Shaker Heights High School
Class Of 1970
Benjamin Riek
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Hi, Benjamin-- this is from Sylvia Peck. I remember Martin Ribar well, and saw that you mentioned Martin in your recent condolence. I didn't immediately recognize your name, but I completely recognized your picture.
I have been trying to find the name of our theater director for so long! I remember the mustache -- and I remember sort of red hair (but maybe the mad hatter us mixed in there with my memory. Were you in "Alice"?
I somehow thought our director's last name started with an 'F', like Fielding or Fletcher or something. I don't remember calling him Mr. Barner-- so maybe we are thinking of a different guy. The man I am thinking of had returned from Manhattan to teach at Shaker. He would do a dramatic play in the fall, and a musical in the spring. I was in the musicals.
I knew Martin through Paul Sapin, I think. But I remember him cheering me up when I despaired of learning my lines or hitting high C.
Have a great rest of the week --
(I arrived at Woodbury in 7th grade).
Dave was one of the first firends I made when our family moved to Shaker Hts. from Dallas in 1965. We were in 8th grade. Togeher with Martin Ribar, we often played touch football on the Fernway asphalt playground. I last spoke to Dave to discuss Marty's death a few years ago. Rest in Peace Big Guy.
Ben Riek
I just read an email from Dave Trgoning that he sent in November 2012 about Matry's death. I llast saw him when he attended my father's calling hours in the early fall of 2010. He certainly seemed in good spirits then. This is a belated shock.