George Trapp

Gary ---- Good to hear from you !  Let us all know when that surgery finally gets scheduled again. I am going to put you on my prayer list. ---- As you know from reading the posts Janet H has done very well with the shoulder replacement. My rotator surgery held up well over the years but the cartilage is all gone off both articular surfaces so I have a pain regimen that I use exclusively when I play tennis. ---- But the rotator was the worst of any ortho surgery I've had, by a wide margin. You certainly validated that by your comment on your other shoulder rotator repair. 

I would certainly love the autobahn in the right vehicle. I have always loved speed . The difference now is I pick my spots. Not interested in putting others' lives at risk. My pet driving peeve is that it is impossible to leave safe distance ahead because some knucklehead fills it immediately. Then one ends up falling further and further back. 

On that zoo they call I - 95 a couple years back this moron in a bright blue Vette was weaving in and out with speed and hard breaking. Endangering everyone. Of course if there is an accident , even relatively minor, everyone is badly inconvenienced as traffic comes to a dead stop and then backs up for many miles. We all had the last laugh. When traffic finally thinned his total gain over me was 3 car lengths.

Have a fine afternoon Gary !          George T

Harriet (Nikki) Lang

Carole, with regard to your tulip poplar tree. One idea might be to put shade-loving azaleas on the inside around the tree and move the hostas to the shady outer edge. Azaleas are so showy in the spring. I love them down here in South Carolina when they do that around the big old oak trees dripping with spanish moss.

Regards the other ongoing conversation, I am quite happy to report that all my body parts are still my own. Did have two torn mesnici in my right knee about 8 years ago, but healed without treatment......that is to say by the time I was able to get an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon, being a new patient, it didn't bother me any more. It used to swell up from time to time but I found that a regimen of glucosamine, chondroiten, and MSM along with tumeric 1000 mg per day seems to have kept the swelling at bay. So happy not to have to take such things as naprosyn or ibuprofen since they are beginning to get a very bad rep.

I'm glad to note that I'm not the only one that takes note of the idiots who weave in and out of traffic endangering everyone and ending up not making nearly the progess they expected. Must admit though with the idiots that insist on "cruising" in the left lane, that sometimes I am that idiot weaving in and out of traffic.

Gary Hoffman

Harriet and George:

I agree fully with you about drivers who weave in and out.   As braking systems have improved, many drivers ignore that there is still the delay due to reaction time.   A number of drivers believe that they can "stop on a dime" and are real hazards on the road.  And then if you leave a few car lengths, people will use it as an opening to cut you off.   Still remember the machine that we had in driver ed in high school that emphasized the time it takes to stop your car.

Harriet -- you are one of the fortunate ones with no replacement and hopefully will stay that way.

Hope to get the shoulder surgery mid May; our Florida governor just announce elective surgery can restart on May 11.   Fortunately, I will do my recovery in  our place in West Palm Beach since it is a one floor house.   We will delay going up to our place in Ventnor, NJ until July.

Take care and stay well

Gary

George Trapp

Harriet and Gary ---- yes , I do not hesitate to pass on the right when some moron will not get over. They create very dangerous rolling roadblocks if they get up beside another car but will not complete the pass. On interstates the traffic really piles up, people get impatient and on occasion there is a messy result. 

Another pet peeve is drivers who cannot or don't how to use a merge/acceleration lane to enter a highway. Down they go only to hit a complete stop before the merge. Go Figure !

Wish everyone was a perfect driver like me ------ Did I really say that?

Glad you have a date for that shoulder.        George

George Trapp

For those of you that pray.....Am requesting your prayers for Lois Ehrlich Scharfglass and husband Marty also. Marty has Lewy Body Dementia. Lois is his caregiver.

Having been in almost daily contact with Lois for about 3 years, it was unusual to go several days without same. 

Lois has suffered a stroke. She is presently unable to speak, and self described her mind as "mush". She was able to email ,not at the level I'm used to, but her mind is still there.

She has become one of my very best friends and I know she wants nothing more than God to have His way in her life.

Thank you for remembering Lois and Marty.                   George Trapp

Marilyn Ford (Evans)

I am blessed to be apart of the Harriet club, and try to take care of myself so it stays taht way.

I am sorry to say I don;t remember Lois but my prays go out to her and Marty. I know how

hard it is to be a caregiver since I have been doing it for last 15 years. Lois it is important for

you to take caer of yourself first. May God continue to take care of you and your husband,

Marilyn

Harriet Frankel (Withstandley)

Dear Marilyn and other classmates- It's wonderful to hear from you, especially now.  I don't know what the "Harriet Club" is.  Sadly, the third Harriet in our class, Harriet Kadransky, passed away several years ago.  Many years before,  I met her husband, who had a pharmacy in the Medical Arts, or Medical Tower Building in center city, and I heard about his wife from him.  He has, long since, retired, but I recall hearing that she had died. I'm sort of in the middle of the age range of our class-- November 27, so I am not yet 75; I have all my joints, although I suspect that the cartilage is not what it was, since they creak much more than they did.  George,  please pass on my warm regards to Lois, who I remember so well from the Cheltenham choir.  She had a lovely alto voice, while I had a reedy soprano.  Best to all, and stay safe.    

Barbara Barasch (Rosin)

I remember Lois very well , mainly from E.P. Junior High. Please convey my very best wishes to her. Just writing the words E. P. Jr. High make me want to say that I still talk a few times a week with Ellen Karabell,my closest friend of very long standing. We reminisce at times about the unique kindness of Dr. Wessel , our principal . I have such fond memories of Mr. Shaten, Mr. Beyerle , Mrs. Wellington, Dr. Creedon-they were such outstanding teachers. I know Lois and I were in the same section back then . I am so sorry for the trouble she has experienced, as have many of our classmates. In addition ,this terrible virus has changed everyone's lives and I hope we will stay well and safe. My sincere good wishes to everyone. Bobby Barasch Rosin

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

Hi All,

I haven't posted for a while. No reason. Just been doing my things. All is well and I thank God everyday.

 
I didn't know Lois, although her name does resonate some distant memory. So here she is taking care of her husband, no easy task and then she has a stroke. George, please express to them that my prayers will work double duty for both of them. 
And George, thank you for your very nice letter. It's easier for me to email than write a letter. Which is why I didn't reply😉. 

Hope all of you stay safe and keep well. I don't know about you, but I have had fill of masks. 
Here's to recovery and a quite summer and Fall🍾🍾🍾🍸🍸

Sunny Ingber Drohan☀️🎾
 

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

Meant quiet summer and fall. 

George Trapp

Thank you on behalf of Lois and Marty. I am going to email Lois right now with the wishes of these responses. Her last email 3 days ago stated that she expected to get out of rehab yesterday.. She reiterated that her mouth is mush, which I take to mean her speech has been badly affected. The second email was much more coherent than the one last Friday. I know when she feels up to it I will hear more as she has time. At this point I know very little about Lois and nothing of Marty or their dog, Boaz.

They have 3 married sons and grandchildren back here on the east coast. Hopefully someone has stepped up for them.

To my knowledge I have not seen Lois ,or you who usually post here ,since graduation day of '63. It is amazing how close as in bother/sister closeness, Lois and I have become. Back at EPJHS she was usually good for lending me her homework which I routinely blew off. Now we know a lot about each other, as if we had been close friends all along. If I do not hear from her by Sunday I will call her home. We have never talked on the phone as it is possible Marty might not understand. I will tell you that both Jan and I had a tear hit our eye when I read aloud her first post stroke email. So you can be sure we appreciate your prayers on her behalf.

Glad there have been no Covid notices posted and pray that continues. Echoing Sunny, I am so over the whole Covid thing. I refuse to live my life in fear so have resumed what is normal living for me. The one concession is masking in tight quarters, especially around strangers. Should I catch it I have no wish to infect others. However, the clock is ticking on us and I want to continue living . Just existing holds zero appeal.

Ruth Weisel (Guthrie)

George, next time you are in touch with Lois please pass along my healing wishes, as well.  Lois and I were friends from our time at Cheltenham Elementary through high school.  We bonded over our love of singing, and participated in the choir and choral ensemble right through high school.  I enjoyed visiting with Lois and Marty at our class reunion in 1984, before they moved to New Mexico.  She emailed me once a number of years ago.  I was away on a trip, but I responded when I got home and had no subsequent reply from her.  A missed opportunity!  I'm very, very sorry for their current difficulties.  They have been added to my prayer list.

I'm now living in the Seattle, Washington area, having moved here in 2017 to be closer to my son Scott and his family.  My 17th floor unit affords me views of the mountains in 3 directions, which I love after living in the flatlands of North Carolina for 21 years.  I spend several months of the year - although not this year, for obvious reasons - in London, in a flat near my daughter and her family.  Our family lived in the London area from the time she was 7 until we moved back to the US when Robin was 18, shortly before my husband died, but she met her English husband at a wedding in Greenwich, CT.  She's a Family Medicine doc working part-time in the NHS.  Scott and Robin each have two sons - all four boys were born within 4 years (2008 - 2012).

Over the years I've stayed in touch with Virginia Webster, Eileen Tyrala and Deborah Merrick.  Both Eileen and Deb came to visit me in NC shortly before I moved out here.  It really is true that "old" friends can reconnect very quickly.  I send greetings and good wishes to all of my CHS classmates.  Stay safe and well!

Ruth

Eileen Tyrala

I am so saddened to learn of Lois' health issues. I remember her so well as a beautiful alto singer and a very kind and generous person. George, please add me to the list of people who are asking about her and give her my very best wishes for recovery. 

Ellen Karabell (Rugel)

I also remember Lois most from Cheltenham Elementary.

Wishing her and all of our classmates peace - and courage as we face the challenges of aging.  And I never thought it would happen to us!  "Forever Young" should be the motto of CHS class of 63.  How lucky we were to grow up in such a time and such a place.

George Trapp

Meant to comment on two teachers recently mentioned.---- Mr Shatten was really fine in my opinion. A favorite among those teachers that I had. As I recall he missed some time one year due to a heart attack. Does anyone remember when a bunch of our larger stronger classmates carried his VW bug up a set of steps ? Think they set it down at the main entrance doors.---- I liked Mrs Wellington, Miss Moore when we got to EPJHS, but hated that experimental type math. Mostly hated all math after arithmetic, exception was geometry with Mr Hoy at CHS.------ We were blessed with many very fine teachers in the Twp schools. They provided a foundation for the successes we read about on this site. They enabled us to be in a position to take advantage of higher educational opportunity.

George Trapp

Wanted to update you on Lois Ehrlich Scharfglass and her situation. The stroke occurred March 9. She returned home about a week ago. All three sons went to New Mexico. Two are back east now and the third will leave Thursday. I assume they looked after Marty over the month that has passed. Do not know arrangements once the last goes home.

Lois ,as one might imagine , is not a happy camper .  Her communications have been brief without a great deal of information. The injury to her brain clearly has affected her ability to spell and to phrase her thoughts. Jan and I have absolutely no problem understanding what she is writing to us so I do not think her actual ability to communicate is really damaged. I have no knowledge as to whether her coordination and movement are affected in any way.

Brain injuries are slow to heal. In my opinion there is no way to yet know the long term outcome.

I mentioned to her each of you that has prayed for her and has wished her well. I thank you for that and ask that you continue to pray. Specifically pray that she will overcome her discouragement at the situation in which she finds herself. Pray that she will discover renewed purpose for her life because presently she is wishing that God had taken her.

As we all understand at this point, life is a tough road. A few understood that in our school days as indicated by confessions of very difficult home situations back in the day. Thankfully many of us were blissfully ignorant about the difficulties we would face in the years to come. Those difficulties show up with increasing frequency now. We deal with them a day at a time.

As for me, I am thankful for each new day. I hope it will be a fine day for those of you who read this and let's hope together that God gives Lois a fine day as well.

Janet Hoffman

I really shouldn't have been so slow to comment because Lois figured very significantly in my high school days.  It took me a while to process all of this.  I was the accompanist for the high school choir and Lois was one of our star singers.  And she was a great friend.  What I remember most are the fun times we "girls" had at her house with me playing the piano and all of us singing together.  I'm sure there was also plenty of snacking and soda drinking.  We engaged in a  bit of mischief too one evening.  It must have been towards the end of the school year because the faculty was having a party at one of the local country clubs near Lois's home. Our group decided to see if we could peek in the window to "spy" on the party.  To achieve our mischievous objective, we crawled across the country club golf course towards the clubhouse where the party was, possibly even tearing up bits of one  of the greens along the way.  Of course at one point we chickened out and went back to the house hoping that nobody would discover our little excursion.  At the time, I am sure there are those who would have considered such shenanigans out of character for (at least most of) us "good girls."   Looking back on it now, however, I think it must have felt liberating, certainly to have gotten away with it.  We had a lot of good laughs over this once we were safe in the house again.  I wonder if Lois would remember this in her current situation, but maybe she would.  In any event, I would like her to know that I recall with much gratitude her generous spirit and all the fun we had in those days of music and camaraderie,   Please do tell her that I think of her often with fond memories of the fun we had and wish her all the best in her recovery.   
 

I hope everyone is managing to be in good health and in safe surroundings.  I firmly believe that better days are ahead.

J
 

Barton Solow

Amen...

Sunny Ingber (Drohan)

I am assuming that Lois's immediate family is no longer at her side. It must be hard on both her and her husband. Especially trying to navigate the day to day duties. It's a frustrating way to live. I hope she has rehabilitation to get her to some form of normalcy for her condition. As frustrations creeps in, the will to survive lessen. 
I sure don't have any magical answers. Though it might be nice if those who knew her well would write her letters with their memories together. Might put a smile on her face. 

Sometimes we need to just ask God to help. Really ask  Only Lois can do that. I will continue to pray for her. I have to honestly say, as of late, I have not.  But I will start again.

May you all have great days ahead, filled with peace and love. 
S☀️🎾

Daniel Bronson

My memories of Lois go back to Cheltenham Elementary, She and George were in my class from year to year, and I remember her fondly. For a lomng time, I quite literally looked up to her. George, please send her my best and  fondestwishes.

    As to Mr. Shaten, I was thinking about him the other day. When we were in ninth grade at Elkins Park, he directed this country-style musical in which I played an old man and Harriet Kadransky was an old woman trying to rope me in. What I recall are Lou Shaten's trying to get us to feel and understand what it was like to be old, Some days, when I get up gingerly, I think, ok Lou, I'm pretty sure I've got it now.

George Trapp

Heard from Lois again yesterday. Their boys have stepped up for them. Living on the East Coast, they obviously cannot be of day to day help in a physical sense however I gather they have made arrangements which will make the home more user friendly . She also mentioned that they are doing some other things to ease the difficulties their parents face.

Meanwhile I continue to thank each of you for your posts of concern for Lois. It has not gone unnoticed by me how our classmates have rallied around others as illness and death has occurred. 

I found that she is also getting some physical therapy but do not know if that is directly stroke related.

I imagine that she will read your posts at some point , if she hasn't already. Perhaps she will post herself.

Marilyn Ford (Evans)

Hello Class of 63,  George after my last response I went back and looked at my Year Book. I do remember Lois her photo is one page before mine. Tell her to hang in their, it will be tuff, if necessary take a Pain Pill before her OT and PT sessions. Let her know GOD would not put her through anything he was not going to bring her  out of. I have worked for 16 years after my retirement from NASA with those having the same medical problems. Let her know they are LOVED and all of us are pulling for her recovery.

Marilyn

Carole Grossman (Chasen)

I have been withut internet for more than a week so am late responding to the news about Lois,  She had recently reached out to me to send me an early birthday message which was woderful.to reconnect with her.  My memories of Lois are filled with lots of laughs, some sad, but mostly funny.  I recall how she had such a crush on Efrim Zimbalist (probably spelled wrong) from 77 Sunset Strip when we were in Jr. High.  She had a beutiful voice and we shared many years in choir through junior and senior high..  I have no memory of her ever being anything but being, sweet, kind, fun, caring and believe she still is that person.  George, please give her my best wishes.  I had responded to her email but then this all occurred.  I look forwrd to renewing our friendship all these years later.

Carole

Carole Grossman (Chasen)

I need to respond about Mr. Shaten.  I learned so much from him.  I thought he was one of the best teachers ever.  We had him in 7th grade for english and social studies and then in 9th for Civics.  He wouldn't allow us to use an encylopedia for our research papers we had to do.  I also remember my sister, 3 years ahead of me using a report I did on Public Housing (earning a B) and she turning it in at CHS and got an A.  He showed us excerpts from a World Series game.. I also recall that Margie Baum and I walked on one of the coldest days of the year just to see his home in Mt Airy..Crazy.  I heard he really had a tough time medically prior to his death.  He will always remain one of my most favorite teachers ever.

Helen Batt (Feinberg)

Hello all! I had no idea till I read George's posts about Lois that she lives in NM where I've been for 8 years. George, when next you speak with her please offer my services, happy to do anything I can to help out. I sent her a FB messenger note, but don't know if she's able to access that. Hope you all remain well and safe, sending love from Albuquerque.