Judy Berk Schancupp's Comments

Nancy's cousin's son knows my son. Probably through baseball, or through temple. What's the last name of the cousin?
Check Nancy's page. Wrote something there.

To borrow an old Eddie Goldbetter line: "Well I'll be deep fried in horse manure!!
Nancy Goldstein called me on Sat. She was about 15 miles west of me at her cousin's home. I got the message way late - on Monday evening.
Because this weekend was pretty hectic - ball games for my son, setting up grad party invitations for my daughter, a huge gardening job on Father's Day, I didn't listen to any of my voice mail messages. Too bad. I could have spared some time on Sat. night.
Next time she's in town we'll connect, that is if she's in town again.

Trying to get Barbara to Atlanta in July. Nancy Goldstein, Kathy Farkas and I are going up to western North Carolina. We have a home there that we are trying to sell. But it's a great area with lots of hiking, water sports, etc. Last reunion was in Sanibel Island at age 35. We thought that we would do it every year. I guess we are all too busy.
My daughter is home so she can now advance my techinical skills.

My daughter set up my page, and absolutely insisted on posting this picture of me on the site. It was taken a year ago April, during our family vacation to the Dominican Republic - right before I came down with Montezuma's Revenge. It was miserable. After that, my only meals consisted of Pepto. Anything else down the throat was dangerous.
My work is now totally digital now. So I've been promoting this whole social networking wave as a part of my job, as a way to build Web traffic, among other strategies to boost time on the site and multiple visits.
Had a short exchange with Barbara Pearlmutter about a week ago.

Do you dressage?
My wife used to ride very often in her younger days. My kids rode off and on for a couple of years.
Skiing, however, is our collective passion. My son likes to do tricks in the terrain park. My daughter likes to show up the boys who think they are good skiers.

English or western? Are you asking me what type of riding do I do? English. I used to ride western. I've been on a few fox hunts and went riding twice in Ireland. But that was in my younger years. No competitive riding. Now we just trail ride and we don't jump any more. I call it old lady riding. I have a sweet Arabian horse. I had a very large thoroughbred for 7 years. Ironically, I'm not a skiier. I don't like speed. I don't feel like I have any control.
I took my middle daughter skiing three years ago in Colorado. She had never skiied before and I'm just not good. But we had fun.

English or Western?

I'll be in "Joisy" this weekend for a family Bat Mitzvah. I didn't know that your family moved away. I remember that you were the only person I knew that was not going to a state or city school. I always thought that I would want to live in Maine. Not a good place for a Jewish person from New York, huh.
Onto Rice, I detest Houston also. I drove my daughter there several times and had to pretend to like the place, couldn't wait to leave. She is going back to Houston when she returns from Europe. She is going to look for a job. I have her car so I guess I will be driving back there. The kids like Rice. Is your son interested in science, math, engineering, architecture? Those are their specialties. My daughter entered as a biomedical engineer, never took an engineering course and said that she wanted medicine, then changed her mind again. So much for goals. Half of the student body is from Texas, so you have a strong Texas influence.
Got to go back to work.

Yes, I went to Syracuse Univ. My folks moved to "Joisey" while I was in college. That was a heartbreaker for me. I hated to leave the hood. (When I take my kids back to the neighborhood, they call it the "chood" for obvious reasons.) I lived in "joisey" for a short time, then landed a newspaper job in Northern Maine. It was real culture shock for me. I learned a lot about potato farming, potato futures, potato processing and black flies during my six months there. Not the place for a Jewish kid from Queens. Got disenchanted with the country life after six months. Returned to "joisey," worked for my brother, and then landed a job in Lake Placid, covering the Winter Olympics for a newspaper. Those four years in Placid was the most fun I've ever had. Covering the Olympics, planning and preparations, and the scandals that went along with that, was great experience for me. And then having a front seat for the Games themselves was a thrill, including the famous "Miracle on Ice" game. Because there's was lot's of action there I got some supplemental freelance work, along with my regular reporting job. The local organizers didn't care for me. They thought my coverage was trying to sabotage their big party. But my publisher was entirely supportive because he thought the people running the Games bunch of stuck up, self-important schmucks. So everytime I uncovered another bit of malfeasance, and there was lots of it (it was the Olympics, after all, and for all they say about the Games being about sports, it's actually about politics and ego - but you experienced that in Atlanta), he would get downright giddy. Never mind that people regularly threatened me. He told me to let it slide, which I did, and there were enough decent people in the town to keep me fed with juicy inside stories and keep me sane.
Fast forward: A year after the Olympics, I later moved to Binghamton and got the job with the newspaper here. Binghamton was a good spot at the time. It was equidistant between my wife's folks who lived about 20 miles east of Utica and my family in "joisey" and NYC. I ended up getting an MBA from SUNY-Binghamton.
We're a skiing family. Had both my kids on skis at 2 1/2. And there's a decent hill that's 35 minutes away. So in the winter, as long as it snows, we're fine. We're there every weekend, adn sometimes I get into the office late so I can ski in the AM.
My daughter never thought that she'd be going to school in her backyard. But the more she learned about the quality of SUNY-B, the more she thought it was the right choice. She got into other places, unfortunately, however, not her first choice - Georgetown - but said Binghamton just felt right. Better than Univ. of Buffalo, Syracuse, and the several others to which she was accepted.
Funny that your daughter went to Rice. My son has his sights set on Rice. I don't partiularly like Houston. In fact, I detest the place, but I can certainly accept Rice. A great school.
If your friend every needs a place to stay while visiting her daughter here, don't hesitate to have her give us a ring

I don't fly for business, but when I retire I'm leaving Atlanta because I hate the airport. I raised three daughters and was a stay-at-home mom for 22 years. It was tough to find a job when I eventually decided it was time to return to the workforce. I was fortunate to run a literacy program for the Jewish Federation of Atlanta for 1 1/2 years (have masters degree in reading), when that program ended I got a job at a museum with a Holocaust and heritage gallery. I had volunteered at the museum since 1999 so I was happy that they had an opening. So I give tours and do administrative work. I like the environment. I would probably have gone back into teaching if I didn't have this job. With "no child left behind" I would have had to do a lot of stuff to get a teaching job, and I guess that I don't love teaching.
I give tours to school groups so that's enough teaching for me.
Didn't you go to Syracuse University?
My oldest, 24, lives in DC, graduated from George Washing University, my middle daughter, 22, just graduated from Rice in Houston with pre-med courses, but decided she doesn't want to go to medical school, so she will take time off to figure out what she wants to do, and my youngest is graduating from a Jewish High School and is going to College of Charleston .
Binghamton is a great school. I have a friend in Atlanta whose daughter is there.
My husband has a solo podiatry practice. We met when he was in podiatry school in New York and I was working in New York. I made a party in Manhattan with a guy friend who went to the podiatry school. At the party is where I met my husband. We married and moved to Detroit, where I taught and he did his residency, tried livingin Tampa, I hated it and told him "I'm moving with you or without you" and so we settled in Atlanta, and except for the airport and traffic, it has been a good fit for me.

Hartsfield, horrible? Yeh, it's bad, but not as bad as Philly. Avoid that airport at any cost. I've taken my NYC driving habits (which I still have when traveling down there) and turned it into being a obnoxious madman when traveling by plane. At the first whiff of a delay I'm off making other arrangements. Because, chances are, the flight eventually will be canceled. You've got to rebook before the other innocent victims or else you're closed out. But that's a side note. Rebooking canceled flights was a huge pasttime for me when I used to travel to give reporting/writing seminars to young reporters. That's mostly in the past.
Yes, I've been living in Binghamton 20+ years, and now run a newspaper Web site. Far less writing and far more deadlines. Seemingly, there's a deadline every 5 minutes. I've been married for 22 years, to an upstate woman whom I met while I was covering the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. At that time, she was a ski bum and a luger. She's a psychotherapist now. I have an 18-year-old daughter who will be attending SUNY-Binghamton in the fall, but living on campus. She was very active in BBYO and BBG during high school, and just went to her last convention this past weekend. (The picture of me on this site was taken by her. She insisted on loading it.) My son is a HS freshman who is more interested in playing for his American Legion baseball team than following his sister into BBYO activities.

Hey Judy, Butch here and yes I still have your pix. Send me your address and I will send them to you. My email is hrosenberg@austin.rr.com. Jimmy Morales told me about the site today and I joined. Life is strange. SmileAway, Butch

Remember you. Sure do. Remember you from 164 and Bowne. Long since moved from Queens. Couldn't stand the traffic. Still can't take it for more than 2 days at a time. Have better things to do than spend hours commuting. So have spent my time out of the city - visiting often, however (mostly for good falafel, deli, Italian ice, Met games, Broadway shows, and time with friends and family). Knew you were in Atlanta from one of the Bowne reunions. Thought of calling you when I was visiting the AJC in Atlanta, but my schedule was packed (except for the wonderfully productive six hours I spent at Hartsfield trying to rejuggle my flight schedule after my initial return flight was canceled) and couldn't remember your new last name. And a year earlier when I spent three days in Athens (Univ. of Ga. - Go dawgs), but that schedule was packed too. In Athens, as a NYer, I couldn't figure out why nothing was open in Athens on a Sunday morning - until I was schooled in local customs.

I do remeber you Judith...."i Think"
Houston......for the last 22 or so years, i really dont keep track of such things....

Did you see that Roy Schacter joined?

Hi Judy,

On the main page if you scroll down you'll see a line that says view class photos. Look at the year and grade and click on that picture. You're in a few of the ones that I sent on.

Hey, Now you see I am on line, When did we graduate 6th grade? 1967? This is a riot. Where is Joel Streiker?

Check out the class pictures I submitted. They are posted now.

Hi Judy,

I just sent all my class pictures, except 6th grade, to the website administrator, Patricia. They should be posted soon. Check them out!