A day or two apart two obits of 97 year olds appeared in the NYT and both graduated from Madison and went to Brooklyn College. Here are excerpts but read them both especially Beverly (Stoll) Pepper.
Stanley Cohen, Nobelist, Dies at 97; Made Breakthrough on Cell Growth
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/science/stanley-cohen-dead.html
Dr. Cohen was born on Nov. 17, 1922, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father, Louis Cohen, was a tailor, his mother, Fannie (Feitel) Cohen, a homemaker.
After surviving polio in childhood, Stanley attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn. He majored in both biology and chemistry at Brooklyn College, graduating in 1943.
Beverly Pepper, Sculptor of Monumental Lightness, Dies at 97
An American artist who long worked in Italy, she created towering forms whose evanescence belied their giant scale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/obituaries/beverly-pepper-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/obituaries/beverly-pepper-dead.html
The
daughter of Irwin and Beatrice (Hornstein) Stoll, Beverly Stoll was
born in Brooklyn on Dec. 20, 1922, and grew up in the Flatbush
neighborhood there. Her father sold carpet and linoleum and later fur
coats; her mother took in laundry and was an activist for the N.A.A.C.P.
Beverly
wanted to make art from the time she was a child. After graduating from
James Madison High School in Brooklyn, she entered the Pratt Institute,
in the same borough, where she studied industrial and advertising
design.
Already fascinated with
construction, she tried to enroll in an engineering course there but was
denied: Engineering, she was told, was no fit subject for a woman.
After
earning a bachelor’s degree from Pratt, she worked, miserably, as an
art director for New York advertising agencies. She took night classes
at Brooklyn College, studying art theory with the painter Gyorgy Kepes.
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