Among the alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens are three Nobel Prize winners — two in physics (Richard Feynman, Burton Richter) and one in medicine (Baruch Blumberg) — plus a pioneer in women’s basketball (Nancy Lieberman), a famous psychologist (Joyce Brothers), a financier (Carl Icahn) and, appallingly and with much regret, Bernard Madoff, Class of 1956. Apparently, even back then I didn’t like him.
I was in the Class of 1958, two years behind Bernie, but in the same class as his wife, Ruth. She was my friend, or so our yearbook strongly suggests, although my memory of…
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