By Stan Levenson
ISBN-10: 1432769952
ISBN-13: 9781432769956
A BYGONE BROOKLYN THAT TOOK HIM worldwide supporting lecturers, mom and dad, AND
KIDS
Stan Levenson was once a poor,
fatherless child with few aspirations through the nice melancholy and global War
II - apart from entering into difficulty. So it can come as a huge shock that
this self-described "goof off" went directly to make a global identify for himself
helping institution districts all over the world obtain thousands of dollars.
When
Brooklyn used to be Heaven lovingly chronicles a 30-year (1931-61) trip through
Brooklyn neighborhoods wealthy in historical past and tradition, the Borscht Belt of the
Catskills, small collage cities in upstate big apple, army responsibility within the United
States army, and a life-style that crisscrossed a continent and the globe.
Through choice and chutzpah, Levenson graduated from one of many roughest
vocational excessive faculties in long island urban, attended collage, earned advanced
degrees together with a Ph.D., and remodeled fundraising within the public schools.
But now not earlier than taking part in the lead in a few memorable misadventures.
A vividly unique portrait
of basketball video games, stickball video games, scrap-metal drives, Coney Island capers, Catskill mountain
highs, collage classics, awkward gropes, Naval misadventures, L.A. dreaming,
and sheer grit. while Brooklyn was once Heaven is a needs to learn for a person with a New
York connection, people who find themselves occupied with this cheerful position, and all others
who are intrigued by means of the areas in-between.
Fundraising guru Stan
Levenson within the writer of 4 books on schooling, together with Big-Time Fundraising for latest Schools
(Corwin Press, 2007), how one can Get promises and presents for the general public faculties (Allyn
& Bacon, 2002), Readings in overseas Languages for the user-friendly School
(Blaisdell/Ginn), and intriguing Bulletin Board principles for interpreting and Language
Arts (T.S. Denison & Co.), His articles have seemed in American
School Board magazine, significant management, the varsity Administrator, TESOL
Quarterly and more. He holds a Bachelor
of technology measure from the country college of latest York at Oswego, a master's
degree in class management from U.C.L.A., and a Ph.D. in management and
Human habit from usa overseas college (now Alliant
International college) in San Diego. Levenson lives in San Diego with his
wife Kay Pantelis.
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