A Syosset Scrapbook 

 Part Ten

Douglas Baird

Joseph Boslet, Sr.

Winifred Youngman Boslet

Bob Boslet

Nellie Nowak Boslet

Robert Joseph (Robin) Boslet

Pamela Ellen Boslet
First row:  with Dad, Christmas 1946; late '40s
Second row:  Christmas 1958; modeling, c. 1967
Third row:  with James Bond and Peter Yarrow, 1968;  teaching, c. 1970
Bottom:  with Dad and Mom, early '70s

Boslet brothers
First row:  left, Ray; Joe
Second row:  Don
Third row: Don and Joe; Joe and Don
Bottom:  Don and Joe; Don, Bob and Joe

 Boslet family, c. 1965
Back row:  Dorothy, Joe, Maureen. Nellie
Second row:  Ray, Don, Winifred, Bob
In front:  Tricia, Alan, Sean

Nowak Family
Left:  Aniela Madjeski Nowak, with her father Mr. Madjeski, husband Thomas Nowak and children, Stella, Agnes and Nellie
c. 1919
Right:  Caroline, Agnes, Stella and Nellie

 Patricia Cattani
(image courtesy of Elaine Cattani)

 Anne Christiano
(image courtesy of Elaine Cattani)

Helmer J. Delin

Gurli Svensson Delin

 Helmer and Gurli Delin at Jones Beach, c. '50s

John Delin
Top row:  1951
Third row:  1952
Second row:  1959 and 1971
Bottom:  with Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1979

 Lawrence "Larry" Ebel, c. 1952
(on right, with John Delin)

Denise Frazer

Charles Garvey
(photos courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Gentleman on a Syosset street, c. '30s

 Barbara Wolheim and Lois Green
(image courtesy of Lois Green)

At Steve Zajac's house, Greenway Circle, c. 1952
Left:  Larry Ebel, Ron Burckley, Steve Zajac, John Delin
Right:  Butch Lamont, Larry Ebel, John Delin, Steve Zajac, Robert Zepf

 Lois Ann Greenway Helser

Virginia Budd Vail Hofstad

Left:  John and Dora Knettel
Right:  son, William J. Knettel and wife
(images courtesy of Diane Oley)

 William L. Knettel, Leone (Oney), Mildred and Laura Smith Knettel, c. 1920
(image courtesy of Diane Oley, daughter of Mildred Knettel Vanstane)

Left:  Leone Knettel with uncles Clarence "Dunk" and Raymond "Birch" Smith, High Street, c. 1913
Right:  Freddie and Dot Knettel
(photos courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Picnic at Bayville, August 1941
Charles "Dusty" DeMilt in window, Top:  Mildred Knettel, Dot VanSise,"Tot" DeMilt
Bottom:  Leone Knettel Taylor, Edith "Poncey" Webb 
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Leone Knettel Taylor, 1945
Her brother-in-law, Forrest Vanstane, sent the skirt to the Knettel women from Hawaii. 
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

Henry and Ida Knettel Reinke
(image courtesy of Diane Oley)

Carrie "Gram" Smith
(images courtesy of Diane Oley)

William L. and Laura Smith Knettel celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, 1/31/60
Ida Smith DeMilt, left, is the hostess.
(clipping and photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

  Bernard Poole (brother-in-law of Clarence "Dunk" Smith), Charles DeMilt, Henry and Frank Smith (brothers of Laura Smith Knettel)
c. 1920s-1930s

Nellie Poole Schmidt
(sister-in-law of Clarence "Dunk" Smith)
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

Nellie Poole Schmidt
Left:  pictured with John Pennington and Leone Knettel
Right:  pictured with Leone Knettel and Ethel Pennington (John's daughter)
(photos courtesy of Diane Oley)

  Florence "Tot" DeMilt (Charles and Ida Smith DeMilt's daughter) and Edith "Poncey" Webb (Harry and Ella Smith Webb's daughter), 1939
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Florence "Tot" DeMilt
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Edith Smith Budd, 1982
(photo courtesy of Diane Oley)

 Raymond "Bubby" Smith, 2006
Ray was "Birch" Smith's son.
(image courtesy of Diane Oley

 Helen and Bill Kupec 
60th wedding anniversary, 1/19/04
(image courtesy of Bob Epstein)

 Syosset Well Drillers, 
Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, c. 1938
John (Kwiatkowski) Flower, Kenny Harris, Stanley Kwiatkowski sitting in Bill Rynsky's car
"These men were not drafted into World War II because their work was considered vital to the war effort at home.  Stan was shot at returning to base after dinner.  The
guards had changed and Stan drove thru the gates with a handwave.  The shots
quickly brought his truck to a stop."  Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski
(image courtesy of the Kwiatkowski & Rynsky Families)

 Florence Kwiatkowski, c. 1958

Marie Manning
Right, pictured with Betty Winkler
1960 Syosset High School Graduation

William and Wilhelmina Black McAuliffe
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Wilhelmina Black McAuliffe
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

 Gordon, Jim, Ed, Babe McAuliffe
(image courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Gordon McAuliffe
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Left and center, Edward McAuliffe
Right, Edward and Babe 
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Edward McAuliffe and Mary Nesbit wed, July 12, 1952
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

 Mary Nesbit McAuliffe
(image courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

 Maureen, Gordon, Eileen and Michael McAuliffe
(image courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

 Maureen McAuliffe
First Communion, 5/8/60
pictured with Gordon and Eileen
(image courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Maureen McAuliffe
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Eileen  McAuliffe
Left:  First Communion, May 8, 1965, pictured with 
Maureen, Gordon and Michael
Right:  1972
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Gordon  McAuliffe
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

Doc Melville and friends, 1937

Bruce Pecheur

Judy Riccoboni Prianti

Jeanne Sittig

Kathleen Tracy
modeling, c. 1968

 Debbie Travis, Eileen Travis and Michael Mark
Cruising through town...
(image courtesy of Michael Mark)

 Engagement party of Ella Augusta May and Voorhees Allen Herbert, c. 1909
 3rd gentleman from the left, Sydney Franklin VanSise; in front of him, Flora Isabella May VanSise.
5th Gentleman from the left is Mr. Herbert with Miss May in front of him.
(image courtesy of Karrin Marie Tollin Werrenrath)

 Sydney Franklin VanSise and Flora Isabella May VanSise
Original owners of VanSise Farms
(image courtesy of Karrin Marie Tollin Werrenrath)

VanSise Family, 1946
 Harold Van Sise (son of Sydney and Flora) on right
Left to right, mother Flora Isabella May Van Sise, daughter Edna May Van Sise,  cousin Darrin M. Tollin (granddaughter of Ella Augusta May Herbert, sister of Flora Van Sise), and daughter Cynthia Van Sise 
Harold ran the farm with his father and was also Trustee of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, 
East Norwich.
(image courtesy of Karrin Marie Tollin Werrenrath)

Harold Bruce "Hal" VanSise, 1959
Left, as Syosset High Varsity Football tackle
Right, as a Varsity Wrestler

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Mother of Walt Whitman
She was the daughter of Major Cornelius Van Velsor and
Naomi Williams.  They lived on the Van Velsor homestead near present-day Velsor-Stillwell Road.
(images courtesy of Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)

Teresa Wilkens, holding son Christopher, pictured with Gurli Delin, early '50s