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There was another man who accompanied Erik Weihenmayer on the recent expedition to the top of the world. His name is Dr. Sherman Bull, and I've known him most of my life. He was a good friend and medical colleague of my father?s, but since Dad died about fourteen years ago I don?t see Sherman much any more. I had a chance to catch up with him the other night at a cocktail reception given in his honor at the New Canaan Country Club in Connecticut...
...Sherman can see just fine, so he didn?t receive quite the press that Erik did. The only reason Sherman gets mentioned at all, in fact, is that he also set a record with Erik that day. Sherman is 64, the oldest person to ever climb Mount Everest. He also stood on the summit with his son Brad, making them the second father-son team to do so. But that?s not the whole story...
...Sherman?s been there before - or almost there before. During the reception, he joked that when he walked through the streets of Kathmandu, strangers would walk up to him and say, "Sherman, are you trying again?" "That?s not a good thing" he dead-panned...
...Hillel has launched the Shira Palmer-Sherman Memorial Fund, which will support the arts and drama at Hillel. The memorial fund will also provide money for a menorah which will be lit by the entire Hillel community to celebrate Hanukah and to remember Shira, who died on the first day of the holiday...
...Shira is survived by her parents, Joanne Palmer and Andrew Sherman, her sister, Miriam Palmer-Sherman and her beloved Jesse O. Kellerman...