Schein also organized and led some of the earliest Jewish services on campus, which often included Albert Einstein.Īfter Princeton, he earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and began a 70-year career in medicine, beginning in pathology. He entered the University as one of 11 Jewish students in the Class of ’37, lettered in fencing, won honors with his thesis on Baudelaire in Modern Languages, and was active in the pre-med society. And it’s given me a great kick.”Īccording to Princetoniana expert Greg Lange ’70, writing in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Schein, son of Russian immigrants, was an excellent debater and athlete - captain of the state-champion fencing team from Barringer High in Newark, New Jersey. “I love that I hear all these wonderful things about me, which are not possibly entirely true.It’s unexpected.

“I can't quite believe it,” Schein said in a Zoom interview. He was also celebrated on the social media Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels with many Princetonians adding to the birthday well-wishes. These were just a few of the celebrations with family and friends that Schein enjoyed.

His birthday fete with cake and ginger ale included a visit from Kate Bellin ’02, who presented flowers and greetings from Princeton’s Alumni Council (socially distant, of course, and both Schein and Bellin have received COVID-19 vaccinations) and a balloon bouquet from Judith Scheide, widow of William Scheide ’36. When asked how he’s managed through the pandemic year, he answered: “I keep on doing the same thing I’ve always been doing.” But basically, I hope to be able to at least be able to read it and then hope to understand it.”Ĭontinued learning and voracious reading on subjects like physics, even with some sight difficulties, keep him going, he said. “I can understand some of it because of the connection to Greek. Putin hasn’t called on me to help him,” Schein said jokingly. “All my life I’ve been frustrated (about learning Russian), never had the time to do it… and Mr. The centenarian’s latest project is learning the Russian alphabet, an extension of his fascination with languages, from receiving the Alden Prize as the best French language student in his Princeton class to arranging for a Princeton graduate student to try to teach one of his two sons (both Princeton alumni) Sanskrit. Arthur Lewis, has retired from psychiatry practice, but not from offering lively conversation. Provided by arrangement with Rodgers and Hammerstein.Schein, who shares the 1915 birthday year with Princeton economist and Nobel laureate Sir W. Life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting andĬonquering her prejudices. To accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie realizes that

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