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Vol. 97 No. 19
may 7 - 13, 2020
Paul Shelden’s music-filledlif e ends at 79 well-known woodwind performer, playing the clarinet, flute and saxophone. Paul Shelden was a musician Inspired by his experience who performed with big stars, playing under the direction of but his most the legendary important role Leonard Bernwas as a husstein as a stuband and dent at the Juilfather who liard School in thought nothManhattan, ing of sticking Shelden spent his arm down a decades prorestaurant toiducing and let to retrieve conducting his son’s pen, c o n c e r t s fo r and who young people always made as assistant sure his daughdirector of the t e r ’s s c h o o l Conservatory projects were o f M u s i c at completed. Brooklyn ColShelden, a lege. He introresident of duced classical Hewlett for 28 music to hunye a r s a n d a dreds of thouCourtesy Shelden family sands of pubprofessor emeritus of music at loNgtimE HEwlEtt RESiDENt lic-school stuBrooklyn Col- and professor emeritus Dr. Paul dents in Brookle ge, died at Shelden played a soprano saxolyn, his son, home on April phone he designed that was Seth, said. 17 of complica- made by his company, “He did it tions of Covidall,” said Seth, Diplomatte Musical Instruments. 19. He was 79. who is also a Prodded by musician and his father, Victor, who boxed as a performer. “He was quite well welterweight after coming to known, and an accomplished New York from Poland, Shelden person.” learned music, and became a Continued on page 10
By JEFFREy BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Courtesy Jennifer Cohen
HEwlEtt HigH ScHool freshman Lily Cohen said she has made hundreds of get-well cards for Covid-19 patients.
Students create get-well cards for coronavirus patients By mattHEw FERREmi mferremi@liherald.com
Schools in the Five Towns and across New York state may be closed through the end of the school year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a few Hewlett High School students have found a way to inspire strangers who have been impacted by the virus.
In between their remotelearning sessions, freshmen Lily Cohen and Skylar Kampton and Skylar’s sister, Haley, a senior, delivered hundreds of get-well cards to Hewlett resident Patricia Roblin beginning in early April. Roblin, the associate director of emergency preparedness at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, has dis-
tributed the cards to Covid-19 patients at the hospital. The cards are inscribed with affirmations such as “Never forget how brave you are” and “Be positive.” Woodmere resident Jennifer Cohen, Lily’s mother and a friend of Roblin’s, helped distribute the cards. Roblin, Cohen said, had Continued on page 12