Ho-Ho-Kus

The other day,at the A&P in Fort Lee,I saw Asian with t-shirt with Ho-Ho-Kus on it which is small town maybe few thousand people at most,strange an Asian kid would have t-shirt since I think Ho-Ho-Kus is very much a WASP enclave,or was at one time.A place where integration meant Methodist going to Lutheran Church and biggest minority group would be Democrats.
I have never been in Ho-Ho Kus nor is it likely I shall ever go to Ho-Ho-Kus.But know two men that live there,I know at very different stages of my life.One know at high school the other when as telemarketer with PCF,selling subscriptions for New York Times.
Scott Lill,boy did he seem out place at Baldwin School High School.I mean,it was school for freaks and rejects Scott seems so normal,indeed,sort the All-American boy,never seem him play sport but look athletic,good looking a dark light complexion,very pleasant demeanor quite didn't seem to have any friends at Baldwin.I think he mostly hang in Jersey land.I only remember a few things about him;I remember when I think he try to hit on Marilyn Seagall.Can't say I blame I also had hots for Marilyn,maybe Scott was like me too shy,not sure how to approach,unsure of footing.Marilyn too didn't seem to fit in Baldwin High School,for was pretty,beautiful light color hair,blue eyes,a very pretty face back then more then 40 years ago,if she's still alive I would hate see what to her attractive fair skin complexion for she was sun worshiper,she was also very stylish,a Manhattan girl.Scott I think was county boy even-though Ho-Ho-Kus isn't far from New York City in many way it must been a world apart especially in those days. Scott would try start conversation with I remember one time he said something about Mayor Lindsay's twin brother live in Ho-Ho-Kus somehow I don't think that true just way to break the ice with a pretty girl.Ah yes fantasies of youth chasing pretty girls but never getting very far.
I remember Davidson Collage made a long way the NCAA basketball champion either 1969 or 1970 maybe both a Doug Cook was big star a forward who came from Ho-Ho-Kus Scott sort let be know he know him,although didn't seem to have much interest basketball,indeed,Scott didn't seem to have much interest in any thing.I remember running into a guy who Scott and Baldwin High School and he said Scott was big waste product it was so fitting at Baldwin we all waste products myself included,maybe the worst offender of them all.One time Baldwin School instead of typical class we pick something we do outside of school for credit.I said, I do something pollution well I had no idea what to do,I needed direction and this worst thing for me,I did nothing poor Mr.Matthew, older teacher,
who let go my own way,I lied to him said working product I wasn't and when colleagues started given him hard and ask me how it was going I said fine I didn't do damn thing.Scott I think said he work tug boat,maybe a family,his family must of had money to send him Baldwin wasn't cheap and Ridgewood High was your white rural-suburbia high school it was probably pretty good a better experience then Baldwin-what was parents thinking of?
Alan Howell who's the other person from Ho-Ho-Kus I knew.He died on 7/7/07 the last time saw of think was 2004 at Bicycle Club,a restaurant in Fort Lee after I leave PCF in 1997 I would lunch with Alan at Bicycle maybe three or four times a year and twice i would meet him alone with Bill Wolf,Dwight and sometimes Joe Clark at TGI Friday's,near Hackensack,off the route 4 exist I in edge River.
Alan was one most interesting people I ever know,very intelligent.I meet him when worked with PCF selling subscription for New York Times.Alan at point was retired.He fought in World War Two,I think part of the New Jersey National Guard,I think he was a Colonel.After the war,while still in military he went up Scotland to play golf at St.Andrews.He him and buddies(American G.I s)paid the caddy a dollar each after woods the chief supt. come over and said to him you hit the lads kind of hard. 
Alan graduated from Cornell in 1950,a BA went to work as  High School teacher,but money wasn't enough so became a realtor,did very well until last two years when he was sued 8 times before that never sued.He's marriage of many years wind up in divorce,lived with a woman afterwards.He was liberal republican,had many discussion of politics with him he knew who Walter Jones was,political boss of Bergen County,county chairman of G.O.P State Senator,ran for governor in 1961 come last third in G.O.P primary.
I miss Alan a wise man wonderfull to talk to,I think he lived full life I think he had four children but was very much on his own a real american.