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• Peter Simon, son of Simon and Schuster founder Richard Simon and community activist Andrea Simon, was barely out of his teens when he took the photos of the memorial at Fieldston School. He began shooting photos for The Riverdale Press when he was still in high school.
• Younger KHS members may wonder what ever became of the Riverdale Motor Inn (Item #4601). It is now The W Assisted Living facility.
The unidentified speaker in Item #4609 is Congressman Jonathan Bingham.
In item #4615, the woman at the far right in the photo and the man in the plaid sports jacket are Menorah and Howard Rosan, Riverdale residents who were active in the Ethical Culture Society and a number of anti-war and civil rights causes. Their daughter, Shira, is famed mystery writer SJ Rozan.
The unidentified woman in the foreground of Item #4616 is Joyce Hill. When the photo was taken she was the managing editor of The Riverdale Press.
I believe that this house was also the home for many years of a 20th Century hero, Fr. Thomas Berry. Fr. Berry was a renowned naturalist and philosopher, author of many books. His biography, by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal was published by Columbia Press in 2019. It describes him as “one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. As a cultural historian, he sought a broader perspective on humanity’s relationship to the earth in order to respond to the ecological and social challenges of our times.” More of his story is available at thomasberry.org.
