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Update 9-12-08: If you’re looking to be reunited with fellow Neumannites, feel free to write in the comments below. You should spam-proof your email address because this is a public place. Do something like this: Lee at NOSPAM Lee dot org. (can you guess my email address?). If you see the comment of someone you want to hook up with and their email address is not displayed, post a request and I’ll forward the message. All this said, Classmates.com might be a better place to look for old classmates. If you remember your classmates’ names, services like LinkedIn, Plaxo etc are great. :-)

I graduated Neumann Prep, Wayne NJ in 1987. The school closed down in 1990 or so (my classmate George had a terrible time getting a transcript from the diocese after the closure!)

I went back to the school in May 2005. Here’s some photos of the place

The farm across the street from the school is apparently for sale. I’m sure the condos will be nice.

From this intersection, turn left and then the school is on your right. In front of you is a W.R. Grace Superfund site (local copy) that held radioactive thorium and uranium infused sand from mining. Directly to the left and behind is the farm. Behind and to the right is some ancient chemical dump (nobody knew much about it. It was said to be a Superfund site but I can’t find reference of it). Yup, high school, farm, nuclear waste dump and chemical dump all within 500 feet of one another.

They didn’t take much effort in changing the sign. Under that placard it still says “Neumann Prep”.

A panorama of the front of Neumann Prep. Click or right-click to download this very large image.

A panorama of the front lot. Click or right-click to download this very large image.

The front yard.

Looking in through the entrance on the right, near the chapel. Though I passed by here a thousand times, the thing I think about when looking at this is that the Junior Prom took place in the gym and a table was set up at that door you can see to take tickets. … … Hey, what happened to to the trophy case near the principles office?

The entrance to the left, the “Main” entrance. When I look here, I think about a lot… the library to the left (and the day a kid was walking out while I was walking in, he said with a laugh, “Hey, the space shuttle blew up.” I walked in to see the diverging con-trails on TV), the steps (where we ran up and down one day for Ms. Rawding’s physics class to figure out how many horsepower we could generate (about 1/3)), the door almost out-of-sight to the right where Latin class was (I didn’t take it) and yearbook met (where I was told that a previous class had sneakily scribed the word “FUCK” across the book with border-markings), the lockers around the corner (where the combination to my lock each year always had at least one “38″, weird!) and Father Lombardo’s theology class in the classroom through the wall to the right, and Mr… (ugh, I don’t recall his name! He had a bushy beard) music appreciation class… and… and… and…

Just outside the cafeteria. There were a few picnic tables here. That is where the super-cool kids ate lunch. I ate out there a few times but it was usually too cold, bright or… well, too super-cool for me. I like what they’ve done with the place with the bricks, shrubs, walkway and greenhouse.