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Rose Glassberg and Elaine
Waxman met at Lions Gate on
Aug. 2 and reminisced about their
time at Germantown High School.

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Glassberg defi ed the odds aft er grad-
uating high school. She attended West
Chester University, which, in the 1940s,
had an annual tuition of $110. Her
mother took out a loan, and Glassberg
got an allowance of 50 cents an hour
working on campus. She commuted
from home for the fi rst year-and-a-half
before living on campus.

Though Glassberg recalls little
antisemitism growing up, with only
a few students from nearby parochial
schools shouting the occasional slur
on her commute to high school, she
remembers a university student pro-
claiming that because of her strong
Christian faith, she could not be friends
with a Jewish student.

Aft er receiving her bachelor’s degree,
Glassberg went on to get her master’s
at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf
School of English. Aft er 11 years of
teaching at Germantown High School,
she taught English at Glassboro State
Teachers College, which later became
Rowan University. She earned her doc-
torate at Temple University in 1972,
becoming a full professor a year later.

Th ough Glassberg taught hundreds
of students over her career, her infl u-
ence is refl ected in Waxman, whose
love for English is exemplifi ed in the
dozens of books she keeps in her home,
with stacks nearly touching the ceiling.

“I look up to Rose,” Waxman said. “I
wish I could teach like she did.” JE
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