Bobby Wynn "Winegrad"

Bobby lived on Capen Street. Jerry Schwartz was his next door neighbor there.
He Graduated Boston English , class of 1953. Herbie Goldberg noted that he was a great golfer. Herbie used to triple date with him and Mikey Lieberman. Herbie noted that in the old days he liked cards and some drinking.
Bobby owned a printing business and retired about 10 years ago at 62. He turns 73 in about a week. He was divorced and remarried.His wife's name is Francine. She is in the real estate business.
He has breakfast on Sundays with Richie Stern & Mikey Lieberman at a Deli in Stoughton.
He has a daughter, Jamie who is married and has 2 kids and lives in Foxboro. His son , John is 36 and just got married.
Bobby lives in Stoughton 7 months a year and has a condo in Delray Beach Florida where he spends the other 5 months. He usually is in Florida Thanksgiving to May.
He is very enthusiastic about a Reunion..

Mike "Mikey" Liberman*

Mikey grew up on Calendar St in Dorchester, MA. He graduated from Boston English in Class of 1952 with Mark Goldberg, Phil Schaffer, Gordy Morse, Charlie Itchkawitz, Herbie Wallace and Natey Freedman. He was in the National Guard and was on active duty 6 months, stationed 3 months in Ft Dix for basic training where he played baseball and then went to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. He worked for NEPCO (New England Provision Company) for about 10 years. Then opened an AAMCO transmission shop which he had for 15 years.
Mike is divorced 25 years and is single. He has 2 daughters who live in Boston ( 40 yrs old & 43 yrs old) and has 5 grandchildren …4 boys & 1 girl.
He eats often with Bobby Wynn and is friends with Richie Stern & Freddie Holtzman
whose wife died recently. Freddie was also in the class of `52 at Boston English. Bobby attended Freddie's wife's funeral in Connecticut and Charlie Itchkawitz 's funeral was at the same funeral home the same day.
He is still working selling auto body supplies.
Last Sunday he attended a Franklin Field Association Luncheon which had 260 people.There are 1800 members. He saw Jerry Kawadler there. Jerry noted that he had spoken to Max Reinstein recently.
Phil Schaffer notes that Mike was a great all around athlete.

He has had By-Pass Surgery & has a Stent but is doing OK.
He noted that he and Phil Schaffer (Flippo) used to date the same girl…Iris Hunt.

Mel Stern*

*Deceased.

Mel graduated from Boston English High School in 1952 and starred on its basketball team in that year. Toward the end of a championship game against Sommerville in the Boston Garden he made a series of long set shots to bring the team into serious contention, Boston English eventually lost. Merv remembers staying up late to hear the game and almost sleeping through the College Boards given the next morning at Boston Latin.

His grandfather had established a cooperage (building barrels out of wooden slates and putting metal hoops around them to make them strong and water proof). The family business was so well established it lasted for many years after its competitors had left the business.

Mel was the first of the Stags to be married. He married Cecily Pill. They had three childen Celia, Eric and Peter

Mel's two sisters Selma & Jackie live in Mashpee, Mass . Mark Goldberg sees them on the beach every now & then. In additiom Mel had two brothers Ritchie and Freddie
Richie, Mikey Lieberman & Bobby Wynn have breakfast together on Sunday Mornings
Richie Stern has a Janitorial Supply Business with two of his sons in business with him.

Through the Volunteer Draft Mel went into the 101st Airborne Division and after basic was trained as a medic. He served in Korea (postwar).

Mel passed away in 1968 at the age of 32.

Paul Spiegel*

*Deceased. Seeking Details


Some of these notes provided by Herb Goldberg

Paul lived on West Selden St . But it is unclear when he moved there and may be
later during High School days. Paul graduated Boston English class of 1952. As a Stag he was a tall lanky guy and he played basketball. .
He went to Northeastern and got a degree in Accounting. He went into the Army and was an officer .
It is believed he had a big job as Treasurer of the Discount Store Arlans, which went Public and that he made some decent money there.
He lived in the Westridge section of Sharon.
He died of a Heart Attack in Florida.

Billy McIntosh*

*Deceased. Seeking Bio Details

Eddie Kezar*

*Deceased. Seeking additional bio details.

Nate Notes: Eddie's family had a lamp store on Blue Hill Avenue. I remember he also had a dog, a boxer, which he was crazy about. I last heard from him when I was just back in NYC, I guess it was 1962 or 1963. I got a call from him. He was living in New Jersy, was married and was very excited about his work doing technical writing for some science based company. He urged me to consider that as a career. I did not meet with him, I'm sorry to say, though we spoke about it. Perhaps my fondest memory of Eddie was the day he got up at a Stags meeting at the Hecht House and urged the club to buy some land, it could be anywhere he said but just owning it in common, he said, would keep us together as a group through the years. The idea was to eventually build a camp of something there, but even if we did nothing with it it would be a good investment and give us a geographic home through the years. He was right, of course, and I'm sorry it was voted down. I believe I voted for it. Natey

Eddie Green*

* Deceased

Eddie Green grew up on West Selden Street in Mattapan, Mass.
He Graduated Boston Latin Class of 1954 with Warren "Buzzie" Becker and earned a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern . He was President of ETA Associates of Newton, MA. He lived in Stoughton, Mass. Bobby Wynn lives down the street. His wife's name is Brenda, his daughter, Rachel DeAntonio.

Phil Schaffer worked with Eddie in 1961-62 at High Temperature Materials Corporation in Brighton, MA . Phil knew his wife Brenda.

Comments by Brenda June 3, 2009

After leaving Latin school, Ed spent five years at Northeastern University earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering while simultaneously working on a cooperative basis at Raytheon's Missile Systems Division. He then worked for a number of years as an engineer in the aerospace industry and eventually phased into the area of sales and marketing of technical and scientific products.
For 36 years Ed owned and operated a New England based Independent Sales Agency specializing in Analytical Instrumentation for the industrial and scientific markets- ETA Associates Inc of Newton MA. In 1964 Ed and I were married and lived in California for several years before returning to our roots in New England. We lived in Newton MA for 30 years where we raised our only child, Rachel. Rachel (DeAntonio) and her husband Brian with our three grandchildren live near my current home in Apollo Beach, Florida. Our grandchildren are Stephen, who is 16, Zachary, who is 10.5 and Emily who is 8. Ed was a wonderful grandfather and very involved as I continue to be in the lives of the grandkids. Ed and I spent a significant time cruising our 36' sailboat around coastal New England with a special fondness for coastal Maine. In the winter months we split our free time and energy skiing and traveling to warm weather climates, such as Florida, the BVI & other world destinations. Through the years he remained a presence as “Uncle Ed” in the lives of Mel Stern’s fabulous kids Eric, Celia and Peter. After the sudden onset of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (5 months) and a valiant effort Ed passed away on October 27, 2007. He was buried at Sharon Memorial Park. Our beautiful daughter, Rachel, chose “Loving Man.......Our Hero.” for his memorial plaque.

Paul "Brownie" Brown*

*Deceased.
Merv Post:Paul Brown ( Brownie) and I were good friends. He went to Franklin Thompson Jr High School and graduated in the class of 1950. His father had a gas station downtown and Paul used to work there washing cars and doing other helpful chores on Saturdays . He had a brother Obie. He used to get to ride his dad's red Jeep and often we would go to Nantasket Beach in it . It was an open, really bumpy ride. Brownie graduated Boston English in the class of 1953 (with the group) and later continued his studies and graduating from Northeastern. He and I were lovers of music and we would spend lots of time hanging out listening to all sorts of records. Brownie was the " Ladies Man "and a good dancer of the group and one of the first of us to get laid as a teenager making us all very envious. He married Beverly Landsman who I used to tutor in Mathematics at UMASS. They had a few boys and lived, I think, in Westport, CN. My parents were very close friends of his parents ( Jean & Harry). I last saw them in Florida in 1987 when visiting my dad after my mother's death. His dad at the time was suffering from Parkinsons Disease.

On May 14, 2010 Natey Freedman noted a posting on our STAG blog from Corey Brown, the son of Obie Brown, Paul`s younger brother ( 6 years). Cprey expressed interest in learning more about the Dorchester STAGS, but did not leave any forwarding email address. Natey quickly came up with several Corey Browns in the Boston area (the beauty of the computer) with addresses and phone numbers. Merv followed up and left messages on the answering machines. Lo & behold, the mysterious Corey called Merv at 9PM that night.

Paul, son of Jean and Harry Brown grew up on Fuller St.. As you know Harry owned a Mobil Gas Station on Albany St. downtown and several parking lots. Brownie used to help his dad out on weekends washing cars and pumping gas.

He loved music,was a neat dancer and had raging hormones. He graduated from Frank V Thompson Jr high school and then went on and graduated from Boston English in 1953. He was a ladies man of the first degree and was an outgoing groovin guy.. He graduated from Northeastern and went on to Graduate School at Syracuse University. He was an accountant .

He married Beverly Landsman in 1958. Beverly grew up in Winthrop and attended UMASS Amherst for a few years and was in the sorority STD. Beverly transferred to and graduated from B.U. Paul took a job with the Ford Company and they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. They had two sons:Jeffrey and Eric. Later they moved back east to Connecticut and lived in Old Greenwhich and later settled in Westport. We think he worked for NBC for a short time then Corey thought he worked for the Playtex Company.

Paul died on January 14, 1976 at the early age of 40 from a heart attack. When Beverly remarried she wed Paul`s first cousin, David Young (His mother`s sister`s son ). Beverly married David (now 61) who was about 12 years younger and the couple moved out to California. Beverly was a teacher in the LA area. She is about 73 years old now.

Jeffrey is now about 47, is married to Susan and they have a son, Branden.

Eric, Paul`s youngest son, died in 2000 at the age of 34.

Harrison "Butch" Fishman

Butch was in the class of 1950 at Frank V. Thompson Junior High School along with Paul Brown, Bradley Clayman, Butch Dennis, Max Reinstein and Mel Stern. He graduated from Roxbury Memorial High School in 1953. He went to B.U. for 2 years. After that Mel Stern and Butch went into the Army Volunteer Draft with the 101st Airborne Division in Ft Jackson, South Carolina.
Butch went to the Nike Missile Training School and Mel went to Medic School in San Antonio, Texas. Mel then was shipped to Korea. Butch was in the service 2 years and when he came out he went to Suffolk University and Graduated with a Marketing Degree.
He married his wife Florence in 1958 who he met while in the Army stationed in Wisconsin. He moved to Wisconsin where he has been living for about 48 years. He spent his life in the Insurance Business and has had his own Agency there.
Butch has 3 children and 6 grand kids . His son lives in Milwaukee and sells phone systems. He has 2 daughters. One lives in Salt Lake City. The other lives in Las Vegas.
He is in pretty good health and has had By Pass Surgery about 19 years ago.
Butch and his wife take life easy there in Wisconsin and travel around the country and often visit their kids .
He used to play a lot of Softball and tag Football, but hasn't done that in awhile. He is anxious for a reunion …"the faster the better while we can enjoy it!"
Butch keeps in touch with some of the old friends like Max Reinstein and also Richie Stern, Mel`s brother.

Arthur (Archie) Kruskall

Archie graduated from Dorchester High School. He married his wife Loreen Sooper in 1955 and they lived on Westmore Road, then on Calendar Street near Franklin Field. Later they moved to Brockton where they lived for 26 years. They then moved to Easton , MA. From Easton they moved to Indian Springs in Boynton Beach , FL where they have been living for 4 years
Archie worked in the Hilltop Meat Market ( slogan : " You can`t beat my meat") for many years. A friend suggested that he go to school and become a licensed Nursing Home Administrator which he did and he did that for 19 years.
Archie is 75 and married 53 years. He has 3 children all College educated- 2 boys and a girl and 3 grandkids. ( 13 boy, 16 & 18 girls) .One son went to UMASS, the other Bridgewater State and his daughter, Northeastern. One son lives in West Hollywood, Los Angeles another in San Francisco. His daughter lives in North Andover, MA.
He is an avid Gin Rummey player. He does volunteer work at a local YMCA in FL from 5AM to 9AM , 20 hours a week.

Warren "Buzzy" Becker

Buzzie is 72 years old He graduated Boston Latin School Class of 1954 and played football there. Like Merv his family moved to Newton, MA and he completed his senior year there. He sort of drifted away from the Stags at that point. He graduated from B.U. then went off to N. Y Medical College in NY City. He returned to Boston and did his Residency & Internship at Boston City Hospital. He has been on the staff at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham Hospital since then. He is a Gynecological surgeon.
Buzzie has been married and divorced twice. His first marriage ended after 15 years and he then remarried for 30 years.He went through a second divorce after 30 years and has been now single 3 years and vows that he will not go through another marriage.
He has 4 children –Jill , Wendy , Sean & Russell and 2 Grandkids ( 2& 8 )
One son is a Harvard Law School Grad and litigation Lawyer in Houston. His daughter is a Physician and she is married to another Lawyer and has a child . Her husband commutes to & fro Manhattan in his law practice. He has a son 18 years old who is a senior at Weston High School. His second daughter is in Marketing in Boston.
Dr Becker has done a lot of great Humanitarian Medical work with the UN .
He is in excellent health and notes that he is working harder than ever.
He is a big Celtics fan, skis and is an avid fly fisherman( trout) and belongs to a well known Megantic Fish & Game Club.

NOTES
Merv remembers that Buzzie had a white Volvo and on several occasions drove him home from Nantasket Beach to Newton. He also had a passion for tropical fish. Very impressive.
Buzzie notes that Archie `s mother & father were Annie & Al
He also recalls a trip with Archie to get some coffee in NY City and his Chevrolet caught fire from a cigarette that flew in the back seat of the car!
He last saw Archie in the Blue Hills Russian Steam Baths in Norwood.
He noted that Skippy Ellman's grandmother and his grandmother were very good friends
Buzzie and Herbie Wallace dated the same girl- Phyllis "Phifee" Satter at one time.

Natey notes: "Phifee" was a neighbor on Crowell Street and was a close friend of Barbara who married Jerry Kawadler.

Herb Goldberg

Herbie graduated from Boston English,class of 1954. He graduated from B.U. then went into the Army via Reserve Forces Act for 6 months. He then landed a job in the Shoe Business. He married his wife Joan who came from Brockton. He has 3 daughters all private schooled in Sharon; 2 who are married and one who is single. One daughter lives in Port Orange ,Florida near Daytona Beach and has 4 kids. Another married lives in NY City and has a Brownstone in Greenwhich Village and has 4 kids. The single daughter works for NBC and also lives in Manhattan.
Herbie became a Shoe Importer and owned a business for his last 7 years. He retired in 2000. He is an avid golfer and plays 4 times a week He lived in Sharon for many years and belonged to the Sharon Country Club with Bobby Wynn who he noted is a terrific Golfer.
He went to Nantucket for the summer for about 40 years. His wife, Joan owned a Quilt Shop on Nantucket for many years. She works occasionally and does odd jobs there .

He is, of course, Mark Goldberg's younger brother

Max Reinstein

Max graduated from Boston English in 1953. He then went to the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) and roomed with Merv Weiner his freshman year. They were in the same fraternity (TEP) together with Charley Itzkowitz. He graduated UMASS in 1957 and then went into the US Army Reserves under the Reserve Forces Act and served on active duty for 6 months from January 1958 –June 1958. He married his wife, Lois, in October, 1958 and has his 50th wedding anniversary coming up. His family moved from Dorchester to Florida and Lois's family moved from Newton to New Jersey. Max and Lois then moved to the Washington, DC area where he went on to become a CPA with his own accounting practice. They settled in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of D.C. where he has lived ever since. Max has two sons Jay & Alan and a daughter, Nancy . Jay lives in North Carolina. Alan and Nancy are teachers. Max has 4 grandkids. He still enjoys basketball and is in good health. He is still working but manages to take it more easy these days. He & Lois travel and eat out a lot.

Jerry Kawadler

Jerry went to Boston Technical High School and graduated in 1953. He continued his studies at Northeastern in their six year work-study program of studies. He married his wife Barbara (Sandofsky) in 1956 and lived in Mattapan. Jerry then worked for Worthington Corporation in New Jersey for about 3 years and they moved to Newark, N.J. .They later moved back to the Boston area and had an apartment in Milton and later a home.
Jerry has a Heating and Air conditioning business and a son works in the business with him. Jerry and Barbara have 3 children(2 boys & 1 girl) and 7 grandchildren. His oldest son is 47 and is single and in business with him. Another son, Wayne, lives in NY City and is on the NY City Council. Their daughter, has 4 kids and is an practicing attorney living in Easton, MA.
Jerry notes he used to have season tickets to Celtic games which were close to those owned by Warren "Buzzie" Becker.
Barbara owns 2 women's clothing stores in Canton, MA. Jerry is in good health. They spend a lot of time on weekends in their home in N.H.
Jerry loves the outdoors and especially cross country skiing and golf. He is a member of Spring Valley Country Club where Herb Wallace was also a member. He goes to the gym 2 nights a week.

Natey remembers when Jerry Kawadler lived on Crowell Street, before moving to Norfolk street near Morton.

Herb Wallace

Herb graduated from Boston English High School in 1952 together with Gordy Morse, Phil Schaffer, Charlie Itchkawitz, Mark Goldberg, Mel Stern and Natey Freedman

After graduation and a few years after working for a Boston based Manufacturers Representative as their Connecticut Rep, he was drafted into the Navy where he spent 2 years on an aircraft carrier,The USS Tarawa, with his friend Paul Katz. As the carrier was also based in Connecticut he was able to spend many weekends home.

Herb met his New York born wife, Linda, while she was attending Emerson College in Boston. They have been married 48 years, have 3 daughters and 3 grandchildren.

In time Herb bought the Massachusetts territory from the company we worked for. He sold it in 2004 and moved from Newton Centre, MA to Boca Raton, FL where he now resides though he travels back to Massachusetts to visit his daughters and grandchildren frequently..

Phil Schaffer

I graduated from Boston English High (1952), went to MIT; earned a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgy/Materials Science; primarily worked in engineering/research/management activities; long time in semiconductor materials/defense electronics.

Spent six months on active duty (1957) in the Army and several years in the MA National Guard.
In retrospect, if I were not an engineer, I would have been a good coach/manager in baseball, football or basketball: would have preferred to have played seriously, but I knew early on that I was not good enough to play at that level.

I have lived in Lexington (MA) for 42-plus years, married for 45 years, daughter (42), son (38), four grandkids (ages one through nine): took early retirement at 55, worked as a consultant for 3-4 years. Presently involved in many town, Temple, academic activities, attempting to remain both physically and mentally challenged.

Natey Freedman

Natey was Stags 25. The 25 was for 25 Crowell St where he lived. He graduated Boston English High School in 1952. Then he went to Boston University Junior College. After 6 months he transferred into the College of General Education of B.U. for one semester and then went into the Army Volunteer Draft. He served two years in the Army and was stationed in Korea (peacetime). When he got out of the Army, he returned to B.U. earning an Associate in Arts Degree from CGE and two years later received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Relations and Communications from BU's SPRC on Commonwealth Ave. At that time he was head of the news department of the B.U. college radio station WBUR. He auditioned for WCOP in Boston and became a street reporter. Later he joined WBZ as a street reporter. He met his wife, Yael, a New Yorker (whose parents met and married in Israel) at B.U.. Nate and "Ellie" married in 1961 and have been married 47 years.
While at WBZ in Boston, he wanted to cover the Eichmann trial in Israel and subsequently
got WINS in New York City to be his base station and to feed his reports from Israel to the seven other US radio stations Natey had brought together in a one-time network. He went to Israel and lived there 3 and a half years; first covering the Eichman Trial, and then spending 8 months on a Kibbutz. Following that he worked as English Articles Editor for the Israel Ministry of Tourism in Jerusalem and then for the Israel Technion in Haifa.
They have 3 children; a daughter and 2 sons. His two sons were born in Israel- Noam and Ilan. His daughter Talia was born in the US and lives in Albuquerque. Ilan is employed by the US Department of Homeland Security (US Customs) in New Jersey. They have one step grandchild. Nate and Ellie returned to the US in 1964 and has lived in N.Y. City ever since. In New York he worked for the United Press Radio as a news editor, an editor at ABC Radio Network and as a street reporter for WABC-TV. In later years he held jobs as Public Relations Director for the Israeli Tourist Dept ( 7 yrs); the Zionist Organization of America (4 Yrs); and the American Jewish Distribution Committee (7 Yrs).
At age 50 he retired from Public Relations and opened up a PIP Quick Printing Franchise in Manhattan and ultimately owned 2 stores, one in SOHO and one in Union Square. As small copiers began to erode the business of small printing shops, he came up with another venture, The New York Firefighter's Friend. Also located in SOHO the store was a favorite of friends of the New York Fire Department (FDNY) and became a city "institution" regularly visited by firefighters from around the country. Articles regarding the store appeared in the New York Times on four occasions as well as in other local and occasionally national publications.
Natey retired from business 6 months after the events of 9/11 at age 68. His son Noam has the business now.
Since retirement Natey has taken up painting.
His art website is
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//53678.html
The firefighters Friend website is
http://www.nyfire.com/

Mark Goldberg

Mark graduated from Boston English, class of 52. He went to Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. His family moved from Fuller St to Newton Centre around 1957. He served in Navy as a Naval Officer from 1956-59.
With a few partners he owned several Drug Stores which he later sold and had his own in Natick for 29 years.
He had a summer house in Yarmouth, Cape Cod since 1972 . He sold it and bought a home in Mashpee about 12-13 years ago and has lived there full time for the past 8 years
Mark lives in Mashpee with his wife Elaine. He has 2 sons and 3 grandkids. One son lives in Bellingham, the other lives in Duxbury. He still works 3 days a week as a Pharmacist at CVS Caremark.
He is in good physical shape and plays racquet ball .
Although he has a pacemaker he doesn`t take a single pill.

Information for this post was provided by Merv Wiener