Morton Silberfeld ’34

Mort died on July 23, 2001, in Manhasset,

N. Y., of complications from a stroke he suffered in 1997.

After graduating from Princeton, Mort took business courses at Columbia and the U. of Newark, and then worked in NYC as an accountant. He married Florence Nussbaum in 1940. During WWII he served as an officer in the Navy aboard the USS Moose. His daughter Joan was born in 1943 while he was away on active duty. His son, Jeff '69, was born in 1947. Following his discharge from the Navy in 1945 he resumed his career as an accountant. Later he worked as sales manager for the Jersey Tab Card Corp. In 1975 Mort and Florence moved from their home in West Orange, N. J., where they had lived for nearly 25 years, to south Florida, where Mort worked for a commodities trading firm until retiring in 1991.

Mort's death follows that of his brothers, Eli '26 and Nathan. Surviving are his wife, Florence; his daughter, Joan Jewczyn; son Jeff, and grandsons, Mickey and Willie. To them the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1934