CAROL MEYERSON –
THE BYSTANDER’S CLUB
WHERE DID YOU GROW UP?
I grew up in Great Neck and was at school
during WWII. I have memories of having
to walk several miles to school since there
was no bus service during the war. One of
the books I read, avidly and repeatedly, was
John Hersey’s “he Wall,” a novel about the
Warsaw Ghetto. I had no idea at the time
that relatives of my first husband, Stanley
Landau, would be in the Warsaw Ghetto and
would be murdered in Auschwitz.
I graduated from Smith College in 1955
and credit Smith for any ability I have in
writing and for instilling in me a lifelong
interest in history. Marriage and four (won-derful)
children went along with a decision
to attend Adelphi University. I remember
having to shop for groceries at 1am as I bal-anced
getting a Master’s Degree in Social
Work with running a household.
WHAT CAME NEXT?
During those years I discovered the Long
Island Book Collectors and this dovetailed
with my interest in history and afforded
me a connection to people whose diversity
of interests were exhilarating. I became a
psychotherapist and practiced in Oceanside
for over 30 years. It was Smith that gave me
the ability to synthesize information which
became so important in the listening required
to be a sensitive therapist.
The years passed, and Stan and I divorced
and I remarried. Many of you knew Marvin
Meyerson, my beloved husband, who died
this past April. His warmth and generosity
enriched my life and those of the family and
friends that he cherished.
An irony occurred when both Stan and
Marvin became bridge partners one summer
and people at the Oceanside JCC were sur-prised
to see my two husbands together at
the bridge table. A further irony is that we
all ended up here in North Shore Towers.
TELL US ABOUT
COMING TO THE TOWERS
Marvin and I came to the Towers in 2010
as an experiment. We didn’t know if we
would like apartment living, but after a three
year rental, NST became our special place.
Marvin and I immediately became involved
in tennis and some of our dearest friends
were part of the Towers tennis community.
When the Women’s Club was formed, at the
first luncheon, there was such a groundswell
of interest that the Towers on the Green was
filled and 13 women were excluded. I quick-ly
arranged for their lunch to be served in
the Coleridge Lounge and we had the same
introductory discussion as everyone upstairs.
All attendees had such a good time together
that they decided to form a Tuesday at Two
group which has met for the past three years
on a Tuesday each month. I think being part
of one group or another has been important
in my life.
TELL US ABOUT
THE BYSTANDER’S CLUB
Since Covid-19 had altered our lives so
dramatically at the same time as the marches
were happening all over the country, Priscilla,
Merle, and I sat (at a distance) in the Garden
and discovered that we all were feeling like
bystanders. That prompted us to write the
article about the Bystander’s Club. We felt
connected to the activities of the young peo-ple
of our country, and at our first meeting
there were 15 people, men and women, who
came, and 15 more who expressed a desire
to attend.
The Bystander's Club is in its infancy and
is the idea of Priscilla Smith, Merle Levy, and
Carol Meyerson. We asked Carol to tell us
something about herself. She is, like all of
us, a Bystander in every way these days, and
we wondered how this idea of being part of
a new club at the Towers can give us some
insight about Carol’s background and how it
brought her to the Towers.
Carol Meyerson
How to Join the Bystander’s Club
We plan to have meetings by Zoom in the future that will deal with major issues of the day.
Becoming informed and learning what possibilities exist that we can support will hopefully make us
Bystanders no more. For more information, call or write any of us:
Carol Meyerson Priscilla Smith Merle Levy
515-313-0016 347-502-7655 347-235-4413
cmeyer931@aol.com priscilla.eg.smith@gmail Merlelevy22@gmail.com
4 NORTH SHORE TOWERS COURIER ¢ October 2020
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