Welcome to The Wheatley School
Alumni Association Newsletter # 233,
Correction: Umberto’s - New Hyde Park -
Saturday, October 11, 2025 - Class of 1975
Clockwise from Left: Ted
Preston, Robert Vincze, Robert Bernstein (behind Robert Vincze), Bill Ryan,
Mark Harvey, Dan Carella (behind Mark Harvey), Steve Schneider, Dana Price,
Andy Schwartz, Dan Weiss, Dana Olson, Chris Fleck, Mitch Harwood.
Correction: Wildcat Reunion Band
Joe Spallina, the Wildcate Reunion
Band bass player, graduated from Mahopac High School in 1971 (not 1973).
The Wildcat
Reunion Band - Mark Lubin, Michael Sadowsky, Susan Rotholz, Toni Buckner
LaPietra, Joe Spallina (Mahopac High School 1971)
Class of 1960 - Mini-Reunion - Lunch at Hildebrandt’s -
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Ken Martin and Crew arranged
another Wheatley Class of 1960 Mini-Reunion (65th Year), featuring dinner on
the East End, a tour bus ride around the old ‘hood, and lunch at our favorite
luncheonette/ice cream parlor, Hildebrandt’s
L-R - Cheryle Martin (Ken
Martin’s Wife), Art Engoron (1967), John Moncure, Ken Martin, Paul Hannessy
Lined up for Lunch - Mary
Ellen Zimmerman (wife of Charles) Zimmerman, Marty Corbett Leith, Toby Leith
(Marty’s Husband), Mary Jane Johnson Haas, Chuck Napoli.
Ken Martin and Art Engoron
- Wheatley Garments on Display
Art Engoron and Lucy
Mullman
Paul Hennessy and Ken
Martin
On the tour bus: John
Moncure, Lucy Mullman, Nancy Moncure, Marty Corbett Leith, Mary Jane Johnson
Haas, Mary Ellen Zimmerman, Chuck Napoli
Paul Hennessy (1960) Writes - “The event could be summed up by saying: ‘The best
things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve seen and experienced,
and the memories we’ve made along the way.’ You could also sum up by quoting
that renowned NY Yankee philosopher/catcher Yogi Berra who
observed: “The future ain’t what it used to be🤔”
Graduates
1959 - Matt Sanzone and son Robert participated in the 2025
Tunnel to Tower 5K run/ walk in NYC on September 28, 2025.
Matt Writes -
“The T/T 5K race and walk is an annual event (this year’s was the 24th)
intended to support the victims and their families resulting from the 9/11
attack in 2001. One of the victims was a young man whom I coached (wrestling
team) at Locust Valley High School in the early 1980s. His family, the Doyle
Family, sponsors a team (100 strong this year) from the Locust Valley and
Bayville communities to support the event. This year’s event had
approxinately 30,000 participants. It was the first time I participated. It
was an emotional and moving experience. I was fortunate that my son, Robert,
joined me in support. We were part of the 100-strong Doyle Team.”
1964 - Mini Reunion at
the iconic Les Deux Magots in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris,
France
L-R - Steve
Hoffman (husband of Ellen Genat Hoffman), Michael Garin (1964), Ellen Genat
Hoffman (1964)
1967 - Donna Margiotta -
Deceased - November 27, 1949 to October 2, 2025
Daughter Erin
welcomes contact with Wheatley Wildcats - 75 E. Hoffman Ave., Lindenhurst, NY
- 516-551-7349 - GIOTTA28@GMAIL.COM.
1967 - Group Shot - Some
Time Ago
L-R - JoJo
Gordon (deceased), ArtEngoron, Beth Jacoby (deceased), Leslie Buckner
Strauss, ???, Gina Harman, Larry Weiss (?), ???, Howard Kirchick
1975 - Amy Rothbaum - “Great weekend with great people.”
1975 - Laurie Asher - With Art Engoron in the Wheatley Cafeteria, October
11, 2025
Bonus Photo
Jason Zeller (2003) and
Art Engoron, outside the Wheatley Gymnasium, approximately 2002.
Fan Mail
1966 (Sylvia Kay) - “Thank you for all you are doing for the Alumni
Association! The recent Wheatley Alumni NYC luncheon was great.”
1967 (Jill Simon Forte - “Nice Newsletter (# 232) as usual 😊💙.”
1973 (Edward B. “Woodieo” Ryder) -
“En banc, the alumni of Wheatley,
without any dissenting opinion, concur with Mr. Peter Till’s (1965)
reflections upon the “learned hand” of the Wheatley School Alumni Association
Newsletter. Mr Justice Engoron has transformed a piece of draftsmanship into
an ‘Art’ form.”
1974 (Isidore Mayrock) - “I appreciate all you do to keep the Wheatley Community
online. Bravo,”
1975 (David Abeshouse) - “Art: Thanks for your comprehensive report on the 50th-Year
Reunion of the Wheatley Class of 1975. Arturo, you are the Toscanini of
Newsletters!”
1975 (Robert Vincze) - “Thanks for all you do, Art.”
1975 (Steven Starr) - “We appreciate you!”
1980 (Ethan Baliff) - “Thank-you for taking the time to to make these
arrangements on behalf of your schoolmates. Go Wildcats, ”
2009 (Amanda Hartman Ryan) - “Great job, Art!! I loved reading Jo Ann
Bregman Miles’ (1972) updates about her wildlife activism and
the Veronica Beard benefit event for the Wildlife Center of Long Island.”
Bonus Photos
That is Billy Joel
(Hicksville High School Class of 1967; graduated in 1992) and Steven Starr,
Wheatley 1975, Billy’s “CBS Records college representative.”
From Wikipedia - “[Billy]
Joel attended Hicksville High School until 1967 but did
not graduate with his class. He was playing at a piano bar to help support
himself, his mother and sister, and missed a crucial English exam after
playing a late-night gig the evening before. Although Joel was a
comparatively strong student, at the end of his senior year, he did not have
enough credits to graduate. Rather than attend summer school to earn his
diploma, Joel decided to begin a music career: “I told them, ‘To hell with
it. If I’m not going to Columbia University, I’m going to Columbia Records, and you don’t need a high
school diploma over there’.” In 1992, he submitted essays to the school board
in lieu of the missed exam. They were accepted, and he was awarded his
diploma at Hicksville High’s annual graduation ceremony 25 years after leaving.
Shirley Vogl Quarantello
(1967) Writes - “This photo was
taken at the Hicksville High School Class of 1967 20th-Year reunion. My
friends Sue and Vincent (whom I met when I was 18 y.o., almost 60 years ago),
classmates of Billy Joel, are laughing because Vincent was standing on a
stage, and Billy said “Hey, Vin, gimme a break, I’m not short enough????”
Joel left Hicksville High early with the crazy idea that he would make it big
in the music world 😊.”
Shirley in the middle of
her two friends.
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Closing
That’s it for The Wheatley School
Alumni Association Newsletter # 233. Please send me your autobiography before
someone else sends me your obituary.
Art
Arthur Fredericks Engoron, Class of 1967
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