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Holliswood man receives citation on 101st birthday
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BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
Councilman Barry Grodenchik
presented Dr. Sheldon
Schwartz on his 101st
birthday with a New York
City citation at his Holliswood
home on July 21.
“From building a hospital
to winning sports trophies
to playing a mean game of
bridge, Dr. Schwartz teaches
us that living life fully is key
to a long and bountiful life,”
Grodenchik said. “He is a pillar
of the medical field, his
family and our community.”
Schwartz was chief of the
Clinic of Arthritis and Rheumatism
at Bellevue Hospital
for more than 30 years.
He became the first chair of
Rheumatology at Long Island
Jewish Hospital.
Thereafter, Schwartz built
Hillcrest General Hospital
and was chief of medicine
there for 25 years.
Born in Brooklyn,
Schwartz grew up playing
tackle football at Richmond
High School. He later graduated
cum laude from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
and enrolled in NYU School
of Medicine, where he became
a professor of clinical
medicine and fellow of
the Academy of Internal
Medicine.
Retirement did not slow
with cutting-edge medical
research and journals. He
has won trophies for golf,
tennis and swimming and is
an accomplished artist and
collector of antique Belleek
pottery.
Schwartz down. He lectured
Married to Lucy Aronin
and drove well into his 90s
until her death in 2010, he remarried
and still stays up to date
Marlene Wadler after
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getting to know her over
duplicate bridge, which they
played daily at JASA Holliswood
Senior Center.
Schwartz enjoys Broadway,
museums and parks.
He attends synagogue every
Saturday and on holidays at
Young Israel of Holliswood
with Rabbi Moshe Taub.
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