Marjorie Rosenfeld:
CLASS OF 1947
Hyde Park Career Academy High SchoolClass of 1947
Chicago, IL
John Tyler High SchoolClass of 1947
Tyler, TX
Thomas Metcalf Elementary SchoolClass of 1944
Normal, IL
Bret Harte Elementary SchoolClass of 1943
Chicago, IL
Marjorie's Story
Life
After high school, I got a B.A. in Spanish at the University of Illinois; and then much later, after the birth of my 3 children and my divorce, I got an M.A. in English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Subsequently, I worked as Manuscript Editor for the SMU Press and then for several years was an SMU English instructor. When that came to an end, I spent 13 odd years (some odder than others) as a government analyst with the Department of the Navy in the TRIDENT Missile Program, Washington, D.C. I also studied bibliotherapy at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., and had a practicum with seven men in a maximum security ward in the forensic building at St. E's.
While still at SMU, I became a published poet and continue to write and publish. Some of my poems are available on the Internet under my name, Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld. More recently, I learned Web design and have now made and maintain three sites on perished Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Since the beginning of the 2nd Intifada, I've been defending Israel and have learned a lot of Middle Eastern history in the process. (I like facts, not fiction, and have quite a collection of hard information.)
I've been single since 1967; and I guess if I had stayed married, I wouldn't have had as interesting a time of it as I've somehow managed! I raised three children and have two grandchildren; and they, too, have contributed significantly to my life.
I lost my younger daughter, Amy, age 46 and a non-smoker, in March of 2005 after a 3-1/2 month battle she waged with a rare and aggressive type of non-smoker's lung cancer. She left behind a devoted husband and brilliant 9-year-old son. Helping them will now be my chief concern, though it will be difficult since they live in Denver and I'm in Carlsbad, California.
My Carlsbad, CA granddaughter has a Bachelor's in Music with emphasis in Vocal Performance from Chapman University and was in the Chapman University Choir and in Chapman Opera. This summer she sang Zita in Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" in an Amalfi Coast Festival. She's now taking a year off b...Expand for more
efore going to graduate school but will be attending Eastman School of Music for a Master's in Music starting this fall (2009).
UPDATE, 12/3/2013:
In June 2013, I moved to Plano, TX, where I am living in a beautiful retirement facility, The Legacy at Willow Bend. My son, Peter Rosenfeld, still lives nearby, in Dallas, with a lovely wife and my now 4-year-old grandson. My Denver grandson, who lost his mother at age 9, has done very well at an academically tough private school in Denver and will be attending university this coming fall, though we don't yet know where. My 27-year-old granddaughter got her Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from Eastman School of Music in 2011 but, having been told that her mezzo-soprano voice won't be fully mature until she's in her late 20's or even 30, has been working as an Account Coordinator for a cosmetic company at Bon Ton stores throughout New York State.
As for me, I continue to write poetry (more of which is now on the Internet under my full name, Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld), continue to defend Israel from false accusations, and continue to maintain the three Web sites on perished Jewish communities (Brody, Ukraine; Svencionys, Lithuanian; and Gorlice, Poland) I made for JewishGen. A chapbook of poems I wrote for and about the daughter I lost to lung cancer in 2005 ("Fringing the Garments") was finally published by Pecan Grove Press at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, this past spring. Sadly, though, in an almost unbelievably ironic coincidence, the Editor of that Press, H. Palmer Hall, was diagnosed with lung cancer after reading my manuscript for the daughter I lost to lung cancer, and Palmer died shortly before my book was published. It appears that the Press will now die with him.
There's little more to report. My brilliant brother, Alan Stamm, who attended Bret Harte School in Chicago, Hyde Park Career Academy, and Tyler High School, as well as Yale and Harvard, is still practicing law in Los Angeles. He married late but well; and his daughter (my niece), Lucy, has a top job with Hewlitt Packard. I remain close to Alan and his family.
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