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Some told stories about her love of music and drama and her knowledge of nearly every Broadway musical ever performed. Others spoke of time spent with her at Hillel, discussing religion and politics...
...memorial service, co-sponsored by Pforzheimer and Harvard Hillel, marked "shloshim," the thirty day period of mourning that follows a Jewish funeral, a time when people traditionally come together to remember the deceased...
...make when she was tap dancing or singing certain show tunes...both of which she did on a very regular basis. It got to the point where my friends and I all started imitating her...we call it "song and dance." There is a song we often sing at Hillel after lunch on Shabbat called "Yom Zeh L'Yisrael" and there is a line at the end: "B'Shabbat yoshevet b'zmir ooh shvacha." ("On Shabbat we sit in song and praise")...and without fail, every time we would get up to this line my friends and I would catch...
There will be also a journal placed in the Hillel lobby for people to share memories of Palmer-Sherman. A communal learning project in memory of Palmer-Sherman and a memorial scholarship in her name are also being planned...
Students are encouraged to contact Hillel if they would like to become involved in planning the memorial service or other projects in Palmer-Sherman's memory...