The Cheltenham High School community lost 1955 graduate Steve Saltzman, a popular teacher and coach, to cancer on March 12, 2000. He was 63.

According to local historian Chuck Langerman, Saltzman was a halfback on the Panther football team coached by his father, Bill Saltzman. He was also a district wrestling champion in 1954 at 127 pounds.

After wrestling at Franklin & Marshall and Temple University, he returned to his alma mater to teach physical education and coach wrestling. Coach Saltzman headed the high school wrestling team from 1962 to 1971, producing three regional champions: Mark Fifer in 1966 at 180 pounds, Ben Weinstein in 1969 at 95 pounds, and Bennett Meyer in 1971 at 112 pounds.

At the time of his death, he and his sister Terri, a 1963 graduate, owned and operated Camp Canadensis which their father founded in 1941.

Eight days before his death, he was inducted into the Southeast Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame at the regional wrestling tournament held at Norristown High. 

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