NORMAN GERSHON IS A 70 YEAR MEMBER, WILL BE TURNING 90.
ON 10/12/08, WHO STILL LIVES IN MASPETH, QUEENS. NORMAN INSISTS ON COMING TO THE SOFTBALL PICNIC EVERY YEAR. HIS DAUGHTER, BARBARA DOESN'T MIND COMING FROM CONNECTICUT TO TAKE HIM TO THE ANNUAL PICNIC BECAUSE SHE KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THE UNION IS TO HIM AND WHAT IT HAS DONE FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY. HE TELLS WONDERFUL STORIES AND HAS A REMARKABLE MEMORY.
HE STILL REMEMBERS THE NAMES OF ALL THE SHOPS HE WORKED IN, PLUS THE NAMES OF HIS FOREMAN'S, CO-WORKERS AND THE CONTRACTORS.
HE WORKED WITH. HIS PENSION IS NOT MUCH, BUT HE NEVER COMPLAINS.ONE THING HE NEVER STOPS TALKING ABOUT IS THE UNION. HE IS SO PROUD TO BE A UNION CARPENTER. HE IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE UNION TOOK CARE OF HIS FAMILY WHILE THE KIDS WERE GROWING UP. HOW THE UNION TOOK CARE OF HIM AND HIS WIFE WHEN THEY GREW OLD, AND HOW THE UNION IS STILL TAKING CARE OF HIM NOW. NORMAN GERSHON
IS A WONDERFUL AND REMARKABLE PERSON. HE IS A TOTAL DELIGHT TO MEET AND TO TALK TO.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING NORMAN AGAIN AT THE NEXT ANNUAL PICNIC AND LISTEN TO SOME MORE OF HIS WONDERFUL STORIES.