Brandeis Magazine

Since retiring from the New York City Board of Education, Lois Emma Goldberg has been working nearly full time as a ceramicist. The Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, in Hewlett, New York, held a virtual show of her work in December. Linda Marks writes, “Four of us Northern California folks who met our first year at Brandeis — Ann Leder Sharon, Adrienne Yellen Roth, Ina Cumpiano and I — used to get together in person for lunch, especially when Alice Jacobs Twombly came for a visit. When the pandemic hit, we switched to having occasional Zoom calls. After we started telling friends about our calls, we were joined by Lisa Graifer Levien, Joyce Abrams Greenberg, Esther Gerson Levine, Cornelia Turk Phillipson, Susan Epstein Deutsch, Fern Davis Cohen, Ruth Weinstein Cielak and Rutz Katz Crispin. When calls went out inviting Benji Algase, Betty Zukernick Dayron, Cynthia Cohen Zucker and Helen Kane Samuels to join the group, all said yes. With the recent addition of Ellie Seidman Berlin, Linda Pickell Dietrich, Judith Finkelstein Ocken, Phyllis Cohen Gladstein and Lois Emma Goldberg, we’re now a group of 22 having calls about once a month. All it took to keep us connected was giving ‘that old Brandeis spirit just a little bit of time.’” At age 80, David Zukerman has been the proprietor of the Lonely Pamphleteer Review website (www.lonelypamphleteer.com) for 17 years. He says his proudest moment at Brandeis was being asked to drive Oscar Hammerstein II and his wife and doctor back to a Boston hotel after Hammerstein spoke on campus in April 1960. The heralded lyricist passed away a few months later. David, who recently discovered the joys of listening to operas and orchestral works on YouTube, also notes that his two favorite Brandeis professors shared the same surname: musicologist Kenneth Levy and constitutional scholar Leonard W. Levy.