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From YouTube: CHS Kupersmith Scholarships Gala 2023

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Public Schools

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Good evening this is Carrie Shuman on behalf of Chelsea Community, cable, television, executive, director, Paula, Bradley Bachelor, and the great Ricky Velez, the videographer and technical director is behind the camera. We are at Chelsea High School for herb coopersmith's birthday in Chelsea. High reunion herb in the committee have done an awesome job.

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Putting this event together, and here we are on a Saturday in August and it couldn't be a better atmosphere and we're so excited to be here, and we can't wait to talk to the Chelsea High alumni alumni and the people from Chelsea who grew up here and it's a it's going to be a special evening and I'm glad you could join us and we'll we'll see you a little later.

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We are here with Stevie Carr, one of Chelsea High's, greatest basketball players went on to Boston State College and became a successful attorney, and here he is tonight. Let's talk about Chelsea High School and the great Herbie coopersmith Herbie.

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Is a legend in his own mind, but he he's a great supporter of Chelsea, as we all are in standing in this beautiful gymnasium compared to the gymnasium that we played in called the band box at the time God. It's just wonderful to see the city come up with a high school like this, for the kids, and hopefully they take advantage of all that's here for them. I wish everybody good luck, Herbie, uh happy birthday which is coming up uh in a few months and that funds a raise to help the athletic department.

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Good luck to everybody. Thank you. Okay! Thank you. Thank you, Carrie. It's always a pleasure.

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Speaking of illustrious figures in Chelsea High Athletics, this is Davey Hill Davey. It's so great to welcome you back to Chelsea. Thank.

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You very much Kerry, it's always good to come back and see a lot of old people uh faces, and things like that, so you know glad to be here. Please.

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Give your memories of uh Herbie Cooper, Smith and Chelsea.

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High School, okay, well, Chelsea, High, School, I, remember all the Everett games and uh then the spouse herb is concerned. I, remember, Herbie uh he'll be playing in the animal league for, like you, know several years, and uh you know great athlete: great ball player and a great generation, a Great era of people from Chelsea. They.

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Say Herbie had a good outside shot. Is that correct.

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Yes, maybe much correct.

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Yes, that wasn't totally Randy to Dale, Johnson and uh well George. We had to all two I had to alter his game, but uh to Perfection Perfection. He did he played with the trick. You know good ball player, good character and I really appreciate what he's been doing over the years and not only outside, not only on the courts but outside in his involvement with the uh the youth in this town, yeah Davey.

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How was the ride up from Connecticut very well very well yeah? It was something to look forward to and like I said, I was coming anytime. We come back here. It's always a thrill.

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Okay, thank you so much for being here. Excuse me, oh.

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Wait: here's dale dale has more. It was always good to see this gentleman right here. He said you couldn't find a better character right here. Then he does a great job. For what he's doing too. Thank.

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You so much thank you so much Dale. Thank you. Okay, we'll be back with more.

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Okay, we have a very prominent figure in Chelsea. He is Bruce Glazer, the son of Paul chalk, laser and Gloria Glazer. It's so great to see you.

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Here, oh, it's so great to be back I! Think, last time it was on this gym. I was refering a basketball game and I did many of those uh over the course of the years. It's amazing watching some of my old friends and coaches Bobby fee coming in um and herb is one of my dearest and oldest friends.

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Good friend of my dad's and I'm sure he's going to mention him tonight and it's it's just great to be back in Chelsea and seeing all a lot of memories. Here, it's awesome, how's the Glazer family, laser family is great. My sister is on her way and I'm sure she'll be saying hello to you very soon.

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The only one that did make it to the hall of fame, my father and my brother did I was next. Okay,.

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We're not done you never know. Thank you. So much Bruce, glaze I will be back with more. We have a true All-American football player here. One of Chelsea High's greatest football players went on to play for Indiana University got a trial with the Boston Patriots. He is Bobby fee, coach and athlete, and a great gentleman Mr fee. It's great to have you here. It's.

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Great to be here, it's so nice to see it to people, but you haven't seen in many many years. It's a lot of fun. It's more like a reunion than a birthday party.

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Tell us about your relationship with herb, coopersmith well,.

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I mean I've been friends for many many years. We've done a lot of things together, uh I've been to his house many times to all the parties that he has he's done so much work and helping kids get into college, and especially the athletes that wanted to go to certain schools. He made sure they got there. He did a great job doing that over the years. Can I tell you something? Yes, when I finished with the Patriots and I started the The Chelsea teams that they had, which became the pilgrims.

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When that ended, I said to my wife, Phyllis I'm, going to jog around the block a couple of times to keep my weight down. Do you know what that led to.

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Many marathons I know that Mr fee 31.

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Marathons, yes, approximately 100 000 miles over to 55 years. That I was running races and training, so they told me: that's around the world 10 times make that if you ran from Boston to L.A back to Boston you'd make 17 trips wow, so I did an awful lot of running, which was good kept me in shape. That's probably why I'm still here, thank you for being here, Mr fee, okay, it's my pleasure.

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We are with the president of the Chelsea City councilor City Council Leo Robinson and his wife, the former director of reach Linda aliotto, Robinson, Mr, President great.

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To see you good to see you Carrie, it's always a pleasure to see you and Ricky here covering they say it could be the final event, but I don't think it's going to be the final event for hervey all right, because him raising money for the Chelsea High scholarships is very important and we just can't let them walk away at this point in time, even though he says he wants wants us to be the last one we got to do. We got to be able to do it. I.

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Know you served on the planning committee and 400 people here tonight, an amazing job by herb, Cooper Smith, Harris Mourinho and the entire organizing committee yeah.

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Frankie depato Frank, Henry, Frank Henry's was responsible for being here, making sure everything got set up very well today and now we're here to enjoy the festivities. Let's.

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Talk to Linda Linda great, to see you, you too good to see you Chelsea and over the years and Herbie Cooper Smith.

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Well, of course, I don't go back as far as my husband in Chelsea I moved to Chelsea I'm, originally from New York, but I own. My memories of Chelsea are nothing but good. I love, it I, wouldn't have moved here and once College was over if I didn't like it and my memories of the being here in the high school working, you know founding the reach program and working all those years, they're just they're irreplaceable. It was just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, I, miss it we'll.

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Be rooting for the MIT Women's Basketball team led by Lucia Robinson MIT.

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All the way actually she's going to make the tournament this year. That's as the team looks very well very good. We have a special surprise for Herbie Cooper Smith tonight.

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Stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen, a special surprise presentation. Thank you so much. Thank you. Carrie.

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Bucky call welcome great athlete. You were.

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um And a trio now just the three of us we performed at the Chelsea City Hall a few weeks ago, actually yeah and we're going to Premier Broadway again in Somerville September 1st tell.

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Us about your memories of Chelsea, High and Herbie coopersmith.

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Seeing the people here like when I see a Bobby fee, the greatest football player that ever come out of this city and just other people like uh Mike Lush, uh every single buddy I mean you know everyone. If you haven't seen deal Johnson Davey, Hill, Leo, Robinson, yeah, yeah, Miss, a bunch of people I know my whole life.

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And we're all here because of Herbie Cooper Smith Herbie.

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Yep I saw it talked to Herbie. I saw him the other day, in fact, that car arrested, Soul, Ronnie and Eddie's uh money and Eddie's wake, but yep I love, Chelsea, always will and I call you Mr Chelsea well.

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With that, but we'll.

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Gates, let me say this: there's not a better bakery that makes Bagels in the United States than Kate's Bakery. You are a legend in the business and people come to your shop and they have a great time talking with you. But, more importantly, they love your bagels.

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Oh, thank you very. Thank you very much. We work very hard to put out a good product. I never said we were the best in the world, but we're good yeah.

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Have a secret recipe yeah secret recipe? It might talk us okay,.

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Well, we might now Prairie Cooper Smith. You know you live in Marblehead as well right yeah, so you know Herbie very well from being a marble at Chelsea, Chelsea, High, School, everything yeah.

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I know very, very well a great guy yeah Rick I'm glad to be here, and we brought some goodies bagels and our Famous Pizza Bagels. So everybody gets to take one home if there's enough.

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Okay, so we'll be back to Park Street, yes, I'll, be there tomorrow, bacon, Bagels, okay, thank you so much for being here and thank you for your bagels you're welcome! Come okay! There you go Robin castman president and CEO of Metro Credit Union talk about a successful career. The way you've built that into Statewide and National prominence. How much in the.

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Assets Now 3.3 billion dollars Carrie. How are you hey guys? How are you Joel, Marcus, Robert Cashman here, hey? How are you we are thrilled to be here, celebrate Herbie's birthday, what an event Chelsea the immediate World here is gotta. Tell you I want to thank Herbie for everything he's done for the community, caring, it's a wonderful night.

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Talk about Metro's philanthropy.

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It's tremendous yeah, we'll be very fortunate that we've had the opportunity to give back to the community. We really believe in people helping people and I look forward to doing more as we move forward see her be around town in Marblehead. All the time he's out he's just a little back riding here and there and uh great to see him getting out. Okay, how's the family family's great. Thank you, Carrie and how's your mother doing she's here tonight, so you can say hello looking forward to it. Carrie's mother and my father graduate high school together.

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It was my father's assistant for many years, so Carrie much of our success is due to your mother. How does that sound? Thank you. So much.

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All right have a good that was Robert castman of Metro Credit Stevie Harris, always a pleasure, a member of the reunion committee who teamed up with Herbie Cooper, Smith and minak Harris Mourinho and the rest of the committee to put this night on what a night and what.

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An event, thank you, Gabby. You always help us out you're. The best he'll always be the best love you and your family. Okay,.

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What do you want to say about Herbie.

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Herbie's the best to be around God bless him. Let him leave you another hundred years, Richie marowsky's.

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Here this is the quarterback of the decade. 1980 we beat everyone down, 20, nothing which talking about Thanksgiving and Everett. They didn't beat ever much after that, and here we are, and they don't play ever right now, which I wish they would maybe in the future. Ritzy muronsky talk about Herbie, Cooper, Smith and Chelsea High and Thanksgiving morning.

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Well, Herbie Cooper Smith is a giver. He gave a speech here five years ago. uh I, remember him when I was a kid and he tried to get me to go to college.

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um He showed me uh persuaded me to try to go to college, but I. Remember him saying to me one of the most three important things in life. So at first as a 16 year old kid I said money, he says no, he says it's. Health, love and happiness and I never forgot that happy birthday, Kirby and many more.

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Okay, it looks like he's not gonna talk about himself he's only going to talk about Herbie, Kobe Smith. That's fine, but thank you Richard! Okay, this is all wood, and what brings you here tonight, Mr.

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Wood well, what brings you here tonight is to honor Herbert and he's well deserving of it. I must say, he's a personable fellow, isn't he extremely extremely and he has charisma? Is he telling you to say that? Yes, he does as a matter of fact, okay.

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Well, what happened to Jane Finks, who was just with me, so he left on the middle of the interview.

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Her brother, Jerry, yeah and uh herb go all the way back. It's like second grade. Oh really, oh yeah, then that they started hanging out together going to Hebrew school together. Etc, there's Jerry right up there in the picture. Oh okay! Well, you know on the wedding party. Oh they go way back. Okay,.

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That's the being here: Mr wood, you'll you'll have to talk to uh Jane when.

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She gets back, let's see very special guest, her daughter's my boss, I better, really have a good interview here: Paula Bradley, Bachelor, Robert, battler Bobby and the whole group David right. Oh great,.

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To see you nice to see you too, it's so good to be here. Oh wonderful, I love, seeing Chelsea people, I love it I love it yeah, I, yeah I've met so many people here that I haven't seen in years. Yes, yeah just.

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Bobby fee yeah he's here, he'll be sitting over here with us soon, it's a wonderful time that Herbie does for everybody. He really does and I think I've been to every single one of his parties and I've enjoyed myself at all his parties. Yeah. You look good.

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Nice to see you nice to see, you too tell your mom. I said hello: okay, is she here.

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She is here tonight.

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I'll have to see her before I leave. Okay have a great evening. You too, you too.

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Excuse me Jane Fink, how are you I said? Yes, you left in the middle of the interviewer. That's okay! You wanted to meet the other guests. Okay, what do you want to say about Herbie, coopersmith, I.

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Want to say that Herbie lived a stone's throw from my house in a field that was called cows grass, because his grandmother had a cow and hervey lived in that house and I have known Herbie my entire life. He is a remarkable man and somebody to be copied in his lifestyle. I love, Herby.

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O'connor, okay,.

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We're with Kathy O'connor I'm gonna hand the microphone to Kathy O'connor she's, going to talk about their relationship to the guest of Lana, Herbie, Cooper, Smith and we'll get to meet everyone here. You are Kathy, take it away. Okay,.

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Thank you so much well, I call Herbie my Jewish Godfather I have known him for I, don't know how many years, probably like 15 18 years, even though I went to high school with his daughter, Karen, who I absolutely adore and I know cookie from yoga. Patrice here is also a dear friend of younger of Herbie. Here you go. Oh oh.

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Herbie Cooper Smith is one of a kind. No doubt he tells the best stories and if you know him, you adore him. That's for sure.

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Hi, how are you I'm.

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Fine. Thank you. Your name, sir. My name is Quinn ballancourt I'm here with Kathy O'connor I met Kirby Cooper Smith once before at Cafe Italia, and uh that was quite a sight to see- and this is the second time and I'm glad I'm here for his birthday.

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I think Michaela would have more to say.

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Hi I'm Michaela, I'm, Kathy's daughter, um I, consider Mr Cooper Smith as a Godfather as well um I I've, been very blessed to have him in my life, he's an incredibly generous and kind person with humor. That is unmatched, and this is my sister.

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I'm faith, I'm Kathy's other daughter.

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I also see Mr Cooper Smith as a Godfather same as Michaela, and my mama said he is so kind so generous has such a big heart. He is definitely one of a kind um yeah I'm, so grateful to be celebrating his birthday.

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Okay, welcome to the Chelsea High School reunion, starring, Kirby, Cooper Smith, the guest of Lana; okay, whoever you've done it again, 400 people, no there's.

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Like uh there's a lot of people who got sick- oh and it's probably like in the 350s 60s 70s I, don't know who else is coming.

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Okay, talk about the effort of yourself in the reunion committee to put this night together, the committee.

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Including Kerry showman and his wonderful mother, idiot Frankie to paddle Eddie, medros, um Leo Robinson.

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Frank Henry Frank.

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Henry, who did a phenomenal job I can't believe how phenomenal he is, um and so many other people Stevie Harris.

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um It's just crazy and thank God for him and um I've been doing this for like 50 years, not this magnitude. But it's like uh my favorite picture. My wedding picture, my mother, who, if it wasn't for her this, never would have been happening and my three daughters, It All Star on the streets of Chelsea. It all started in the streets of Chelsea.

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When my mother said to me when I was 10 years old I want you to be a giver, not a taker, and that's why I have lived my life and thank God for the mentors UJ, McLaughlin and shock laser and Julius F and Harry Colton I would never be here.

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Friends, and so many friends are here um with all the people who couldn't come in the last six hours that have uh called in sick, going to hospitals, taking care of their kids.

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There's been a lot of evidence to this, but the problem becomes the age limit being 84 and all my friends are in the same bracket. It's very difficult to continue doing these kind of programs, so I'm just going to pledge to the superintendent of the schools yesterday that I will donate money continuously to Chelsea High School.

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If we can send kids to college and they can learn what the USS Constitution is in Bunker Hill monument and learn how to read and learn civics. Maybe they can help us in years to come.

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One component of tonight is that the proceeds go to scholarships but Chelsea student.

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S Chelsea High School students to go to college I've had a scholarship program there and they've made this checks out to me or I tell them to make them out to Chelsea High School students. You know for college, so we'll see what happens and see how much money. My goal is: uh reach a certain amount of money and, if I hope to attain it, we've raised so far about nine thousand dollars before this evening started so we'll see. Okay,.

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Okay, there you go okay, he ended the interview. It was a good interview, we'll be back with more okay, Nick Moreno. You were a member of the committee, but the consensus is that minicaris Mourinho was the MVP.

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And she is- and she always will be yeah and don't forget we're going to be married, 60 years and she's still the boss and she still runs everything Wow.

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Let's talk about Herbie, Cooper Smith. The reason we're all here, the.

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Most generous person you ever want to meet not only in Chelsea but all over yeah he's so kind. He does things for everybody. I, don't know how he keeps up, keeps going and keeps going to me. The guy's, a saint he's, a saint okay.

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About it so great to have you and many here tonight? Yes, thank you. Okay, Richard shernak is here 45 years in education for college students. Thank you so much for that, and what's it like to be here tonight, hey.

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You know what there's so many Chelsea people here I can't believe it yeah I mean it's uh you. Would you wouldn't think that so many people would be here from Chelsea yeah, it's all because of Herbie Cooper Smith I'm, going to tell you Herbie keeps in touch with everybody. I mean a guy and I'm going to tell you one thing: he's really done so much for me personally throughout life, anytime, Herbie says he's doing something and needs me to be there I'm going to be there. So.

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Stop in the fields at George, Washington, University, that's correct, GW I started at Boston: University went to University of Hartford 22 years at GW senior. Vice president Professor wow, and that's it I'm now retired wow.

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That must have been exciting being in the Washington DC area.

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uh Yeah, it's exciting to be there now, it's crazy, okay,.

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You Mr turnout, Mr Sherman thanks.

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To see you too, okay, very distinguished gentleman, a philanthropist in his own right, Mr, Larry, Smith, great.

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To see you here, thank you so much Gary. This is great. This is an unbelievable event. Herbie Coop Smith. We, we love you and congratulations on your 85th birthday. This is a wonderful thing, there's so many good people here from Chelsea who've accomplished such good things in life and I. Just wish you a good health and in a long long life thanks. So much be well hey.

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Thank you so much. This is Jerry Chelsea, School System, you did an excellent job and Herbie Cooper says was a big donor.

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He was, he was I, mean he's raised so much scholarship. Funds for kids that really needed to get to school he's also helps kids get into college too, with all his connections at various universities, so he's a great asset for the community and the school department is, is lucky to have him on their team. He.

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Had a night to celebrate his 84th birthday, oh.

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It's it's hard to believe, but I'm catching up so I know how it feels. But okay, yeah.

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Great to see you thank you for being here.

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Take care, thank you for what.

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Okay, this room is flooded with illustrious athletes.

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We have Bobby Longs in the picture over here trying to walk on us here, great Chelsea, hi athlete. What's it like to be here, Chelsea high school gymnasium for Herbie.

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Cooper Smith: oh, it's a wonderful experience. It's good to honor Herbie.

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Known him for a long time, he's done a lot of good things for Chelsea and it's on it's an honor to be here actually Bobby.

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Long talk about Chelsea, High and Herbie goober Smith.

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Well, Herbie, you always used to call me Tasha when he's a small kid I, don't know why, but he's a good guy. You know I love him daily. Thank you.

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So much you have a suit up in the wild in a league with you guys.

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I'll give you a funny story. He invited us to go to Marblehead to play uh his team a mile ahead. So we we play basketball I, said here, but you really have a team. He said yeah come on play. Well, he had a team, but they didn't know how to play and we came without strong people. You know Angel Torres, you know all the big boys.

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These guys are no bigger than five foot. Eight yeah I hope you should have known better.

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Wow those great names angels are as well a great guy. He was yep.

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Right anything else, gentlemen; good luck, grabby.

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I hope you live a long time amen. Thank you. So much.

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All right, buddy thank.

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You, okay, let's see Hawk Alice has a great so an interview, the greatest Baller in Chelsea history- and he is here tonight talk about Herbie, Cooper, Smith, well,.

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What a class individual Herbie Cooper Smith when I was a year or two out of high school I, was hanging down Bellingham square right next to the Shapiro's Deli and I'd go in there. I always get get a tishke and gravy for about three or four dollars, and then I would talk to him and he'd say you're. Looking for a job, I said: yeah yeah I'm, not working, so he says all right, I make a phone call.

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You go in and see somebody in South Boston go in and see George reisman he's on Congress Street I went in there. They hired me the next day. I was there for about 15 18 years. Well, he's just a class individual Regatta. He knows so many people he's well liked is it. This is unbelievable right.

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Here, that's such a great story: Hawk of Herbie Cooper Smith, reaching out to someone to help another person he's been doing that his whole life and he's still doing it and I love. That story.

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Very good, thank you. Okay,.

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A good evening, thank you, hawk you're, welcome.

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Shirley Kaplan Chelsea High class of 1946. She is here to support Herbie Kool Smith tell us about Herbie, Cooper Smith and what a great guy he is. Oh.

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Herb is a wonderful guy, uh he's actually a cousin of mine and he does everything for everybody, and he knows everybody. I love, Herbie,.

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And you came all the way from Swamp Squad to be here tonight.

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Absolutely absolutely I wouldn't miss it for the world.

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Forward to the evening.

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Absolutely I'm meeting the quite a few fellas that I know I know his uncle Shad off Harold, shadowf I know his uncle and I knew somebody else's relative I'm 10 years older than the most of them. I think I'm, the oldest person here, but.

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Nice to see you and I hope you have a great time.

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Oh I'm sure I will thank you. Karen.

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Shirley Kaplan is in the house. Thank you very influential gentleman. He hired me at The, Daily Item during my career and.

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Look what it got you I got you a Chelsea High on a Saturday night in August, oh wow, you.

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You do such great work for the community. You are here tonight to support Herbie Cooper Smith.

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Herbie's the best I mean who else can fill the high school gym on a Saturday night in August I, don't think the math of high school could fill a high school gym on a Saturday night in August. Well,.

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We all know Herbie does a lot for a lot of college students.

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Herbie has put probably more people into college since Elmo benedetto it's great.

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Company, it's terrific company and you've come all the way from Lynn to be here tonight. Absolutely.

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I I had to watch the Alabama stakes in the car on the way down here. What a sacrifice? Okay,.

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And how's college basketball fishing looking this season.

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It's looking good, it's looking good I'm on a year-to-year basis. You know I'm on the 18th Fairway so uh but yeah so far, so good have.

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You heard anything about Herbie's basketball playing and we hear he was a pretty good.

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Outside shooter well, according to Herby, he was, but you know that that's not the most reliable source is it.

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Well, it's obviously going to be a great night and it's so wonderful for you to be here to be here with Ruby coopersmith.

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He's the best okay.

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Thank you. Thank you. Paul Paul Halloran is in the house. This is Nancy Doherty 33 years in Chelsea city government I had the honor of playing baseball with her son Billy. We won a championship together in the Chelsea Youth Baseball league, and she was at every game, and here we are tonight to celebrate. Herbie Cooper Smith's life and Chelsea High School. Absolutely.

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Herbie is a gem, a Gemma, gym, I, love him so much and I'm. So glad this turnout. It's going to be big for him. You know, when did you first meet Herbie coopersmith I met Herbie, Cooper Smith um right during school yeah. We worked on me unions, together with uh uh Loretta group in Minneapolis Mourinho. So that's how I met him and I've known him for years since then yeah but I not doing school years, but after and.

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You have great memories of Chelsea and working in the city. Oh.

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My love I'm still here, yeah I am born and bred and I'm still here, yeah I love, Chelsea, I love it great.

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To see you sailor, the family, I.

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Will dear, thank you so much. Okay,.

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Okay Mr time Daisy is here: welcome Mr Daisy. Let's talk about Herbie Coopers with and your relationship with him I've.

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Known Herbert, Cooper, Smith uh close to 40 years 45 years and he's a pretty nice guy, one of the nicest guys you're ever going to meet he'll do anything for you. He has no problem, he's a personable guy and I love him. We want to wish him a happy 84th birthday and a happy 84th birthday. Okay,.

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Almost as old as me,.

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I love your sport coat.

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Thank you very much. It's brand spanking! No! Just for his occasion, oh wow, my wife made me, wear it very nice, very nice nice to see you birthday this.

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Is David Weiss? Yes, nice to see you Mr Weiss? What brings you here tonight with Herbie Coopers with.

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uh Herbie I've known Herbie a long time when I first met him when I was 15 years old and he sold me his old Clover jacket. Oh I think it was five or eight dollars. Yeah and I told him. That's why he became a good salesman because he can convince me to buy his old one.

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And you've stayed in touch with them since age, 15., yep.

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And uh he's done a whole lot for this city and for the residents, and it's a great thing for him to do this- to set up a scholarship for the Chelsea High School graduates. Yes,.

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Yes, where are you living now, Mr Weiss, Florida, yep.

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Eight and a half months and Winthrop for three and a half months- oh wow, Mr, Jerry Winer, is in the house great to see you. Let's talk about Herbie Cooper Smith, who the guest of honor here.

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I thought it was gonna, be me, I know: you're dead, oh George,.

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Showman yeah. Okay, what do you want to say about Kirby? Yes, the.

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Best, the best yeah great guy, okay,.

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How far do you go back with.

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Him way back way back, yep I, don't know a long time. I, don't remember when I first met him.

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Why did you come to be here tonight? How far and well I live.

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In Florida.

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Part already, oh wow: now he came up for the party. That's so nice here to be.

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Ronald Robinson is here co-director of the Latimer society and he is here to celebrate with Herbie Cooper Smith his 84th birthday. It's the 84.

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No actually, his birthday's in.

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February I believe get out of him. Yeah well I'm pleased to be here. I'm plea, I already started, seeing old friends, you know saying hello to some people downstairs and they came in I. Anticipate up here, we'll see more yeah, um so I had to say happy birthday, Herbie and then many more of them. Hopefully.

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Joe mullaney Chelsea High School athlete, then Chelsea High School principal a rare combination, but he is here tonight Joe. You did a lot for the city and so did Herbie coopersmith.

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Yeah herb sure has I uh on a personal note. I've known herb since I was a senior in high school. I was fortunate enough to receive the scholarship that he has awarded to so many uh Chelsea students and help them along the way and then his principal and as a teacher Herbert was always there willing to give a hand uh it continues. His Scholarship Foundation is amazing, just a super super guy fun to talk to happy birthday, herb. Okay, thank.

A

You so much Steve cell blevitz is here tonight one of Chelsea, youth, basketball's, all side, coaches, that's the truth right up there with Bruce, Lee, Harris and Larry knocking, but tonight we're here for Herbie coopersmith.

AL

Right, what can you say- I mean now we do this every few years, so it's just terrific gives us an opportunity to really see old friends again like Harry and so forth, and meet other new people and of course, hervey is uh judging by the crowd. That's here is well deserving of everyone's time for all the things he's done for kids here in Chelsea and and elsewhere. Actually, so it's great to be here and great to see Kerry and the whole group. Okay. Thank you. So much.

A

Herb seleznik we're on TV, Chelsea, Community, cable, television but, more importantly, we're at Herby, Cooper Smith's 84th birthday celebration. What a gentleman he is! Yes,.

AM

He is, we were very good friends in the clovers back in the 19. Whatever uh last century, we've had a lot of fun together, Herbie's a great guy I, wouldn't miss this for the world.

A

And he's very, very philanthropic, like yourself, he's.

AM

A very good-natured generous person, great admiration for Herbie, Cooper, Smith and love his stories, the great Storyteller and a great wreck on tour as well.

A

I know you've done a lot for Temple, Emanuel and Herbie's done a lot for the Walnut Street synagogue.

AM

Yeah and now we're working on joint memorandum to our Museum that we're collaborating on both synagogues and we're very excited about his prospects.

A

Nice to see you Mr Celeste good, to see you Carrie. We have a very special guest, the superintendent of Chelsea schools, Dr Naomi abetta great, to see you here great.

AN

To be here, it's so nice to see everybody this evening and.

A

In the end, the scholar sense will go to your students at Chelsea High School. Yes,.

AN

Yes, thrilled and we're excited and I just want to thank everyone for coming out and supporting our scholarships and um and, of course, having a wonderful time with it as well.

A

And y'all continue to build a great school system. Your students are going on to great colleges, absolutely.

AN

We have students that go everywhere from Harvard to Boston University, to Brown to um our local state colleges, UMass Boston, UMass, Amherst Bunker Hill Community College. So we have kids that go everywhere. If.

A

You're going to speak about education and scholarships with Herbie goober Smith, yes,.

AN

I have yeah, yes, we've been planning, Herbie and I have been meeting. He comes to my office quite frequently and we talk and he shares about the impact of the scholarships that he's been doing this for quite some time. Now. It's something that's very special and near and dear to his heart, I.

A

Imagine you're busy with a new school you're about to start. We.

AN

Are very busy: next week we have our leaders coming back on the 22nd and then the 29th is convocation. It's going to be our first in-person convocation since the pandemic, since 2019., so we'll be here actually for convocation this in person, okay,.

A

Continued success with your leadership of the schools.

AN

Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay,.

A

The superintendent of schools is here and now we're going to try to get former Chelsea School committeeman.

A

This is Rosemary Rosemarie Carlisle.

A

How are you and let's talk about Herbie, Cooper Smith.

AO

Happy birthday my friend, awesome I am so proud to say: I am a friend of Herbie Herbie's done so much for the Chelsea Public Schools and the kids in this community for many many years happy birthday and thank you for having this for the kids. Okay, anything else. No, no I miss my friends in Chelsea, but you know: I'll be okay, hi, everybody, Chelsea Chelsea, High alumnus, yes, I graduated in 1999., 1963., very proud of that. Actually.

A

It's alumna: if it's a male, it's alumnus Ricky's having fun I just did a verbal calf as alumna, but here.

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AO

Are oh well, whatever I am I did graduate Chelsea, High and very proud of it. Thank you so much so.

AP

Much my name was Della Trachtenberg, and this is my beautiful granddaughter Shayna Saunders and she is my Walker this evening.

A

Can you stand up and say hello to the camera? Okay,.

A

Say hello and you're her assistant tonight? Yes, I am okay. How far.

AQ

Did you come? We came from Malden so not too far. Oh, not.

A

Far at all, um okay, so uh it's great you.

AR

Have a whole table here, um yeah! Well, we came together and we met up with them. Okay and.

AJ

This is Sunday River Yep. This is my Sunday River sweatshirt, okay,.

AQ

Anything else I think that's um well, I hope everyone has a great night. Thank.

A

AR

So much thank you.

A

Okay, very good. Oh, she wants to say hello. This is Ian and.

AR

Gene, how are you I'm, terrific tonight, what a beautiful get-together see so many people? What brings you here tonight? The great Herbie Cooper Smith, absolutely absolute, my neighbor at.

A

Home, oh in Marblehead. Yes, yes, oh wow, so you get to see her, be the neighbor I.

AR

Hate see him all the time he doesn't ride his bike like he used to, but he.

A

Still realized how much he did for the city of Chelsea sure do.

AR

I've been coming to his functions all the time and I he's just terrific and.

A

This Andrea is next to you, Andrea turn around and say hello.

AG

Nice to be here tonight in the great city of Chelsea, honoring, Kirby, Cooper Smith. Thank.

A

You for being here who's this gentleman. Could you stand up? I, don't believe we met. Scott is your first name. What's your last name, black.

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What flaxer and happy to be here tonight, um Herbie's, a friend and a neighbor of ours and I- think it's great what he does for Chelsea High School and we're happy to be here tonight. Okay,.

A

Thanks for coming sure, okay.

F

Thank you, Eddie.

A

Shut off high school basketball, referee extraordinaire, but he's here tonight for Herbie.

AT

Coopersmith I have not missed any of these there's been four or five or six of these over the years and I look forward to this every two or three years. Whenever he's one of the Gods most wonderful people, he was a pretty good basketball player, I'm only 70.. So I, don't quite remember that, but we're in the Saul nectum gym yes wow. This is. He was like the hero of mine, that name growing up in Lynn, so where you living now, Ed.

A

Stolen Lynn, okay, my whole life and the children are doing outstanding things I understand thank.

AT

You very much yes, uh our older son's, a lawyer in Beverly, Hills and hopefully, tomorrow, hurricane Hillary, spares them somewhat they're, not used to that yeah and uh you're on the sun. Now the sun is in Danvers with two lovely granddaughters for us, almost nine and almost we have Andrew shot off and Landon. Yes, that's our other son in Danvers, okay,.

A

AT

To see you here for Herbie, thank you for having me and your mother looks wonderful. Thank.

F

You, oh so, do you thank.

A

You Michael watched the Michael Walsh the best swamp squat quarterback of all time. That's too kind. Oh, it's a Brown University, not a bad University, one of the prestigious universities in the world. Yeah you play football there as well, and Herbie gave you the advice that made you so great in sports. Is that.

AU

Correct he really did I owe All My Success to Herbie very little on my own. If it wasn't for him I'm, not sure where I would be in life, you.

A

Know you you look great in basketball and I'm, not sure Herbie lived up to your basketball.

AU

Playing well, you know what a lot of people say: I might have got my basketball Talent from Herbie. It wasn't a bad player Back in the Day little point guard. He dribble around make a few shots. Why assists I heard so maybe a little bit of talent comes from Herbie, we'll have to run a test.

A

Can you do me a favor, introduce your siblings, the other grandchildren at the table, I'm gonna hand you the microphone all.

AU

Right: okay, let's get caught up! This is Colin Walsh right here, my youngest, my little brother Colin, you have anything to say to Papa Herbie.

AV

I wish for you what you wish for yourself: Papa, oh, that's! It I love you very much! That is a class I love you very very much and um a lot of lessons learned from a very impressive man, very impressive background and um I feel very, very fortunate. I'm sure I speak for all three of the Walsh grandchildren uh that we are very, very fortunate to have you as our grandfather and I love. You very much. No doubt Jackie.

AU

Walsh come on up for a little interview.

AU

Yeah yeah this well Colin, you can stay in the picture as well go on the other side. Okay, this is my beautiful little sister Jacqueline Walsh I, say to Papa Herbie on his birthday of.

AQ

Course, I love you so much I'm, so happy to be back here locally right down the street from you. You've you've, given us so much over the years and, most importantly, that relationships with family and friends are absolutely everything in life. So thank you for setting such a beautiful example of what love and devotion is to the people that you love. We love you.

AU

I'll Echo all that I love. You too, my man, thanks for being exactly who you are happy birthday, cheers happy birthday.

A

Great to see you.

AV

Thank you, Cookie.

A

Cooper Smith is here tonight the wife of Herbert Herbie Cooper Smith. What's it like to be a part of this great team, the corporate Smiths.

AW

um It's incomparable incomparable, there's nothing like it, there's nothing like it. We've got people that Herbie's known all his life here, the people he's known for 60 years and then all those stretching all the way to our newest addition to our family, who is our grandson, Michael's new wife, and that wedding was just three weeks ago.

AW

It's it's an it's incredible incredible people that I've known for years and years who are friends of mine who are friends of Herbies people that he's grown up with people who mentored him um and of course he he just loves. Chelsea Chelsea is number one in his heart.

A

You've had a front row seat for all his philanthropy, yeah.

AW

I have I really have he's dragged me with him, for all of them can.

A

You believe the turnout for him tonight all these people. It's amazing.

AW

Yep yep he was, he was really surprised when he started making phone calls for this party. He was very sad about losing so many people and that really shocked him, but by the same token, look at them look at the people we've got here. This is just so wonderful.

A

You have a beautiful film, we just talked to Michael Walsh and his siblings, Colin and Jackie, and.

AW

His new bride, yeah yeah- they we just had their wedding uh three weeks ago,.

A

And Herbert used to be a big supporter of swamp Squad, Sports Marblehead.

AW

And swamp Scott sports and Chelsea and Chelsea right right he's got room in his life for all of it. Okay,.

A

AW

To see you great, thank you Carrie. Thank you for coming. Thank you.

AX

Herb happy birthday here, your principal Morales we've talked about this for a whole year. We finally made it happen for you much blessings to you and your family, and let's do it again in a few years, take care. God bless very.

A

Distinguished me and right here, Michael McLaughlin, the son of former mayor um McLaughlin. He is here tonight, formerly of Kimball Road tonight, he's here: Tanya Herbie, coopersmith.

AY

And I am so pleased to be here. I can't tell you her being my father had a very strong relationship and from what I understand when uh my dad was a cop and Herbie was young, that my dad helped Mentor him and he always talked favorably about her being what a great guy is and when I met him. Everything was true, but not any better than this man right here. Carrie Schuman, my lifelong friend well.

A

We go back, we bowl together and then we met in the finals of the Chelsea free, throw championship and it was quite a match and we had a great time. That's.

AY

Right, you got a nine out of ten I got eight out out of 10, and your brother was heckling me from the backboard. Very smartly I'll, never forget that about Eric. Okay, thank.

A

You so much Robin Glazer Millbury is here attorney great soon at Chelsea, High School, a cheerleader, the daughter of Paul chalk laser and the great Gloria Glazer Robin. It's always great to see you we're here for Herbie Cooper Smith tonight, wouldn't.

AZ

Miss it caring Kirby is very near and dear to our family. um He called my brother and I and said I want you at my birthday party and we say anything that celebrates Herbie. Coopersmith will be there. You were very special, my dad I know my dad was incredibly special to you and you honor him. I know with your words tonight and we honor you for being the incredible philanthropist and Chelsea cheerleader, the ultimate Chelsea cheerleader love your army every day. Thank you and that's it. That's it wow! Well,.

A

Said by Robin Glazer Millbury class of 75. Minna Karis Moreno, MVP Community, you were voted unanimous, yes, but it was a great committee. Let's say that, yes,.

BA

And um I said to Herbie this: is it the last hurray and because he said that every time he makes a party, he pulls me back in yeah.

AB

BA

I said it's enough already we're too old well.

A

We've seen Herbie all the great things he's done for Chelsea.

BA

Oh yes, there's nobody like him.

BA

A

Forever and you've kept an outstanding friendship. Oh.

BA

A

Yeah City councilor Calvin Brown is in the house counselor Brown great to see you. Let's talk about Herbie, Cooper Smith, great.

BB

Human being great guy I'm glad to be here tonight with him. It's always great to welcome him back here and you notice when he comes here. He comes the way he started at the high school yeah and it gets bigger every year, every five years, so I'm great to be here to celebrate with him and his family tonight years old. He looks great. He does look good.

BB

He looks wonderful and it's good that he bring all his Chelsea folks back that live so far near, but they come back to support him, he's that type of guy that really had the heart and the love and the passion for the city that he grew up in and.

A

It's nice to see you councilor Brown and councilor Robinson.

BB

A

You Leo Robinson, representing the city and being here from Chelsea.

BB

Yeah again, you know it's guys, like Herbie and a lot of these folks here that I'm meeting tonight um that had with the springboard for me and Leo and Leo the little older than I am, but they actually put the groundwork down. And we just continue to work and we're proud of. What's being done here in Chelsea Chelsea.

A

High School classmate, Brandeis, University classmate, and here we are tonight and we're here to honor, happy coopersmith.

BC

I am so happy to be here, yeah. Yes, what else would you.

A

Like me, well, let's say: let's talk about the families here: okay,.

BC

My whole family's here, my brother Jeff Sorkin and his wife, Amy and then I have my sister Sherry, Cashman and Robert Cashman and then I have a friend, Joel Marcus, okay,.

A

So great to see you Nancy Beth sawkin.

BC

Yes, Nancy and Carrie I love. You thank.

A

W

I look around. It gives me an opportunity to thank so many people that have helped me in my life.

W

Besides, the story was to tell you about: I was born in Brooklyn New York Bernie Nelson was very upset that I wasn't born in shelter.

W

My mother and father got divorced when I was two and a half years old and we moved back to Chelsea on Michael's place where most of the people in here know and she dedicated her life made myself dancing.

W

She took care of me, like mothers, take care of all their kids, but I had no father.

W

So when I walked on the streets of Chelsea as a young, kid's, seven and eight years old I would play on William Street and then I would go to Arlington Street.

W

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It was a gentleman by the name of Melbourne. Black and I walked on all into the street, and he used to watch me and he said, don't go there. Go ahead.

W

Melvin died a couple years ago, but.

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Daughter, Heidi's Smith and her husband, Paul was here.

W

As time went by my mother stopped me one day outside going out the house we sat down not on a regular chair. Was it just I, don't know what it was, but it wasn't worth anything she said for me when you grow up I want you to do me. A favor and I said yes, Mother whatever you want.

W

This is I. Want you to be a giver, not to tell you I, didn't understand what.

W

Someday you'll understand what it means.

W

There was a police officer in my neighborhood by the name of you, Jay McLaughlin you he was the police officer in Ward 2 and, as Lenny will attest to was a wonderful, wonderful man loved everyone.

W

He he has two children here tonight: Michael and Diane.

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Amazing, to be.

W

What a type of wonderful man he was he later on, he became the mayor of the city of Chelsea, I was having breakfast in Clara, Conway's, chew and choke restaurant, and he came in and he said to me, Kirby I'd like to talk to you outside when you get done with breakfast I said: okay, breakfast cost five cents.

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And they said, let's take a walk up to curious, curious, 50 yards away as we walked out to carry School you had.

W

He walked in to my goal: businesses, but I understood when he came out. He had a pleasure when.

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He gave me the physical I.

W

Said man I'm in trouble ain't. Nobody gave me anything, listen!

W

Well, he said how do you like the winning School I, said: I love, it I said I'm playing basketball in the sixth grade, for this is f. It's been a great experience for me.

W

He said the chief of police told me to talk to you because he knows he knew that I liked it likes you very much.

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W

Chief of police got two phone calls. One was sweetheart paper said: you'll, be climbing up the tires on the side of the building going in the second floor and stealing the ice cream. Cones.

W

Then Eddie Walker called up said that when they would go to lunch, I would come in the side door and steal funny books and go out and sell them with my friends to go names.

W

He said Herbie I'm, going to ask you a question. If I don't like the answer.

W

I'm going to take you to your mother, who knows nothing about this and never will for me.

W

And I'm going to have to send you the shorelines.

W

Show reliable school was a reforms.

W

He says what are you going to do after this conversation?

W

I said: I'm never going to steal again as long as I live, he should go and play basketball. He was my first mentor and I thanked him, a girl from the family, especially your father, for keeping me on the straight road, because if I had gone to reform school I'd have a movement standing in tonight.

W

Mr zeph was my second method and buries that the skin tonight.

W

His uncle died at a very young age, but Julius to me was just a soup of individual, like you, phenomenal man.

W

I played in the sixth grade, as junior varsity in the seventh grade came into School. Mrs said to me: I want to see you in my office.

W

I said: okay, he said your mother came to school and sat down with the principal Mr. Wright. Remember him and he said well. She said that you.

AB

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To be my message, Kirby I know you announces who he is I know you have a very good reason, but if you don't become by messages you cannot play for me over there.

W

I love my mother more than anything in the world, but I love, basketball. Second,.

W

I said I'll become bombers.

W

He set me up with Rabbi Bloomberg on Orange Street in Chelsea. I would walk there every day and as I walked in you, people would have left. It was a black bag.

W

He said, whatever money you have put into bed, Lenny, Nelson and I were upon us some of those pigs.

W

There were more buyers in Chelsea than there were police officers.

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Think about what is and what was.

W

I was very fortunate: I went every day of the day that we didn't practice all right in the summer, and I would put 10 cents or 20 cents in the bag. Whatever I had sometimes I got a tip. I put a dollar in.

W

Just before a week before my bar mitzvah I came in.

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The rabbi said: herbia one wish you luck in your mom this one. He said. Please take the bag with you. When you leave I said that's the money, I earned. That's all I had he said Mr zeph paid for your mom mental business.

W

When I was my Misfit I walked over to Junius who came and they gave him a big hug and kiss and I thanked him for putting me on the racetrack in my life today.

W

Means an awful lot to me and I want to thank any metros and his wife who thinks for being here, but for keeping the show alive.

W

My third person is so pure in my life was a person by the name of child plays them, and his wonderful wife, Gloria Robin, is here tonight and Bruce was here and he left gotta go to work, dancing.

W

Bruce Chuck laser to me was just like UE and Judaism.

W

It was a given on the table, he helped everybody and he helped me through. This has got me a scholarship at the ymha.

W

And when I was just turned, 12 was 13 years old.

W

I joined the Chelsea clubs, where I had friends by the name of David and Judy Cohen forever. It's every Friedman forever.

W

It was. The Clovis was a special thing for me, presented an opportunity to meet other people and I got a free scholarship.

W

Chuck set me up and helped me with anything and everything.

W

Both he and his wife have died.

W

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It amazes me to realize how many people I became friendly with foreign.

W

But the Chelsea Clovis were very special. It afforded me an opportunity to meet and greet so many people that don't help me through my life.

W

When I look around and I say, where am I doing with this trying to take care of all the people that took care of me as I, walk around and I see friends Frankie the paddle who had played against Windham School, we played at Williams, they play this trip. They were kind of school people here.

W

Saint Rose and the wooden School everybody hated us. Nobody would like us. Lenny you've been a nobody when it became situation through Aza and through basketball. Frankie dupatto and I became good friends. I've known Frankie for over 70 years.

W

Frankie to battle was the athletic director at Chelsea. High School was the principal and president of my class.

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A football coach at Everett, High, School and football I should say Athletics director.

W

It's amazing to me that there's a person here tonight by the name of Lester Morales Lester, is one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life in the world of givers he's the ultimate.

W

He would help anybody and everyone, and still does the same today. I want to thank him for making donations of Walnut Street show for over 20 years.

W

Through ACA and this Chelsea Clovis I had an alarm to be friends with Bert Margolis was passed away as white Flinders or nursing home and and Mike Smith and I have been friends for over 70 years, even though I played against these people and they hated the winning School Michael's. Here with a wonderful friend, beautiful girl, Hello, his brother Larry, a wonderful wonderful person recently lost his wife, who is a beautiful girl.

W

A wonderful mother, Larry has three daughters. Several grandchildren God bless you Larry for coming, and thank you.

W

And his lovely wife.

W

There's so many people here tonight, Marcy corn and his wife Gail.

W

I didn't think I'd. Remember all this up.

W

As Time asked on and being at the ymha.

W

It was a man by the name of moxie, Feinberg I, don't know, Ralph is here or not tonight it's not as I walk into the YMCA into the locker room.

W

He would give me a temple when I walked in to get changed, to go up and play basketball upstairs.

W

I walked up to the area where we passed outside I said: I opened the towel on the Donald fell out. He said. Welcome to Christmas, never said he gave it to me. I knew he gave it to me. Coming out of Chelsea I learned two things street spots and Common Sense.

W

As time went on and that's the ymha I met a gentleman by the name of Harry Colton Harry was a representative from the Chelsea area and became the head legal counsel for the house of Massachusetts.

W

Thank you. When I started to make money, Harry Colton became a big part of my life.

W

My mother had a couple of accidents from the MBTA and he took care of him and when I started working and making money, he introduced me to someone who would love to have been here tonight. Don carlosaga, but his daughter got engaged in memory.

W

Those were the mentors that I've had in my life.

W

People that I'm talking about the Freddie antlers and the jury Feldman people that I grew up with Barry Gordon.

W

Excuse me moving on. Oh, my wife wants me to move it on. What else is there.

W

Are so many people here.

W

But meeting people with the ymha I had the privilege to be Ali and Isaac's brother was here tonight and Jim bond to see it tonight. She was one of the best people I ever met in my life. She was a giver and make and wanted to make people happy.

W

You meet so many people at the Waimea over the years, Alaine died and I'm. Very sorry. I went to different mountains, sorry that she did that because she was a wonderful person.

W

Thank you as time flies by I met, Bobby Kaplan who's, the president of the Clovis and then then my friend, my lifelong friend Murray Frank Murray was a very special. It's a Brotherhood that I never had different than Lenny Nelson, but in my oldest room.

W

It's amazing to me that as time.

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And you think of the people who played a plot in your life and I want to thank those people.

W

There were people that I played basketball with Joe rodruka Jerry Kramer from Malden.

W

Mr Livingston and someone from Chelsea by their name of salads Julie status, God bless you and, as I look around the room, you want to go somewhere else with human.

W

God bless you it's tonight, there's almost the end, but I want to say there were two reasons that I'm here tonight. One is to do this. The.

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To try to raise money for Chelsea High School students to go to college.

W

And the principal of high school openers here tonight if I missed anybody, let me back up because he's helping is Stevie Kyle.

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Judy chef, chef cup.

W

There's a wonderful person by the name of Bobby shernack.

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Bobby Sherman.

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Was a run started to run the University of Hartford, and then he went to George Washington University.

W

I got a phone call from him one day he said, could you call Mike chalvis I would like him to come to George Washington University, I called Mike, Travis and I helped him get the job at Boston, University and then I helped him get the job at GW as I've gone through helping a lot of kids go to college.

W

There are certain things that I always remember.

W

So I want to read you something.

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By the name, gentleman.

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Of David Siggers are you here tonight David? Where are you I guess he's not here.

W

He stayed and lived as a medical student at Judy and David Cohen's house in my body.

W

David said to me: he's a good player, so I went out to see him I helped him go to folk, Union, Military Academy and then got him into Stonehill College.

W

He wrote me a letter which I'm going to read: I, don't know what to say, but if it wasn't the weren't, if there wasn't herb coopersmiths in the world today, then wouldn't be David Siggers going to Stonehill. Thank you for all you have done for me. My life has changed in meeting a person like you has made me become a man and a mature adult.

W

So people like you are my ass. I can't go wrong. I never had a white father, but I. Consider you my Oreo cookie father, I love you forever and maybe one day I'll be able to do something for you. God bless you David.

W

If there's anybody who would like to come up and say something to come up, I'll give you the money.

AU

Thanks for that lovely speech, pop appreciate that, uh for those of you who don't know me, my name is Mike Walsh and I am Papa, Herbie's oldest grandchild, uh I promise. The speech will not last night, but he is a man of many years of wisdom and has a lot of wonderful things to say so. I appreciate you all to say um so again. Thank you for coming to Papa's birthday celebration for the 432nd time at Chelsea, High School, uh it's good to be back here.

AU

All of you know. uh My grandfather is a very special man and if you're sitting in this room he's probably affected your life in.

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AU

Very positive way: uh I am one of three grandchildren Pablo mentioned earlier. My sister Jackie, my little brother Colin um I, want to say on behalf of the three of us. We all love you very, very much more than you know. um I was just married very recently and to have three grandparents.

AU

Thank you to have three grandparents. There was a real treat, I mean my wife, unfortunately does not have any grandparents with us still and and I know. You know she thinks of all three you guys as her own grandparents and it's a special special thing so cheers to you guys.

AU

So where I was going with this is that all of us could say a million positive things about my grandfather and, of course, I. Could too I have thousands of stories I could tell? But what I want to talk about are things that in the Walsh family we call Papa isms.

AU

What do you think of puppies? We heard a few of them earlier during the speech and what they are are little sayings or old adages that my papa likes to say things like I wish for you. What you wish for yourself right, I've heard that thousands of times over the course of my life and the first time, I heard it. What I thought was seems like a little bit of a cop out right like happy birthday, I wish for you what you wish for yourself and I was like he doesn't have anything to say.

AU

He's got nothing to wish me right now, like that's the best you can come up with and what I over the years, what I learned was it's actually very profound and all of his puppies have very very deep, profound knowledge. I I really think that I'm, not joking I'm serious, so what I think I wish for you.

AU

What you wish for yourself means is that my papa cares about everybody around him so much, and he really does wish the best for you and who other than yourself knows what's best for you right, that's why he says it: it's not it's not because you can't think of something yeah.

AU

Another one is: we've heard this a couple times tonight: I want you to be a giver and not a taker. That's a serious lesson.

AS

I think generosity.

AU

Is one of the biggest superpowers anybody can have on the planet? Earth I really do and I think that nobody is more generous and nobody illustrates generosity better than my puppy. So yeah.

AU

And number three we haven't heard this one tonight so I'll be the first to say it, but it's we plan and God gives us right. We hear that quite a bit and.

I

BB

AU

Means is to the best of your ability you stay in the moment. You stay present. You surround yourself with the people that you love the most, that you do everything in your power to make life easier for them. That's what that means to me so again, Papa we love you so much. We love your publicisms and everything else that comes along with you being exactly who you are. Don't ever change, cheers and happy birthday.

AU

W

Missed a couple of people.

W

I would like to thank any metros for keeping the Walmart spiritual alive.

W

W

My friend Lenny Nelson is very very special person to me.

W

He was my oldest friend. I met him in the first grade.

W

We played basketball together and had done so many things that we had remained friends.

W

For a long long time he was the boss, because he was two days older than me: Lenny.

W

Is very special in many ways, but it was a great great drama all around the world.

W

The world we're all different kind of bands, had a friendship in Korea who was a great jazz pianist, very, very close, friendly military.

W

Lenny is very unique: he's taught at famous school in Boston. What's the name of that school I know what it was for 30 some odd years, but.

AF

W

Most impressive thing that I have to say about Lenny and his beautiful life Josephine.

W

A lot of you- people don't know this, but Lenny is the last of 26 kids, one mother, one father all single births.

W

W

Very Nelson to me saved my life a lot of times, I'm not going to get into stories about Blinky or the rest of them.

W

But it's amazing to me to look around the room and thank so many people that are here Theory Kramers committing a wonderful committee that I've had my.

AB

W

Oldest friend is Jerry finger bless. You bless you.

W

If it wasn't for Jerry thing, I wouldn't have gone to college. He helped me a lot in many ways in which I would like to talk about here tonight. There.

W

AB

So many people here tonight.

W

And my cousin Andrea is here my daughter: Michael was all family, so anybody else who wants to come up I finish my job tonight.

AT

AT

Everybody he's a saint.

G

For a few moments, we actually had to do a little research on to find a number in Michael's place.

G

Actually I did find. It is existence we got together. We got a special presentation for hernia. It would be here.

G

All right, so it's all for the community belong to City, who got a special presentation for her being with me. So on the corner of Walnut and Fort Street, where the Walnut Street show is away.