UPDATE Knitting LettersGrateful for giftsWe continue to be overwhelmed by your kindness and all of yourDear Judi and all of our friends at North Shore Towers,generous donations of handmade knitwear. As usual, your timing is thebest! We were just running low, and sure enough an email arrived fromthere were few registrants forJudi inviting me to come by and to pick up your latest creation.The NST Adult EducationADULT EDUCATION Program is about to begin, and the that time except for Art) Once again, our patients have been thrilled with every item you have response has been encouraging. Each class will run for four sent our way. They have written thank you cards, in their own words, Our three volunteer instructors weeks starting the week of January which include phrases like, “I’ve never received anything handmade are anxiously waiting to meet 15th. All classes will be in the before,” and “little things like that helps us to feel good and know that those who have registered. Coleridge Lounge. Duration of we are cared for.” There are still a few seats each class will be approximately I am the lucky one who gets to see the priceless expressions when remaining in each class. Please 75 minutes. Those with perfect your gifts are presented to our patients, and I can assure you that I am check this schedule and phone attendance will receive a not exaggerating. They are so touched by your care and your creativity. the instructor if you want to certificate of completion. From Jacobi, we send our love and warmest wishes to each and join. We have set a limit of 15 When the snowbird- every one of you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! students per class. (While we instructors return, we will offer Wishing you a joyful holiday season and all good things in the offered each class at 1 p.m. even more classes in the spring. months ahead. 101 Acting: Annette Mauer 347-235-4855 Ellen Walk, M.S., R.D. Thursdays 7 p.m. Health Education Coordinator 102 Art: Karen Perry 718-225-0107 Women’s Health Center, Tuesdays 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Jacobi Medical Center 103 Holocaust: Diana Albert 718-352-6244 Wednesdays 7 p.m. Are you interested in giving a course? Contact me at 347-836-8400 or [email protected] Fred Chernow ANNETTE MAUER: An Actor’s Life for Me involved in the usual routines of that Not long after she was offered small The requirements are simple. No time. Today, her older daughter Judy roles in films. memorization or standing is required. It owns Phantom Audio, a sound studio in Wanting to give back, she heard will be given in Coleridge Lounge and Manhattan. Eve is a quilt designer and about the need for support for the all residents are welcome. At the first lives with her husband on Long Island. families of soldiers fighting overseas. session Annette will describe the five After seeing the girls off to college She became involved in running a styles of acting. In session two she will Annette felt she wanted more in her support group for soldiers and their distribute scripts and students will read life. Recalling her days at the Cleveland families at Fort Totten. Not long the lines. In session three the lines will Playhouse, she asked her husband what after she was offered parts in movies: be polished and the acting will begin. he thought of her going to a real acting “Broadway Danny Rose,” and To join this interactive group all you school. His reply was, “Go for it.” “Hannah and her Sisters.” have to do is put your name, apartment “And I did.” Her creative juices continued to flow and phone number on a piece of paper “My husband supported me and she became a published poet. This and leave it for Fred Chernow at the financially and emotionally. I didn’t led to her writing lyrics for songs. front desk of Bldg. 2. have to wait on tables the way my “By this time I was living on Long As Annette is fond of saying, “Come fellow actors did. I spent three years Island and began to teach acting at the and have fun.” at the well-regarded HB studio on Port Washington Senior Center. While January 2013 BY FRED CHERNOW Bank Street in Manhattan. There I there she wrote a musical comedy, got experience doing light comedies, “It’s Not Too Late.” Annette Weiss grew up in Cleveland, Shakespeare and everything in It was about life at a Manhattan Ohio and had a rather traditional life between. Upon graduation I acquired Bridge Club. A popular number until she reached age 40. Then, her an agent, and soon after I got a part began: “inner child” appeared and pointed her, on the television soap opera, “Guiding “I used to know Diamond from a n 18 North Shore Towers Courier like a compass, to her true passion – Light.” Not long after that I appeared Heart. I used to know a Club from acting. on “All My Children.” I accepted many a Spade. Now, all I remember is: ‘I After graduating Cleveland Heights different roles on television from that of pass.’ I used to be a sexy, glitzy, High School, she enrolled in Western a housekeeper to a jury member.” ‘don’t mess with me lass.’ Now, all I Reserve University, where she joined Between episodes she accepted parts remember is: ‘I pass’” the Cleveland Playhouse. She loved in commercials: Brawny Paper Towels Through the years Annette became assuming small roles in plays. and Blue Cross-Blue Shield were two a member of Actors Equity and the Not long after that, she met and of the most popular. Screen Writers’ Guild. Now once EDITOR’S NOTE: Board married Irving Mauer. When he became “The fun part was that people again, she wants to give back. She member Fred Chernow will an orthopedic surgeon they moved would stop me on the street and ask, is going to give a course for the new be writing for the North Shore to New York City. Two little girls ‘Aren’t you the lady on the Brawny Adult Education classes that are Towers Courier monthly so be completed the family and Annette was commercial?’” forming now at North Shore Towers. sure to look for his column.
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