Rick Ferran Hendra's Comments

Hi Rick,

I am headed to the reunion page to make the corrections! Thanks for being so generous; that is nice of you. It will be a great reunion!!!

:-) Patricia

Rick,

Patricia Weppler was nice enough to add Mitch Schorr to the list of those attending the reunion. Did Mitch go to 164 and if so, what year did he graduate?

Harvey

Hi Rick,

I do have a sister Barbara and I know she was in your class

Hi Rick, Yes we are still accepting checks this week from latecomers!

HEY RICK ~ HAVEN'T BEEN TOO ACTIVE ON THIS WESITE, ALTHOUGH I WOULD LOVE TO BE! I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE 164 ATHLETES GROUP, AND GET INTO THE STORIES, AS WELL! I HAD BEEN SMOOTHED SO GRACIOUSLY INTO THIS WEBSITE BY ANDY TIVOLI, BUT BASED ON MY CURRENT DIRE HEALTH PROBLEMS, ENDED UP DROPPING THE BALL. I'LL BE IN TOUCH REAL SOON.
MY VERY BEST, BRUCE BERKOWITZ

Any relation to Tony Hendra? ( former National Lampoon writer).

Hey, Rick. I made a typo. Thanks for alerting me. I graduated SUNY Buffalo in 1978. It's already edited.

I do recall the chant "Big Steve!", though I can't recall his face. And no, I had no clue as to Steve's post-PS 164 career. I'm mightily impressed, though. Do you still have the book? I could use the title, as I couldn't find anything on the Dead on Amazon.com with the Parash spelling - or even with a couple variants (Parrash, Parish, etc.). Speaking of spellings, is your name truly "Perlma", not Perlman? Did I have it wrong all these years?

surely you remember that lenny's next store neighbor big steve went off to travel the world with the grateful dead as jerry's personal roady. he wrote a well reviewed book about it and I thoroughlyl enjoyed it - at Barnes and Noble Steve Parash I believe he spells it. A good summer read for you.

had dinner with don steckler last nite my college roommate and also from john bowne. he reminded me that when he and I and my dad went to visit Buffalo our senior year in high school, you showed us around. dont worry, i dont remember either.

that's a great story you wrote about your wedding and lenny and your dad and philosophy. you forget that I was at ub. i think we would say hi ocassionally. i sp ent my 20s and 30s looking for the perfect city and perfect woman. spent four years in Seattle the third time i went there but missed the ny manner and didnt care for the rain. my sister still lives there. came home to meet a woman I could relate to and married my Polish hairdresser 15 years ago. the Michael and Isabelle will be bar/bat mitzvahed next month but none of us believe in god but neither does the rabbi. Thanks for the handball compliment. I still play in Queens on sundays with the old guys. kids are away so I hope to catch up with things. Youre right. maybe a block boy will sign in before too long. Did you follow big steve's career and read his book?

Danny Perlma? (Perlman?) Noted wise guy and handball player? Great to hear from you! No, I didn't know you went to UB. Though I was surprised at how many folks I knew went to UB that I never saw there.

I haven't seen Lenny Bloch in almost 30 years, and I've lost track of the family. I recall they moved to New Rochelle sometime in the 70's. Lenny and I were roommates for a while when I was at UB and he was in between, so it's too bad we didn't cross paths then just for the surprise factor. I've been waiting for one the Bloch boys to get on here to catch up.

Lenny was the best man at my wedding in Buffalo back in '69, only he'd never been in a Catholic Church before (neither had I for that matter) and he was so nervous that once the ceremony started he just closed his eyes and stood there trembling while the priest went through his incantations. And so he didn't see the priest's hand signal telling us to kneel at the first appointed time. While everyone else knelt, Lenny was still standing. Not to embarrass him, I looked at the priest, shrugged my shoulders, and stood with him. I remember there was a long pause before he resumed the ceremony. But he did, and so everyone knelt up and down several more times while we just stood there. At the reception, my father rather loudly and tipsily proclaimed his pride in me and Lenny for "not kowtowing to the Pope".

We both wound up back in NYC after that. I moved back to the old neighborhood in 1970, and Lenny moved to Manhattan. While I was attending Columbia U, he was living a short walk away, around 110th St., not too far from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. So we visited a good bit. Then I moved to Massachusetts, he moved somewhere too, and we lost touch.

I'm not surprised you became a lawyer. My father was a lawyer and he raised me to be a wise guy too, which is how you and I became occasional antagonists as I recall (that, and because you pissed me off by being just a bit better at handball than I was). But I wanted to be a judge, not a lawyer. My father told me that was impractical. When I told him then I was going to study philosophy instead, I remember him riffling through the Sunday want ads, shaking his head, and saying "no ads for philosophers today; maybe next week". He told me being a philosopher was like being a lawyer, only without the pay. But I was philosophical about that...

So glad to hear you're still kicking and apparently doing well. Catch me up - what have you been up to all these years besides lawyering and parenting?

By the way, I'm going to Buffalo next weekend with an old roommate of mine at UB, who works with me now. We're going to visit a mutual friend who was our Nietzsche teacher back then. Interesting town, Buffalo. I always liked it, though it's fallen on pretty hard times since we were there.

read your profile. dont tell me about your philosophy. i went to UB too i know you know. tell me about lenny block and brothers. i live across the street from scarsdale work as a lawyer in NYC and most of my friends are from UB

rick,
i am making a 2nd attempt to post something on the tribute site ('memories') i believe the first one was too strong. i would like to email it to you since, during our phone conversation you seemed to have a sense of humor about the difference between jews and gentiles and stuff in Kew Garden Hills. i will call you again soon, hopefully we will have a better connection. if you give me an email address, i will attach this 'memory.' my email is estherwasmydog@yahoo.com
regards,
peter

Rick,

The "Rona" who lived next door was Rona Lichtenberg...we lived on 75th Road off of 137th st.

i think Larry Fox was adopted, so he might not be jewish just like david berkowitz. i'm not sure Tanner-Hiller still exists; was looking at an old sectional. btw, this site has a million glitches for me. i am not reading your last email...it doesn't show up...i can't find out if anyone replies to me lots of the time, etc. but, that is sort of fun. anyway, let me find out about Tanner-Hiller...
p,,,,
p.s. - i googled myself a few weeks ago and i showed up in a current exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville ...think that is the only thing happening w/me now...i do have a website, but i have to fix it up a little...it's kind of dumb; people will probably be insulted and annoyed by it.

do you live near Tanner-Hiller airfield? i have a small airplane - probably 15 mins from turners falls

rick,
re: reform jews/orthodox. my parents sold the house on 137th street in 1965 to Orthodox jews for 37K. i thought they were weird and still do - what's up with that anyway? guess the ritualism grounds people who would ortherwise want to jump out the window...my theory anyway.
I'll look up Oakam - for some reason that town doesn't ring a bell. i know most of the "hill" towns to the west of me...i do, of course know The Quabbin.
re retirement: why didn't i ever think of getting a job so that by this age i would have a pension. i'm still just rutting around - applying for a PCA job to a quadrapalegic this week - it would be a fairly relaxing gig.
last music gig 2 weeks ago, and no art locally, although a group show/museum in CA this fall, and currently in a group show in Nashville. occasionally i've had some success with grants, print sales. my regular email (much better - my server doesn't sync up with this site too well: estherwasmydog@yahoo.com i wrote something in the discussions about Main Street the other day, but guessing most people will get insulted from it.
I will now look up Oakham on the map.
peter

We lived in the middle courtyard facing i think 78th ave. behind us was the big field where i learned to ride a 2 wheeler. i was 5 and i remember coming around the curve at the far end and losing control and sliding on the pavement. got a real good scrape that time. we were on the 1st floor. my parents inherited it from my uncle. the piazza's lived to our left and my friend Jane something lived upstairs from them. i knew Anne and John Hirshfeld, donna Macalevy, and KEvin Daly who lived behind us.I remember there was always a passel of kids playing something somewhere, winter or summer.