In the mid-1960s, when I was a graduate student in English Literature at Temple University, I met a communications professor there named Herb Simons.
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by Len Lear
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6/23/22
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Dr. Harold Stenger was a legendary teacher of Shakespeare plays.
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by Len Lear
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6/16/22
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Dr. Douglas Arthur Canning, a Chestnut Hill resident for 30 years, beloved chief of the Division of Urology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, devoted family man and lover of the outdoors, died at age 65 on Monday, May 30, after suffering severe injuries from a bicycle accident on a road in Connecticut.
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by Len Lear
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6/16/22
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Jeannine Mermet, a multi-talented, strong, self-reliant businesswomen and professional singer and dancer long before the word “feminism” was commonly used, died at the age of 93 on May 17, surrounded by her loving family.
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by Len Lear
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6/9/22
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Norman Aaron Newberg, a Mt. Airy resident, author, and University of Pennsylvania professor who trained a generation of educators, died in his sleep on May 8 at age 87.
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by Len Lear
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6/1/22
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Barbara Holman Lynn, a passionate disability advocate who was lovingly known as “Barbara of Seville,” died suddenly on Friday, April 29, in Scranton, Pa.
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by Daisy Phillips
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5/26/22
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Jean MacBryde, who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, met Bob Swenson on a blind date when he was a freshman at Washington University School of Medicine.
“It was a terrible blind …
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by Len Lear
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5/18/22
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The 36-year Mt. Airy resident, who wrote countless fascinating and entertaining articles for many area publications, including the Chestnut Hill Local, died April 15 at the age of 91.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/22
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Marion Lucille Steinmann had a long career at Life magazine, where she started as a science reporter and was later promoted to associate editor.
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by Len Lear
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4/20/22
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Margaret (Peggy) Jane Hendrie, a lifelong Chestnut Hill resident, passed away peacefully at age 74 on March 18, surrounded by her family.
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by Len Lear
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4/14/22
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"I was really motivated by the power of community radio to reach local diverse groups with underrepresented sounds and ideas," Bear, a Roslyn native, told me a decade ago. "The major radio stations were owned by big corporations that do not want to take chances or rock the boat. It is all about money.”
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by Len Lear
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4/6/22
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Betty Sherman, a former art teacher at Springside School who died March 15 at age 89, was the kind of teacher who inspired students - many of whom stayed in touch long after graduation.
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by Len Lear
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3/29/22
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Despite his lofty pedigree as a member of the first family of Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy, George Woodward III was a soft-spoken, modest gentleman whose lifestyle was proudly pedestrian.
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by Len Lear
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3/23/22
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Moe Albert Brooker, a beloved, longtime Germantown resident and one of Philadelphia's most renowned artists, died Jan. 9 after a brief stay at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. He was 81.
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by Len Lear
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3/9/22
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“I had never even met many of these families,” Buck, 89, said last week during an interview in his living room, “but they bring me fabulous meals and want to stay and talk. It was a real shock, and I am so appreciative of what they are doing that I wanted a wider audience to know how caring this small community is.”
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by Len Lear
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2/18/22
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Dratman was an internationally-renowned research scientist, former professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and the Medical College of Pennsylvania, as well as a sought-after lecturer throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia.
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by Len Lear
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2/17/22
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Stern, a legendary fundraiser for the Curtis Institute of Music in Center City, lifelong camper, animal lover and outdoor enthusiast who hiked most of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail, died at home Jan. 9, surrounded by his loved ones, after a long battle with cancer.
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by Len Lear
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2/11/22
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Gene Caffrey, a longtime Chestnut Hill resident whose creativity and strategic sense of adventure led him from a budding legal career to real-estate entrepreneurship and then to the authorship of a …
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by Christopher Phillips
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2/10/22
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Ned, as he was known to friends, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 22.
He grew up in Greensburg, PA, with his older sisters Mary, Jean (Anderson), and Ann (Krissinger). At Greensburg …
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By Catherine Brzozowski
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2/1/22
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Saget, star of the two long-running TV shows “Full House” and “America's Funniest Home Videos.” was a 1975 graduate of Abington High School.
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by Len Lear
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1/28/22
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