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He is one of three children born to Harry and Sylvia Mehlberg [Chaimowitz] Grant. His mother was born in London and moved to Birmingham after meeting and marrying Adrian’s father while he was serving in England during World War II. Adrian grew up in the Mountain Brook area of Birmingham. He was very involved with the Jewish community center and was an avid basketball player. His parents were very involved in the Orthodox synagogue, Congregation Knesseth Israel. His parents owned and operated a pawn shop, United Jewelry and Loan Company. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian graduated from Shades Valley High School and the University of Alabama, where he joined Phi Epsilon Pi at the University of Alabama. Adrian was very involved with student life, including being appointed homecoming chairman. 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Adrian and Ilene have been very involved in the Atlanta Jewish community, Adrian has been involved with numerous organizations, including B'nai B'rith International, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Taglit-Birthright Israel. He has also been involved at his family’s synagogue, Congregation B'nai Torah. For this extensive service, Adrian and Ilene were honored at Israel Bonds’ 2023 International Leadership Conference.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Adrian’s involvement in the Atlanta Jewish community. He provides background on his family history and howhis grandparents came to Birmingham from Lithuania. He shares how his parents met while his father was serving in England during World War II. He recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and his family’s involvement with Congregation Knesseth Israel. He talks about his father’s business and his two brothers. He reflects on his limited relationship with his mother’s side of the family, as they lived in London. He recalls visiting them as a child with his mother. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian recounts his school years, and what it was like growing up during the Civil Rights Movement. He then shares his experience attending the University of Alabama and being involved with the fraternity Phi Epsilon Pi. He recalls his friends there, his experience being Jewish at the University, and how the Vietnam War impacted his schooling. He talks about serving in the Alabama Air National Guard after meeting and connecting with General Reid Doster at the University of Alabama’s homecoming. He shares why he chose to go into accounting. 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He is one of three children born to Harry and Sylvia Mehlberg [Chaimowitz] Grant. His mother was born in London and moved to Birmingham after meeting and marrying Adrian\u0026rsquo;s father while he was serving in England during World War II. Adrian grew up in the Mountain Brook area of Birmingham. He was very involved with the Jewish community center and was an avid basketball player. His parents were very involved in the Orthodox synagogue, Congregation Knesseth Israel. His parents owned and operated a pawn shop, United Jewelry and Loan Company.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian graduated from Shades Valley High School and the University of Alabama, where he joined Phi Epsilon Pi at the University of Alabama. Adrian was very involved with student life, including being appointed homecoming chairman. His studies were interrupted by the Vietnam War, and he served in the Alabama Air National Guard before returning to the University of Alabama to finish his accounting degree. After graduating, Adrian began his career in Atlanta with Deloitte Touche and later joined Bernes \u0026amp; Kerker. Adrian immersed himself in the Atlanta community, using his connections, particularly through the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, to start his own firm, Aarons Grant \u0026amp; Habif in 1976.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian was introduced to Ilene Pearlman by mutual friends at a party in 1971, and they married that same year. Ilene moved from Canton, Ohio to Atlanta to pursue teaching math. Her teaching career spanned 30 years, ​​with many years at DeKalb College. Adrian and Ilene have three children, Sammy, Andy, and Jonathan, and eight grandchildren. Adrian and Ilene have been very involved in the Atlanta Jewish community, Adrian has been involved with numerous organizations, including B'nai B'rith International, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Taglit-Birthright Israel. He has also been involved at his family\u0026rsquo;s synagogue, Congregation B'nai Torah. For this extensive service, Adrian and Ilene were honored at Israel Bonds\u0026rsquo; 2023 International Leadership Conference.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Adrian\u0026rsquo;s involvement in the Atlanta Jewish community. He provides background on his family history and howhis grandparents came to Birmingham from Lithuania. He shares how his parents met while his father was serving in England during World War II. He recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and his family\u0026rsquo;s involvement with Congregation Knesseth Israel. He talks about his father\u0026rsquo;s business and his two brothers. He reflects on his limited relationship with his mother\u0026rsquo;s side of the family, as they lived in London. He recalls visiting them as a child with his mother.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian recounts his school years, and what it was like growing up during the Civil Rights Movement. He then shares his experience attending the University of Alabama and being involved with the fraternity Phi Epsilon Pi. He recalls his friends there, his experience being Jewish at the University, and how the Vietnam War impacted his schooling. He talks about serving in the Alabama Air National Guard after meeting and connecting with General Reid Doster at the University of Alabama\u0026rsquo;s homecoming. He shares why he chose to go into accounting. 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My name is Joel Arogeti, and I'm a volunteer at the William Breman Jewish Museum in Atlanta. On behalf of the Herbert and Esther Taylor Oral History Project, I have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Adrian Grant today, November 5, 2024. Adrian, it's delightful and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. If you would, share with us a little bit of background about where you were born, when you were born, and a little bit about your family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=0.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born January 10 of 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama and the way I ended up in Birmingham goes back to my great-grandfather, Abraham, who at that time our family name was Chaimowitz, it wasn't Grant. The name was changed when my father was in the war, in World War II. Anyway, Abraham Chaimowitz came over, and he was a rabbi in Birmingham. He was actually brought over to Birmingham by an individual, by a family, the Jaffe family. Pinkus Jaffe was his name, and he was . . . my great-grandfather was a cousin and when Pinkus had settled in Birmingham in the scrap metal business, he brought over every relative that he could from Europe, actually they came from Lithuania, is where my great-grandfather came from. He had a son . . . Jacob that was the shochet. He was the kosher butcher in Birmingham for many years. That's how we kind of got to Birmingham. At one point, there must have been 50, 60, 70, 80 members of the extended family that I had when I grew up, aunts, uncles, cousins and everything. It was a really big family, of which there is no remnants. Now everybody has gone and moved away. When my mother passed away about eight years ago, we went back to bury her in Birmingham, there was no shiva house, because there was no relatives left from that original group that came to Birmingham. My mother, her family . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=36.0,149.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us your mother's name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=149.0,151.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name was Sylvia Mehlberg. Now, the story about my mom is that her family was from Poland, that's where all her roots came from, but she lived in London, England. My dad was stationed during World War II in England in the Air Force. What happened is, one Friday, he was going to see friends of his at another military base, and he was taking the train, and he was in the train station in London, sitting on a bench, and this older couple just sits down next to him, and they start up a conversation and realize that they were Jewish. Then when they found out that my father was Jewish, they said, \"Hey, listen, you need to come home with us for shabbos.\" He got this invitation that he couldn't possibly turn down to go spend a weekend with this family in London, who he had just met at the train station. You talk about bashert, this is unbelievable. He went home with them, these strange people and he happened to ask, he said, \"Do you know any nice Jewish ladies in London that I could maybe meet while I'm here overseas?\" They said, \"Right next door to us, there's this really nice young girl that I think we could introduce you to that you might like.\" It was my mom. Anyway, long story short, they got married during the war. My mother was a war bride, so she came over to Birmingham on the Queen Mary with all these other women that were war brides that were brought over to New York. She got off the boat in New York, took a train to Birmingham, and she had never seen my father ever not in an Air Force uniform, he was always in a uniform. He goes to the train station to meet her, to pick her up, and he's wearing his civvies, and she couldn't even recognize him, you know what I'm saying? Here she was, she got married and moved over. It was just kind of amazing. My mom and dad, that's how they got together. I was born January 10, 1948. My parents were . . . they belonged to an Orthodox synagogue. They were totally immersed in the synagogue all their years, and that's how I was brought up. There were three synagogues in Birmingham. I think there was about 6,000 Jewish people when I grew up in Birmingham, and now there might be 2,000 or 3,000. We belonged to Knesseth Israel, which was the Orthodox synagogue, and I was a member of their youth group, and NCSY [National Conference of Synagogue Youth], which I came to a convention when I was 13 years old in Atlanta and that's what my first introduction to Atlanta was, coming over for the conference. I stayed with a young man named Martin Krieger, who's now still a very good friend of mine from the time we were 13 years old. He became a children's dentist here in Atlanta. My roots go to Atlanta from that. My father had a pawn shop in Birmingham, and I kind of grew up in that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=151.0,355.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the name of the pawn shop?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=355.0,356.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Called United Jewelry and Loan Company was the name of the pawn shop. Into the doors of that pawn shop came to the whole world. Every type of person you can imagine, from rich to poor. You had to . . . my whole growing up, I had to learn how to deal with different types of people and everything and the pawn shop was just such a great place to learn that. And my father was the best salesman that there ever was. There was a lobby as you entered the store that in the window, it had all kinds of merchandise and things to look at. My father would always stay right at that door and if anybody would walk into that lobby, if they just put a foot in the lobby, it was like a spider trap. My father would just bolt out the door, bring the people in the store and try to sell them something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=356.0,411.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us your father's name. What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=411.0,414.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was Harry. Harry Grant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=414.0,416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Harry Grant, and where was Harry born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=416.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Harry was born, he was actually born in Birmingham. What's interesting, too, is that he was born on the other side of town in Birmingham, and he had a very famous neighbor that lived right across the street from him and that was Mel Allen, the sports broadcaster for the New York Yankees. Mel Allen . . . in fact, another interesting story, I have two younger brothers, I'm the oldest of three boys . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=420.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me their names.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=451.0,453.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My middle brother's name is Daryl, and it's now Shalom because he lives in Israel. Shalom David. Then my younger brother, who is Melvin, his name is Avraham, now. He made aliyah to Israel eight years ago, so both of my siblings have families and live in Israel or live in Jerusalem. When my younger brother Melvin was born, my parents, really thought he was going to be a girl, they had a girl's name picked out for him. When he was born as a boy, they didn't know what to name him, so his name became Melvin Allen Grant. He was named after Mel Allen, the sportscaster. That's how his name originated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=453.0,498.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great story. You mentioned a few minutes ago that you had a very large family in Birmingham, two or three generations back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=498.0,507.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=507.0,508.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us some of the family surnames that, that that at one time lived in Birmingham, but later moved to other parts of the country or elsewhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=508.0,518.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e We were the Chaimowitz and then we became Grant, later on in life our family did. But we related to the people that brought us to Birmingham was the Jaffe family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=518.0,531.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember the first names or any of the matriarchs or patriarchs of that family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=531.0,536.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Pinkus Jaffe is the one that brought everybody over. The Jaffe's are a large family, many of which are still in Birmingham, and Danenberg's, there was probably about six or seven different prominent names that are part of the Jewish community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=536.0,558.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Great. Growing up in Birmingham in the 1950's, you've obviously witnessed a lot because Birmingham and Atlanta were very similar sizes back then, maybe Atlanta a little bit bigger, but tell us a little bit about your childhood experiences. What was it like growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=558.0,584.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I grew up in an area called Crestline, Mountain Brook area of Birmingham which a lot of the Jewish people lived in at that time, and there was no Jewish day school to go to, so I went to Hebrew school and of course had my bar mitzvah at the synagogue. But the biggest part of my life growing up was really the Jewish community center (JCC), because everything kind of revolved around the Jewish community center. I played basketball there. I played basketball all the way through high school, played baseball there. The center had . . . that's where we went to go swimming. It was just part of the whole life. All my experience at the Jewish community center, growing up for a lot of my Jewish upbringing and everything, and had made great friends there. It was just the core of that. The synagogue was so important to my parents. My father would go to synagogue twice a day. He would be at the morning minyan, the evening minyan. It was really amazing, every Friday night for shabbat, my mother never really knew how many people to prepare Friday night dinner for because anytime there was out of town visitors or anybody at the synagogue and they needed a place to go, they would always come to our house. My mother never knew how many people would cook for, and she would really get upset at my dad when we would walk home from services on Friday night and there was no company. She always was looking to have people. Not only that, people would come, rabbis from different communities to collect money for charities, for institutions and stuff like that, and my father would, he would be their chauffeur. He would take them around town from place to place and help them, assist them while they were in town to collect money. They would come eat meals at our house. Some people would sleep there or so. My parents were just totally committed to their Jewish heritage and Jewish life. Their whole life was the synagogue. They weren't very wealthy, but they were the happiest people in the world because they were so happy with what they had. I learned that that was a great trait I learned in life, just to be very happy with what you got and make the most of it. I learned that from them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=584.0,737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a wonderful life lesson. We're going to go back a little bit and talk about your mother's family in England. To the extent that you know about your maternal grandparents and what was your mother's life like as a child in England before the war and during the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=737.0,759.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e The thing is, my mom grew up in a place called Stamford Hill, which is now in London is a very Chabad, it's a very Hasidic area of London now, but she grew up in an area called Stamford Hill. That's where they got married in Stamford Hill when my father was over in the Air Force. My grandparents, my grandfather . . . they lived in a house where at the very basement was my grandfather's candy store. He had a candy store. When you would walk down the street, you would walk downstairs to his candy store. On the main floor, my grandmother sewed clothes. She had a clothing store, and they lived upstairs. My mom had four other sisters and one brother and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=759.0,813.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=813.0,815.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . They all lived in this one house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=815.0,817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us your maternal grandparents names and the names of your aunts and one uncle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=817.0,824.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Max Mehlberg was her father; Eva Mehlberg was her mother. I know I had an Uncle Sam, an Aunt Connie, an Aunt Anita, an Aunt Betty . . . maybe she only had three other sisters but there were five of them in the family. But the thing is, is that I didn't really get to know that family, because back then, in order to go visit, you would have to take a train to New York to catch the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth to go to England to visit so I only went there, I think, as a child when I was about four years old. I went on the trip with my mom, and it wasn't like we had phone and internet or whatever. I never really got to know my expanded family in England. Even to this day, I have very little exposure to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=824.0,879.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Fast forward, your mom comes to America, and she raises you all, and you are now in elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950's. I'm going to talk a little bit about what it was like, I know that the synagogue and the community center, and your father's business were key points of your life, impressionable points. Tell us a little bit about elementary school and what was it like with your friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=879.0,912.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I mainly had Jewish friends in elementary school and in junior high and high school that were part of the core group of the Jewish community center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=912.0,924.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Who were some of those people that were your close friends back then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=924.0,927.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My closest friend is a gentleman named Phil Tenenbaum, to this day, I talk to him almost weekly. It was Preston Goldfarb and Arnold Simon, just a number, there's probably a dozen or so. We all kind of lived in the same area. I can always remember that Saturday afternoon after synagogue, we would all go, there was this one house on Richmar Drive that had a big lot on it, and we would all go play football or whatever, and hung out together. It was a great area to live in. I was very close knit with this group of guys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=927.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You went to public school, elementary school, junior high, high school. Although your closest friends were among the Jewish community. Tell us about interacting with the non-Jewish community. Was your high school or elementary school integrated?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=975.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was not. It was never integrated, even in high school. It was not integrated at the time I went to school but by the time I got to high school, I knew a lot of the people and classmates and stuff like that that weren't necessarily . . . that's where I picked up more of my non-Jewish friendship was through high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=991.0,1013.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever experience antisemitism growing up in Birmingham?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1013.0,1018.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I never experienced any antisemitism that I could even think of, to be honest with you, even to this time of my life, I'm 76 years old now. I've never experienced antisemitism face to face that I've been directly involved in. I will say this, though I did grow up in the Civil Rights era, and I remember being downtown Birmingham, where the demonstrations were going on right in front of my father's pawn shop. You would see all the demonstrations on the street and Bull Connor, and the police, and the riots, and the firemen hosing down people. I experienced that, but not really antisemitism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1018.0,1063.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd like to talk a little bit about that, because I think that's just an important time in America's history and in Jewish history. Birmingham was for many years the center of the Civil Rights Movement. Tell us a little bit . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1063.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I did grow up in the sense of remembering that there were country clubs that wouldn't permit Jews. That's for sure. There were two Jewish country clubs, but the non-Jewish, no Jews were at that time permitted to be members.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1080.0,1099.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Think about your formative years and your earliest memories of going to an establishment in Birmingham, a store. For example, could your father service black patrons, black customers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1099.0,1119.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure, yes. Half of his clients were black patrons. But I can remember going into the stores and the water fountains, you had colored and white. When you would ride on the bus, you had colored and white. I did experience that. None of that was really antisemitic, but basically, I grew up with that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1119.0,1148.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that ever a discussion at home among your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1148.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because it's just part of life at that point. You just lived with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1153.0,1159.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there ever any moment in time as a high school student or young person that . . . you were mentioning earlier that you had observed some of the protests, some of the police action, even the former sheriff of Birmingham or the county, Bull Connor, who was a famous person at that time. You mentioned also the famous image that a lot of people have from history of the police turning on the water hoses and spraying it at the protesters . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1159.0,1197.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It happened right outside the store, my father's store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1197.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You are a witness to history of that experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1202.0,1205.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1205.0,1206.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What would you say to the generations of people they may be watching this one day, or your unborn great-grandchildren when they listen to you? What was it like to live through that period of time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1206.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a part of life. None of us, none of my close friends or whatever, no one really were activists against it or whatever. It was just part of growing up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1220.0,1238.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about some of your activities at school. What high school did you go to in Birmingham?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1238.0,1243.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Shades Valley High School.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1243.0,1247.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What were some of your interests in school besides . . . your interests?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1247.0,1252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I was a big fan of playing basketball growing up at the JCC, and I played basketball in my junior high school, and I played on the freshman team of high school. I didn't make the varsity team, but basketball was a big part of my sports life. I did that in school and other things I did, I was involved with the yearbook, sold ads, and did that other extracurricular things through the school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1252.0,1286.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e When time came to matriculate, graduate from high school and go to college. Where did you go to college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1286.0,1292.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to the University of Alabama.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1292.0,1293.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e In Tuscaloosa.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1293.0,1294.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e In Tuscaloosa, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1294.0,1296.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you a member of a fraternity?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1296.0,1297.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi, which now is part of ZBT [Zeta Beta Tau] . . . one person that had a big impact on my life that I'm very close with here, that still has a big impact on my life, is a cousin of mine named Bruce Weinstein who a lot of people in Atlanta know. Bruce was from Bessemer, Alabama, which is about 40 minutes outside of Birmingham. His father and my father were second cousins, so we kind of . . . Then he recruited me to Alabama as far as the fraternity. He was an influence on me joining PhiEp and at Alabama, we had PhiEp, we had ZBT, we had Sammy [Sigma Alpha Mu], and we had AEPi [Alpha Epsilon Pi], and there was SDT [Sigma Delta Tau] and DPhiE [Delta Phi Epsilon], and AEPhi [Alpha Epsilon Phi] was a big Jewish presence of. But now at Alabama, you have ZBT currently, and you have SDT, the remnants of it. It's a lot different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1297.0,1362.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us, what years were you a student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1362.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I started in 1965. I should have graduated in 1969, but it was the Vietnam War, and I went into the Air National Guard. It delayed my graduation until January of 1970. I was there in those years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1367.0,1390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e 1965 to 1970.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1390.0,1391.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, and at Alabama, I really got involved in the school. I loved it there, had a great college experience. There at Alabama, some of my closest friends weren't Jewish. We lived next door to the Kappa Sig house, and I would say even to this day, some of the closest friends that I have in the world today were members of Kappa Sig, and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1391.0,1416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us who some of them were, just we'd like to know for history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1416.0,1421.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e One of my closest friends, and I speak to these people, we still have a current relationship. One in particular is a person named Joe Espy. He lives in Montgomery [Alabama] right now; he's a very prominent attorney there. He's the current chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Alabama, has a big, high profile position there. He was president of the SGA . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1421.0,1450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e The Student Government Association.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1450.0,1453.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Because of that, that drug me into a lot of the things that I did politically at school. Then there was John Godsey, who was about six . . . he was almost seven feet tall. We called him the Jolly Green Giant. There was all these guys that I interacted with, and they really respected me for being Jewish. It was unbelievable. I will say this, I came from a kosher home and at Alabama, my mom would prepare pre-cooked meals for me. We had a Jewish fraternity mother, Aunt Kate was her name, Kate Edmond from Mobile, Alabama, who had lost her husband. Then she came up to work in the fraternity. She would always pre-cook my meals. For four years, I ate all my meals through the fraternity house and everything, and my mom provided that. Anyway, everybody knew that, and they respected the fact that . . . and the non-Jews really respected the fact that I was Jewish. I didn't hide my identity they really respected it. In fact, Joe Espy's father was a preacher from Abbeville, Alabama. His church was very much into Israel. I had a very supportive group of friends, for my Jewish life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1453.0,1541.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What an amazing story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1541.0,1544.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I will say this in Alabama, I was the . . . and because of the influence of Joe Espy, when he was president in 1968 of the school, he appointed me homecoming chairman. For that, I was involved in all the homecoming activities, and it was really great. The highlight of that was at the pep rally on Friday night, I got to introduce Bear Bryant on the stage. That was just really amazing to be up here on the stage with Bear Bryant and introduce him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1544.0,1580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e For people that really don't know, Bear Bryant was a revered football coach, legendary coach who at one time held the record for the most wins, national championship, and he was a very, very famous person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1580.0,1595.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, but anyway, it was really a neat experience to be in charge of the whole weekend, the pep rally and the Saturday night concert that we had after the football game Saturday. Our two performers was at that point, Roger Miller and Andy Williams. I was involved in that whole production, and I never will forget driving to the airport to pick up Andy Williams from his private plane and he steps down from the plane, he's only five foot two. He was a midget, he wears these elevated shoes. Anyway, it was just such a thrill that I had to do that. I was coeditor of the yearbook at Alabama. I was president of the business school. I was very into . . . college was just great for me. I will say one thing too, going back to homecoming, you talk about a life changing event, when I was . . . in 1968, when that occurred, that was in the height of the Vietnam War, and I was going to be graduating soon. Everybody was trying at that point to get into the National Guard or to the reserves and not have to go to Vietnam. You had to be really well connected to do that and that and I just didn't really have the connections. If I would have graduated, I could have just gone right to Vietnam. When I was homecoming chairman and I was going over the list of dignitaries to invite for the homecoming weekend, one of the prominent names there was General Reid Doster. He was the General of the Air National Guard of Alabama. When I saw that he accepted the invitation to be a part of there, I made sure that I was side by side with him the entire weekend, I didn't leave him. Sunday at the brunch, when everything was over with, I said, \"General Doster, I have really enjoyed getting to know you.\" Says, \"I would love to have the opportunity to serve with you in the National Guard.\" I said, \"That would just be a really great thing for me to do.\" He says, \"Let me see what I can do . . . \" Sure enough, about a week or two later, I got a call from the Guard that . . . this was in October, someone reached out to me and said, \"We'll be back with you and let you know.\" The next January, when the second semester started, I go back to school and I wasn't there a week for the second semester, and I got a call on a Wednesday and it says, \"You need to report to Montgomery on Saturday to catch a transport plane to Lackland Air Force Base to join.\" I had to just stop what I was doing in life, get out of school and then I went to serve my term in the Air National Guard and came back and finished up a semester later. That homecoming weekend gave me the opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1595.0,1781.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What was it like serving in the Air National Guard? Where did you serve and what did you do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1781.0,1786.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was in Birmingham, and I went to Lackland Air Force Base for basic training.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1786.0,1791.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Where's Lackland?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1791.0,1792.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e That's in San Antonio, Texas. The highlight of that was every Sunday, the Jewish community center in San Antonio would host Jewish airmen, and we would go there for bagels and lox on Sunday mornings and get off our base and be able to do that. I'll always remember that. Then I did my training at Keesler Air Force Base, which was in Biloxi, Mississippi, and it was the height of the summer. It was so hot, no air conditioning in the barracks and it was terrible. On the weekends, what we would do is that we would go to the beach nearby, that you could walk, and we would have these floats and blow them up and just lay on the beach to sleep just because it was more comfortable than to stay in the barracks. That was an incredible . . . it was it was like pledging all over, going through basic training. I was the latrine cleaner, believe it or not. You seen Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants? I was in charge of the latrines on the bottom floor, and they would have inspections where the sergeant would come in and all the toilets would be upright, and you'd have to stand at attention. He'd come in with a toothbrush and just check things out and make sure everything was totally clean. It just taught you discipline; it taught you discipline. That was a . . . not that I enjoyed it but in life it really, it was a great learning experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1792.0,1884.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there any other Jewish Air National Guard mates that you became friendly with?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1884.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, in particular, there was one person named Mark Ganick [sp] that was in our group, and he was from Boston, Massachusetts, and we stayed friends. We've lost contact lately, but we went back and forth to visit a couple times and we kind of pulled each other through, and there were just a couple of Jewish people. There weren't that many.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1893.0,1914.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e When you were in the Air National Guard, did you, especially in the South, in Mississippi, did you experience any antisemitism there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1914.0,1921.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1921.0,1922.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a very interesting phenomenon. I'm glad to hear that. You were active at the fraternity. Tell us a little bit about some of your fraternity mates. Some of your friends. I know Bruce Weinstein was instrumental in your rush, in pledging you, getting you to join the fraternity. Who were some of your classmates or your pledge mates?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1922.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My closest friend in Birmingham still remains Phil Tenenbaum, who I grew up with and we're still in touch. He still lives in Birmingham.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1946.0,1955.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e He was a classmate and a pledge mate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1955.0,1956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e He was a classmate and a pledge mate . . . there's a friend of mine, Jack Blumenfeld, that was from Dothan, Alabama. He was a prominent attorney in Dothan, and now he lives here in Atlanta. We had in our pledge class maybe about eight or nine, and about three or four of those people have deceased now. It was a great experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1956.0,1985.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1985.0,1986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Probably one of the most prominent people in my fraternity was a gentleman named Danny Sheridan. Danny is from Mobile, Alabama, and he's a sports predictor and stuff like that. He's made millions of dollars selling. He's on ESPN and all these sports things . . . He was one of the most famous people from our fraternity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=1986.0,2013.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2013.0,2014.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember too, back then we used to have the big thing was the rivalry between ZBT and PhiEp. Oh my gosh, we just hated each other. Every year they would have the Nosebowl where we would play a football game against each other. Hundreds of people from the non-Jewish community would come just to see the Jews kill each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2014.0,2036.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Battling it out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2036.0,2037.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Battling it out, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2037.0,2039.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it a tackle football game? A flag football game? Tell us a little bit about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2039.0,2043.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was tackle, yes. It was pretty serious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2043.0,2046.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e It was intramural, the fraternities would put a team together and you all would play each other?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2046.0,2051.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, one of the games . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2051.0,2052.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Did it ever evolve into a fundraiser or was it purely just for the combat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2052.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was combat, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2057.0,2059.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember any of the other players on the other fraternity team? Again, I'm a big fan of naming names and identifying people. Do you remember any of the guys either from your community . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2059.0,2071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e There was one guy named Moose Goldner that I grew up with. He lived up to his nickname, I remember. We had from Montgomery, Alabama, from the Sephardic community, we had Albert Capouano. I'll never forget Albert. He was just vicious, this game meant everything in the world to him, you know what I'm saying? He just hated the ZB's. I always remember Albert.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2071.0,2103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about what did you study when you were in Alabama?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2103.0,2107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e That's interesting because I go to school and had no idea what I wanted to be. I had no idea. I just knew I didn't want to go work in a pawn shop the rest of my life that, I knew but outside of that, I didn't know. I mentioned to you; I had this group of friends that I was really close with that were really non-Jewish. There was this one girl in particular, that wasn't a Jewish, and her name was Karen Jones. Karen was from a little small town in south Alabama. She was in some of our classes, she somehow got part of our gang. She was later, she was the yearbook . . . she was homecoming queen. This girl was knocking out people, even to this day, she still is. I have contact with her. Anyway, all my fraternity brothers, they just couldn't understand that I wouldn't be dating this girl. They were so impressed that I was so good friends with Karen, but she wasn't Jewish. I just couldn't do it. We were having coffee at the center at Alabama and there was Joe Espy, John Godsey, Karen Jones, and one other, and we're just trying to figure out what we're going to sign up for to major the next semester. Karen said, \"I hear accounting is great. I think we ought to go into accounting.\" I didn't know anything about accounting, nothing. I just didn't even know anything about it. That's how I got into accounting. I signed up and became an accounting major just because of that incident there. Now today, Joe Espy is a prominent attorney, John Godsey's in real estate, Karen's a financial planner, and I'm the only schmuck in accounting. Now retired, but I'm the only one that was in accounting, and that's how. This shiksa, beautiful girl got me into my career path, and that's exactly what happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2107.0,2240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great story. It's very sweet. Let's talk a little bit about dating. Did you date girls from the sorority when you were in college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2240.0,2255.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Dating was big. You always had to have a date. There was lot of pressure, there were a lot of parties and everything. You were required . . . in the fraternity, you had to have a date. Isn't it funny? My grandkids that are in college, they don't date, they go out and groups, they don't really date like we did. Dating was really, really serious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2255.0,2279.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there any memorable people that you dated that that you still are friendly with, or you keep up with?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2279.0,2287.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e There's a girl here in town named Laura Einstein who's married to a good friend of . . . one of our fraternity brothers, Harold Einstein. I had dated her at Alabama. Now, Harold was my roommate when I moved to Atlanta. He was my fraternity brother. I knew her. There was Ellen . . . what's her name now? She lives here in Atlanta. There were a number of girls. But there was this one girl in particular that was from Augusta, Georgia, and it was my sophomore year, and she was a freshman. I met her during the week of rush, and she came from a traditional family in Augusta, she kept kosher. This girl seemed like . . . oh, God, I've just found what I'm looking for. Anyway, so I go home for the holidays because it was right at Rosh Hashanah time and when I came back, I call her and I ask her out for the next weekend and she already had a date. I said, what about the next weekend? She already had a date. One of my fraternity brothers, who I despise to this day, Jack Weinstein, had booked her up. You know what I'm saying? To the point where he snaked me, and I thought that this was it. She was a great girl and unfortunately, she died several years ago of cancer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2287.0,2382.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Sorry to hear that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2382.0,2383.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e That was sad. Another story is that, I don't even know if my kids know this, but there was a nice young girl that was at Emory, and she came to Birmingham one summer to live with her family. She was from Billings, Montana, was where she was from. She was related to the Rousso family in Birmingham. They had Shoe City; they had a bunch of shoe stores. I got introduced to her. Her name was Sandy Melnick at that time. I was just smitten, for the whole summer we were a thing. Then she went back to Emory, and we dated back and forth. Unfortunately, she had a brother that was in the Air Force, he was an Air Force pilot. I'll never forget, he was shot down and he was married to a girl from Montgomery. I remember how sad it was going to the funeral, and that was really something. Then again, I went in the reserves, and we actually got engaged to get married in June of 1970. After I got out of school and then I just got cold feet. I just said, after the Air Force, I said, I don't think I'm ready for this. She was the right girl; it just wasn't the right time. She really was the right girl, but it wasn't the right time. I called off the wedding. I broke up with her. She did get married about a year later to someone else, another fraternity brothers, so that was good. I came to Atlanta . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2383.0,2495.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You graduated college and what brought you to Atlanta? Was it a job or where you were looking for a job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2495.0,2503.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e What brought me to Atlanta, remember, I'd come here when I was 13 years old for the youth conference, and I had all these Atlanta connections and kids that I stayed in contact with and friends. I knew Atlanta was a good place to come back to. Then what really helped me out too, is that I had a cousin who's now deceased, his name was Eddie Harelik. Eddie owned Barwick Pharmacy, which is a drugstore here in Atlanta. He lived on Buford Highway at an apartment place called Cambridge Court. I had a place to come back and forth all the time. During college, I would come and stay with Eddie and see my friends. Actually, I was dating a few other girls in Atlanta during high school and everything too. I was coming to Atlanta pretty often. In fact, Eddie had a famous next door neighbor that a lot of people in Atlanta know. His name was Jerry Farber. Jerry is a famous comedian here in town and he lived right next door. He was a big gambler, and it was just funny hanging out with him and we're still friends to this day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2503.0,2573.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a great story. You come to Atlanta, did you have a job or you were looking for a job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2573.0,2579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e What happened is I was going through the recruiting; the different large CPA [certified public accountant] firms were coming to recruit in Alabama. There was one person in particular, Lyonel Joffre is his name and Lyonel worked . . . he was a partner at Touche Ross, which is now Deloitte Touche. Lyonel is the best salesman person I've probably ever met in my life, other than my father. Lyonel and I clicked, and we got along so well, there was no question that . . . and I interviewed other firms, it was nice when you were being recruited because they would bring you over to Atlanta for visits and they put you up in the nicest hotel, and feed you and everything. I went through the interview process, that was a lot of fun, but I knew I wanted to go to work for Lyonel. That's what brought me over. In fact, I graduated on a Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, and I started working the next Monday. I was in Atlanta, and I moved in with my fraternity brother, Harold Einstein. Unlike my kids, there wasn't a year off to go travel Europe or anything like that. It was no . . . you didn't do that in those days. You just went right to work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2579.0,2656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e This was 1970?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2656.0,2657.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e January 1970.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2657.0,2660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e The Vietnam War is still full bore. You're working in Atlanta, a single guy? Tell us about what . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2660.0,2668.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I had a great year it was terrific. When I came to Atlanta, one of the first things I did was that I joined the JCC, I immediately got involved in the softball league and the basketball league. I would say that a lot of the success that I've had in life, of connections that I made go back to those center days just in people I played sports with or sat on the bench next to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2668.0,2693.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e At that time, the Jewish Community Center was located on Peachtree Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2693.0,2696.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It was located downtown, you're right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2696.0,2698.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e In the Brookwood Hills area. Tell me a little bit about some of the people you met there. Who were some of your friends from sports?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2698.0,2706.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e The most influential people that I met at the center, in particular, there's one person named Barry Hyman. Barry and I played basketball together, we sat on the bench a lot because we weren't in the starting five. We got to know each other there. On our team was another person named Ronny Winston, who became, is today one of my closest friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2706.0,2731.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e A prominent lawyer in town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2731.0,2732.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e He's our family attorney and everything. They in particular, more than anyone else, I would think. From that, when I eventually went out and started my CPA practice, they were the roots. They became clients, they brought other people, they opened doors. That activity being at the center was a big part of my live. Now with Touche Ross . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2732.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e How long did you work at Touche Ross?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2760.0,2762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I worked at Touche Ross for two years and I was on the audit staff. I didn't really enjoy it. I didn't like it; it was just boring. I had to travel a lot, and I didn't . . . and it was amazing because . . . when I was at Touche, I had the great privilege of working under a person named Al Garber and Fred Nichols. These were just great people and the person I was directly working for was Irwin Siegel, who was my immediate boss.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2762.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You're naming some of the deans of the CPA community back in the 196'0s and 1970's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2794.0,2800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I never will forget. I had one interview at Max Cuba's firm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2800.0,2808.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2808.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I'll never forget the interview. I can't remember the guy that that interviewed me because he wasn't Jewish, but he was very prominent partner in the firm. I remember coming to that interview and I had a blue . . . what was the suit you wore then? Not denim . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2809.0,2830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Corduroy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2830.0,2831.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2831.0,2833.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Seersucker?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2833.0,2834.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Anyway, I had this suit, but I had red, white and blue shoes, patent leather, red, white and blue shoes with my blue suit. The partner said, \"You know what? I'm going to hire you.\" He says, \"If you're that brave to come dressed like this to this interview, I'm going to offer you a job right now.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2834.0,2861.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You worked at Touche Ross for a couple of years, and you worked under some great mentors?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2861.0,2865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. What I didn't like about my job is I didn't have . . . they had me traveling to all these little places . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2865.0,2872.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Smaller towns to meet clients on site.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2872.0,2877.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember that one time there was this, it was a Sunday night, I had a date, I can remember sitting at the Seville Apartments and just had dinner and watching a movie. It was about 7:15 and the phone rings, sometimes you know maybe I shouldn't answer the phone. I shouldn't have answered the phone because it was one of the partners calling and saying that someone had got sick, they got the flu, they need me to go. I was going to be at Atlanta for the next three weeks working on Reed Drugs, the audit that I was doing. Then they pulled me off of that, and they sent me to this town called Burgaw, North Carolina, to do a poultry and egg farm for the next three weeks. I had no clean clothes, I had to rush this girl home, do my laundry, and catch a 7:00 flight the next morning. Then I was in Miami [Florida] one time on a job, Plantation Frozen Foods, and back then you would always confirm the flight before you flew. On a Friday morning, I was calling to check on my Delta flight back to Atlanta, I had Air National Guard duty in Birmingham that weekend. I had to fly to Atlanta, get home, and go to Birmingham. They said, \"Your flight's been canceled . . . your reservation has been canceled.\" I said, \"What do you mean?\" They said, \"Jerry Lacroix canceled your reservation.\" The partner in the firm wanted me to stay and work for the weekend . . . I had to get on another flight. I didn't get to Atlanta until midnight, then I had to drive over to Birmingham. That was the life I had at Touche. I wasn't a really happy camper. Then after my second tax season there, Irwin Siegel came in and met with me and he fired me. I wasn't happy but you had job security, you're kind of stuck. I had no initiative to try to find something, it was just easier to stay where I was. Anyway, that put me on the street to the point where I had to do something. One of the clients that I worked on was a company called North American Acceptance Corporation. You might remember them. Sol Blaine was the owner of it. I worked on that audit, and they had an outside CPA firm called Bernes and Kerker that did their . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=2877.0,3032.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack Kerker.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3032.0,3034.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack Kerker and Leonard Bernes, and Jack was the partner. They would close out the books every month, so the audit information would come from Bernes and Kerker, from Jack to audit. I had a relationship with him. In looking for an opportunity, I went to Jack who knew me, and he hired me. I went to work for Bernes and Kerker. I took a big pay cut because when you go from a big firm to a local firm, you take a massive pay cut. I worked there for two years. I never will forget, I worked more hours at that firm during tax season than I ever did in my own firm. Jack came into me after tax season with my bonus check one year and he and he says, \"You should really be happy with this. I don't know that I've ever paid anybody this much money for a bonus.\" It was like $500, and it should have been $5,000. They just weren't really willing to . . . make me partner after a couple of years. What happened is that, when I worked at Deloitte Touche, there was a fellow named Michael Aarons. Michael grew up in Birmingham, right down the street from me. He was four years older than me. I went to school with his sister Joanie was in my class all through school. I didn't really know Michael that well until I got to Atlanta. We worked together at Touche, and he was on the audit. He left Touche to go to work for Friedland Properties, at that time a real estate company in apartments here. A couple of years later, the real estate market it tanked. He was let off of his job and he approached me about, would you have an interest in starting up a CPA firm? Why don't we just go out on our own? I saw that I wasn't going to have a real great future at Bernes and Kerker. One of the reasons I had to kind of leave Bernes and Kerker, because Leonard Bernes got into some trouble and he actually, unfortunately, had to go to jail. I didn't do anything wrong, but I just wasn't comfortable being affiliated. I was advised just to leave the firm. The alternative was to go out on my own and my good friends, Ronny Winston and Barry Hyman, and others that I had . . . when I was at Bernes and Kerker . . . I would do personal income tax returns at our house. I would just bring people over to the kitchen table and build up a private practice kind of on the side. When the time came to go on my own practice, I already had a clientele that I could grow from. That worked out great and Michael and I were partners. We moved into a building where Morton's Steakhouse is now in Buckhead, and it was the Lenox Peachtree Building. We started out there. It was the two of us, and we got a secretary. I never will forget when we ran an ad in the paper for a secretary, my wife got a phone call at home from a lady named Rita Hayden. She told my wife, she says, \"Tell Mr. Grant to call me back, but tell him to stop the ad. He doesn't need to talk to anyone else because I'm the right person for him.\" She was and stayed with me for 18 years, but it was the three of us that started the firm, and Robert Habif joined us two years later when his father decided to practice law and leave Habif Arogeti \u0026 Wynne.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3034.0,3281.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I'll put a pin on that and we're going to come back to that, but I want to go back and talk about your wife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3281.0,3287.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I wanted to bring that up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3287.0,3289.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, because we haven't talked about her yet and we haven't talked about your kids. We're going to get there. We're going to talk a little about how you met your wife and your immediate family, and then we'll come back to the firm. Tell us, how did you meet your wife and tell us her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3289.0,3304.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My wife's name was Ilene Pearlman at the time, and she's from Canton, Ohio. She went to the University of Cincinnati, and she was a math major and graduated in January of 1971. She came over to Atlanta. She was had a choice to go to work for Sears in Chicago [Illinois] or come to Atlanta. She just heard Atlanta was just a good place to meet a lot of Jewish kids, so she came to Atlanta, and she didn't really know anybody but her best friend growing up had a sister that lived in Atlanta on Buford Highway at Seville Apartments where I lived. She moved into that apartment, and I guess about a week or two after she was here, she went to a party that I went to, and it was hosted by a girl named Candy Frank and she was married to Morris Frank, who unfortunately passed away several years ago of cancer. I dated Candy for a while when I was single, and we were good friends. Ilene went to this party, and we met there. That was in February of 1971, and we actually got married Thanksgiving, November 25 of that year. After being engaged to someone and everything, and coming to Atlanta and really got the socialization done, I knew that she was the right person. It's been a great ride ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3304.0,3404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Been married 53 years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3404.0,3406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e 53 years coming up this November 25.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3406.0,3409.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Congratulations, that's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3409.0,3410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Ilene was a math teacher. She taught high school for a couple of years at Towers High School, which is way out, off of 285, somewhere near the airport. Then she went to work for DeKalb College a number of years, it's now part of Georgia State. She had about a 25 or 30 year teaching career, mainly in college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3410.0,3435.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Great. Tell us a little bit about Ilene's family, she's from Ohio.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3435.0,3440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e She's from Canton. Unfortunately, she lost her father when she was about 12 years old. He died of a heart attack and her mother never remarried. Her mother's name was Toby and her father's name was Sam. Toby raised her, and she has one sister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3440.0,3456.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What is her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3456.0,3458.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Brenda is her name. The funny thing is . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3458.0,3461.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What's Brenda's last name now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3461.0,3463.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e It's Linnick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3463.0,3465.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Where does she live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3465.0,3466.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Funny thing is that she lives in a town called Wooster, Ohio, but she's married to Sam Linnick. Sam was a fraternity brother of mine at Alabama. He's from Mobile, and he had a golf scholarship at Alabama. What happened is that when Sam graduated, he lived in Birmingham and he worked at a loan store, he was in finance right around the corner from my father's pawn shop. He would love to go over to visit with my father, hang out with him and spend time. Then he got transferred to Atlanta, so my father said, \"We really need to fix Sam up with Ilene's sister,\" Who had just moved to Atlanta. He made that happen and so Sam met Brenda. They got married a few months later themselves and lived in Atlanta very briefly and then they moved up to Wooster, Ohio, which is near Cleveland. We have a family member up there that had a mobile home park. Sam went to work to run the mobile home park up there, he and Brenda moved up to Wooster. My mother-in-law, she has two daughters married to two boys from Alabama.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3466.0,3552.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3552.0,3555.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My father made that happen. Another thing too that's funny about me, I'm really into networking and creating relationships and making connections that's so important for me to do. But I've had five was successful . . . one not successful, shidduchs as far as introducing people that became married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3555.0,3581.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That puts you in the hall of fame, so if you're batting average is over 800, you're doing great. You and Ilene are married . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3581.0,3589.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e The way I would do that, I would love to do this, because when I would fix someone up, I would always call after the date and tell the other that, \"He had a great time with you. He said he just thought you were a trip.\" Then I would call him up say and I would play off each other. I kind of created these relationships is what happened. But the probably not my biggest success story, there was a couple named Larry and Elaine Benuck. They both belonged to B'nai Torah, our synagogue. I remember was after, it was Shavuot and the Kiddush, we were in the social hall and I'm talking to Larry Benuck, and I see over in the corner of my eye at the end of the room, Elaine, she was Elaine Saripkin at that time, who had gotten divorced. I asked Larry, \"Do you know Elaine?\" He says, \"No.\" I signal for her to come over to where we were and I introduced them, and I said, \"Look, you guys really need to know each other . . . You're a good match.\" My wife is sitting there, she's just dying. I said, \"I'm not going to leave here until you commit that you're going to go out and have a date. Just tell me when you're going to go out.\" I put him on the spot, they had no choice, so they made arrangements to go out the next Sunday. I left to conversation saying, \"You're going to call me sometime and thank me for this, I promise you this.\" Two or Three months later, I get a call from Larry, they're coming back from Athens, Georgia. He's in the car and he says, \"You know that call you said I was going to make? This is it.\" They've been married over 20 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3589.0,3700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a great story. You and Ilene were fruitful and multiplied. Tell us a little bit about your sons.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3700.0,3710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e We have three sons, and my wife has always regretted the fact that we never had a daughter. She's always wanted a daughter, but we got three great daughter-in-laws, so that's somewhat made up for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3710.0,3722.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us their names, your sons names, and your daughter-in-laws.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3722.0,3725.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My oldest son is Sammy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3725.0,3728.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was he named after?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3728.0,3729.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Sammy was named after Ilene's father, Sam. That's who he was named after.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3729.0,3736.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Sammy's married to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3736.0,3737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e He's married to Tracey Samet, was her maiden name. From Greensboro, North Carolina.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3737.0,3740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e They have how many children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3740.0,3743.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e They met at Georgia, at the University of Georgia. They met their freshman year. The first time that Ilene and I met Tracey was when her parents were in Atlanta visiting. They were here for Simchat and Sukkot, so we kind of all got together. I remember we go over to the hotel where they were staying, and it was the night that O.J. Simpson was driving that white truck or whatever, the night that he was being chased by the police. We were just all watching that. That was the night that we all became . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3743.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Acquainted?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3780.0,3782.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Anyway, they have three wonderful children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3782.0,3787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Their names are?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3787.0,3788.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Elizabeth is the eldest, she's 21. She's a senior at Georgia, and she is going to be a nurse practitioner. She's already been accepted at Emory and Augusta and hopes to get accepted to go to Vanderbilt. Jacob is a sophomore, and he's going to be a business major and just got accepted to the Terry Business College. Heather is a junior at Riverwood, and the kids are great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3788.0,3817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's son and daughter-in-law number one, number two son?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3817.0,3821.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Number two son is . . . Let me tell you about this about Sammy and Tracey, so they met the freshman year. Ilene and I, we were so upset, says, this girl is wonderful. Oh my gosh, I just wish she could marry this girl. But they were freshmen. How could they keep this relationship until they got out of school? It just didn't seem possible. We were just so upset that he found that such a special girl. But sure enough, Sammy went to law school at Georgia and Tracey went to Memphis in speech pathology to get her doctorate. They kept the relationship together and got married in Greensboro, North Carolina.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3821.0,3863.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3863.0,3865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, they held that together. The second son, Andy, Andrew is married to Dara, she was Plasker, Dara Plasker. A well-known family in Atlanta, the Arnovitz Plasker family. Her mother was Susan Arnovitz and her father was Michael Plasker. Unfortunately, Susan passed away many years ago, and she was the pillar of the Jewish community here in Atlanta for a long time. Dara has . . . she has two other sisters, all involved in the Jewish community in a big way. Andy was named after Akiva, that would be probably Ilene’s grandfather. Anyway, they have three kids. Matthew was 16, he'll be 17 in January. We share the same birthday, so on my 60th birthday, Matthew was born the same day, January 10th. We share that birthday. He's the oldest, he's 16, he'll be 17 coming up. He has a sister, Sari, that just became 15. She's just now got her driver's permit. Then there's Naomi, the younger one who's about ten years old. That's their threesome. Our youngest son is Jonathan, and Jonathan is married to Rebecca Halperin and she's from North Carolina. She's from wherever Duke is . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3865.0,3958.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Durham.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3958.0,3959.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Durham. She's from Durham, North Carolina, yes. They have two children. We have Levi, who's the eldest, who's ten. Then Leilani is eight. We're really lucky. Not only that, they all live within a couple of miles of our house. Everybody came back to Atlanta and settled here. We're really lucky and they're all involved in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3959.0,3986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You said earlier in our discussion that your father was not very rich, and you didn't grow up very rich in the sense of finances. But I can only imagine that you were very rich in life with the blessings that you have with your children, your daughter-in-laws, your grandchildren. That's a wonderful story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=3986.0,4007.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e The greatest thing is, for years and years and years, Ilene . . . here's what's amazing, when Ilene moved here and I moved here, we had no family. I had a cousin, Eddie Harelik. But outside of that, no family and our siblings and their families all lived out of state or whatever. It was just us, but now with the expanded family, the machatunim, when we do Friday night dinner, sometimes there's like 30 people. When we did Rosh Hashanah, we had 40 people that were part of our family meal and everything. We got such a big, expanded family. We were always jealous of the Cohen family, Cohen and Kogon's because, Mark and Tova Cohen lived the right down the street from us and they always had all these big family gatherings. I wish we could be like that and now we are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4007.0,4072.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a wonderful story that the family is together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4072.0,4075.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e On Friday night, shabbat dinner, that's the big happening of the week for our family. It's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4075.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. Now we're going to revert back a little bit to the firm, Aarons Grant that later became Aarons Grant \u0026 Habif, which for many decades was a very prominent locally owned accounting firm here in town. You and Michael Aarons and later Robert Habif combined forces to form the accounting firm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4080.0,4102.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4102.0,4103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about that and how part of the culture of that firm was also to be very active in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4103.0,4112.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e [interview pauses, then resumes] Blessed by having great, great partners. We never in all the years that we were together ever had any dispute or anything like that. I was kind of like the rainmaker, I enjoyed the client relationship. Michael loved to do the running of the practice and managing the practice, and Robert was the smartest person of the three of us. We just had a great relationship and our success, quite honestly, we were so fortunate in growing our firm by growing great staff. Oh my gosh, the people that I've had work . . . my success in life. It's not because I'm smart or than anything, it's because of a talent of the people that I was able to acquire and work and grow the firm. I don't have any kind of ego, none of us have an ego. We really were so thankful for the people that work for us. We treated them right and respected them and just created an environment that was really a great way to grow the firm. And I really am blessed that I could grow the firm with the people that we have. What happened is that we had some very substantial clients that we built up over the years, and the biggest part of the practice later on in life became our real estate practice. We were blessed by having clients like the Selig family and the Raydow [sp] family, and others and nationally. Because of that, the banks and lending institutions didn't want these big companies audited or have tax work done by local firms, they wanted big firms to be involved. We went through a search, and we found a firm called Carr, Riggs \u0026 Ingram that six years ago we merged into, and it was the right decision. They're a great firm; I have no regrets. It's been a great ride. Then in January . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4112.0,4244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e [interview pauses, then resumes] . . . Talking a little bit earlier about your firm. Before the merger in the early 1970's, you were three people. You, Michael Aarons, and an assistant. Then right before the merger into Carr, Riggs, how many folks were working at the firm?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4244.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e We had over 75 people. At the time I did the merger, Michael Aarons had already retired, and there was another prominent partner, Paul Paris, that had merged into our firm years ago and he had retired too, but we were 75 strong at the time we did the merger.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4260.0,4282.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's great. Share with me and our folks listening today, a little bit about the culture of your firm and your experiences, because you and your firm have been community leaders in various activities. After you started your family and got accomplished in the profession of accounting. Tell us about some of the activities that you volunteered for and took on leadership positions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4282.0,4312.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me go back to the when I was at Touche Ross, let me go back to there because that was my starting point with the Jewish community. Lyonel Joffre, who I worked for and everything, was very involved in B'nai B'rith. So he took me to B'nai B'rith meetings and got me very involved in B'nai B'rith. Other members of the firm were involved there and through B'nai B'rith, there were some great mentors that I can remember, Marshall Solomon and Bernie Kahn, all these people are kind of deceased right now. Ed Manning and anyway, on and on and on. B'nai B'rith was kind of my foothold into the Jewish community here in Atlanta. I've always been part of the Federation; I became involved in that and went to Federation activities and became a solicitor. Over the years I've served on the Federation board. One of the things I have really enjoyed over the years of Federation, I was very involved in the Washington trips, the men's trips to Washington and would go on those every year and actually co-chaired two of those trips to Washington. These are these two day trips that you would fly up and lobby your congressman and spend time in Washington. One of the greatest talks that I can remember was right before we were going to get on the airplane to come back at the end of one of the trips. You always had a great person who would come and motivate you, and then they would do the solicitation and everything. I'll never forget Joe Biden coming in to speak to us at the Hilton Hotel in Washington and I had never heard anybody non-Jewish as proactive for Israel as he was. I'll always remember that. That was just very impactful. That made a big impact on me. Those trips are wonderful. Then about five years ago, my wife and I co-chaired the Federation trip to Israel with Vicky and Paul Friedman at that time. That was one of the largest trips that we ever took. I probably have been on eight, nine, ten Federation trips to Israel over the years, and the one I always will remember, it was before the Gulf War. We had 250 people strong going to Israel, and the Gulf War started the week after we got back. I remember riding around on busses in Israel, where there was a fella here named Ben Rabinowitz that owned a company called Toco Instant Printing and he had signs made up, and they put on the busses on the back of the windows, \"How 'bout them dawgs!\" written in Hebrew. Everywhere we would go, you would be riding these busses and \"How 'bout them dawgs!\" That was one of the memories I had, and I always remember people coming up and just hugging us in the streets for being in Israel, to show support. I've had some of the greatest experiences in my life with trips to Israel through the Federation. Then I got involved too, with Israel Bonds and I remember . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4312.0,4536.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you first get involved or introduced from sort of a leadership position?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4536.0,4542.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e You mean in Israel Bonds?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4542.0,4543.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, sir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4543.0,4544.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e My history with Israel Bonds goes back to one person, and at that point, he was a real close friend of mine and became one of my biggest clients and his name was Alex Gross. Alex Gross was a survivor of the Holocaust. He was part of the Gross brothers and owned a company here called Atlanta Suburbia States. Alex belonged to the synagogue I belonged to at that point it was called Beth Jacob, it goes way back when. He had lost a relative and was saying Kaddish, and that's what kind of brought him to shul. We kind of got acquainted there and he was an avid racquetball player. We would play racquetball. By the way, I used to play tournaments in racquetball. I used to travel across the country. I grew up playing handball in Birmingham at the JCC, that was the big sport. Handball was gigantic. I grew up with that, got into . . . of course, I played tennis over here, but handball was my love. Alex was . . . and now we're very competitive and used to play all the time. He was involved in with Israel Bonds and he became, he was co-chair one year . . . he was actually chairman, and he needed a co-chair. He told me, you're going to be my co-chair. I wasn't really that involved in Bonds, so I became co-chair because of him. Then we went to Miami, Florida, stayed at the Doral Country Club for a conference. It was a national conference for Israel Bonds. Israel Bonds, just locally, is just local but when you go to a national meeting and you see people from all over the country and their involvement and everything, it just really turns you on to a higher level, just like it would in any other organization. I went there and I really love Bonds. That was like in November and then in March, there was an event in New York City that I went to . . . one of my closest friends in the world today is a guy named Michael Stoler, who's a successful real estate person in New York, and he was in charge of an event in New York for Israel Bonds that he invited me to attend, and it was a national event. The honoree was David Stern, the commissioner of the NBA [National Basketball Association]. I went to that event, and it was at the Waldorf Astoria. The Waldorf Astoria Ballroom is on two levels and I'm telling you, the place was just packed with people from sports. It had everybody you could imagine. The emcee was Dr. J, and . . . who just retired from baseball? The big sports guy . . . anyway, it was just an amazing event, I sat at a table . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4544.0,4742.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e A player or announcer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4742.0,4744.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e An announcer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4744.0,4745.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Bob Costas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4745.0,4746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Bob Costas and Dr. J, they were the emcees. In this room you had the who's who of . . . and I'm a basketball fan. I'm a season ticket holder for the Hawks. It was an amazing event, and I'm sitting at a table next to Willis Reed on one side and Oscar Robertson on the other side, and it was just like the . . . From that, I was invited to be part of the National Board, that goes back about 18 years now. I've been part of the National Board of Bonds for 18 years. I've made great friends over the years, great trips to Israel, great national events. It's just been a very enriching thing. Everything I do relates to Israel and so that's the most important part for me. I told you I did Federation, I did that, and then AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] has been a huge part of my life . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4746.0,4804.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about AIPAC, particularly for people who don't know what AIPAC is. It's the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4804.0,4814.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Public Affairs Committee. Yes. When I first started going to AIPAC policy conferences in Washington, D.C., there was 3,600 people at the first event that I went to, and it was at the Washington Hilton, and everything was in the hotel. You stayed in the hotel and all the meetings and everything was there. The last conference that I went to at COVID time, there was 21,000 people. The event was held at the Conference Center in Washington, D.C., and people were in all these different hotels. It really grew enormously over the years, but I like the old days when everybody was just together, it just felt good. AIPAC is so important in terms of the US . . . Israel could never survive without the support that it's received from the US. AIPAC is very important to me and my family. That's been great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4814.0,4873.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Adrian, you've shared with us experiences about your time and your talent, both in the professional accounting world and in volunteer in the Jewish world. You've also shared your treasure by being a supporter of so many causes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4873.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Also included is Birthright Israel, on the board there . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4890.0,4897.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about what is Birthright Israel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4897.0,4900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Birthright Israel is so important because it takes young adults to Israel to really transform their lives, to really solidify their relationship to Israel. So many kids that go were brought up in families where they were not really actively involved Jewishly and whatever. Especially today with what's going on with antisemitism on the campuses and everything like that. We need our kids to be strong and really have feelings for Israel, because if they don't, then they're going to be influenced by the other side to be anti-Israel. They're so influential and Birthright really solidifies their relationship to Israel. My granddaughter had the opportunity to go in this past May, it was transformational for her. It's just really important. Another thing that I'm involved in too, that I'm really proud of, is that one of my Federation trips to Israel, they had a lot of the community rabbis there, and maybe this goes back to the Gulf War trip, I can't remember. But on my particular bus that I was on . . . it was that Gulf War trip. There was Rabbi Sugarman from The Temple and then there was a rabbi that I had never met before named Rabbi Binyomin Friedman. Rabbi Friedman was from a group called the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. I had never heard of them before, didn't know what they did. In that week of bonding with everybody on the bus and everything like that, you really got to spend time and get to know people. I was so turned on by my contact with Rabbi Friedman that when we got back, I told him, \"You know what? I would like to start a lunch and learn or something in my office where, not every week, but maybe every other week, we can bring in kosher pizza and you would come and do a Torah class and whatever.\" That was the first lunch and learn in the community that I kind of created and that went on for years and years. I've been very actively involved with the Atlanta Scholars Kollel. Then I created an event that I'm really proud of 21 years ago, and I wanted to create an event that basically put together . . . because I'm all about Jewish unity. I think if you're a Jew, you're a Jew, doesn't matter whether you're Orthodox, Conservative or Reform. We all need to be together. We're all one family. I wanted to come up with an event that brought together that chevra of people. I partnered with the Atlanta Scholars Kollel because of their outreach in the community and I thought they would be good partners and that they could do a lot of the behind the scenes work to do it. We called it Jewish Networking and the way it works is that it's a great meet and greet where people come together, we serve great food, and we always bring in a motivating speaker. We've drawn in sometimes 300, 400 people. Our last event, which was in September, we had 350 people. I'm so proud of the fact that our speaker was a gentleman named Bob Diener, who I know from the National Israel Bonds Board. He's the founder of Hotels.com. He's a self-made billionaire that's worth over $5.5 billion. He's this incredible person we brought into Atlanta that was our speaker for the event. The way I market the event, see I'm a dinosaur, they don't make them like me anymore, I hate to say. I embarrass my kids, but I believe in old fashioned face to face marketing. For every event, every year, I'll have all these flyers or cards made up and I put them in my gym bag, I put them in my car, in my tallis bag, wherever I'm going to be that people are, I always promote the event face to face by saying, \"The event is on September 24th this year and you need to come.\" I give them something so that they can take it home and put it in their calendar. The best way to market an event in the Jewish community is go to Costco on a Sunday afternoon, about 1:00 or 2:00, and just walk the aisles and you'll see all kinds of Jewish people, and then you could go up to them and give them your flyer and say . . . and then when I go to the gym at Lifetime or Concourse, I would see people and I'd fill up the room. My kids hate it because they're so embarrassed that I pester people, but it works.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e But you're successful as you are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5192.0,5194.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5194.0,5195.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e As we wind up today's discussion and conclude, Adrian, first of all, thank you again for all you do for our community. You are truly a community leader and mentor. You lead by example. For those of us around you, can only be inspired more by what you do. On behalf of the very grateful community, I say thank you. You're part of the fabric of Jewish Atlanta and your family is . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5195.0,5233.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me say this, I've been very blessed. I have been really blessed. Because of those blessings, I just want to be able to give back. I'm just so appreciative of what I have been able to do in life. It's just important for me to be a mentor to people and try to encourage other people to be involved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5233.0,5257.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you, that is truly your living legacy, your living testament. We wish you many, many years of continued good work and health and happiness. Thank you very much for your time today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5257.0,5271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/transcript/77590/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGRANT:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=5271.0,5273.233"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJoel S. Arogeti (b. 1956) is a lawyer and active member of the Atlanta Jewish community. He graduated with his undergraduate degree from George Washington University, he worked for Congressman Elliott H. Levitas both in Washington, DC, and Decatur, Georgia. He received his law degree from Emory University. He has also served as Chair of the Board of The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Hosea Helps, the Boards of The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, President of Congregation Or VeShalom, along with board service with The Epstein School Board, The Louis Kahn Group Home, the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and Hillels of Georgia. In 2024, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Foundation for Jewish Camp. Joel and his wife, Beth, have four children and two grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=0.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/206","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. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=0.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBirmingham is located in the north central part of the southern state of Alabama. It is the county seat of Jefferson county and the most populous city in the state. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the city received national and international attention. In 1963, local civil right activist Fred Shuttlesworth asked Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Conference to come to the city to help end segregation. Their effort was known as Project C (Confrontation) and specifically attacked the Jim Crow systems that existed in the city. The sit-ins and mass marches were organized and lead to 3,000 arrests, but eventually lead to desegregation in the city and helped with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. King was among those arrested and jailed. During his time in jail, he wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. 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Most countries fought in the years 1939–1945 but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in all of history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. 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He has been involved in numerous organizations including as officer and member of the Board of Directors of Hillels of Georgia, Trustee of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta and past Officer, and he has served on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta recognized Weinstein with the Mary and Max London People Power Award, he was awarded the MJCCA’s Man of the Year Award, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity’s Stephen P. Ehrlich Award, and the Hillels of Georgia’s Billi \u0026amp; Bernie Marcus Visionary Award in 2021. 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It was founded in 1987 by Rabbi Menachem Deutsch, Rabbi Ilan Feldman, and Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg at Congregation Beth Jacob.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e [Hebrew: teaching] is a general term that covers all Jewish law including the vast mass of teachings recorded in the \u003cem\u003eTalmud\u003c/em\u003e and other rabbinical works. “\u003cem\u003eSefer Torah\u003c/em\u003e” refers to the sacred scroll on which the first five books of the Bible (the \u003cem\u003ePentateuch\u003c/em\u003e) are written, but it is often shortened simply to \"\u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e\" in casual speech and writing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlso known as Masorti Judaism, Conservative Judaism is a form of Judaism that seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual, but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. It attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, while preserving a commitment to Jewish observance. In general, Conservative congregations also observe gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis, and \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e). The governing body for Conservative Judaism in the United States is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), formerly known as the United Synagogue of America.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/379","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 \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e, 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/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/380","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRobert “Bob” Diener is the co-founder and president of getaroom.com. After receiving his law degree from Cornell, where he was an editor of the Law Review, Diener practiced securities and corporate law with the firm of Gibson Dunn \u0026amp; Crutcher. He later founded, headed, and sold several airline travel companies and in 1991, founded Hotel Reservations Network, which became Hotels.com. He is on the National Boards of AIPAC, Israel Bonds and the Hasbara Fellowships. He is active with Scheck Hillel Community School, Aish HaTorah, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the JCS Kosher Food Bank, the Miami Children’s Museum and many other organizations. He and his wife Michelle have five children.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965/annotation_set/1855/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eChevra\u003c/em\u003e\" is a Hebrew word meaning \"society.\" \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/145010/file/267965#t=4900.0,5192.0"}]}]}]}