Sorber, Spohn, Joanne
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Sorber,
Brian
1965(Vestal Central HS)
1999(Wake Forest, NC)
Joanne and Brian can be reached at: josorbwf@nc.rr.com
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other_name
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Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
Commentator:
Bull
,
Vanderlip
,
Candace
7/16/2000
Candy
remembers Brian from the Band and Joanne as being very nice.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
6/8/2000
The
('90Reunion) committee back then was Marcia Wright/O'neil, Joanne
Spohn/Sorber, Barb Walsh / Dixon, Janet Kelly /Powers, Bob Gensler, Corky
Fuller,
Brian Sorber,Bonnie Douglas/ Moyer, George Starner( a real cutie as I
remember), Candy Roos/ Livingston
Commentator:
Friend
,
Friend
,
Barb
5/22/2001
(in
talkng about the web page) Joanne Spohn's comments which are peppered
throughout are a lovely touch; so very "Joanne":
perfectly mannered and
she
sees the positive in everything.
Commentator:
Friend
,
Friend
,
Barb
5/21/2001
The
web site is excellent! Bravo! Would
love to have tea with Joanne Spohn and Janice Carter, among my favorite
people.
Commentator:
Krestalude
,
n/a
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James A.
6/14/2000
Joanne
and I have been exchanging a lot of emails this last week.
I am a staunch Yankees fan, but I think she is a dyed-in-the-wool Red
Sox fan. How did
that
happen to her growing up in Vestal?
Commentator:
Krestalude
,
n/a
,
James A.
6/7/2000
Joanne
sent me a jpg. of her and Brian and it came up just fine. Again,
I don't know. By the way, she
looks exactly how she looked in high school.
Commentator:
Krestalude
,
n/a
,
James A.
12/14/1999
I
remember Joanne Spahn and that she married Brian.
I probably owe her some money that I borrowed to paint Easter eggs
for Russian class. Hmmm!
Commentator:
McLean
,
n/a
,
Rich
10/27/1999
Joanne
is on the Vestal HS site:http://www.vestal.stier.org/alumni/
Commentator:
McLean
,
n/a
,
Rich
10/27/1999
I
told Joanne that had I been sitting in back of her in Mr. Gennett's math
class, I would have been Just as honest as Brian in grading her paper…
unless of
course
she fluttered her eyelashes at me… then every answer would have been
right!!!
Commentator:
Moyer
,
Douglass
,
Bonnie
11/14/1999
I
know Brian & Joanne ... they moved to Raleigh not too many years ago. We
worked on the last reunion together.
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
6/10/2000
Brian's
family had a couple of small cottages out at Lake Arrowhead in Brackney, and
we have lots of great memories from out that way.
We always spent the 4th of July at the lake, usually with Frank
& Janice Miller and their children....and it seems that there was at least
one catastrophe
each
4th.
One year, Frank's son hooked him in the lower lip with a BAITED
hook!! Fortunately, the barb didn't enter the skin, so Brian was able to pull
the hook( and
worm)
out of Frank's mouth.
A few minutes after that, the dock fell into the water with all of
us on it, then an hour later,Brian & I were "picked-up" for
fishing without licenses . The
warden
confiscated our poles, fined us for illegal fishing & not having pfd's.
You know what my dear husband told him? "Well, I've been
fishing this lake for 36 years & never had a license!" Brian's
birthday is in Jan., and every year,
someone
buys him a license!!! Ahhh....those are good memories!
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
6/10/2000
I
read it (Dick McCoy's 6/7/00 description Vestal today) & actually missed
Vestal for 5 minutes. Actually, when he mentioned the Clams, I missed it a
whole
lot
more. Never went to those places, but I remember the clams from Don Davis'
over in Endicott.
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
6/8/2000
Weren't
Beanie & cecil cartoon characters? If they were, I score a dirty old 100%.
Ok, how many of the things on that list do you own?(referring to a list
of
"artifacts"
common in 1965… things that now define you as ancient!)
Brian has hundreds of 45's, and I have my old skate key, and a
couple of blue flashbulbs, and an old ice cube tray, and old milk bottles,
and there's a web site where you can get a lot of the old foods...like candy
cigatettes...www.hometownfavorites.com..check it out
Those were the good old days, weren't they? I even bought Holly one
of the old milkboxes that they used to but the milk bottles in when they
delivered
it...and
I have a milkman's bottle carrier!!
Are you impressed? I have a couple of old cameras, too...I just
love that stuff!!! Thanks for the memories!!!
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
4/15/2000
Got
another email from Brian's brother today...another friend of ours had
angioplasty done last week.
....one artery was 50% blocked, the other was 95% blocked.( And
he's 3 years younger ythan we are!)
Are we really old enough for these things to be happening?Gee, I
feel like I'm just beginning to grow up!
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
11/25/1999
Joanne
was grounded from graduation because she snuck out of the house to attend a
party bash at Sharon Garvey's (parents out of town). She was
sneaking
down the street at night barefoot (easier to sneak out with no shoes!)
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
10/22/1999
Brain
and Joanne now live in Raleigh, NC, moved there from Vestal in '94. They were
both born in Vestal and moving away was really a shock for them!!
They
have 2 kids who graduated from Vestal. They have 2 grandkids
The last reunion was wonderful she says... you forgot which cliques
you were supposed to be in and just talked with everyone
Donna Owen, Rosalie Kocian, Bette Congdon, Sue Card and Joanne
skipped school one day and went to Elmira... they thought they wouldn't get
caught,
but
Joanne's Dad found out and called Mr. Buran who gave them 2 weeks detention.
Joanne used to sit behind Brian in Mr. Gennett's math class. Brian
always smelled of English Leather and she hated it. He would always grade her
papers
honestly
(Mr. Gennett had people exchange papers for grading) while Kenny Spencer
corrected the errors!
Georgene Lingle was Brian's girlfriend before Joanne. The broke
up... Joanne modified her ways and fell in love with him 8 months later. It's
a neat story...
she
didn't like his English Leather or his prudish ways... but over time grew to
love the man
Commentator:
Steele
,
Bender
,
Jean Elizabeth
7/15/2000
JoAnne
Spohn wrote (in my yearbook) in part "You're a terrific chem. coacher.
Now follow my good examples and you won't go wrong." Hmmm- I
wonder
if
she was referring to the first year I took chem. Or the second time?
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Sorber(2),
n/a
,
Brian
date
Commentator:
Bull
,
Vanderlip
,
Candace
7/16/2000
Candy
remembers Brian from the Band and Joanne as being very nice.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
6/8/2000
The
('90Reunion) committee back then was Marcia Wright/O'neil, Joanne
Spohn/Sorber, Barb Walsh / Dixon, Janet Kelly /Powers, Bob Gensler, Corky
Fuller,
Brian Sorber,Bonnie Douglas/ Moyer, George Starner( a real cutie as I
remember), Candy Roos/ Livingston
Commentator:
Johnson(2)
,
n/a
,
William Michael (Mike)
3/29/2001
Regarding
Brian Sorber: One day
school was cancelled because of an ice storm, so of course three or four of us
went out
driving
around on the back roads. The sun had come out, and I think we even had the
top down on Brian's Volkswagon,
but every twig and leaf and blade of grass was coated with ice. It
was as if everything were made of crystal. A memorable morning.
more later – I get too
wrapped
up in memories and sit around staring at the wall.…
Commentator:
Johnson(2)
,
n/a
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William Michael (Mike)
11/21/1999
Brian
is the one person in our class that I was really close to. He was the
funniest, hippest, most cynical kid in school, which is why most people didn't
know
him. Without being a jerk himself, Brian was too cool for school. He knew it
was bullshit.
We were in a couple of bands together, or incarnations of the same
band. -- played at Harpur a lot
and in the bars along the Pennsylvania line (when the
drinking
age was lower in NY). We always enjoyed each other's company,
but we began to drift apart when I didn't really have the
commitment to the band that he did. He's a real musician. I plan to contact
them. I visited the
website
and got their addresses.
Commentator:
Krestalude
,
n/a
,
James A.
6/8/2000
Joanne
sent me a jpg. of her and Brian and it came up just fine.
Again, I don't know. By
the way, she looks exactly how she looked in high school.
I can't tell with Brian because of his mountain man beard, but they
look happy and that's all that counts.
Commentator:
McLean
,
n/a
,
Rich
10/27/1999
Brian
is on the Vestal HS site:http://www.vestal.stier.org/alumni/
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
1/17/2000
.
Brian has some good Calif. stories to tell....esp. the time he went to Mexico
in a rented car.....& the police pulled him over.......it was in
Tiajuana(?), and all
he
could think of was that song by the Kingston Trio..."Tiajuana Jail"
thought he'd never see me again. Sue Russo was with him, and she
thought he'd never see me again, either!He was driving a rented
car,
and didn't know that he needed to take out extra insurance to drive in Mexico.
They escorted him to an ATM machine, &told him that the fine
would be $970.00 He used his corporate card, which doesn't get you cash....and
they kept
telling
him to try the others Finally, they told him to take all his cash,
( all he had was $46.00)slide it between 2 pieces of paper, and
hand it to them..discreetly...which he did gladly. They then told him to
follow them....but he
was
stopped within sight of the border, so. he floored the gas pedal & made it
back
Commentator:
Sorber
,
Spohn
,
Joanne
11/25/1999
grandkids
call grandpa "Bopah!"
Brian is of Welsh, German, English heritage
Brian and Janice Carter (Miller) were a couple at the junior prom.
Brian was at Vestal for his last 2 years of High School
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