TRIBUTE: The Twenty-third Mission: Shaun Ted Lionel Weaver WWII B-24 Tribute 23rd Mission Dutch Resistance Jews Rescuers Holocaust Nazi

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Forward

Praise is easily given but the proof is in the fruit. If in the following pages I seem effusive in my praise of Ted Weaver it is because I have known this man and I know that he deserves it.

I am the youngest son of Ted and Sylvia Weaver. The story you are about to read is my father's story but in many ways it has become my story as well. Some of my earliest, most indelible memories include campfires, family gatherings and my dad telling his war stories. This was the beginning of my interest in World War II, born late at night as I drifted off to sleep while Ted's sonorous voice, sometimes excited, sometimes sad and serious, told tales of a midair collision on D-Day, a direct hit from 88mm anti aircraft artillery and people dying for reasons I could not yet comprehend.

As I grew older my interest in WWII grew as well, primarily through my hobby of building model airplanes and tanks, especially tanks. As my skill increased, my research into uniforms and insignia sparked a desire to learn more about the men who fought and died in those war machines. I read histories and biographies and through my reading I learned something of what it cost in terms of human suffering and sacrifice to secure the freedoms that we too often take for granted. I also learned something of what Santayana meant when he said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But what is it that we are to remember from the past and what are we to avoid repeating?

For the longest time I have wanted to tell my father's story but I never quite felt equal to the task. It wasn't until I was preparing a presentation of Ted's experience hiding with the Dutch underground that I remembered an admonition I had received more than three decades ago. The recollection came so forcefully and in such a rush of detail and emotion that I was thunderstruck; how could I have forgotten this event?

It was 1974, Jan and Rien Roorda were visiting my father and family here in the United States. Jan had been a leader of the Dutch resistance and Ted stayed in the Roorda home the first two weeks he spent in Holland. I was very young the first time Roordas' visited, but I knew who they were and they made a profound impression upon me. When they returned in 1974, I was fourteen years old and already very fond of Jan and Rien largely because of my parents' obvious love for them and the part they played in helping my father evade capture during the war. I really only barely knew them but I had a great deal of respect for what they had done and what they risked participating in the Dutch Resistance.

Dad brought Jan to my room to see my model collection. Jan showed genuine interest and I was pleased to show off how I had painted the tiny, little insignia on the soldiers' uniforms in detail. Then Jan picked up a model of a German Sturmscharfuhrer of the SS with his swastika armband. Jan examined it for a long moment and I began to worry that he might be offended at the sight of it, but he wasn't. In fact, he pulled out his wallet, gave me some money and encouraged me to continue my hobby. Then Jan looked me in the eyes and in a gentle but firm voice, he said this, "The world must remember what happened. Never let them forget!"

As I look back over the past thirty-six years since Jan uttered his admonition I see why it is so important for me to fulfill his charge. The world has largely forgotten, and worse. We still commemorate those who served; we study the battles and visit the battle fields but do we remember why we fought? World War II provided a backdrop against which certain principles and values were brought into sharp contrast. There are socio-political philosophies of life and living that are conducive to a peaceful, happy existence. And there are other philosophies that have inflicted immeasurable suffering upon untold millions during the war and for decades after. These opposing principles hinge upon the use or misuse of agency, the protection or the suppression of individual freedom and the irrevocable link of that freedom to responsibility and accountability.

We are fast approaching a crossroads in the history of this world where we risk suffering the same catastrophic social upheavals our parents and grandparents had to endure. It shouldn't take a world at war to convince us that agency, accountability and compassion are indispensable to civilization. We shouldn’t have to loose our freedom to learn that these principles can only flourish in a society governed by the rule of law, not by the rule of any one political entity or personality.

Compassion originates in the heart of the individual, not from an edict of the state. But it can be modeled; it can be emulated. If we surrender our individual responsibilities to the state in exchange for the mirage of social equity forcibly imposed, if we allow the complacency of self indulgent gratification and an attitude of entitlement to become the accepted, fundamental nature of our humanity, we will reap the natural consequences of conflict on a grand and terrible scale. I say natural because, conflict is the outward manifestation of the inward character. Again, compassion originates in the heart of the individual. Crises peal away the facade of civility and reveal either a healthy character that will stretch and grow because of the opposition or a cancerous character that will kill its host in a blind, frenzied attempt to perpetuate its own survival. The fall of every great civilization began with the soul decaying march into egocentrism. Or as Arnold Toynbee put it, “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” The kind of character that halts this suicidal trek cannot be bought with any amount of government funding. And as Richard G. Scott has said, “Character is not forged in the heat of battle when we are challenged. It comes quietly from decision after decision made with the proper use of agency. It is used when challenge is upon you.” We may or may not be born with compassion but to whatever degree we posses it, compassion must be nurtured and developed if we (and the society in which we live) are to survive and flourish.

It is my sincere desire that through telling Ted's story I might keep alive the memory of those who, like my father, lived lives governed by accountability, guided by compassion and who freely exercised their agency for the benefit of others. Ordinary people like you and me who stood at a dangerous crossroads and had the courage to allow their compassion to override their fear. I have come to realize that Ted's story is really only one thread in a tapestry of lives that have been woven together to bear witness, a tapestry of light shining out from one of the darkest epochs of modern history to testify to the worth of the individual, the sanctity of life, and the ability of one person to make a difference. Ted's rescuers demonstrated how seemingly insignificant acts in the face of apparently insurmountable opposition can literally change the world. They certainly changed mine. They risked their lives and gave their lives for the cause of freedom and human dignity. They recognized our mutual humanity and freely chose to be a force for good instead of just a force for self. It is my hope that their courageous examples might inspire more of us to become rescuers in large and small ways. Perhaps we begin by asking ourselves if we have ever needed the compassion of a total stranger and then respond by being willing to offer a stranger an unexpected kindness.

Excerpt 2 From Chapter One

Mary Daines Weaver stood all of five foot two inches tall and weighed ninety pounds soaking wet; her husband Mark measured in at five foot seven. When their first son Ted Lionel Weaver was born December 16, 1921 weighing in at ten and a half pounds, measuring twenty-one inches, they suspected that he would grow up to the stature of a sizable man, and he did. What they did not know - although I suspect Mary knew - was the stature of character Ted Weaver would attain to. Ted did in fact grow taller than his father, six foot and then some. After Ted, came two brothers, Van and Don and then their sister Betty. They were well suited to the frontier life of their early childhood in Wyoming. Even Betty grew to be fairly tall. If any one of them ever acted up, their mother Mary would step right up to them, look up and say, "You behave yourself or I'll slap you down." And then she'd laugh. Mary loved her children and they loved her and would do anything for her. She raised them to work hard, honor their father, respect their country and love the Lord. And they did.

Mark Lionel Weaver was a man of many talents. He grew up in a musically inclined family, playing the violin for the dance band his brothers and sister organized to help pay their way through college. Mary was an accomplished dancer and choreographer and Ted spent a fair amount of time as an infant in a bassinet set on top of the piano during rehearsals. Ted often attributed his love of music to that early exposure. When he was still too small to play the guitar his father tuned a violin like a guitar so Ted could play it. Ted’s love of music continued to grow and his talent for playing just about any instrument he picked up continued to expand.

Ted attended second grade in Hollywood California while his father and aunt and uncles were trying to break into the music business. The venture was finally abandoned and Mark moved the family back to the mountains of Wyoming to become a fur rancher. Ted spent a much of his formative years rounding up wild mustangs near the Saw Tooth Mountains and the Grand Tetons to raise silver fox, mink and beaver. Ted grew up a cowboy and he loved horses. And horses loved him. He would learn the riding tricks he'd seen in movies with the likes of Tom Mix and practice them out in the meadow on their ranch in Squirrel Meadows Wyoming. Ted tells the story of going out to round up a herd of horses and pulling a stunt that nearly cost him his life.

"It became my job to herd a couple hundred head of wild horses outside the pasture day times so the grass would hold up for the night inside the pasture. Several times a month they would make a break for it and head for the farms outside of the forest. Wild chases always ensued followed by long, dusty rides back to the ranch. On one such race to beat the herd down to the road at the end of the meadow, I decided to try a Tom Mix bounce from one side of the horse "Paint" to the other. He was running full out in front of the herd and I made two swings from left to right, then back to left. I must have pulled him off balance or he stepped in a gopher hole or something because he stumbled and fell with me. I could see the herd closing in on me and for the first time that day, I got serious. I managed to catch Paint and get aboard again in time to avoid being trampled to death. I still managed to get in front of the herd and get them turned back to the upper end of the meadow. Luckily no one saw the escapade, so I didn't get a 'Scotch blessing' because I never squealed on myself."

The family lived in Idaho Falls, Idaho so the children could get a good education. The ranch became a full time summer job alternating with town life during the school year. Music played an important role in the Weaver family and learning an instrument was considered an integral part of ones’ education. It wasn’t long before Ted and his siblings had a band of their own. In fact, Mark would not allow the family to own a radio as he believed the children would stop practicing their music if they had a radio to listen to. Hard work and self reliance were a way a life.

One summer during his early teen years Ted had a job wrangling horses for a surveying team in the Targhee Forest. This required that he rise at four o’clock each morning to round up the horses for the day, often breaking ice on the pond in the pasture as he waded out to catch them. Then the horses had to be fed, saddled and taken out to the surveyors’ camp a couple of miles away in time for a six o’clock departure to the day’s work area. Ted became intimately familiar with the terrain surrounding Squirrel Meadows and learned to navigate by the stars. The forest rangers came to depend upon Ted to help them locate and put out forest fires. The Weaver ranch was also frequently used as a base camp for game wardens chasing hunting violators which (as Ted put it), “made it extremely difficult for me to do any poaching myself.” Through all of this Ted learned a certain amount of patience and never to waste any resources. Even a bent, rusty nail was saved for future need. These traits and skills would soon serve Ted well.

Excerpt 3

The B-24 had the best range of all the heavy bombers in Europe but running low on fuel was a constant challenge facing aircrews. Long waits while forming up with the squadron and long distances traveled made running out of fuel a common concern and a frequent crisis. On June 14, 1944 while returning from Chateaudun, France the squadron had flown over to the west coast of England to try and find a break in the cloud cover. Just minutes away from Shipdham, Joe Gniadek, the flight engineer came up into the cockpit and said, “Skipper, you better ask permission to break away and land first if you can, we are low on fuel.” Believe it or not, the B-24 had no fuel gauges in the cockpit. The flight engineer had to keep track of the fuel situation for the pilot by viewing the level of fuel through transparent tubes in the fuel lines. When Ted asked Joe how much fuel they had he said, “About three tablespoons in each tank.” Ted did not question the accuracy of the statement; Joe’s point was well taken. What he did do was ask the navigator, Larry Platt what their ETA back to the field was. Upon hearing that they were a minute and a half out from Shipdham, Ted asked permission from his lead ship to break formation and land. As they flew over the field, Ted gave his wingmen the breakaway signal which was three, sharp dips of the bomber’s nose. When they came down on the second dip they heard a thud. Ted swung the plane around into a right hand pattern signaling the control tower that they had an emergency and needed to be given priority to land. As he did so, Joe tapped him on the shoulder again and said, “Skipper, you better make that a close base. Don’t spread it out or you are going to run out of gas before you can get her down.” So Ted put the plane into a tight turn and a steep dive. They touched down without any difficulty. Just as they rolled to the end of the runway, the two outboard engines quit for lack of fuel. Their parking spot was just off the end of the runway about a hundred yards back so Ted did as little breaking as he could get away with and coasted into his parking spot. As he spun the plane around to park, the other two engines cut out. Ted barely got the parking brake set when all the engine switches shut off. They had burned off every, last drop of fuel.

As Ted began to climb out of his seat he looked out the cockpit window and saw his commanding officer tearing out to the parking pad in his jeep looking none too pleased. Once out of the plane, Ted called the crew to attention and saluted the C.O. “What in blazes were you doing landing with one of your crew members sitting on the bomb bay cat walk?”

Ted turns to the crew and asks, “What is he talking about?” At this point Joe steps forward and says, “Well, Skipper I didn’t want to worry you when you were coming in to land but when you made that dip to signal breaking formation over the field, we had a bomb go out and it took the door off the track. I had to go out on to the cat walk and hold the door up so it wouldn’t hit the runway when we landed.” Unlike the B-17, the belly of the B-24 hung low to the ground because the wings were high on the body. The bomb bay doors were designed to open by rolling upward – instead of swinging downward - much like a garage door does, to facilitate the loading of bombs while on the ground. If they were forced off their tracks they would hang down low enough to hit the ground upon landing. Joe had sat on what amounts to the keel of the plane - a walkway less than a foot wide - that runs the length of the bomb bay between the tail section of the plane and the flight deck in the nose. On this precarious perch he had somehow managed to hold the broken roll up door high enough to prevent it from hitting the ground when they landed.

It took three days to find out what had happened to the two bombs that dropped out of the ship near the landing field. Finally the Yankees at Shipdham received a call from an irate English woman. She couldn’t hang out her laundry to dry because there were two bombs in her back yard between the house and the clothes line. She had been away from home when they fell but it was never-the-less a great blessing that neither one had exploded upon impact.

Excerpt 4

By the time Ted and his crew had flown twenty missions, a tour of duty had been raised from twenty-five to thirty-five combat flights. This was largely because the German fighter aircraft were no longer able to follow our bombers back to England and shoot them down while they were circling the field waiting their turn to land. The introduction of long range fighter escorts with extra wing tanks of fuel meant better protection for the bombers during their missions as well. Some bomb group requirements went up as high as fifty missions. After fulfilling a tour of duty an airman could return to the States, take another assignment in England or even sign on for another tour of combat.

During the course of Ted’s tour of duty he had taken all of the events of his combat missions rather matter-of-factly. It is a common thing for veterans to refer to the ordeals they survived as just part of the job, “I was just doing my job,” they say. Ted often used that same phrase, “We had a job to do…” But on the eve of Ted’s twenty-third mission something was different, he was puzzled by a strange feeling, a feeling that he was in a totally unfamiliar place. The only thing unusual about the next day was the fact that Ted's ship would have a replacement crew member along. While Charley Harrison was recovering from his head wound, his replacement would be Sgt. Stanley Nalipa. Stanley was a veteran of the Ploesti oil field raid and this mission would be Stanley’s thirty-fifth and final mission.

Ted remembered that evening and his feeling of disorientation vividly. It was one of the details of his story that he never omitted when ever he recounted it. Of this feeling of displacement he said, "At first I thought it was just that I had been moved recently to new quarters in a room by myself. Until then I had bunked along with about nineteen other officers in a large Nisson hut. I thought, I had better write to Sylvia. Then I said to myself, oh I'll wait until tomorrow when I'm not so tired, the mission I flew today tired me quite a bit. Something warned me not to wait, but to write Sylvia a short note anyway. So I sat down and wrote to Sylvia before I went to bed. When I finished the letter, I still felt like sort of a premonition of something foreboding. I knew that I was scheduled for a mission the next day, but I had never worried about that before. I really wasn't worried; it was just kind of a funny feeling. It seemed the sarge came in to wake me before my eyes had hardly closed, 'Weaver, breakfast in a half hour, briefing at 01:00 hours.'"

The mission was to bomb an aircraft factory in Bernberg, Germany; they were told to expect heavy anti aircraft flak and determined fighter resistance. Being an aircraft factory meant that the Germans would consider the target a high priority to defend. Ted had flown a mission to Berlin where he described the smoke from exploding flak shells as being so thick that it formed a virtual blanket over the city obscuring it from view. They had survived Berlin so he wasn't overly concerned about Bernberg, certainly it couldn’t be any worse. Ted's optimistic attitude quickly changed when he began his pre-mission routine.

First off, Ted's parachute was missing, loaned out to a new pilot and no time to properly adjust the replacement chute. The excuse was given that the chute packers hadn't expected Ted to be flying mission that day. There was nothing to be done except hastily fit another chute and head out to the flight line. That was just the beginning. The plane they were assigned was 42-99966 W - Full House - not one of Ted's favorite ships. He had gone up in Full House the day before for bombing practice and he didn't like the way she handled. He also didn't like the fact that she had taken a direct hit by 20mm flak to the starboard main wing spar, especially given what he had seen happen to the bomber with the run away engine. When he got to the ship, more good news: jammed gun turrets in the nosse and the tail, a gummed up waist gun. One of Bart's duties as co-pilot was to pre-trip the plane and check for any problems including starting up the engines. He hadn't done it. When the engines were started up there was a strange noise from one of them. Ted instructed the crew to keep working on the gun turrets and went to see about taking the spare ship up; another crew had already claimed it.

Things were off to a bad start but it would take a lot more than that to stop this crew. Ted had the option to abort if, in his opinion, the ship was not found to be airworthy or combat ready. He also knew that senior officers could develop a bad attitude towards a ship's captain who aborted a mission without having a good reason so Ted decided to use the time they had to continue working on the faulty equipment. By the time the red flag went up, the nose turret was working and the waist gun was back in action. They figured they could work on the tail turret during the flight over the channel. All of them were anxious to get one more mission under their belts, one more mission closer to finishing their tours of duty, one more mission closer to home. After all, this was Stanley's lucky day, his last mission. As Full House taxied out to line up for take off, the odd engine noise stopped and things were beginning to look a little better. So Ted and his crew took off from Shipdham, England, formed up with the 68^th bomber squadron and headed out over the English Channel for Europe. It was July 7, 1944.

As they approached the target over Germany they ran into the usual anti-aircraft flak but none of it was very close. Shortly after leveling off after their final turn for their bombing run, they found out why none of it was close: most of the instruments between Ted and Bart exploded as German Bf-110s, Me-410s and 210s flying out of the sun, opened up with their machine guns, cannons and rockets. This was the beginning of what one American airman called, "The big shoot." Estimates of enemy aircraft range from eighty-five to over one hundred and twenty-five attacking in wave after wave, fifteen abreast. The smoke from cannon and rocket fire became so thick that it made it difficult for the American airmen to sight in on their targets to return fire. Some of the attacking aircraft skillfully flew right through the close formations of bombers to foil attempts at return fire. Ted could hear and feel the crew of Full House cut loose with their fifty caliber machine guns and he sure hoped they were getting some hits but they were already badly chewed up. The cockpit was all shot up and full of smoke, there was hydraulic fluid all over the rudder control pedals, the top gun turret canopy was completely blown away and all of the engines had sustained damage. Full House was falling behind and quickly losing altitude.

Ted had Don, the radio operator, try to contact the squadron commander to inform him that it was obvious that they would not make it back to England and had his co-pilot Bart try to contact their lead plane to tell him that they were dropping out of the formation. One by one the radios proved to be inoperative until Bart was able to make contact with a P-51 fighter escort on "C" channel. He said he would relay the message to the group leader. Then Bart made contact with a couple of P-38s who flew cover for Full House and another bomber from the 68^th squadron, the Patsy Ann II that had also been hit in the first wave. Crippled bombers were especially vulnerable to German fighters and the P-38s helped successfully repel another attack by Messerschmitt Bf-109s. The intercom was knocked out so Ted had to shout back to the radio operator to go check on the crew's status.

Well I won't burden you with all the gory details but suffice it to say that things were getting pretty hectic in the cockpit of Full House. With hydraulic fluid all over the rudder pedals making controlling the plane more than just a little challenging it was not a happy discovery that the controls to feather the starboard engines had been blown away. It took all the strength of both Ted and Bart to hold Full House from rolling over on her right side and dropping out of the sky. And to add insult to injury, the two dead engines on the starboard side were pulling them in to a right hand turn, deeper into Germany. In the midst of this crisis and over the roar of wind through gaping holes in the cockpit and exploding flak shells all around them, Ted received word that Stanley Nalipa - the replacement waist gunner - had been seriously wounded.

Excerpt 5

...All the rest of the crew were captured, all except Bart Shambarger. His story will come later. As for Bob, Larry, Joe, Don, Marvin and Lorin, I will leave the telling of their stories to other writers. Suffice it to say that even if you were not beaten to death by an angry mob of German civilians, even if you were not beaten and or tortured by German intelligence officers (the Luftwaffe treated our men the best), even if you managed to survive being captured relatively unscathed to become a prisoner of war, the hellish conditions that many of our men descended into can only be truly comprehended if you have been there. And many of our POWs never returned from that nightmare to tell their stories. Fact is, many of those who did return from the POW camps never would speak of their hardships. There is one ordeal in particular that at least two of Ted’s crew had to endure.

Most people with a casual knowledge of WWII history know of the infamous Bataan Death March. That grueling, bloody trek down the Bataan Peninsula that left 80,000 men dead from road side executions, beheadings and exhaustion. It was certainly not the first atrocity committed during WWII but it is one of the more infamous ones. Less well known is the 500 mile, three month march that Allied POWs were forced to undertake during Europe’s bitterest winter in modern history. Joe Gnaidek and Lorin Voight survived that crucible of starvation, cold and brutal murder. I feel ashamed that I cannot speak with more certainty about whether others on Ted’s crew endured that march. It does not sit well with my conscience that I am so ignorant of my own father’s crew and what they suffered. It does not sit well with my sense of responsibility to be a voice of remembrance that the beneficiaries of the freedom purchased with that suffering have either squandered it, defaced it or cast it away in pursuit of a lie. Never did the maxim, “Cheaply gained, lightly esteemed,” ring more true for me than it does today. The irreverent, disrespectful attitude that is so pervasive in our culture makes me hesitate to share the following story because of the sacred nature of it and yet, it is of utmost importance to my purpose of being a voice of remembrance that I share it. And it is with great reluctance that my mother granted me permission to do so.

While Ted and his comrades were engaged in their life and death struggle above Bernberg, Germany, six time zones away back in Salt Lake City, Utah Sylvia's father had a dream. And in this dream he saw a B-24 shot down in a fierce aerial battle but he had the distinct impression that Ted was alright. So when he awakens the next morning, Sylvia's father tells her that Ted has been in a terrible fight that day but he is alive. Now keep in mind that at that point in time Ted's own parents in Idaho had not been informed that Ted was Missing in Action (MIA) because the Army had not yet designated him as MIA. Now, I do not know from personal experience but I have been told on many occasions by many next of kin that the next worst thing to having a loved one killed in time of war is to have a loved one mission in action, not knowing where they are, whether they are suffering, whether they are alive or not. When that terrible telegram was finally received and the Weavers and the Morays learned that Ted had been shot down and was MIA, Sylvia’s father sought confirmation that the impression he had from his dream was correct. He laid his supplication before the Lord and the response he got was another dream. In this second dream Sylvia’s father saw Ted standing at a kitchen sink wearing a dish towel as an apron, doing dishes. But there was one troubling detail, Ted wasn’t wearing his uniform. And the reason Ted wasn’t wearing his uniform in that second dream was because it was the Roorda family's kitchen where Ted would stand the first night he spent in Holland, wearing a dish cloth as an apron, washing dishes at the kitchen sink after having just had dinner with the Roorda family.

Now you may believe that this is just some kind of freaky coincidence. And you may believe that there is no God and that you can do whatever you want and never have to account for your behavior or suffer the consequences thereof, but the fact remains that, “There’s a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” When we begin to recognize and acknowledge that Divinity, we begin to mature in ways that can never happen if we insist on rooting ourselves in the self indulgent, navel-gazing egocentrism that plagues the nations. We also begin to recognize that the law of the harvest applies to our lives as well as to our crops. The courage to be a Jan and Rien Roorda or a Berend Shoemaker does not randomly spring up from the soil of selfishness, nor is it a spontaneous event prompted by the particular alignment of certain planets. Courage grows in the soil of character nourished by charity; charity meaning the pure love of God for our fellow man. That kind of character is not, as Richard G. Scott has said,”…forged in the heat of battle when you are challenged. It comes quietly from decision after decision made with the proper use of agency. It is used when challenge is upon you.” The gift and ability to see and feel and know what the eye can’t “see” comes the same way. So God gave Sylvia a tender mercy and she recognized it as such. He did not remove the burden but he did make it lighter to bear, as promised. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11: 28-30. My parents lived by those words and I have not only witnessed the fruit of them time and time again, but have also been the beneficiary of them as well.

Past presentations in date order - most recent first. Call the names listed for references.

11/14/09 Locust Valley Public Library
170 Buckram Rd.
Locust Valley, NY 11560
Kathy Jones
516-671-1837

11/9/09 Half Hollow Hills Public Library
55 Vanderbilt Pkwy
Dix Hills, NY 11746
Sue Spire
631-421-4530 x329

11/4/09 Cradle of Aviation Musem
1 Davis Ave.
Garden City, NY 11530
Tom Gwynne
5156-572-4111

4/19/09 Hillside Public Library
155 Lakeville Road
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Suzanne
516-355-7855

5/4/09 Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center
74 Hauppauge Road
Commack, NY 1725
Stephan Speyer
631-643-7284

4/3/09 S.U.N.Y. Farmingdale
Institute for Learning in Retirement
2350 Broadhollow Road
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Walter Chaskel - Program Director
631-420-2160

1/5/09 Temple B'nai Torah
2900 Jerusalem Ave.
Wantagh, NY 11793
Miriam Itzkowitz - Program Coordinator
516-221-0438

12/1/08 The Hamlet Chaverot
Chapter of Hadassah
1 Hamlet Drive
Plainview, NY 11803
Roberta Roberts - Program Coordinator

11/14/08 Lindenhurst Public Library
1 Lee Ave.
Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Sara Fiorenzo - Program Coordinator
Sandra Brehl (attended program).
631-957-7755 x 124

11/13/08 Rockville Centre Public Library
221 N. Village Ave.
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Sarah Seigel - Adult Program Coordinator
516-766-6257 x 25

11/12/08 Plainview-Old Bethpage
Public Library
999 Old Country Road
Plainview, NY 11803
Beth Saltalamacchio - Program Director
516-938-0077

11/11/08 Huntington Public Library
338 Main Street
Huntington, NY 11743
Jeri Sapir - Program Coordinator
631-426-51665 x 257

11/10/08 Merrick Public Library
2270 Merrick Ave.
Merrick, NY 11566
Angela Capone - Program Director
516-377-6221

11/8/08
Elmont Public Library
Elmont, NY 11003
516-354-5280

11/7/08 North Shore Towers
Country Club
272-86 Grand Central Pky.
Queens, NY 11005
Ann Brady - Program Director
718-428-5060

11/5/08 Levittown Public Library
1 Bluegrass Lane
Levittown, NY 11756
Edith Mishket - Program Director
516-731-5728

11/1/08 Wantagh Public Library
3285 Park Ave,
Wantagh, NY 11793
516-221-1200

9/4/08 Temple Chaverim
Sociable Seniors
1050 Washington Ave.
Plainview, NY 11803
Joan Schein - Chairperson
516-367-6100

5/27/08 Baldwin Public Library
2385 Grand Ave.
Baldwin, NY 11510
Angie Schenker - Program Coordinator
516-223-6228

5/23/08 Hicksville Public Library
169 Jerusalem Ave.
Hicksville, NY 11801
Evelyn Pusinelli - Program Coordinator
516-931-1417

5/20/08 Franklin Square Public Library
19 Lincoln Road
Franklin Square, NY 11010
Pamela Lieber - Programming
516-488-3444

5/13/08
East Meadow Public Library
1886 Front Street
East Meadow, NY 11554
Jude Schanzer - PR/Programming Director
516-794-2570

4/22/08 Bethpage Public Library
47 Powell Ave.
Bethpage, NY 11714
Ed Hale - Program Director
516-931-3907

4/8/08 Farmingdale Public Library
116 Merritts Road
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Natalie Korsavidis - Adult Program Coord.
516-249-9090

4/1/08 Long Beach Public Library
111 W. Park Ave.
Long Beach, NY 11561
Edith Kalickstein - Programmer/Publicist
516-432-7201

2/29/08 Plainview - Old Bethpage
Seniors' Group
Jamaica Ave. School
85 Jamaica Ave.
Plainview, NY 11803
Jerry Kirschen - Program Coordinator
516-694-4062

2/10/08 Plainview - Old Bethpage
Interfaith Council Fireside
160 Washington Ave.
Plainview, NY 11803
Bishop William Whitney
516-433-7252

2/4/08 North Bellmore Public Library
1551 Newbridge Road
Bellmore, NY 11710
516-785-6260

11/6/07 Saint Pius X Senior's Club
1 Saint Pius Court
Plainview, NY 11803
Enip Lopes - Program Director
516-938-3956