Richard Olitsky

No WAY. I thought I was the youngest, born on June 1, 1946.  Well, I was the most juvenile anyway!

David Fertik

I was born March 12th, 1946.  I believe 1945s are "War Babies".

In the summer of 1951 I had already been in Kindergarten for a year.  There was a shortage of First Graders 

In Phila. or maybe just at my school, Birney Elementary.  I took an IQ test, did well so I was put into First Grade

early, Sept. of 1951.

David

Here's a memory from '62, I think.  We had a movie night at school.  "Pillow Talk" was shown in the auditorium. It was probably projected from a 16mm projector with an anamorphic lens because it was wide screen and very washed out, no color intensity.

Janet Hoffman

February 4, 1946.

Jerry Chonin

I guess I am a war baby. June 4, 1945

Amy Shelanski

Gary we share a birthday I'm also February 25, 1946. Susan Pomerantz is also February 25 but 1945.

 David I somehow remembered your birthday was in March didn't remember the date but I knew it was March. I guess a bunch of us who went to Philly schools took that same IQ test and skipped into first grade I know I did it and a bunch of other classmates who also went to Pennypacker with me. OK boomers let's keep hearing from you. We are the oldest of the baby boomers.

Lewis Bolno (Bolno)

another war baby..april 18th 1945

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

I can proudly say I am "the end of the war" baby. August 12, 1945. This date was technically the end of the war, though not published as such. My Dad didn't have to go since it was the end and my Mom was giving birth to me.  So it was a sunny Sunday. Thus my name, Sunny Victoria(for victory). 

David Fertik

Sunny,

What a lovely story.  Can i have the screen rights?

Diane Keaton was born January 2,1946, the earliest Baby Boomer celebrity I've heard of.  Bette Midler was born Dec. 27,1945. Yes, that Boogie-Woogie Bugle girl from Company B. is a War Baby.

Laura LeWinn (Lehrich)

April 10, 1945.  Roosevelt died two days later and my mother remembered holding me in the hospital and weeping (about FDR, I always assumed).  When we moved to Wyncote from Philly, I was in "5B" at Pennypacker Elementary, the second half of fifth grade, because I had been a winter admission in kindergarten. My parents could have put me in 6th grade at Wyncote Elemtentary, but made the fateful decision to keep me in 5th, so I was fortunate to become a part of CHS '63!!  A class for the ages!!

Harriet Frankel (Withstandley)

I'll join the birthday and "Boomer" vs. "War Baby" discussion:  November 27, 1945--almost Boomer, and post War.  Caroline Kennedy and I share a birthday-- 12 years apart.  Sue Malis was March 2, 1946.  Harriet Frankel (Withstandley)

Mark Fisher

War Baby-Oct 8, 1945

Hal Burd

I went thru High School thinking I was the youngest at March 26, 1946.  I was sent to private school in kindergarten because the children of my mother's two best friends Jim Samter (Evie Samter) and Freddy Resenberg (Ethel Rosenberg) were going to school and my mother thought I needed to be in school also. Township wouldn't admit me because my birthday was after the cut off which I believe was in February then. It was ninth grade before I went to public school.

Kathleen Seltzer

war baby...july 9,1945...i was told by my aunt that i was born during a solar eclipse

Ellen Karabell (Rugel)

Richard, I got you by two days - I am June 3, 1946.  Jessica, you win the prize, if there is one!

I think Judy Entine also has a June birthday.

Laurence Liss

February 25th is a great date!  Sue Pomerantz and I share that one in 1945.   So, I guess that means we're the elders of most of you and war babies rather than boomers.  I share Gary's sentiment.  Every day you get up on the right side of the dirt is a good one!   :-) 

Constance Burak (Rubinstein)

I'm Feb. 15, 1946.

David Fertik: My mother went to Birney School. She claimed she transported herself there and back from Warnock Street on her roller skates, circa 1922.

Michael Shore

Nate sklar & I share a birth date but I was born in 1945. I was born at Walter Reed in Washington just after Roosevelt died there

Ginger Abrams (Lane)

Dec 26, 1945 I am at the end of the war babies and almost a boomer. Ronnie Rappaport and Lauren Oldak and I all share this same birthday.

Richard M. Weiss

I'm February 25, 1946 too. That must have been a busy day at the hospital.

Sandy Slubin (Weinberg)

Sandy Slubin (Weinberg) I was born June 20, 1945, ushering in the atomic bomb!

Nathan Sklar

It's funny that several of my classmates mentioned going to Pennypacker Elementary School.  Until I was about 7 years old, my family lived on Washington Lane, across the street from Pennypacker.  I went there through 2nd grade, at which time we moved to Florida for several years.  We moved back to Wyncote near the end of the 4th grade school year, when I entered Wyncote Elementary in Ms. Rainius'  class.  I didn't know anyone else went to Pennypacker, especially you, Laura.

Marsha Dishler

Another peaceful  anti- war  war baby, June 29th 1945....

Laura LeWinn (Lehrich)

Nate, I don't recall if we were in the same classes at Pennypacker, I had Miss Husted for kindgergarten and Miss Wilson for 1st and 2nd grades (why do I remember this stuff??)  Were you in Miss Pfefferle's class in 5th when I arrived at Wyncote?  I am pretty sure we endured Miss Roberston together in 6th.

Lucy Gilbert (Rhoda)

Hello, classmates.  It is funny that this subject of War Babies and Baby Boomers is being discussed.  I posted a long time ago about being the oldest in the class, as I became the first member of the 70's club!!  So, since you are asking, I am the oldest in the class, a War Baby, having a birth date of January 3, 1945.  However, I must admit, 70 does not feel any different for me than 60!  LOL.

Time to find a new photo.  That sweet baby is now 5!

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

What wonderful stories this post has revealed. Historical events and shared birth dates. Now we know a little more about each other than we did before. Only took us 65 years to get to this place. It's too bad we couldn't have had this sharing in HS. I guess we were all pretty much self absorbed. But I am glad we can do it now. Lucy I too really don't feel 70. Just weird to actually say it.   David, I will say if any one wrote about my family, what a saga, soap opera that would be!!