Brandeis Magazine

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Lois Lindauer writes, “I finally retired! If I had known life without work was so enjoyable, I would have given up my desk sooner. Life is good, very good.”

Elliot Morrison reports he’s “still alive and kicking (gently) at 90.”

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Susan Lackritz Kaplan, G’24, attended Brandeis’ 75th-anniversary weekend celebration. She writes, “I was so interested in exploring the campus, which has sprouted a few dozen new buildings, spectacularly architected. Roads have been altered, and the Castle has been cut in half. All that in the 15 years — or is it 25? — since I was last there.”

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After a 67-year career, Dick Cooper retired from serving as president of Sentry Property Management Corp.; joined a health club; and stays busy with wife Judy, four kids, and seven grandchildren.

David L. Kline and wife Barbara have moved from their brownstone apartment (and its 28 steps) to an elevator building where daughter Aliza and her family live. David and Barbara are doing well. “Here in Brooklyn, with three accomplished kids with spouses and five wondrously developing grandchildren, I’m hopeful,” he writes.

Sculpture by Jeanne Lieberman was displayed at Atria West, in New York City, earlier this year.

Eleanor Pam is president of Veteran Feminists of America, an organization that helped create the modern women’s movement. Previously, she worked in academia for nearly 40 years as a professor and dean, as well as in other senior administrative positions. Married with three children and five grandchildren, she winters in South Florida and summers in East Hampton, New York.

This spring, Glenda Stone Sakala moved into an independent living facility in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The new location puts her closer to her gym and the senior center where she enjoys playing mah-jongg.

Judith Chazin-Bennahum, P’92, was interviewed for an upcoming French documentary on René Blum, a theatrical impresario who perished at Auschwitz. Judith is the author of “René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life” (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Holocaust survivor Peter Ranis, P’91, was invited by the mayor of his hometown — Darmstadt, Germany — to attend its commemoration of the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Nov. 9, 1938) and the 35th anniversary of the rebuilding of the synagogue that was destroyed that night. Peter was accompanied on the trip by his partner, Jackie, and two of his grandkids, Jessica and Justin.

A recent nonfiction book titled “The Novelizers” includes a chapter on Linda (Ashton) Stewart’s career as a screenwriter and novelist.

In her Dec. 5, 2023, Substack newsletter, Letty Cottin Pogrebin questioned why it took feminist and women’s rights groups so long to address reports of Hamas’ sexual assaults on Israeli women and girls on Oct. 7.