I
just received this from Judy Shulman Eisner,
Class of 1962.
Hi Skip,
It has been a long while since I have been in contact. I hope you have stayed
well, virus free and are happily avoiding both boredom and contamination.
My husband and I have been in quarantine since March 10...NJ is a hotspot and
even though our town (Short Hills) thank G-d hasn't been greatly affected, it
makes no sense to expose ourselves. Everyone seems to be immune compromised at
this point.
At any rate, I have some sad news that you might want to let people know about.
Arthur Traiger passed away this week. (Not from Covid). He was much loved by so
many of us including his wife, Dorothy, his kids, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. I don't know how active the FRHS website is, I do go on it from
time to time to see if anything new has come up. I don't do social media such as
Facebook, etc.
Arthur was a great friend of this website and wrote the following many years
ago:
I left FRHS in
1965 to become Chairman of the English Department at New Utrecht High School.
Then I transferred to Martin Van Buren H.S. in '69 and stayed there till '82.
For a year during that time I was Acting Principal. During those HS teaching
days I also taught part time at Queensboro Community College and City College.
In 1982 I retired and with Dorothy, my wife, (a graduate of Far Rockaway High
School, June 1947) and went to teach at Nihon University in Japan. Dorothy had
been an English teacher at Deer Park H.S. on Long Island from 1967 until 1982,
and she also taught at Nihon University during the ten years from 1982 to 1992
that we lived in Mishima, Japan.
When we left Japan in '92 we came to live in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake
City in order to ski six months a year. During our stay in Japan, because of
their university class schedule, we were able to ski all of February and March
in Europe or Japan or Utah every year, and, of course, we had done lots of
skiing back East before 1982. We both became certified ski instructors soon
after our arrival in Utah.
Also, in addition to our ski teaching, we run a training and editing and
rewriting program for a large Japanese company. To my amazement, I have not
stopped teaching.