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Ed Brody
Curriculum Vitae of the Autodidact Ed Brody
Graduated West Side High School, Newark, NJ with top honors in math and science for male students 1942.
Was the base pharmacy technici...view moreCurriculum Vitae of the Autodidact Ed Brody
Graduated West Side High School, Newark, NJ with top honors in math and science for male students 1942.
Was the base pharmacy technician with rank of sergeant in the Army of the United States (Air Corp) as the for 5,000 plus airmen and ground crews, 448th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, stationed at Seething, East Anglia, England, 1943-1945.
Graduated cum laude Illinois College of Chiropody and Foot Surgery, 1948 which was renamed The Dr. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL.
Practiced chiropody for a few years, married and joined the family childrens shoe business in Newark, NJ.
When Dad suffered a stroke in 1965, became the President. Expanded the business and by 1985, sold both Brodys StrideRite shoe stores in Woodbridge Center, Woodbridge, NJ. and retired.
Member of the Board, Bergen Street Merchants Association, 1952-1978.
Founding Board Member, Woodbridge Center Lions Club, 1971-1985.
Member of the Board of the Woodbridge Center Merchants Association, 1984-1985.
Presented a four part lecture series to senior groups at the Jewish Community Centers in West Orange and Whippany, NJ and to the Essex County Chapter of Brandeis Women on Hitlers Entartete Kunst/Degenerate Art Exhibit of 1937-1942. Also lectured on other artists. to senior groups at William Patterson University and Caldwell College, NJ.
Board Member of The Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest (1993-current.) Prepared a 86 page Manual for Oral Historians and lecture on how to produce a proper Oral History.
Produced unpublished manuscripts: Merchants of Newark, their experiences and reactions to the 1967 Riots. And another essay on The Shoe Dogs Book, about the shoe business.
Am a facilitator at the US-TOO Prostate Support Group at Morristown Memorial Hospital.view less
Books by Ed Brody
What Is Ignostic Judaism?: Thoughts of a Secular, Humanistic, Cultural, “Ignostic” Jew Regarding Science, Religion and Faith.