Karen Grossman:  

Hi, I went to the year 2000 party at Ken Hi. It was lots of fun. I saw people there who we had grown up with who weren't in our class and had moved away from the area. Then I went to the next reunion for our class, too. I never had gone to any reunions before that. I've been in touch with Susan Horwitz who moved to Israel almost 10 years ago. She also had been living in the Boston area and I reconnected with her about 20 years ago after her mother died. I'm also on Patty Condelli's email list. She has a cookie making company that she single-handedly runs from her house with her 96 year old mother. I just came back from a trip to Argentina and Chile and contacted Adrianna, our foreign exchange student, in Buenos Aires. She's an international art dealer! She was at the year 2000 all class reunion with Karen Jerome, her close friend who lives in N.J. I even remembered enough of my high school Spanish to get my point across when we were traveling (despite my having not studied or spoken the language much at all over all those years)! I did go to Syracuse and graduated from there. After that, I got my MEd. from Boston University in '69. I was living with my Syracuse roommate who also was going to B.U., but she got married and moved to N.J. I stayed in the Boston area where I got a job as a speech and language pathologist. I worked in the same school system for 35 years until I got sick of the paperwork and the overload. I took early retirement in 2004 and have been working with one little girl who is hard of hearing since the fall of 2005. It's the caseload I've always wanted! I take her across the street from her parochial school (10 minutes from my condo) to the public library. She is motivated and her family works with her. The best is that she likes me and is making good progress. The school system I used to work for employs me to do this since they don't have enough...Expand for more