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Dave’s dad Milt celebrated his 90th birthday in New Jersey just after Thanksgiving 2007, with the entire Mausner, Schneider, and Zwanger families and 40 friends in attendance.
Milt donned the traditional bolo neck tie of the aged and clueless. He was not allowed to put a lampshade on his head, however, because the family still has pride.
A nearby car repair shop was burned out, filling our backyard with smoke for several hours, in October 2007.
Fireman’s ball!
The staff escaped unharmed. The owner said he
was servicing a car which contained either a leaking gas tank or a broken
fuel line. Either way, the gas exploded and the old structure was immolated
in just minutes. Explosions of oil cans and other volatiles could be heard.
Hole in the ground.
This is all that’s left at the end of 2007. The brick scavengers are
clearing the site. A reconstruction is planned.
Emerson College!Sam entered Emerson College in Boston as a film-video major, in September 2007. Located across from Boston Commons, the urban campus includes dorms, classrooms, labs, and offices in a half-dozen highrises.
Dvorit joined the University of Pennsylvania as The Penn Fund Assistant Director for Student Advancement on August 6.
Dvorit in her private, luxury, executive office in the Franklin Building.
She will be working with current students and recently-graduated classes. One of her primary responsibilities includes working with the Senior Class Gift Drive, a program that continues to build stronger affinity with Penn among the class, and introduces philanthropy at Penn to our students. This past year the class of 2007 raised $63,999 (a new record) from 63% (a new record) of the senior class. Dvorit is already working with the class of 2008 student leadership to develop a strategy to break these records.
Dvorit is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, C’07, with a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior.
As a Penn alumna, Dvorit brings a unique set of skills to this position and is no stranger to The Penn Fund. She was a member of the class of 2007 gift committee and a student caller for The Penn Fund who was quickly promoted to a team leader during her sophomore year. She was a senior awards finalist, a member of the Friars Honor Society, Director and head writer for Bloomers (the all-female musical sketch-comedy troupe) and a Resident Advisor in Harrison House.
Dvorit also was selected to participate in Peers Helping Incoming New Students (PHINS). She volunteered for over two months during the summer of 2004 in Lima, Peru, at an orphanage (CEPROF and Villa La Paz Foundation) for underprivileged children. Clearly a product of the many opportunities available to Penn students, Dvorit filled every minute of her Penn student experience. She is very excited about beginning this new chapter of her Penn experience here in Development and Alumni Relations.
Sam graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School on June 10, the last of his siblings to flee the nest. He has accepted a seat at Emerson College in Boston, Class of 2011, where he will be a Film-Video major.
Distribution Manager!
Max standing proudly in his office at Hertz in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Max continues his meteoric rise within Hertz management. He is now manager of car fleet inventories within 70 branches around O’Hare Airport. He dispatches drivers to move 16,000 cars around the Hertz system.
The perquisites of his office include a Hertz car of his choice, gassed up and ready to go.
Dvorit earned her degree cum laude (B.A., Biological Basis of Behavior) from the University of Pennsylvania on May 14, 2007. She took a vacation in Thailand and VietNam to unwind. She has taken an apartment near Philadelphia's tony Rittenhouse Square.
Dvorit was voted one of the thirty top seniors at Penn by her peers.
Dave and The Boys enjoyed a Cubs game at Wrigley Field on May 6. At times the game became rather exciting, but we were mostly looking at dames. Final score: Cubs 4, Other Guys 3.
(Left-to-right) Matt Murton (#19), Dave, Sam.
Sam uploaded his YouTube music video in April, 2007. Here is how YouTube describes it:
"Experimental Film" by They Might Be Giants. Video by Sam Mausner (snappysm). Edited on Final Cut. Very well done, used a green screen for most of it.
Watch the video and then add your YouTube comment about how his shooting and editing techniques.
The kitchen project was completed on March 29, 2007. These shots show (graphic, L) the big plan as imagined back in September, 2006, using the Interior Designer program; and (photo, R) the actual finished job from nearly the same perspective.
Gale’s Kitchen Photo Blog has a photo history of the entire project.
Sam was inducted, on March 21, 2007, into the Oak Park chapter of the Cum Laude Society, founded a century ago by members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for the recognition of top-performing high school students.
Oak Park-River Forest High School put on a very nice ceremony, calling each student by name to be greeted by the Superintendant. Sam received a fine certificate and a small child, both of which he may use for any purpose.
The family visited U Penn in February 2007 (photo, L) to take in the final show of Dvorit’s Bloomers directorial career. We enjoyed a program which included college and political satire, musical numbers, choreography, and over one hundred costume changes, all created, edited, and supervised by little Petey.
Dvorit portrayed a large number of bizarre characters, including a fictitious matron named Claire, sharing the stage with her fictitious husband named Milt. She also delivered the goods (photo, R) in the form of a late, lamented, sexpot-wannabe named Anna Nicole. Here, Dvorit shows off her “talents” (left-to-right) her left “talent”, her right “talent”.
On January 22, 2007, the family kitchen was stolen by vandals in the dead of night. They silently took everything, right down to the rafters, studs, and subflooring. Curiously, they did not take furniture, appliances, nor the contents of any cabinets - all of which were later found in the living room.
Gale’s Kitchen Photo Blog tells the true story (as opposed to this hyperbole).
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