Oh, no! How very sad. Vicki was a real chum, and a very fine and dedicated person, with ready humor. She took me to a Sadie Hawkins Day dance so that she could try it on with some other guy (I don't remember who, or whether or not she succeeded). But that's the kind of thing that friends can do for one another. I am really going to miss her, even though we had very little contact during the past 60 years. She was born two weeks ahead of me, which explains why she was so much taller. Goodbye, dear, sweet Vicki!
This just serves to emphasize my plea the other day for organizing a 61st Anniversary Reunion in 2021, in honor of our graduation from LHS. I have had a few responses to my message, all positive. But the main problem is to find someone to organize the event, meaning, to contact the remaining class members to see whether there is any real will to hold it and the likely number of participants; if there is, to decide upon a location; and then, when the location is decided, to work with another person who can make the appropriate reservations and so on. No doubt there should be a program of events for the occasion, but organizing that could wait for a long time.
Is there anyone ready to take on the function of organizer?
I am so very sorry to receive this news. Though we’ve been in our seventies for years now, I somehow thought we’d have many more years to get together and reminisce as well as have more good times together. Vicki was my best friend for years! Practically from the time her family moved to Leonia (in elementary school?) and all through high school. Her father took me out to Chinese restaurants with her - my family never ate at restaurants so it was a rare and exciting experience. I remember her mother so vividly. I remember talking with Vicki about her feelings about being adopted. She and I became “blood sisters” something we must have learned about in a movie or book we read. We shared the unforgettable experience of finding a maggot Infested dead rat on an afternoon in the park by the Hudson River where her father had taken us. We both lost our fathers when we were in High School. We talked about the boys on whom we had crushes. We both did some acting though she did much more and was much better. I can still see her singing “I don’t want to talk small talk” in a presentation I was somehow involved in. At graduation she and I were part of a small group that sang some songs. During college, I spent a day at Bellevue and went to some classes with her. I still remember a lecture about Tuberculosis there. I know through her marriage and family she had a wonderful life professionally and personally and had so much fulfillment in being a mother and grandmother. Her family’s loss is incalculable but for me, part of my youth is now gone. I am so very sorry. Louise (Sussy) Sherman
Mike Marlies (Mikael Marlies Karlsson)
Oh, no! How very sad. Vicki was a real chum, and a very fine and dedicated person, with ready humor. She took me to a Sadie Hawkins Day dance so that she could try it on with some other guy (I don't remember who, or whether or not she succeeded). But that's the kind of thing that friends can do for one another. I am really going to miss her, even though we had very little contact during the past 60 years. She was born two weeks ahead of me, which explains why she was so much taller. Goodbye, dear, sweet Vicki!
This just serves to emphasize my plea the other day for organizing a 61st Anniversary Reunion in 2021, in honor of our graduation from LHS. I have had a few responses to my message, all positive. But the main problem is to find someone to organize the event, meaning, to contact the remaining class members to see whether there is any real will to hold it and the likely number of participants; if there is, to decide upon a location; and then, when the location is decided, to work with another person who can make the appropriate reservations and so on. No doubt there should be a program of events for the occasion, but organizing that could wait for a long time.
Is there anyone ready to take on the function of organizer?
Louise Sherman
I am so very sorry to receive this news. Though we’ve been in our seventies for years now, I somehow thought we’d have many more years to get together and reminisce as well as have more good times together. Vicki was my best friend for years! Practically from the time her family moved to Leonia (in elementary school?) and all through high school. Her father took me out to Chinese restaurants with her - my family never ate at restaurants so it was a rare and exciting experience. I remember her mother so vividly. I remember talking with Vicki about her feelings about being adopted. She and I became “blood sisters” something we must have learned about in a movie or book we read. We shared the unforgettable experience of finding a maggot Infested dead rat on an afternoon in the park by the Hudson River where her father had taken us. We both lost our fathers when we were in High School. We talked about the boys on whom we had crushes. We both did some acting though she did much more and was much better. I can still see her singing “I don’t want to talk small talk” in a presentation I was somehow involved in. At graduation she and I were part of a small group that sang some songs. During college, I spent a day at Bellevue and went to some classes with her. I still remember a lecture about Tuberculosis there. I know through her marriage and family she had a wonderful life professionally and personally and had so much fulfillment in being a mother and grandmother. Her family’s loss is incalculable but for me, part of my youth is now gone. I am so very sorry. Louise (Sussy) Sherman