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Once a week, she also comes into work at Group Dynamics, which she founded in 1981. “I’ve gotten through a lot,” Holman said. “I’m so fortunate to be doing all of this.” 6 DECEMBER 20, 2018 THE GOOD LIFE JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Holmen photos provided Pre-planning a funeral is a gift to your family. SHE’S REALLY AN EXAMPLE OF HOW ONE SHOULD LIVE WHEN YOU ARE OLDER. SHE IS VERY INTERESTED IN DOING NEW THINGS. SHE’S A JOINER. ... EVERY TIME I TALK TO HER, SHE IS DOING SOMETHING NEW. We can help you and your loved ones be prepared so when the time comes, your family can focus on what matters most — healing and coming together. Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks INC . Providing funeral counseling and pre-need arrangements. MARCIA GARRELL 215-927-5800 • 1-800-622-6410 For hearing impaired: 267-331-4243 (Sorenson VP) P HILADELPHIA C HAPEL She was born and raised in West Philadelphia and Lower Merion. Her family belonged to Adath Israel until they, along with a group of other families, broke away and founded Main Line Reform Temple. Holman attended Lower Merion High School. Her father ran a newspaper for Brith Sholom Lodge, and her mother was involved with Hadassah and American Jewish Congress, so volunteering was a big part of her upbringing. She continued on to Harcum College, where she studied mar- keting, advertising and public relations, and was one of three students in her major. A year after graduation in 1957, she got married. Life took a turn in 1964. Holman got divorced, and she found herself a single mother of two young children. No one in her family could fathom that she would be able to support herself and her children on her own. Her mother was a homemaker and told her she needed to get remarried soon. But she managed and, eventually, thrived. Carl Goldstein, Supervisor 6410 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19126 S UBURBAN N ORTH C HAPEL Bruce Goldstein, Supervisor 310 2nd Street Pike, Southampton, PA 18966 R OTH -G OLDSTEINS ’ M EMORIAL C HAPEL Jason S. Goldstein • Mgr. Lic. No. 4633 Pacific & New Hampshire Avenues Atlantic City, NJ 08401 Southern New Jersey Chapels Available www.GoldsteinsFuneral.com SEE CEO | Page 8 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM THE GOOD LIFE DECEMBER 20, 2018 7 CEO “My grandmother had come over from Russia and gotten di- vorced and raised three children,” Holman said. “I very much feel that she is my spirit, my living spirit. She’s gotten me through a lot of it. She can do it. I can do it.” Holman started working for a marketing research company, a new field at the time. She wrote questionnaires, did phone inter- views, recruited people for focus groups and more. Then in 1971, she started a company at home called Merle Holman Interviewing Service, which grew to about 180 employees. In 1971, she also met a man named Alex Bruckner. The two never lived together, Holman said, but they shared 30 years of good times until he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in 2001. After running her own business for seven years, Holman de- cided she didn’t like working from home anymore and went to work for a company in Center City. One day, she came in and discovered she had been laid off, so in 1981, she began working for herself once again. She started another company, Group Dynamics In Focus. She faced challenges that many today wouldn’t even consid- er. She didn’t have the credit to take out a loan from a bank, and said the Small Business Administration (SBA) rejected her because she was a woman. In the end, her father and Bruckner helped her with funding. Holman opened a focus group facility. It was groundbreaking work. Not a lot of other people were doing focus groups, and it was the first such facility in Bala Cynwyd, she said. 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Thirty-seven years later, the company is still going. “I attribute my life to having decent health, friends and just fol- lowing my own path because I had to,” Holman said. “It’s just luck.” Four or five years ago, Holman’s role at the company began to change. As her volunteer work began to take up more time, she stepped back in her company role. Daughter Robin Kaplan now runs it and serves as president. Inspired by her mother, Kaplan also started volunteering about a year ago with the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House. “I saw how much she enjoyed it, how much she loved it, and decided it was time for me to start being able to give back a little bit,” Kaplan said. “It gets passed down. We all lead by her example. We’ve all been very fortunate to have her here for all this time and learn from what she has done.” Kaplan’s been involved in the company since its beginning, she said. Over the decades, the company has expanded in physical size, as well as scope. It now interviews and surveys people across the country. “It was time,” Holman said. “She had put her time in, and I was getting involved in a lot of nonprofits, which I’ve always been involved in, but this was taking a lot more time.” Over the years, she had gotten involved in Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation, the Cancer Support Community, as well as Act II Playhouse and Golden Slipper. She volunteers at Golden Slipper Gems at Adath Israel on You don’t have to grieve alone. We know family matters above all, and losing a loved one is the most difficult thing you may experience. We also know everyone grieves in their own unique way. Our directors face grief and bereavement every day and can provide you with resources, because we understand how much it can hurt. SEE CEO | Page 10 Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks INC . Fol low The Providing funeral counseling and pre-need arrangements. 215-927-5800 • 1-800-622-6410 And Never Miss A Stor y! 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But growing up in 1940s Camden, N.J., he was convinced that his ticket to that glamorous lifestyle was a career in broadcasting. “You wear a beautiful suit, you go play golf and then you get in your beautiful car and you hang out all night with beautiful ladies,” explained Mark. “I thought that’s what radio was.” Toast to Your Favorite Jam Connecting people 62 and better to everything from cocktails to concerts Sid Mark PHOTOS PROVIDED Now 85 and an honoree in the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame, he knows better. So did Mark’s parents, who had other ideas for their son, born Sidney Mark Fliegelman. Strictly Orthodox Jews, they expected him to follow his father and uncles into the family clothing busi- ness and become a pillar of the synagogue where “my dad had the fi rst row, fi rst seat,” Mark recalled. Th e would-be retailer ended up with a diff erent kind of front row seat — to the career of Frank Sinatra, whose music he has championed for decades as host of “Sounds of Sinatra,” one of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Mark’s WPHT 1210 AM program, a staple of the Philadelphia airwaves since 1957, is nationally syndicated on 100 stations. And although Sinatra has been dead for 20 years, his popularity endures. Mark still gets at least 100 emails a week, “and they all start off the same way: ‘I started listening on Sunday mornings, while Mom and Dad were making gravy,’” he said. Th e Villanova resident loves relating how in the 1970s, Mayor Frank Rizzo complained that the power dipped across Philadelphia as radios switched on to hear Mark’s show. Podcasts and satellite have transformed the business, but Mark eschews digital conveniences, preferring to play each recording himself. “It gives me a warmer feeling; I can set the mood better,” said the AM veteran. “Everything I play is for a reason.” Th at reason is Sinatra, who Mark has been playing his way for more than six decades. “I haven’t been on vacation for 20 years, because I don’t want anyone else doing the show,” he admitted. “It’s like someone dating your girl. I tell my wife” — Judy, with whom Mark shares a 45-year marriage and four grown children — “that I’ve been having an aff air all this time … with the show.” Steps from live jazz and classical concerts. Right down the hall from our Club Room & Bar. Minutes from the attractions of Abington Township. Our Life Plan Community offers a world of possibilities. Exceptional. Without Exception. We’re offering special year-end savings. 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He’d hoped to join Armed Forces Radio by enlisting for the Korean War after high school, but spent two years in the infantry instead. A two-year broadcasting course got him no closer to a radio dial. Finally, Mark got a break when his sister’s out-of-town jazz teacher asked Mark where to find a good Jewish meal nearby. The younger man took the teacher home to sample Mrs. Fliegelman’s cooking, and “when he took the second bowl of veg- etable soup with short ribs in it, I knew I was fine forever,” Mark chuckled. He started hanging around the teacher’s radio station, which led to hosting a live broadcast of the Saturday jazz show at the Red Hill Inn in Pennsaucken, N.J. “My first band was Stan Getz — he was a Philadelphian as well,” said Mark. For the next few years, the novice handled such lumi- naries as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. One singer, though, eluded the Red Hill Inn: Frank Sinatra, whom Mark discovered 14 DECEMBER 20, 2018 THE GOOD LIFE JEWISHEXPONENT.COM PHOTO FORM FACEBOOK.COM Continued from Page 13 through his sister. “She’d send me to the record store to buy 78s,” Mark remembered. “It was kind of embarrassing for a teenage boy to be buying Frank at the time, with all the girls screaming.” But one winter, Mark was alone in a California military bar- racks. “Frank came on singing ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas,’ and I said, ‘My God, listen to that.’ Th ere was nothing like it!” By the mid-1950s, Mark was hosting an all-night broadcast on WHAT in Philly. One evening, instead of the rock ’n’ roll his pro- ducers wanted, Mark decided to play Sinatra’s new album in its en- tirety. Th e next day, sales of the album spiked around Philadelphia. Th at fi nally got the attention of Sinatra’s agent; the next thing he knew, Mark was invited to spend a weekend with the icon in Las Vegas. As their friendship blossomed, “Sounds of Sinatra” became a radio destination for listeners who prized their host’s insider knowledge. Philadelphia was a passionate fan base for Sinatra, said Mark, who frequented the singer’s Manhattan apartment. “He’d al- ways joke: Are you sure you’re Jewish? Because I hear the way you say marinara,” Mark laughed. While Mark was the less religious of the two, both men shared a deep respect for family and Jewish tradition, which Sinatra saw as akin to his own Italian culture. “Frank was the most charita- LOCK IN 2018 ENTRANCE FEES. A LIFESTYLE THAT LACKS FOR NOTHING. EXCEPTIONALLY CLOSE TO EVERYTHING. Set on 33 scenic acres in the heart of Abington Township, Rydal Waters will be a fun, elegant, maintenance-free expansion of the renowned Rydal Park Life Plan Community. This exciting new neighborhood is now accepting reservations! Select your cottage soon — more than half of Phase One is already reserved. Call 215-814-0355 today to learn more. “I promised Frank I’d do it as long as I could. It’s been a good ride. How blessed am I?” SID MARK ble man ever, and a tremendous supporter of the state of Israel,” Mark noted. Th e hard-living singer also gave the radio host advice on deal- ing with laryngitis. “He’d say, ‘Your problem is you don’t drink enough,’” Mark recalled. (Th e broadcaster relies on tea, lozenges and an evening schedule.) Photographs show the craggy, 6-foot-4-inch Mark towering over the singer, smiles intact as their hair whitens over the years. “He’s been a friend for as long as I’ve been in this business,” Sinatra told a crowd in 1991. “It’s wonderful to have a friend like Sidney, and I’ve had maybe four or fi ve in my career. People who’ve stayed with me when things were dark, who didn’t change when every- thing else changed.” You might say the same of Sinatra’s own fans, for whom the Chairman of the Board remains as alluring as ever. “He’s intergen- erational,” noted Mark. Annual Sinatra tribute concerts sell out; millennials regularly host Rat Pack theme nights. Th at’s because, as Mark observed, glamour is eternal. “And that was Frank,” he said. “All the guys wanted to be like him, and all the women wanted to date him. Sinatra is the convertible and the girls and the golf clubs. 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He had a Ph.D. in music from New York University and spent some time teaching at Yeshiva University. After 20 years of married life in Brooklyn, Irving Cohen got a job as a professor of music history at West Chester University, which brought the couple to Philadelphia in 1970. They bought a house in Wynnewood, and Sara Cohen started teaching at Solomon Schechter Day School and eventually became a principal. In 1978, Har Zion’s Rabbi Gerald Wolpe called and invited her to come serve as educational director at Har Zion. She stayed for 25 years. “We had the numbers,” Cohen said, in reference to how the Learn about senior living at Ann’s Choice and Maris Grove. 12746844 Request your FREE brochure from the premier retirement communities in Pennsylvania. Get the facts about our vibrant lifestyle, stylish apartment homes, expert health care, and so much more! 18 There’s no risk in learning more! Call 1-800-989-3958 or visit EricksonLiving.com . 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Barbara Dornay, a local booking agent, got him to a bar mitz- vah at High Point Racquet Club, and Weitz, though certainly not nervous, admits now that he was not yet sure what the role of a bar mitzvah entertainer was supposed to be; he showed up in a tuxedo and red tie, and Dornay had him lose the tie and run the candle-lighting ceremony. In the decades since, he’s picked up the tricks of the trade; if you’re calling a bride out to dance with her father, make sure she’s not in the bathroom. He remembers a function where the father was intent on sing- ing a karaoke version of Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful” to his daughter. Weitz had him practice over and over to get it down cold. When the day of the even came, the father got cold feet. “I Stu Weitz hugs a woman who had just turned 105. 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