Charles Lerman, September 24, 2015

From legacy.com:

LERMAN, CHARLES, of Newtown Square, PA, on Sept. 24, 2015. Father of Michael Lerman, brother of David (Jacquie) Lerman and Marjorie (David) Durand and the late Mark Lerman. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services Sunday 10 A.M. at Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge, NJ. Memorial Services following at 1:30 P.M. at Temple Sholom in Broomall, PA. In lieu of flowers contributions in his memory may be made to The National Parkinson Foundation, parkinson.org or Temple Sholom, Broomall, PA.

From our January 2016 Class Notes:

Carney Mimms remembers Charlie Lerman: “Charlie was a true original and a vivid presence during my time at Yale. I think we all knew from the moment we first met him that Charlie had the makings of a first-class scientist, a promise he certainly fulfilled. He was also a hard-hitting football player and possessed of a fine dry sense of humor. . . . I vividly remember the day I was introduced to him by my freshman roommate Ira Berkower, Charlie’s classmate at the Pingry School in New Jersey. Ira’s gruff, bear-like friend turned out to be surprisingly patient in helping me through Inorganic Chemistry when Ira’s patience flagged. Chemistry was organic to Ira and Charlie but entirely inorganic to me. They were my true and lasting introduction to the life of science. . . . I wouldn’t go so far to as to call it bullying, but Charlie never let up in his efforts to get me to join JE’s tackle football team. Somehow he found out that I had played, badly, for an undefeated high school team. I finally gave in sophomore year and went to three or four practices. After what turned out to be my last football practice ever, I got Charlie aside. “Charlie,” I said. “You’ll never understand this, but I now I know why I never liked football. It was the attention and the cheerleaders that kept me going in high school.”

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