Richard Maramis:  

In the context of my days in Rego Park and Forest Hills Queens New York City, here are some of the things I was interested in or even participated in back then. Also, a very brief description of what I'm into now. Richard's schools include PS 175 Annadale and PS 157 Stephen A Halsey (both Rego Park days) as well as Forest Hills High School (Forest Hills where else). Richard later attended Institute of Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (Enschede, The Netherlands (Holland), Photogrammetric Engineering) , University of Wyoming (Transferred to University of Hawaii with 3.4 GPA, Mathematics, Laramie Wyoming USA) , University of Hawaii at Manoa (Oahu, Hawaii USA, Computer Science) . Richard works(ed) at Bank Andara, International Rice Research Institute, ACDI VOCA's Amarta II. Sports include Little League Baseball sponsored by Booth Hardware (back then I played 2nd base and shortstop with stature like Freddie Patek but a much better hitter) which won the Pacific Coast Division (still living in Rego Park then - and Booth Hardware had a picture of me in a baseball pose in their store after we won the division), 2nd place in table tennis at Institute of Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (Holland), member of University of Wyoming Soccer team (Laramie), transferred to University of Hawaii and was member of University of Hawaii Soccer Team (island of Oahu). Nowadays, playing soccer and basketball with my kids while still being competitive in tennis (doubles mind you). New York sports teams supported initially NY Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford) then later NY Mets (Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Nolan Ryan), initially NY Giants (too young to see Frank Gifford and Y.A Tittle play but saw Fran Tarkenton, Ron Johnson, Spider Lockhart, Lawrence Taylor) then later NY Jets (Joe Namath, Don Maynard, George Sauer and moving forward Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons, Mark Gastineau, Abdul Salaam), NY Knicks (Willis Reed, Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett), and NY Rangers (Ed Giacomin, Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert, Walt Tkaczuk, Mike Richter, Adam Graves, Mark Messier, Brian Leetch). Well it's a mixed bag of very early days of my stay in New York and cannot be seen as a normal progression from past to pre-present because I don't remember the exact periods only those that to me had the most impact. Probably left many great names out so my apologies. Still following all the New York teams. Music Richard likes includes Doobie Brothers, T...Expand for more