Joyce T. Smith
My belated condolences to Annette's z"l husband and family. She had a recent yahrzeit, according to a NY Times article that came up.
Annette and I met at Erasmus Hall High School on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, c. 1956. My most vivid memory of our acquaintance, is of standing on a corner of Flatbush and Church Avenues, debating the 2nd Stevenson - Eisenhower presidential race. Her favored person, Eisenhower, won, again, to my very deep disappointment. Adlai was clearly superior! Would McCarthy have done his damage under Stevenson leadership? (My other memory of our connection at EHHS is less interesting.)
Approximately 50 years later, c. 2006 (?) (perhaps her husband can correct this; she was not in a wheelchair at that time), when I had moved to Tucson, I discovered that she was also here, and I looked her up. She kindly invited me to dinner at their home, but appeared to be skeptical about our early connection, and didn't recall our street-corner debate, nor that she had liked Ike. For my part, I was unaware of her many accomplishments in the intervening years. Until now, sorry to say. And, despite the fact that I had gone through an enduring feminist awakening in the 1970s.
We did not meet after that visit. But perhaps, when I pay my respects again, with stones, to friends (one of whom had rheumatoid arthritis) at Evergreen, I'll visit.
