This Website is dedicated to the Memory of Francis and Eleanor Meyer |
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| ALIROW | ALIROW,
The Association for Learning in Retirement Organizations
of the West, was founded in 1985, by Francis A. Meyers.
Francis was a violinist, a life-long scholar, a
renaissance man, president of J.A. Meyers and Company,
and past president of the PLATO Society of UCLA.
A violinist, educated at the Eastman School of Music and UCLA, Meyers taught band and orchestra in Los Angeles city schools and was conductor of musicals performed by the Los Angeles Youth Theater. He also performed with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra and was the organizer and director for eight years for the concert series of the Hollywood-Los Feliz Jewish Community Center Temple Emanuel Chamber Symphony. By his side, for the past 56 years stood his lovely wife Eleanor. A musician in her own right, Eleanor was a cellist and performed in the same orchestras as her husband. A past president of the family business she too became active in the learning groups after her retirement. The couple have endowed a chamber music scholarship at the UCLA School of Music. Tragically, Francis A. Meyers, age 82 and his wife Eleanor, age 78, died in an automobile accident on April 20, 1997. They are survived by three daughters, an adopted daughter and six granddaughters. They will be missed by their many friends from around the world. |
He
began working with senior citizens' learning groups only after he retired
from the business world and sold his family jewelry
manufacturing business. Meyers also worked with and
served as pioneering president of UCLA Extension's
Organization known as the PLATO Society, one of the first
learning in retirement organizations in the west.
"It kept me alive, frankly," Meyers told The
Times in 1994. "It has keep my mind going. I am
constantly studying, reading, discussing, teaching, and
so forth"
