Pasquale James Maglione - "Mr. Mag" - beloved 6th grade teacher at Edgemont School, Montclair NJ - R.I.P.
Topic: Life

Mr. Mag (Maglione), one of our 6th grade teachers at Edgemont in Montclair, NJ, passed away July 8, 2010, in South Carolina. He had a way with knowing how to use humor to get our cooperation. Whether he was our actual classroom teacher or not, he had a positive influence on all of us.

Further on you will find links to online obituary and guestbooks.

This was the 1961-62 6th grade class (high school grad class 1968). Link to download the high-res file is just below. Scroll down to see a few other 6th grade classes. If anyone has other 6th grade class pics from Edgemont to add to this, let me know. (My contact info is everywhere except here!) 

Download Hi-res photo of 1961-62 6th grade class at Edgemont Elementary School, Montclair NJ; teachers Mr. Maglione & Mrs. Gildner

Visit comment thread to above photo on Facebook, (depending on various privacy settings).

1963 6th grade class, Edgemont Elementary School, Montclair NJ



6th grade class 1960 (H.S. grad class of '66) Edgemont Elementary school, Montclair NJ



Links to Pasquale James Maglione obituaries and guestbooks

Online obituary and guestbook at James A. McAlister Funeral Home.Not sure how long it stays up.

The Post & Courier site in Charleston, South Carolina has the obituary and a guestbook as well for a limited time.

Nine Topics - My Recent Comments & Messages on Facebook
Topic: Life

Suggesting friends to connect for access to Stanley cup finals updates A friend of mine is in Italy needing updates on Stanley Cup finals. I sent you two a joint message to friend each other in hopes he could see your updates on the games.

I just sent a joint message to you and a friend who was at the game, in hopes you two might friend. I imagine he would continue posting about the games and you could get updates that way. Hope he sees the message.

Maybe you two can friend each other? B - P is in Italy wanting to know what is going on with Flyers game. (He lives in Philly) P - B just went to the Flyers game from NYC. ( for the Flyers?)

High school alumni with talent & reputation for fashion illustration Cam O'Grady was the person for all that 'fashion' art work then. I idolized her work, I think DF did too. We certainly learned from her. ..I ran into her in the Village years later c. 1977?- she was then a night club singer or chanteuse, and I think she just called herself 'Camille'. When I get to putting up some of those other '68 yearbook pics, I'll put up A and D's fashion/couple drawings. A, I think you signed alongside A's drawing. Perhaps that is the one you have!? How did you manage to hustle all these drawings and photos from everyone? Sounds like you would also be a good archivist/museum collector/historian.

Montclair High alumni of notoriety post from a friend: 

Did you know that Robert Lawson (born 1892) was an MHS graduate? I'm  just looking at a copy of The Curious Lobster's Island, which has  lovely illustrations by Marion Freeman Wakeman, and find on artnet.com > that she was born in Montclair in 1891, so perhaps they were friends!

Ferdinand the Bull - OK! I 'fess I don't know the other books. ..I was always so taken with the Cheaper by the Dozen & Belles on their Toes books by the Gilbreths and that here was the grandson going to high school when I was, that I never thought further than that. All sorts of connections pop up now it seems. I don't even think the Buzz Aldren thing meant as much to me as the Gilbreths!

Feedback re: request to take a promotional survey to help Thomaston Maine win a prize towards 4th of july funding.

Fantastic everyone - Thank you! ...and thanks for finding out more about the area D - I actually live in Rockland. I came here because of my wonderful memories summering here which led to a fantasy of coming here. I suspected it was just a fantasy ie. would not be what I imagined. In that respect I was right. Nevertheless, I learned it is a real good thing to act on a dream/fantasy . The good of it is in acting on it, not in whether or not it turns out to be what you expected. And now I'm here and unwilling to uproot again (for now)!

...Owls Head is named so for the shape of that section of land I think. There is a painting of Owls Head from long ago by Fitz Hugh Lane. http://www.fitz-hugh-lane.org/Owl's-Head,-Penobscot-Bay,-Maine- large.html Some of my own paintings of Owls Head are on my website under 'midcoast Maine towns collections' - (www.catinkacards.com).

J has a 'camp' near Tenants Harbor. Though we're both from Montclair/MHS, we connected on FB, because he mentioned Clark Island. "Clark Island?! You're right around the corner!".,,,We had a lovely visit/reunion here in Rockland. It is quite the amazing thing for everyone to be connecting with these younger times/older versions of our selves. What fun & magic.

J - saw N (from Clark Island) tonight at the Art Night. She seemed happy to not have the inn anymore. As you said, she is still helping out with it. She's also helping out at another business here in town.

Jo - you'll have to make a trip to Maine one of these summers! The Thomaston Cafe is still here and will surely be packed on the holiday.

Friend's 38th wedding anniversary Happy Anniversary - great to know there are people out there being happy together.

Fashion disapproval and fashion speak - between the generations c. 1968

Here we are talking about another time while the views of our parents came from yet another time that to them was as young and simultaneously present as not present as our old times are to us. (cannot say this properly - if we are finding ourselves as always kids, wasn't it the same for them. And that means that is endlessly going on....)

High school friends re: our gym teacher c. 1968

Hmm. I remember the feeling of what Mrs. H. said but not what she said. It always felt stressful somehow. Was she actually saying 'feel' or was that her pronounciation/accent for 'fall'

Re: meeting at Rockland Art Night, and where to make a fan page on Facebook

Hi K - I think it was you I told I'd find out where you set up a fan page... One place is - on any fan page, bottom of left hand column, there is a link - 'create a page/fan page'. Try that. There should be something similar on one of the sections in your 'account settings'. That is where you'd have to manage the page from once you set it up. You can't just move photos from your personal page to your fan page. You have to re-upload them. But you can update your fan page by cell phone or email. The other thing is that FB does not send notifications for activity on your fan page. You have to actively go in and check on it. Perhaps that is why they don't - to keep you on your toes and checking in. Fun to see you all tonight. 

Friend's Mom signed up to Facebook

That alone is huge! If she's open to it, she'll be able to learn. She's not resistant. Start writing easy tutorials and post them as notes. That's the only place to find things on FB it seems, and pics (links too I guess).

 

Maine Eagle Cam - Mother tends egg and newly hatched chick
Topic: Life

From Maine's Biodiversity Research Lab - the eagle has hatched, another perhaps soon. Sitter/Mother(?) turns the egg for better incubation. She's made to know. Perhaps we humans  have such knowledge deep inside, but we look for and find it in each other -  ties that bind.

http://www.briloon.org/watching-wildlife/video.php 

A Sharp Skinned Hawk and a Cardinal - Scene from the Kitchen, a Backyard Drama
Topic: Life
While chatting on the phone I look out my kitchen door onto the non-existent fire escape and there on the other staircase is a fluffed up hawk just sitting. Waiting for a bird to catch? I shriek into my friend's ear, "a hawk! Sharpskinned, I think. Hard to tell it's so puffed." "Probably cold. He'd have white spots on his back and white tail bars." advises my friend. "Coa-lld?" my barely concealed indignant reply. "What is he doing?" I wonder as he sits and sits. Then he shifts his position and reveals he's been sitting on his quarry - a red bird. I think it is a cardinal. My friend says it cannot be a cardinal as they just fight too hard. It must be a Hollywood Finch, also known as a purple (or house?) finch. To me this looks much redder than those birds.

Hawk shifts again. I thought at first he was shifting because his prey had moved. Now I clearly see the red beak of the cardinal. I must get off the phone to get some photos.
First photo was at 11:24 a.m. Hawk had already been sitting there at least 5 minutes but was giving some plucks at his feast. It struck me as a young hawk because of its posture. He was always fluffed, often with his head down into his shoulders, as if he wanted to do the baby bird 'feed me, feed me' ritual.
11:25 am.


11:31 a.m. After 23 pics through the glass door, I move to the other room so I can open a window and shoot from there. Instead of 12'(?) away he is 20' away. He does not move as I open the window. Still sits on the trophy occasionally tearing at it. I shoot boring pics hoping there will be some varied positions.




Cat enters the scene (enlarged view)
A cat has entered the scene. Neither cat nor hawk is aware of the other. The cat is coming to investigate whatever, and, not finding any cats to tussle or socialize with, and being unaware of the quiet hawk above him, he goes back where he came from.




Here you can see his breast feathers askew - the strong wind? the cardinal had put up quite a fight? or just a rumpled young hawk who doesn't yet groom his feathers well?


He turns around with his prey and moves it a few boards over.


Shifts the prey again and feeds a bit more.


He's turned around and moved the cardinal closer to the edge again. His  tail is pushed down against the boards more. Then in a flash, at 11:58 a.m., he takes off. I get a shot of him flying off under the porch eaves with his meal.

Writing in Bits and Pieces Through My Facebook Comments
Topic: Life

"...know what you want to be when you grow up?" ...'F' wants to meet God while still alive, essentially wanting proof of his existence and to know that there is purpose to our existence in the big scheme of things-

Ok 'F' - here is the dilemma of Man. We can never prove it one way or another, much as people may think it can be proven. Therefore, if it is a matter of belief no matter how you cut it, I say, believe what makes the best sense to you - follow your own authority. I 'believe' much as you would like to 'know' for sure to be true. Hey, if you met 'God' how could you even be sure you're not meeting yourself? And, does existence without purpose really make sense that it could be? Who really wants to live in such an existence? If I ever believed for a second that it was purposeless, I would pull out. Yep. I'd be outta here so fast. What would be the point, is my feeling. And, Man really cannot live without purpose. Doctors have known that since there have been doctors - any patient who's given up faith in life, does not have much chance of surviving a bad illness or trauma. (Do I proselytise here? and, no particular religion either.)

Still don't understand what I want to be when I grow up!

Mimicking of a bird singing across the street (5 years ago!)-
http://catinkacards.tripod.com/birds/my-bird-whistle-phrase-1.aiff

Get ready to do this in spring  when the birds return. It is fun.

I just listened again to my original recording this snippet comes from. One can faintly hear the bird singing across the street in the pauses between my whistling mimicry. Several rounds of Bird sings a few phrases and I try it - a kind of call and response bird song. The whole file is too big to upload though.

Illustrations on styrofoam coffee cups:

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/02/cups-as-art.html
These were neat - but I just didn't get why one would intentionally put such detailed work on that kind of material. Perhaps the form related to the image in ways I didn't see? It's one thing if that is all there is to work on.  Ohh - I get it, they're dirty cups and being recycled, not going in the landfill??

A broken furnace -
Oooh again :(....hope they were successful. :)
Hah! - So this furnace has a rebellious stubborn petulant personality!?

A survey on favorite mayo version -
Hellmans mayo - but I usually just get a house brand.
Sorry - I didn't answer this as soon as I saw it, and then it got buried.

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Testing the timing of items on the FB feed -
Well it's taken me about an hour to read all the updates that have added up since yesterday and finally find this. i was looking for it because I saw you mention it when I went to answer that other notification. Yep - there sure is a lot to have to wade through before you reach the spot you left off at. At some point we just won't be able to catch up! It just keeps coming. Maybe we'll all get overwhelmed and quit!

A video of grandfather taking his grandson fishing with the Andy Griffith Show theme playing, and more about Facebook changes -

This was adorable. Neat that you can only hear the theme but the action still has a silent film feeling.

I let the movie load in another tab. Every few moments I'd hear a snatch of the theme. It's always a funny kind of company when I do download a video because of this snatches of sound that come through on the other tab. it's like other people are in the room! When it is finally quiet, I know its done loading and I go play it through. I was willing to look at it because it was only 2.5? minutes long - I knew it was manageable.

I think the timing of the notifications and updates is still out of sync (I'm hoping) and that it should improve as they work out their kinks. Like every time Google goes thru an upgrade it takes awhile for the servers to be in sync - one location has one set of data, another has another set of data. It seems like every time FB makes a change, we go thru this other aspect. It should be temporary.

And yes, they've got it rigged so that we have more stuff going thru the feed. They want to keep us hooked. They do this by making sure we've always got something new to look at. So we may have to counteract that by posting something a few times or make a comment on it. I think comments bump a post up to the top of the feed. You did see that they renamed the main feed options to 'top news' and 'recent news' (or something like that)? The default is top news - the things FB 'thinks' most pertains to you. Then you're meant to switch to most recent. That's where posts get bumped to the top by any new comment ( I think).

Some people are now going right to their lists of friends on the left side of the screen. That gives you only status updates. Selecting it is something that needs to be done everytime you open FB, if you want it.

What I do like about this recent change is that seeing what others do, where they go, leads me to discover other things. I can see that others are being affected by this aspect. You notice when someone finds a friend you might also be interested in, so you can and friend them too, or a group, or whatever.

It sure does move fast though. And some things get repeated too much for my tastes - like those funny named groups that people join - every time that happens it gets announced like the "I packed my grandmother's suitcase" game! That just gets so boring to hear about.

Things do move down fast with the new FB. I read somewhere they want to keep it moving fast so that we'll always see something new.

A dog word/reading trick -
Hey! I just read the dog thing and got a kick out of it. Found it by coming here to see your reply. Did you realize when you check a notification via the red button you go to the person's wall post but it doesn't show all the other stuff on their wall. Don't know if it was always like that. Anyway, it does show your status, which right now  yours is the dog trick

Watch out for Facebook phishing emails -
You told me a long time ago to do Facebook thru FB rather than the emails, for that very reason. Not long after you told me that I got a fake email from a friend - it had a bogus link. Thank goodness something about the whole email smelled fishy.

Today I got one supposedly from FB but it was to my domain mail - that gave me heads up. It had  a zip file with an 'exe' extension and it told me I was to update my account or something. I should have sent it on to FB but I  just dumped it as spam.


A day without Facebook 'Event' -
I guess one has to go look at the event!

Nope - not for me. If it were not for FB, who knows when I would have come across you 'T', or anyone else here, discovered what some former classmates had grow up to be...

That's why it is so delightful when the computer breaks down!

Google Buzz -
If you thought Google's Buzz was more secure or private than FB initially:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189607/google_buzz_then_and_now.html/

An elderly dog who was not doing well with the recent deep snows and cold -
Is that someone shaking off snow?!

A beautiful model of a whaling sailboat -
Looks straight out of a Winslow Homer painting except it needs wind in the sail. Beautiful.

A question of Facebook's history and ownership and direction -
'M' - here's the history. oh it's so long. I read halfway...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

They're in Antigua  while on a Guatemala vacation -
What happened to Guatemala?

Reply to a dislike of recent Facebook changes -
What I do like about this recent change is that seeing what others do, where they go, leads me to discover other things. I can see that others are being affected by this aspect. You notice when someone finds a friend you might also be interested in, so you can and friend them too, or a group, or whatever.