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Journal's Valentine Couple for 2007 are 85, Sharing Love to Fullest
Still staying active in senior-living home in Dallas
Feb. 9, 2007 - They were in their 40s when they
met. He was a painter who had studied at the Corcoran and Brooklyn
Museum schools of art. And he was a framer – a celebrated framer, later
to be declared by Time magazine the best picture framer in the world,
with patents on two designs and frames on pictures that hang at the
White House, the National Portrait Gallery and in other eminent
collections.
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She was a University of Southern California
graduate (magna cum laude in speech and journalism), the head copy
writer for Clinique, had written for Vogue Clinique, had written for
Vogue, had positions at Gimbel's department store, and was heard
nationwide as "the voice" of the Girl Scouts.
During a time in Hollywood she had been Paramount
Television’s director of women’s TV and had assisted Errol Flynn on the
writing of his autobiography. Later she would write advertising for
Clinique and create the Origins product line for Estee Lauder. She also
had written a novel, “Patience.”
She saw in him an honest, caring and generous man
of substance.
In her, he saw an exciting, cultured woman, a
professional, someone with an appreciation for art and other finer
things.
They met the old-fashioned way – at a party,
introduced by a mutual friend, and from the start they hit it off
fabulously. Both were coming off marriages that had ended.
Wed in 1963, he, Bernard “Bern” Gurevitz, and she,
the former Marnie Hutchinson, were true Manhattan sophisticates. Their
parties were the height of New York glamour, their son Ted Gurevitz, an
IBM executive in Dallas, remembers. The couple also has a daughter, Enid
Gurevitz-Williams.
"As a child, I would be in awe," he says, "at the
level of sophistication, the level of conversation, the elegance of
those parties." “They were such hosts. Dinner conversations were about
art, about politics, and of such a high level.” It was a time when other
American cities were beginning to falter, yet New York was still capital
of the world, a city working and seducing 24 hours a day.
A graduate of the Corcoran School of Art, across
from the White House, he saw his paintings shown in New York and
Washington, while her work was evident to readers of internationally
known women's fashion publications. They summered on Shelter Island, in
the Hamptons, taking a tiny cottage and, in six phases, transforming it
into a spacious and comfortable retreat.
That was then.
Today, their mutual interests remain, but age has
added a new layer and new texture to the way they demonstrate their love
and admiration. Because it is close to son Ted’s home and because it
specializes in caring for seniors with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Mr.
and Mrs. Gurevitz, both 85, are residents of Silverado-Plano, a
senior-living community outside Dallas.
The setting has so rejuvenated Mrs. Gurevitz, who
came there almost incommunicative from over-medication, that she is very
active physically despite Alzheimer’s. Residents and staff often see
her pushing the wheelchair that carries Mr. Gurevitz, who has difficulty
walking due to an advanced case of Parkinson’s.
Despite her short-term memory, loss she is also
known as the instructor of yoga at Silverado, a discipline she has
practiced for 40 years and had given up before coming to Silverado.
Living with the immobility and paralysis of
Parkinson’s, it is Mr. Gurevitz who keeps their partnership steady when
it comes to recalling matters of short-term. He is the one who tenderly
reminds her of what she has forgotten and wants to remember. The
teamwork works. “They are inseparable,” says Ted Gurevitz.
SeniorJournal.com is proud to name them our
Valentines for 2007.
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