Our regular reader and frequent commenter Susan Schwartz (maiden name, Steiner) attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York, with Senator Bernie Sanders. They were both in the graduating class of 1959. Bernie was the class president.
Susan added this note: “Our James Madison class president should become our next President of the U.S.”
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My late uncle Arthur Bernstein taught at James Madison during that period of time. I wonder if either your reader or Sen. Sanders had him as a history teacher.
I do not remember many teachers, but I do remember my American History teacher was amazing. Larry Storch introduced me to The Federalist Papers, and Clinton Rossiter’s The American Presidency. As there was only one teacher for the HB (honor bright) classes, I assume Bernie was in that class,too.
I posted this recent speech by Bernie Sanders at Georgetown in another thread. It is one of the best speeches I have heard by a presidential candidate.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_bernie_sanders_champions_democratic_socialism_in_major_20151120
The comparison of his words to the drivel and lies being uttered by the GOP candidates demonstrates why the following is true.
“The Quinnipiac Poll demonstrates how far Sen. Sanders has come in a short period. The attacks on him for being a “socialist” aren’t working. Voters are responding to his economic message and his honesty. Sen. Sanders (I-VT) is standing out from the pack because one never gets the sense that he is pandering.
In contrast to the Republican primary where the candidates are tearing each other apart in an attempt to win the support of a small subset of voters who may help them win in Iowa, the Democratic candidates are doing it the right way.”
“‘Bernie Sanders has risen to become the second electable possibility for Democrats in 2016, and it could upset Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination, the senator from Vermont might be favored to
become the next President Of The United States”
In Canada Bernie Saunders would have a party with 20-30% of the vote at 44/ 330 Members of Parliament.
Oh, that’s the year I graduated! If I hadn’t moved from Brooklyn to NJ, maybe we would have been in the same class!
Susan, you’re good looking!
I TOTALLY agree with Susan and thank her profusely for this tidbit of information. How time flies. Bernie has changed as much as have I in the intervening years
but
the most important things are the things he has promoted for the last few decades.
Attended the Madison 90th anniversary celebration on Sunday (taught at Madison from 1964-97) – a couple of hundred alumni in attendance – the current principal was a student, teacher and assistant principal at the school. Bernie should have dropped by … Today a large (3000 plus kids), diverse high functioning zoned school …
That’s great. I wonder what “Highway Reporter” is- their school newspaper?
I love to listen to Sanders – the accent and how he hits certain words so hard
OL·i·garch 🙂
I agree!
If you haven’t heard one of the greatest speeches of our time, take the time to listen to Bernie Sanders at Georgetown. I don’t call the speech political; I say he’s addressing the issues today that are negatively impacting our lives even if they don’t know it and he tells us that we can make change through a huge people’s movement for public education and healthcare for all, and so much more. How do you pay for it? End the tax loopholes on corporations like GE that pay zero in taxes, even rig the system to get a refund, or those corporations that only pay 2 to 5% while claiming they pay 35%.
I posted the link above. Here it is again:
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_bernie_sanders_champions_democratic_socialism_in_major_20151120
Every yearbook needs a choice for the last line to read, College ready or Career ready, haha.
Dear my gorgeous Susan Steiner:
You are beautiful in all image, mind and spirit. Your aura lasts amazingly with your smile forever.
Your immense forehead, sharp looking eyes, and good sense of loving chin can bring my trust to you instantly.
Hopefully, your endorsed words for Bernie do not come from the old sentiment of the youth. I prefer to check carefully Bernie’s history of his works as being Senator in the past at least 10 years – radical, compassion , or civility, or a bit of everything…Love. May
Nice…
Bernie’s going to win.
Diane posted this while I am celebrating my 74th birthday in Fort Meyers Beach, Florida, and not getting much wi-fi reception, so I just saw this. I had sent these photos to her when I found my old James Madison HS log, last week. I did not personally know Bernie in high school, although I know we both learned about the founding or our nation from a great teacher, Larry Storch. But I have followed Bernie’s career, in Vermont, and I know that he is exactly who he has always been… a good man, and I know that he will be a great man, if elected!
WE NEED a great man right now. We need someone like Bernie to do what must be done to ensure that chaos does not overtake our nation.
We need a leader!
I cannot begin to imagine the potential chaos that would ensue if a ‘character’ like Trump or Carson, or any those GOP charlatans, represented our nation on the national stage at such a precarious moment in history.
How could Bernie and I know that in our senior years , we would be caught in an era of extreme technological transformation — a time when a new space —CYBERSPACE — had opened — a space where anarchy reigns, and where it is possible for insane people with malicious agendas to reck havoc on innocents, and that we face several crisis..
I believe that Bernie knows that after climate change , the crisis here in the US is one of income inequality. He know that this is THE crucial issue of our time.
I know that real equality begins with education in childhood. If Bernie wants to end income inequality he needs to put the PUBLIC back in PUBLIC schools, because THAT is where equality begins! We need to return to a public system that ensures that every child has a school down the road, in the ‘hood’ where all kids learn to LEARN! THAT education was THE road to the American dream, and it has been under assault for 30 years by a dedicated group of billionaires who want see democracy eroded.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS WHERE ALL FUTURE CITIZENS DISCOVER TRUTH, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS to be an adult in a democratic society.
I know that IF Bernie talks to Diane she will clearly set HIM ON THE JOURNEY that he must take in order to SECURE the crucial funding the support the classroom teacher must have; I think that he will choose an education secretary who will strive to RESTORE the crucial AUTONOMY for lesson planning to the teacher… TO THE CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL— the teacher-practitioner!
For a teacher is A PRACTITIONER of a PROFESSION — Pedagogy: the principles that actually ENABLE the BRAIN to do what IT MUST DO — in order to acquire skills and knowledge…BOTH! Pedagogy is as complicated as law and all the science.
BERNIE respects teachers, the profession, and he is genuinely committed to our people, not to the Education Industrial Complex, the priviteers and hedge funds who are profiting from the destruction of public education. Some of these very people are in Hillary’s corner.
She is talking a good talk, suddenly, about ‘schools’ but make no mistake, Hillary is not committed to changing anything.
Thank you for this. So very inspiring and full of hope. We DO need a good man right now to help set us back on course.
I hope you’re having a lovely birthday.
Agree 100%, Susan. And let’s not allow Hillary to play, what I call, the “gender card.” I used to think that a woman president would do the trick, but what matters, clearly, is the candidates actual political beliefs & how he/she stayed true & on the side of right–that is, standing up for the 99%, recognizing the rising oligarchy & putting an end to it (rather than an end to the middle class), formulating some concrete plans about how to eradicate poverty in our children’s lifetime and recognizing the facts that the Constitution holds forth–“of the people, by the people and for the people.” And–with that–that legislators are elected by their constituents–thus, they are directly responsible for ensuring the well-being of the communities they have pledged to serve–in other words, elected officials are PUBLIC SERVANTS–NOT the other way around (& the majority of our elected officials today seem to be of the mind that it is the other way around, that all of us “little people” (Leona Helmsley comes to mind, here) are only here to pay taxes that go to their salaries, benefits & make up for the taxes NOT paid by the corporations & banks who have payrolled (i.e. “bought”) the majority–if not all–the presidential candidates–the one exception, of course, being Bernie.
Go to the above links. Watch & listen to his speeches. Look at his voting record and past activities, such as his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. And then, if you are still so gung-ho (or confused) about HRC, I would–yet again–urge you–who are educators– to read Carl Bernstein’s 2007 book, A Woman in Charge, particularly RE: the Arkansas Education Assn. & the NEA response.
For the sake of preserving democracy, keeping the REAL public in public schools and ridding ourselves of DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) who–we have seen–wreaked more havoc on “other people’s children” by closing their schools in droves than even the George W. Bush Administration, it has GOT to be Bernie, 2016. Get out their & work your #$^%es off, because we have a REAL, clear choice this time. This election can be the first in years w/o the phrase, “the lesser of two evils.” Stop your whining & start the winning–
Bernie, 2016!
Nice hair, Bernie. You got my vote.
My mother, Mae Tulipan, and Aunt, Anne Tischler, both also graduated in 1959 from Madison. They have both since passed away and we do not have their yearbooks. Is there any way that Ms. Schwartz could contact me so I could arrange to pay her to send me any photos or mentions? Thank you!
Beth, email me at the message page at Oped, and give me your email there, and I will contact you with my address. I will scan the photos you want. I think I knew Anne from elementary school and junior hs.
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Susan, were you ever able to look up Mae Tulipan and Anne Tischler, my mother and aunt, who also graduated with you? If so please email me any information you could find, thank you! Btischler1@aol.com
-Beth
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