William H Gerak

Evie - Don't believe that I ever thanked you for all of the hard work you put into the reunion. Kathy (McGranaghan) and I didn't attend Saturday, our loss, but really enjoyed Friday night. Best to you and thanks again. Bill & Kathy

William H Gerak

Evie - As to a suggestion for Shaker's Hall of Fame I would suggest looking at Doug Gilliss, Class of 64. an American hero in my estimation. Bill

Evie Fertman (Braman)

Hi, Bill,

Thanks for the Hall of Fame Recommendation for Dave Gillis, Ruth Ann Shehan Pinto has beaten you to it!!  My intention is to recommend both Dave and Doug.  We go through the bios of the people who have been recommeded in the summer.  I will, of course, announce it if he is selected.  It can take years for someone to be selected because we try to get a balance of men and women, young, middle age and old, mixed races, and mixed fields of excellence.  There are only seven each year (plus a postumous) so it can take a while to be selected.

Thanks for the input!

evie

Dana Shepard (Treister)

For others of you who are also awaiting the Reunion Video, I just called Raines and was told "they had delays" in receiving the unedited SHHS 64 Reunion footage from the local videographer with whom they had subcontracted, but are currently "hoping" to get the DVDs in the mail tomorrow.  Indeed I sent my order before the end of August, and the original estimate had been 2-4 wks, and it has now been over 8 wks. But -- all good things come to those who wait?!

DANA

William H Gerak

Evie - Appreciate your submission for both Dave and Doug.  Knowing them from Shaker and following them on what they have done would put them high on any list.  Great examples of what America is about and why it is important to keep reminding those behind us. We don't have what we have, and don't have the opportunities that we have withought people like Dave and Doug - Very important to remember on Verteran's Day. God bless them and others that servid.

Joseph G Blake

As we enter a new year, I really never get Shaker out of my system. At a family reunion before Christmas there was a question asked of the next generation-what is Uncle Joe's (me) favorite city. Most of them answered London which would be true of big cities but my brother correctly said "Shaker Heights". I have many memories.

One is under the heading of Driving Miss Daisy. We lived on Dorchester and I would walk down to the interesection of Van Aken and Avalon and sit on the corner and watch the cars go by at age 10. I usually did this on a pleasant summer afternoon. Obvioulsy traffic around 4 was heavier as the rush hour started.

In Driving Miss Daisy Morgan Freeman is chaufeur to Jessica Tandy in a 55 Cadillac Fleetwood. She sat in the back. In thise days you could see a few of those drive by. They generally came up Avalon en route to the Chagrin Lee Avalon shopping area. I presumed they were coming from the areas north of there where the houses were much bigger. In those the days the ladies might be en route to Wesley's beauty shop or Heinens for shopping. Years later I took the kids to see the movie and said. "Just like Shaker in 1955."

As it is Martin Luther King Day, I am attaching a link to his talk at St Paul's Church in Cleveland Heights and a summary of his visits to Cleveland.

http://www.cleveland.com/plain-dealer-library/index.ssf/2010/01/in_1963_dr_martin_luther_king_jr_delivers_speech_at_st_paul_episcopal_church_cleveland_heights.html

http://media.cleveland.com/plain-dealer-library/other/MLK%20at%20St%20Paul%201963.pdf

Bishop Tucker introduced him that day. He was then retired but in his early days he had been rector of St Paul's Church in Richmond. In 1928 despite the prevailing prejudices in Virginia, he endorsed Al Smith a Catholic for president from the pulpit. If anyone recalls him, he always had a big booming voice and filled the room with his presence when he netered. Bishop Tucker was also an FFV- first family of Virginia. So his support for a Catholic 1928 and Al Smith in 1963 were remarkable.

Deborah Cole

Joe-

Thank you for posting that article.  I don't think I knew you in High school, but I appreciate your thoughtful comments and insights.

Best wishes,

Debbie Cole

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Joe~

Fascinating about your memories of sociological observations of "Driving Miss Daisy - Shaker Heights style" as a very young boy!  Having grown up  only a few blocks away from your research location (Avalon Road between Lomond and Scottsdale), I'm afraid I must have lacked your curiosity about how the world works, and was much happier making up fantasy stories involving my dolls!

I read your posting aloud to my husband Michael, who also grew up in Shaker (U.S. '61); but he was way more focused on ham radio and stamp collectiong than on social observations...

Anyhow, thanks for sharing - now we know!!

DANA

Joseph G Blake

Joseph G Blake

Dear Classmates,

We saw Helen Mirren last night in "The Woman in Gold". Its the story of Maria Altmann who fought the Austrian government to recover 5 Gustaf Klimt paintings that had been seized from her family by the Nazis. The movie is well done and worth your time and from my research the actual story is probably better yet.

Her family the Boche Bauers were in the venter of a sophisticated artistic circle in Vienna then that included Mahler and many others.

Her lawyer was Randol Shoenberg, the grandson of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Mrs Altmann was had ashop in LA that sold cashmere sweaters. Her brother in law was Berhhard Altmann who after he fled Austria had a firm known as Bernhard Altmann who ran a firm in the 50s well known for its high quality cashmere fabric. 

Jeffrey D Woolf

We saw it, too; excellent movie! The Klimt paintings now hang in the Neue Galerie in NYC.  We saw them last summer at an exhibit of "denegerate art" (a phrase used in the movie), a term used by the nazis to refer to all moden art and of course art by Jews and communists.  The story of the paintings and the Bloch-Bauer family is both tragic and moving.  Only one of Viennas many beautiful synagogues survived WWII.

Lawrence M Fields

Joseph G Blake

According to the movie Goering bought the necklace for his wife. Goeing fancied himself a Renaissance man because he had a very large collection of emeralds, the mark of his Renaissance standing.

During WW2 he bought some of the collection of Laura Corrigan, the wife of Jame Corrigan of Clevleland. Her father in law was the founder of the Corrigan and Mc Kinney Steel Company which merged in 1928 with Otis Steel to form Republic Steel.

Laura nursed the senior Mr Corrigan and then married the playboy son. This was considered unacceptable to Cleveland society in 30s. When Jimmy died she moved to Paris around 1938. When the war came she was caught in Paris. To support herself and friends she sold jewelry some of which Herman Goering bought.

He once met her on an elevator and said hello. he knew he had her emeralds. She would not reply. She died shortly after the war.

Goering's brother was not a Nazi and lived in Vienna. He used his connections to help friends escape and let the local nazis know he was the brother of Herman.

In college I had a professor who had met Goering after the war while serving in Bavaria as part of the military government. Goering made a point of saying he was a Renaissance man because of his emeralds.

The necklace appears to be have a few emeralds and many diamonds. My guess would be the necklace was sold if recovered. 

Joseph G Blake

I saw two links about Shaker Heights.

The first is the US news rating of High schools.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/ohio/districts/shaker-heights-city/shaker-hts-high-school-15302

This takes you to a detailed discussio of Shaker heights HS and should be compared to other schools in the area.

I found that a school in Cinicnnati was the first in Ohio interesting,

Also Shaker is rated the most liberal city in Ohio. How you determine that I do not know?

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/06/19/map-shaker-heights-is-the-most-liberal-city-in-ohio

I guess its time for this conservative to move back. LOL. Now I know why I lost in 1977 when I ran for Shaker council. We moved to the UK in 79 and gave our hekp to Mrs Thatcher,

Martha (Marti) Kammen (Katz)

Just to add to the Klimt discussion..my daughter happens to be a friend of Maria Altmann's  grandson, Kenneth Altmann.

Joseph G Blake

Some of you may have seen CBS Sunday Morning last Sunday which featured an interesting story about Silver's Temple. Its worth seeing plus the PD story about its rededication. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/violins-of-hope/

And the PD Story

http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2015/09/cleveland_orchestras_violins_o.html

Its great to see how University Circle helps top revive Cleveland. 

Especially to those no longer there.

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

I saw the segment and seeing where I was confirmed brought back wonderful memories. Betsy

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Fascinating - thanks!  Great story, AND where I went to Sunday School, too (except I think it was on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath). I shared it with a couple of other non-SHHS 64 former Clevelanders, too.

Happy holidays~

DANA SHEPARD TREISTER

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

Dana, Yes we went on Saturday through 8th grade and then Sunday for High School. I remember being a bus monitor on Saturdays for the younger kids.  Betsy

Charles L Hudson, Jr

Going through old stuff I just found a couple of Malvern class photos, probably first or second grade and fourth or fifth.  I'll try to attach them here but they are also on my profile page.  

It's great seeing faces from the past: 

Nancy Friedman, Vicki Cortell, Robbie Watkins, Lori Faulb, Tom Getzendanner, Bill Rosner ?!, Charlie Edwards, Steve Adams, Andy Goodman, Dick Bennett, Vivien Abrams, Ginny Fewsmith, Donley Johnson, Del Marting, Randy Johnson, Nancy Hammond, Bobby Ginsberg, Nancy Davis, Trudy Hopkins, and many more familiar faces whose names I can no longer recall...

Best of the season to all.

-CH-

Burt Weiss

Hi Charlie,

I didn't get to Malvery until third grade, but I would guess the second photo is 4th grade.  I don't remember any of those people in my fourth grade class, but a bunch of them were in Miss Heindel's class, as we both were.

I googled Miss Heindel and only found that she was from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  I remember  such Heindelisms as her whistleless whistle and her passion for diagramming sentences,  She was a damned good teacher, as were all the other  old-timers who began at a time when women teachers generally did not marry.  (Although Edris Hanscom and "Isis" Roberts were both married, and yes, that was her first name.)

Surprised you couldn't quite remember the grade of the second photo,  as we used to discuss a certain cool unnamed blonde who was in our 5th grade class.  I also envied your short walk to school, which was hardly a walk at all.  Dal Marting also had a short walk.   Sad that the school closed.  Sorry that so many of our best classmates disappeared off the face of the earth after sixth grade as I guess you did for a while at US. 

Thanks for posting the pictures

Burt 

Joseph G Blake

Interesting comment about Isis. Current events have given the name a horrible menaing. Hence why some use ISIL.

Isis was an Egyptian goddess.

As it says on line

Isis was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend ofslaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden, but she also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers.^[2] Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the falcon-headed deity associated with king and kingship (although in some traditions Horus's mother was Hathor). Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children.

Some Downton Abbey fans will recall that Lord Grantham's dog is called Isis. 

Years ago single women were frequently elemntary school teachers. The Cleveland Public Schools used to have a program called the Normal School which was a junior college for elementary school teachers. You went to school for two years and then were assigned to an elementary school. 

My mother wanted to study classical languages at Mather College now CWRU but my ever practical grnadmother said no and sent her to Normal School. Her contract was annually renewed. When she married in 1927 she lost her job. Married ;ladies could not teach elementary school. Her salary that year was $800 but my father made $10,000 that year and had $20,000 in the bank. So the income was not an issue. Needless to say the $20,000 soon was spent for a house in Shaker in 1930.

So it is possible that in the ealry 50s in Shaker there still were teachers who came thru this process and were graduates of the Normal School process. The Normal School was later absorned into CWRU School of Education. Those of you who know Joan Bailey will appreciate knowing that her great grandfather Dr Bailey headed art education for the Cleveland Schools and my mother really enjoyed his lectures about art. 

Happy new year. 

Howard Reid Bell

my other graduated from Normal School. Before that she attended Glenville.     Seasons Grettings to all

Ronald G Simon

Hello Everyone,

I am so sorry I wasn't able to make the reunion, but I heard it was wonderful. Thank you Evie for all your hard work. As always, if you want the job done right you give to Evie. It was great seeing the Malvern photos. Not sure which class I was in but seeing Bob Ginsburg, Vicki Cortell, Laurie Faulb, and many others bring back lots of memories. We got lucky this year and my son Shane just moved from LA  with his wife Natalie and my grandson, Cameron, to Parkland, Florida, only a three hour drive. He is with Davita, a very large kidney dialysis company. He is a senior director, so if anybody needs any information, please let me know, maybe he can help.  

How are you doing Burt Weiss. Long time no talk. Hope all is well with you. Wishing everyone a very happy and healthly New Year.

Ron Simon

Tampa, Florida

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

I went to Malvern from second half of first grade until Byron and searched those photos.... However, Ronald and Burt I not only remember you both but also Vicki and so many others.  Ronald you and I were next door neighbors and shared a lot of Morley Road activities! I am still and always in touch with Lynn Marcus Shapiro and she and Bob came to Santa Fe so we had a great catch up.

I too missed the reunion.  Some of the old crowd had a Florida reunion previously and Santa Fe is a looooong way from Shaker these days.  I return at least once a year, mainly for Thanksgiving and to catch up with aunts and uncles and cousins still in the area and Cleveland becomes more impressive with every trip.  Or is it that I appreciate it more and more?  Jeez, we were given humongous cultural advantages that still resonate.

No children, but many many creative projects over the years.   You can Google me if you're curious: Alaina Warren Zachary.  (Back in the day, it was not cool to have ethnic names if you were in show biz.)

Great to keep up and come to Santa Fe!

Alaina, the former Alene Weisman