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Highland Park High School Class of 1963 - Reflections on the passing of Artie Alshuler

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Body:	<i>On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Jerome.Taxy@uchospitals.edu wrote: I didnâ€™t know Art Altschuler very well. While my family moved to Highland Park in 1954, I grew up in Sherwood Forest and went to West Ridge â€“ might as well have been a different world. Certainly for the elementary school days you all are remembering. I wouldnâ€™t even have known about Shelton â€™s but for going to Hebrew School at Beth El. I didnâ€™t meet any of you until Edgewood â€“ and then I left to go to Red Oak for 8th grade. But, in reading these entries over the last few days, I am truly impressed at what an empathic group of people make up this high school class. The lessons and important things in life have not been lost on you/us. Like Don Nathan, I have always felt grateful to have lived and grown up in Highland Park â€“ and it may be a principal reason why I moved back here 30 years ago. I knew two people on the â€œdeceasedâ€ list from elementary school. Arnold Goldman came to West Ridge in 4th grade and lived a couple of blocks from me. He was very shy and quite awkward. I think Bill Gouldâ€™s story is a riot, since I had lost touch with Arnie after high school. The other was Jeff Perlman. Also a West Ridge alum who had a stutter and, possibly as a result, didnâ€™t fit. He gained great confidence in high school as an actor, where his stutter was not only manageable but disappeared while he was on stage. I believe he was a suicide. My most vivid memory, however, from elementary school was of someone who never made it through West Ridge. Elliot Ratner, who lived two blocks from me and was my best friend at 9 years old. We were in 4thgrade together when he developed acute leukemia. There was no treatment for this disease in those days. As children, of course, we knew practically nothing except that he was very ill. I think he lived 9 months â€“ certainly less than a year. The middle name of my son, Ben, is Elliot â€“ I think about this boy often and is probably a major reason I became a physician. Jerry </i> *
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