MEMORIES

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How has Akiba Academy played a role in your life?

Please take a moment to share a thought, mem­o­ry or mean­ing­ful sto­ry about how Aki­ba has impact­ed you dur­ing our 50 years. Click on “leave a reply” below to post your mem­o­ry. Com­ments are mod­er­at­ed for con­tent and will not appear imme­di­ate­ly, but all appro­pri­ate com­ments will be post­ed as soon as possible.

Thank you for shar­ing your mem­o­ries and cel­e­brat­ing with us dur­ing this his­toric year!

 

2 thoughts on “MEMORIES”

  1. Mem­o­ries of the Old Aki­ba Acad­emy Still Con­tinue to Blossom
     
    The final bells have rung and the clouds of chalk dust have long set­tled, but the spir­it of the old Aki­ba Acad­emy lives on in many incar­na­tions. Many Aki­ba alum­ni remem­ber with great fond­ness the fam­ily that lived next door to the old Aki­ba school house and the gor­geous iris­es that sprung to life from their gar­den every spring.  When their home was razed some­time ago, one for­mer Alum Jaynie Schultz, called the folks at St. Alcuin Montes­sori School and asked to dig up those bulbs.  They agreed and she plant­ed them in her front yard, not know­ing if they would sur­vive. Lo and behold on the eve of the 50th year anniver­sary of Aki­ba Acad­emy they sprung to life to reveal their true endur­ing beau­ty.  “These col­or­ful flow­ers recap­ture my mem­o­ries of the old school, school friends and com­mu­nity of my younger years,” not­ed Schultz.  Some might say that the spir­it of the for­mer school lives on in these cheery reminders of spring and with them the con­stant reminder of the bud­ding & real­ized dreams of Aki­ba stu­dents young & old. Like these flour­ish­ing tes­ti­monies to life’s beau­ty & resilience – Aki­ba is cel­e­brat­ing its 50th anniver­sary this year. Let us take the time to “stop & smell the iris­es” & pay homage to our past and to the peo­ple and events that have made Aki­ba the great insti­tu­tion it is today. Help us pre­serve our his­tory by com­ing togeth­er and shar­ing your mem­o­ries of what shaped—and con­tin­ues to shape—Akiba Acad­emy expe­ri­ences.   Join us in salut­ing Aki­ba Academy’s 50 years of Cel­e­brat­ing the Extraordinary!

  2. 1993 — I remem­ber play­ing 4 square and hand­ball with Rab­bi Katzen­stein dur­ing recess. We would do our Fri­day JNILSH and go home ear­ly. Shab­ba­tone’s with Rab­bi Udman and Sil­ver were good days. Imag­ine hav­ing 8 chil­dren of your own and invit­ing 8 more into your home for a Shab­bat sleep­over. For this, I remem­ber Rab­bi Udman to be the liv­ing leg­end from the book It Could Always be Worse; though I nev­er inter­pret­ed the invi­ta­tion to be the result of ther­a­pu­dic advice he received from anoth­er Rabbi.

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