Evie Fertman (Braman)

Hi, everyone!  I'd like to keep up with our In Memory page and I'm asking for your help.  Anytime you hear of someone in our class who has passed away I would appreciate your letting me know so I can add the name and our class will know who we have lost.  My cell phone is 216-288-4506, only the administrator has access to making changes on the list.  The list is very user friendly, when you click to access the list you can click on either the names in alphbetical order or on the year that they died and you can switch back and forth as you choose.  Thanks, I appreciate any help that I can get and I know that we all consider this to be important.

Evie Fertman (Braman)

Hi, again!!  I just read a death notice sent to me by Brown Forward Funeral Services for Elizabeth Peterjohn, born in 1937 and died on January 9 of this year.  Wasn't she one of our teachers?  It says that she moved to Cleveland (after graduating from college in 1959) to begin her lifelong career at Shaker Heights High School.  It also said that it was there that she met her husband of 58 years, Dick Peterjohn so it sounds as if they both taught there.

Dick Margulis (Margulis)

I had Dick Peterjohn for, um, I think seventh grade science (may have been a different year) at Woodbury. (You can imagine how well that name went over with junior high boys.) When I got to high school, my English teacher in tenth grade was Miss something-or-other (Gallagher, if I recall correctly). After Christmas vacation, she was Mrs. Peterjohn.

Margery Lynn Perlberg (Rapport)

I wondered where the Senser twins ended up.  I remember playing mah jong with them on Saturdays.  I'm playing the game once again, and I still enjoy socializing and trying to win those quarters.  

Hello Dick Margulis.  Glad to hear from you.  I don't remember those teachers at all.  I had Mrs. Smith at Woodbury.  I believe I had her for both 7th and 8th grades.  

Evie Fertman (Braman)

Bill Gerak just reminded me that Carole Saul (Smith) passed away fairly recently.  I looked up her obit and found that she died in May of 2020 and I put her name on the memory list.  Thanks, Bill.

Marc Chizek

Sorry to read about Carol. Knew her from elementary school. 

Cheryl Kushner (Lane)

I loved the twins. We were friends from kindergarten and on at Moreland. Love to Arlene.

Judi Bachman (Holtze)

Remember Carol well.  Lovely girl

Stuart Math

Here's one of the Senser twins (I'm afraid I don't remember which one) in first grade at Moreland, 1953, 2nd from the left in the top row.

Leslie M Levit (Friedman)

Hi Stu--I was in that class, too. I'm stunned by how many people I can still name!

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Leslie~ I saw Stu's Moreland photo before I saw your response.  Scanning those little faces, I immediately identifed you as top row, 4th from L - was I right?! And I went to Lomond, so didn't even know you at that age.

Brenda Siegel (Cohen)

I have a copy of the photo and there are names printed on the back.  I can't read the teacher's name, perhaps Mrs Fass? 

Making the names out best as I can, starting with the top row, right to left as you look at the photo -- Milton Golenberg, Kenneth Verbic?, John Feher, Annette Kovalski, Leslie Levit, Virginia Percy, Arleen Senser, Sharon Whitman

Jackie OBrien, David Katz, Sheldon Kelman, Michael Welky

Walter Leipold, Howard Falcovich, Danny Volk, Stuart Math, Ellen Friedman, Gerald Spector

I was not in the photo.  Also missing, Lesley Hanford (Dormen), Susan Hurd

Lesley Dormen

Hi Everyone,

I see so many faces as familiar as my own. Leslie and Ellen and Howard F and Stuart and one of the Sensor twins and Sheldon K. and Milt G and darling Virginia Percy who was "new." Who was the teacher and where am I?  Another first grade class, I guess. Miss Hosford (young and pretty) was my teacher, then she got married and/or pregnant and left. Devastating. Who took over that other class? Who taught this one?  We learned to READ!  

Stuart Math

More of the Moreland cohort in Kindergarten.

Leslie M Levit (Friedman)

Hi Dana! I was at Moreland (living on Lindholm) until third grade and then Lomond (on Winchell.) 

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Hi Moreland pals! I'm the chubby one in the top row!  I always marveled at Ellen Friedman Smith's adorable dress and isn't that you, Stu Math in the cowboy shirt?  I also marveled at why my mother would have dressed me in a  stretch belt.

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Alaina:  I never would have identified that girl in the middle of the top row in the kindergarten photo as you!  "You've come a long way, baby!"

Stu:  I am guessing you are the serious little boy in the front row, surrounded by a bevy of kindergarten beauties,rather than the cowboy, right?

Can't tell you what fun this is, looking back at "the way we were" -- SEVENTY years ago!

Thanks for posting~

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Dana! You're the only person in our class who hasn't changed a whit!

Stuart Math

I am in the front row. The kid in the cowboy shirt next to Alaina in the top row is Milton Golenberg.

Joseph G Blake

I wanted to share a link that always cheers me up to watch for a few minutes and hope it will for you. And especially to anyone with an April birthday. And also for the spring season with both Easter and Passover this week.

It is a clip from a 1941 movie Lady be Good featuring Eleanor Powell and her dog Buttons.

https://www.flixxy.com/eleanor-powell-dancing-with-her-dog-in-lady-be-good.htm

Evie Fertman (Braman)

Joe, thanks for sending that link!  I watched the whole thing and all I can say it that I need a nap after seeing that much energy going into that dance!!  Happy Holidays to everyone, this is quite a weekend coming up!!

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

Thanks for brightening my day.Made me think of my dad, who loved tap dancing.  Happy Passover, Happy Easter. 

Arthur M Dittert

Magnificent...and then some...

Arthur Charles Scott

I'm a sucker for tap dance routines from old b&w film musicals.  Thanks, Joe. Most of you may not know that there are now international Dog Dancing Competitions, often part of big dog shows like Crufts.  Lots of prize-winning routines are posted on YouTube, where I came across them by accident.  No tap dancing, though.  More like ballet pas de deux, or a mime double act, where one of the duo has four legs.  The dogs' performances are remarkable; high IQ breeds like border collies and shepherds are not surprisingly seen most often.  Have a look on YouTube.  What Eleanor Powell started!

Art

Lesley Dormen

As a tap dancer for a brief period in my early twenties (ok, a month, but I tapped in a CT community theater production of Anything Goes), this warmed my heart. Thanks, Joe, and now I'm going to have a serious conversation with my dog. Happy Easter/Passover everyone.