Update 2-5-13

Hi,

 

Yep, this is early, but I'll be away from home again, and I travel light electronically.  Because of that, the next update will be around Valentine's Day.

 

First, from Linda Tobin Kettering:  By the way, Gerry Kaplan had an older brother, not a sister.  He was a doctor and died of lymphoma.  Her younger brother, Eddie, class of '72, died of pancreatic cancer.  So sad.

 

[Rich -- Yep, Gerry really did spell her name with a Y.  I've had it both that way here and with an I.

    About her older brother, Josh.  He was in South's class of '63, so I figured I should have known him from gym classes.  But after a little Internet sleuthing, I found a picture of him and didn't recognize him at all.  Of course, he was fifty at the time and probably wouldn't have recognized a picture of me, either.

    I also discovered that, coincidentally, he finished his career at Bowling Green State University, my undergrad school in Ohio.  He died at fifty-eight.  Here's the notice from the Princeton class of '67 web site.]

 

JOSHUA E. KAPLAN ’67  Josh Kaplan, a caring doctor and a pioneering administrator who directed health services at Bowling Green State U. since 1984, died Jan. 2, 2004, after a five-year battle with cancer.  Josh was born in NYC. A biology major at Princeton, he was Dial athletics chairman and roomed with Steve Rosenberg, Lou Birenbaum, John Capestro ’69, David Smith ’68, Russell Barron ’68, and Chuck Gardner. Josh would go out of his way to help a friend.  He was an optimist who could find a silver lining in the most depressing circumstances (e.g., the Orgo final).  After receiving his medical degree from SUNY’s Downstate Medical Center, Josh interned at SF’s Presbyterian Hospital, completed his residency at St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver, and worked in hospital emergency departments in California.  Josh spearheaded creation of a women’s health clinic at Bowling Green and strengthened health education on topics relevant to students, including an innovative AIDS education program.  Respected as a fair administrator, he loved working with students and they responded to his sense of humor.  Josh was past president of the Ohio College Health Assn. and served on the American College Health Assn. board, which created a fund in his name.  Surviving are his wife, Becky; daughter, Sarah; mother, Pearl; and brother, Ed.

 

Last week, Mary Sipp-Green sent in something about Paulinda Schimmel Babbini.  This week, Mary's sent something about herself:  I was in touch with the Findlay Gallery this morning and then forwarded the following to the director at the owner Jimmy Borynack's request.  I thought other people might like to know.

    Yesterday, I made a delivery.  The painting that is in the Springfield Museum / d'Amour Museum of Fine
Arts permanent collection is called "'Twilight Falls in Berkshire County"  It's 38" x 56", oil on linen, and was painted in 2013.  The museum is located in Springfield, Massachusetts.
    Also, the Butler Institute of Fine Art in Youngstown, Ohio, has acquired two pastel landscape paintings of mine for their permanent collection.  I will send details on size and title when I find that information.

 

[Rich -- As I wrote Mary:  "Congratulations."  And I'm sure other people share my enthusiasm because I know she has other fans from South.]

 

From Steve Zuckerman:  Mr. Peabody here, taking a breather from American history.  That's a relief for a change, but I believe you have a better knowledge of  the American theater than I do.

    It was just noted that Phantom of the Opera is the longest running show on Broadway, with a twenty-five year track record.  Didn't A Chorus Line have one of the longest runs?  Still, the show on-or-off Broadway that really had longevity and survived a long war and more than four decades of dramatic social changes was The Fantasticks.  That was faithfully performed almost nightly at the Sullivan Street Playhouse.  I wonder what it's been replaced with?

 

[Rich -- Chorus Line held the record for a while, till Phantom, Cats, Chicago, Les Miz, and Lion King passed it.  And Wicked and Mama Mia could also pass it eventually, but they've got some years to go.

    Fantasticks closed at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in the Village in 2002 after forty-two years and reopened at the Snapple Theater Center on 50th Street in the now-renamed Jerry Orbach Theater in 2006.  It's still running.

    And I don't know all this stuff.  I had to look it up on Wikipedia.  Just as I think the Sullivan Street Playhouse is currently looking for tenants.  I believe Fantasticks left after a rent dispute.]

 

Finally, a barrage of links to videos.  These could keep you busy and laughing.  Or not.  (And please take out the spaces.)

 

From Jerry Bittman:  This is a masterpiece.  Delivered by one of the greatest characters and shows in TV history.  You must watch this.  Archie Bunker is called on to give a eulogy. 

youtube . com/watch_popup?v=MnignqBw4CY

 

From Zelda Nichols White:  Thought the group might be interested in this.  Down here in Low Country, especially the Myrtle Beach area, dancing is all about Beach Music and the Shag.  Myrtle Beach is where that originated. This video was great for educating my southern friends to how we did it up north.

youtube . com/watch_popup?v=sDc0ID6PJeg&feature=youtu.be

 

From Barbara Blitfield Pech:  A song, inoffensive and really funny.  youtu . be/dPHtmO48vkw

 

From a former college teacher of mine, Lee Miesle:  This Tim Conway and Carol Burnett skit never aired and you'll see why.  Mr. Tudball needs a secretary.  youtube . com/embed/sJIh70IZua8?rel=0

 

[Rich -- Tim Conway also went to Bowling Green, under the name Tom Conway.  He changed it when he began acting, so he wouldn't be confused with British actor Tom Conway.  Tom Conway was actually born Tom Sanders and was actor George Sanders' brother.]

 

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Rich