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I'm deeply saddened to inform you and our classmates of the passing of Jerry Goldberg on Friday, May 19 from complications and multiple conditions from Mantle Cell Lymphoma. I was able to attend the gravesite service and represent the 210th class of Central High of which he was a devoted and proud member. It was a small gathering of nephew, nieces and their children and they were so pleased to have a non-family member be able to be a resource of information about Jerry they weren't even aware of.
There will be no obituary of his death in any publications.
Stay well,
Gene Wolff
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Peter Schoenbach
Gene, I am so glad you culd be there. How did you know of his passing?
I was fond of Jerry, who was a musical member of our class (saxophone), and we always had lively conversations at reunions.
I was fond of Jerry, and will personally miss mhime.
C. Eugene Wolff
Throughout the past 10 years or so, after renewing our friendship at previous 210 Class Reunions, Jerry & I stayed in touch and even made a few vacation trips to places he had never visited. He often expressed gratitude for the occasions when we got together and even shared details of common health issues. I spoke to him frequently during his recent hospitalizations and was preparing to assist in his relocation to a rehab facility upon his release from the hospital before his condition rapidly deteriorated and he ultimately passed away.
David Drasin
Gene, thank for your message and your being engageed.
I sawe Jerry several times since we graduated, once at a theatre in Toronto when we (Jennie and I,probably Jerry as well)) wer grad students.
And I saw him at several reunions, we always talked and I think enjoyed engaging with each other.
After Paul Hirshman and I visited Central a little more than a year ago, Jerry wrote to me. I knew he was livining in Philly, in the NE part, and I think had been doing all sorts of teaching in the Philadelphia area at different venues (I think his advanced degrees were in English). Of course the world has changed so much since we left Central (I mean as students), and it certainly is not the same today. The environment is far more difficult and challenging at Central than in our days, and the issue of students not having food or warm coats was never discussed while we were there (and I doubt that it was a problem for CHS students in those days, but it is today). The number of scholarhsips, and the galaxy of colleges may be less dazzling than in the 1950s, but the number of successes with the students, while different, and with a different clientele, may be pretty much the same.
It was inspring to meet CHS faculty who themselves had been students.
Jerry appreciated the opportunity CHS gave, so did I.
Thanks, Paul, for your efforts.