Brandeis Magazine

Helene Dembitzer Lambert, who is celebrating turning 90, recently presented a Learning in Retirement talk on Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief, and another on poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life and works. Sumner Sheff, GSAS MA’59, reports his granddaughter Rebecca is the state policy associate at the Children’s Defense Fund, focusing on grassroots mobilization to inform legislative solutions. Diana Laskin Siegal says she and Max Perlitsh enjoyed being interviewed by Lewis Brooks ’80, P’16, president of the Alumni Association, during the May meeting of the association’s board. The memories they shared included the founding of The Justice and the Student Union, the origins of the freshman handbook’s Rule 22 (“Be discreet!”), and the flooding of the girls’ dorm. Diana also shares that Sharona Muir, daughter of the late Marilyn Weintraub Bentov, won the 2022 Publishing Lab Prize for innovative fiction from the University of New Orleans Press for her collection “Animal Truth and Other Stories.”