| 08/07/09 12:04 PM |
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Anne Gutow (Chapman)
Hey Folks,
I've been out of touch for awhile and haven't been following the message forum again. I've missed you all and I hope that when the kids are off to college, life will settle a bit and I'll be able to catch up.
This CHHS Class of 1969 website displays a powerful and rich history. It is a website with a playcorner for everyone! Thank you most of all to the founders! But, thank you, also, to all of you other kids who contributed to the site's completeness and variety. It means so much for so many of our classmates and our families.
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. My father stood as an armed guard on night duty when he was 9 years old, assigned to protect his shtetl in Poland from a pogrom. (An adjacent shtetl was hit that night, with no survivors.) He played tag, etc. in WWI battlefields. His family subsequently came through Ellis Island in 1921.
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.
Our stories fall in the middle. But, we've been telling ours' and our children's stories and showing our grandchildren's photos. Our parents stories need to blossom on this site, as well. Is it too late to propose a section for our parents' stories?
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