Nelson Abanto

Hello everyone,

I can't wait to see everyone in just a couple of months.  I am trying to make reservations now and have two questions if someone can help me out:

First, What time does the Friday night event start and how late will it run?

Secondly, What time does the tour of the school start on Saturday?

Thanks for your help.  See you all soon,

Nelson

Laura Reid (Pease)

Hi Nelson!  So excited that the reunion will be here soon!!  And we can't wait to see everyone!

The invitations are in the mail; I have received mine so I think by the end of the week most will have received theirs.

The Friday night event at Skyline Chili (254 E. 4th Street) begins at 6:30 p.m.  We do not have a hard and fast ending, but would imagine that most will be leaving around 9/10 p.m.

The tour on Saturday is from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., thinking that those who want to go out to lunch are free to do so.

Saturday evening cocktails begin at 6 p.m. at Cincinnati Country Club (2348 Grandin Road), with dinner at 7 p.m.; we may stay as long as we want (within reason!).

Please let us know if you have other questions!

Thanks,

Laura and Sandy

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I am looking forward to seeing everyone.  I thought it might be helpful for those going to the event at Skyline Chili, it's located at the corner of 4th & Sycamore Streets right across the street from Christ Church Cathedral (pictured below).

If you are planning to park at a meter on the street, this information is also helpful. The City of Cincinnati uses the EZ Park app for meters, but the meters also accept coins and credit cards. https://cincyezpark.com/on-street-parking/
Times that parking meters must be used are listed below.

There are a couple of parking garages nearby as well (pictured below). 

See you soon!

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Classmates may want to spend free time visiting The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center open Wednesdays through Sundays 10:00 am - 5 pm. 
https://freedomcenter.org/visit/plan-your-visit/

Sandy Steele (Bauman)

Thank you Ann for the added suggestion about the Freedom Center. The invitation also includes things to do in Cincinnati during any free time. Also thanks for taking pictures regarfing the parking. Hopefully, since the Reds are not in town, parking will not be too much of an issue. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

It is with profound sadness that I report the death of Larry Horwitz.

Larry was planning to once again moderate our "Talk Around" the Saturday of our reunion. However, after he committed to this, he had a stroke. And now, his death. His energy and spirit will be missed by so many who knew him. His memory will always be a blessing.

Lawrence Harold Horwitz  March 29,1946 - April 30, 2023

Entrepreneur, Patron of the Arts, Teacher. Larry was involved in many endeavors in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. He started several businesses, including an import company, a medical funding service, taught in Cincinnati Public Schools and was on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati. He owned and managed several restaurants and was associated with the Frederick Mayerson Company for over 30 years.

He was a graduate of Walnut Hills HIgh School, received a BA in International Relations from Univercity of Cincinnati and was a 1972 graduate of Harvard University where he received a Master of Business Administration.

He leaves his former wife Patricia and their 4 children, Jason Edward (Liz Flach), Zachary Lawrence (Paula, Keegan and Claire), Sydney Rachael Horowitz Linfossi (Agustin and Dante), Samuel Siebler Horwitz, and his dear friend, Roberta Rawe Dittoe.

Also Nieces and Nephews Eileen Horwitz Wolf (Ed) (Adam, Tori and Rachel), David Horwitz (Noah and Avery Jane), Allie Horwitz (Tim Raphael) and Zach Pille (Mili Galardi and Mateo).

His parents, Florence and Sydney Horwitz and his brother, Jerry, and sister-in-law, Joanie, and his brother, Marty, and wife Vicky predeceased him in death.

Services were held at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Cincinnati. www.alz.org

Laura Reid (Pease)

Thank you Gail.  I am so sorry to hear about Larry.  I had just talked to him within the past few weeks about emceeing the "Talk Around".  His words were "Of course I will!!  That's my job; I will do anything you need to help my class at the reunion!"  I will never forget Larry's smile and joie de vivre.  What a huge loss for us all.

Paul Simons

Sorry to hear about Larry Horwitz or as I knew him "Witz." He was also a drummer, I remember jamming at his house during high school in Roselawn. He had the rare gift of making the other players sound good, of allowing others to literally enjoy themselves. I remember how well he handled the "Talk Around" at the reunion before last. Same thing - he was open minded, created an atmosphere that allowed one and all to enjoy the discussion, whether views were congruent or divergent. A man of wisdom and humor, he will be missed by many.

Ira Goldberg

Oh, Gail. So sad. I know you've lost smother good friend. It's simply unimaginable, yet too real that Larry won't be the leader of the talk around. I didn't know him well at all, but valued his presence and ease with all of us. I believe he will be there still - on the mind of everyone - in memories. 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

How sad, Gail. I send my condolences to his family and to you. 
I was looking forward to seeing Larry at the reunion. He had such skill in facilitating some of the touchy topics raised during the talk around. I will certainly miss his humor. God bless him.

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Thank you for your posts remembering Larry. However, please post your comments on his In Memory page. Once you do this, a 'Rose" will appear after his name. This has been done for our other classmates who have predeceased us. 

Jon Singer

                  WHAT A CHEESE CONEY COULD BESTOW

During the transformational period of our communal 60's adolescence,

I niticed most of you had mustered up adult industry and polish.

Beyond the cognitively demanding classwork of Walnut Hills High,

You entertained favorable domains with pronounced responsibilities

Foreshadowing blossoming achievement of time-honored ways.

By 16, I had but conquered full-flower adventurous undertakings

Born of exuberant concepts, irreverence and badly budded frivolity.

Although I ultimately crafted an identity and employment of certitude,

Attending past reunions has revived my past palette of comic emptiness.

Can a forthcoming cheese coney* with you dispense some self-esteem?

     *no onion please, yes mustard, thanks.   Jon Singer

Ira Goldberg

Paul Simons

This post is in reaction to Jon Singer's questioning plea. It makes the case for the concept that there's more to achieving the Nirvana, the Cosmic Bliss, that can indeed be achieved when in the presence of a freshly crafted Cheese Coney. But certain conditions are required. It has to be late at night, after the party's over, and one is alone. No coterie of happy, successful, well dressed, socially elite companions. Maybe an off-duty cop or security guard, maybe a recently released felon with a spider web tattooed on his neck, maybe a haggard, distraught woman who has just maxed out her credit card making a gift to the Alumni Association, but no one with whom a conversation is going to take place. It has to be with full knowledge that one is ultimately alone in a universe that doesn't care. And no phone messaging going on, no YouTube or Porn Hub or Facebook, no news website, either honest or lying, open. Nothing but you, where you are, the employees and other strangers there, and the stainless steel vats of chili, canisters of grated cheese, and other ingredients, the counter in front of you and the chair or stool that you're sitting on. Alone. And when the plate comes with your Cheese Coney on it and you pick it up and bite into it, nothing but you and it. And then, God becomes real, and demands an explanation.

Jon Singer

Si, quite revelatory whether you read the post on a Sabbath Saturday or Sabbath Sunday. I echo your expressions. I'll see you soon.

Philip Spiess

King's Island is cheesier than old Coney ever was.

Nelson Abanto

Phil,

is "cheesier" a good thing or a bad thing?

 I mean I just listened to Il Trovatore twice, one with Anna Netrebko one with Sondra Radvonosky.  Both were spectacular but very different.  It was like listening to two different operas.  Can the same thought process apply to Cheese Conies???  Do we have to torture ourselves searching for the best cheese coney or can we accept each for what they are?

Just asking.  Don't stay up at night pondering this dilemma.

Your friend in Opera,

Nelson 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

If anyone was wondering about the nutritional value of a cheese coney, here ya go!

https://www.sparkpeople.com/calories-in.asp?food=skyline+cheese+coney

I'm on a low potassium diet, so I may have to forego the Graeter's, but I can have a cheese coney! 

Philip Spiess

Nelson:  As with everything in life, it all depends on the context.  (My comment was a "con text," a text intended to con the reader into confusing cheese-chili hot dogs with amusement parks.)  "Cheesier" is a good thing when the context is cheese-chili hot dogs; "cheesier" is not a good thing when the context is overblown amusement parks attempting to be Disney World or grand opera attempting to be -- grand opera!

Trying to ascertain the difference, and quality of difference, in two cheese Coneys sounds like a Zen exercise to me.  ("What is the sound of one hand clapping?" -- for opera or a cheese Coney accidentally dropped by a luckless student on the WHHS lunchroom floor.  What is the opinion of one mouth slurping two different cheese Coneys, one after the other -- does the taste of the first affect the taste of the second?)  With opera (and probably with a good cheese Coney) you just sit back and take it all in.

So, tell me, fellow opera lover, are there any operas you consider somewhat "cheesy"?  (This question includes operettas.)  And as you consider the question, does Rossini's La Cenerentola come to mind?  Or is it just opera productions, and not the operas themselves, that can turn out to be "cheesy"?

Ira Goldberg

Nelson and Phil, I love symphony and can sleep through most! I relish the opera singers' voices. Yet, never felt like attending opera. Last month, a friend's daughter who performs widely appeared at University of Louisville. She had written both words and music. Being a friend and it being her first venture, I went. Since it was in English, I understood it and realized only then that operas are actually mere stories of dramatic experiences in life. Agreed, a 1964 WHHS grad of 76 years of age should've known. I wasn't moved by the subject matter, but left feeling connected to the singer's beautiful voice. So, many thanks for sharing your pleasure with the art and giving me an opportunity to confess to my naïveté! As for the upcoming reunion, perhaps "Nessun dorma!" Enjoy!

Nelson Abanto

Cheesy operas? Hmmm.  My number one criterium is an opera where not everyone gets killed.  Having established that I have to go with Cosi fan' tutte where it is not clear who ends up with whom, not that it much matters.  My second choice would be L'elisir d'amore where Adina won't have a thing to do with Nemorino until she finds out that he has just inherited a fortune at which point it becomes love at first sight.  
 

How's that for "extra cheese"?

Paul Simons

Speaking of Nessum Dorma and cheese coneys Ira - this can be enjoyed with little or no hot sauce. Even though Ann's post contains the surprising information that a cheese coney provides almost as much protein as fat, nutritional value can be spiritual as well as physical. And let's face it - the neighborhood chili parlor just can't be pretentious in the way that the 5-star haute cuisine French restaurant with valet parking next to the opera palace can. 
 

R.I.P Jeff Beck.

Philip Spiess

"Hard cheese" indeed! (as the British say) -- and money has certainly always been an "elixir" for (ahem!) "love."  Much as I love Rossini's music (and I have to agree with him when he said, "I love all kinds of music except the boring kind' -- though he probably said it in Italian -- and I dare say he probably loved cheese as much as he did egg dishes), I think it's pretty cheesy of him that he kept cannibalizing (borrowing from) his earlier works for newer works because he was too lazy to work up something new. 

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Paul!! That was amazing. I never thought of an electric guitar as bel canto before, but Beck made it sing. Very impressive!

Nelson Abanto

As Abe Lincoln so famously said: " I only know two tunes.  One is the Battle Hymn of the Republic and the other is not."