A BELOVED LADY TURNS 109.

                                

LIMOUSINE DRIVER ESCORTS MS. FOGEL
TO THE COPLAY RECREATION & WELFARE ASSN.
50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AT THE
COPLAY SAENGERBUND JUNE 2005.

A PLEASANT SURPRISE WHEN WE WATCHED THE NEWS ON WFMZ TV THIS EVENING.  A DEAR LADY WAS SHOWN CELEBRATING HER 109th BIRTHDAY AT PHOEBE ASSISTED LIVING IN ALLENTOWN. I FIRST MET L. KATHRYN FOGEL ON DECEMBER 1, 1958, WHEN, BY INVITATION, I ATTENDED THE COPLAY RECREATION & WELFARE ASSN. MEETING AND WAS ACCEPTED AS A MEMBER.  Ms.FOGEL WAS THE TREASURER OF THE ORGANIZATION AND SERVED IN THAT CAPACITY FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER.  SHE HAD BEEN A TEACHER AT THE LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF THE COPLAY SCHOOL DISTRICT.  KATHRYN SERVED HER COMMUNITY IN MANY WAYS.  SHE WAS ON THE COPLAY CENTENNIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WAS THE CENTENNIAL HISTORIAN THAT COMPILED THE HISTORY AND FACTS PRESENTED IN THE COPLAY CENTENNIAL HISTORY BOOK AND PARTICIPATED IN  "THE CENTELETTES CHAPTER #12", WHICH HAD TWO OTHER MEMBERS, MRS. HELEN SCHNECKER AND MRS. EVELYN CHOY.  SHE WAS BRIGHT AND CHEERY AND JUST AS SHARP AS EVER WHEN INTERVIEWED ON TV DURING HER 109th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.  I WISH WE COULD COME UP WITH A WAY TO DETERMINE HOW MANY YOUNG COPLAYITES WERE ENRICHED BY HAVING HER AS PART OF THEIR SCHOOL DAYS EDUCATION PROCESS.  IT IS THE WISH OF US STILL HERE IN COPLAY THAT Ms. FOGEL ENJOYS MANY HAPPY AND HEALTHY RETURNS OF THE DAY.  MAY GOD BLESS.