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Year 32, No. 31
Celebrating 32 Years of Community News
Prof. Saul Wachs Retiring After 42 Years at Gratz College r. Saul Wachs, the Rosaline B. Feinstein Professor of Education and Liturgy, is retiring at the age of 85, after 42 years of teaching at Gratz College. Described as a legend within the field of Jewish education, Dr. Wachs will be honored with a tribute at the
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Daniel Ellsberg to Speak at The Haverford School Writer, lecturer, and political activist to Deliver 27th annual Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture
Dr. Saul Wachs, the Rosaline B. Feinstein Professor of Education and Liturgy, is retiring at the age of 85, after 42 years of teaching at Gratz College. On Tuesday evening, May 16, Dr. Wachs will be honored at the annual Jeffrey B. Plevan Gratz Gala for his lifelong commitment to Jewish education and learning. Gratz annual gala, an honorary degree at commencement and a scholarship prize created in his name. Dr. Wachs first arrived at Gratz well before the beginning of his teaching career: in 1948, he started as a student in the Gratz Hebrew teachers program. Sixty-nine years later, he is leaving as one of the longest serving faculty members in College history. Although he claims to have “made peace” with the idea of retiring, he is maintaining an office in the building and is still hoping to do some teaching. In 1975, after 22 years as an education director, teacher and/or music director at various synagogues; two years as an adjunct professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary; and three years as an associate professor of Jewish education at Brandeis University, Dr. Wachs was appointed dean of Gratz College. During his five-year tenure as dean, he pushed the College to expand into the area of graduate education, which has since become the mainstay of Gratz programming. In addition, he chaired the Department of Jewish Education for 41 years and helped establish the College’s first doctoral program: the Doctorate in Jewish See Dr. Saul Wachs Retiring from Gratz College on page 4
Writer, lecturer, and political activist Daniel Ellsberg will present “Vietnam: American Quagmire, and Not the Last” at The Haverford School on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. aniel Ellsberg, writer, lecturer, and political activist responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers, will present “Vietnam: American Quagmire, and Not the Last” for the 27th annual Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture at The Haverford School on Wednesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the School’s Ball Auditorium, Wilson Hall, lower level. The lecture is free and open to the public; a book signing will follow the event.
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Seven Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Students Accepted into National Youth Orchestra of the USA Summer 2017 Tour will include Performances in Carnegie Hall and Latin America ach summer, the country’s most gifted young musicians are chosen by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States (NYO-USA) of America. This year, seven Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) students have been selected to participate in the prestigious 2017 NYO-USA. The PYO students who have been chosen from PA are: Fiyi Adebekun, violin, of Lansdale; Allyson Cohen, violin, of Narberth; Isabella Egawa, violin, of Bala Cynwyd; Johnny May, violin, of Penn Valley; and Joy Zhao, cello, of Chalfont. The student from DE is Conor McAvinue, violin, of Wilmington; and the student from NJ is Daniel Kim, clarinet, of Skillman. This year, NYO will make its Latin American debut with Isabella Egawa, a resident of conductor Marin Alsop in a program that features the world Bala Cynwyd and a student within premiere of a new Carnegie Hall–commissioned work by the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Gabriela Lena Frank. The orchestra’s program also includes (PYO), has been selected to John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Mahler’s Symparticipate in the prestigious phony No. 1. NYO-USA’s tour kicks off with a performance and 2017 NYO-USA. recording of the classical music public radio show NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, State University of New York (July 19). The orchestra then takes the Carnegie Hall stage for its annual concert (July 21), to be heard by music lovers worldwide via the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR and distributed nationally by WFMT Radio Network, and streamed live online for free by www.medici.tv. Tickets for the Carnegie Hall performance are on sale now at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, or at www.carnegiehall.org. Following their New York appearances, the NYO-USA musicians will fly to Latin America for a tour
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