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Cleveland Heights High Homerooms 1967 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 IN MEMORY

Bart Stein 2024	Gwen Glazer 2024
Marlene Schwartz 2023	Marcey Epstein 2023	Stuart Gladstone 2023
Mel Solomon 2022	Jeffrey N MIller 2023	Paula Skolnik 2023	Charles Zuchowski 2023
Carol Rosenberg 2022	Ann Handy 2022	Susan Silverman 2022	Art Belfer 2021
Paula Heiser 2021	Clare Kelemen 2021	Gerald Gurney 2022	Margaret Johns  2021
Steven Greenberger 2021	Fred Schwartz 2021	Yubong Jim Lee  2020	Anita Abraham 2020
Gene Leiberman 2020	Roy Mickler 2020	Barbara Ducatman 2020	Mark Hein 2020
Robin Aaron 2020	Linda Fierman 2020	Susan Hurwitz 2020	Laura Greene 2020
Steven Koblentz 2019	Jerry Simms 2020	Earl Birnbaum 2020	Richard Pecjak 2020
Linda Friedman 2019	Dale (Dalece) Stankiewicz 2019	Lesley Corwin 2019	Jim Samuels 2019
Robert Effron 2018	Sherman Katz 2018	Sharon Levine 2018	Ellen Stern 2018
Janet Minnillo 2018	George Long 2018	Ava Cassirer 2018	Ronald Stein 2018
Jeanne Peterson 2017	Laura Magalnick 2017	Elliot Resnick 2017	David Forstag 2017
Dennis Ehren 2017	Leonard Redon 2017	Kenneth Greene 2017	Barbara Garrett 2016
Roger Sherman 2016	Paul White 2016	Rick Mart 2016	Susan Schiff 2016
Edmund Capas 2015	Edward Brannan 2015	Jeff Nadzam 2015	Charla Visci 2015
Bruce Melamed 2014	Ricky Weinberg 2014	Christopher Badger 2014
Ronald Wagner 2013	Sue Kozack 2013	Bonnie Berkowitz 2013	Christopher Neidle 2013
Raymond Dempsey 2012	Jeffrey Semko 2012
David Polster 2011	Robin Laine 2011	Thaila Kottler 2011
David Goldstein 2010	Marcy Rosichan 2010	Frank Parisi 2010	Kathryn Koch 2010
Al Saluan 2009	Herschel Henkin 2009	Fanny Lipschitz  2009
Joe Israel 2008	Kevin Skillern 2008	Philip Walker 2008	James Lowe 2008
Bruce Feldman 2008	Mary Greuloch 2008	Robert McDonald 2008
Robert Eschenauer 2007	Andrew Dresnek 2007	Karen Bloomfield 2007	Leslie Hevland 2007
Maria Antanasio 2005	Kenneth Levine 2005	Cecil Mounger 2005	Robert Hertz 2004
James Feuer 2002	Deanna Berkowitz 2002	Kenneth Light 2002
Paula Roberts 2001	Marc Sherman 2001	Alan Schusterman 2000	Edward Vinocur 2000
Mariangela Medeiros 1999	Alice Schneider 1998	Edward Becker 1998
Martin Fixler 1996	Andrew Wallace 1995	Neil Sass 1995
Chuck Seidman 1994	Richard James 1993	William Sines 1993	Jon Schenker 1993
Douglas Stier 1992	Lynn LeVar 1992	Donald Weiner 1991	Ron Gutter 1989
Gerald Pelz 1988	Dianne Silberman 1988	Willard Berbaum 1987	Curtis Lovey 1987
Betty Meyer 1986	Susan Holtzheimer 1985	Dale Steinmeyer 1981	Teri London 1980
Kenneth Hutton 1978	Robert Uzon 1977	Lois Eichel 1976	Andrea David 1976
Steve Smith 1975	Michael Amsel 1974	Roberta Wold 1973
Joan Wagner	Cathy Carter 1971	Elayne Butler 1970	Duncan Poirer 1970
Jack Ruvio	George McElhone	Kristine Passalacqua	Becky Wells
Alexander Sloss	Adelle Burwasser	Thomas Reed

 

 

 

In Memory of Allison Krause Killed May 4, 1970 Kent State

Taylor 6th Grade

 

Graduating from Kennedy High School in Maryland in the spring of 1969, Allison Krause was a 19 year old freshman honors student at Kent State University, Ohio when she was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, while protesting the Vietnam war. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 345 feet. Allison was shot in the back at about 343 feet (105 meters).

http://dept.kent.edu/may4/photos.html

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/allison-krause/

 

 

OUR PARENTS STORIES 

We Cleveland Heights baby-boomers are a unique group; unusually diverse, bright, and accomplished. Our parents' worlds were so drastically different from ours. By what miracles did they create in us the abilities to become who we are? They survived the Great Depression and WWII. Many of our parents were Holocaust survivors.

My mother grew up in Bellefaire, which had been a Jewish children's orphanage located in Cleveland Heights. My father stood as an armed guard on night duty when he was 9 years old, assigned to help protect his shtetl in Poland from a pogrom. (A nearby shtetl was attacked one of those nights, with no survivors.) He played tag, etc. in WWI battlefields. His family subsequently came through Ellis Island in 1921, the last year the US allowed massive Jewish immigration.

I guess I should say thank you most of all to our parents and their parents for helping to make our worlds better than theirs. - Anne Gutow Chapman

 

Both my parents were holocaust survivors. My dad just passed last Aug.18 2008...soon to be a year and he didn't want to go! I helped him struggle to stay alive for 9 wonderful mos! I miss him everyday. My parents are stronger than all their 4 kids put together! Don't get me started about the SUV that ran over my little 5'(probably shorter now) mother crossing the street when she was 75yrs old and has steel rods in her leg + arm now! She is 83 and doesn't even limp! They are my heroes!! - Clare Keleman

 

My dad also left Germany...right as the war was breaking out. His is a fascinating story. They were smuggled out on an Italian freighter and were supposed to go to South America or somewhere...but the blitz happened as they left and they spent the war in Shanghai China (my grandfather actually died and is buried there) as prisoners of war. In the end, the family was stateless, no papers, couldn't really return to their country of origin. My dad drove a truck for the U.S. government in Shanghai after the war, and my uncle enlisted in the U.S. Army. And they subsequently came to the U.S. No other extended family members from Germany survived the war. - Shelley Hornik  Lloyd

 

My grandmother's afforded me a few laughs too. One such memory was my mother's mother being in Cleveland from Columbus for my brother's graduation from Hts. We were all getting ready to go when my grandmother was checking herself out in the mirror. Before any of us could say anything, she opened the closet door and took out furniture polish and started to spray it on her hair thinking it was hairspray !! We were all laughing and couldn't even tell her before she was done. All we could smell that night was the scent of lemon pledge. Bless her heart!! She also was a great cook, seamstress and of course a great bubbie!!  - Beth Nahamkin 
 

I have stories but what can I say, both of my parents went thru that hell hole of Europe hiding for their lives. As you can tell they made it, and that is why I am here. - Louis Berman

Never found out too much about my dad's early life. He was an airplane mechanic during WW2, great machinery salesman and was mugged and killed, a mile from where I was born, near the old Mount Sinai Hospital, in 1983. Mom skipped two years in high school, and was one of the first woman to get a law degree. Five state regional manager for World Book Encyclopedia, raising six children by herself for six years, putting 5 of us through college. Mom is buried in Safed, Israel, behind my brother's house. Both parents would help anyone, and I miss them both dearly.  - Charles Balcher

 

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