{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/3x83j39c41/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Blonder, Lois Semel"]},"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":["2008-04-10 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLois Blonder interviewed by Sandra Berman on April 10, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eLois Semel Blonder was born in New York City in 1933. Her parents were Mildred Fink Semel and Paul Semel. She relocated to Georgia at the age of 18 when her parents moved to Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and graduated from Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia. After marrying Gerald “Jerry” Alvin Blonder, she lived in Port Chester, New York and Miami Beach, Florida before settling in Atlanta, Georgia where her husband became a prominent apartment complex developer. She and her husband were philanthropists in the Atlanta Jewish community, endowing the Blonder Family Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum as well as the adult enrichment program, the Blonder Center for Developmental Disabilities, and Jerry’s Habima Theatre at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. She was a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. She and her husband were the parents of four children: Michael Jay Blonder, Scott Howard Blonder, Leslie Isenberg, and Dale Dyer.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eLois discusses her childhood in New York City, where she was born. She recalls graduating from George Washington High School in Washington Heights where she lived. She talks about her parents Mildred Fink Semel and Paul Semel, who was in the jewelry business. She recalls moving to Atlanta, Georgia after her father accepted a job in Atlanta. She discusses meeting her husband Jerry, their engagement, and their marriage ceremony conducted by Rabbi Harry Epstein.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLois talks about segregation in Atlanta. She recalls how she was not allowed to sit next to a black person on a public bus. She discusses enrolling her children in private schools when public schools that her children attended were integrated. She recalls incidents from the Civil Rights Era at Leb’s Restaurant and at the Atlanta Cabana Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe talks about her many friends in the Jewish community, including Shirley and Arthur Diamond, Rhalda and Ralph Kahn, Kitty, Harris Jacobs, Margaret Weiller, and Marilyn Shubin. She mentions her sister-in-law Phyllis Freedman and their friendship. She remembers her volunteer activities in the Jewish community with Hadassah, Jewish Family Services of Atlanta, the Meals on Wheels program, and the Atlanta Jewish Federation. She discusses controversy about the Federation’s Lion of Judah campaign and pin and the pin’s popularity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLois describes her support for institutions and programs for children with developmental disabilities, including the Adaptive Learning Center, the Zimmerman-Horowitz Independent Learning Center of Jewish Family and Career Service of Atlanta, the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, and Jerry’s Habima Theatre\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe mentions her four children and their families: Michael Jay Blonder, Scott Howard Blonder, Leslie Isenberg, and Dale Dyer.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27951"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLois Blonder interviewed by Sandra Berman on April 10, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLois Semel Blonder was born in New York City in 1933. Her parents were Mildred Fink Semel and Paul Semel. She relocated to Georgia at the age of 18 when her parents moved to Atlanta. She attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and graduated from Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia. After marrying Gerald “Jerry” Alvin Blonder, she lived in Port Chester, New York and Miami Beach, Florida before settling in Atlanta, Georgia where her husband became a prominent apartment complex developer. She and her husband were philanthropists in the Atlanta Jewish community, endowing the Blonder Family Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum as well as the adult enrichment program, the Blonder Center for Developmental Disabilities, and Jerry’s Habima Theatre at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. She was a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. She and her husband were the parents of four children: Michael Jay Blonder, Scott Howard Blonder, Leslie Isenberg, and Dale Dyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLois discusses her childhood in New York City, where she was born. She recalls graduating from George Washington High School in Washington Heights where she lived. She talks about her parents Mildred Fink Semel and Paul Semel, who was in the jewelry business. She recalls moving to Atlanta, Georgia after her father accepted a job in Atlanta. She discusses meeting her husband Jerry, their engagement, and their marriage ceremony conducted by Rabbi Harry Epstein.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLois talks about segregation in Atlanta. She recalls how she was not allowed to sit next to a black person on a public bus. She discusses enrolling her children in private schools when public schools that her children attended were integrated. She recalls incidents from the Civil Rights Era at Leb’s Restaurant and at the Atlanta Cabana Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe talks about her many friends in the Jewish community, including Shirley and Arthur Diamond, Rhalda and Ralph Kahn, Kitty, Harris Jacobs, Margaret Weiller, and Marilyn Shubin. She mentions her sister-in-law Phyllis Freedman and their friendship. She remembers her volunteer activities in the Jewish community with Hadassah, Jewish Family Services of Atlanta, the Meals on Wheels program, and the Atlanta Jewish Federation. She discusses controversy about the Federation’s Lion of Judah campaign and pin and the pin’s popularity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLois describes her support for institutions and programs for children with developmental disabilities, including the Adaptive Learning Center, the Zimmerman-Horowitz Independent Learning Center of Jewish Family and Career Service of Atlanta, the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, and Jerry’s Habima Theatre\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe mentions her four children and their families: Michael Jay Blonder, Scott Howard Blonder, Leslie Isenberg, and Dale Dyer.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I know it's a mouthful, but I have to say it.\n\nI'm so glad you decided to do this. I'm thrilled to have you here, and I'd like\nyou to begin with just telling me a little bit about your earliest years, your\nchildhood, where you were born, and how you ended up here in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta.\n\nLois: I was born in New York City, Washington Heights to be specific. I lived\nthere for 18 years. My dad was in the jewelry business. He worked for a\nwholesale jewelry concern in New York City, but he also had a retail jewelry\nstore on 168th Street and Broadway, which is right around the corner from\nColumbia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Presbyterian Hospital. I went to all public schools. I graduated from\nGeorge Washington High School, so did Henry Kissinger, and so did [Alan]\nGreenspan, and Paulette Goddard. I don't know if any of you would remember her.\nShe's a little . . . She was a vintage, but very fine actress. When I was 18,\nand I already had two years of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college, my dad was offered an opportunity to\ncome to Atlanta to work with the same company that he had been with in New York\nCity. He was very eager at that point in time to leave New York. It was a very\nstressful kind of life for him. My dad came down. He lived at the Howell House\nfor a little while. My mom and I drove from New York City to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. In those\ndays, it was mostly all back roads. I had no idea what to expect.\n\nSandra: Just to back track a little bit. Your parent's names?\n\nLois: Paul and Mildred Semel. S-E-M-E-L.\n\nSandra: Why was New York so stressful at that period of time?\n\nLois: It was stressful for my dad because he was getting on in years. He took\nthe subway every day to go down to 23rd Street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and 6th Avenue. He'd come home,\nhave dinner, and then go back out again to be in his retail store. That was\nalmost every night of the week plus Saturdays.\n\nSandra: Where did you go to college for the first two years?\n\nLois: The first two years, I went to Champlain College, which was a teacher's\ncollege in Plattsburgh, New York, frigid country. When my parents moved to\nAtlanta, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"transferred to the University of Georgia [UGA], but that's not where\nI met Jerry.\n\nSandra: You ended up at UGA. That must have been quite a culture shock.\n\nLois: It was an extraordinary culture shock. My roommate was from Cornelia,\nGeorgia. The first two months, I developed the heaviest Southern accent because\nI was mimicking her. Even though they had a few Northern ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"students, I was\nsomewhat of an oddity. As you can hear, after being here for about 55 years, I\nstill have more than a trace of the Northern accent.\n\nSandra: What did you expect when you moved down here? Were your expectations\nmet? Were you shocked by the way of life? What year was that exactly?\n\nLois: That was 1950. What I wasn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"totally prepared for was living in a\nsegregated city. You may read about these things, but when you're not a part of\nit, and I was still very young . . . I was kind of overwhelmed initially by the\nseparate seating and transportation, the separate drinking fountains, and the\nseparate entrances in movie theaters. 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I don't want to jump the gun, but when we were married it became\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more of an issue for me. I dealt with certain situations that I was very\nuncomfortable with.\n\nSandra: We're going to get to that. We really will. I'm glad you're remembering\nall of these things. You were at [University of] Georgia. How was it, even\nunderstanding all these Southern accents? Was that difficult for you at first?\n\nLois: It was Southern accents. It was also many of the colloquial expressions\nthat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were entirely different. I also found . . . I know I was more impressed\nwith the fact that Southern girls dated older boys a lot earlier than we did.\nWhen I was in New York City, I was always dating someone that was on my grade\nlevel. I started meeting some of the girls here. The 16 year-olds were dating\ncollege boys. They were dating Emory and Georgia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tech students. That was\ndifferent. They seemed to be more socially advanced than we were. That was\nprobably one of the most lasting impressions that I had at that time.\n\nSandra: Did you join one of the sororities when you--.?\n\nLois: I joined DPhi E. It was definitely a way of meeting a lot of the girls and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably an important step for me. I never really connected that much with\nsorority. I feel to this day sometimes the wrong people get in. The ones that\nreally need it, do not. I did. The first year I was there, I lived in the dorm.\nThe second year, I lived in the sorority house.\n\nSandra: Are you still friendly with any of your UGA, the people that you met\ndown there?\n\nLois: Not a soul. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. Unfortunately, I wasn't there really long enough. I know\nsome of the women that are here, someone like Dolores Sater. I don't know if you\nknow Dolores. She's an artist in Atlanta. She was in art. She was in the\nsorority. A couple of other people I see occasionally. Barbara Orkin was an SDT\nwhen I was there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some of the guys that were there . . .\n\nSandra: You graduated with a teaching degree?\n\nLois: I did, but it was from Oglethorpe because Jerry and I got married before I graduated.\n\nSandra: Let's jump to how you met Jerry.\n\nLois: I met Jerry when I was about 18 and a half. It was right before I was\nmoving to Atlanta. My friend from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Champlain [College] grew up in a small town\nnext to where Jerry lived in Port Chester, New York. Janet introduced us on a\nblind date because my parents were moving to Atlanta. Jerry had already gone to\nthe University of Georgia. His sister Phyllis was already living here and he had\na lot of family. 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He always threw up to me that I let him kiss me\nin the elevator on the first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"date.\n\nSandra: That's great.\n\nLois: That was really a big deal in those days. We dated for a short period of\ntime, then I came to Atlanta. He would visit. I guess within a period of about a\nyear, we became engaged. It was very fast. We really didn't see that much of\neach other. We were lucky.\n\nLois: It turned out to be okay.\n\nSandra: Did your parents like him?\n\nLois: Very much.\n\nSandra: They were . . .\n\nLois: That was very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"important to me. I always had very . . . I was very close to\nmy parents. I always respected how they felt about who I was dating.\n\nSandra: Do you have siblings?\n\nLois: I had one brother who passed away.\n\nSandra: I'm sorry.\n\nLois: He was four years older.\n\nSandra: You got married at age 21?\n\nLois: I had just turned 20 in November. 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The bus driver\nturned to me and said, \"We don't do that down here, lady.\" In other words, I had\nto stand until there were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two empty seats in the front. I could not sit next to\na black person. It was extraordinary.\n\nSandra: It had . . . That must have been just shocking to you.\n\nLois: It was. It was something that left a permanent imprint on my mind.\n\nSandra: After you graduated, did you then get a teaching job?\n\nLois: I practice taught at E. 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When Leslie was three years old, we bought another home on\nPaces Ferry Road, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we lived there. I don't know if you want all these\ndetails, they're kind of . . .\n\nSandra: No, that's good.\n\nLois: We lived there for a while. We basically raised all four of our children\nthere. We loved the house, but it was different. It wasn't that same\nneighborhood feeling. It was the beginning of that era where if you wanted your\nchild to have a playmate, you got in the car, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"imported or exported. It was\njust not a neighborly kind of situation. In some ways, the kids were\nshortchanged by that.\n\nSandra: Did they go to public school or private school?\n\nLois: We started with the public school system. Dale went to Bernie [sp]. Scott\nwas also at Bernie. 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The competition,\neven though it still exists today, was that much keener that many years ago.\nScott ended up at Galloway, Dale went to Pace, and Leslie was one of the first\nclasses at the Epstein ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School. You know Jane [Leavey]. Jane was one of her teachers.\n\nSandra: I knew that. That's great. You seem so in tune to just what was going on\naround in the South with your experiences. Do you remember when . . . You were\nhere already, only probably newly here, when all of it was going on with Leb's\nRestaurant and the sit-ins at Rich's? Do you remember any of that? The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"protests?\n\nLois: I remember reading about it. I remember seeing it on television. I\nremember the Leb's protest. I guess that may have stood out in my mind because\nwe loved Leb's. We used to go down to the Rialto Theater and even, the Loews\nGrand where Gone With The Wind originally opened. Leb's was the place to be. I\ndo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember that. I remember when there was also the incident at the Atlanta\nCabana Hotel. I think it was with Harry Belafonte.\n\nSandra: Can you describe that?\n\nLois: I don't . . . I hate to really describe it because I'm not really sure of\nthe facts. It could have been Harry Belafonte wanting to stay there. 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I also became friendly with my sister-in-law Phyllis and\nJack's friends, who were older, but we spent time together.\n\nSandra: All the names you mentioned are Jewish names, I think.\n\nLois: Yes, they were all Jewish.\n\nSandra: Did you have any friends ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outside the Jewish community or do you feel\nthat you were pretty insular with that?\n\nLois: We were. I think we've always been insulated. Through the years, we had\nacquaintances in the non-Jewish community. They were Jerry's friends. They were\nJerry's business connections that he considered to be friends. They haven't been\nlasting for me, so I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that says something.\n\nSandra: Yes. You were members of AA?\n\nLois: We were members of AA. I still am, but I'm an associate member of Temple\nSinai . . .\n\nSandra: . . . because Leslie goes there . . .\n\nLois: . . . and Michael.\n\nSandra: What did you think of AA? Did you like it coming from the North? Was it welcoming?\n\nLois: It was welcoming enough for me. 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My dad was a great guy.\nHe was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very loving and very respectful of his parents. The first Rosh Ha-Shanah\nthat they were both gone, he went to the baseball game. He said to me very\nhonestly, it was something he just never felt connected with. He did it purely\nout of respect and love for his parents. 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You had the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family. You had\nthe children. What organizations did you join to get out of the house?\n\nLois: The first organization that I joined was Hadassah. It was because, in\nthose days, they had a group called Tel Chai. It was all young. It was young\nmarrieds, I think maybe up to 35. I don't even know if it went to 40. It was a\nwonderful way for me to meet people. 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What\nwere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some of the other organizations she was involved in that pulled you in?\n\nLois: Phyllis was also very involved in Brandeis. I was a member for a while. I\nwas a vice-president. While I respected the organization, I didn't feel the same\nconnectedness. I became involved in Federation fairly early on, probably just\ndoing fund ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"raising. For a period of time, I worked as a volunteer--it was either\ntwo or three days a week--at what was then Jewish Family Services. I coordinated\nthe \"Meals on Wheels\" program, and I loved doing that.\n\nSandra: Was that just in the beginning of that program?\n\nLois: It was in the beginning. We were still sharing the office with Federation\non Peachtree ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Road. I did that for several years. I loved it because we were\nvolunteers but we were treated as staff. Every Thursday morning, we had our\nstaff meetings. We had consulting psychiatrists come in to discuss various\ncases. I loved what I did. I worked with a woman by the name of Gloria Merlin.\nWhenever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there were calls that came to \"Meals on Wheels\", we would have to go\nand we would interview the families to see if they were appropriate.\n\nSandra: Is that where you met Margaret Weiller, when you were in that building?\n\nLois: I met Margaret working for Federation, early on, and I also met Marilyn\nShubin, who are two of my very closest and dearest friends to this day.\n\nSandra: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful.\n\nLois: Yes.\n\nSandra: That was when it was in the building. Was there a separate director then\nof Jewish Family Services or was Mike Gettinger your director too?\n\nLois: No, Leonard Cohen was director and Rona Schpizer [sp] was more or less\nhead of Social Services.\n\nSandra: You worked for Jewish Family Services, but then kind of morphed into the\nFederation family?\n\nLois: Yes. I'm trying to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember when the break came, because there was also a\nperiod of time where I was playing a lot of tennis. That took over. I was on one\nof those tennis teams. You had to play two or three times a week. Then, you had\nto take a lesson. Then, you had your match and if it rained on your match, then\nyou had to make up the match. It was really . . . It was like it took over my\nlife. In between all that, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went to Georgia State. I thought I was going to get\nan associate degree in mental health. All four of our children were still home.\nI did go for a year. I loved it while I was there. I found it very challenging,\nbut the demands were too great. 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That whole Lion [of Judah] Campaign, were you\nthere at the very beginning?\n\nLois: I was chairman when we started the Lion, and the Lion came in with very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mixed. . . .\n\nLois: . . . feelings. I can't tell you I loved it. I learned about it because at\nthat point in time I was on the national board.\n\nSandra: Can you explain what it is exactly?\n\nLois: At that time--and the names have all changed--it was the National Board of\nUnited Jewish Appeal. 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A lot of people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"felt you did not have to\nwear this badge of honor and that your giving is private. Eventually, I think\nthe numbers prove that it did really catch on. I will tell you. It's not\nconfidential. . .\n\nLois: . . . I'll tell you, one of the reasons that I couldn't wait to get off\nthe board, is because of this, these kinds of discussions they would have about\nthe pin. 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I should have\nfound that out before today for you.\n\nSandra: That's quite all right.\n\nLois: I don't remember.\n\nSandra: What other organizations did you get involved in besides the Federation,\nHadassah, and Brandeis?\n\nLois: I was very involved with the Adaptive Learning Center, which is a school\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for children with developmental disabilities. Susan Tauber was the director.\nWhen I became involved, they were at Temple Sinai. The reason I became involved\nis my oldest grandchild, who is 22 years old, has a brain defect. 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It was just not anything that I chose to do.\n\nSandra: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted to talk a little bit about your business that you had with\nMargaret Weiller called CultureLink. How did that get started?\n\nLois: It was Margaret's idea. She heard about it either from a group in\nBaltimore or Washington [D.C.]. I'm not quite sure. She had just retired. She\nreally needed something to fill some time. 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Washington,\nChicago [Illinois], Mobile, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alabama, Chattanooga [Tennessee]. We had a fabulous time.\n\nSandra: The preparation must have been unbelievable . . .\n\nLois: It was a lot.\n\nSandra: . . . to get all this arranged.\n\nLois: Margaret, who was so fabulous with organization and bookkeeping, I gave\nthat all to her. I wanted no part of it. I did the planning, which I would\ndiscuss with her for approval. We were a perfect team. 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I remember\none of our last ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activities was a phenomenal collection of photography. We had\nfour and they were over the top. One ended up being at the High Museum. We had\nto pull teeth for people because they weren't interested in photography. We\ndecided to hang up our hats. It was time. Quit while you're ahead.\n\nSandra: I was also wanting to talk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about . . . I was at the . . . what do they\ncall it? It's like American Idol, but the Hillel.\n\nLois: Hillel. Yes, it's the Hillel.\n\nSandra: It was the . . .\n\nLois: It's modeled after American Idol, with college students.\n\nSandra: They honored you . . .\n\nLois: . . . and Leslie.\n\nSandra: . . . and Leslie . . .\n\nLois: Right.\n\nSandra: . . . that evening.\n\nLois: Yes.\n\nSandra: I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very touched and moved. I was there. Tell me about that\nexperience, to be honored with your daughter.\n\nLois: The most profound part of the experience was that Jerry was able to be\nthere. He was in remission. He was determined that he would be able to come. For\na while we didn't know if the doctors would allow it, but he was doing so well.\nThat made it a major happening for all of us. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was very exciting. It was the\nfirst, so we really didn't know what to expect. I was very proud of Leslie. She\nspoke beautifully.\n\nSandra: She's really followed in your footsteps, don't you think, with her\ncommunity activity. Not so much now.\n\nLois: Yes. I think that eventually, she'd like to do more, but timing is different.\n\nSandra: She's very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active and . . .\n\nLois: Yes.\n\nSandra: I wanted to also talk about what is so close to me, the museum. You've\nbeen so involved with us for so long, with the Breman Museum. What brought you\nto the museum? 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I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember so vividly, the coming out, so to\nspeak, at the history center. It was such an exciting event.\n\nSandra: Yes, that was great. You mentioned earlier in the interview that once\nyou were married, some of the inequality that existed in the South affected you\nand your husband in different ways. Can you go back to that a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little bit?\n\nLois: I think it was truthfully more about the role that Jerry had in business.\nI don't know that you want me to go into all of that.\n\nSandra: I think a little.\n\nLois: Mostly because he . . .\n\nLois: . . . had a black partner, Herman Russell. This is in the very early\nyears. It was very unusual. Jerry and Herman became and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would still be very\nclose friends. I don't even remember if Jerry discussed in his interview . . .\nWe were invited to the Chamber of Commerce when they inadvertently invited\nHerman to be a member. Lester Maddox was then president. When he found out that\nHerman was black, he wanted to rescind the invitation. Herman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"refused. We went.\nWe were seated with four other couples, all of whom were black. It was at the\nDinkler Hotel. Vandiver was governor. We walked in the ballroom and we had to\nwalk straight across to our table. We were seated, and when I tell you, every\neye was on us. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jerry and I were fine. We were proud, really proud to be there.\nThe next day, Jerry called Herman to tell him how proud he was of his\nachievement. Herman said, \"I want you to know, you're the heroes.\"\n\nSandra: Wow.\n\nLois: It was one of those ground breaking events.\n\nSandra: That's a great story.\n\nLois: It was something that I'll never forget.\n\nSandra: That is a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really great story.\n\nLois: Yes.\n\nSandra: Did you and Jerry belong to any of the social clubs here in Atlanta?\n\nLois: No.\n\nSandra: Not the Standard . . .\n\nLois: We belonged to the Progressive Club.\n\nSandra: Progressive Club?\n\nLois: Yes, we did. In those days, when we were first married, our house wasn't\nair conditioned. We didn't have swimming pools. For recreation, I remember\nbringing the kids to the Progressive Club to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"swim. We'd have lunch there. It was\na wonderful time. The kids always had playmates. It was great. It was also one\nof the few really decent places to get a good meal because we hardly had any\ngood restaurants here. They had the Mayfair Club, the Standard Club, the\nProgressive Club, a Pig 'N Whistle and a Peacock Alley. 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When you started meeting Southern Jews--people who had been here for a\nreally long time, someone like a Margaret Weiller whose family was here since\nthe mid-1860's, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"late-1860's . . . Were you shocked that that kind of person even\nexisted?. I find even today in the North, \"There were Southern Jews way back then?\"\n\nLois: Yes. Many, I felt, were still fighting the Civil War. I did\nfeel--sometimes not for myself ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but for other Yankees that settle here--there are\nstill native Southerners here that feel that we have been an intrusion, possibly\na little bit of an overload on their population. It never really bothered me,\nbut I know it existed. I know individuals that have had very negative\nexperiences because of it. They haven't been as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accepted. Part of the Atlanta\nJewish community was and probably still is very cliquey.The other thing, which\nis totally . . . has nothing to do with being prejudiced . . . I found initially\n. . . remember my dad had a difficult time. There's a difference ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"between . . .\nThere was a difference between a Northern sense of humor and a Southern. A\nNortherner is content to be a little more sarcastic, and they get away with it.\nI still am, and I always will be. That's it.\n\nSandra: I'd like you to spend a few minutes just to talk about your children and\nyour husband and just what . . .\n\nLois: I want . . .\n\nSandra: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Before we get to the family, I know that you have a foundation and that\nyou've funded the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at\nthe Marcus Center. Can you just talk about that for a few minutes, what led you\nto that and what that means to you.\n\nLois: I did mention that we have a grandchild with developmental disabilities.\nMany ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years ago I was on the very first committee with Pearlann Horowitz. I\nobviously can't remember the rest but Pearlann, I remember so strongly. In those\ndays, we were like a task force, so to speak. I don't remember why I was asked\nto participate because Kelly [Blonder Dyer] wasn't even born. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"always\ninterested in that population. I felt the frustrations for families living here,\nwhere there were absolutely no services. I know with Pearlann and Jerry, the\nfirst connection they had with someone that could be helpful with Michelle\n[Horowitz] was Sistery [sp] Lane Clark. I worked on that for a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while. Somehow,\nover the years, [I] became interested in what the Marcus Center was doing. We\nhad an opportunity to participate. We felt this is something that we really\nwanted to do. While Kelly was still not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved, we went to a couple of\nmeetings. We saw what it represented to families in Atlanta, many of whom moved\nto Atlanta because of what this program represents.\n\nSandra: What does the program consist of?\n\nLois: We have the Habima Theater, which is just one part of the program and\nwhich is a very spectacular annual event. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gives these young adults an\nopportunity to be in a musical play, perform in front of a live audience, and\nreceive the kinds of accolades and acceptance that they would never receive in\nany other venue. That in itself is phenomenal. It also comprises a myriad of\nsocial activities, travel, dances, and bowling. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They not only have taken trips\nto other cities in the United States, I know a few years ago they all went to\nIsrael, of course, with wonderful chaperones. It's programming in the center,\nand also out of the Marcus Jewish Community Center.\n\nSandra: That's wonderful. Does it have any connection with the Amit Program?\n\nLois: It does not have any connection at all. We have a mutual admiration\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because Amit is doing a fabulous job, but it's totally unconnected.\n\nSandra: They both do separate things, correct?\n\nLois: Separate, yes. Totally separate.\n\nSandra: Is the program all at the Marcus Center, at the Jewish Community Center?\nIs that where it's all?\n\nLois: The focus of the program is at the Marcus Jewish Community Center. It's\nheaded by Susie Davidow and, and Sammy Rosenberg that works with her.\n\nSandra: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's great. Now, I'd like to talk a little bit about the family. I\nknow you've already mentioned how you met Jerry. How many years were you married?\n\nLois: We would have been married 53 years.\n\nSandra: That's wonderful. And four children.\n\nLois: Four children. Our son Scott died fourteen years ago, and he was our\nsecond. Our daughter Dale, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who is not a part of the Jewish Community, but very\nclose with our family. . . Happily, she just moved to Sandy Springs right in the\nneighborhood. She's a wonderful help to her sister, Leslie. My son Michael is\nremarried. His wife Susann has two children. Now, I'm proud to say I have 12 grandchildren.\n\nSandra: That is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amazing.\n\nLois: They all live here, which is pretty great.\n\nSandra: That is absolutely wonderful.\n\nLois: It is.\n\nSandra: Dale had four children, right?\n\nLois: Dale has four, Michael has three plus two, and now Leslie and Doug have three.\n\nSandra: That's wonderful. I think we are coming to an end. I just want to check\nmy questions to make sure I have not forgotten ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything. Are your other . . . I\nknow Dale is not, and Leslie is. Is Michael involved with Jewish community?\n\nLois: Actually, he is not. I keep trying. I was pleased because they both had an\nevent for Habima at their home. He's very interested in that. I'm not giving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up.\nWe're also going to be moving our foundation out of Federation.\n\nSandra: You are?\n\nLois: Yes. Even though our children have been involved in our gift giving, it\nwill be even more so now, once that's created.\n\nSandra: It's such a legacy to you and to Jerry and your family what you have\ndone for the community. I'm so appreciative as a person who's at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"museum,\nwhat you've done for the museum. It's just a wonderful legacy that you have\nleft. I very much appreciate you being here. I appreciate the interview. I\nalways like to ask Ruth if I've missed anything, do you think?\n\nRuth: I think it's been very comprehensive unless there's anything that--.\n\nSandra: Take a minute and think if there's any aspect that we maybe should touch\non and we didn't. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/transcript/21078/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maybe we should touch on the fact of your love for the arts\nbecause . . .\n\nLois: No.\n\nSandra: . . . because there's not one person who has been to your home that\nhasn't said, \"She has the most beautiful home.\"\n\nLois: Thank you. No, I don't think that's . . .\n\nSandra: All right, great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=3900.0,3930.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGerald Alvin “Jerry” Blonder (1931-2006) was a native New Yorker who moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1950’s, where he became a successful developer. His two businesses, called Tempo and Focus Group, eventually included apartment complexes on Buford Highway in Atlanta, and in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi. Jerry’s success in the apartment industry led him to be one of the founding members of the Apartment Association in Atlanta, and later vice president and president of the National Apartment Association. Jerry and his wife, Lois, were active members of the Atlanta Jewish community and supported multiple philanthropic organizations. Among many other things, they endowed the Blonder Family Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum; and the adult enrichment program and the Blonder Center for Developmental Disabilities, both at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. He was a member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Temple Sinai and Congregation Or VeShalom.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Blonder Freedman (1928-2015) was a native of Port Chester, New York. She attended Syracuse University and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1940’s after marrying her husband Jack Freedman. She was president of the Atlanta Chapter of Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, the National Women’s Division Chairwoman of the Council of Jewish Federation, and president of Jewish Family \u0026amp; Career Services. She and her husband also received the Distinguished Service Award of B’nai B’rith.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Progressive Club was a Jewish social organization that was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, where German Jews were predominant. At first the club was located in a rented house until a new club was built on Pryor Street including a swimming pool and a gym. In 1940 the club opened a larger facility at 1050 Techwood Drive in Midtown with three swimming pools, tennis and softball. In 1976 the club moved north to 1160 Moore’s Mill Road near Interstate 75. The property was eventually sold as the club faced financial challenges and the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead opened in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCNN (Cable News Network) is an American cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Ten Turner founded the 24-hour cable news channel in 1990.  CNN was the first to provide 24-hour news coverage and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Harry Epstein (1903-2003) was a native of Plunge, Lithuania who served as the rabbi of Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia from 1928 to 1982.  Under his leadership the congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they adopted in 1952. He was educated in a yeshiva in Chicago, where his father was a rabbi, and in New York.  He was ordained in 1926 after studying at the Slobodka Yeshiva in Lithuania and the Hebron Yeshiva in Palestine. In 1927, he became a pulpit rabbi at an Orthodox congregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In 1928, he took the rabbinate position at Ahavath Achim Congregation in Atlanta, Georgia, where he introduced a Sunday school, mixed seating of men and women, and the bat mitzvah ceremony for girls.  He earned a B.A. Degree in Philosophy and an MA. Degree in Theology from Emory University in Atlanta and a Ph.D. Degree in Theology from the University of Illinois School of Law.  He was married to Reva (Rebecca) Chashesman and had two daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29428/file/97120/annotation_set/273/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eInitially intended as a night school, Georgia State University (GSU) was established in 1913 as the Georgia Institute of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. A reorganization of the university system of Georgia in the 1930’s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the university System. 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In 1928 Rabbi Harry Epstein became the rabbi and the congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they joined in 1952. Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, joined the congregation in 1966 and remained until his retirement. Rabbi Epstein retired in 1982, becoming Rabbi Emeritus and Rabbi Arnold Goodman assumed the rabbinic post. He retired in 2002 when he was succeeded by Rabbi Neil Sandler. 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