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Likely of interest ONLY to the members of the Collegiate School For Boys class of 1983 (or those who were briefly a part of that class) as we get ready for our 40th reunion in May of 2023.
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Randy Weiner gave very few hints during his time at The Collegiate School for Boys that he would go on to become an award-winning playwright and producer, much less the owner of an exclusive nightclub! His classmates just figured he would go to medical school and become a doctor. Because even he thought that's what he was going to do! Host Taylor Mali talks with Randy about his journey, the influence of his father, his 43-year relationship with his wife Diane Paulus, his memorable older ...
Chances are Ray Flores would have taken a different path in life if things had been different. But chances are that's true for everyone. I had a wonderful talk with the guy who should have won "Most Likely to End Up in HR." Collegiate School's official reunion is this Friday, May 3rd, 2024, which means our epic reunion was almost one year ago! To RSVP to the school's festivities, click here. I will send out the Zoom link for our reunion (aka "Nightcap with The Capper") next week via email. Al...
For this first episode of the second season of '83 Dutchmen, host Taylor Mali speaks to commercial photographer Jamie Watts about being the absolute youngest member of the class of 1983 and the affect that had on how actively he participated in his own life at school. Would it have been better for Jamie to have been the oldest member of the class of 1984? The jury is out. Taylor and Jamie talk about Terror's Group, a small, informal, and short-lived club born out of a general sense of not fee...
August 6th of this year (2023) is the exact day that '83 Dutchmen host Taylor Mali will have outlived his mother by one day and his father by 30. He is on vacation right now, likely without reliable wifi, but he scheduled this podcast to post automatically. Mali says "This is a collection of audio postcards I recorded over the course of seven months and containing the artful observations and poignant—if sometimes lugubrious —musings of a poet. Because I am also a poet, in case you were not aw...
In this final episode of the series before the fiscal year of Collegiate ends on Friday, June 30th, Taylor talks with Thaddeus Bereday, who left after 7th grade but says we did a much better job of celebrating our 40th reunion then the school he actually graduated from (suck it, Groton Academy)! Thad speaks eloquently about his successes, struggles, failures, and the importance of mercy, second chances, compassion, and reform. Please be sure to check out his podcast, Redemption Radio, wh...
After the 40th reunion, which was spectacularly held on May 5th, class agent Taylor Mali asked everyone in the class—whether they made it to the reunion or not—to send him a voice memo about their experience of the reunion, their experience with the podcast series, or just . . . their experience of their life. This episode is all those voice memos stitched together, including some cameo appearances by surprise guests. The format is completely different, and it might be the best episode yet. ...
I stayed for my friends and then hid from them. Karl Slovin recounts the stigma of being "held back" by Collegiate and asked to join the class of 1984. And how his parents—on the verge of divorcing themselves—gave him the choice of staying and repeating fourth grade or starting over at a new school (when he wishes that they'd just made the decision for him). In theory he stayed to be with his friends, but in practice the embarrassment of suddenly being a member of the class "behind" meant th...
In this final episode of the series—at least before our 40th reunion, which is tomorrow, Friday, May 5th—Taylor speaks with Adam Mansky who has gone on to do great things despite a self-described lonely, unhappy, and underwhelming experience at Collegiate in high school. For reasons you will discover, we met online and recorded our interview twice, and even that was not enough. There will be one Mystery Episode of this series which will appear on August 6th with absolutely no fanfare w...
I've had a wonderful time over the last couple weeks trading memories of Michael Chalfin with his widow Sharon Jacobs. Mike was so quiet and so decent, and yet so fearless in goal for The Warriors, our gym hockey team (two-time winners of The Mink Cup)! Peter Allan was with him at Middlebury College, but they didn't run in the same circles. Sharon says Tim White was the only Collegiate classmate she thinks she met. She shared a few minutes of news about Mike's life with me, and I am happ...
Taylor spoke with Mark's older sister Lynette Tompkins Engel (Brearley 1980) over Zoom last week, and if you have the chance you should watch this 40-minute video here. If audio is more convenient, proceed knowing that you’ll miss some slides, some clarifying captions, and about 90 seconds of amazing high school basketball highlights at the end. Mark, we will miss you when we gather for our 40th reunion on May 5th! Although you must be a member of the Collegiate class of 1983 to join our...
Although Andrew Kimball is one of the youngest of the Baby Boomer generation (born in 1964), he was one of the oldest in our class. And he says that may have been the beginning of not knowing where he fit in. A self-described "late bloomer," he has nevertheless done pretty well for himself, rising to be the President and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, traveling all over the world shilling for New York City business opportunities. Andrew talks eloquently about copin...
On the page in the yearbook called "Sanctioned Insults," which was supposed to be filled with light-hearted jibes about the graduating seniors, the Dream/Reality written for Antonio Romero was DREAM: systems analyst REALITY: systems analyst. That may seem prophetic for a guy who wrote his first line of code when Gerald Ford was President and has spent more of his life in the tech industry than he ever intended, but Taylor Mali's conversation with Antonio will reveal just how piercing it...
No one in our class was more impacted by the popularity of Studio 54 in the early 1980s than Peter Allan, who says he partied all night and came to school for his 8:30 class "more than once, but less than 10 times." It's a miracle he survived (if, in fact, he did)! Again and again, he seems to have taken away the completely wrong message from certain events and experiences—sometimes actively seeking them out!—and yet he has managed to live a pretty successful—some might say charmed—life...
NICK GLASS wants to know if a 7th or 8th grader would be allowed to go to Florida with a friend and no adults to stay in a hotel and go to Spring Training games? Nick seems to think he and David Goldberg did just that in the late 1970s when they were middle schoolers at The Collegiate School. And he’s got other questions, too. Did Tony Marr fall through a sidewalk grate next to the red door in first grade? Did Mr. Ataliadas (spelling??) drag students by their ear? Was our 7th or 8th gra...
He worked in bunkers on war games about Presidential succession for the national security side of FEMA; he ran global marketing programs for multinational corporations; he's been on both sides of the table; but Ron Vassallo took all the lessons he learned and now does . . . something else (I'll let him tell you because I'm not really sure). The story of how Ron got to Collegiate and what he has done after is the story of the difference individuals can make in the lives of others, most of...
The host of our December gathering, TONY-award winner Adam Guettel, sits down with Taylor to talk about composition, acquisition, personal growth, how to buy cigarettes at age SEVEN, and what is required to "make way for song." Although you must be a member of the Collegiate class of 1983 to join our WhatsApp group, anyone can make a donation to the school here: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/25715/donations/new
Taylor talks to Jason Stell about being a bullied ballet boy, Russians with wooden sticks, what it means to be elite, a muscle clad teen, the guy whose mom teaches music at the same school you go to, Ashtanga yoga, Tai Chi, psychotherapy, Mama Say Mama Sa Mama Coosa, sins of commission and omission, Fathers & Sons, things that are "chunkular," how to win friends and influence people, and apologies for transgressions that happened decades ago. Although you must be a member of the Col...
The story of how HANK BAER left Collegiate in the middle of his freshman year—skipping out on his last two exams!—and went on to have a wonderful time at his next school is a good one, even if it's not one "everyone knows" as he thought they did. The journey of his life has had many twists and turns as well as triumphs and failures. Hank speaks of the ones he remembers, and Taylor reminds him of a few he had forgotten. We have until Friday, May 5, 2023, to get him to come in person ...
With his good looks, athleticism, talent, intellect, and confidence, David Dishy was almost universally considered to be the most popular kid in the New York City private school system in the early 1980s, at least among those who were unscathed by vice. Host Taylor Mali goes back and forth with his old friend, alternately reminding him what a great guy he was in one breath, and then reveling in the complete lack of self-awareness that made The Dish so deliciously entertaining. This interview ...
Adam Ernster says he's on his 6th career, but the only one any of us knows about is the one-on-one celebrity fitness training in LA getting movie stars ready for their nude scenes. For reasons Taylor never pushes Adam to fully explain, that career is all gone now, and he's living in rural Pennsylvania, studying psychotherapy on his own, assembling models, and taking care of his father, a Holocaust survivor and quadriplegic. Adam Ernster currently has no idea where his life is going but he fee...
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