Cheryl Kushner (Lane)

So wonderful!  Thank you, Evie!  I smiled all evening!

Stewart M Flate

Evie is our class angel

Joseph G Blake

Yes indeed Evie is our angel. She works hard and makes solid choices for the events. I want to see the cake she plans for our 80th birthday party. Is that 2026?

It was great to see so many of you. I had the honor of taking a few folks on a tour of Shaker homes designed by Charles Colman before WW2. One of the houses on Larchmere was the residence of George Szell between 1947 and 1972. I always enjoy that. Also took my good friends who hosted me to Edwin's at Shaker Square. It had once been the Stone Shoe Company where a lot of shoes were bought for me an so many others in the day. The owner came out and stopped at our table and we talked about the machine they used to see how your feet looked in your new shoes. That had to be bad for us.

On Sunday I went to St Paul's Church on Fairmount to revisit a place we as young marrieds enjoyed. Our son Ted was Baby Jesus there at the Xmas pagaent in 1976. He was then two months. He kicked his legs with the carols. 

I also wanted to honor the memory of various persons we knew there years ago and who are now interred in the columbarium. I spent about 30 minutes noting the names of friends and aquaintances. I saw the name of Lillian Politella who taught French at SHHS in our days. 

In 2019 I went to Knollwood to do the same and honored several friends and former neighbors among them our classmates Pam Hopkins and Buddy Greiner. Pam's stone has a poem she wrote and her signature inscribed on the stone. I think I included it on her class profile in 2014. 

I must followup with a few of you to close a few loops from our conversations. I also was able to sign a year book I missed in 1964 and to decipher the saluation I wrote for Dana Triester back then. I had written "Goldwater in 64".  Alan Farkas said I wrote the same in his. Its amusing hopefully to see what we wrote to others in the exuberance of youth. I suppose it could have been worse like a promise of eternal love or marriage.

Joe

Joseph G Blake

Just one story I shared with some of you. When I arrived at Hopkins Airport, I was assisted by a black gentleman who met me with a chair. While we went to get my luggage etc, we chatted amiably. He ashed why I was there. I told him my 60th reunion. He said he had gone to his 40th reunion a few years back. I asked where he went to high school. He added that he was SHHS class of 1979. Obviously we then discussed Shaker Heights. He told me grew up on Ashby and Milverton and went to Moreland school. Much to my delight he then sang the Moreland School song all the way through. As I recall I mentioned this to a Moreland alumnus in our class and he sang the same song. 

Great experience and made the weekend all the more memorable,Thanks again Evie.

Cheryl Kushner (Lane)

I don't remember a Moreland song!  Does anybody else? Jeff Chokel?  Maybe it was written after our time there!

Neil T Glazer

Lomond had a song...."I am proud of Lomond, is Lomond proud of me...what we need are boys and girls raised in  loyalty. When we work when we play with our school mates dear, good citizens we will be. So I am proud, proud of Lomond school and I'll make her proud of me."

Not sure if the same song was used by the other elementary schools with just changing the name of the school. 

Could not make it to the 60th reunion but did receive 20 or more pictures sent by Alan Nusbaum.  Looks like a good time was had by all.  

Finally retired from the ed. biz after 53 years but my teaching and administrative licenses are still current so you never know.

Neil Glazer

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Oh my!  Seeing the lyrics, I absolutely remember the melody, too, and remember singing that song.  HOW did you happen to remember this, Neil? Also - where ARE you? Looks like a "much better place" than Shaker Heights!

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Can't recall the Moreland song! What was the Shaker song? All I've got is the opening song from Grease; another high school rah rah song. Can someone help? Was there a Malvern song I also missed?

Judi Bachman (Holtze)

I dont remember any song..but that doesnt mean there wasnt one,  Reunion was great fun and I enjoyed seeing everyone.  Made it home to DK yesterday.  

Ruth Ann Shehan (Rinto Gilliss)

There was also a Mercer School song.."A cheer for our dear Mercer, best school of them all. We hail and salute thee, we .... We always will remember the lessons we have learned....". If I could only remember current things as well!

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

OKay! I remembered the Shaker Song....I think. Far Above Cayuga's Waters. Can anyone confirm this?

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

Yes I can confirm and now it is an ear worm. 

Toni London (Landau)

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Laurie Shiffman Serwit called me to sing the Shaker Song which I remembered just a bit of..... So CALL HER and she'll sing it to you!  Now, did Byron have a song??????

Joseph G Blake

In an earlier post I noted having dinner at Edwin's and recalling it was once the Stone Shoe Company. 

Art Scott sent me this link about the xray machine ther store had so you could see how your shoes fit,

He said:

Craig Miller

Hello Joe,

Fond memories of the Stone Shoe store. I remember peering in the xray view finder and seeing my toes. I would wiggle them and giggle. My first lesson in Anatomy 101. They also had a very large wooden riding horse mounted on a swaying frame. The horse was like those at Euclid Beach Park back in the day.

Side note to Alaina. I don't remember an official Byron school song, but there were certainly enough unofficial and totally inappropiate ones. Courtesy of freshly minted, pure, lovely and obnoxious Junior High teens.

Richard Irving Krohn

Joseph G Blake

Many will recall that George Divoky has spent 50 years studying bird life on Cooper Island. This link tells more about what he has been doing. George always loved birds when we were students together 60 plus years ago.

https://cooperisland.org/dr-george-divoky/

William A Sokol

there is a fascinating video at cooperisland.org in which George discusses his 50 years of research on Cooper Island - 

Joseph G Blake

Possibly a memory challenge. 

A few days ago I was chatting with a Art Scott who also lived on Dorchester. We recalled our old phone numbers from the dark ages. 

My parents moved to Shaker in 1928 and our house on Dorchester was built in 1930. So it had a 6 digit number until after WW2,

My father was in sales and we had to have a phone on every floor and the phones had two lines with buttons to switch lines. He never wanted a client to get a busy signal. And he always wanted an open line to call back etc.

So we had two phone numbers from the early 50s.

But remember back then this was pre area codes and the first two digits in the number were letters for various exchanges in the area. I recall LOngacre, WYoming, SKyline, FAirmount and ERieview as common in the Shaker area.

Our two numbers were WYoming 1-2635 and WYoming 1-2636. My mother used the first one until she died in 1989. I have dialed the number and it seems to get no answer and hence I guess not reassigned.

So what was yours?  

James Reese

Leslie M Levit (Friedman)

For so many years.....WYoming 1-3749

Marc Chizek

Skyline1 4816

Dana Shepard (Treister)

WA1-3669, not even a challenge to remember, although my my mother moved from Avalon Road and that phone number FIFTY years ago!  (and now I know very few phone numbers by heart, as there's no need...)

Also, Joe, full disclosure:

~Growing up we had only one phone number and only one telephone - on a mahogny telephone stand with matching chair.  (and for many years we had a "party line", shared with the Kaplans next door who would tie it up "forever" with inane rambling converstations...)

~However because Michael had a very busy orthopaedic surgery practice we had a multi-line pansonic phone system installed in our Chicago home, with a phone in EVERY room of the apartment, even each of our four bathrooms - so he would never miss an emergency call from the hospital or another doc  (2 rollover lines, no waiting, with a 3rd dedicated fax line -- worked like a charm, even with a family of 4!)  Well... we're still in the same home, and still using the same phone system, AND I do still prefer using the wired landline phones to my mobile!

(please don't judge me... I'm old...)

;    ))

Craig Miller

SKyline 1-3854. But I could never make it as popular as the jingle "Garfield One, Two Three Two Three".