{"id":704,"date":"2012-04-03T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:23:45","slug":"farewell-roslyn-gemeren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/uncategorized\/farewell-roslyn-gemeren\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Roslyn Gemeren"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have… The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits”.<\/span><\/p>\n

~ Shneidman (1980)<\/span><\/p>\n

One of our former instructors, Roslyn Gemeren, passed away on Friday March 30. Ros had suffered from an eating disorder for many years and her death has been attributed to complications arising from this.<\/p>\n

Ros started teaching for Jacki\u2019s in June 1998 and over her years as an instructor she taught at Hornsby, Carlingford, Ryde East and St. Ives. Students from many other classes would have met Ros when she filled in for sick or injured instructors. She was generous to a fault and never said \u201cno\u201d when asked by another instructor to take over a class at very short notice.<\/p>\n

Ros was open, honest, sweet-natured and a truly \u201cgood\u201d person.<\/p>\n

After she stopped teaching for Jacki\u2019s in late 2005, we kept in touch from time to time. She always enquired after everyone in my family, and was famous for posting handmade cards for birthdays, Christmas and, touchingly, Mothers\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n

I visited Ros when she was staying at a treatment facility in Ashfield, and on some occasions I brought her back to my house for afternoon tea. Instructors Jennifer Lee and Sue Pretty both accompanied me on various visits and I know that their support meant a lot to Ros.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll miss Ros, and my heart goes out to her family \u2013 her sister Meredith, her father Joost and her stepmother Helen.<\/p>\n

Ros was 42 years old.<\/p>\n

If you have a memory of Ros please feel free to share it here.<\/p>\n

Diana Royds<\/p>\n

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Roslyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have… The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits”. ~ Shneidman (1980) One of our former instructors, Roslyn Gemeren, passed … Continue reading Farewell Roslyn Gemeren<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dancers-posts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}