From Beacon Academy On Friday November 6, Beacon Academy alumni joined over 100 students, community members and the Consul General of Israel to New England, Yehuda Yaakov, at a beautiful memorial ceremony for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Zenobia Houston (BA ‘14, Fryeburg Academy ‘18) won first place in an essay contest on the life and legacy of Rabin, and was honored with her award by keynote speaker and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III. Zenobia was recognized along with second and third place winners Bryan Asare (BA ‘15, Concord Academy ‘19) and Idalina Pina (BA ‘14, Middlesex School ‘18). Of her time spent at Temple Israel, Zenobia said, “Before going off to boarding school, I spent a year at Temple
Israel, attending Beacon Academy, a school designed to prepare kids from Boston to attend independent schools. In that time, I learned from teachers and rabbis about the importance of advocating for change even in places with firmly entrenched traditions. I remember at Temple Israel’s Martin Luther King Shabbat three leaders, one Christian, one Muslim, and one Jewish, spoke about the importance of unity and peace between their individual religions. Recollecting my time at Temple Israel, I felt as if there had to be a first step to bringing a more liberal atmosphere to my school’s community.” You can read all of Zenobia’s winning essay on Beacon’s website: www.beaconacademy.org/news/a-legacy-ofchange.
life cycles Please note: the birthdays and anniversaries listed are celebrating milestones whose year ends in 0 or 5. FEBRUARY Anniversaries
april Anniversaries
10 years Pam Kohlberg and Curt Greer
40 years Robert and Elizabeth Pozen
20 years Harriet and Richard Steinberg
February Birthdays
35 Years Edward and Susan Carpenter 50 Years Yefim and Lyudmila Magitsky Stephen and Rosalie Snyder Phyllis and Robert Tobin
MARCH Anniversaries 5 years Laura and Ryan Satterfield 20 years Rick and Erin Borovoy 65 years Sumner and Phyllis Darman
Robert Armell Lewis Barr Marc Baskin Alan Berns Suzanne Bloomberg Lisa Davis Mark Fishman David Friedman Sharon Gates Steven Gerber Hulda Gittelsohn Edward Haber Jane Holtz George Jacobson Nanette Jacobson Rebekah Kaufman Daniel Karl Jerome Klein Myra Kolton
Heather Kufert Rebecca Ledley Em Mueller Richard Neyman Douglas Pearl Susan Powers Jenny Robberson Robert Rogers Susan Sachs Renee Sallen David Satin Marjorie Schaffel Frederick Schoen Sara Sclaroff Margaret Sherin Rob Sokoloff Joseph Steinberg Daniel Waintrup Howard Wishnie
March Birthdays David Abrams Henry Banks Taryn Bernstein
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