GARY S. COHEN:
CLASS OF 1962
Tilden High School 415Class of 1962
Brooklyn, NY
GARY S.'s Story
1951 -1956 P.S. 164 and the Cavalry Club
1956 - 1957. P.S. 233 in the East Flatbush “suburbs”
1957 - 1959. Meyer Levin Prison JHS 285
1959 - 1962 Moved across the Street to my beloved Samuel J. Tilden High School “Hail Tilden High....”
1962 - 1965 BROOKLYN COLLEGE
July 1964. Met my future wife (name omitted per her request) at the Karmel Hotel in Loch Sheldrake NY when I was a busboy and she was fresh and hot from Erasmus HD as an ESCORTED GUEST
1965 - 1969 USAF. HAWAII AND VIETNAM . XXXC called me on a WATTS LINE to wish me a Happy Birthday on 5/25/65. We started writing to each other. Then a letter came that said she was coming to Wheeler AFB to stay with me😂. I said “Wonderful😜. She then wrote me she could only move out here (per her mother!) if I made a “COMMITMENT”. I was making military pay of $40 per month! Forgetahboutit!
A “Dear John” letter soon followed. Want to know how we got back together? You will have to get in touch with me and we can smoke a Phillies Blunt together!!!😜🤪😎
1969 - PRESENT. MARRIED TO THE FORMER XXX (ERASMUS HS)
July 1969 Proposed to my future bride on Fire Island the day Armstrong planted the American Flag on La Luna.
1970 1977. I was an Internediate School Teacher at Jackie Robinson Intermediate School 285 where the remains of Ebbetts Field was a memory before any of my students were born. Loved it...However, the supervisors were afraid of their shadow and took it out on the teachers. Jay Litman😝😫😝😋😡😟😢😖😫). The late Adele Charyn, Principal...a wonderful woman
1977. I got the Hell ...Expand for more
out of teaching.The day I left some administrator handed me a bunch of papers. “With these papers you can re-enter the school system at once for 5 years”. I looked at him and tore up the papers😜😝🤩!!!!!!!
1977 to 1981. I worked for a small CPA firm and Leona (the tax cheat) Helmsley as a underpaid Controller.
1981 through now- I have my own CPA practice. A noted client rebuilding the Statue of Libery need audited Financial Statements. One morning at 4AM I took a construction ferry to Liberty Island and brought back some small rocks from the construction site.
1988 through the present I got licensed as a Stockbroker and an insurance salesmen to augment my CPA practice.
I have two grown up sons but from 1972 through 1986 we had our first “child” the amazing Tara the Boxer Mutt. I still grieve about her passing.
As Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny said “That’s All Folks!”
Boruch Hashem.
I still remember Mr. Teitelbaum and Mr. Tandler as the greatest teachers and MENSCHS I have ever known. G-d bless their souls. Oh...I am a music freak..love all kinds of music except Rap and Russian Labor Chants. I challenge anyone to have more knowledge than me about DOOWOPS.
I donated The Wind. by the Diablos (original pink label pressing) to the Rock and Roll hall of fame for their permanent collection. I still remember going to the Tilden gym one Saturday morning and as Kenny Vance sang about 2 Italian guys deez four guyz were in the vestibule (for a good echo) singing Accapella “Mexico” by the Rocketones. I still have that 45.
Adios! and Demasiado!
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