Payment Information

The Rochdale Village Reunion will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 78 Hempstead Avenue, Lynbrook, Long Island, New York.

It will run from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Please send all payments to:

Rochdale Village Reconnection 50th Anniversary Reunion
P.O. Box 49
Massapequa Park, New York 11762

In addition to your payment in the form of a check or money order, please include the following information on a separate sheet of paper:

Number of people attending
Names of people attending
Total remittance 
Your email address

Also, if you could include this information, but this is not mandatory:
Date you moved into Rochdale, and date you moved out (approximate if you can't remember)
What building and apartment number you lived in (such as 9C-1B)

The check should be made out to Rochdale Village Reconnection Reunion. The account is entirely directed to the Reunion and will not be used by anyone for their personal use. Both the bank account and post office box will be closed permanently within 30 days of the end of the event.

Checks or money orders only. We are not responsible for cash or other payment sent via the U.S. Mail for this Reunion, nor can we return any monies sent to us that are earmarked for the Reunion.

The checks will be placed in an account in a local bank, and will be 100 percent directed toward our accommodations for the Reunion.

You will be contacted by email once we have your check and it has been placed in the bank account.

(Bounce fee is $25 per check. This will need to be paid, along with the $65 fee per person, before you will be allowed to attend, and for that payment, we will need a cashier's check.)

Remember, payment is $65 per attendee, and spouses and children are invited.

Thus, if one person is attending, it is $65 x 1, or $65; if two people are attending, it is $65 x 2, or $130; if three people in your party are attending, the payment is $65 x 3, or $195, etc.

Please send in your payment as quickly as possible so we can get a proper count on how many people will be attending the Reunion. 

The cutoff date is July 15, 2013. Yes, that is several months away, but it is better to send in your payment earlier rather than later.

Any questions, contact David Benson at technite73@verizon.net, and check back here every week leading up to the Reunion for more updates.

(And in answer to your final question, yes, we did attempt to get a "P.O. Box 50," but, unfortunately, that box was already rented. This is the closest we could come to that number.)

Welcome to the Rochdale Village Reconnection 50th Anniversary Reunion Blog

Hi everybody!

This is the official blog of the Rochdale Village Reconnection 50th Anniversary Reunion.

Yes, on December 10, it was 50 years since the very first tenants moved into Rochdale Village.

Many of us were the first tenants of the development, moving into Buildings 1-20 during a roughly two-year span from 1963-1965.

We saw the buildings grow right before our eyes, literally from the dust left over from the old Jamaica Race Track.

We made many life-long friends while we lived in that development, and we also made friends that we have long lost touch with.

What better way to celebrate the years we spent there than having a reunion--one where everyone who shared those years is invited to attend.

So if you were one of the first adults to proudly call the development "home" for your family, or if you were one of the first kids to play in the playgrounds and go to school there, you are welcome at this reunion.

This morning, five of the grown-up kids who once called the development home--Lori Field, Pam Skinner, David Benson, Janet Starr, and me, Larry Lapka--convened an informal meeting to decide how we would like to celebrate the 50 years of Rochdale Village.

We talked over many things, and now the time is to get to work.

We have some tentative dates in mind, and it will be held in October 2013, to coincide with the year that the actual first tenants moved in.

Therefore, we have no time to waste.

We will be meeting on a regular basis to formulate plans for this major event, keeping in mind time of year, accessibility, and, of course, cost.

Again, today was just the first meeting. Many more meetings, and a lot of work in between, will need to be done in the interim, and we will report on what we can when we can.

The next meeting will be held after the holidays in January.

Comments are welcome, of course, and we will try to answer them as best we can.

So check back regularly with this site as we progress to our goal:

The best Rochdale Village Reunion ever!