Geltzer was looking for new activity
suggestions. Forman pitched his trivia
contest. Geltzer loved it.

Pretty soon, about 25 people were
coming each week, including Kay
Forman. Then, he started taking the game
to other senior facilities in the area.

By 2020, Paul’s Run Retirement
Community, The Philadelphia Protestant
Home and two KleinLife locations were
paying Forman to host “Burt’s Brain
Games.” After Kay Forman died in 2018,
it became the thing that made “my day go
fast,” Forman said.

“If I don’t do it, I’ll get old,” he added.

It gives me something to
do, and I enjoy people,
and I enjoy conversing
with them and getting
them all excited. I have
one guy who calls me
every Monday, and I
have to go through old
books and play the
game over the phone.

BURT FORMAN
Yvette Greenberg, Forman’s step-
daughter, used to come to the games
with the host and play his music. Forman
called her his Vanna White, a reference
to the “Wheel of Fortune” co-host who
presses the letters.

Greenberg said the people in the trivia
groups got so close that, when a contes-
tant had to go to the hospital, she would
go visit.

“They were just so much fun. They
were always so excited to see me. They
made me feel good,” she added. “Hugging
me. Always thanking me for being there.”
But when the pandemic hit, those
facilities closed, and Forman had to
cancel his games. During COVID, he
cooked, baked, read and watched TV.

Yet without “Burt’s Brain Games,” he
felt a void. And then, even after facilities
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