Sol Londe

Robert Scheer’s Column Left, “America’s Heart Isn’t With Its Children” (June 4), brought back many fond memories of Sol Londe, now 92 years of age and going strong. Londe influenced hundreds of junior high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a volunteer in Project Dialogue, which I directed before retiring 10 years ago.

As a young man in his 80s he never missed his weekly talk with seventh- and eighth-graders at Audubon Junior High. I remember how he involved students while describing the devastation one nuclear bomb could wreak by having them each graph the extent of impact it would have on the land and people beginning at its epicenter.

He also accompanied them on field trips to senior citizen community centers in Asian, black and Latino communities and always drew the children’s attention to the big picture: the importance of broadening your experience in life by getting to know people of all races, religions and backgrounds; of listening to them, whatever their age; of learning, learning, learning; of doing, doing, doing.

Thanks, Sol.

HELEN TIEGER

Huntington Beach