You be so shmart Pat!  I figured that just based on what little has been said ... I've credited Ralphie all along for being the Dad and wearing the apron as well ... kinda reminiscent of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" .... 

True ... very true ... 

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Um, and you would know that how, Willi?  

What ever became of the Dr's DeMaria?

Oh and yes The Haw Press was put out by the Missonellie family.

In reference to the photo above, yes this pizza place is definitely the former Toto's.  My husband and I have been patrons there for the last 21 years and know the current owner very well.  In fact my both of my kids have worked there during college and high school.  Toto died some years back and the property is now owned by his sons.  Villa Rosa has great food, very reasonable prices and it's BYOB.

Joyce Corwith  Welfel   class of 1972

Hey, Mark: any way you can get your brother to get on this site?

Mark Goldberg wrote on Sep 16^th, 2009 at 3:58pm:



Hey Mark, He's as much hawthorne as any one of use weather he went to HHS or not.  He's the Mayor for god's sake. lol Can't get anymore Haw than that> lol

Mark, this site started out being a place for HHS alumni but decided on its own to be something else. Like Ellen said, it's really about life in...and having grown up in...a (relatively) small town somewhere in North Jersey known as Hawthorne.

Interestingly enough, this common thread has created a sub-community (this site) all in itself. People from all over the country, who would never have otherwise met, have become close friends here just from the fact that we spent a time of our lives in Hawthorne. A town that most folks drive right by on Rt 208 on their way to someplace else.

From time to time I toyed with the idea of changing the name of this site to something more 'Hawthorne town' related, rather than Hawthorne High School related, but always decided against it because I didn't want to mess with the formula. The site really just drives itself.

We have many active people here who never went to HHS. Heck, we even have some people on this site who moved away from Hawthorne as kids, but somehow cared enough about the town to register on this site. That kind of blows my mind.

We even have registered members here who span multiple generations of graduates. Even whole families.

Maybe this site is not really so much a sub-community as much as it is something of an extended family. Most of us have become close. We've had a lot of laughs and some quarrels. A whole bunch of us have networked with people who have offered a helping hand in time of need...even if that helping hand was just some words of encouragement.

Mark, we're all glad you're here. And, we're also glad your sister Jane is registered, too.

Now, tell your brother to get his butt signed up.

I have asked him to join!

and now has also joined our other brother Dr. Robert B. Goldberg, HHS Class of 1970. Amazingly, looking at all FOUR of us, you'd think he and Rich were older than I am but no luck. I'm the eldest, Class of 1968

Joyce- You went to school with my daughter Connie; would you like to be put in touch with her? You'd be mighty surprised at what she is doing nowadays! I'll send you a Personal Message  of how you can get in touch with her if you'd like to renew your friendship.

Y'all brought back some fun memories of hanging out at Toto's and Palermo's.  Yes it was the best pizza ever!  I lived right next door to it when it was by the firehouse.  Went to Roosevelt School back then.  Lived on Lafayette Ave across from Dr. Bonifacio when I attended High School and Wagaraw Road when I graduated.

I loved walking to school and stopping at the candy store on the corner just a block before Roosevelt School.  Penny candies and cigarettes for 2 cents each up front in the glass case.

After school, walking through Goffle Brook Park was always an adventure. People from Paterson trying to steal the ducks, meeting ice skaters in the winter and friends jumping out from the bushes in the summers.

I always had to stop at Spann's Bakery before going home. Their spice cakes, sprills and chocolate tarts were to die for!  It's amazing I didn't get fat!

I truly think that the pet peeves we have about English were reinforced by all our teachers at the high school.  I had Ms. Staples all four years.  She was the sentence conjugator from hell.  Forget spelling!  She would use that red pen and make sure you not only knew how to spell the word but also its definition and how to properly use it in a sentence.

Yes, I am like y'all. Grammar errors drive me crazy!

I bought my first brand new car from Hawthorne Chevy.  I thought it was funny that Patty Ford's father worked at a Chevy Dealer.  Her brother was Whitey Ford.  Nova Concourse Cabriolette custom ordered from the factory and Beth Hicks was the first to ride with me when I picked it up from the dealer.

Well, it's been hard to keep up with all the topics that have been spoken about here but I think I held my end up pretty well.  One last item is that my father, uncle and cousins all graduated from HHS. Go BEARS!