Tenafly High School Alumni
Tenafly, New Jersey (NJ)
Barbara Reisner (Barbara Reisner)
Tenafly High School
Class of 1961
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BARBARA'S PROFILE
| First Name | Barbara |
| Last Name | Reisner |
| Maiden Name | Reisner |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1961 |
| Gender | Female |
| City | N/A |
| State/Province | Antwerp |
| Country | Belgium |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Married | Widowed |
| Favorite School Memory | Choir concerts with Griff |
| About Me | After graduating from Tenafly High School in 1961, I attained a BA in French and Spanish from Denison University in Ohio, an MA in French language and literature from Middlebury Graduate School of French in France, and a PhD in same from Emory University in Atlanta. Music, however, remained my first love (singing and violin playing), and finally I quit a frustrating teaching job in Atlanta to concentrate on violin studies, eventually joining the Birmingham, Alabama Symphony. There I met my second husband, Herb Kaufman (1932-2012), an excellent violinist, and in 1980 we moved to Antwerp, Belgium to play in the opera orchestra there. The opera underwent various restructuring phases; Herb continued to play in the opera until his retirement in 1997, but I lost my position in 1988 and subsequently worked as an assistant in the Brussels office of an American law firm until my retirement in 2008. Unfortunately, Herb suffered a stroke less than two weeks after retiring and remained paralyzed on one side until his death. We managed at home with the assistance of nurses and wheelchair transportation for 14 years. He and his family were refugees from Cologne, Germany, settled in Ohio in 1940, and moved to New York in 1945, where Herb majored in music and also obtained a PhD in German language and literature, teaching at Queens College before landing in Birmingham as a violinist. Since my mother was German, I had studied German in college, and with Herb's encouragement and German contacts was able to improve my fluency. Since retiring, my main project has been studying and archiving a vast number of photos, German letters and other documents inherited from my maternal grandmother, including memoirs written by my grandfather (a Berlin psychiatrist) of his experiences as a doctor in the German army during the First World War. Herb translated these memoirs into English and annotated them in 1991, and I finally put them together with photos, maps and documents into a book, War Memoirs 1914-1918 by Dr. Harry Marcuse. Herb also published several books with lulu.com, including his autobiography (Pathways: a Life's Journey), which is interspersed with numerous short prose pieces. I later published the original German war memoirs, supplemented with many letters from my grandfather to my grandfather during that period, and then a book of the complete World War I German correspondence of my grandparents. My archive, which I donated to a branch of the history department at Vienna University (Sammlung Frauennachlaesse), has already been used by s...(read more) |
Class of 1961 Alumni and Other Nearby Classes
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Chris Robins
Class of 1988
Michael Tillman
Class of 1969
Douglas Macalister
Class of 1964
Peter Boser
Class of 1978
Renay Midler
Class of 1988
Jim Boyd
Class of 1981
Jina Kim
Class of 1995
Lee Michael
Class of 2021
Eric Sklar
Class of 2000
Marilyn Blacknall
Class of 1959
Abram Holcombe
Class of 1963
Laurie Kasparian Preston
Class of 1972
David Ames
Class of 1955
Robert Tagliani
Class of 1977
Kelly O'brien
Class of 1984
Michael Vinocur
Class of 1978
Jason Goldman
Class of 2006
Jill Adelman
Class of 1978
Recent Class of 1961 Reunions
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Class of '61 reunion?
Invited Classes: 1961
Date: Apr 10, 2020
Description: Please let me know if you are interested in having a 60th reunion. Email me at: jumull2@aol.com
50th reunion
Invited Classes: 1961
Date: Oct 15, 2011
Description: Cocktail and get together at Judy Muller Armaniaco's Friday, October 14, 2011. For more info see our website at: www.t...(read more)
50th reunion
Invited Classes: 1961
Date: Oct 08, 2011
Description: we will be sending letters out from our old list which is now almost 10 years old. please email me your updated info as...(read more)