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Class of 1975 gathers for a special reunion morning, alumni will be welcomed back to the high school for a guided tour. Half a century after they “I walked into the high graduated, members of the school and I was like, ‘You have Oyster Bay High School class to go on this tour if you’re only of 1975 are preparing to gather coming back 50 years later,’” in their hometown for a mile- said Barbara Shapiro, one of stone reunion weekend. two class secretaries, now a The 50th reunion, set for New Jersey resident and a Columbus Day reunion coordinaweekend, has been t o r. “ T h e m o n e y org anized by the that they have put class’s former Stuinto the high school, dent Council memI think, is just b e r s , w h o h av e remarkable.” worked for more On Oct. 11, the than a year and a celebration will conhalf to bring their tinue with the main classmates back event, at the Coach together. Meeting House, EllEN MoorE “It has been truly treasurer, where there will be a labor of love for OBHS class of 1975 music, memorabilia us to meet every a n d O y s t e r B ay month for the last themed keepsakes. year and a half,” class Presi- A jukebox filled with 1970s hits, dent John Sharifi, who now a raffle of Oyster Bay sweatlives in Seattle, said, “so that shirts and Bonanza Stand’s Italwe could create this memora- ian ices will be among the highble, wonderful weekend filled lights. with joy, filled with laughter, “We’ve blown up all the filled with all the things that we senior wills in the yearbook, fully expect to happen.” we’ve got baseball hats in swag The reunion will welcome bags, and even had matches about 60 attendees from across made because matches were the country. The activities very big back then,” Wendy begin Oct. 10, with a welcome Binder, the class vice president, gathering at the Homestead in who now lives in Maryland, Oyster Bay. The following Continued on page 7
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Katie Cynkar, the new peggy n. and Roger g. gerry Curatorial Fellow at Raynham Hall Museum, will research and catalog the museum’s artifact collection.
Grant helps bring curatorial fellow to Raynham museum By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Raynham Hall Museum has named material culture specialist Katie Cynkar its new Peggy N. and Roger G. Gerry Curatorial Fellow, a significant step forward in the museum’s effort to more deeply research and document its collection. Cynkar began the yearlong fellowship on Sept. 2. She comes to Raynham Hall after earning a master’s degree from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and earlier work as a technician in the archaeology lab
at Colonial Williamsburg. “I was born in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., where I really fostered a love of history, just being around all the different museums, especially the Smithsonian,” Cynkar said. “I’ve always had a passion for history, as far back as I can remember.” She earned an undergraduate degree in history from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. At Colonial Williamsburg, she identified artifacts from excavations, and realized that she preferred studying found objects to digging for them. That led her to graduate school, where she focused on Continued on page 8
he town was my family. It took care of us.