Fred Comer's Comments

Hi Fred!
I was looking through the class photos to see who else may have had Miss Simms and I saw your first grade class picture and thought it looks like her. Not much is mentioned about her at all in the discussions, but I thought she was very nice and was one of my favorite teachers back then. Do you remember anything about her?
Yumiko ('66)

Hi Fred! Amazing to hear from you and some of the others. It's been nearly half a century. Stew got in touch with me a few months back and Elliot Levine emailed a few days ago and directed me to this site. You must have been a year ahead no? Best Buy...great store. Can't get out of that place for under a grand! All the best...Rob

You're absolutely right about our names!!I I know it is someone from the past who calls me that, and it always touches me!!
I think I heard somehow that your mom had a shop eventually. In fact,she was one of the few working mothers when we were kids---a sort of 'pioneer'???
I recall your dad, black hair, Bill, right???
Trying to remember who lived upstairs, was it Stuart Levine??....am i right in thinking whoever it was had plastic covered furniture which was very sticky in summer???? Funny the things you remember...
Jane

Hi, I remember when you were known as Freddy---am i right in thinking you had black curly hair? I recall your parents very well, and I used to see your mother, always smartly dressed complee with hat, as she walked past our house to go to work . I seem to recall your brother's name is Neil?? You may remember my sister, closer to your age.
Regards,
Jane Siegel

Hi Fred, I do remember you, I must admit, I do not get onto this website often, hence the long time it took me to reply to you. How have you been? I am well, living in California doing bookkeeping/business management for myself out of my home. Are you still living in NY? What do you do?

Shelley Haimes Krueger

Hi Fred,

Do you feel you're in an alternate universe. I'm not a FaceBook person so signing up on this site was an unusual move--I had many Felliniesque moments at P.S. 164-- and I wasn't expecting to hear from people--I just thought I'd check out the site. All of a sudden the past is forward and it's quite amazing.

How does one catch up after so many years? I don't know if you heard that Mom died just over three years ago. Still haven't let her go. I kept in touch with your mom through Mom and Cele and felt so sad when she past away.

I was married for 31 years and now am not--we separated just over a year ago but are still close. I have two fantastic daughters, 23 and 17, who live with me and our dog. Cele has just become a grandmother and Glen is in the process of raising six kids--his oldest graduated from Columbia Journalism School and is on his way to becoming a network person-- four from his first marriage and two who came with his second wife.

I've been doing freelance editorial work for 30 years, have a home office that looks out on the backyard and am now trying to figure out if I can still do this as a newly single person. I'm seriously going to try because going into an office every day is not a personality trait of mine. We'll see.

What's up with you?

fred,
i see you had Mrs. Berkoff and Mrs. Russell. I had them as well, but am one year behind you.

peter monroe

Good memory, my family went to wolf's with the Koppleman's over several years. The others in the photo were friends from Parsons JH and Jamaica HS.

Fred,
Thanks for the 6th grade picture. It reminded me of who you are. I am the 4th kid from the right on the top row, now, the guy in the photo on the left with the red shirt. My family and the Koppleman's were friendly back then.

Don Reichman

Fred, I didn't remember what kind of sandwich it was at first, but now that you mentioned Tuna , there is absolutely no question that multiple tuna sandwiches literred the school sidewalk over those years.

Hi, Fred! Do you have an older borther, Neal, who might have been in my class?

Paula