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His parents are William Sr. and Della Shapere Weiller. He has one sibling, Jean (Rubenstein). The family attended Mont Sinai Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Bill moved from Minnesota to Georgia to attend Georgia Tech, where he pursued a degree in Architecture, graduating in 1951. During his time as a student, he was a member of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, an aide to Dean George Griffin, and business manager of the Technique, the Georgia Tech student newspaper.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e In 1952, Bill married Margaret Strauss. After spending a year in Baltimore, Maryland while he was in the Air Force, they returned to Atlanta, where Bill worked with Oscar Strauss at his company before moving on to a series of other companies, including the Atlanta Paper Company, Fulton Paper Company, and Crown Zellerbach. Bill and Margaret had three daughters: (Bock), Margo (Edlin), and Beth (Arogeti).\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eBill Weiller discusses growing up in Minnesota and his family’s meatpacking business. He talks about moving to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Georgia Tech and recalls his first experiences with segregation in the American South. He reflects on his decision to not take on the family business after his father’s death and his uncle’s decision to retire, stating that he wanted to remain in Atlanta. He talks about his time as a student, especially his experience in Phi Epsilon Pi and his friendships. He discusses his relationship with Margaret Strauss and their decision to marry in 1952 during his brief military service. He [discusses] his post-military career, first working for his wife’s father – Oscar Strauss Jr. – before moving on to work in a series of paper companies, including Atlanta Paper Company and Fulton Paper Company. He shares stories of long-time friends, including Sam Massell, Jerry Cooper, and Ernie Scheller.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBill also reflects on his family and their lives. He talks about his daughters and their husbands. He reflects on Jewish life in his and his wife’s household while raising their daughters, including his decision to have a Christmas tree and his daughters’ decision to no longer celebrate Christmas. He details his wife’s work for Jewish causes and her career at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, including her time as director of Women’s Philanthropy. He reflects on how Atlanta has changed since he moved there in 1947 to attend college and how the Atlanta Jewish community has grown since the late 1940s.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28784"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Weiller, William (personal name)","Arogeti, Joel (personal name)","Weiller, Della Shapere (personal name)","Rothschild, Janice (personal name)","Rothschild, Jacob Mortimer (1911-1973) (personal name)","Weiller, Henry (personal name)","Rubenstein, Jean Weiller (personal name)","Guthman, Sig (1928-2008) (personal name)","Finn, Alexander (personal name)","Zacharias, Eugene (personal name)","Wasser, Dick (personal name)","Scheller, Ernest (personal name)","Benatar, Leonard (personal name)","Cooper, Jerry (personal name)","Hirsch, Judy (personal name)","Strauss, Oscar Jr. (1908-1981) (personal name)","Strauss, Margaret (personal name)","Weiller, Margaret Strauss (1933-2012) (personal name)","Rich, Richard H. 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(personal name)","Rosenberg, Leon (personal name)","Epstein, Harry Hyman (1903-2003) (personal name)","Ichay, Robert (1929-2012) (personal name)","Leavey, Jean Denaburg (personal name)","Blonder, Lois Semel (personal name)","Massell, Samuel Alan (1927-2022) (personal name)","Margolis, Harry Sterling (1897-1946) (personal name)","Griffin, George (1897-1990) (personal name)","Georgia Institute of Technology (corporate name)","Phi Epsilon Pi (corporate name)","Alpha Epsilon Pi (corporate name)","Tau Epsilon Phi (corporate name)","The Technique (corporate name)","Rich's Department Store (corporate name)","Lackland Air Force Base (corporate name)","The Temple (corporate name)","Hebrew Benevolent Congregation (corporate name)","Atlanta Paper Company (corporate name)","Fulton Paper Company (corporate name)","Crown Zellerbach Paper Company (corporate name)","Progressive Club (corporate name)","Mayfair Club (corporate name)","Standard Club (corporate name)","Congregation Or VeShalom (corporate name)","Mount Sinai Temple (Saint Paul, Mn.) 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During his time as a student, he was a member of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, an aide to Dean George Griffin, and business manager of the Technique, the Georgia Tech student newspaper. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;In 1952, Bill married Margaret Strauss. After spending a year in Baltimore, Maryland while he was in the Air Force, they returned to Atlanta, where Bill worked with Oscar Strauss at his company before moving on to a series of other companies, including the Atlanta Paper Company, Fulton Paper Company, and Crown Zellerbach. Bill and Margaret had three daughters: (Bock), Margo (Edlin), and Beth (Arogeti).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill Weiller discusses growing up in Minnesota and his family\u0026rsquo;s meatpacking business. He talks about moving to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Georgia Tech and recalls his first experiences with segregation in the American South. He reflects on his decision to not take on the family business after his father\u0026rsquo;s death and his uncle\u0026rsquo;s decision to retire, stating that he wanted to remain in Atlanta. He talks about his time as a student, especially his experience in Phi Epsilon Pi and his friendships. He discusses his relationship with Margaret Strauss and their decision to marry in 1952 during his brief military service. He [discusses] his post-military career, first working for his wife\u0026rsquo;s father \u0026ndash; Oscar Strauss Jr. \u0026ndash; before moving on to work in a series of paper companies, including Atlanta Paper Company and Fulton Paper Company. He shares stories of long-time friends, including Sam Massell, Jerry Cooper, and Ernie Scheller.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBill also reflects on his family and their lives. He talks about his daughters and their husbands. He reflects on Jewish life in his and his wife\u0026rsquo;s household while raising their daughters, including his decision to have a Christmas tree and his daughters\u0026rsquo; decision to no longer celebrate Christmas. He details his wife\u0026rsquo;s work for Jewish causes and her career at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, including her time as director of Women\u0026rsquo;s Philanthropy. He reflects on how Atlanta has changed since he moved there in 1947 to attend college and how the Atlanta Jewish community has grown since the late 1940s.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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This is Joel Arogeti, and I'm here on behalf of the\nWilliam Breman Museum, the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project. I\nhave the distinct pleasure of speaking with William Weiller. William \"Bill\"\nWeiller. Bill is here today to tell us his story. With that introduction, Bill,\nwould you just share with us where and when were you born? Tell us a little bit\nabout yourself when you were growing up.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: I was born on January 11, 1929, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, [where] I\nstayed until I came to college in Atlanta [Georgia]. My family was in the cattle\nbusiness and the meatpacking business, and I was destined--the only son of two\nbrothers--to go into the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. However, when I graduated from high school, I\nhad selected, through various means, Georgia Tech [Georgia Institute of\nTechnology], to go to school because of their architectural program. Although I\nwas also interviewed by Caltech [California Institute of Technology] and M.I.T.\n[Massachusetts Institute of Technology], I liked the atmosphere and the layout\nof Georgia Tech. I had never been in the South before. A lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people\nquestioned why I should be coming to the South. \"You know what the situation is\ndown there,\" which they were referring to segregation. I said, but their school\nprogram best suited me, so I decided to go there.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us the names of your parents, your father and your mother, and\nanything you remember about your grandparents, if anything.\n\nWEILLER: My mother was Della Shapere Weiller, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and she always prided . . . Her\nname is S-H-A-P-E-R-E. A lot of people doubted it because they said it should\nhave been S-H-A-P-I-R-O. Just as a sidestep on that, I had a cousin go to Europe\nmany years ago. He went to the hometown of my family and went to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"third-floor\nbottom basement and found the records of my family. My mother's father was\nJoseph S-H-A-P-E-R-E. So that identified . . . that's what I was. Then, I said,\nthey eventually . . . they were all in . . . most of the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"businesspeople\nover there were in some way connected to the farmlands or the meatpacking\nbusiness or things like that. My uncle and my father came here. They first came\nto Buffalo, New York, and through a series of moves eventually ended up in Saint\nPaul, Minnesota. The meatpacking business had to be southern Saint Paul, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"south\nSaint Paul, Minnesota. And they organized a firm called Weiller and Weiller\nCommission Company. I was destined by my family to go into that business.\nHowever, after two years in at Georgia Tech, my uncle . . . my father had passed\naway and my uncle had made, not an ultimatum, but just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"decision I had to make,\nand he would give me six months to make it, whether I was coming back to the\ncompany business or he was going to sell it, or whatever I wanted to do, but I\nhad to make that decision. The atmosphere in Atlanta was much different than it\nwas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I had aligned myself with a lot of real nice\nfriends, being introduced to those people by Rabbi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rothschild, who, within 24\nhours of my appearing in Atlanta, I had a call from Janice [Rothschild] from the\nRabbi Rothschild in Saint Paul saying a new Jewish boy was coming to Atlanta.\nWithin, as I said, within a half a day, she had got in touch with me through\nGeorgia Tech and invited me for dinner because it was the holiday in September,\nwhich ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I thought was very, very nice. I was immediately connected with the Jewish\nclientele, mostly Reform, which I came from Mount Zion. As I said, I became very\nfriendly with Janice and Rabbi Rothschild, and they more or less guided me\nthrough Atlanta, meeting friend. That's how I really got involved here.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, before we talk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"further about the decision to go or not go into\nthe family business. Your father, his name, what was his name?\n\nWEILLER: William.\n\nAROGETI: William Weiller. And your uncle's name. What was it?\n\nWEILLER: Henry.\n\nAROGETI: Henry. Henry Weiller?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nAROGETI: And Henry had no children?\n\nWEILLER: Henry had an adopted child.\n\nAROGETI: An adopted child.\n\nWEILLER: But he was not able to come into the business.\n\nAROGETI: And you had a sister?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, Jean [Weiller Rubenstein].\n\nAROGETI: Tell us a little bit about Jean.\n\nWEILLER: Jean was, as I said, my sister. She more or less followed the same\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"routine. She met some very nice Jewish couples and girls, she once had . . .\nEventually, she went to the University of Minnesota and she maintained her\npresence here in Atlanta, married into a Minneapolis family. And she never . . .\nShe's always here.\n\nAROGETI: Here, being in Minnesota.\n\nWEILLER: Saint Paul.\n\nAROGETI: Saint Paul.\n\nWEILLER: Saint Paul and Minneapolis, I should say. That's where she lived.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eventually, my uncle, he wanted to get out and he very generously offered me not\nonly my part, my legally part of the business from my father, but also his\nportion of the business. I had to make up my mind because he was going to get\nout. I found the climate in Atlanta much more conducive to me rather than the\ncold, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sleek winters they had up here. Plus, my friendship had become pretty\ninvolved in Atlanta. So, I told him that I'm sorry, that I just have not decided\nto come into the business. So, as I said, he disposed of the business about six\nmonths later.\n\nAROGETI: You were a sophomore or junior at Georgia Tech at the time?\n\nWEILLER: I was a junior.\n\nAROGETI: And so, when did you start college? When did you graduate high school\nand start college?\n\nWEILLER: I started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in 1947 and graduated in 1951.\n\nAROGETI: And so in 1947, it was a couple of years . . . . you started college when?\n\nWEILLER: 1947.\n\nAROGETI: In 1947. So, you started college after World War Two? You were in high\nschool in Saint Paul?\n\nWEILLER: Well, the World War was still going on because it was still definitely\nactive. I don't think that World War got over until 1949, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't it?\n\nAROGETI: 1945 is when the U.S. declared victory in Germany.\n\nWEILLER: Oh, well anyway, the army and everything else was still stationed. I\nhad . . . my brother-in-law was stationed in Germany, in fact. There was no\nreason for me to go back to Saint Paul. Most . . . I like to just insert this to\nget the record straight. Most of my friends in Minneapolis and Saint Paul told\nme I shouldn't be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to Georgia Tech because it was in the South, and \"You\nknow what the South is like. There's a lot of\"--and I won't use the word,\nbut--\"controlling Atlanta. You're going to find it very, very difficult.\"\n\nAROGETI: How old were you at that time, Bill?\n\nWEILLER: Eighteen.\n\nAROGETI: You came down to Georgia Tech right after graduating high school. you\nwere a young man. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You mentioned the word . . . You may have mentioned the word\nsegregation. Had there been any segregation that you observed when you were\ngrowing up in Minnesota?\n\nWEILLER: No, they . . . most of my friends said, \"Bill, you don't want to go to\nthe South,\" and they mentioned the segregation. That \"you aren't going to get\nalong.\" Well, I didn't pay too much attention to them. I still didn't. 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As kids were, we all ran,\nhuddled in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back, just sat down. The bus came to a stop, and the driver\nlooked at us through the mirror and said--this is on camera [crooks finger in a\n\"come here\" motion]--just went like this to us. I went like this [points to\nhimself] He said \"Yes, you.\" I went to the front, and he says, \"I can't drive\nthis bus any further. You aren't from the South. 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So, you have to move.\"\n\nAROGETI: Bill, this was when you were a freshman, just getting ready to start\nGeorgia Tech?\n\nWEILLER: The first day that I was down here.\n\nAROGETI: Wow.\n\nWEILLER: That was my first experience of what they talked about, segregation.\nAtlanta was not as segregated as a lot of people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thought it was. It was turning\nto be a white community, a large, bustling city. To illustrate the difference\nthat I found, one of the fellows on the hall invited me to his home for\nThanksgiving. This is the first Thanksgiving. We went down to his house. 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What fraternity did you join?\n\nWEILLER: Well, a very lucky thing, through again the first couple of days that I\nwas here, Rabbi Rothschild was informed that I was here, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is that I was at his\nhouse that night for dinner, for the holidays. It was the third night I was in\ntown. He said, \"You know, I think there is a young fellow starting at Georgia\nTech. I'm going to see if he is available and see if he can meet you.\" The very\nnext day, I'm sitting in my dormitory room and here comes this fellow in, said,\n\"Is there a Bill Weiller around here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"someplace?\" And he . . . I am him. It\nturned out to be my first and my lifelong friend, who passed away a few years\nago, who I miss dearly. His name was Sig Guthman and he was very active in the\nJewish community. He got me because I never went around with a Jewish community\nbefore. 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I was fully indoctrinated\nwithin, I'd say three weeks, mainly because the Rabbi Rothschild and Rabbi\nMargolis, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who was the one who called Rothschild from Saint Paul. And here I am.\n\nAROGETI: As a result of your friendship with Sig Guthman, did you join a fraternity?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, of course. He was a freshman too, but he was being rushed for a\nfraternity. There was a fellow named Zander Finn. Alexander Finn from Saint\nLouis. 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To make it very complete, I ended up being the president\nof Phi Ep for a period of a couple of years. I built, along with a fellow named\nZacharias, Eugene Zacharias, which was old time Atlanta friend. He was a big Phi\nEp guy, and he was in charge of a new fraternity house. And lo and behold, I\nended up being the president of it, the active-duty ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"member of getting the Phi Ep\nhouse completed, which, by the way, still stands at Georgia Tech. They had to\nremodel it two or three times. But that was my little baby. My grades did suffer\nbecause of it, though. Not, not so . . . I went from a very high ranked school\nto a medium school. I found out that school isn't the most important thing in\nlife and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friendship and how far you get in the community. And I said, I became\nthe business manager of the Georgia Tech Technique.\n\nAROGETI: Was that the student newspaper?\n\nWEILLER: That was the student newspaper. I became an aide to Dean Griffin, who\nwas the chief officer in school of fraternities and things like. I had a very\nhappy, successful life. It wasn't not all rounded out with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"education, but it was\nrounded out socially and everything else. That's the way I am.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, who were some of your fraternity pledge mates besides Sig Guthman\nthat you remember or some of your upperclassmen that might be well known here in\nthe Atlanta community?\n\nWEILLER: Phil Rathels [sp] was one from Philadelphia. Dick Wasserstein, who is\nnow Dick Wasser, was a member, a pledge brother with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. He unfortunately, at\nthe end of each sentence, I have to say, I'm not going to say it, but you can\nimagine. Those people that I talk about, they've all passed away.\n\nAROGETI: Well, Bill, you're 91, almost 92 or . . .\n\nWEILLER: I'm 92.\n\nAROGETI: 92, almost 93 years young. So we recognize the fact that you've\noutlived many of your friends.\n\nWEILLER: Everybody, everybody.\n\nAROGETI: Many of your friends. Besides Dick Wasser Wasserstein, were there any\nother Atlantans at Georgia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tech around the same time that you went, and you\nattended, even if they weren't in your fraternity?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, there is one who was in my fraternity that I'm very proud to know.\nHe was my 'baby brother.' Each senior had to take somebody on as their\nassignment. He was my 'baby brother.' This fellow was fairly unsociable. He\nreally didn't have good table manners. I remember these things about him. 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His name is Ernie Scheller, I don't know if\nyou've heard of Ernie Scheller ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before. Ernie Scheller came from up in the\neastern part, Philadelphia, in that area. Ernie, a few years ago, donated 30\nmillion dollars to build the Scheller Business Management School at Georgia\nTech. We hadn't seen each other in some time, and he invited me to be at its\ninauguration. Ernie didn't know I was going to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there but as he came from the\nopening of the door down to the stage where I was, he saw me and he ran,\nliterally ran, \"Bill, Bill, Bill!\" And people were absolutely amazed. We hugged\nand kissed and everything else, here Ernie Scheller with now . . . When we went\nto sit down, I was sitting in the student . . . The family said, \"No, you're\ngoing to sit with us.\" I said, \"No, I'm good.\" \"You're sitting with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us.\" So,\nfrom then on, I was known as Ernie Scheller's friend. People used to . . . I\ncan't think of . . . Bow down to me. There's another word, but I won't use it.\nBut we became very . . . We don't see each other too much. Ernie is more or less\nretired and just for a short . . . just, I think I should insert this because I\nwant to tell you that what Ernie learned at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia Tech was how to manage\npeople and manage business. His family invented the metallic paint for cars.\nNow, as you know, all cars, new cars have a little glow. Well, that is aluminum\nin there. His factory invented a way to grind up aluminum so it could be stirred\nin and stayed with paint. As I said . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, since that time, Ernie doesn't\nhave any brothers. His sister passed away. And since that time, he now is\nretired also. But he has given a spark. Now, all of my fraternity brothers, they\nall want to kiss me because, \"Oh, you know Ernie . . . you went to Ernie . . .\"\nJust as fine a guy as you ever met in your life.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, in addition to Ernie Scheller, there were also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some young Jewish\nboys from Atlanta and Savannah that were also at Georgia Tech. Some of them were\nnot in your fraternity. They may have been a TEP or AEPi. Tell us a little bit\nabout some of the other people. There's one prominent architect in town.\n\nWEILLER: Well, there's there is . . . You don't have to refresh my memory on it\nbecause we're very, very friendly. There was about five of us who were very\nclose in the beginning, but as I said, two of them went to TEP and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three of them\nwent to AEpi and I went to Phi Ep. The one that you're referring to is a fellow\nnamed Leo Benatar. Leo became not only a very active Jewish citizen, but very\nactive in the community. He's a very worthwhile . . . we're very, very close,\nit's amazing. I also mentioned to a lot of these guys, \"You know, if I was close\nto all you guys, why am I not up in the same level that you are?\" And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they said,\n\"You are. You're on the same level. Don't worry about that.\"\n\nAROGETI: In addition to Leo Benatar, there's an architect here in town, Jerry Cooper.\n\nWEILLER: Jerry Cooper was a . . . Jerry was also a Phi Ep. Jerry, we're very\nclose today. We see each other. I've been down to his fantastic operation\ndowntown. He is an outstanding leading architect, not only in Atlanta, but\nnationwide. He does ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big, big stuff. He's just about ready to retire, too, or I\nthink he has retired. So, as I said I was connected with a lot of famous people.\nI'm just a plain kid, though. I haven't graduated to their level.\n\nAROGETI: Well, Bill, we'll talk about some of your escapades a little bit later.\nWhile you were at Georgia Tech, you mentioned early that you were a social guy,\nand you went on some dates, and you dated the girls. There was one young lady in\nparticular that you dated on occasion. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tell us a little bit about Margaret\nStrauss. How did you meet her? Tell us about how you got first got fixed up with\n. . .\n\nWEILLER: Well, Margaret, a lot of the . . . there's about four or five girls. In\nfact, Hirsch, Judy Hirsch, her family was very popular here in town also. There\nwere a lot of very active, successful Jewish businessmen. The girls would be\ninviting the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guys. We were an all-boys school. The girls were very polite and\noffered their houses for parties. So, our social event was around one of these\ngirls from these families. And I met Margaret . . . a lot of people in Atlanta\nfor summertime, now, to get cool would go to the farm, Dunwoody, which is the\nsame thing as Atlanta and just as hot, but it was in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"country, and they\nthought it was cooler than living in the city. They would have parties and\ninvite most of the fraternity guys. Margaret invited me one time. I became very\nclose to her mother and father. He was cooking steaks on the grill, and I would\nshow him how we cook steaks in Minnesota rather than here. We got very friendly.\nIn fact, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Margaret's mother--this is an old story, it's hard for me to\nbelieve--but Margaret's mother told Margaret about a month or two after I was\ndating her, at a party, she told Margaret, \"That's who you're going to marry.\" I\nhad no intention of marrying. I was a freshman, sophomore, but Peggy just\nthought we were coming together. We didn't do it, we still didn't date steady or\nanything ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like that, but Margaret's mother selected me; \"That that's who you're\ngoing to marry.\"\n\nAROGETI: Margaret's mother, Margaret Strauss's mother, was Peggy Strauss, also\nMargaret Strauss?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nAROGETI: And she was . . .What was Margaret's--Peggy's--maiden name? She was a\nRich . . .\n\nWEILLER: Hirsch.\n\nAROGETI: She was a Hirsh?\n\nWEILLER: She was a Hirsch. 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They asked my\nfather-in-law, Oscar Strauss, and Dick Rosenheim, who changed his name to Rich.\nThey asked my father-in-law to change his name to Rich ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also, and my\nfather-in-law didn't want to change it. That's not the reason that Dick Rich\nbecame president of Rich's. He would have been, or my father-in-law would have\nbeen. They wanted someone from the Rich family. So, after Dick was selected to\nrun the family, he changed his name. Before that, he changed the name to Rich.\nSo that's why Dick Rich . . . As I said, my father-in-law would be Oscar Rich\nStrauss, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but he never picked up the name. . . didn't mean anything, it was just\na fact that I was . . . people couldn't understand how I was related. Just like\nJoel mentioned, that Oscar's name could have been Rich. Could have been, but\nthat doesn't mean he would have been president.\n\nAROGETI: Margaret 'Peggy' Strauss's family was related to the Rich's?\n\nWEILLER: No. Peggy Strauss's family name was Hirsch.\n\nAROGETI: Hirsch.\n\nWEILLER: They were in the paper ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business, in the paper box business. Completely\ndifferent from anything else. But, of course, we were very much aligned with\neverything that the store did, and we were considered part of the family because\nwe were invited to every event, or things like that. It was a very close . . .\nthey were a very close-knit family.\n\nAROGETI: I'll go back in time a little bit, Bill. So, you were talking earlier,\nyou were a freshman, sophomore at Georgia Tech, and you'd gone out with Margaret\non a few ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dates. Were you in . . . and at some point in time, you and Margaret\nbecame more of a steady or regular couple? Is that true?\n\nWEILLER: Close to my senior year.\n\nAROGETI: Got it. Okay.\n\nWEILLER: I dated her just like I dated everybody else for the first three. The\nfourth year I was dating her more than I was dating the other girls.\n\nAROGETI: How many years junior was Margaret than you? Younger than you?\n\nWEILLER: Margaret was 18 when she got married and I was . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Excuse me. Yes,\nMargaret was 18. I was . . . no. When we were married, Margaret was 18 and I was 20.\n\nAROGETI: You were 20 years old?\n\nWEILLER: 21 years old.\n\nAROGETI: About a three years difference.\n\nWEILLER: Yes. But in those days, a girl marrying at 16 was normal. When I came\ndown here, I was wanting to be fixed up with girls my age. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said, \"There\naren't any girls your age. All the girls who are dating--your age--are dating\njuniors and seniors at Emory or Georgia. You're a kid. You're a baby.\"\nTherefore, I had to start dating, much to my regret, 16-year-old girls. I\ncouldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it.\n\nAROGETI: You were an 18-year-old college student dating 16-year-old high school students?\n\nWEILLER: When you're 18, you're ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big time, you're much older than that. But as I\nsaid, we got married. She was 16. It so happens that my three daughters married\nwhen they were young, too, not 16. They had moved the age up to more 17 and 18.\nBut in those days . . .\n\nAROGETI: We'll talk about your daughters in just a few minutes. I want to round\nout the story. You were dating Margaret. You were a senior in college at that\ntime. World War Two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had concluded, although there was still an active army\nbecause of army troops in Europe and also army troops in the Pacific Theater,\nincluding Korea. You graduated from Georgia Tech when in . . .\n\nWEILLER: 1947.\n\nAROGETI: 1947.\n\nWEILLER: I immediately had to go in the service. Either I had to go in the\nservice at my selection or the government selection would draft me. Well, I did\nnot . . . They told me, \"Bill, don't get in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"draft. Get something else.\" To\nmake a long story, I won't go through it, but I had a small stint . . . started\noff with the Marine Corps. Then I went into the Air Force. Then I went for two\nweeks into the Navy and then I went into the Air Force. I won't tell you the\nreason why.\n\nAROGETI: Suffice it to say, were you stationed here in Atlanta or were you\nstationed . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: Stationed in Atlanta. But when I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went on active duty in the service, I\nwas stationed at Lackland Air Force Base. And then . . .\n\nAROGETI: And where was that? What state is that in?\n\nWEILLER: Texas. San Antonio. It so happened . . . People don't believe this\neither. I called Margaret when I got . . . it was a basic speed-up to be an\nofficer. You were selected by your grades or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"various things, and I was selected,\nand I was graduating. here are a lot of people that worked their tail off to\nbecome an officer and I was an officer by a flash or a little signature. I\ngraduated Lackland Air Force Base after a ten-week basic training. I called my\nwife . . .\n\nAROGETI: Were you married to Margaret at the time?\n\nWEILLER: No. I called my wife and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"asked her does she want to get married this\nweekend? She said, \"What do you mean?\" I said, \"Well, I'll be driving from\nLackland Air Force Base to my new assignment, the headquarters, ARDC [Air\nResearch and Development Command], which is in Baltimore, Maryland.\" We were\nengaged. I said, \"If you want to get married, I can drive myself. I'll be coming\nthrough Atlanta. I'll be there on a Thursday, get married on a Saturday or\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sunday and off on our honeymoon to Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday.\" Peggy\narranged it.\n\nAROGETI: Margaret's mother.\n\nWEILLER: Margaret's mother arranged it. It so happened she married a fella . . .\nShe got a rabbi who had married Oscar and Peggy themselves. His name was . . .\nMemory's not . . .\n\nAROGETI: The rabbi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that preceded Rabbi Rothschild? Rabbi Marx.\n\nWEILLER: The rabbi. The original rabbi.\n\nAROGETI: Rabbi Marx.\n\nWEILLER: Rabbi Marx had long retired, but she got him to come out of retirement\nto marry us that Sunday. It so happens that Rabbi Marx' granddaughter lives in\nthe same building that I live now, [indistinct: 00:34:56, possibly 'at school'].\n\nAROGETI: What is her name?\n\nWEILLER: Mary Louise Sherman.\n\nAROGETI: Mary Louise Sherman. And so, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Marx officiated the ceremony. You\nmarried Margaret Strauss. Where did you get married?\n\nWEILLER: It so happens that Rabbi Marx, you must remember, was the first Reform\nJewish rabbi at the Temple. So he was, number one, aged quite a bit, but he came\nout of retirement. He still knew his . . . because Peggy asked him. He came out\nof retirement to marry us.\n\nAROGETI: And what year was that?\n\nWEILLER: 1951.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AROGETI: So, Bill, according to my calendar, today is November the second. What\nday did you marry, Margaret?\n\nWEILLER: November the second.\n\nAROGETI: You married Margaret Strauss 69 years ago.\n\nWEILLER: I guess so.\n\nAROGETI: 70 years ago?\n\nWEILLER: Yeah.\n\nAROGETI: So, you've been . . . I know we lost Margaret a few years ago, but\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today is your anniversary. So happy anniversary.\n\nWEILLER: Thank you.\n\nAROGETI: We're thinking about you and Margaret. This is a wonderful story. Where\ndid you get married on such short notice?\n\nWEILLER: At her house.\n\nAROGETI: At Margaret's house. And what street was that on? Do you remember the name?\n\nWEILLER: Nottingham Way. It's right now in the middle of . . . very near the\nTemple. It's the residential area, very near the present Temple.\n\nAROGETI: Right behind the temple over near Ansley golf course?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Where WSB is.\n\nAROGETI: Right. Do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember who was at the wedding? Did you have time to\ninvite anybody? Did anybody in your family come down from Saint Paul?\n\nWEILLER: Oh, yes. As many members as we could.\n\nAROGETI: It was short notice.\n\nWEILLER: Eugene Zacharias was a fellow who I had met through [Georgia] Tech.\nThere were . . . The reason I'm hesitant is because the ones that I keep\nremembering, they've all passed away.\n\nAROGETI: Right. Was your sister Jean able to make the wedding?\n\nWEILLER: My uncle Henry, who was my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father's brother, who had the business last,\nI asked him to be the best man. My sister, he brought my sister down. So, my\nsister Jean and Uncle Henry were here. It was whirlwind. I mean, can you\nimagine? I don't know what it does, but I understand the women today, to make a\nwedding, it's a big to-do. The florist and this and that. Peggy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"arranged the\nwedding from Tuesday when I called her to Sunday, that was the wedding. It was a\nvery nice wedding.\n\nAROGETI: Wonderful. Then after the wedding, you had a reception and then you and\nMargaret drove to Baltimore the next day?\n\nWEILLER: We drove to Greenbrier [Maryland] where we had our honeymoon. That was\nthe extent of our honeymoon. Then we, as I said, we drove to Baltimore, and I\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stationed there. I was supposed to be in the service, and this is another\nfluke of my military career, but I don't want to spend the entire [indistinct:\n00:38:06] on it.\n\nAROGETI: Please do.\n\nWEILLER: On the military.\n\n[interview pauses, and then resumes]\n\nAROGETI: You're telling a story about your military experiences.\n\nWEILLER: As I said, I was supposed to be in the Air Force for two years. I\nsupposed to be in all the other ones for two years, too, but as I said, through\na fluke of government regulation, that's the only way I can explain it. Through\na fluke of government, I was let out early. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had to keep cutting back and\nthey had to keep letting people out who they didn't have any expense . . . They\ndidn't have any expense in me. I was draft. I didn't do anything as far as cost\nto the military, so my type of guy was out immediately. So, this last one was\nout. Truman came along and said, \"We want to cut the military down by 90,000\npeople within one week's time.\" So here comes my adjutant, said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Bill, I hate\nto see you go. You may want to, but you're out of here.\" So that was my military\ncareer in the Air Force. That was end of the Air Force career.\n\nAROGETI: After that, where did you and Margaret move?\n\nWEILLER: We drove to Atlanta. I started to work for my father-in-law in the\nfurniture business. That's where we stayed. So, as I said, my military career\ninvolved over two years, but not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just in one service. They kept saying, \"Well,\nBill, what did you do wrong, they kick you out?\" Now they don't . . . if you do\nsomething wrong, they don't kick you out. They keep you in, make you pay for it.\nBut anyway, that was my career.\n\nAROGETI: Shifting gears a little bit. You and Margaret are newlyweds, you're out\nof the military, and you move back to Atlanta to work for your father-in-law.\nAnd this was when? Mid-1950s, early 1950s?\n\nWEILLER: 1951.\n\nAROGETI: Right. And so, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1951 . . .\n\nWEILLER: No. 1947 to 1951, I was in school. I graduated in 1951.\n\nAROGETI: You got married in 1951 or 1952?\n\nWEILLER: I got married in 1952. Then, as I said, I stayed with my father-in-law\nfor a short period of time and started my career in various businesses. I worked\nfor three different companies, all of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which enticed me to come to them. I didn't\nwant to but, in those days, a dollar was more important because I hadn't been\nmaking any, from zero to a living standard. That's why I went, and I was with\nOscar for two years. Then I started going to two other companies, both of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which\nI liked very much. I ended up retiring when I was 80. The year I was 80, I retired.\n\nAROGETI: The employer at that time was which of the companies?\n\nWEILLER: Fulton Paper Company.\n\nAROGETI: That was owned by the Hirsch family here in Atlanta.\n\nWEILLER: Right. Both the companies . . . one of Atlanta Paper, which is Arthur\nHarris. He ran that one. The thing about it, it was very fortunate for me. My\nfamily, my married ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family, were part of the Jewish crowd here. They, of course,\nwould call, \"Why don't you go see Arthur Harris? He may be interested in you.\nWhy don't you go see such and such?\" So I had a very good entree, instead of\ngoing through the employment door and working up, I had a very good\nintroduction. But that doesn't mean they gave me a job. They placed me in a job\nand I had to prove myself, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whether I was going to make it or not. As I said, I\njust happened to like business so I progressed in businesses here in Atlanta.\nThe last American business was Crown Zellerbach, which was the world's second\nlargest paper company. Their manager for the Southeast was a fellow named Leon\nRosenberg. Leon Rosenberg was the one who hired me. I wanted to go into the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"engineering and running the operation, Imagineering. Leon said to me--I didn't\ncall him Leon then, I called him Chief--Chief said, \"I tell you what I'd like\nyou to do. I'm going to give you six months to learn the engineering and get\nresults back from you. At the end of six months, you have to decide whether you\nwant to stay in engineering or you want to come onto the sales side.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Again, to\nmake a long story short, I remembered it, but I thought he was just pulling my\nleg. The end of six months, he called me and he says, \"Today's the day. What do\nyou want to do?\" And I said, \"Chief, I really don't . . .\" \"Bill, you got to\nmake the decision. I can't keep the opening in the administrative site open.\nPlease decide what you want to do.\" I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did. You know what he said? He said, \"I\nknew it.\" I said, \"What do you mean?\" He said, \"You didn't belong in\nengineering. You belong in sales.\" He was my mentor.\n\nAROGETI: And the rest is history, as they say. You had a long career at Mr.\nHarris's paper company and then at Fulton Paper Company for many, many years.\n\nWEILLER: I was 15, 20 years at both companies.\n\nAROGETI: We'll end the story about your career with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sort of . . . put a crown on\nit. Who is your largest client over at Fulton Paper Company?\n\nWEILLER: It wasn't when I first started out, but when I ended up, it was the\nlargest client for me and also for Atlanta. The company, I don't know if you've\nheard of it, called Delta Airlines. And I was the--tapping myself on the back--I\nwas their chief ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"salesman. It was because Leon Rosenberg saw it in me. I didn't\nsee it in myself. He said, \"Bill, you belong in sales.\"\n\nAROGETI: You ended your career as Delta's chief paper sales. You sold them all\ntheir paper products, or many of their paper products.\n\nWEILLER: They said, \"How much could that be?\" I said, \"Well, just consider all\nthe toiletries and all the paper napkins and all the cocktail napkins and\neverything paper.\" Then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it turned in to be plastic because then the plastic cups\ncame and everything else. So as I said, I had a very happy career with Crown Zellerbach.\n\nAROGETI: We're going to switch gears for just a few minutes and talk a little\nbit about sort of what was life was like growing up in Atlanta. You had\ngraduated from Tech. You're married. What was Jewish life like for you in the\nearly and mid, or the mid and late 1950s? You're married. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You and Margaret start\nto start your family. Tell us a little bit about what your family grew as after\nyou married Margaret. You mentioned earlier you have three daughters. Please\ntell us their names.\n\nWEILLER: Their names are Debbie, Margaret . . . [interview pauses, then resumes]\nMy three daughters' names are Debbie, Margo, and Beth. Debbie being the oldest.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All three girls, I'm very fortunate to say, eventually married Atlanta boys,\nhave Atlanta families, and live in Atlanta. Their children, who are now married,\nalso all live in Atlanta. I have 18 . . .\n\nAROGETI: With a couple of exceptions. Hannah. Hannah is in D.C. in Washington, D.C.\n\nWEILLER: I'm not talking . . . Hannah's the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"next generation.\n\nAROGETI: Oh, you're talking about your three children.\n\nWEILLER: Three children. My three children.\n\nAROGETI: Three children live in Atlanta.\n\nWEILLER: The other ones who have children have separated a little, not much. But\nI still have a tremendous contingency here in Atlanta, and I see them every\nweek. I'm extremely fortunate. They've all presented me . . . Not all, two have\npresented me with great grandchildren who are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now . . . my big celebration with\nthem is my grandson's first haircut and things like that. As I said, they're\nvery, very close. They make a point of seeing me or talking to me almost . . . I\nknow every week, many times more than that.\n\nAROGETI: You mentioned your three daughters. Debbie, she married . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: Debbie.\n\nAROGETI: Married to David Bock.\n\nWEILLER: Who? [memoirist and interviewer laugh] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debbie is married to David Bock.\nShe was. . . Who was also Atlanta. The Bock family is also from Atlanta.\n\nAROGETI: And David's parents are . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: Leonard and Barbara. Leonard passed. Leonard and Barbara were living\nwith me in my retirement home. Leonard died. Barbara still lives with me, and I\nsee her daily. She lives in the same building I do. And there's . . .\n\nAROGETI: Margo's husband.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Margaret married a fella who lived in Atlanta. His family came from\nPhiladelphia. They were in the department store business. His father came to\nwork for Davidson's in Atlanta and remained here. His son is a builder, and he\nis very active in the building field. And then . . .\n\nAROGETI: That's David. That's David Bock. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, then your middle daughter, Margo,\nmarried Shiel Edlin.\n\nWEILLER: Right. Shiel Edlin. And, as I said, the Edlins. He's the one who came\nfrom Philadelphia, I think, and in Atlanta, in the retail business. Beth married\na very nice guy. I have to say that because he's looking at me, but in addition\nto that, he is truly a very nice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy. Their name is Arogeti. They're a longtime\nAtlanta family and their family has done a lot for the community in Atlanta. I'm\nvery, very happy, as I said. I have Debbie, Margo, Beth, and my three\nsons-in-law and my grandchildren and some of my great grandchildren all living\nhere in Atlanta.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, that's wonderful. That is truly a testament that you're very\nfortunate that your children, most of your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandchildren, and all of your great\ngrandchildren live within miles of where you live. I know how fortunate that is.\n\nWEILLER: Well, let me just interject. Somebody said, not only am lucky, I'm very\nfortunate because I have such three nice guys all living in Atlanta. They're all\nworking in Atlanta, they're all extremely nice. We see each other all the time.\nWe respect each other. It's not one of these distant things. We're family. It\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couldn't be any better.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, I want to bounce back a few years and then come forward because\nwe've talked about family, and we've talked about college. Let's talk a little\nbit about Jewish life. I know that you were very influenced when you came to\nAtlanta because Rabbi Rothschild took you in and started introducing you to\npeople within the Jewish community. But let's talk a little bit about Bill\nWeiller's Jewish life. I mean, were your parents observant?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: No.\n\nAROGETI: You knew you were Jewish.\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nAROGETI: You attended temple from time to time.\n\nWEILLER: Rabbi Margolis was the same category as Rabbi Rothschild, and the rest\nof them. Reform. And Reform I can't say aren't Jewish, but I sometimes think\nthey're on the borderline from being Jewish to being nothing. But the Reform\nJews that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went around, as I said, Sig . . . In Atlanta at the time when I came\nhere, there were three Jewish clubs, the Standard Club, the Mayfair Club and . . .\n\nAROGETI: The Progressive Club.\n\nWEILLER: Progressive club. Reform Jewish, Conservative, and so forth. Sig\nhappened to be Reform. I was Reform. So therefore, the initial crowd that I came\ndown here with, I mean, came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here . . . I was introduced to as Reform Jews\nbecause that's who Sig was. I did go around with some Reform . . . moving from\nwhere they were up to Reform, either up or down, you would want to say. I was\nconnected mostly with Reform events and things like that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's my bringing\nup. But as I said, I knew Rabbi Epstein from my sons-in-law. Or VeShalom. Just a\ngentleman, just a fantastic . . . We took a very close association together. In\nfact, Rabbi Epstein, when we got married, we wanted to be married in the Temple,\nof course.\n\nAROGETI: You're talking about yourself or . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: Myself. When we wanted to get married.\n\nAROGETI: You and Margaret?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: No, not me. Margaret and I got married by the . . . Beth.\n\nAROGETI: Rabbi Marx.\n\nWEILLER: No, you.\n\nAROGETI: When Beth and I, when Beth and Joel got married.\n\nWEILLER: Beth and Joel got married. They were . . . Or VeShalom. And Rabbi\nEpstein had never been . . .\n\nAROGETI: Rabbi Ichay.\n\nWEILLER: Rabbi Ichay . . .\n\nAROGETI: . . . Robert Ichay . . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . had never been into a Reform temple before. And he said, \"No,\nI'll marry them in Or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VeShalom.\" Well, the Arogeti's and everybody else in the\nfamily tried to convince him, and they couldn't. My daughter, Beth, called him.\nI don't know what she did, and the families don't know what she did, but she\nconvinced Rabbi Ichay to marry them in the temple. And what they did. 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But even then, today, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the kids go around . . . since I'm out of that\narea, those classifications, I don't know whether Reform Jewish, the three\nseparate divisions are as far apart. I think there are a lot closer today than\nthey've ever been. Plus, the fact when we got married, there were three temples\nwhen today, I think there's, what, 13, 14?\n\nAROGETI: I think there are over 30 or 40 temples or synagogues in Atlanta today.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: You can see how things have changed.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, what was it like growing up Jewish in your household with\nMargaret and your three daughters? Were you a member of a synagogue or a temple?\n\nWEILLER: Well, I don't know whether you realize it, but in the old days, Jews, a\nlot of Reform Jews, a lot of Jews had Christmas trees. I always, from Minnesota,\nalways had a Christmas tree. And I lived next ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"door to Rabbi Margolis. So, you\ncan . . . but he didn't, he never extremely objected to it. What we did is, in\nthe process of getting married and having children, we more or less, went with .\n. . all the Reform and the progress . . . that didn't make any difference\nanymore. 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My wife pulled ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me\ndown, tried to put me down. And I was standing, and I didn't react to that. He\nsaid, \"Yes, Bill, what is it?\" I said, \"Well, I know this is a stupid question\nand I know a lot of people object to it. But tell me, I have a Christmas tree in\nmy house. I see a star on top of that Christmas tree. I don't think of Jesus\nChrist.\" And he says, \"Bill,\" and Margaret's fainting over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there, the rabbi\nsaid, \"I'm glad you asked that question because it really needed to be aired.\"\nHe went through the whole thing. It's a symbol, it doesn't mean that you have to\nbelieve in it. I said, \"I happen to like Christmas because I came from Minnesota\nwhere there was snow and everybody had lights on the trees outside and it was\nbeautiful, sparkling, everything else. And you don't have that same effect.\" He\nsaid, \"Bill, it's all in your mind what you think of it. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, we're all getting along.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, when you and Margaret were married and raising your children, you\nwere members of the Temple. Your children went to Sunday school at the Temple?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nAROGETI: School at the Temple and the like.\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nAROGETI: At some point in time, you stopped having a Christmas tree.\n\nWEILLER: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Do you remember that story? 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We're all in the same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boat. But as growing up,\nall going to public schools now, being surrounded at Christmas time with\neverything Christian, it's a very difficult thing for a child to say, \"No, I\nwon't do it.\" It's so much fun. They want to do it.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, your children are raised in public schools. They attend the\ntemple. Eventually they graduate and go off to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college. Tell us a little bit\nabout Margaret. Was she a homemaker during those formative years?\n\nWEILLER: Oh, yes.\n\nAROGETI: At some point in time, Margaret went back into the working world. Tell\nus a little bit about where Margaret worked and what did she do professionally?\n\nWEILLER: After the responsibility in the time allotted to the children started\nto vanish . . . Margaret was always business minded. She always liked the\nactivity. She liked the activity. She became very active in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish community\nand becoming . . . Inborn, she was a leader. She eventually became leader of\nthese various organizations, mainly because of the work that she did. People\nwanted her and elected her and things like that. So today . . .\n\nAROGETI: She started off as a volunteer working for the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation. Is that correct?\n\nWEILLER: Right. She became the director of the . . .\n\nAROGETI: . . . Women's Philanthropy of the Women's Division.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Then eventually she became a professional working at the Federation for years.\n\nWEILLER: She helped start the Breman on their road. If you look in some of the\nvery earliest edition, her name is right there as one of the starters of the\nBreman. She and Jane Leavey were very, very active. It became more and more.\nThen eventually, most of our social friends were involved with it, and they\nbecame involved. 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But she spent a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tremendous amount of\ntime working for the Jewish causes and fortunately, it has transpired to my\nchildren because now my daughters Beth and Margot are active in it. They are\nalso leaders in some of the divisions that they're in. They followed their\nmother's footsteps beautifully.\n\nAROGETI: Interesting. 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That's right.\n\nAROGETI: It was a business where they would take predominantly women around the\nsoutheast United States to various and sundry art galleries and museums and\nother places to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enhance their culture.\n\nWEILLER: She'd act like a tour guide. They'd canvas a thing out or they would .\n. . Then she would plan for all the reservations and the hotels and the events\nthat they saw. She would take maybe five to eight, maybe ten women on an\nadventure. It was very, very popular. 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It ended up when he became\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mayor of Atlanta, he asked me if I would help him . . . A lot of things to do, a\nlot of things . . . help his family. Take care of his family because he was\nnever with his family. We would go on these magnificent trips that these\npoliticians seem to have when they go visit someplace. He went to Italy, to the\nCoca-Cola plant in Italy. We went to France. 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Because who\nknew when you came here in 1947 that in the early 1970s there'd be a Jewish\nmayor of Atlanta.\n\nWEILLER: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Later followed by a series of very competent and professional African\nAmerican mayors.\n\nWEILLER: The biggest thing that's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened, of course, is segregation. When I\ncame, I sat in the front of the bus, the blacks sat in . . . That is a\ntremendous cycle. The blacks are much more progressive in politics. Look what's\nhappened in my time. It is a miraculous thing that's happened. Unfortunately,\nthings go in cycles ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and at one time, a group may be more acceptable than others.\nWhat I'm seeing today, which is very, very sad, is antisemitism. We never talked\nabout antisemitism all the 80 years, all the years up until the last maybe\neight, maybe ten years, maybe not even that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long. Antisemitism wasn't even a\nword. To see some of these cycles, it's either that or blacks or some . . . The\nAmerican people seem to group on one particular thing and work it to death, and\nthen eventually things change, and we work out of it. I'm hoping . . . I just\nread an article about, not knowing personally myself, I just read an article\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about how far antisemitism is gone today. It's a lot worse than me just reading\nthe paper and things like that. When you delve into various ends of the\nbusiness, it's frightening. It's absolutely gotten frightening. I only hope that\nthe future can get themselves out of this and go on back to where we were\nbefore. 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I found that through our livelihood, human beings' livelihood,\nthere's always going to be something that we're going to fight.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, looking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back on your many years, both in Minnesota and Atlanta\nand other places, what are you most optimistic about? When you look at your\nchildren and your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. What do you see and\nwhat gives you hope?\n\nWEILLER: It gives me hope, getting back to the Jewish . . . to see how far the\nJewish people have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come. What we're doing now, which we never would have thought\ncould be possible of doing before. I do see progression there. Not that there\nisn't . . . and maybe because of that progression we get this antisemitism.\nMaybe the people who didn't care, now all of a sudden are against us because\nwe're doing too much. We're doing too many things. We're doing too many good\nthings. Look at the good things that the Marcus's and the various people who\nhave ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been successful and all that, have given; hospitals, not a Jewish hospital,\na hospital and various things that have been derived from human nature. We're a\nvery thoughtful group of people, but at times we have our weaknesses. I think\nthat we've come a long ways and even that, even though I say we've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a lot of\nantisemitism, we've been accepted in a lot of areas that we weren't before too,\nwhich is good.\n\nAROGETI: Bill, this has been wonderful to chat with you today and to learn a\nlittle bit more about your life and your experiences. As we conclude this\ninterview, which will be archived at the William Breman Museum here in Atlanta\nas part of the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project, is there anything\nelse that you'd like to reflect on or just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to let us know?\n\nWEILLER: The one thing is, we just touched on an end . . . To see the\nadvancement that the Jewish community has made. Thirty temples, when we had\nthree before. The progression that we have made is astounding. Absolutely\nastounding. I just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/transcript/39610/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hope and pray that we can continue on the upward path rather\nthan anything detrimental.\n\nAROGETI: Thank you very much. We greatly appreciate this opportunity to speak\nwith you and we look forward to speaking with you again soon. Thank you.\n\nWEILLER: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=4410.0,4440.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust. This interview of Perry Brickman is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection, housed in the Ida Pearle and joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, consists of more than 1,000 interviews that document Jewish life in Georgia and Alabama. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWeiller \u0026amp; Williams Co. Ltd. was incorporated on December 11, 1925, with Henry Weiller looking after the company’s finances and Lee Williams supervising the frontline operations. While the company dealt mainly with cattle, they were chartered to buy and sell, import and export, and slaughter hogs, sheep, poultry, and all other livestock and livestock products. Following Weiller’s passing in 1956, Lee took on both the administration and frontline of Weiller \u0026amp; Williams C. Ltd. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJanice Oettinger Rothschild Blumberg (b. 1924), a native of Atlanta, Georgia, is an author of several books on Southern Jewish history. She is the widow of Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild (1911-1973) and David M. Blumberg (1911-1989), both nationally prominent Jewish figures, and the great-granddaughter of Rabbi E.B.M. \"Alphabet\" Browne, the first rabbi of the Temple in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Jacob Mortimer \"Jack\" Rothschild (1911-1973) served as rabbi of Atlanta’s oldest Reform congregation, the Temple, from 1946 until his death in 1973 from a heart attack. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he forged close relationships with the city’s Christian clergy and distinguished himself as a charismatic spokesperson for civil rights.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eReform Judaism is a division within Judaism, especially in North America and the United Kingdom. Historically it began in the 19th century. In general, the Reform movement maintains that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and compatible with participation in Western culture. While the Torah remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, bat mitzvah, and women rabbis), instrumental music is allowed in the services, and most of the service is in the local language as opposed to Hebrew.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55028/file/128347/annotation_set/823/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMount Zion Temple is a Reform synagogue located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1856 by German-Jewish families as Mount Zion Hebrew Association, it was the first Jewish congregation in Minnesota. 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