Class Note 1960
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Despite a late spring, warm temperatures hit Key West, Florida, in March and continue in the 80s with blue skies.
To share the joys uncovered by snow turn to Howard Frankel’sblog at www.gardendaily.blogspot.com. For years Howie has kept a diary of gardening activity, at first handwritten in a notebook, then on the computer, but not published. He started blogging in February 2006 and for a long time only his family paid attention, but he got a wider following after linking the blog posts to Facebook and Twitter. In addition to what happens in the garden, there are photos of nature, birds, butterflies, flowers, geology, family trips, and shows and museums. “Basically it’s for me so I can look back when I forget something I did, which happens more often.”
Paul Cantor writes: “My dear and greatly missed friend Richard Fishbein took a lifetime of care and deep intellectual effort in putting his well-known, well-received, and exceedingly focused Japanese collection together. Richard started his lifelong passion with this effort in 1961, when in Japan and before starting Harvard Business School, and was stopped only by his death two years ago. The collection has gone to the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/poetry-of-nature). It is a shame that he could not be present for the honor of the collection’s acceptance and exhibition.”
John Wheaton and Shel Gisser took separate 10-day family trips to Cuba following our 80th birthday blast in Key West. The Wheatons’ focus was culinary, and each itinerary explored the more remote western regions of Cuba where horse- drawn carts are the norm.
From Bob Kahn: “Alzheimer’s is a tough and prolonged illness, but there is a lot that a caregiver and a person with Alzheimer’s can do together. My wife, Sylvia, is seven years into Alzheimer’s but still relating well. Take a look at Dr. Dale Bredesen’s The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Programme to Prevent and Reverse the Cognitive Decline of Dementia. If you would like to see my book review, send me an email at rs_kahn@hotmail.com.
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—Sid Goldman, 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040-6114; (305) 745-3645; sidgoldman@gmail.com
To share the joys uncovered by snow turn to Howard Frankel’sblog at www.gardendaily.blogspot.com. For years Howie has kept a diary of gardening activity, at first handwritten in a notebook, then on the computer, but not published. He started blogging in February 2006 and for a long time only his family paid attention, but he got a wider following after linking the blog posts to Facebook and Twitter. In addition to what happens in the garden, there are photos of nature, birds, butterflies, flowers, geology, family trips, and shows and museums. “Basically it’s for me so I can look back when I forget something I did, which happens more often.”
Paul Cantor writes: “My dear and greatly missed friend Richard Fishbein took a lifetime of care and deep intellectual effort in putting his well-known, well-received, and exceedingly focused Japanese collection together. Richard started his lifelong passion with this effort in 1961, when in Japan and before starting Harvard Business School, and was stopped only by his death two years ago. The collection has gone to the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/poetry-of-nature). It is a shame that he could not be present for the honor of the collection’s acceptance and exhibition.”
John Wheaton and Shel Gisser took separate 10-day family trips to Cuba following our 80th birthday blast in Key West. The Wheatons’ focus was culinary, and each itinerary explored the more remote western regions of Cuba where horse- drawn carts are the norm.
From Bob Kahn: “Alzheimer’s is a tough and prolonged illness, but there is a lot that a caregiver and a person with Alzheimer’s can do together. My wife, Sylvia, is seven years into Alzheimer’s but still relating well. Take a look at Dr. Dale Bredesen’s The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Programme to Prevent and Reverse the Cognitive Decline of Dementia. If you would like to see my book review, send me an email at rs_kahn@hotmail.com.
Send me more news.
—Sid Goldman, 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040-6114; (305) 745-3645; sidgoldman@gmail.com