Mort Mazor

Mort Mazor spent the years 1939 to 1985 (excluding the three years when he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946) in the New York area working as a marketing communications executive, including twenty-six years in the distilled spirits industry with two major distillers.

Since retiring to Florida in 1986, he has written articles about people and community affairs that have been published in the Palm Beach Post "Neighborhood Post" editions, The Sun-Sentinel, Boca Raton News and the defunct Upbeat Senior Magazine, where he also did a short stint as Managing Editor.

From 2008 to present he has been a free-lance contributor of more than 140 articles to the Sunday Sun-Sentinel Community Section, Palm Beach County editions and the Delray and Boca Forum editions and Young @ Heart Magazine.

Volunteers as Vice President in several civic organizations: the Alliance of Delray Residential Associations, Swing & Jazz Preservation Society, Hearing Loss Association of America South Palm Beach County Chapter, serving all as Communications Director. He maintains and contributes to www.swingandjazzpreservationsociety.org website.

He has written more than 100 "Member Profiles" for the Boca Raton Computer Society, published in past issues of their monthly magazine "Boca Bits."

From December 2001 to March 2005 (each winter season) he taught a course to Brandeis University National Women's local chapter members on "How to Write the Story of Your Life." Recruited by the Kings Point community to give this course in 2006, changed it to a Creative Writing Course and taught there until 2011 when he moved the class to the new Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach. He conducts a Writer's Roundtable during spring and summer months at this facility, and writes mini-bios of members.

Authored a book titled "My New York 1939-1985...and what happened afterward," available from amazon.com, about the people he worked with in his business career, and works of fiction and non fiction.

He has also written a novel set in the distilled spirits industry, The Drink Masters, available at Lulu.com as an e-book, based on his experience in the industry.

Mort lives in Delray Beach with wife Lucille. They celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary March 20, 2011. They have two surviving sons, three grandsons and one great-granddaughter, 10 year old, Sophie Grace Mazor, the first girl in the family in four generations.