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"As we were approaching our last semester at Stuyvesant High School in the spring of 1945, the New York State Board of Regents announced a new way of awarding the 300 scholarships that were given to the 300 smartest high school graduates in the…

"In 2009 it will be 60 years since I graduated from City College. Over these six decades, I have bored countless friends and family expressing my debt to my college..."

"My friend Phil suggested that, when we have our next Reading Out Loud, we discuss 'Judaism, Our Children and Us.'"

"Ever since my mother died, I have been thinking about, and telling people, what a remarkable woman my mother was."

"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."

Another (later?) draft of #44 Music in My Life

"Soon after I retired, I learned about the Evergreen Program at Boston University. I guess I was excited about it because it was such a bargain."

"In May 1951, I had 'graduated' from the ILGWU Training Institute, but because I was now subject to the draft, I was not given an assignment."

"Looking back on my life (as I have been doing most of my life) I began to see it as a tower. "

"When I was at City College I heard a story about a professor who required his students to show him their note books at the end of the semester."