Introduction

The Editor-in-Chief welcomes you to another issue of G&G

When we graduated in 1990, Channel 2 (WJBK-TV) aired CBS programs, the Detroit Red Wings were 35 years removed from their last Stanley Cup, the Soviet Union had not yet broken up, the Milwaukee Brewers were still an American League team, and the Internet was more like a dirt road than the "Information Superhighway" we enjoy today.

Welcome, my fellow alumni, to the Green & Gold Reunion Issue.

As with the first G&G (1990), the backbone of the Reunion Issue is stories that are admittedly trivial, yet memorable enough that I felt they needed some kind of preservation, lest they be forgotten.  I'll let you in on a little secret, too: That Vocabulary Game Dictionary was originally going to be part of that first G&G, but then I thought, if Mrs. Sparrow decided to do one more Vocabulary Game between the time it was published and the end of the school year, that would render the article incomplete.

I chose to publish this issue of G&G on the Web for a few reasons:

• It's much cheaper to publish on the Web than it is to print a magazine
• Laying out a printed magazine can be a time-consuming pain in the neck
• Online articles can include links to other web pages; printed articles can't
• If there's an error, it's easier to fix an electronic copy than it is to fix 200 printed copies
• And oh, yeah, it's eco-friendly

In the first ten years after we graduated from Harrison High School, we scattered far and wide. It has been my hope that the Internet would keep many of us in touch. 100 or even 50 years ago, we might have been more likely to stay close to home; thus, it would be much easier to keep tabs on one another, but now, people change their jobs and places of residence much more often than ever before.

I hope you find the G&G Reunion Issue to be fun and entertaining to read, and above all, I hope it brings back memories you may otherwise have forgotten. Dig in and enjoy.

Sincerely,

Mark Rabinowitz

G&G Editor-in-Chief