Harriet Frankel (Withstandley)

Happy belated birthday (February 25) to Susan Pomerantz.  

Nathan Sklar

I won't turn 69 until this coming April 22.  Am I the youngest of all of my classmates?

Susan Pomerantz

Thank you Harriet

Somehow I dropped off the birthday radar, but you remembered.

XXOO Susan

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

Richard, Robert, Dan and Sue P: The Happiest of birthdays to you all  

Ellen Karabell (Rugel)

Nate, I will not turn 69 until June 3.  I believe Jessica Lobel and Judy Entine also had June birthdays.  We considered ourselves "the babies."

Robert Macfarland

Nate....you are one of the babies compared to this old timer who turns 70 in June.  I met an attorney at a Rotary event last month in Jenkintown.  His name is Steve Sklar from your old stomping ground.  A reltative?

Nathan Sklar

Bob, I remember the name Steve Sklar especially since my dad was also an attorney, but I'm not related to him.  There used to be a bunch of Sklars in the Philadelphia area, many more than in Baltimore where I currently live.

David Fertik

Happy Birthdays Robert, Richard, Dan and Sue.

I will be 69 March 12th so I am a Boomer.  I was put up into first grade early because there was a shortage  of 6 year olds in Sept. 1951 in Phila. I had to take an IQ test.  This made it easy when we moved to Cheltenham.

Harriet Frankel (Withstandley)

Happy birthday today to Sue Malis, in 10 days to David Fertik, and, very belatedly (Jannuary 12),  to Joan Rosenau.  Being on the younger side for our class (November 27), I knew we had some classmates born in early 1946, but I didn't realize how young Ellen and Jessica were.  Harriet

George Trapp

Other than a few of my closest friends, I've paid little attention to class birthdays. In reading over the recent posts I was surprised to learn that there are so many other "babies" in our class. I really hated being one of the last to turn 16 (on Dec 22 of our junior year). What a pain to be hauled artound by others, or worse yet  parents, while all your friends were driving.

On a different note, I just watched Netanyahu's remarks to AIPAC and am eagerly looking forward to his message to a joint session of Congress tomorrow.. I have stated before,  and now reitterate, that I regard him as the greatest of the leaders of the free world at this present hour. He seems to be the only one who is not viewing the world, and particularly the Arab world, thru a pair of Neville Chamberlain glasses.

A personal belief, and one that is generally felt in the evangelical Christian community, is that God's blessing on the USA has been directly connected to our support of the nation of Israel since its 1948 inception. The Bible is quite clear that the enemies of God's chosen are the enemies of God himself. Scripturally this dates from the beginnings of the Hebrew people and was never been rescinded throughout Old and New Testaments.

As Netanyahu stated today, the solidarity of US - Israeli relations is not a partisan issue, but rather an issue that crosses party and idealogical lines.

Anita Gutnick (Greenwald)

Speaking of birthdays, my mother had her ninety-third birthday early in February and her wish is to have her piano tuned so that she can play again.  She has had no luck locating a tuner.  A couple years ago, I called Curtis Institute and they recommended a Mr. Gong on the Main Line who told my mother he did not want to travel that distance.  My mother lives at Foxcroft Apartments in Jenkintown and she has a friend in the building, a long ago Julliard grad who has a Steinway Grand or baby grand that also is in need of tuning.  I would appreciate recommendations.  Responses can either come through the forum or to my e-mail address:

anita.greenwald@gmail.com. 

It's been quite a surprise that so many of us have December birthdays and later since I was led to believe, when we moved, that I was one of the youngest in our class.  Everyone else seemed to be driving long before I was eligible and, then, my parents would not allow me to drive.  Thanks to driver's ed, I was able to tell my dad that the driver's exam was the final exam for the course and required.  Don't know if that was true but after some arguments, it worked.

Best to all

Lucy Gilbert (Rhoda)

Wow... did not realze that I would start a conversation when I said I was the oldest in the class!  Was there anyone older?  I can't remember what the cutoff date was.  It kept going from August 31 to September 30 to December 31.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to everyone who celebrated the grand day in January and February.  For those in March....  a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you!

George Trapp

Anita --- Great story of convincing your dad that the dr licensing exam was a requirement of driver's ed. Quitye creative !!! ---- Piano tuning ... have you tried calling a music store that deals in pianos, or a local school district or college that has a music major. Bet each has, or could recommend, a tuner for your mom. ---- Kudos to her for wanting to stay involved.

Harriet (Nikki) Lang

George, I so agree with your statement regarding Israeli-US relations, I am so baffled as to why so many of my own Jewish relatives and friends continue to see the world--as you put it so well --through Neville Chamberlain glasses. They do not forget the holocaust but they fail to see the correlation.

Carol Kutner (Winig)

May is my 70th and i have decided that all I want is to be with Family, so I am giving myself a birthday gift and taking my three sons on a mediterran cruise. Just them... and my husband. One week of bonding since we all live indifferent states and rarely get together as a family.          On the subject of mother's mine lives in her own house with an aide, is still very very youthfull looking and beautiful and next month will be 95. She plays cards three times a week, and does all of the household things. AMAZING!!!!!

Anita Gutnick (Greenwald)

George, thanks so much for your very good recommendations!

Amy Shelanski

Philadelphians, New Yorkers, Delaware-dos, Jersey Boys and Girls

Anyone who's in Philly or wants to be in Philly!!!

This Friday, the first day of spring!!!! March 20th.

Please come down to the Field House restaurant (just across Filbert St from Reading Terminal) at 1pm for our bi-monthly get-together.  I have just heard from Sue Fishman who will be in Philly and will join us. Hope to see everyone there.

Questions? Send here or email me at amy.shelanski@gmail.com

Jerry Chonin

Carol you are much older than me. I won't be 70 until June. We are giving ourselves a totally redone master bath and hopefully a second home near you in Florida. 

George Trapp

Harriet ---- There is a huge gulf between seeing the world as it, and seeing the world as one would wish it to be. If the world could be reasoned or educated into the place we'd all like it to be, it would have gotten there quite awhile back. Unfortunately human nature is unchanging and unchangeable, not suject to education and reason. Am convinced that like ears, boobs,etc, there are vast differences in the way people's brains are wired. Thus even relatives and siblings look at the identical facts, situations, etc comming to entirely differing thoughts and conclusions as to what they are looking at and how to respond to it. My brother Pete is CHS '66, raised in the same home by the same parents, with the same extended family support network. The big variable is our total life experience. I refer to him as a flaming liberal, while I'm generally far right We agree on almost nothing either socially or politically. ----- I am as puzzled by his thought processes as you are by those of some of your relatives. ----- As far as I am concerned yesterday was a very fine day for the nation of Israel and by extension for the USA. As stated often before, I'm a huge fan of Netanyahu, as I am of the late leaders, Churchill, Thatcher, Reagan and some others. None of these are/were even close to being perfect persons. Still I believe that they each understood evil when they looked upon it, and understood that the safer course is to confront it, resist it, even war with it if necessary, to hold it at bay. Evil in general cannot be reasoned with. It never goes away but seems best controlled thru superior force.----- At Christmas I stated aloud that I felt Netanyahu was currently the finest, most able leader in the free world. By facial and body language, Pete and his wife were in total disagreement. Wisely, since Christmas was at our home with my conservative "children" and two friends here, their mouths did not speak.

Lewis Bolno (Bolno)

jerry...watch out....she kills for statements like that...lol

Carol Kutner (Winig)

Jerry we are lloking forward to having you be part of our Florida family.

Lewis i am just not going to let you make fun of me..... I will jsut make fun of you.  good thing I luv you.

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

I was hoping to convince Jerry to come to the glorious, beautiful Bonita Springs/Naples area. The ocean is much more friendly. We only lack Brooklyn Bagel. Carol, when are you coming to our Outlets?

Lewis Bolno (Bolno)

carol darling, i was not making fun of you, you should know that

Lucy Gilbert (Rhoda)

Hey, Jerry....  Check out the West Coast!!

           Sunny trying to get you to come to Bonnita Springs/Naples.  So... I will campaign for my area!!  Why not check out the Bradenton/Sarasota area.  We are 40 minutes from Tampa.  30 minutes from St. Pete.  And very, very close to the the beaches.  Siesta Key.... rated #1 beach is only 30-35 minutes from my house.  Me.... I now go to Anna Maria Island, Bradenton Beach and Holmes Beach.  Much quieter.  And .... then there is Lido Beach and St. Armands Circle.  We have a brand new indoor Mall and I live 5 -10 minutes from Ellenton Outlets.  2+ hours from Disney & area.  Lots of water activities and baseball (if you like?)

        Bradenton is so changed since the days of the CHS '63 Exchange Trip!!  Good luck in your hunt!

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

Lucy, good job on selling Bradenton.  Naples has fabulous beaches and great restaurants and shopping. Bonita has 3 open air malls all within 8 or less miles from each other. Minutes from the RSW airport and JetBlue Park,home of the Boston Red Sox and Hammond Stadium, home of the Minn Twins. We have multi cultural places for musicals and the like. Just remember, it's harder to swim in the Atlantic. The Gulf is prettier. You should explore all options.