Things are opening up!! Gathered at True Foods in Fashion Valley for lunch on Wednesday were 1964 grads Janis Irvine Ricards, Jane Newberry Smith, Kris Gjerde Flynn, Laurie Koosed Ratner, and Bev Bachman Fritschner
Shirley Roemmich Beyer ’59 passed away March 13, 2021. She was born in Mott, North Dakota, moving to San Diego as a teenager. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from San Diego State University in 1963. She married Crawford classmate Marv Beyer the same year, and they created a home and family in San Diego. Shirley worked as a school secretary for San Diego Unified School District until she retired in 1998. In the year 2000 she and Marv moved to Julian. They found a house on a beautiful piece of land in Pine Hills and both she and Marv took a lot of pride in creating a beautiful home. Shirley enjoyed being active in her community and volunteered for her church and the Julian Woman’s Club, writing both their newsletters for more than 10 years. She is survived by her husband of 57 years Marv Beyer, daughters Tracy and Tammy, their husbands Mike and Steve, as well as sister Carole Roemmich Wilson ’62.
Ilja Weinrieb ’63 died June 13, 2020. He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, nine months after the end of World War II. His parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Dutch countryside. They came to Buffalo, New York in 1949 to be near relatives in Toronto. He attended Bennett High School, where he met Pamela Stecker, who was one class year behind him. When his family moved to San Diego, he graduated from Crawford. When he returned to Buffalo, he enrolled in the University at Buffalo and married Pam in 1967. He was accepted as a fellow at Harvard University, where he served his residency and clinical fellowship. He took his post-doctoral fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University’s Yale New Haven Hospital. He served in the Army with the rank of major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he was head of the Immunology Section in the Department of Gastroenterology and an attending physician. He was one of the physicians aboard Walter Reed’s medical bus at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Dr. Weinrieb returned to Buffalo in 1978 and began a solo practice. More than 5,000 patients visited his office before he retired in March. A voracious reader, he spoke and read Dutch, German and Yiddish.Ilja Weinrieb ’63 died June 13, 2020. He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, nine months after the end of World War II. His parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Dutch countryside. They came to Buffalo, New York in 1949 to be near relatives in Toronto. He attended Bennett High School, where he met Pamela Stecker, who was one class year behind him. When his family moved to San Diego, he graduated from Crawford. When he returned to Buffalo, he enrolled in the University at Buffalo and married Pam in 1967. He was accepted as a fellow at Harvard University, where he served his residency and clinical fellowship. He took his post-doctoral fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University’s Yale New Haven Hospital. He served in the Army with the rank of major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he was head of the Immunology Section in the Department of Gastroenterology and an attending physician. He was one of the physicians aboard Walter Reed’s medical bus at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Dr. Weinrieb returned to Buffalo in 1978 and began a solo practice. More than 5,000 patients visited his office before he retired in March. A voracious reader, he spoke and read Dutch, German and Yiddish.
