![]() ![]() ![]() Using some of our extant employee tax forms along with an internet notice of a caricature drawing class at a JCC somewhere in Boca, Arlene managed to find the last known Forward cartoonist, whose full name was Paul Markison. The drawings had been signed by the formerly unidentified artist known as Mark, and that was all anybody knew of him. Her last entries were a series of cartoons and those can be really tough to describe. So, while she was waiting for her pulmonologist to have time to see her, she continued to come here and uncover archival items. But recently she had another in a series of infections and also developed water in her lung. I knew she was a long-term lung cancer survivor, and a raging lover of life who traveled - between PET scans - to London for the theater and Santa Monica for the sunlight. ![]() Arlene was that sweetest of New York combinations - really well informed and, therefore, opinionated - while at the same time modest so that she frequently appealed to me to please not introduce her to more staff members. When she died of a heart attack suddenly last Monday, her surviving sister Patricia said she was dressed and ready to walk out the door for her work here, having finished reading that other paper of record in this city. Arlene Bronstein took the folksy saying and wore a new groove in it she spent the last nine years of her montik un donershtiks here at the Forward cataloguing photos, researching queries and generally helping us identify and organize our maze of archival materials. To speak of the quotidian in Yiddish we use the term yedes montik un donershtik, meaning literally, every Monday and Thursday. ![]()
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