1952

Thanks again to Quentin Kopp '49 in San Francisco for an interesting article about one of our classmates. Rabbi Marshall Meyer has moved his courageous advocacy of human rights from the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires where he was a tireless spokesman for Argentina's human tragedy, the "disappeared"— to New York's upper West Side and its overwhelming agenda of human needs. His pulpit and spiritual home has become the B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue, a once handsome architectural expanse on West 88th Street that had all but ceased to exist. Rebuilding in so desolate a community was a serious challenge. Providing a food and shelter program for the homeless was Marsh's translation of the Torah into reality. His congregation has grown to over 350 members in just two years. It has all been very "unorthodox" member participation in services, real dialogue on societal issues. His synagogue welcomes those Jews who have been left out by the more traditional synagogues —blacks, gays, Hispanics, etc. He describes his congregation as having "a joyous sense of commu- nity" and certainly a sense of social justice. That is the hallmark of the man, described in the article as one who has made a career out of thumbing his nose at the establishment. The article is almost a biography of Marsh. I'd be glad to furnish .a copy to any interested 's2s or others.

Didn't have space in past issues to mention that Jack McNary and I attended our 40th Swampscott (Mass.) High School reunion late last year. When we later received the class photograph memorializing the event, Jack and I had great difficulty identifying all those old folks in the picture.

A recent trip to Chicago provided the occasion for Jack Foster and me to dine together. Jack has spent his entire career since 1952 in tie steel industiy and is currently the president of Ryerson Steel. Jack and Sally's two grown daughters are both far from the Chicago area, but the summer home just over the border in Canada provides a good family reunion place. The Fosters own land in Grantham, N.H., so the retirement years may find both of them closer to their alma maters Sally was Colby Sawyer (Junior) after all those years in the Midwest.

Received word recently of John Tucker's death on April 25 in Middleboro, Mass.

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