Peter J. Schmeidler, died on April 14, 2008. Peter graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1955. He worked as a Chemical Engineer for Rohm & Haas for 40 years and served as president of the Delaware Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. After his retirement, he was a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Martin Gary Groder, 67, died at home in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Friday, October 12, 2007 after a boldly courageous six year battle with cancer.
Marty graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1956. He was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search which took him to Columbia College. After graduation he went on to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and served a medical Internship at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, followed by a psychiatric Residency at the University of California’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. There he thrived in Eric Berne’s San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminar, at which time the theoretical structure of transactional analysis was developed. Since 1968, he published multiple articles for the Transactional Analysis Journal.
Following his Residency Marty served as a psychiatrist and then Chief Medical Officer at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, . He founded the Asklepieion Program at Marion and other federal and state institutions. In 1972 he served as Warden of the Federal Center for Correctional Research at Butner, NC, where he developed both the psychiatric program and the four research units. In 1975 he entered private practice in Chapel Hill, NC. He retired from psychiatric medicine in November, 2003 but continued business and family consulting until September, 2007.
Throughout the years, Marty wrote articles on business, self- improvement and health. He co-authored Business Games, Loveland for Alpha Males, and Second Chances: A Love Guide for Alpha Males.
Dr. Groder is survived by: his wife Leslie, his children and grandchildren. Marty requested memorial donations go to the North Carolina Nature Conservancy: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/.
Cynthia Goldberg Goldring-Freidlin, 68, died Monday evening, January 29, 2007 in Jacksonville, Florida. Cynthia attended the University of Alabama, and married David Goldring, whom she met during a family vacation in the Catskill Mountains. Widowed in 1997, Cynthia married Mel Friedlin in 2001. A wonderful loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend, Cynthia was embraced with love and equipped with strength as she dealt with ovarian cancer.
Dr. Scheidt was educated at Princeton, received a Fulbright Fellowship in Biochemistry, and then attended Columbia medical school, with residency training at First (Columbia) Division of Bellevue and Cardiology fellowship at New York-Cornell. He was Director of Cardiology Training at New York-Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University since 1970, a top ranked medical research center. He has held a number of administrative posts including Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Associate Dean for Student Affairs, has written over 200 scientific papers and several books and book chapters, and has for several decades. He practiced clinical cardiology and taught medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians at home and abroad.
Steve passed away on August 7. 2007. For more information please Click Here
Tatiana has been listed on our "In Memoriam" page for quite some time but we had no additional information other than she was a Opera star. At the 50th reunion Audrey Samuels Kurtz provided us with the Aug 23, 1993 New York Times obituary. To view Tatiana's obituary click here
At the 50th reunion William Frisch told us of Jon's death. William has since provided us with the text of Jon's obituary. To view Jon's obituary click here.
We knew him as Arnie Finkelstein but the Jazz world knew him as Arnie Lawrence. Arnie passed away on April 22, 2005 in Jerusalem where he used jazz as a tool for bridging the Israeli-Palestinian culture gap.
Google "Arnie Lawrence " to find out more Arnie's Jaz career.
Lynn Trevas Berman '56 Remembers Arnie in an Email to his daughter Jana Click here
Albert Wertheim ’57 was a Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Development at Indiana University where he taught classic and contemporary British and American Drama. His wife Judy tells us, “Albert was a loyal FHHS alum, who always remembered his time in high school fondly. And because he often regaled me with FHHS anecdotes, I think of many of his schoolmates as friends, even though I know only a few of them personally.” In 2003 he lost his battle with cancer, and the following year a beautiful tribute to his memory was written by Norma Jenckes, Editor of the American Drama Journal.
Click here to read Norma's tribute to Albert (Acrobat Reader Required)
Elaine (Bunni) Carroll London, FHHS '55, passed away on February 10, 2005 . We have no additional information at this time.
We recently learned from David Spiegler that his wife of 44 years and our classmate Bobbie passed away on September 14, 2003. David sent us Barbara's obituary which can read by clicking here. A new window will open, just close it to return here.
We are sad to announce the death of Steven Geffen on Oct. 19, 2004.
Aditional information can be found at the Journal News Web site. These links will open a new instance of your browser. Just close that window to return here.
http://www.nyjnews.com/obituary/obit.php3?id=1563888
We are sad to announce the death of Steve Pollak on Jan. 19, 2004.
Harold Weber sent us an email from Steve's son. To read this click on the link which will open a new instance of your browser. Just close that window to return here.
We are sad to announce the death of Mara Tower Chwatt on August 28, 2003.
Aditional information can be found at the NY Times Web Site. This Link will open a new instance of your browser. Just close that window to return here.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE2DC1438F932A0575BC0A9659C8B63.
We are sad to announce the death of Judith Berman Brandenburg FHHS '57, wife of Lane H. Brandenburg FHHS '56 and friend to many of us. Judith taught biology after graduation from Cornell, and went on to an M.A. from Harvard, and a PhD. from NYU. She served as an Associate Dean at Yale, and was the first woman to hold the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Columbia’s Teachers’ College. She was a devoted wife, mother and scholar, and will be sorely missed by her husband and two sons, David (32) and Neal (28), and by her many friends.
Aditional information can be found at the Teachers College Web Site. This Link will open a new instance of your browser. Just close that window to return here.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu:8765/query.html?col=tc&qt=Brandenburg