Sheldon Shares His Story

   When Sheldon talks about his long life, this 82-year-old retired executive uses an example that makes it fairly easy to grasp what he did in and around his home state of Maryland in the steel erection business. Then he brings up a couple of other even more fascinating bits of information about himself and the full picture of this Baltimore native begins to come into focus.

The first part of his story is interesting enough all by itself.. “You’ve seen one of those big box stores, right?” Sheldon begins his explanation with just one example of what a steel erection company does. “You'll see it going up and before the whole shell is built you'll see the steel framing that holds the whole thing up. We would put up the steel framing, the steel columns and beams, joists and deck. And we would put all that up. We did that.”

There’s of course a lot more to his life in the steel industry and the many ways steel has been used to enable the building of the modern world. But the fact is Sheldon put that life behind him almost ten years ago when he stepped away from his company. “Back 1985, I started a steel erection company with a fellow I knew in the business. We grew it to a company doing business in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. He handled the outside operations and I ran the inside operations of our business. We were partners up until 2015 when I decided to retire. We had a great partnership, never argued for 30 years, which is probably one of the reasons why we were very successful.”

Among the other reasons Sheldon has had his share of success in life is that he knows how to enjoy life, as evidenced by staying active. He takes long walks, plays tennis with old friends and keeps up his lifelong love of dancing. “My mother would be cooking and there’s a Baltimore radio station that was playing big band music and when there would be a song that she really liked, she'd stop cooking and grab me and we’d dance in the kitchen.”

He's still dancing these days, everything from ballroom to big band swing and rock ‘n’ roll, it doesn’t matter, he’ll be out there dancing and having the time of his life. And on top of all that, every so often, people mistake Sheldon for a well-known wild haired mathematician and all around genius.

“People in restaurants, they’ve grabbed me,” he tells his story. “’You look like Einstein,’ they say. It happened to me about six months ago, where this lady sat next to me at a restaurant and she grabbed my arm and she said ,’You know who you look like?’ Yes, I know, I said, Albert Einstein, right? ‘Yes!’ she said, ‘I just wanted to let you know.’”

Just to add a lick of credence to his story, Sheldon supplies a snapshot of himself sticking out his tongue, the photo bearing a remarkable likeness to a well-known photo of the famous father of the relativity theory doing the same thing with his tongue.

“I try to live a healthy lifestyle. I try to eat right,” he continues. “I go to breakfast with guys that I went to junior high school with and we talk about the crazy things that we did when we were young.

He first gave Prevagen a try back in 2015 when he had reached his Seventies and was beginning to have minor trouble with memory. “You know, sometimes my memory wasn’t perfect,” Sheldon says with a characteristic chuckle.
“Prevagen has really improved my memory,” he reports. ”I’ve stayed with Prevagen ever since 2015 and I can tell you it's done alright by me.”