Peslikis, Irene

Leon Forer, a lifelong New Yorker, was school teacher at Seward Park high school on Lower East Side of Manhattan.

He taught bookkeeping, accounting, commercial law.

But his passion always was for literature.

He was a great teacher and loved by his students. Back then his students were Italian, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Jewish, etc. And all of them took off on every religious holiday.

Leon was an athlete, he loved tennis and ice skating. As a youth he was in an amateur theater group.

And had lifelong love for going to the theater, to ballet, and concerts at Carnegie. Mozart and...