jeffrey 1965

Bregman, Judy 1967

Janowitz, Ken 1967

Summers, Andy 1967

Bernstein, Alan 1968

Fromm, Mark 1969

Goldsmith, Bruce 1970

Oppenheim Darrah, Judith 1972

Struhl, Cliff 1974 (“Great school. Loved Pittsburgh”)

Tibrewala, Neal 1994

Jain, Arihant 2016

Administration