I'm thinking about my classmates from the Jamesville-DeWitt High School Class of 1970 who are reunionizing this weekend in upstate New York. I regret that I could not attend, so I will post this info that I have already shared with several classmates:

We invested our summer vacation funds into a gala trip to Florida to celebrate my Mom's 90th B-Day on June 15th., complete with a surprise party at Pat Galluppi's Ristorante in Pompano Beach arranged by the most famous and favorite sister Franny Gail Nadler Chiarella. I will indulge you in catching up with forty years of life...

Life has been good. We; myself, Margaree Elizabeth Keller Nadler, a/k/a Betsy, my wife, and our kids who are now totally adults, Rebecca and Matthew, have lived and thrived in New Mexico, the 48th State of the Union. I regret that we will not be able to attend the 40th reunion; I know it will be quite the event but c’est impossible pour Les Nadlers…which reminds me that our son Matthew Nicholas Raymonde Nadler, a Coast Guard Fireman, 1st. Class, stationed in lovely San Diego, is having a truly authentic affair with a lovely French girl…the irony being that one particular French teacher fairly emasculated our son in Freshmen and Sophomore French class at Albuquerque Academy not too long ago… Well it was many years ago that I copied everything off of John Metz in Ms. Jensen’s French class…and it was I who replaced the dialogue tape in the language lab with Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced” tape…or so I recall…were there cassettes in 1967? Well, thanks for asking…our daughter Margaree Rebecca “Becky Pickles” is a 25 year old living at home writer/director/actress artiste type; that mostly inherited from Mom…Betsy and I have created a home and house here on the West Mesa looking down on Albuquerque; which is deservedly famous as a Neil Young song and the hometown of Johnny Guitar, the titular character of one of Nicholas Ray’s more essential films… I have been very fortunate and lucky to have experienced the stability of a solid marriage, raising two wonderful humans, romping with several large breed dogs, one who sadly went to heaven recently…Ender, a good boy, a strong and vital Golden…his kid sister Arwen survives him with us, although she is a tad “emo,” she is very loving and quite beautiful. “Well, a little bit furthur and we might have the time to say how do you do before we’re left behind." The most idiosyncratic and rather special aspect of my life has revolved around the Grateful Dead. “How do you do?” 47 shows…most of them in CNY in the 1970’s…and now the daily obsession of the Sirius Satellite Radio channel that plays Jerry & the Boys 24/7…it’s all I can do to sometimes change it up and listen to The Boss…Yes, life has been good; I’ve coached history and writing at Albuquerque Academy for twenty-six years now (after a previous seven year stint at Sherburne-Earlville HS in central New York), and I have taught basketball to all of our teams ranging from 8th grade to the Varsity under the tutelage of Coach Mike Brown, a New Mexico legend. We won six straight State Championships from 1989 - 1995; what a ride that was. One of our ex-players, Mr. James Borrego, is now Monty Williams' assistant coach with the New Orleans Hornets.…I did an apprenticeship at Sherburne – Earliville High School in the late 70’s/early 80’s, there and then I met the love of my life and when I proposed Betsy said “Yes, but only if I promise to leave New York state of mind before too long…one year after we wed, Becky Pickles was born just east of Smyrna, we loaded up the Ford Econoline and moved to Albuquerque…the rest, as we like to say…is history...perhaps this is a place to continue the chronicle...