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A Good Age: Dancing with the stars – the seniors
“Dancing with the Stars” – the snappy seniors version. Lots of waltzes. The cha cha. Even the disco classic “Y.M.C.A.”
They’re still talking about this year’s Senior Senior Prom over at the Simon C. Fireman Community in Randolph.
On a recent weekday evening, 25 students from Randolph High School arrived at the residence for seniors bearing refreshments and flowers and dressed in tuxedos and dresses. The young people spent the evening dancing and talking with 90 of the residents, most in their 80s and 90s.
The buzz afterward was that “Ed Marcus danced every dance.”
“Oh?” said Marcus, who is 84, with a chuckle. “I didn’t know I was being observed.”
How about 85-year-old Dorothy Rosenberg, prom queen, who spent the evening giving dancing lessons to the young people.
“I showed them a few steps that are very, very in vogue,” Rosenberg said. “Not something where you say, ‘Come swing with me,’ but dance steps that are applicable to the elderly.
“And the young people were so enthralled with the dancing lesson. I was very popular! I felt like I was 17 again.”
It was the third such prom at the Hebrew Senior Life residence and “the best ever,” said Mary McCarthy of Quincy, assistant administrator. “The students included freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors and plenty of boys from the baseball team. They went from table to table, asking residents to dance, sitting and talking,” she said.
Hao Trieu, 17, was the tireless organizer. A junior who chairs the student council’s community service program, she wanted the older people “to have fun, to relive their memories.”
She got much more than that.
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