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She was the only child of Albert and Tessie Froehlich Levy. Growing up, her mother was involved with the temple in New Rochelle and her father owned a jewelry business. At age 16, Edith began attending Wellesley College where she studied chemistry. While at Wellesley College, Edith met Herbert Rothschild Elsas and they married during her senior year. They lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts while Herbert finished law school, after which they moved to his hometown, Atlanta. Edith and Herbert had two sons, Louis J. \"Skip\" Elsas II in 1937 and Herbert Alan Elsas in 1940. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Atlanta, Edith became very involved in the Jewish communities and various civic activities. She was involved in the development of the Atlanta Symphony, and with the High Museum of Art, the YWCA, the Temple, the National Council for Jewish Women, the Westminster Schools, the Atlanta History Center, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. She was especially involved with Wellesley College, Emory University, and the World Fellowships Program, which encouraged women to study internationally. She served as an advisor to Wellesley search committees, admissions committees, and scholarship and awards committees, in addition to hosting parties for incoming freshmen. At Emory University, she established the Albert E. Levy Faculty Research Award and the Herbert R. Elsas Reading Room in the Law Library in memory of her father and husband, respectively. Edith passed away in 2010 and is buried with Herbert, who died in 1995, at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe first interview focuses on how Edith came to be involved in the Jewish community in Atlanta and discusses her early years on the East Coast. She recalls her early childhood, discussing how her parents moved from New York City to New Rochelle, New York. She talks about attending Wellesley College at 16 and meeting Herbert Elsas. She shares more about her parents and the doctors in her family that inspired her to study chemistry. She talks about her Jewish education growing up, and the temple she grew up in. She describes her parents’ careers and her mother’s interest in music and horticulture. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEdith recalls meeting and marrying Herb, and she reflects on moving to Atlanta and getting involved in different organizations, including the Atlanta Jewish Community Council. She talks about her sons and when they were born. Edith recalls her involvement in the Child Welfare Association, the YWCA, and World Fellowships Program. She shares her interest in music, prompting her involvement in the Atlanta Music Club. She shares her involvement in fundraising for Community Chest and the United Jewish Appeal. She discusses her extensive work with Wellesley College, including serving on the National Development Fund Committee, the President's Advisory Committee, and her class committee. She talks about hosting the Wellesley Club party in her home. Edith talks about various other organizations and the efforts she has been involved in, particularly her work with Emory University. The first interview ends with Edith sharing that architect Henry Toombs used bricks from the Atlanta Auditorium to build their terrace. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe second interview covers similar subjects to the first, starting with Edith discussing her childhood in New Rochelle and her mother’s involvement in the temple there. She talks about being an only child and other relatives. Edith reflects on moving to Atlanta and first getting involved with the Atlanta Music Club. She shares again about some of the organizations she has worked with and talks about her sons. She shares about her sons’ wives and families, discussing her daughter-in-laws’ faith and how that has impacted her grandchildren’s upbringing. Edith shares her involvement in local politics, working on committees for Mayor Maynard Jackson. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEdith details her connection with Wellesley College, discussing her involvement with the admissions interviews. She talks about hosting a party at her home for incoming Wellesley students. Edith then reflects on their recent move from the house they lived in for many years. She is asked about the opening of the Atlanta Opera, she shares that she has not had any recent involvement with the music and arts scene in Atlanta. The second interview concludes with Edith sharing that the new house they moved into used to be Milton Weinman’s house and Edith used to work with his mother, Jennie. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Alexander, Cecil (born Henry Alexander II, 1918-2013) (personal name)","Atwood, Sanford Soverhill (1912-2002) (personal name)","Buzzi-Peccia, Arturo (1854-1943) (personal name)","Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921) (personal name)","Chase, Mary (1908-1962) (personal name)","Clark, Jr., Rev. Samuel (1932-2016) (personal name)","Cohan, George M. 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They lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts while Herbert finished law school, after which they moved to his hometown, Atlanta. Edith and Herbert had two sons, Louis J. \"Skip\" Elsas II in 1937 and Herbert Alan Elsas in 1940.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Atlanta, Edith became very involved in the Jewish communities and various civic activities. She was involved in the development of the Atlanta Symphony, and with the High Museum of Art, the YWCA, the Temple, the National Council for Jewish Women, the Westminster Schools, the Atlanta History Center, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. She was especially involved with Wellesley College, Emory University, and the World Fellowships Program, which encouraged women to study internationally. She served as an advisor to Wellesley search committees, admissions committees, and scholarship and awards committees, in addition to hosting parties for incoming freshmen. At Emory University, she established the Albert E. Levy Faculty Research Award and the Herbert R. Elsas Reading Room in the Law Library in memory of her father and husband, respectively. Edith passed away in 2010 and is buried with Herbert, who died in 1995, at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first interview focuses on how Edith came to be involved in the Jewish community in Atlanta and discusses her early years on the East Coast. She recalls her early childhood, discussing how her parents moved from New York City to New Rochelle, New York. She talks about attending Wellesley College at 16 and meeting Herbert Elsas. She shares more about her parents and the doctors in her family that inspired her to study chemistry. She talks about her Jewish education growing up, and the temple she grew up in. She describes her parents\u0026rsquo; careers and her mother\u0026rsquo;s interest in music and horticulture.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEdith recalls meeting and marrying Herb, and she reflects on moving to Atlanta and getting involved in different organizations, including the Atlanta Jewish Community Council. She talks about her sons and when they were born. Edith recalls her involvement in the Child Welfare Association, the YWCA, and World Fellowships Program. She shares her interest in music, prompting her involvement in the Atlanta Music Club. She shares her involvement in fundraising for Community Chest and the United Jewish Appeal. She discusses her extensive work with Wellesley College, including serving on the National Development Fund Committee, the President's Advisory Committee, and her class committee. She talks about hosting the Wellesley Club party in her home. Edith talks about various other organizations and the efforts she has been involved in, particularly her work with Emory University. The first interview ends with Edith sharing that architect Henry Toombs used bricks from the Atlanta Auditorium to build their terrace.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe second interview covers similar subjects to the first, starting with Edith discussing her childhood in New Rochelle and her mother\u0026rsquo;s involvement in the temple there. She talks about being an only child and other relatives. Edith reflects on moving to Atlanta and first getting involved with the Atlanta Music Club. She shares again about some of the organizations she has worked with and talks about her sons. She shares about her sons\u0026rsquo; wives and families, discussing her daughter-in-laws\u0026rsquo; faith and how that has impacted her grandchildren\u0026rsquo;s upbringing. Edith shares her involvement in local politics, working on committees for Mayor Maynard Jackson.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEdith details her connection with Wellesley College, discussing her involvement with the admissions interviews. She talks about hosting a party at her home for incoming Wellesley students. Edith then reflects on their recent move from the house they lived in for many years. She is asked about the opening of the Atlanta Opera, she shares that she has not had any recent involvement with the music and arts scene in Atlanta. The second interview concludes with Edith sharing that the new house they moved into used to be Milton Weinman\u0026rsquo;s house and Edith used to work with his mother, Jennie.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Edith, let's start at the beginning. I'm going to help guide you a little because I know you're uptight.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: You think so?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=28.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I'm know so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=29.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I'm just uncertain of what you want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=30.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I want to hear everything. I want to know where you began your life and a little bit about your parents. How long ago and when you came to Atlanta? How about starting right there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=34.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I was born in New York City and lived in the city for the first few years. Then I think when I was about six years old, my parents moved to New Rochelle, which at that time was just a bedroom community. Dad commuted every day to New York, playing in that wonderful bridge game that was beautifully illustrated in many New Yorker cartoons. We lived in New Rochelle for happily ever after, shall I say, as long as I was living at home. I went off to Wellesley at 16, which was my mother's choice, and I was very glad that it was. Met Herbert at the, I guess the beginning of my junior year, or maybe it was my sophomore year. After about a year and a half of courtship, we were married, at that point, I, being the only married senior in my class at Wellesley. Herb was married after his first year at law school, so that in his second year of law school, we were both in school. I was the commuter. In his third year of law school, I really had a very lazy year in Cambridge [Massachusetts]. I made one decision at that point that was to hold a lot of weight for the rest of my life because when I graduated from college, it would have been possible, because I had had a pretty good record, I was a chemistry major and had good grades, I could have gotten into Hans Zinsser's class at Harvard to work towards a master's and I was just either too tired or not quite ambitious enough to do it. I made the decision not to do it. The medical career then waited until the next generation, as my elder son is now Dr. Louis J. Elsas, who is the Chief of medical genetics at Emory [Hospital].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=47.0,197.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I want you to go back . . . Edith, I want to guide you back to the beginning, and I'd like to hear a little bit more about your parents. Was your mom a volunteer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=197.0,211.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Both Mother and Father were born in New York City, as were their parents. Having been in Atlanta for some time and having been told that I was not a typical New Yorker, I often wondered what people were expecting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=211.0,231.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I understand that comment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=231.0,234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I was an only child, and I guess a whole lot rides on you in cases like that. You're terribly spoiled, I suppose. I was even an only grandchild on one side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=234.0,251.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you know your grandparents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=251.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I knew my . . . I knew my mother's parents very well. They both lived to a ripe old age. I never knew my father's father who died when I was about five, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=252.0,267.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What was your maiden name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=267.0,269.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: My name is Levy, Edith Levy, which is a hard name to identify because there were many Levys in New York. My mother's name was [Tessie] Froelich, of whom there are fewer. But she too had only one brother who died as a young man, so that there are no connections, particularly on either side. The . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=269.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: When you went away to college, you were saying you went to Wellesley.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=301.0,307.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=307.0,308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What kind of ambitions did you have or perceived that you had for yourself that perhaps your parents wanted you to do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=308.0,315.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I really thought I might be a doctor. We have doctors in the family of whom I was extremely fond, and both on my father's side, there were two doctors, both on my father's side. I thought that was a very interesting field.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=315.0,335.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Is that why you majored in chemistry?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=335.0,337.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That was why I majored in chemistry, which I would never recommend that anyone do unless committed to the scientific future because you miss too much. You spend too much time in the lab and not enough time in the art building and in the music building, and other things bring you great pleasure later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=337.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you ever pursue your chemistry major?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=360.0,363.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Never, I never did until the next generation came along, which is rather amusing.  There have been a number of amusing things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=363.0,373.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Now you are married and living in Cambridge?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=373.0,376.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I was married at the ripe age of . . . I was 19 by the time we were married. I was married at the end of my junior year at Wellesley. We lived in Cambridge which was wonderful fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=376.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What particularly besides studying, which it sounds like you probably had first and foremost on your mind, besides Herb . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=392.0,398.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That was all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=398.0,399.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=399.0,400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That one year, that senior year was a very strenuous year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=400.0,404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: No outside activities?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=404.0,406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Not that year, no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=406.0,408.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you have Jewish education back when you were growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=408.0,412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Some, I would say it was a very modest Jewish education. I was confirmed. Mother and Dad, of course, were members of the Reformed temple in New Rochelle. That was the only temple in New Rochelle in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=412.0,429.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What was the name of the temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=429.0,430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It is called Temple Israel. It was a little temple; you knew everybody who was there. Mother played the organ and there was a young choir, and I can still remember going with her and seeing the trouble she had with some of the young boys because they kept stepping on the pedals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=430.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Are you musical?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=451.0,453.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Not really. I have a great appreciation for music and was brought . . . Mother was very musical. She sang beautifully and she played the piano very well. We had a community orchestra in New Rochelle in those days, which used to play at our house because the piano was there. I can remember sitting on the steps of our house and peering through the balustrades and watching the orchestra and listening to it play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=453.0,484.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What did your dad do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=484.0,486.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Dad was in the jewelry business and was very interested in what Mother was doing. He had to leave school at an early age and go to work because his father was not well, and he and his brother went to work as young, really quite young men to help support the family, but he had a high regard to education. Interestingly enough, the intellectual members of our family were on his side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=486.0,519.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did your mother have a college education?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=519.0,521.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, she did not and always resented it. Because she lived in New York, she said, within walking distance of Barnard. But she had a mother who was one of the very domineering Victorians who really didn't want Mother to have the type of education that would take her beyond her control. However, Mother had a wonderful musical education, had a beautiful voice training, sang, actually studied with [Arturo] Buzzi-Peccia, who was the teacher of Caruso. Mother would tell how the young people would sit on the steps and hear him take his lessons, which was quite exciting. She also must have had good piano instruction because she played beautifully all of her life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=521.0,573.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Do you remember any organizations besides playing in the temple, for the temple choir and the orchestra, any other organizations that your mother was interested in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=573.0,582.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, she was very interested in the garden. She was an ardent botanist, and actually all . . . as an older woman, took courses at Columbia with rather important professors in the horticultural line. She was a member of the temple garden club, which was quite distinguished in Westchester County. She also was a member of the New Rochelle Garden Club. I think one of the few Jewish members of it, so that she worked very hard at two garden clubs and not only did very beautiful arrangements, but also was very interested in horticulture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=582.0,627.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Then she sent you away to Wellesley.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=627.0,629.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Then she decided that Wellesley was the school for me, and I was accepted and went off at the ripe age of 16 and had a perfectly marvelous time. Had been at the New Rochelle High School and felt just as well-prepared as the kids who had come in from the fancy prep schools.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=629.0,651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You met your husband to-be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=651.0,653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Met my husband the night of the dance, the night before the Harvard-Yale game.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=653.0,656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Herb is from . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=656.0,657.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Typical of that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=657.0,658.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Yes. Herb is from where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=658.0,663.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Herb is from Atlanta. Herbert is really one of the few now native Atlantans, who was born in Atlanta, whose father was born in Atlanta, whose grandfather came to Atlanta right behind the Union troops in the late 1860's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=663.0,682.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You got married what year?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=682.0,684.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We were married in 1933.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=684.0,687.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That's 55 years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=687.0,689.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Fifty-five years ago . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=689.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: To the same man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=690.0,691.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: To the same man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=691.0,695.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You then made your life in Cambridge for a year or two?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=695.0,699.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We lived in Cambridge, really, for two years, one of which we were both at school. The second of which I guess I just loafed, and Herb was in his third year at law school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=699.0,712.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: After graduation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=712.0,713.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: After graduation, we moved to Atlanta and have been here ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=713.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: With his same law firm?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=720.0,721.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: With the same law firm, yes. Herb was . . . as a matter of fact, we came to Atlanta to live the summer of 1934, because his law firm did then and continues to invite the young people whom they hope may come to work for the office to work between their second and third years of law school. At that time, there were five members of his firm, which now has about 250.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=721.0,754.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: The name of the firm?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=754.0,756.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The name of the firm is Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=756.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Tell me a little bit about your life when you moved to Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=762.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It was quite a change, moving to Atlanta and quite wonderful because in the days when I came, the Jewish community . . . In fact, the whole community was small, and it was like moving to a small town. Everybody knew everybody and the best advice I was given was never to make any negative comments about anybody because everybody was related. I found that that was definitely true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=766.0,800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you get married in the temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=800.0,802.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, I was married at home, but was married by Dr. Jonah Wise, who was a friend of the family and whose father had been a friend. Dr. Isaac Wise had been a friend of the older members of the family. That leads into my first Jewish affiliation in Atlanta, which was with the Jewish Welfare Fund, because in the fall of 1935, right after we had moved here, the war had started in Europe, and the Jewish oppression had certainly gotten going, and the Joint Distribution Committee was getting going. Dr. Wise came to Atlanta, and I was one of the few people who knew him and therefore I got to meet him and was involved in some of the earliest organization of the Atlanta support for the Joint Distribution Committee.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=802.0,864.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Was that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=864.0,865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That was the Jewish Welfare Fund.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=865.0,867.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Right, at that point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=867.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That was the international part of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=870.0,874.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you go on to The Temple when you moved here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=874.0,877.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We belonged to . . . Herbert's family had been members of The Temple, and that was done as a matter of course. Dr. Marx, of course, was the rabbi then and was a friend of the family as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=877.0,890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you join the sisterhood there or have any real affiliation with The Temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=890.0,893.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I never have had any affiliation with the sisterhood that amounted to anything. I always did the things they asked me to do, which were peripheral to the real involvement with the sisterhood. My mother was involved with the sisterhood of the temple in New Rochelle, quite contrary to my affiliation here. I got active in Council quite early on through Josephine Heyman and Dottie Oberdorfer and worked my way from 1935 or 1936 as a member of the board, I guess. I don't know why they put me on the board, but I was new and was able to work and they were always looking for new blood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=893.0,940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: When were your children born? Shortly thereafter or after a while?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=940.0,942.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, I had . . . the first child was born in 1937. [interview pauses, then resumes].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=942.0,950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Edith, your first child was born in 1937.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=950.0,953.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=953.0,954.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Boy or girl?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=954.0,955.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It was a boy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=955.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=956.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Louis Jacob Elsas the Second, named for Herbert's father.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=957.0,963.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: After he was born, did you quickly have another child?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=963.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, we didn't have another child for four years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=967.0,970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What did you do in those four years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=970.0,972.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: In those four years, I guess I did a good deal of volunteer work. I was still young, energetic, and in those days had plenty of help so that we were perfectly able to do a lot of things out of household.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=972.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What were your first memories of organized volunteerism? I will call it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=991.0,996.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I would expect those were the years that I was involved with Council and was on the board and did, as I mentioned earlier, I believe, but I don't have too clear a recollection of the actual work for Council. The one other organization that I was very much involved with and continued to be for many years was at that time called the Child Welfare Association. You asked me earlier if I had ever done anything with my chemistry, which I did not, but I was asked early on to work in the clinic at the Child Welfare Association. Dr. Bill Kaiser [sp] at that time was the doctor there, and we became very close friends, and he was my pediatrician. Actually, that must have preceded having the baby because he was there when the baby was born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=996.0,1058.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What did you do for the Child Welfare?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1058.0,1061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I think we weighed babies, and we didn't give shots, but knew how to handle them. Then very soon thereafter, I went on the Child Welfare Board, and I served on that board for 25 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1061.0,1079.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: In what capacity?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1079.0,1081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Every capacity up to being the president. Somehow, as I think back over my rather long career, I grew up to be the vice president of a good many organizations and then somehow failed to cap it off for one good reason or another. The same thing happened with Council because when it got to be 1942, I was the vice president who was to be the president the following year, and the United States, you may remember, went into the War. Right after Pearl Harbor, my husband volunteered and was called in April of 1942. I went with him to Miami Beach, where he was in the first class of the officers’ training school there, and at which point I certainly had to relinquish my job with the Council because I had no idea when, as, and if I would be back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1081.0,1150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Does that mean they can come back to you next year and maybe let you serve your term then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1150.0,1157.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: [Memoirist laughs] We've come a long from then, honey. It has grown into a very large organization since then, it was pretty small and homemade in the olden days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1157.0,1173.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Your second son was born four years later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1173.0,1175.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: My second son was born in 1940, so actually he was just two years old when his father went into the service.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1175.0,1185.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What's his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1185.0,1186.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: His name is Herbert Alan Elsas. He's named Herbert for Herbert and Alan because my dad was Albert and having one son named for one granddaddy, we thought it would be nice to name the other one for the other granddaddy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1186.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Where is Herb Jr. or Herb?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1202.0,1206.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Herb Jr. is with Robinson Humphrey and lives in Atlanta. We are very blessed that both of our sons and their delightful families live right close by.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1206.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: They have how many children? How many grandchildren?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1220.0,1223.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Skip, the elder son, has three children of whom one is now married. Alan has . . . Alan was an old bachelor, wasn't married until he was 30, so we have two younger grandsons, which is wonderful. They live on the back, actually, of our property and while we have talked from time to time of moving away from this place, which we have enjoyed for 50 years, I feel as long as the little boys walk through the woods to Granny's house, Granny is going to be there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1223.0,1262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That's super. Let's go back to your organizational work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1262.0,1266.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1266.0,1268.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You've done a lot in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1268.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It has been varied.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1271.0,1273.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Would you like to just touch on a few organizations besides the Jewish ones that you are active in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1273.0,1279.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: One of the interesting things that happened, the year that I was going off of the board of the Child Welfare Association, I got a call from a very, I felt, very effective woman who was the executive director of the YWCA [Young Women's Christian Association], and she said, \"I want to talk to you very seriously about coming on to our board because I know you're going off of your board after 25 years and before somebody else gets a hold of you, we want you to consider this very seriously.\" I said, \"Miss Mary Kate,\" who is Mary Kate Duskin, \"I am indeed flattered by this approach, and I know you are a great one for getting your way.\" But I said, \"I feel I'm in no way qualified except that I am a woman because I am neither young nor Christian.\" She said, \"Edith, since you've put it so bluntly, I'll be equally blunt and say that's the chief reason we want you.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1279.0,1348.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Good for her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1348.0,1349.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Therefore, I found it very difficult, in fact, impossible, as I thought it over to decline, which I would have done if it had not been for that little exchange. I wasn't really looking for another job at that particular moment. But it happened to be the job, the volunteer job in which I learned more than anything else I think I've ever done. It was a very interesting time around 1960, when Atlanta was making its big step toward integration, racial integration, and the YWCA board was the first opportunity I had had to work with women who had had more education than I, who were black and who were very effective members of the community. I had my first introduction to the people who were at Atlanta University whom I had never had the opportunity to meet before. Altogether, it was a very, very interesting experience for me. The job that they gave me was to be the chairman of what they were calling a World Fellowship Committee, and our assignment was to attempt to cope with the many international students who were coming to Atlanta at that point to attend the various colleges. Of course, now each college has its own advisor, foreign student advisor but in those days, the deans of the colleges were absolutely delighted there was some volunteer organization who wanted to do anything for their international students. Because coping with them was an added burden to already overburdened faculty members. Therefore, we tried to do something of an integrated nature and it's hard to realize now what a challenge this was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1349.0,1492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What did you do exactly?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1492.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The first thing we tried to do . . . Of course, the board of the YWCA was integrated, and the YWCA downtown at that time had a restaurant which was open at noon, a  lunchroom, and that was integrated, and I think was the first integrated eating establishment in Atlanta. It was on Edgewood Avenue, right back at the Trust Company, main Trust Company, but there had been no activities that had been integrated. When we had our first party at the Y, this was to be done on a social level, to which every international student in Atlanta was issued an invitation, you can believe that we were really frightened. We wondered if the police would come in and if they would say, you can't do this. It was not a business meeting; it was a party and it was done in a public place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1494.0,1563.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Where was it held? [interview pauses, then resumes] This party was held where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1563.0,1568.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It was held at the YWCA for a variety of reasons. One of the most wonderful overtones was that sometime afterward, one of the old retainers who worked for the Y was heard to say that he had never thought he would live to see the day when such a wonderful situation would take place. [interview pauses, then resumes] One of the very interesting developments that followed the activities of the World Fellowship Committee at the Y was the actual formation of what became the Georgia International Student Bureau. The Junior League was looking for a new project, and several members of my World Fellowship committee at the YWCA were members of the Junior League, who thought that that was a very fine place to put their activity, and interest, and funds. I don't know just how long it took, probably a year or two, but as a result of preparing a brochure or for the approval of the Junior League, the International Student Bureau was created with the Junior League supplying, I think, half of the funds and the Institute of International Education (IIE), which is a national, has for many years been a nationally recognized organization dealing an international exchange was to supply the other half. That has been going on in Atlanta ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1568.0,1688.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What was your connection with the Junior League at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1688.0,1692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: None.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1692.0,1694.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1694.0,1695.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I only was the chairman of the committee on which a number of Junior League members were serving.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1695.0,1700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Any Jewish members at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1700.0,1704.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, there were no Jewish members of the Junior League at that time. But one very interesting thing did happen, when it was decided that the Institute of International Education was going to take over from the Junior League, the chairmanship of the International Student Bureau, wanted the chairman not to be a member of the Junior League, but to be a community member. I was asked in a very delightful manner if I would become the first non-Junior League community chairman of this committee, which I did and enjoyed thoroughly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1704.0,1754.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Edith Let's go back a little bit to your interest in music in Atlanta. I know that back in the beginning you did have some music interests, and I think we kind of skipped it over. Would you elaborate on it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1754.0,1767.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, I'd be delighted because it goes back to the very beginning of my being in Atlanta when we lived next door to Josephine Sanders, who was the head of the Atlanta Music Club in those days. I was invited to become a member of the Music Club and to participate in a good many of their activities. I think my first job was to sell ads for the program for their concerts. Of course, that had very little to do with music, but it was it was a good job, and I got out into the community and met a lot of people that way. There again, as a hard worker on a particular project it seemed to work out. I was invited then to go on the board of the Music Club, which I also enjoyed for many, many years, up to and including the days when the Atlanta Music Club invited Henry Sopkin to come from Chicago to Atlanta to become the first conductor of what was then a youth orchestra, and which has now developed into an orchestra of international acclaim.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1767.0,1848.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Edith, you say this orchestra has become internationally acclaimed, is this the Atlanta Symphony?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1848.0,1855.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, it is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1855.0,1857.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1857.0,1858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: This is today's Atlanta Symphony.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1858.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Is this Music Club still a vital part of Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1860.0,1865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, the Music Club still exists. However, the reason for its existence, in my opinion, has declined because there are now many other musical activities available. For many years, the Atlanta Music Club sponsored a series of concerts which were very well attended, in fact, filled the old Atlanta auditorium. Through the years, that interest has declined naturally because it was taken over by the symphony as the as the concert series became available and as many other impresarios came into Atlanta bringing in one activity or another. The Atlanta Music Club's unique contribution declined. I have not been associated with it in quite a few years, but I know that it still exists and I'm sure they still do a good job.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1865.0,1928.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you ever do any major fund raising for the community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1928.0,1934.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I work for the Community Chest, as everybody did, particularly as a board member of what was then, I guess, the second largest agency receiving support from the community fund. I think I grew up from just canvasing the neighborhood and working in one division or another to be a cochairman of the whole city women's division. That was a tough job. That was one of the jobs, I must say I don't remember with anything much, but a lot of agonizing and a lot of time spent in it. I've done the usual fundraising for all of the community appeals and can now kind of back off on the basis of having done it. I have also, of course, raised funds for the United Jewish Appeal, but many, many years back, particularly in the very early days when there weren't so many people involved and those of us who were asked to work pretty hard trying to raise money from people we knew. Also, one very funny story goes back to those days, which is a good example of what were considered big gifts, a gift of $1,000 was in the category of the largest possible gift. In the women's division, if you gave $100, you were considered really pretty generous. And one of the executives made a lasting impression on me by commenting over the check of one of our friends who put a $50 check. She said, \"Anybody who has enough money to write a check for $50 could write one for $100.\" I thought that was pretty cute.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=1934.0,2045.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: From there, you want to go into your affiliation with the Wellesley Club? Because that's something that you've had through the years from the beginning on to now, which is almost the end of our interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2045.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: And almost the end of my active career, I would say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2057.0,2061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I doubt that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2061.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The Wellesley interest has been a continuing one from 1934 when I graduated. I still think it's a fine place to go and I must say, I've had the pleasure of seeing young people go every year since then and having heard glowing reports when they come home. On the local level, I have been active in the local Wellesley club and also have been very actively involved in the admissions. In fact, for many years did all of the admissions in Georgia because there weren't that many people interested in going. That has now been taken over by a fairly large committee of really bright young people and is a very effective group and they continue to do an excellent job. I've been on a number of committees at Wellesley, and I suppose that's what kept my interest so very active. They included being on the . . . I'm a member of the alumnae board of directors and various other things which were really very interesting. Let's see, now what were they? I have to think back to even get them in line. I was on the National Development Fund Committee. I was on the President's Advisory committee and have been a member of my class committee, which has been great fun, particularly working on our 50th reunion, which was one of the most successful fundraising efforts that a class ever did. We all got great, great pleasure out of that. For many years, more years than I can remember, I think over 30, maybe even 35, I have had one meeting of the Wellesley Club annually and it has always been in late August, just before the girls go back to college, theoretically honoring the entering freshmen. It is a party; it has always been a party to which the entering freshmen are the guests of honor. Their mothers are invited, and the current students are all invited, and their mothers. The current students present a program, of course, it's very well attended because this is the one thing that the alumnae, local alumnae want to hear about. We usually have 50 or 60 people that day and I will be having it again this year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2063.0,2240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You have it at your house?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2240.0,2241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I have it here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2241.0,2242.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: In your garden?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2242.0,2244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We have had it . . . it's both. We have the meeting in the house because it's easier to hear if we seat people in the living room and they can sit around, they can sit up here, they can sit in the little room back of the living room, and we can accommodate about 50 or 60 people. That about covers the number who show up. Then when it comes time to eat, have the goodies, we do separate it now because the crowd is bigger than it used to be. We say, everybody under 30 can go outside on the terrace, and those who are over 30 can come into the dining room to have the beginning of the party, at any rate. Then after we have once dispersed like that and have something in hand, then you mix and mingle and get with whomsoever you like to talk to. But a great many of the mothers have commented about the meeting being a very helpful thing to them because they have a chance to talk to the other girls, the upperclassmen, even the mothers of some of the upperclassmen, and ask the questions that nobody else has been able to answer for them. That has been a very rewarding activity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2244.0,2321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I'm going to go back a minute, Edith because I think we touched on the Junior League bit a minute and then we left it abruptly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2321.0,2330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2330.0,2331.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I asked you the question were any Jews in Junior League at that time and did your impact do you feel . . . what kind of reaction do you think Junior League had to your chairing that committee, and do you think that had any impact on the Jews becoming members of the Junior League?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2331.0,2347.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I really don't know. I don't think so. I don't think we put that much stress on being Jewish or not Jewish. My particular life has been blessed, I guess, by having contacts from really early childhood because many of my parents’ good friends were non-Jewish and although their name was Levy, so there was never any question about what affiliation they had. My name ever since I've been married has been Elsas and there was no question in Atlanta about the religious background of the Elsas family, it has never been a matter of particular concern to me, and I've had just as many friends in the non-Jewish community as I have had in the Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2347.0,2396.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: And equally busy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2396.0,2399.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: And equally active, I would say, as years have gone on, perhaps more active since the war time in the non-Jewish area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2399.0,2410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Are you at the present time a member of the Symphony board or the Women's Division, the Women's Committee?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2410.0,2415.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Not anymore  . . . I have been on those boards for so many years and I really have a feeling that even those boards that do not rotate their members off automatically should have the opportunity to replace old members. Anyway, I have rotated off of the Symphony Women's Committee board. I was for many years on the board of what we call the Women's Committee of the Atlanta Art Association as well and I have not been invited back on those boards and really don't think I should be. I think that new people belong on these things that bring a fresh point of view, and they bring . . . they're younger and they have much more energy too. I have not lost interest in them; I still have contact with them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2415.0,2473.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: And support them, I'm sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2473.0,2474.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I support them, but I am not on their policy making . . . part of their policy making groups. The one other thing I forgot to mention that has been a continuing interest, has been the Atlanta Committee for International Visitors. For many years I have had an annual affair here, to which we have invited the wives of the international students. And I think I have had that party for about 30 years also and have been asked again to have it next year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2474.0,2514.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I know that you have written some, there is some past articles about your life in front of us, there's a long list of boards you've served on. If we could kind of touch on those, if you want to look them over and mention a couple of them or anything we left out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2514.0,2537.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, I've left out my Emory [University] connections, which were more recent, actually, and I have enjoyed those thoroughly. I started off by being invited to be on the . . . it was the member of the Friends of the Library, of the Council of the Friends of the Library. I said I would be delighted, but I didn't really have any particular Emory connection and the faculty member who had invited me said, \"But your son is a member of the faculty. Don't you think that's enough of an interest?\" I said, \"Of course it is.\" That led then to the delightful association with Emory and to meeting some of the people who were high in the administration. I have had the real pleasure of knowing, well, two presidents of Emory, Sandy Atwood and Jim Laney, and then was invited to serve . . . as a member of the Emory Board of Visitors, which again was one of the most interesting episodes in my life and which is a continuing pleasure because they do have an annual meeting of the alumni of that board. It's great fun to go back and to be brought up to date on the things that are going on there. I've also been a member of the Emory Council for the Arts and Sciences. I think I did say I was a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Association at the Symphony Orchestra, and I was also at one time, briefly served on the Education Committee, as a member of the Education Committee of the Atlanta Historical Society. I was on the Mayor's Bicentennial Commission, which is the only political appointment I ever had and of course, that was the most fun of all because I found out for the first time that if you say you want something done and the right person hears it, it's done before you've practically got the words out of your mouth. It happened to be at the time that the OAS [Organization of American States], there was a meeting  in Atlanta of the heads of the Organization of American States, and I was the chairman of the group to put on Atlanta's reception for these dignitaries. It was quite an experience. I had the thought that it should be held at the Civic Center, which at that point had never had food served at it and all that had to be done was to get the right ear and everything was made available. And it was really quite an impressive affair, which seemed to be enjoyed by everybody who was there. I was on the Child Service Association for 25 years, I did mention that the Council of Jewish Women, I worked my way up to being almost the president of. Also the Atlanta Music . . .  and then I talked about the World Fellowship Committee at the YWCA, which was an interest for a great many years, and which had ramifications which were extremely interesting, and which still exist. The International Student Bureau, which also was related to IIE at one point at their own. In many communities, including Houston, they are under the same umbrella. In Atlanta, that has never happened. Also many, many years ago, I was a member of the board, an officer and president of the Lovett School Mother's Club. In the days when the Lovett School Mother's Club was a very small organization.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2537.0,2780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: We touched on the fact that your mother went to the same music school as Caruso,  is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2780.0,2789.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2789.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You touched on the fact that you have this beautiful home that you've lived in for 50 years. Then there was one other thing of interest about the bricks around your garden.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2790.0,2799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, it is. We have been so fortunate in many things, including our architect. When our house was built, our architect was Henry Toombs, who was a great friend, as well as being a professional friend. He knew that at the time the house was being built, which is red brick, and for which he designed an entrance terrace and a back terrace. He knew that the old auditorium to which we have referred was being destroyed and so many of the bricks that were in the old auditorium are now the walls of our terrace. There are the older people who come and who know this, say they can still hear Caruso's voice on our terrace.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2799.0,2853.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: It is August 2, 1989, getting ready to continue the interview with Edith Elsas. This is the second interview to go with the first tape. Thank you. [interview pauses, then resumes] Edith we're going to go back to the beginning, to your mother and father. Now, since our last interview, you have moved from your glorious house, other house on . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2853.0,2888.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Paces Ferry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2888.0,2891.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Paces Ferry, and you're now in the Gates on Peachtree. I'd like you to go back to Mom and Dad a little bit and tell me a little bit more about their life in New York and your Jewish education that you got way back then from Mom and Dad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2891.0,2909.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: My Jewish education was very informal, although they were, of course, members of the temple. Although all of us were born in the city of New York, when I was about six years old, I guess, the folks moved to New Rochelle, which was at that point just a suburb, a bedroom community, from which the gentlemen commuted every day, and which was immortalized by George M. Cohan in his [Forty-five] Minutes from Broadway. Dad did indeed play bridge, he was part of one of those fantastic bridge games that went on on the commuting trains every day, which was fun. Mother was active in the temple when we were very young, and there was a small temple in New Rochelle. Mother played the organ, and I can remember going on Saturday morning to the services. I suppose they had a professional organist on Friday night but on Saturday mornings Mother played the organ, and a lot of kids were in the choir and her biggest trouble was keeping the naughty boys from stepping on the pedals. I didn't go . . . I don't really have too much of a recollection of Sunday school. I was confirmed but was never particularly interested in the formal Jewish part of it. Then New Rochelle expanded, and the temple moved and was a big temple and had a much larger congregation, just as Atlanta has changed a great deal. Mother continued to be very active in the sisterhood because she was an active member both of the Braille Group, which she took up later on in life, but she was particularly active in the Sisterhood Garden Club all of her life and was a really, very productive and interested member of that department. They had a wonderful garden club . . . in which she was very, very involved. They were great friends of Rabbi [Jacob] Shankman, which a good many people in Atlanta would know about, whom they would know about. In fact, Billy Rothschild, who has come back to Atlanta, I believe, served briefly in New Rochelle under Dr. Shankman because he had been a friend of Rabbi [Jacob] Rothschild here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=2909.0,3075.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You had a brother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3075.0,3076.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, I was an only child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3076.0,3078.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You were an only child?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3078.0,3081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3081.0,3082.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Your mother had a brother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3082.0,3083.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: My mother had a brother, and my father had a brother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3083.0,3086.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That was all?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3086.0,3087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That was all, the immediate family was very small. On one side, I was an only grandchild, my father's brother was unmarried until very late in life and then married a woman who had sons, so his family was much later on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3087.0,3103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Where is the rest of this . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3103.0,3105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I beg your pardon?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3105.0,3106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Where is this family now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3106.0,3107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: They're all gone. These people would be way over 100 years old now. You forget . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3107.0,3114.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I forget how old I am.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3114.0,3116.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: You forget how old I am, darling. I'm 75.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3116.0,3118.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Seventy-five? Are there no siblings from that side? From the other side of the family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3118.0,3126.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, there is one cousin. I have one first cousin on my mother's side, but I must say I have not really kept up with them. He's married and has two children, and they live outside of New York, in Westchester County.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3126.0,3145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: You moved here when?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3145.0,3147.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: In 1935 for good, Herb and I were married and 1933 after my junior year at Wellesley and his first year at the Harvard Law School. Then after the summer of 1934, we lived in Atlanta in Herbert's old house on 888 Oakdale Road, which is now owned by Cecil Alexander, which is kind of fun. We lived in that house, as I say, that summer. His father had died a year or two before, and while his mother had moved away from Atlanta, she kept the house for a short time. Then we went back to Cambridge and Herb finished law school, the third year . . . had finished his third year and then we moved back to Atlanta in September of 1935 and have been here ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3147.0,3208.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: At what point did you get interested in the community of Atlanta? From the moment you moved here or . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3208.0,3215.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, I forgot to put this on my bio, our next door neighbor, who was the wife of someone who was associated with the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, which was the business of Herbert's family, he never was part of it . . . The wife as I started, Josephine Sanders was a very active member of the Atlanta Music Club. She knew me, I had met her before and she was enchanted with my mother, who was musical, who played the piano very well and sang beautifully. Josephine recruited me for the Music Club so that I became active in that, I would guess the very first year I lived in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3215.0,3259.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: When you say active, doing what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3259.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: My first job at the bright age of 19 was to sell advertising. It was a very good indoctrination, I didn't know too much about what the musical ladies were doing, but it gave me an opportunity to go calling on people. I also had the opportunity to work with the printer on putting the program together and that was an education because I'd never done that before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3262.0,3289.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: It was a way to meet people also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3289.0,3291.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It was a way to meet a different group of people from whom I never had any contact before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3291.0,3298.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you work in fundraising from that point on for different groups?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3298.0,3302.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I guess I did in a variety of things through the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3302.0,3308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: For instance?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3308.0,3310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Let's see, Council was the next thing that came along, and that I attribute to Josephine Heyman. I can remember her recruiting me for Council and she became my good friend, as was Dottie Oberdorfer. At that time, even the Council was a fairly closed cooperation. It was a very small group. When I look at the list now, I'm just appalled at the. . . or delighted to see how it has changed. I became active in Council. Also, through Rae Neely, I was put on the board of what was then called the Child Welfare Association. Also being a youngster just out of college, they felt I would be a fine secretary because I still knew how to take notes and apparently that was successful enough and I stayed on that board for 25 years and then felt that was long enough and should move over and let new people come aboard. Then when the fundraising came along for the Welfare Fund, that was rather a coincidence because in 1935, I remember Dr. Jonah Wise came to Atlanta. As far as I knew, made the first appeal for the Joint Distribution Committee and for what was being done, what needed to be done and was being done for the Jews in Europe. I was pulled into that because Jonah Wise had married Herb and me. He had been an old friend of the family. In fact, his father had been a friend of my father's family. That was more or less a family continuity rather than any great interest in the Jews of Europe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3310.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you have your children by then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3420.0,3425.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, we had no children. We were married four years until we had children. Skip was born, our elder son, in 1937 and Alan in 1940. There were a couple of years where I really had plenty of time for volunteer activity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3425.0,3446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Do you want to tell us a little bit more about the boys, those two boys?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3446.0,3451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Would you like to know? It's hard to talk about the boys now they're grown men, of course, and have been for such a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3451.0,3458.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Skip is here now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3458.0,3460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: They're both here. We are very fortunate. They're both married darling girls to whom we are devoted and who seem devoted to Herb and me. We have had no mother-in-law troubles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3460.0,3474.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Are they from Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3474.0,3475.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, neither is from Atlanta. Skip's wife was Nancy Terrell, who came from Washington, D.C. and Alan's wife is Katharine Ellis from Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3475.0,3489.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Either Jewish or both?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3489.0,3490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Both are Episcopalian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3490.0,3493.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: How the children being raised?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3493.0,3495.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The children are being raised really with very little. They're being raised as both, may I say, but rather more seriously, the one child, the elder son of the Savannah daughter-in-law is being raised as an Episcopalian. [interview pauses, then resumes] It was Katharine's thought, with which Herb and I agreed, that the child should be brought up belonging to some group and if she was a member of All Saints' Church and was very happy there, that seemed the logical place for Alan to go. He has indeed joined that church. But there is no great emphasis on religion, and they are not every Sunday church goers. They just do go . . . 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Does it affect you in any way to have your grandchildren being raised in another religion?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3551.0,3565.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I don't think so and Alan is the only one who has a formal connection with the church other than The Temple. We are not temple goers, so we would not be any examples of what to do. Although Herb has always been a member of The Temple and active occasionally on some of the committees. Skip also is a member of The Temple, although his wife is an Episcopalian and their children, I would say, have been brought up as both Christians and Jews. Though his married daughter had a very interesting wedding in Glenn Memorial Church where she was married by the Methodist minister and by Dr. Alvin Sugarman. It was really a spectacular affair because Alvin did the Latin and Sammy Clark, who was the Methodist minister, did the Hebrew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3565.0,3629.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Let's go back a little bit to your later life after the boys were born and your volunteerism in the community and go to your political connections at that point. Did you do any political work for any specific parties or groups?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3629.0,3648.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The only political work for this city really came under the category of lots of fun, because one year Richard Guthman apparently was looking for a representative from the North Side to serve on the bicentennial commission when [Maynard] Jackson, I guess, was just recently the mayor. I served on that committee for however long it was, and I don't think we really ever did anything that amounted to anything. But it was kind of fun to be going to City Hall to meetings and I met a good many of the people who were connected with this city in that capacity. However, a couple of years later, Mayor Jackson was to be the host for the Organization of American States meeting in Atlanta, and I was asked to be the chairman of the mayor's reception. At that point, I really did have the authority because of the mayor to order various things done and as a result, there was a perfectly great party. I, for the first time sort of snapped fingers and the Parks Department bought plants and the gentleman in charge of the Civic Center agreed that food would be served there and things of that nature, which otherwise would have been impossible to even think about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3648.0,3739.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Did you feel you had lots of power at that point in time to get anything done?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3739.0,3743.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It gave me a real inside view of the power that the political people have, because it never occurred to me when certain suggestions were made that they would be implemented just at the snap of a finger.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3743.0,3761.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: At what point did you decide to head up or interview for Wellesley? Tell us a little bit about your connection with Wellesley.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3761.0,3774.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: The Wellesley Connection goes back 50 years, and that had always been a high point of my life and a great pleasure. Not too many years after I was out, I was on the Alumni Board of Directors, and as such became quite friendly with the Director of Admissions, whose name at that point was Mary Chase, was the director at that point. She felt that it was important for the applicants who came from distant states to feel that they had a connection with some direct Wellesley person, and it had always been that the personal interview has always been required by Wellesley, but not necessarily at the college because it's too far away, being outside of Boston, for many people to go. I somehow was elected to have the job, or appointed really, to do the interviewing for the girls in Georgia and in the area, so that at a certain point people were coming from . . . even came from Florida and from Alabama. I can remember several girls whom I interviewed who made the trip to Atlanta for the interviews. I enjoyed this thoroughly, of course, because it meant that I knew the girls who were going and through the years, so many girls started to go and continue to. We had one or two a year in the old days. Now, I think there are ten going in this year, which is quite a lot for a relatively small school and very far from Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3774.0,3887.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: How many of the people that you interview go? Out of the percentages?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3887.0,3893.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: That's hard to tell because, that varies from year to year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3893.0,3898.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Do you ever know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3898.0,3899.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Sure, we know exactly what happens to the interviewees. They don't let us know until the girls themselves know but we do, of course, know who they are. Then we do have something to do with all of the girls who are going, we have a continuing relationship with them and in fact for more years than I can remember, probably almost 30 years, I have had a party for the Wellesley Club. There is an active Wellesley group in Atlanta, quite large now because a lot of Wellesley alumnae have moved into Atlanta as wives and so forth through the years. Every year I have had the pleasure of having a party in the very end of August, honoring the girls who are going off, the entering freshmen. It's a party that is always well attended because the alumnae love to meet the young people and all of the girls who are current students are invited out of the program and the young people are invited with their mothers. This has been a very cheerful affair. The mothers are particularly appreciative of it because they say they have an opportunity to talk to other mothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3899.0,3983.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That's good. What kind of influence do you have over the person being accepted at Wellesley? Do you think your interview plays a major part?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3983.0,3998.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: None at all. We tell the girls this right away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=3998.0,4002.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: None at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4002.0,4003.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: None at all. If they are obviously unfit, you would have something to say about it but there are very few girls who apply who don't know what they're getting into. We let them know right away that the interview simply underscores the recommendations that will come from their schools, from whoever else is sending a letter of recommendation. We did caution them actually, about expecting to get in. Some of the very bright girls think it's going to be a snap, and we try to soften a possible blow and not put too much encouragement before them. If we don't feel  in our guts that they're going to make it. You get a slight feel for it, but you never really know. We don't have any influence on it, and we let the girls know this right away. They think we do, but we really don't want to think we do neither, and I don't think we do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4003.0,4071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Tell me about this move you just made into a new home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4071.0,4075.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: There is a certain continuity there because one of my enormous regrets is that the new place, which is lovely . . . and I say I feel like a snail who moved its house into a new garden because the new house is really very charming and the garden is about the size of somebody's very large closet, shall I say. Which is just about right for us now. The house is fine, but not large enough to have the Wellesley party anymore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4075.0,4114.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: What about your belongings? Did you bring all of them with you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4114.0,4118.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We brought a lot with us. One of the reasons that I selected this new house after looking at about 40 places is that our living room, dining room and library in the old house are exactly the same size as the ones in the new house so that the furniture and old oriental rugs that came out of my folks' house would fit very nicely. Everyone who has come to visit so far seems very enthusiastic about it. We did not, of course, bring everything, but we brought as much as we could.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4118.0,4159.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Do you have any projects in the fire right now that you're working on? Any special things?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4159.0,4164.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Yes, the special thing is to trying to get all the boxes unpacked and until that time I'm really not going to get involved . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4164.0,4171.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: No community or cultural things right at the moment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4171.0,4174.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Not this minute, no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4174.0,4175.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Have you been involved at all with the Opera, the new . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4175.0,4178.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: No, I'm not involved with the Opera. I'm awfully glad that it's going well but I have not been involved with the Opera. One of the things I forgot to say on this thing was I was involved in the Symphony forever. From the very beginning when I was on the Women's Committee of that. As a matter of fact, the orchestra was founded by the Music Club, and I was on the board of the Music Club when Henry Sopkin was hired as the conductor of the youth orchestra for the handsome sum of $3,000 a year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4178.0,4213.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That is amazing. We've come a long way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4213.0,4217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: We have come a long way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4217.0,4218.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: Is there anything else that you'd like to add to the interview, if you can think of? You can go back to the beginning if you want. We still have some time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4218.0,4229.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: I don't really remember what was on the other interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4229.0,4233.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: It's only been a year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4233.0,4234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: It's only been a year, and my brains are pretty scrambled because this move has really been a traumatic experience, which I'm looking forward to recovering from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4234.0,4250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: I'm sure. I'd like to thank you very, very much, Edith, for your wonderful, wonderful interview. I hope that we've touched on everything and if we haven't, we'll come back another time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4250.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Alright. Just one last thing, if there's still room for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4260.0,4263.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: There is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4263.0,4264.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: One of the delightful things about the new house is that it belongs to Milton . . .  did belong to Milton Weinstein [Weinman]. In my earlier days as a volunteer on the Welfare Fund, one of the people with whom I worked the most happily and was the most devoted to and was so happy that she was fond of me, was his mother, Jennie Weinstein [Weinman].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4264.0,4288.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LOWENSTEIN: That's wonderful. That's terrific. On that note, we'll close for the day and thank you again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4288.0,4294.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/transcript/72546/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELSAS: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4294.0,4297.09061"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/annotation_set/1611","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/annotation_set/1611/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJoel Dampf Lowenstein (b. 1937) was a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She married Irwin Lowenstein in 1957. They had five children and 18 grandchildren. Joel is a member of The Temple. She has also been active with organizations like the Breman Museum and the Public Broadcasting Association of Greater Atlanta, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=4.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/annotation_set/1611/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNew Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York. It is a suburb of New York City, located approximately 17 miles from Midtown Manhattan. This area was occupied by cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years. By the 17th century, the historic Lenape bands, who spoke a language in the Algonquian family, were prominent in the area. The community of La Nouvelle-Rochelle was established in 1688 by French immigrants from La Rochelle, France. During the 19th century, New York City was a destination from the mid-century on by waves of immigration, principally from Ireland and Germany, more established American families left New York City and moved into this area. Although the original French population rapidly shrank in relative size, through ownership of land, businesses, banks, and small manufactures, they retained a predominant hold on the political and social life of the town.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=47.0,197.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/annotation_set/1611/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBridge is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. 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Founded in 1924 by William Sutherland and Elbert Tuttle as Sutherland \u0026amp; Tuttle, the firm originally achieved national prominence on tax issues. Sutherland's practice extended throughout the United States and worldwide, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541#t=756.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137809/file/255541/annotation_set/1611/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Jonah Bondi Wise (1881-1959) was an American Rabbi and leader of the Reform Judaism movement, who served for over thirty years as rabbi of the Central Synagogue in Manhattan and was a founder of the United Jewish Appeal, serving as its chairman from its creation in 1939 until 1958. 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