This hesped (edited by me, Diane) is from my cousin Steve Brown, son of Phyllis Brown (sister of my father Sidney). Steve and I were a grade apart at Pikesville Senior High and tutored inner-city kids during the summer. When Mom and Dad hired psychologist/teacher Rabbi Lopin to give us kids Jewish enrichment in our living room, they invited Steve (who lived a few blocks away) to join the learning.
Your mother was a rare Hebrew matriarch. I remember how she was adequate (calmly able to raise, clothes shop for, grocery shop for, cook for and teach her 5 children how to cook without help from a maid), empathetic (inviting me to learn about aliyah from a Rabbi-educator-psychologist who taught us Hebrew during 1970 at your home), developed ballet-type dancing skills in her adulthood and encouraged your family’s fitness at the JCC swimming, bike trips to Cape Cod, teaching ballroom dancing on cruises with her husband, and serve as a role model for Lisa’s participation with the American Ballet Theater; how accomplished, intelligent (able to graduate from Goucher College and later earn her PhD and teach in nutritional sciences), romantic (taught ballroom dance on cruises with Sid), and attractive your mother was. While I was in medical school, she shared with me her research of the nutritional causes of schizophrenia: Schizophrenia: The Bionutritional Basis: A Literature Review (her qualification paper for candidacy for a PhD in Behavioral Medicine at the University of Miami) and her published book, Nutritional Science.
Your mother was such an interesting person.