Barbara (Simon) Rosenzweig, 1966 Cheltenham High School graduate, passed away on October 24.

According to local historian Chuck Langerman, Rosenzweig grew up on Mountain Avenue in Melrose Park, attended Myers Elementary School and Ogontz Junior High, and went on to receive her BS from the old National College of Education outside Chicago (now National Louis University).

After graduating, Rosenzweig returned to teach elementary school at the HA Brown Elementary School in the Port Richmond section of the city and concurrently received her Master’s in Teaching from Penn State Ogontz.

She continued to teach in Philadelphia until the end of the 1974-1975 school year when she gave birth to her oldest son Michael. She temporarily retired and moved back to Cheltenham Township with her husband Stanley and lived less than a mile from Cheltenham Elementary.

Both Michael (’93) and Rosenzweig’s younger son Adam (’95) attended Cheltenham Elementary School, Elkins Park Middle School, Cedarbrook Middle School, and Cheltenham High School.

After a 15-year sabbatical, Rosenzweig served as a substitute teacher in the 1988-89 school year, later as a full-time teacher at Cheltenham Elementary.

On August 27, 2013, her sons dedicated the library at Cheltenham Elementary in her honor when the school was rebuilt.  

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