{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/3j3901zv0m/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Shubin, Marilyn Hockstein (1998)"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1998-11-16 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Shubin interviewed by Margery Diamond on November 16th, 1998 and December 3rd, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Shubin was born in 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She lived in the Jewish neighborhood of Wynnefield.  Her mother and father where both born in the United States.  Her father’s family was from Riga.  Her mother’s family was from Iaşi, Romania. Marilyn came from a large extended family, with both her mother and father having large families.  Her father’s father lived with them for 18 years.  Marilyn’s family background is Conservative Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn attended Overbrook High School.  She attended Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia and majored in business with a concentration in retailing. After graduating, she went to work at Lit Brothers Department Store, where she met her husband, Joshua.  They married in 1951.  In 1952, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Joshua had an opportunity to work at Higbee Company.  They lived in Cleveland for 10 years before moving to Atlanta in 1962 for an opportunity to work at Davison-Paxon.  Marilyn and Joshua belonged to a Reform congregation in Cleveland.  They belong to the Temple in Atlanta, a Reform congregation.  They have two children, Lewis and Joanie.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn has a long history of volunteer work and has held numerous leadership positions.  Her volunteer work began in Cleveland with the National Council of Jewish Women.  She joined Hadassah immediately on their arrival to Atlanta and served as secretary to the Atlanta chapter.  She volunteered with the NCJW in the Atlanta area, and in 1967, Marilyn was elected as the president of the Atlanta section.  In 1970 after finishing her term as president, she went on to the national board of the NCJW.  \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, she began her professional life working for the Atlanta Jewish Federation.  From 1975 to 1979, she was national vice president of the NCJW, which allowed her to travel all over the United States and Israel.  From 1979 to 1994, she was campaign director for the Atlanta Jewish Federation.  She went on to become the assistant director of the Federation. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn was the lead staff person for the Mega Missions responsible for taking several hundred people to Israel on several occasions.  Marilyn was asked to be on the Holocaust Memorial Commission that President Jimmy Carter had organized.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Shubin talks about growing up in Philadelphia in the Jewish neighborhood Wynnefield.  She describes the neighborhood as being a very special kind of experience with Jewish merchants, professionals, and synagogues.  She remembers walking to school, from her kindergarten years through high school.   She talks about going to Drexel Institute of Technology after high school and describes it as being somewhat unusual for girls in the family at that time.  She describes working at Lit Brothers Department Store after graduating and meeting her husband Joshua through that experience. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe talks about marrying Josh in 1951 and moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952, where he had an opportunity to work for Higbee Company before they moved to Atlanta in 1962 to work for Davison-Paxon.  She relates that their two children were born in Cleveland.  She mentions that she and Josh belonged to Reform congregations in both Cleveland and Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe describes being greeted by a Hadassah member on her Atlanta doorstep while waiting for the moving truck.  She relates that she joined and was appointed secretary at her first meeting.  She details a long history of volunteer activities in Atlanta.  She describes volunteering and holding several positions of leadership in the National Council of Jewish Women, working for the local section as well as national, which allowed her to travel within the United States and Israel.  She discusses holding leadership positions with the Atlanta Jewish Federation and working professionally for the organization for nearly 20 years.  She discusses Mega Missions and leading members of the community to Israel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a national level, she discusses being appointed a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in Washington.  She also discusses being asked to sit on the first Holocaust Memorial Commission organized by President Jimmy Carter.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe describes Atlanta as being her home and central to where the family gathers for holidays.  She talks about being members of the Temple and remembers Rabbi Jacob Rothschild.  She talks about two children, Lewis and Joanie, and their experiences at the Temple.  \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28379"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Marilyn came from a large extended family, with both her mother and father having large families.  Her father’s father lived with them for 18 years.  Marilyn’s family background is Conservative Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn attended Overbrook High School.  She attended Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia and majored in business with a concentration in retailing. After graduating, she went to work at Lit Brothers Department Store, where she met her husband, Joshua.  They married in 1951.  In 1952, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Joshua had an opportunity to work at Higbee Company.  They lived in Cleveland for 10 years before moving to Atlanta in 1962 for an opportunity to work at Davison-Paxon.  Marilyn and Joshua belonged to a Reform congregation in Cleveland.  They belong to the Temple in Atlanta, a Reform congregation.  They have two children, Lewis and Joanie.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn has a long history of volunteer work and has held numerous leadership positions.  Her volunteer work began in Cleveland with the National Council of Jewish Women.  She joined Hadassah immediately on their arrival to Atlanta and served as secretary to the Atlanta chapter.  She volunteered with the NCJW in the Atlanta area, and in 1967, Marilyn was elected as the president of the Atlanta section.  In 1970 after finishing her term as president, she went on to the national board of the NCJW.  \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, she began her professional life working for the Atlanta Jewish Federation.  From 1975 to 1979, she was national vice president of the NCJW, which allowed her to travel all over the United States and Israel.  From 1979 to 1994, she was campaign director for the Atlanta Jewish Federation.  She went on to become the assistant director of the Federation. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn was the lead staff person for the Mega Missions responsible for taking several hundred people to Israel on several occasions.  Marilyn was asked to be on the Holocaust Memorial Commission that President Jimmy Carter had organized.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Shubin talks about growing up in Philadelphia in the Jewish neighborhood Wynnefield.  She describes the neighborhood as being a very special kind of experience with Jewish merchants, professionals, and synagogues.  She remembers walking to school, from her kindergarten years through high school.   She talks about going to Drexel Institute of Technology after high school and describes it as being somewhat unusual for girls in the family at that time.  She describes working at Lit Brothers Department Store after graduating and meeting her husband Joshua through that experience. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe talks about marrying Josh in 1951 and moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952, where he had an opportunity to work for Higbee Company before they moved to Atlanta in 1962 to work for Davison-Paxon.  She relates that their two children were born in Cleveland.  She mentions that she and Josh belonged to Reform congregations in both Cleveland and Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe describes being greeted by a Hadassah member on her Atlanta doorstep while waiting for the moving truck.  She relates that she joined and was appointed secretary at her first meeting.  She details a long history of volunteer activities in Atlanta.  She describes volunteering and holding several positions of leadership in the National Council of Jewish Women, working for the local section as well as national, which allowed her to travel within the United States and Israel.  She discusses holding leadership positions with the Atlanta Jewish Federation and working professionally for the organization for nearly 20 years.  She discusses Mega Missions and leading members of the community to Israel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a national level, she discusses being appointed a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in Washington.  She also discusses being asked to sit on the first Holocaust Memorial Commission organized by President Jimmy Carter.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe describes Atlanta as being her home and central to where the family gathers for holidays.  She talks about being members of the Temple and remembers Rabbi Jacob Rothschild.  She talks about two children, Lewis and Joanie, and their experiences at the Temple.  \u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I live at 3208 Argonne Drive. Today is\nNovember 16.\n\nDIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond interviewing Marilyn Shubin. We're at her\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house. Marilyn, I'd like you to begin anywhere you want to. I know you've been\nthinking about this. We've been trying to get together for a long time. Where\nwould you like to begin?\n\nSHUBIN: I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I haven't really\ndetermined where I would like to begin because, as I told you, I had some\nreluctance about doing this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the first place. What I really would like to do,\nbecause I'm not a native of Atlanta because I really came here in the early\n1960s, so my history is not as rich and as long as some of the other people who\nare in the archives. It might be interesting, Margery, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if you would sort of key\nin to the areas that you think are most appropriate and where the information\nthat I can provide for you would make the most contribution to any of the folks\nwho would be doing any history, let's say, from the 1960s on.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: We're back after a telephone break. I would also like to note the time\nthat we're actually starting at four o'clock. That tells me about how long we\nhave on the tape. I think that the fact that you were not born in Atlanta and\nyet you have lived here for a number of years, made a life for yourself here in\nAtlanta for almost 40 years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brings you to this point as a person that we are\ninterested in interviewing, and the story is important to Atlanta history. What\nis sometimes helpful is to start at the very beginning. Talk about your\nbackground, where you were born and how you grew up, because that's something\nthat has been a part of the interview. Then your Atlanta period can be our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"next\ninterview because that's going to take more than one, given the amount of\nmaterial. That's why I tape usually. Let's talk about when you were born and go\nfrom there.\n\nSHUBIN: Fine. We'll do that. I was born on May 18, 1927 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania].\n\nDIAMOND: We're back. One more phone call and now we're back.\n\nSHUBIN: You now know something about me that I don't reveal to too many people.\nJust kidding. As a matter of fact, I like to tell people my birthday. I don't\nmind that at all. Age is, I don't know, age is just an attitude as far as I'm\nconcerned. I'm very grateful, at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this moment in time, I feel very young and very\nvigorous. I grew up in Philadelphia and had a very happy childhood.\n\nDIAMOND: Tell me something about your family structure.\n\nSHUBIN: We lived in a Jewish neighborhood. That was a very special kind of\nexperience. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You have to know Philadelphia to know that it is a city of\nneighborhoods. You have great affinity for your neighborhood and for the school\nthat you went to and so forth. However, there were many neighborhoods and many\nJewish neighborhoods. I don't know that there was anything unique about the\nneighborhood that I lived in. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was called Wynnefield. I would call it\nmiddleclass, although there was a great spectrum of people who lived there. I\nsay to you it was a Jewish neighborhood, but I also mention to you that on our\ncorner we had a very large Catholic church. How that got there and so forth, I'm\nreally not sure. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In any case, that did not affect us in any way.\n\nDIAMOND: What made that a Jewish neighborhood?\n\nSHUBIN: What made it a Jewish neighborhood was that everybody who lived in the\nneighborhood was Jewish. I used to say that there were 45,000 Jews in my\nneighborhood. That's true. I could touch those 45,000 Jews by just taking a walk\nin the neighborhood. The neighborhood had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogues. The neighborhood had all\nkinds of Jewish merchants. The neighborhood had all Jewish professionals,\nmeaning the doctor. Your doctor lived around the corner, and he was right there.\nIt was a very Jewish neighborhood. The only time that you had a sense of your\nimmediate neighborhood changing was when we went to junior high. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The junior high\ndrew on a contiguous area and there were Italians in that neighborhood. When we\nwent on to high school, the high school also drew on a larger area. In addition\nto the predominantly Italian ethnic group, we had a large concentration of\nblacks who also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went to high school. That is significant then coming to Atlanta.\nBecause from the time we went to high school, we had no blacks in the junior\nhigh, but in the high school, from the time I started high school, which was\ntenth grade, blacks were a part of my growing up. So, we were very comfortable\nwith ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"blacks as school chums, not as social chums after school, but as school\nchums. They were there in our classes. I was in an academic track and so were\nmany, many blacks, so they were my friends. I have two brothers, one is older\nand one is younger. 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That is, it was very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stable and that our neighbors were our\nneighbors for many, many years, even though we did live in three different\nhouses. We lived in each place for quite a long time. We really knew our\nneighbors. In many cases, the neighbors were like family as well. They were very\nclose. The parents, particularly, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were very close. The kids may not have all\nbeen the same ages so they might not have been as close, but the families were\nvery close. That's the kind of background I had as far as my neighborhood. We\nwalked to school with the same kids from the time that we were in kindergarten\nall through high school. We walked to school. I mean, that was it. We walked to\nschool. We walked to junior high and we walked to high school. It didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"matter\nwhat the weather was, winter, summer, rain, or whatever, we'd walk to school. We\nknew the neighborhood. We knew our neighbors, and we knew the merchants, and we\nknew the professionals, so we were very comfortable. We took public\ntransportation, which was available, and that's how ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we got around. Growing up\nthat way, I really feel that Philadelphia was my home and everything about it.\nIn those days, we, as I said, considered ourselves middleclass. I guess\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody had a great desire for higher education. One way or another we got our\nhigher education. In most Jewish families, the most important persons for higher\neducation, of course, were the men. There was never a question that my brothers\nwould go to college, but there was a question about whether I would go to\ncollege. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father said to me, \"If you want to go to college, you figure it\nout.\" Most young people today would, I'm sure, harbor some resentment to their\nparents if their father or mother said to them, \"You figure it out.\" In any\ncase, it didn't even occur to me that there was anything wrong with my father\nsaying to me, \"You figure it out.\" The fact of the matter is that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't feel\nill at ease at all about that, nor did I feel that my brothers were getting any\npreferential treatment. So, I figured it out. I got a scholarship to Drexel\nInstitute of Technology. My choices were very limited. They were the only ones\nwho offered me a scholarship, so that's where I went to school. Of course, I\nreally didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"apply anywhere else because that's where the high school counselor\nsaid might be available. I tried and I got it. I went to college four years on\nthis scholarship. Just as an aside, one of my brothers went to University of\nPennsylvania. The other one went to Temple University. That's the way we did it\nthen. We couldn't go away to school, but we went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school. We went and then we\ngot our higher education. I went to work after I graduated from Drexel. I had\nmajored in business with a concentration in retailing. I went to work for a\ndepartment store called Lit Brothers where I had spent nine months ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on a\ncooperative training program, which was unique to Drexel. When I graduated from\ncollege, I was part of a junior executive training program. I mention that\nbecause my husband Josh was also a member of that junior executive training\nprogram. That's how we both met. He had no intention of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going into retailing.\nThat was the furthest thing from his mind when he graduated from school. His\nfirst job didn't work out and he just fell into this opportunity. It was, I\nguess, fate for the two of us in any case. I mention the fact that we were both\nin retailing because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's what gave us the impetus to make a couple of moves\nas a family. Shortly after we were married, which was in 1951, Josh had an\nopportunity to leave Lit Brothers and go to the Higbee Company in Cleveland,\nOhio, as a buyer. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, I went with him. We moved to Cleveland in 1952.\nThat was the end of our Philadelphia time in our lives. Cleveland was a\nwonderful town to live in. We lived there for ten years. Our children were both\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born there. To this day, our closest friends are still in Cleveland. We\nmaintained those friendships. We see them. We share family simchas. It was a\nvery important ten years in our lives. We became members of the Reform\ncongregation there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The rabbi was Abba Hillel Silver followed by his son Daniel,\nwho were towers of leadership as far as the Reform movement is concerned. We\nwere very involved in that congregation as a family. It made a great difference\nin our lives. In 1962, again, I refer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to retailing because that was what\nhappened when you were in retailing. You went from one place to another as the\nproper opportunity became available. We had an opportunity to come to Atlanta.\nJosh was offered a job in what was then Davison-Paxon, which today is part of\nthe Macy chain. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 1962, we moved here. I remember my friends and neighbors\nsaying to me, \"Where are you going?\" I said, \"We're moving to Atlanta.\" They\nsaid, \"Georgia?\" We said, \"Yes, Georgia.\" Of course, they had no idea what was\ngoing on down here. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Neither in fact did I. But Josh was very favorably impressed\nwhen he came to Atlanta with the opportunity and the city and so forth. It was\nonly after we got here that we realized that we came to a place that was\nundergoing a real social change, and we were going to be part of that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"change,\nwhich was an eye opener and certainly an enlightening part of our maturing and\ngrowth. Much of what had happened here, as far as the struggle for equal rights\nin schools, integration and so forth, had already happened but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there were still\npicket lines. I remember Josh, before I got here, in the interim period had\nparticipated in a picket line with a friend that he had made. That was all part\nof integrating us into the social milieu that we found ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here. In any case, Josh\nwent to work, and I decided that I needed to become a part of the community and\nlearn my way around. I was welcomed by the community, the Jewish community, that\nis, immediately. Somehow or other Hadassah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"found me on my doorstep waiting for\nthe moving truck. I joined Hadassah and found that the women were very open and\nwarm and made me the secretary of the chapter immediately. It was easy. It was\nan easy place to make friends. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We felt that we had made a good move. I would say\nto you that although I say that Philadelphia is where I grew up and where I\nstill have family, that Atlanta for us is really home. It's been good to me\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"personally. It's been good to Josh in his career. He has had several different\nchanges in his career. It's been good to our children, who are no longer\nchildren but adults, and themselves have had great success here. Now I'm going\nto take a breath. Can you stop it for a minute?\n\nDIAMOND: We're back on line. I think what happens is that when you stop the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tape\nand start it again that sometimes whatever we say off tape gets lost.\n\nSHUBIN: That's fine.\n\nDIAMOND: What I said off tape just now was I was so happy to hear the Hadassah\nepisode because it also happened to me. There was a Hadassah lady at my door the\nday that I was unpacking. I had secretly gotten married, so Hadassah knew. I\nwondered if it still happens today, and you say probably not. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which leads me to\nanother thought that you might like to address. If I'm wrong, tell me, and we'll\ngo somewhere else. There have been many changes. I mean, in those days, Hadassah\nwas at your door. Today it's not. In 40 years, you've witnessed quite a number\nof changes. What I may want to start with, and we can flip-flop back and forth\nfrom early years to present, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in comparing what a holiday was like for you in\nthe home of your parents. Let's talk about that. Once we've done that, maybe\ncompare it to what a holiday is like in the home of either your home today. I\ndon't want to get too complicated, so let's leave it at that.\n\nSHUBIN: That's good. I am happy to do that. I also want you to know that this is\na perfect ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"segue into a really important piece that I want to develop, which is\nmy volunteer activities.\n\nDIAMOND: Let's go there.\n\nSHUBIN: No. We can stop for a second about the holiday piece, which is I think\nprobably typical and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my story is probably not unique. As I mentioned to you, not\nonly in the neighborhood where I lived did my relatives live, but in\nPhiladelphia my father had a large family, my mother had a large family. In\naddition to the ones who lived in the neighborhood, not only did I see ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them on a\nregular basis, but I also saw my other aunts and uncles on a regular basis,\nparticularly on my father's side because my father's father, my grandfather,\nlived with us for 18 years. That was a whole other dimension to my growing up.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was, of course, the reason why all of his other children came to visit\nweekly. Every Sunday, our house was the meeting ground for the entire family. My\nmother was central both to her family and to my father's family. Our house was\nalways the center of family ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"functions. In addition, my mother was the best cook\nin the family. For all those reasons, our house was really central to both sides\nof the family. Times have really changed, particularly once we left\nPhiladelphia, we left the bosom of the family so to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"speak. After having family\nbeen so important, to move away from family, the way we dealt with that was to\nmake lots of friends. Those friends really became our family. It was interesting\nthat when my parents and when Josh's parents came to visit us, they were always\nimpressed by the fact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we had so many friends who were like family. They\nappreciated those friends as much as we appreciated those friends because they\nrealized that they were, in fact, a substitute for our family, particularly on\nholidays and so forth. Holidays are important to us. One way or another, whether\nwe have family or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not, they are celebrated with lots of people. Today, of\ncourse, going from then to now, we have our own family, our children, and our\ngrandchildren. Interestingly enough, we have a nephew who moved here and married\nan Atlanta girl. That's another reason for one of my brothers and his family to\nvisit us and so forth. Atlanta is now ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"becoming a focal point for our family.\nJust as an aside, Josh has no family. He was an only child. The family is all on\nmy side. To go back to the Hadassah story and the volunteer piece of my life, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if\nI can point to one of the areas that really formed me as an individual, it was\nmy association with the National Council of Jewish Women. I, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not to confuse\nthe issue, when I mentioned Hadassah earlier, but I had become a member of the\nNational Council of Jewish Women in Cleveland, which is, as I mentioned, our\nformer home. So, when I came to Atlanta, although Hadassah sought me out, I\nsought out the National Council of Jewish Women. Immediately when I made ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\noverture, they were totally responsive and involved me from the get-go. In\naddition to just involving me, they also gave me responsibilities of leadership.\nAs I mentioned, I moved here in 1962, and in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1967, I was installed as the\npresident of the local section. They really took a flier on a newcomer, so to\nspeak. It was a wonderful opportunity for me. It has meant a great deal to me,\nwhich I will elaborate on, and to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the family as well. This is really a natural\nprogression here of really what I want to say and what my involvement is with\nthe community. That is, as I furthered my interest in the National Council of\nJewish Women, they were broadened as well to include the southeast region and\nthen the national organization. In 1975 to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1979, I was a national vice president\nof the National Council of Jewish Women, which gave me an opportunity to travel\nall over the United States and to Israel for the first time. Actually, the trip\nto Israel was earlier with the National Council of Jewish Women in 1972.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Concurrently, or in the same time period, in 1970, which was after I finished my\nterm as president, I went on to the national board of the National Council of\nJewish Women. At the same time, in 1970, I went to work for the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation. I hope that's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clear that there were some things happening at the\nsame time in my life that I was able to address at the same time. However, as my\nresponsibilities with the Federation increased, it became obvious that I had to\nmake some kind of a choice as far as where I was going on a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"national basis with\nthis organization and where I was going with my career. In 1979 when I took on\nthe position of campaign director for the Atlanta Jewish Federation, I\ndetermined that I could no longer pursue the leadership activities with the\nnational organization of the National Council of Jewish Women. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The emphasis that\nI want to make is that it was because of my volunteer activities with the\nNational Council of Women that I was considered for the position that I had at\nthe Federation. The training that I had and the opportunities that I had to\nspeak publicly and to lead workshops and develop ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all kinds of leadership\nactivities for women were the reasons that I was looked upon favorably when I\ndecided to re-enter the world of work in 1970. As I said, I was fortunate enough\nto have an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enlightened boss, whose name is Mike Gettinger, who I am sure is\nmentioned on many other tapes. He really allowed me to do both - to lead a dual\nlife so to speak, to be a volunteer on the one hand and to be a professional in\nthe Jewish community on the other. 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I spent a lot of time, in addition to fund raising and those\nresponsibilities, with leadership development and human resource development. I\nhad a very satisfying career. Along the way, I guess what I observed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and what\nhappened was several things. Atlanta was exploding, so to speak, as a Jewish\nconcentration of population and the southeast became a real center of Jewish\nlife. When we first got here, it was a very small Jewish community. 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In my own case, I would say, I\nwas treated fairly, always treated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fairly. But many women were not. I always\ntried where I could to champion any cause as far as women were concerned. I\nstill do that today.\n\nDIAMOND: I'm going need to check the tape because what I hate is running out of\ntape while we're still talking. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. It looks like we've got a little bit\nmore time on the tape, maybe about ten more minutes.\n\nSHUBIN: I would like to stop right now.\n\nDIAMOND: You need a break?\n\nSHUBIN: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: You can have one.\n\nDIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond interviewing Marilyn Shubin on December 3, 1998\nfor the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by American Jewish\nCommittee, Atlanta Jewish Federation, and National Council of Jewish Women. This\nis our second tape.\n\nSHUBIN: This is Marilyn Shubin. 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I have to backtrack for one second.\nThe whole question of services to senior citizens ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and services to the aged had\nalways been an interest of NCJW nationally. Local communities fit themselves\ninto the national picture where it was most appropriate for them. The first\nforay into services for the aged were the Golden Age Clubs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which were\ntraditionally afternoon social kinds of programs for retirees, to put it most\nsimply. They became much more than that over the years as communities ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recognized\nthe needs of senior citizens. From the Golden Age Clubs, we developed the Golden\nAge Employment Service. From the Golden Age Employment Service, as a matter of\nfact, we also developed an information and referral service and a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nursing home\nadvisory service. All of those services seemed to naturally grow one from\nanother, all because of this interest in serving the senior population and then\nsubsequently, of course, the aged population. We also had a great interest in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services to children. One of the areas that we became involved with was the Head\nStart program. I want you to know, these things did not begin with me. I am\nmirroring for you what were the interests of that era ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and how organizations met\nthose needs. One of the major interests at that time was services in the schools\nand the recognition that it was never too early to intervene and help kids.\nThere were preschool ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"programs, kindergarten programs, and programs for kids at\nthe elementary level. Without going into too much detail, another interest at\nthe same period of time was services for children who did not fit the mold. One\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area in particular that we were involved with was setting up a daycare program\nfor children who were emotionally disturbed. That was done in conjunction with\nseveral community agencies. I'm trying to think. I'm fairly certain it was the\nNorth Avenue Presbyterian Church. If it wasn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"North Avenue Presbyterian Church,\nit was one of the churches in that vicinity. That sort of gives you an idea of\nthe breadth of interest. What appealed to me personally and also what was\nappealing to the other volunteers as well ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the fact that here we were,\nvolunteers, housewives, well-educated, who at the same time that we were leading\nour daily lives, so to speak, we were able to make contribution to the\ncommunity, and we were out in the broader community as well as the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish\ncommunity. What that did, we felt, it demonstrated the basic value of Judaism,\nthat we weren't separating ourselves from the community but that we were part of\nthe community. It certainly was beneficial in both directions, that we had many,\nmany contacts ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in social service agencies, in the other church community\nregardless of denomination, and within the Jewish community. There really\nweren't any doors that were closed to us when we were talking about issues that\nwould work for the entire community. All of this feeds on itself ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because when it\ncame time for us to fund raise for our projects, we weren't limited in who we\ncould talk to. We could talk to anybody. We could talk to the entire community.\nHere we were, again, housewives with a lot of chutzpa, who had no hesitation\ngoing to anyone who was the president of a bank. Mills Lane was always there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for\nus. The other presidents of the banks, large corporations, foundations,\nwhatever. We were not hesitant at all about asking. We weren't asking for\nourselves. We were asking for a project that would ultimately serve the entire\ncommunity. When you talk about community service, we sort of ran the gamut. It\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that broad interest of the national organization which translated into local\nsection projects that appealed to me. That was the interest that I had. The\nother side of the coin, so to speak, which goes hand in hand with community\nservice, is the public affairs department, which is what we called it then. In\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"modern terms, it is what is referred to as advocacy, which is developing\ninterest groups who will lobby for a particular issue and make sure that the\npublic and governmental support is there to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"support the projects with adequate\nfunding. These two areas, community service and public affairs, worked hand in\nhand. Basically, those were the two areas that gave me my broadest education in\nvolunteer life, which I was able to draw upon when I turned professional. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's\nstop here for a minute.\n\nDIAMOND: We took a little breather after describing the local National Council\nof Jewish Women, a little bit about your involvement in it, and what was going\non at the time. I know you were involved for a number of years and became the\npresident of the Atlanta chapter. From that point, from that presidency, you\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were invited to participate on a national level. If you would talk about that\nfor a while.\n\nSHUBIN: In 1967, I was elected the president of the Atlanta section of the\nNational Council of Jewish Women. I held that post for two years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"While I was\npresident, I was asked to serve on the national board of NCJW. That was\nconsidered pretty special to be asked to be a national board member while you\nwere serving as president of a local section. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I won't take it as any kind of\nspecial compliment for myself. What I really would like to think was that\nAtlanta section was really being recognized for its potential and also for the\ncontributions and the creativity that it had demonstrated, and that I was the\nfortunate one to have been at the right place at the right time. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was very\nfortuitous for me, and it really launched me on a much broader horizon than I\nhad any idea that I was in store for. In 1970, I started my first term as a\nnational board member. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Parenthetically, as I mentioned earlier, that was the\nyear that I decided that I was going to re-enter the world of work. Here I was\nlaunched on a two-pronged career not knowing what I was getting into in either\ndirection. Fortunately, I had two things going for me. I had an enlightened ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boss\nat the Federation. I also had a very supportive family at home. Those two things\nmade a difference. What it did, it gave me the time and the freedom to do the\nkinds of things that I was being asked to do as a national board member. I was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"obligated to go to New York several times a year to attend the national board\nmeetings. Shortly thereafter, I was elected to the executive committee, which\nalso meant that I had more responsibility in terms of attending meetings. It was\nwonderful for me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to have that opportunity. I was then involved with women from\nall over the country. Our interests, locally, as well included the overseas\ninterests, but it became that much greater on the national level, the whole\ninterest in Israel and our projects in Israel. This went hand in hand with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what\nI was doing in my professional life, so it was really a very good fit, at least\nfor me. I had the opportunity through my work the first time to go to Israel. I\nhad an opportunity again to go back with my husband to Israel for his first trip\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in 1974. Over the years, I think now I'm working with my 23rd or 24th trip to\nIsrael. I think it's obvious that Israel has become a big part of my psyche and\na real interest for me and what happens to Jews wherever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they live. What did it\nmean to me to be a national board member? What it meant was that I had\nopportunities to interact with people in every size community in the country. I\ndon't know if I mentioned this earlier or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not, but I . . . I think I did mention\nthat I had a mentor from the NCJW.\n\nDIAMOND: No.\n\nSHUBIN: I didn't mention that? A field representative who was very instrumental\nin providing opportunities for me. She had a willing subject, and she kept\nsending me around to all the shtetls in the south. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to Oak Ridge\n[Tennessee], Knoxville [Tennessee], Nashville [Tennessee], Memphis [Tennessee],\nCharleston [South Carolina], Jacksonville [Florida], Oklahoma City [Oklahoma],\nDallas [Texas], and New Orleans [Louisiana]. There I was. What was I doing? I\nwas peddling the National Council of Jewish Women. Sometimes there were six\npeople in somebody's dining ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"room. There were other times when there were\nhundreds of people and I was making a speech. I was doing things that I had\nnever dreamed that I could ever do. It was wonderful. It was really a wonderful\nexperience for me. This field representative kept saying to me, \"Next thing\nwe're going to do is a workshop. The next thing we're going to do is a training\nprogram. Or the next thing we're going to do is a major ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fundraising event.\" I\nsaid, \"Many of these things I've never done before.\" She says, \"Don't worry\nabout it. I'm going to help you and you're going to do it.\" And we did it. So,\nthere I was, going to meetings, going to national convocations in Washington,\nand when major things were happening in the Jewish world. 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In 1971, there was a national ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"White House Conference on Aging. I was\nappointed a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. I remember the\nsessions that we had in Washington but also in Atlanta, feeding ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into the White\nHouse Conference. What I tried to . . . what I said before was how much\nexcitement there was in having these opportunities which sort of came your way\nnaturally because of the involvement. If, as an individual, you were interested\nin learning and growing, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the opportunities were there for you. I guess it's just\npart of who I am that when the opportunities came along, I agreed to do them\nrather than finding an excuse not to do them. I have to say that looking back\nover the years, the only thing that I regret is the times when I said no instead\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yes. I would say it was a lesson to my children and so forth that I\nencouraged them on the same basis, to take advantage of opportunities which\ncomes your way even though it takes some doing to accommodate them. They do put\nsome pressures on you, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you are very fortunate when those opportunities come\nyour way. It's really too bad if you don't allow yourself to take advantage of\nthem. I guess maybe the only other . . . I have another aside that I wanted to\nmake. I'll go on with this board and leadership position in the NCJW for just a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"minute. In 1975, I was elected a vice president. I served as vice president for\nfour years. What it was, was more of the same only additional responsibilities\nlike being the chairman of the National Resolutions Committee ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the\norganization was a big deal. The resolutions were passed at every national\nconvention, and we had a very prestigious committee that sat together to analyze\nthe resolutions, which were really the bedrock of the organization. I was also\ngiven the opportunity ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to be the chairman of the resolutions committee. These are\nthe kinds of things that were enormously helpful to me. I felt as though I was\ngetting a graduate education without going through the formalities of going to\nschool. Here I was able to juggle my life with my personal life and my\nprofessional life, then I had this other life which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the volunteer life. What\nhappened was that in 1979 I took on a major responsibility at work and that\nreally, in effect, ended my leadership career with NCJW because there was no way\nthat I could do both. I don't regret it, that I didn't go on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to larger\nresponsibilities. I often think about what it would have been like if I had\ncontinued. 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I was totally\noverwhelmed by the people who were in the room, all of the major civil rights\npeople, all of the religious leaders, and all of the members of the Holocaust\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"survivor community. This past year, I am trying to . . . it was 1976 or 1978.\nI'm trying to think what year the commission was. 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That whole period when we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"meeting with the\ncommission, I was on the fundraising commission, committee, rather. Senator\nFrank Lautenberg was the chairman of that committee. Here I was a member of a\ncommittee where Frank Lautenberg was the chairman. It was pretty impressive. In\nany case, that was another opportunity that came my way really because of\nNational Council of Jewish Women. 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I have very, very\nclose friends all over the country who are friends of my husband, my children,\nand what have you all because of that experience. I guess because we were all\ndoing the same things ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the same time, all roused up about the same causes, and\nlike-minded individuals. I guess birds of a feather kind of thing. In any case,\nit's something that I will always cherish.\n\nDIAMOND: That sums up the volunteerism side of your life. 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I said, \"Maybe it's time for me to\nthink about re-entering the world of work possibly for a couple of years and\ncontributing to the household income.\" The kids were going to go to college. We\ndidn't know if they were going to go to professional school after that or\nwhatever. I was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"full-bodied woman. Maybe I had something that I could\ncontribute to. I decided to give it a whirl and see if I had some skills that\nsomebody would pay me for. Margery, remind me, did I mention this in the last\ntape, because you said you listened this morning. Did I talk about my job\nsearch? I think I did.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: A sentence or two about how you started with a list and Mike Gettinger\nwas at the top, and that was the end of the job search.\n\nSHUBIN: Great. I thought I did. In any case, I started to work. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[telephone\nrings] Stop that, Margery.\n\nDIAMOND: Sorry for the interruption. Your decision to go to work and what that\nfirst experience was like. That's a big switch from volunteer to employee.\n\nSHUBIN: You're right. 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The thing that makes me feel the best\nabout the time that I did work is when people who came in contact with me over\nthe years tell me that they learned something, that I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"helped them grow and that\nthey felt a real sense of satisfaction from the things that they did. I felt\nthat not only did I benefit from the work, not only did I contribute something\npersonally, but that a host of people over the years because we had an\nopportunity to work together, that they felt as though they contributed\nsomething as well. 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One of the things\nthat he never quite really respected me for was the fact that I wasn't a social\nworker. He never felt that I could understand certain aspects of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"personal/interpersonal relationships. I would argue to this day that he and I\ndon't agree on that, that I could certainly understand where many people were\ncoming from, to use that overused expression, without being a social worker.\nThat's not being condescending in any way to social workers. 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I\nhad never characterized myself as a fundraiser, but if that was one of the major\nresponsibilities, I guess I better learn about being a fundraiser. As I said, I\nhad very little indoctrination, very little orientation. It was good because we\nhad a very small office and doors were basically open. If there were questions\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that you had, you just asked. Whoever happened to be there, you tried to get the\nanswer. I was a self-starter. I was motivated, and I wanted to succeed. I had a\nlot of things going for me because I knew the community and I didn't have to\nstart from . . . I wasn't really starting from scratch. 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I think the best part about the job\nwas the fact that I did have a lot of leeway and I did have a lot of latitude\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I did have a boss who was open to ideas. There were many things that we had\nnever done. It didn't necessarily mean that it was in my department per se, but\nif I saw a need and I went to a national meeting and went to the general\nassemblies of the National Council of Jewish Federation, and came back with all\nkinds of new ideas that other communities were doing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and wanted to try them in\nAtlanta, there was nobody else to turn to to do them. I said, \"If it's okay with\nyou,\" the boss, meaning Mike Gettinger, \"I'm going to do it.\" So we did. 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Shalom Atlanta was not in existence. There was no\ndepartment, per se, within the Federation, so it was given to me. I enjoyed that\nproject very much, and the community benefited from that project very much.\n\nDIAMOND: Can you say a little something about what that was? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think at the time\nit was very timely and important.\n\nSHUBIN: It was. It was really early on. I think it was either the first year or\nthe second year that I went to work. We realized that Atlanta was at the edge of\nbecoming a major Jewish center of population in the United States. 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I recall Shirley Brickman was the first\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chairperson, a wonderful chairperson. We did all kinds of good things. We, for\none thing, became the center, the central address for newcomers, with\ninformation, monthly parties, free access to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish Community Center for\nseveral months, free subscription to the then Southern Israelite, holiday\nparties for newcomers, telephone calls for newcomers, all kinds of ways in which\nto help people become part of Atlanta. As the years went by, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it became more and\nmore difficult because the community continued to grow. As it continued to grow,\nit became harder and harder to keep track of the newcomers. Not only that, we\ngrew geographically, and that became more difficult. At the same time, other\ngood things were happening that were very helpful for newcomers. That was the\nwhole burgeoning of new synagogues ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which came to the suburbs. That was a way for\nJewish newcomers to channel their interests and their energy. The same thing\nhappened with the Jewish women's organizations, Hadassah and ORT, starting new\nchapters and so forth. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Altogether we worked together. The Jewish Community\nCenter made a contribution as well with their outreach with newcomers. We felt\ngood about something that we had started which really grew. The reason why I\nmention all these projects was that the Federation started out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in its new\nbuilding at 1753 Peachtree with a very small staff. We continued to grow over\nthe years. It's exciting to be in a community that's growing as opposed to a\ncommunity like many communities in the north who were shrinking, either because\nof economics or aging or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the shift from north to south, just the interests,\ngrowing regional economy in Atlanta and southern Florida and the sun belt. Each\nyear we did a little better, the Women's Division campaign and Women's Division\nactivities. We became very well ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"respected for our educational thrusts. Women's\nDivision to this day is considered the center for education in the Federation.\nWe also did a program for campaign leadership that we called Unicoi, which was a\nretreat for women who were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"leaders in the campaign, which took place in North\nGeorgia at the state park called Unicoi. That's where the name for the program\ncame from. We also did several leadership development programs. That's when the\nGoldstein Program got started. We did senior leadership development and so\nforth. All these things, one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing led to another. In 1979, I was asked to take\non the responsibility of being campaign director for Federation which, as I\nindicated before, was the reason why I could not continue with my volunteer\nresponsibilities. That became a major full-time undertaking for me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a\nrole of distinction at the time because there were just one or two other women\nin the United States who were with major Federations who held that post. I was\nsort of a groundbreaker or trailblazer as far as women were concerned. It was\ninteresting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because we met on a yearly basis as campaign directors. For a long\ntime in major communities, there were just one or two of us who were women. We\nwere holding up the rights of women and the talents of women at the same time\nthat we were forging ahead with our fundraising. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As I said, I would like to take\ncredit for some of the growth of the campaign. Atlanta itself took care of that\nwith the fact that we were a growing community. The agencies were growing at the\nsame time and the community responded appropriately to the needs. 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I\nwould say that the community deserves the credit, and the lay leadership\ndeserves the credit for what the campaign has become.\n\nDIAMOND: As Shalom Atlanta and Unicoi were part of Women's Division\nresponsibility, could you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talk about some of the highlights as campaign director\nwith particular situations that arose?\n\nSHUBIN: With the campaign director position, one of the central piece of what we\ndid was to develop the leadership and the volunteers to go with it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and provide\nthem with the tools and the training that they needed to carry out their job.\nOne of the major things that we were always involved with was worker training.\nYear after year, consistently, we gave a great deal of emphasis to training the\nleadership and the workers and developing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what we call \"the case,\" which\neveryone who is in fundraising calls \"the case.\" This was a real challenge. This\nis what really appealed to me. I alluded to it earlier, but the other piece, I\nguess, that I'm really proud of is the fact that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we developed a program that we\ncalled Senior Leadership Development, which took a small group of tried and true\nleaders and gave them the additional tools that they needed to take on any major\nresponsibility in the community, whatever it happened to be. In other words, we\nidentified a group of people who could be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"president or the chairman or the\ncampaign director, either at the Federation or at any of the agencies, and had\ntwo two-year programs that I was responsible for, which took the individuals to\nEastern Europe and to Israel and also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"provided programming throughout the year\nfor these two groups. Incidentally, I will tell you that we were recognized by\nthe Council of Jewish Federations Leadership Development Department with an\naward for this program. That was real recognition for Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess the other\npiece, but it's not unusual, what I'm talking about now is not unusual, but it\nwas just the kinds of things that we were able to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a very successful\nmissions program, taking people to Israel in conjunction with the campaign and\nin conjunction with our leadership programs. We did several, what we called,\nMega Missions where we were responsible for taking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over several hundred people\non several occasions. I was the lead staff person for those missions. It was a\nphenomenal experience. Again, it all had to do with Atlanta growing and new\npeople coming to the community and giving them an opportunity not only to visit\nIsrael ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with the Federation but also to then become involved in the campaign.\n\nDIAMOND: I remember one in particular and that involved Solidarity Mission in\n1991. That was very special for me.\n\nSHUBIN: Really, you were on that?\n\nDIAMOND: I was there.\n\nSHUBIN: The Solidarity Mission was right before the Gulf War. You're right, I\nwas the lead staff on that one as well.\n\nDIAMOND: I thought so.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SHUBIN: That mission . . . do you still have the T-shirt? It should have your\nname on it. That mission was really an interesting mission because you, Margery,\nwere a hero. 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Sometimes there were\nterrible things happening around the world where we had terrorist attacks at\nairports ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Europe. The phone would go ringing off the hook with people calling\nto say, \"My family doesn't want me to go. My family is afraid for me to go to\nIsrael. What do you think?\". It was always putting us on the spot. As a matter\nof fact, I always got a lot of pressure from Josh about, \"You mean you're going\nto Israel? Terrible things are happening. It really doesn't seem like the place\nto be. You shouldn't go,\" so on and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so forth. In any case, I went. Thank\ngoodness we always came back safely and never had any problems. If you were a\nmember of the Solidarity Mission, do you recall the last meeting that we had\nbefore we left. We were at the Jewish Community Center. Bobby Rinzler was the\nchairman. Do you recall ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this, Margery?\n\nDIAMOND: I'm thinking that I do.\n\nSHUBIN: Okay.\n\nDIAMOND: I'm not clear.\n\nSHUBIN: The thing that happened was we had recruited a lot of people. I don't\nremember exactly how many.\n\nDIAMOND: I know. There were about 700 people that ended up taking part.\n\nSHUBIN: Yes. 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The state department said\nthat given when we are leaving and when we are planning on coming home, which\nwas just a few days prior to what was supposed to be the start of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gulf War.\nEverything is okay. The Israeli Embassy in Washington had been contacted, and\nthey also said everything is okay, and Bobby sat down. Herb Kohn, K-O-H-N, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who\nhad been on many missions before, got up and asked the question. He said . . .\nor made a statement . . .\n\nSHUBIN: Herb Kohn got up, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he made a statement. He said, \"Here's what I want\nto know.\" He said, \"I don't care what UJA has to say. I don't care what the\nstate department has to say. I don't care what the Israeli Embassy has to say.\nWhat I want to know is what Marilyn Shubin has to say.\" That really got to me. I\nsaid, \"Herb, all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can tell you is I'm going.\"\n\nDIAMOND: I remember that now very clearly. I was trying to remember what in the\nworld, but I remember that now. Was the mission originally a community some kind\nof mission?\n\nSHUBIN: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: With a lot more people and many people dropped out.\n\nSHUBIN: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: That's where I was coming from with that bigger number.\n\nSHUBIN: Right. It turned out to be a wonderful mission. As I look back on it\nnow, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I realize is that we really did put a lot of pressure on the Israelis\nbecause they were concerned about having us there under that threat. I think\nthey really heaved a sigh of relief when we all left and when we got home safely\nbecause a few people did stay on for several more days. 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I was wondering if that was\nsomething that was a highlight for you as well.\n\nSHUBIN: As a matter of fact, I will give you another small insight about that.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"While I was there on the mission, I bought something at Sterns, the jewelry\nstore, when we were getting ready to leave. As it turned out, the piece of\njewelry needed to be repaired. The following summer, in June, I was back on\nanother mission. I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into Sterns where I had bought the piece of jewelry. I\nsaid to the young woman, \"I was here in January right before the war and bought\nthis.\" She looked at me and she said, \"Oh, you're one of the heroes from\nAtlanta.\" That was the kind of impression that we made on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israelis when we\nwere there. We all felt very good about being there and making that statement.\n\nDIAMOND: We've covered the leadership development. We've covered the missions. I\nknow you're feeling kind of close to finalizing or summarizing. You mentioned\nthat you were one of two women to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in the position that you had.\nCould you talk a little bit about that experience of being who you are and\nhaving done what you've done as a woman, and any comments you want to make about\nthat aspect of your life.\n\nSHUBIN: I don't know what's going on here today with the telephone. 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I wanted the job because it seemed to have the professional\nchallenge that I was looking for and that I was ready for. 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Later on, there were\njust a few more women who did come to the post, but not many in the early years\nin major communities. The smaller communities were another story. The major\ncommunities were really what we were, not what counted, but what people were\nlooking at as far ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/transcript/22474/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as who the professionals were that headed our campaigns. The\nmost important part was the fact that I got the support from the local community\nand that I succeeded here. 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Lits positioned itself well as a more affordable alternate to competitors Strawbridge and Clothier, John Wanamaker, and Gimbels.  The Lit Brother Store building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and is located in the East Center City Commercial Historic District.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/36497/file/105505/annotation_set/352/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHigbee's was a department store founded in 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1987, Higbee's was sold to the joint partnership of Dillard’s department stores. 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