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Stephen Selig was interviewed by Ann Hoffman Schoenberg on March 24. 1997 and June 10, 1998. \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eSteve’s maternal grandfather, Ben Massell, came to the United States from Lithuania. He started a real estate company, which, according to the oldest public records found, was in business by 1918. His maternal grandmother, Fannie, died before Steve was born or when he was very young, and the only grandmother he knew was Ben’s second wife, Helen. Today’s Selig Enterprises is a successor of the real estate business that Ben Massell started.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve’s paternal grandfather, Simon Selig, came from Germany or Russia and also died around the time Steve was born. He started a chemical business in Atlanta. Simon’s wife, Emma Printz, who was born in Georgia, lived into her eighties. Steve grew up with her but didn’t know her very well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBoth of Steve’s parents were born in Atlanta. His father, Simon, was born in 1913, and his mother, Caroline Massell, was born in 1919 or 1920. Steve’s parents were charitable and were active in both the general community and the Jewish community. Although Steve did not have a solid Jewish upbringing or grow up in a traditional Jewish home, his parents gave him a strong foundation of good values, and he knew that they were Jewish. His parents had expectations of him that he would be a good person and a leader in the community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve was born in 1943 in Columbus, GA, because his father was stationed at Fort Benning at the time. After moving to California, where his father was an instructor for soldiers training to be tank commanders, the family moved back to Atlanta. Steve attended private schools in Atlanta and then attended the University of Georgia (UGA).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from UGA in 1965, Steve went to work for a bank for a short time and then did some real estate leasing work with the Massell company. When Ben Massell died, Steve’s father sold the Selig chemical business and began running the Massell real estate interests, which included many different companies. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring Jimmy Carter’s campaign for president of the United States, Carter asked Steve to travel with him and help him become president. Because he had young children and was in the family business, Steve had to decline. He did become National Finance Director for the campaign and did fundraising. When Carter was elected, he invited Steve to become a member of the White House staff and work with the business community to gain their support. At age 33, Steve and his family moved to Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. He and his first wife separated during that time and ultimately divorced.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon returning to Atlanta after Carter was not re-elected, Steve and a colleague from his time in Washington started a successful concert promotions company, which he sold in 1998. He also became CEO and COO of the family’s real estate company, which focuses on acquiring and managing commercial and industrial real estate, shopping centers and warehouses, small office buildings, and parking lots. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve served as president of the American Jewish Committee, an organization with which his parents had been involved, and as synagogue president of The Temple, before becoming president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. His wife, Linda, also has served in leadership roles at the Federation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve remained in politics but behind the scenes. He served as the chair of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988 and considered it a great honor. Among the many ways he served the Atlanta community throughout his life, Steve served as an ambassador for VIPs during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Federation received a large gift from William Breman, which was targeted for a heritage museum, a Selig property that had been an office and warehouse property in midtown Atlanta was transformed into what is now the home of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Known as The Selig Center, Steve considers it to be the family legacy that will stand the longest.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eSteve discussed his paternal and maternal family history in Atlanta and the early businesses of both of his grandfathers. He reminisced about his childhood, schooling, and friends, both Jewish and non-Jewish, as well as memories of his grandparents and other relatives. Steve spoke about his limited Jewish upbringing, which did not include rituals in the home or celebration of Jewish holidays. However, Steve knew that he was Jewish, and his parents taught him strong values and were charitable within the Jewish community as well as the general community. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve discussed his involvement in politics, including his campaign efforts when Jimmy Carter was running for president of the United States and his years working in the White House during Carter’s presidency. He described the start of a successful business upon his return to Atlanta and his entry into the family’s real estate business. Steve shared his experience as chair of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, elaborated on the growth and success of Selig Enterprises, and described the growth of his leadership in the Jewish community leading up to his presidency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. He discussed the three goals he set and accomplished as Federation president and why they were important, \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve spoke about his three children’s schooling and upbringing, what they are doing professionally as young adults, and their involvement in the community. He also described his wife Linda’s leadership in the Jewish community. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28614"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Selig, Simon Stephen III (personal name)","Massell, Benjamin J. 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Stephen Selig was interviewed by Ann Hoffman Schoenberg on March 24. 1997 and June 10, 1998.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSteve\u0026rsquo;s maternal grandfather, Ben Massell, came to the United States from Lithuania. He started a real estate company, which, according to the oldest public records found, was in business by 1918. His maternal grandmother, Fannie, died before Steve was born or when he was very young, and the only grandmother he knew was Ben\u0026rsquo;s second wife, Helen. Today\u0026rsquo;s Selig Enterprises is a successor of the real estate business that Ben Massell started.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve\u0026rsquo;s paternal grandfather, Simon Selig, came from Germany or Russia and also died around the time Steve was born. He started a chemical business in Atlanta. Simon\u0026rsquo;s wife, Emma Printz, who was born in Georgia, lived into her eighties. Steve grew up with her but didn\u0026rsquo;t know her very well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBoth of Steve\u0026rsquo;s parents were born in Atlanta. His father, Simon, was born in 1913, and his mother, Caroline Massell, was born in 1919 or 1920. Steve\u0026rsquo;s parents were charitable and were active in both the general community and the Jewish community. Although Steve did not have a solid Jewish upbringing or grow up in a traditional Jewish home, his parents gave him a strong foundation of good values, and he knew that they were Jewish. His parents had expectations of him that he would be a good person and a leader in the community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve was born in 1943 in Columbus, GA, because his father was stationed at Fort Benning at the time. After moving to California, where his father was an instructor for soldiers training to be tank commanders, the family moved back to Atlanta. Steve attended private schools in Atlanta and then attended the University of Georgia (UGA).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from UGA in 1965, Steve went to work for a bank for a short time and then did some real estate leasing work with the Massell company. When Ben Massell died, Steve\u0026rsquo;s father sold the Selig chemical business and began running the Massell real estate interests, which included many different companies.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring Jimmy Carter\u0026rsquo;s campaign for president of the United States, Carter asked Steve to travel with him and help him become president. Because he had young children and was in the family business, Steve had to decline. He did become National Finance Director for the campaign and did fundraising. When Carter was elected, he invited Steve to become a member of the White House staff and work with the business community to gain their support. At age 33, Steve and his family moved to Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. He and his first wife separated during that time and ultimately divorced.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon returning to Atlanta after Carter was not re-elected, Steve and a colleague from his time in Washington started a successful concert promotions company, which he sold in 1998. He also became CEO and COO of the family\u0026rsquo;s real estate company, which focuses on acquiring and managing commercial and industrial real estate, shopping centers and warehouses, small office buildings, and parking lots.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve served as president of the American Jewish Committee, an organization with which his parents had been involved, and as synagogue president of The Temple, before becoming president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. His wife, Linda, also has served in leadership roles at the Federation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve remained in politics but behind the scenes. He served as the chair of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988 and considered it a great honor. Among the many ways he served the Atlanta community throughout his life, Steve served as an ambassador for VIPs during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Federation received a large gift from William Breman, which was targeted for a heritage museum, a Selig property that had been an office and warehouse property in midtown Atlanta was transformed into what is now the home of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Known as The Selig Center, Steve considers it to be the family legacy that will stand the longest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSteve discussed his paternal and maternal family history in Atlanta and the early businesses of both of his grandfathers. He reminisced about his childhood, schooling, and friends, both Jewish and non-Jewish, as well as memories of his grandparents and other relatives. Steve spoke about his limited Jewish upbringing, which did not include rituals in the home or celebration of Jewish holidays. However, Steve knew that he was Jewish, and his parents taught him strong values and were charitable within the Jewish community as well as the general community.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSteve discussed his involvement in politics, including his campaign efforts when Jimmy Carter was running for president of the United States and his years working in the White House during Carter\u0026rsquo;s presidency. He described the start of a successful business upon his return to Atlanta and his entry into the family\u0026rsquo;s real estate business. Steve shared his experience as chair of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, elaborated on the growth and success of Selig Enterprises, and described the growth of his leadership in the Jewish community leading up to his presidency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. 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I would like to ask you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if you would\ntell me a little something about your family's history in the Atlanta community.\nYou can start either with the Massell family, your mother's family, or with the\nSelig family.\n\nSELIG: My mother and father were both born in Atlanta, which is unusual in this\nday and time. They both went to high school in Atlanta. My grandparents on my\nmother's side, Ben Massell ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and his wife, Fannie . . . I did not know Fannie\nbecause she died either before I was born or when I was very young. I don't\nremember which. Ben Massell came, I always thought, from Lithuania, but I was\nlooking at a family tree that somebody did for me on my birthday almost eight or\nten years ago . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, that's the other side. I think my grandfather came from\nLithuania. I don't know where my grandmother came from. My grandfather married\nagain, and the only grandmother I ever knew was his second wife, Helen.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was your grandmother's maiden name, your real grandmother? Do\nyou remember?\n\nSELIG: No, I can't remember right this minute. I'm not good on family history.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother had a brother, a single brother, Ben Massell, Jr. I guess finally,\nafter my grandfather died. On my father's side, it was Simon Selig, who I always\nthought and had been told came from Germany, but I saw on a family history ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\nwas done for me about ten years ago he may have come from Russia. The name Selig\nsure does sound German, and I have always been told he was from Germany. The\nfamily history may be wrong, so I'm not really sure. He died right when I was\nborn, so I never knew him. His wife, Emma Printz, who was from Cleveland\n[Georgia], lived until up in her eighties. I grew up with her. I didn't know her\nvery well.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Did she live in Atlanta or in Cleveland?\n\nSELIG: She lived in Atlanta. She used to live at the Briarcliff Hotel on Ponce\nde Leon Avenue. I remember going over there a lot of weekends.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did your family live?\n\nSELIG: When I was very young, we lived on Peachtree Battle Avenue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you remember the number?\n\nSELIG: Either 500 or 533. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It might have been 533 Peachtree Battle Avenue. I even\nremember the phone number, CHerokee3-0488, for some reason. When I was three or\nfour years old, I think, right after my sister was born, we moved to 741 West\nWesley Road, where my folks lived for their entire lives basically. After ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\nboth passed away, I actually lived there myself to take care of things for a\nyear or two before finally we sold it and went our separate ways. Cathy moved\nback. [unintelligible] After I got married, we sold the house and moved over here.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell me about what timeframe your grandparents came to this city.\nWhen did the Massells . . . Did he come here as a married man?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I think so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you have any idea how old he was or anything of that nature when\nhe came here?\n\nSELIG: My guess is early twenties. If I had some time, I could go back and find\nout. We were looking in old city directories and old city phone books not too\nlong ago, because we were trying to come up with the date that our business\nactually started. 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My mother was born\nprobably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six or seven years later.\n\nSCHOENBERG: About 1919, 1920?\n\nSELIG: She was about 65 when she passed. I guess so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That way we can place at least that they were present in the city,\nsince she was born here.\n\nSELIG: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I know that the Massell name has been very prominent in a variety of\nways in the community. Would you like to . . . Since you didn't know your\ngrandfather personally . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I knew my grandfather Massell.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, you did know him?\n\nSELIG: I didn't know my grandfather Selig,\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's what you said. Would you talk a little bit about him as a\nperson, what you remember?\n\nSELIG: My grandfather, Ben Massell?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just personal things. Your own personal recollections.\n\nSELIG: My grandfather was a . . . My recollection of him . . . He died when I\nwas in college, so I didn't really know or appreciate him as much then as I do\nnow. I appreciate him more now than I guess I did then. 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I assume that was during the chilly months.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had a big porch. They had a porch to the left, and I guess another porch to\nthe right. There were fires in both of them. In the living room they had carpet,\nbut they had a wood floor under a table. I remember it was a great place to play\nmarbles. I used to play marbles there every time I would go over there. I would\nroll the marbles up against the wall, and they would roll back to me. I had\nmarble races. 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Do you want me to ask you that?\n\nSELIG: When we started going to dancing class, there was an Atlanta girl named\nJoan Kaufman, who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Donald and Rhoda Kaufman's daughter and, in fact, is going\nto be in town this week. I'm going to a reunion and will see her. I haven't seen\nher in a long time. Then there was a girl named Nancy Zaglin, who lived across\nthe street from Dotty on Woodhaven. Then, when I really started going out, I\nwent out with a girl named Sharon Reed, who went to Northside [High School].\nThen I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with Susan Zoss. That was probably the first great love, I guess.\nShe was several years behind me in school, but she was pretty mature for her age.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What has happened to her?\n\nSELIG: Interestingly enough, she got married and was living in Washington\n[District of Columbia]. I was in Washington for a while, so I saw her a couple\nof times up there at soccer games and stuff. 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That wasn't my first by any\nmeans, but I remember that as an interesting time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because . . . It really\nwasn't that big of a deal to me, because I didn't care about dating her that\nmuch anyway, but she really wanted to date me. What we did was for several\nmonths I had friends pick her up, and we would still go out. I guess at the\nbeginning I did want to date her. I guess I did. We stayed friends. My friends\npicked her up. I had one friend who picked her up so many times that her parents\ndidn't want her to go out with this guy so many times.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Was there objection that she was tying herself down to one person\ntoo soon or rather that you were Jewish?\n\nSELIG: I think [because] I was Jewish. All the parties at the Piedmont Driving\nClub and all that sort of stuff.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was her family name? Deas?\n\nSELIG: Deas. D-E-A-S. I think they still live here.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You mentioned something about Westminster.\n\nSELIG: Let me finish the people I went out with. I only have one or two more.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Diana was . . . We stopped dating in college. We both went to [University of]\nGeorgia and kept on dating. I met somebody else. I met a nice Jewish girl named\nJanet Simensky my sophomore year at Georgia, from Orlando, Florida, who I\nultimately married. After I graduated and she graduated, I started going out\nhere in Atlanta. Janet went to New York to work for Look magazine. I stayed here\nand started going out with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judy Cohen, who is now Judy Kogan. That's Gerald\nCohen's daughter. We had a relationship for several months, and then finally we\nhad to decide, because New Year's Eve came along. It was a question of who I was\ngoing to go out with on New Year's Eve. It was no big deal when Janet was in New\nYork and Judy was here, but Janet was expecting to come down. I had the history\nwith Janet, and we ultimately got married. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She is the mother of my children.\nI'll stop there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We will pursue all of that further. I was trying to get a feel for\nsome of your friends in those early years. You mentioned having gone to\nWestminster. This would have been in the 1950's, since you graduated from high\nschool in 1961. Correct?\n\nSELIG: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was the percentage ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or how many Jewish young people were there\nat Westminster in those years? You personally didn't feel any discrimination,\nbut did you feel any kind of undercurrent or did others who were there mention\nanything about antisemitism?\n\nSELIG: Oh, yes. When I say I didn't . . . I mean I never had the swastika on my\nbook or dirty Jew said to me or anything like that. [There was] a lot of joking\naround and all that sort of thing. 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I\nguess when you get married and your wife is not from this community, you don't\ngo out as much with people that she is not comfortable with, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I still have\npretty close friends from my early days.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you want to mention some of the men's names? You mentioned some\nof the women's names.\n\nSELIG: Some of the men's names who I am friends with?\n\nSCHOENBERG: From high school. From those years.\n\nSELIG: These are people that I am still . . . Some of my Jewish friends?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not necessarily. Either. Both.\n\nSELIG: Let me start on the Jewish side. There were four or five . . . When I was\nreally young, I was friendly with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the guys who were a year older than I was.\nThat would be Joe Hess, Henry Bauer, Michael Kahn, Jeffrey Hess, Malcolm Ringel.\nAll those guys were at least a year older than me. I'm not sure why I was\nfriendly with them, but I used to be very friendly with them. I know one reason\nI was friendly with them was they could drive before me, but I am talking even\nyounger than that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you all go to Sunday ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school together?\n\nSELIG: Yes, but they were a year ahead of me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They still were ahead. I thought maybe because you had been moved up\n. . .\n\nSELIG: Now I am going to tell you the guys who were my age who I was friendly\nwith, and I am still friendly with them today. The same four people. Steve\nWeinstein, Andy Ghertner, Gary Rosenberg were people my age. We all went to\n[University of] Georgia together. We were all fraternity brothers together. 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Growing up, I was not as friendly with\nsome of the younger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish guys, but we are friendly today. They were a couple\nof years behind me growing up. I don't know if I mentioned Jimmy Green. He was a\nfriend of mine growing up, but we are not friends today. I don't see him very\noften, but he lived right up the street. Also, there was a guy named Larry Hess\nwho I was friendly with, who lived right up the street, who was Jewish. He moved\naway. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can't remember when, [unintelligible] There are a couple of younger guys\nfrom around here who ended up going to Georgia and were in our fraternity. That\nwould be people like Roger Kahn, Jack Collins, and a few others.\n[unintelligible] My non-Jewish friends, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have known a guy named Bob Merritt\nsince I was in grammar school. We literally have been friends since grammar\nschool. We still are. My friends in high school were Peyton Robinson, Gordon\nMayer, Blake Young. I'm still friendly with them today. We don't go out. You\nknow how you have friends you don't see a lot? A very close friend of mine who\nwent to North Fulton High School was Roddy White. I had some friends at\nNorthside [High School]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were not many friends at Lovett, because they\nwere a year behind. There was a young guy named Richie Reiman who went to school\nthere, who subsequently worked for me in Washington. I am pretty blessed. I had\na lot of friends then. Today I would say, interestingly enough, of all the\npeople I named . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Today, most of my really close friends are friends I have\nmet through the Jewish community, through the work I have done in the Jewish community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We are going to backtrack, because I realize you never did tell me\nabout your mother and father. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's get your mother born or your father born.\nOne or the other.\n\nSELIG: The earliest recollection I have, and I probably don't even remember this\nbecause I was too young to remember it . . . I was probably just told about\nthis, but when I was very, very young . . . I couldn't have been more than one\nor two years old or three years old . . . I was born in Columbus, Georgia, at\nFort Benning, because my dad was stationed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there at the time. Very shortly\nthereafter, we went to California. My dad was a tank commander. He was a\ncolonel, but he was an instructor, so he was in California teaching other\nsoldiers how to be tank commanders. This is a weird thing to remember. It was\nprobably just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"told to me. I think I remember my mother hit somebody with her car\none time. It was not serious, but I remember having to go to the hospital with\nthis person she had hit. I don't think it was a big deal, but I remember that. I\ndon't know why I remember that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was probably pretty traumatic at the time.\n\nSELIG: I don't know if I was just told about it or if I actually remember. I\nthink I remember that situation. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That is about as far back as I go. My mother\nand dad were very good together. They were very . . . They had a lot of fun.\nThey could party better than me and my friends. They liked to go out. They would\nhave a good time. They had really good values. They had as good values ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as\nanybody. Reputation was very important to them. Doing the right thing and being\nhonorable was very important to them. Other things were not so important to\nthem, but that was. How you groomed yourself and how you looked, your manners.\nThat was all very important to them. It was not so important to me. Maybe a\nlittle more now than then. I always sort of rebelled ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"against that stuff, but it\nwas important to them. I don't think I really knew how close they were. This\nsounds strange, but I don't think I really knew how really close they were until\nmy mother got cancer. In those last few years, I saw my father fall to pieces\nduring her sickness and then his inability to accept ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her death. I think before\nthat I thought they were just like any other couple. They were just married.\nThey were just there. It was not a touchy-feely relationship. It was nothing\nlike that, but it was a darn good marriage apparently.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A lot of depth to it.\n\nSELIG: Yes, more depth than I think I realized, because I am touchy-feely. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At\nleast I think I am, and I did not quite get why it was not . . . I think Dad was\nmore touchy-feely than Mother was. Mother was not.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She was not hands on.\n\nSELIG: She was not hands on at all.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you resent that or did you feel rejected, since you yourself\nliked that affection?\n\nSELIG: No, I never felt rejected. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was sort of their pride and joy. They doted\non me a lot. I knew how they felt about me. I knew I was the prodigal son, as it were.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The prince.\n\nSELIG: I don't know about the prince, but I know they had high expectations of\nme. I dare say that they did not have the expectations of me that I have now\nachieved, but they had high expectations of me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have known that all my life.f\n\nSCHOENBERG: What do you think they expected, and what do you think you have done\ndifferently? You just eluded to something. I just wondered what that was.\n\nSELIG: I will tell you what I have done differently. Never in their wildest\ndreams, or probably mine either . . . I never expected to be president of the\nAtlanta Jewish Federation. I have received a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"awards in my life, but I am\nfairly young and could have received a lot more had I allowed myself to accept\nthem. I don't think they would have expected me to be so involved in the Jewish\ncommunity. I think they would have expected me to be involved in the non-Jewish\ncommunity, as I am involved. I am very involved. I think they probably . . . My\nparents were more givers to Jewish causes than they were doers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember my\nfather saying to me he could not take cards. I didn't know what he was talking\nabout, but I knew he would never go and ask other people from money. I remember\nwhen I was growing up he said, \"I just cannot take cards, because when somebody\nsays no to me I consider it a personal insult. I just cannot do it.\" If somebody\nsaid that to me today, I would say that is a cop out. I would say that, to me,\nthe best thing you can do is take cards and go have a one-on-one conversation\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with somebody. They were givers. They were very charitable, and they opened\ntheir home. I don't want to imply that they did not do a lot of things, because\nthey did. I think by my standards today, I have clearly done more than they did.\nThat still surprises me, particularly in the Jewish community, because I did not\nhave a solid Jewish upbringing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have to take it all back to values, that I did\nhave good values. They were not necessarily in a traditional Jewish home, [but]\nI knew I was Jewish. I was confirmed. I was never bar mitzvahed. It wasn't even\noffered at The Temple when I was growing up, but I think I had good values. I\nreally like people. I am somebody who really enjoys being with people. I got off\ntrack. What were we . . . ?\n\nSCHOENBERG: We were talking about your parents, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but that's fine. That statement\nprobably is worth my having come here this morning.\n\nSELIG: Which one?\n\nSCHOENBERG: What you just said. I think that is a really important facet of your\nlife. That is the kind of thing that is valuable in an interview like this.\n\nSELIG: I am glad. They did have high expectations of me. When you asked what I\nam doing that they would have expected . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did have they have academic expectations, as well?\n\nSELIG: If they did, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never achieved them. I graduated from college in four\nyears. This is my mother and dad. They would not hear of me not graduating in\nexactly four years. None of this extra semester stuff. I had to graduate in four\nyears, and that was it. Then I had to decide what I wanted to do and where I\nwanted to be involved and all that kind of stuff. I think their expectations\nwere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I would be a leader in the community, the overall community. Whatever\ncommunity means, I would be a leader in it, [and] that I would probably be a\nleader in our business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And that you would be a good person.\n\nSELIG: And that I would be a leader in the family, and I would be a good person.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Values were important to them obviously.\n\nSELIG: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is the thing that you always want. You want to pass those to\nyour children.\n\nSELIG: I guess a good father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all that sort of thing, but basically I guess\nthose were the expectations. I dare say that it was probably not the expectation\nof leadership so much. Erwin Zaban once said to me . . . After my father died,\nErwin took me to lunch, and he said . . . Erwin is a very dear friend of mine,\nsomebody I care a great deal about. I think he cares about me, too. He said,\n\"Steve, you have the opportunity now that your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents are deceased to really\nmake a difference. You need to be a leader in our community.\" He said something\nabout me a couple of years later. He said, \"I told you to be a leader. I didn't\ntell you to be a leader in everything. You could have picked something, but you\nhave done everything.\" I have done a lot. My first involvement in the Jewish\ncommunity was with, I think, the American Jewish Committee. 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I\nwas president of the synagogue, The Temple, and now I am president of the\nAtlanta Jewish Federation, which is, I think, my last leadership role that I\ndesire to take in the Jewish community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In the local Jewish community.\n\nSELIG: That is an interesting point, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I am doing some national stuff. I\ndon't know that I really want to do national stuff, but I am not sure I can get\naway from doing it. I was campaign chairman here for a year at Federation. Then\nI was first vice president for two years, and I will be president for two years.\nI am doing a lot, and I am a pretty . . . What kind of person? I'm a sensitive\nperson, number one, and I am ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"always on the move. What do you call that? Like a\ntype-A personality. I [unintelligible] burn myself out [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: You are probably the kind of person who is thorough and does not do\na half job. If you accept it, you do it, and you do it properly.\n\nSELIG: I always said that I am not a joiner, and if I am going to join something\nI might as well be president and be the leader of it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: With people like that, it is inevitable that you do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eventually burn\nout some, because you are giving a lot more than someone who is just . . .\n\nSELIG: I was with Erwin again yesterday and Arnie Rubenstein, who is a very\nclose friend of mine and [unintelligible] the next president of Federation.\nIrwin said to me . . . My thing is to get . . . When I became president of\nFederation, I had three goals. One was to raise more money, so we could help\nthose less fortunate. One was to restore pride ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in our community and in what we\nare doing, and third was to just have a good time. Let's enjoy ourselves. When I\nsaid restore pride, there are some people who had been put off by the process.\nThere are politics in charity. There are politics in everything. There were some\npeople who were not happy with the way things were going. I have been trying to\nget those people back in the fold. 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It\nwould be okay if the candidate's family did not vote for me, the other guy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my\nopponent's family. It is important to me that everybody feels good about the\nprocess. To do that requires an awful lot of mental energy. A lot of physical\nenergy, too.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What do you think has made the disaffected feel that way about Federation?\n\nSELIG: Some of it is personality. Some of the leadership in the past has not\nbeen hands on. They have been seen as elitist, and they have been seen as going\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"behind closed doors in making decisions without bringing other people into the\nprocess. Some of it is just sort of a natural resistance, I think. Some people\nuse it as a crutch not to give. Some people want an excuse, and that is a handy\nexcuse. I am trying real hard to overcome all those things. I am trying to be\nvery encompassing. I am trying to speak to everybody who wants ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get involved.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Find the places to be.\n\nSELIG: It is not always easy to find a place to put people, but we try. I think\nwe are succeeding right now. We are making great progress.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think it is inevitable, and someone your age probably is not . . .\nYou were in the middle of this process, but the Jewish community of Atlanta has\nchanged significantly in the last ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"40 or 50 years in its interrelationships. I\nthink this is part of what you are talking about.\n\nSELIG: You are absolutely right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I wonder what your take is on how those interrelationships between\nthe various segments of the Jewish community have evolved.\n\nSELIG: First of all, I think it is wonderful that it has. I think one of the\nmain reasons it has is because of the Atlanta Jewish Federation. When I was\ngrowing up, I don't think I knew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very many people who were Jewish who were not\nReform. I knew some, but they were not my closest friends. Some were. I had a\nfew that were, but . . . How has it changed? First of all, I think the\nleadership in the Jewish community used to be at the synagogues. I think the\npresidents of the synagogues were probably the titular heads of the Jewish\ncommunity. 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It is not just for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one brand of Judaism, and quite\nhonestly one of the things I am doing is working to get the Orthodox more\ninvolved. Clearly, the Reform and Conservative are so intermeshed in Federation.\nThere's no doubt about it. I now belong to two synagogues. I belong to The\nTemple and to the AA [Ahavath Achim]. I would say perhaps an equal number of my\nclose friends belong to both now, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whereas in the past it was always they\nbelonged to The Temple. It may even be more of my close friends, but it is not\njust those two synagogues. It is Etz Chaim. It is Sinai. It is Beth Jacob. I\nhave got friends over there. I know all the rabbis. Every rabbi in the community\nis a good friend. One of the things we have been working on is\nsynagogue-Federation relations and outreach. In fact, every rabbi in the\ncommunity has offered to help me with my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism, to teach me Hebrew and that\nsort of thing, because I have let the word get out that I was interested in\nthat. I thought that I wanted to do it before I became president, because I felt\nlike I really needed to understand more and I particularly needed to learn\nHebrew before I became president. Now that I am president, I see it is not\nnecessary. I can do the job without all that knowledge. [unintelligible] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now I\ndon't have time to do it, because this job is almost a full-time job.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to ask you. How many hours a week do you think you\nprobably spend on Federation?\n\nSELIG: I spend day and night. How many hours are in a . . . Are we talking about\na 40- or 60- [hour work week]?\n\nSCHOENBERG: You are working full time, because you are a young man and you are\nthe head of several companies. You are putting in 60 to 80 hours [a week]\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably on that.\n\nSELIG: Maybe half. Maybe half of the time goes to Federation. Sometimes\nconsiderably less, sometimes . . . probably never more than that. It is\nconsiderable, and there is a lot of emotional time involved. A lot. I guess I\nenjoy it, or I wouldn't do it. Nobody is making me do it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Has it impacted your family life?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I think it has impacted it far, far to the better. My wife, Linda, is\nvery, very involved. She is president of the Women's Division [of Federation]\nright now. She was probably involved before I was. She is very supportive and\nhas her own niche and does wonderful things.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is her maiden name?\n\nSELIG: Weinkle. She is from Miami. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She has the same lack of\nknowledge that I do, but she got involved in the American Jewish Committee. This\nyear she was president of ACCESS.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is her name?\n\nSELIG: Mindy Shoulberg.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How do you spell her last name?\n\nSELIG: S-H-O-U-L-B-E-R-G. She married a young man from Philadelphia. They live\nhere in Atlanta. They have two [unintelligible] She was president of ACCESS,\nwhich is a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thousand-membership, young person's division of the American Jewish\nCommittee. I'm very proud of her for doing that. She has gotten involved in that\nbecause of our involvement. Our two sons are getting there. They are both just\nout of school and both starting their own careers. We all go to the community\nevents together, and we celebrate the holidays together. We did not always do\nthat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"growing up. We did not celebrate Passover, for example.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The whole family?\n\nSELIG: Not until my sister and I wanted to do it, and that was probably into our\ncollege days maybe.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you ever personally participate with a friend's family?\n\nSELIG: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You never went to a seder until you were in college?\n\nSELIG: I think that is about right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: That is amazing.\n\nSELIG: We had Christmas growing up, and I got uncomfortable with that. I am not\nexactly sure why. My sister and I basically . . . I know I stopped Christmas in\nmy family when my kids were . . . when we moved to Washington, I guess. I became\nvery uncomfortable with it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What are your boys' names?\n\nSELIG: My oldest son is Scott, and my youngest son is Blake.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How old are they?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: Mindy is 28, Scott is 27, and Blake is 25. Now, of course, we would not\nmiss Passover or would not think of celebrating Christmas or anything like that.\nIt is embarrassing to even talk about it, frankly, but that is the way I was\nraised. I didn't know any different.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Why do you think your family ignored those Jewish traditions or rituals?\n\nSELIG: I have no idea.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"necessarily so at The Temple. The Temple certainly was\n. . . I don't think that Rabbi Marx ignored Passover, did he? Certainly Rabbi\nRothschild would not have.\n\nSELIG: Rabbi Rothschild was the rabbi that I had growing up. I guess it just was\nnot . . . Probably they were not raised with it either. It just did not seem to\nbe a big deal.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yet your grandfather Massell, for instance . . . 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Therefore, I would say that . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think I was in the middle of a sentence, talking about the fact\nthat it was probably your mother who made that decision not to include a lot of\nritual in your home life.\n\nSELIG: We had no ritual.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I wondered if her own life growing up was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"devoid of all of that.\n\nSELIG: I assume it had to have been. I do not ever remember going over to her\nparents and having Passover or anything like that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's interesting, because they were immigrants, or at least your\ngrandfather was an immigrant.\n\nSELIG: Both my grandfathers were, I believe. My other one may have been . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That history, coming from . . . and he was very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active in the Jewish\ncommunity, was he not, Ben Massell?\n\nSELIG: Yes. Make no mistake about it. Clearly we knew we were Jewish. Clearly. I\nam not sure how proud they were of it necessarily. They fit in in the general\ncommunity as well as the Jewish community, and that seemed important to them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Do you think, because of the years in which they grew up and the\nfact that they lived through World War II in a different way than you did . . .\nyour grandparents this is . . . and that they experienced more antisemitism,\nthat may have influenced your mother's feelings about . . . 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They did a lot of\ngood things.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Like [what], for instance?\n\nSELIG: They were involved in most of the Jewish charities that I was aware of,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Federation to American Jewish Committee to The Temple. They were\ncharitable. They would open their home to the fundraisers and things like that.\nThey would support all of the causes. Not all of the causes. Let me back up on\nthat. They would support what I would consider mainstream causes. They would not\nhave supported, for example, Yeshiva or Torah Day School like we do today, but\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they supported the mainstream causes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were they supporters of Israel?\n\nSELIG: Yes, they were supporters of Israel. In fact, the first time I went to\nIsrael was with my dad. They were involved in everything, yet they did not . . .\nI think that's okay. I think in their own way they were probably good Jews. They\njust were not ritualistic. 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What was your mother like as a person?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You said they had fun. Did they go . . . Did that mean they had parties? What\ndid she do during the day?\n\nSELIG: She did not work.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Most women that age did not.\n\nSELIG: She was a very refined person, as I said before.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was she college educated?\n\nSELIG: Yes, but I don't think she graduated. I am not sure. I don't know whether\nshe graduated or not. 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Those were two.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who were her best friends, the people you called aunt?\n\nSELIG: Her best friends were Lala Lesser, Jean Cohen, Helen Regenstein, Adele\nDavis, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charlotte Garson, Elaine Lang, Dotty Oberdorfer. I am leaving out several\nI am sure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Obviously they were in the Jewish community.\n\nSELIG: Oh, yes. All of them. All Jewish.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting. And your dad?\n\nSELIG: They did have friends outside the Jewish community that they would get\nout with on occasion, but primarily it was . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Their social life was . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I think Joanne Guzzi was a friend of hers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Probably their social life revolved, in large part, around the\nStandard Club?\n\nSELIG: Yes, for sure. Absolutely. That was it. My dad's best friends were the\nhusbands of all the people I just named. Frank Lesser, Herbie Cohen, Al Davis,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Louis Regenstein, right on down the list. Donald Oberdorfer. I am sure I am\nleaving out some people. He had some people in his golf game, too. Those are the\nnames that come to mind.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did most of them lead the same kinds of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family lives. They, too, had\nlittle Jewish ritualistic backgrounds? Do you remember?\n\nSELIG: I don't think they did.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Pretty much the same?\n\nSELIG: I think they had the same story as we did, but he had friends who played\nin his golf game from Myron Dwoskin to . . . I don't know Levin's first name. We\nused to call him [unintelligible] Levin. 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The other person he hired over there was his nephew Lyons\nJoel, who became president of [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is the origin of Selig Chemical?\n\nSELIG: My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather started it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was your grandfather the first Selig in Atlanta?\n\nSELIG: There was Simon Selig and there was Albert Selig. I'm not sure if Albert\nwas in the business or not.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were they brothers?\n\nSELIG: I think they were cousins. I think. Again, I am not sure, because Albert\nleft when I was pretty young.\n\nSCHOENBERG: His line is no longer in this city.\n\nSELIG: No. [unintelligible]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Your grandfather founded the company. Where was it located?\n\nSELIG: It was located on Marietta Street near downtown.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not down in the Chattahoochee area.\n\nSELIG: No. It was on Marietta Street near Jones Avenue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was industrial?\n\nSELIG: Yes. It backed up to the railroad tracks on that side of Marietta Street.\nThen they moved to Fulton Industrial [Boulevard]. 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Charlie Brown\nsaid to my dad, \"What should we call the street?\" Dad said, \"Why don't we call\nit Selig Drive?\" They did, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so Selig Drive became one of the streets out there,\nand there was Selig Circle, and there was Selig Way. That one little street\nbecame a big deal out there on Fulton Industrial. There are a lot of buildings\nout there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are there any streets named for your other grandfather? The Massells?\n\nSELIG: That is a very good question. I don't think so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Obviously he was, being the real estate maven . . .\n\nSELIG: He was the guy. You are right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He should have something named for him.\n\nSELIG: That is an interesting point. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That is a very interesting question. He\ndoes have the Ben Massell Dental Clinic named after him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The origins of which are . . .\n\nSELIG: I don't know. I don't remember.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is it not still under Federation?\n\nSELIG: No. I think it is more under United Way now. I think so. It may be under\nJewish Family [\u0026 Career] Services, but I don't think so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It serves ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the poor.\n\nSELIG: Jewish dentists volunteer their time over there. I guess they are Jewish.\nMaybe not all of them. I am trying to think of what was named for my\ngrandfather. He dedicated the chapel at The Temple to his wife, Helen. It is the\nHelen Massell Chapel, and the gym at the Jewish Community Center, which he\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donated and dedicated to my sister and me and our parents. I don't think there\nis anything . . . There was a building we named the Massell Building at Pershing\nPoint, but it is not a prominent building. They may have changed the name by\nnow. I have been asked on a couple of occasions recently, over the last five or\nsix years, several times, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel Bonds asked if they could name the Israel Bonds\ncommunity award for my grandfather. We were very reluctant to do that. We told\nthem no, because right now there is so much already ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"related to our family. It\njust seemed like too much.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Overkill?\n\nSELIG: Overkill. We have got more publicity than I want. Frankly, we have got\ntoo much, and I would like to cut back, so we said no.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It would be fun to have a street named Massell.\n\nSELIG: A street would be okay. If we ever develop another street, we would\nprobably do that. [That is] a very good idea. We do that on occasion.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How much property does Selig Enterprises now encompass?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: A lot. A couple of hundred pieces of real estate, I would say. Maybe most\nof that is probably . . . I should know this. I'm going to guess, off the top of\nmy head, eight or nine million square feet. [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: I realize. Mostly office space or industrial?\n\nSELIG: Half retail, half office/industrial.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: All in the Atlanta region?\n\nSELIG: Most in Atlanta, but we have several shopping centers in Florida. We have\na building in Puerto Rico. We have a building in Tennessee. We have one in North\nCarolina. Mostly in the Atlanta area.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I still did not get you to tell me what your dad was like. Before\nyou run away today, tell me about your dad.\n\nSELIG: My dad was a great guy, a wonderful guy. [He was] very sensitive. I think\nI got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that part of my character from him, for sure. He would cry at the drop of\na hat, which is what I would do, also. You would also. I saw you. He was a\ngreat, great guy. He had his ways. He was stubborn at times but a person that I\nhad the privilege of working with for a lot of years before he died, right\nalongside him. I talked to him a lot. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was a detail guy. My father was a guy\nwho wanted to know where every dollar was going. He watched the costs very, very\ncarefully. I always thought, when I worked alongside him, that if he would ever\ndie I could never do this. I could never have the grasp of all the details that\nhe did. Guess what. I was right. I could not. I am nowhere near ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as detail\noriented as he was. I am much more [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: You see the big picture.\n\nSELIG: I try to be more big picture. When I was growing up, we had great times.\nMy whole family did. We would take great trips together. When I was really,\nreally young, we went to Atlantic City [New Jersey] a lot, because my\ngrandmother had a house up there. When we got a little older . . . 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I remember\ngoing to my first play up in New York [City] and seeing Golden Boy when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think\nI was about nine or ten years old, with Sammy Davis, [Jr.]. Down in Miami . . .\nThey sold the house when I was 15 or 14 years old, so this was much younger than\nthat. I remember going to see Johnny Mathis at the Fontainebleau Hotel, for\nexample. We did all the normal stuff. It was a lot of fun. I liked that\nexperience. I wish we had that house today. We gave it up [unintelligible] My\nparents [unintelligible] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and have my girlfriends over to the house.\n[unintelligible] Dad's big love was the University of Georgia. They went to\nevery single game. They usually went with Lala and Frank Lesser, and I would be\nin the back of the car with Lainy, Lala and Frank's daughter. Those were some of\nthe happiest times, going to the Georgia football games. I still do it to this\nday. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is still one of my favorite things to do. My dad was a huge, huge\nGeorgia fan, as big as they come, and I am today.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I know that the art museum at Georgia is named . . .\n\nSELIG: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No?\n\nSELIG: No, we did not do that. We were going to do that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They wanted to do that. I saw that.\n\nSELIG: We were going to put up a certain amount of money. The State [of Georgia]\nhad to put up a certain amount of money. The State did not do it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so we backed\noff that. During this period of time, Dad died. My sister and I did not do the\nmuseum. We gave to the athletic department. Dad was going to do it for Mother.\nIt was going to be the Caroline Massell Museum. Caroline Massell Selig. After\nDad died, we did the athletic department. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The front of it is called Selig Plaza,\nand the street it is on is Selig Drive or Selig Circle, something like that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was he actively athletic?\n\nSELIG: No, he was not athletic at all.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just a terrific fan.\n\nSELIG: He was not athletic at all, and he just loved my athletic success. I was\na star football player in high school. I was all-city and all-state. I could\nhave played in college. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I could have had a scholarship.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Why did you choose not to?\n\nSELIG: First of all, Dad used to love to come to those games. He came to every\ngame. He used to love it, particularly football. I played tennis. I played\nsoccer. Football was [unintelligible 19:25] I chose not to because, number one,\nwe did not need the money for a scholarship, and, number two, I had worked real\nhard when I was in high school. I wanted to enjoy college and not worry about\nit. At that time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wally Butts was the coach and had a reputation for being a\nreal hard-ass slave driver. I just did not feel like I needed that aggravation\nup there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was your dad disappointed that you didn't want to go on with it?\n\nSELIG: I don't think so. I don't think he was disappointed. I always look back\nand wonder how I would have done, but I could have gone to a number of colleges.\nGeorgia was where he went. Georgia was where I wanted to go. Georgia is where my\nyoungest son went [unintelligible] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was great. Dad was the kind of person\nwho . . . When I say the man had values I mean . . . We had our own construction\ncrews in those days, like they do today. If they came out to the house and\npainted a wall, Dad would say, \"I want you to send me a bill.\" I said, \"That is\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ridiculous. Charge it as if they were painting our shopping center.\" He said,\n\"No, I am not going to do it. Life is too short.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was an honest man. He could not look at himself in the mirror if\nhe did things like that.\n\nSELIG: He said, \"Money is just not that important. I have to face myself every\nmorning. I am just not going to do it.\" I used to argue with him. I said, \"You\nare crazy. My God, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that is what you have a company for.\" He said, \"Listen, if I\nwant to do that I will just raise my salary. Before I go fast and loose with the\nbooks, I will just raise my salary.\" He never would do that. I will do it a\nlittle more than he did, but I don't do it much either. I am not as down the\nline as he was on that kind of stuff, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember those lessons very well.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You don't want to end up like Leona Helmsley.\n\nSELIG: I don't think so. When you have got 15 people working for your company,\nand one of them comes out here and mows the grass, let's say . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Or shaves the bottom of your door.\n\nSELIG: For them to send me a bill for a hundred dollars, they can put the time\ndown as warehouse time. That is the way Dad was. A very honorable guy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was\nthe kind of person he was.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And a fun person to be with?\n\nSELIG: Yes. Mother and Dad used to go out at night. They would go to parties. I\ndid not appreciate it until I got older, but they would stay out later than I\nwould. We would go out, and they would stay out later. They drank, and they\nsmoked. In fact, they probably drank too much, and I know they smoked. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of\nthe things I remember about our house [is] we all had dinner together growing\nup, and there was smoke. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. I remember\nhow uncomfortable it was in that house with all the cigarette smoke.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you think your mother's cancer was related to that?\n\nSELIG: Probably. They drank a lot compared to what I drink. I hardly drink at all.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I don't think that is unusual for those years, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nobody was as\nconcerned with the health benefits, or non-benefits, of smoking and drinking.\n\nSELIG: When they got home in the afternoon, they always had a drink, every\nsingle day.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you have a lot of help in the house?\n\nSELIG: Yes. I was always embarrassed about that, too. We were served dinner. I\nhated it. I always hated it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How many people?\n\nSELIG: I guess two. We had somebody who cooked and we had . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At one time, it\nmay have been three. It's hard for me to remember now. I know we had at least\ntwo, somebody who cooked and somebody who [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: I am assuming they were black.\n\nSELIG: They were definitely black.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you have a nanny as a little kid?\n\nSELIG: A nanny.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. A nursemaid. A black lady who helped raise you.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I don't remember having one.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Then you probably did not.\n\nSELIG: A nanny is different than a maid. Clearly there were African-American\nwomen around the house. My mother did not work. She was there. I don't want to\ngive the impression that she was off . . . If I had a doctor's appointment, she\ntook me. If I had to go get clothes, she took me. If I had to do whatever I had\nto do, she was there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was not exactly like a nanny, but there were clearly\nhelp around. The thing that I remember that embarrassed me the most about those\nyears was, number one, being served dinner, and, number two, having . . . I\ndon't even like to use the word. I'm not sure what you call those people . . . a\nhouse person drive us to school.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A man?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: A man, yes, drive us to school. I was always embarrassed by that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did you go to grade school, before you went to Westminster?\n\nSELIG: I went to Little Lovett. I was a private school [unintelligible]. I never\nwent to public school.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is Little Lovett?\n\nSELIG: It was Lovett in those days. It was on West Wesley [Road]. Are you from Atlanta?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No.\n\nSELIG: There is a subdivision there now. [unintelligible] Lovett School went\nfrom kindergarten to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sixth or seventh grade. I left in about the fifth grade and\nwent to Westminster when it was on Peachtree [Street]. [unintelligible] I am\ngoing to have to stop.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think that's fine.\n\nSELIG: We have not even touched on . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A lot of things.\n\nSELIG: My White House years, and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is exactly right. I would have deliberately decided that this\nwould be it for today, because I knew you were anxious to get to the office.\nThank you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is Ann Hoffman Schoenberg, interviewing Stephen Selig on June\n10, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1998, [more than 14 months later] for the Jewish Oral History Project of\nAtlanta, co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation, and the National Council of Jewish Women. After such a long hiatus,\nI want to congratulate you on a successful completion of your time and service\nto Federation. How do you feel now that it's all over?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: It's bittersweet. I am not exactly sure how I feel yet. I have a lot more\ntime on my hands. I am already . . . I did not realize I would have this much\ntime this quickly. On the other hand, I will miss the excitement and the action,\nthe leadership, making the decisions, the camaraderie, and the friendships.\nAlthough I will not be going away, I still will not be as much in the center of\nthings like I was over the past ten years.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have you made a decision about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any national service? Have they\napproached you about it?\n\nSELIG: Oh, yes. I have been approached.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I figured.\n\nSELIG: I have not made any decisions. I was asked to be major gifts chair for\nthe UJA/CJF campaign this year, but I said no to that. I told them . . . This\nwas a couple of months ago, when I was right in the middle of all this\npresidency stuff. I basically told them that I didn't want a title. They should\njust give me any job they wanted me to have but do not give me a title. Do not\ngive me the responsibility. 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I will see how it goes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have you been involved a good deal of late in the controversies in\nIsrael, the business with the conversion problems and all of that? The political problems.\n\nSELIG: Yes, only primarily as it affects Atlanta and affects the people who live\nhere. I have been to several meetings about it, and I have been trying to keep\nthe lid on it in Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of the things we have done in Atlanta is a\nsynagogue-Federation outreach program, whereby we try to get the synagogues and\nthe rabbis to be much more closely tuned into the Federation. We have got a\ntwo-year program to do just that. That is part of it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Has that been successful with [Congregation] Beth Jacob and the\nother Orthodox congregations?\n\nSELIG: Yes, it has. In fact, at my going out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the Federation annual meeting\nMonday night, I would say there were more Orthodox rabbis there than any other\nstream. In fact, [Rabbi] Ilan Feldman was there. Ilan Feldman is a big supporter\nof Federation. He's the rabbi at Beth Jacob, and all the Kollel rabbis, as well.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have you had much dissention from people within the community about\ndonating money?\n\nSELIG: It has not really hit Atlanta yet. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have not had a fallout yet from\nthat issue like other communities. We were able to get through this year. I am\nnot aware of any donor . . . I am not aware of one who withheld a gift because\nof that issue. Now, we have had several talk about it and question it, but no\none, to the best of my knowledge, withheld a gift because of that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I am going to change the topic totally. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went over the first tape,\nand there were a few holes in it. I wanted to be sure, before we got too far\nalong into other things, that we filled those holes, if you would. First of all,\nwould you please tell me the names of your wives?\n\nSELIG: The names of my wives?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. Janet was your first wife. Her maiden name was?\n\nSELIG: Simensky.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Simensky? Spell it.\n\nSELIG: S-I-M-E-N-S-K-Y.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your second wife.\n\nSELIG: I don't remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her maiden name. I wasn't married that long. Beth. I\ndon't remember what her maiden name was. I have to think about it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were married just a brief time?\n\nSELIG: About a year or less.\n\nSCHOENBERG: About a year. No children from that union?\n\nSELIG: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your last wife, your current wife, was Linda . . .\n\nSELIG: Weinkle.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Weinkle. Spell it.\n\nSELIG: W-E-I-N-K-L-E.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was one of the gaps. I did not have the maiden names of the\nwomen. The other thing is that I did not get you to talk a little bit about your\nchildren. We just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"barely talked about the kids, but I wanted you to talk a\nlittle bit more about . . . You had three?\n\nSELIG: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They are the product of the first marriage?\n\nSELIG: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Why don't you go ahead and tell me about them. You can brag.\n\nSELIG: There is a lot to brag about. My first-born child is Melinda Beth\nShoulberg. Melinda Beth Selig Shoulberg.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Spell it.\n\nSELIG: S-H-O-U-L-B-E-R-G. 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A friend of hers, a\nfellow named John Schlesinger, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had heard that Mindy was not happy and called me\nto see if Mindy was interested in interviewing. Mindy was interested,\ninterviewed with Julie, got the job, and took to it like a duck to water. She\nstarted working in commercial real estate, which is what I do. She became a\nretail leasing agent specialist and did a great job. 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They did not tell them\nwhen they were changing jobs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that the company had been sold. Long story short,\nthey sold the company a couple of months after they got there, and all the\npromises that were made to them were reneged on, including salary, commission,\npercentages. Julie left, and now Mindy has come to work with us. Mindy is now in\nour retail leasing area and does a great job for us.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It is interesting that she should fall into the same area ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but do so\nnot with you and get her initial experience elsewhere. I think that is very smart.\n\nSELIG: I have very few rules, but one of my rules is that none of my kids would\nbe allowed to work in any family-owned business for at least five years. They\nwould have had to have worked somewhere else for at least five years, and\nMindy's five years were up.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She is active in the Jewish community.\n\nSELIG: Mindy is very active ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the Jewish community, which is probably as\nsurprising to her as it was surprising to me that I was active in the Jewish\ncommunity. She has been president of ACCESS, which is the American Jewish\nCommittee's young leadership group which I think anyone in Atlanta would say is\nthe most active, most populated, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"best young leadership group in the city. Mindy\nhas been president of that organization for two years. That organization has a\nthousand members, and she has really done a great job. I think she is just going\nout [of office] right as we speak. I think she has just gone out. I think their\nlast event is this weekend. She has been very active.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is she looking toward now?\n\nSELIG: She is looking to be a mother.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is true.\n\nSELIG: She is really trying to decide how to . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think she wants to\ngive up her career, but she wants to be a mother first and then see how the\ncareer goes after that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now we will move on to your second child.\n\nSELIG: My second child is Scott.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He is how old?\n\nSELIG: He is 28, and he is engaged to be married. 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In\nschool, for example, you would never hear him get uptight ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about a test. He would\njust do what he had to do. He sort of coasted through in his own way. He was a\nsolid B student. He had a lot of friends, [was] a pretty good athlete, played\nVarsity soccer, [has] very good people skills, is very attractive, nice looking physically.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: What is he doing now?\n\nSELIG: When he graduated from high school, he went to the University of Arizona,\nwhich was also a great thing for him to do out there. There were a lot of Jewish\nstudents out there. The same thing I said about Mindy. 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He has a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot of potential.\nVery honorable.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Has he been involved in the Jewish community as well?\n\nSELIG: Not as much, but they come to all the events. He hasn't decided to get\nreal active yet. It is hard not to be involved when you are in this family. He\nhas been involved in terms of . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: It is tangential. You get involved whether you like it or not.\n\nSELIG: Yes. He has not been involved like Mindy has been involved or like I am.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He is 28 years old. He is pretty young.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, and still single.\n\nSELIG: By the way, Mindy has not been to Israel yet. Scott has been to Israel.\nWe took him . . . I took my family to Israel a couple of summers ago. Mindy did\nnot go. She was working. This was around when Scott was getting out of school,\nso Scott has been to Israel.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Number three child?\n\nSELIG: Number three is Blake, who is 26 years old. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You cannot ruffle this kid. He is very calm. He goes\nat his own pace. He is never in a hurry. [He] has a really good heart [and is]\nvery sentimental and emotional.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He takes after your father.\n\nSELIG: Yes he does, in a way. He does have this sense of peace about him that he\nis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sort of in his own world. You can give Blake a time to be someplace and\nexpect him there 15 minutes late, no matter what it is. He just never hurries.\nHe is sort of known for that. He has a lot of friends. He is a great friend to\nhis friends, and he is somebody they can depend on. He has some very good\nqualities. He is an entrepreneur. During the Olympics, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he started a company to\nhelp companies find locations, which he made some pretty good profit off of. I\nwas very proud of him. Now he is in a business . . . He has some sort of\npainting business where they do this graffiti-free paint. He just started this\nbusiness. It is tough, but they are working hard at it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is graffiti-free paint? Is this something that has a hard\nsurface that cannot be . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: Right. You cannot graffiti it, or, if they do graffiti it, it washes\nright off.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It can be taken off easily.\n\nSELIG: He and a friend have started from scratch. They are working with it. They\nare trying. We will see how it goes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is the product they use something they have developed or something\nthat someone else developed that they have latched on to?\n\nSELIG: They mix it up. They have got their own formula, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I think it is\nexisting technology.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting.\n\nSELIG: I think he might make a go of it. It is still a little too early to tell.\nHe has not been doing it for a year yet.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They are young.\n\nSELIG: They are very young. None of them want to work in big companies. They all\nwant to be somewhat entrepreneurial. In fact, I am sort of looking around for\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"businesses to buy to see if there are businesses that fit their skills.\n\nSCHOENBERG: For the future.\n\nSELIG: Yes, for the future.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Since you mentioned businesses, let me move into that area, since we\nhave not talked much about your businesses. You are involved in several. Do you\nwant to go ahead and talk about them?\n\nSELIG: Sure. Where do you want to start?\n\nSCHOENBERG: You pick it.\n\nSELIG: The motherlode is the real estate company, which my grandfather really\nbegan, my grandfather Ben Massell. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He actually went into the real estate\nbusiness, as far as our records can tell, somewhere back in 1918. We found\nMassell Real Estate in phone books that go back to 1918. I am not sure exactly\nhow it went, but my grandfather Ben Massell was sort of credited with building\nthe Atlanta skyline. He was a one-person urban renewal guy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He would go into\nareas and put up buildings. I don't know how he did it. I did not know him very\nwell, because he died when I was in college.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did he start?\n\nSELIG: I don't know where he started?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you know what part of the city?\n\nSELIG: I don't know. All over the city. He has warehouses in one area and office\nbuildings in another. He was all over the place, but I would say the only place\nhe was not was north. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Probably from about Brookwood Station north I'm not aware\nof anything that he built.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Nothing in the Buckhead area.\n\nSELIG: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He died when? In the 1950's? In the 1960's?\n\nSELIG: He died in the 1960's. I graduated from college in 1965. He died in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1965\nor 1964. I can't remember which.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Obviously that area had not yet really taken off.\n\nSELIG: I worked a couple of summers up there and didn't do much but did a little\nleasing and showed some spaces. When I got out of college, I went to work for a\nbank. I didn't like that very much. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then I went over to Massell company and did\nsome real estate work over there with them and did some leasing. When my\ngrandfather died, my dad sold his chemical business and moved over to run the\nMassell company's interests. There were a lot of different companies. I am using\nMassell as an umbrella here. There was CMS Realty and DeKalb Holdings ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A bunch of different names?\n\nSELIG: Yes. Dad moved over just about the same time I was graduating from\ncollege. My cousin, Charles Massell, was still alive. We sort of did that\ntogether, when Ben Massell was still alive, with my uncle. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"After a few years, we\nbought out my uncle. We bought out his interest. He was not particularly\ninterested in running a real estate company. He had other interests in life.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What did he end up doing?\n\nSELIG: He had a few personal properties that he managed. I am not sure what else\nhe did. [unintelligible] in New York and what not. Dad and I started together in\nthe real estate business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and grew together. He was the CEO [Chief Executive\nOfficer], and I was the head leasing guy. We worked together for a number of\nyears, interrupted by my trip to Washington when I worked in the White House,\nwhich I assume we have already talked about.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No we have not. We are going to talk about it.\n\nSELIG: We have not gotten to that either?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No. We never talked about it.\n\nSELIG: When my dad died, after I had gotten ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back from Washington . . . I cannot\nremember the date right this minute, but it was about ten years ago . . . I\nbecame the CEO and the COO [Chief Operating Officer] of the company. What we do\nis commercial and industrial real estate. We develop shopping centers and\nwarehouses, small office buildings. We acquire properties. We manage our own\nproperties. We have a brokerage division that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brokers deals. We own a company\ncalled Triple A [AAA] Parking, which is probably the largest parking operation\nin the city. We bought Triple A Parking when I came back from Washington. I went\ninto see Dad, and I said, \"We need to expand. We need to diversify.\" One of the\nways we knew to diversify was to get into like-minded companies. We had this\nopportunity to buy Triple A Parking. They were managing some of our lots, and we\nbought it. Now Triple A Parking probably manages ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over 120 lots and has 600 some\nodd employees. It is really doing well. In fact, just in the last 60 days, we\nhave taken on the World Congress Center, the new Omni, and all those lots. We\nhave taken over all of Emory University and all of Georgia State University. We\nhave probably added another 20 lots and another 5,000 parking spaces just in the\nlast couple of months. We have done pretty well with that, and it was not a big\ninvestment to begin with. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The other company that I owned until about a month ago\nwas Southern Promotions, which is the rock and roll side of a huge promotion\nbusiness, which I got into through my politics. I was national finance chairman\nfor the re-election campaign of Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was President of the\nUnited States at the time I was at the White House. I left the White House and\nwent to the re-election campaign. There was a young man over there named Peter\nConlon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who worked for me. He was working at the SBA, Small Business\nAdministration. We brought him back over to the re-election campaign, where he\ndid special events. This was during the period of time of the Iranian hostage\ncrisis. Jimmy Carter would not go out and campaign as long as there was an\nAmerican held hostage in Iran, so we had to figure out ways to raise money for\nhim. One of those ways was through concerts. 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I went to see my dad, and I said, \"We\nneed to give Peter Conlon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a job in our real estate company.\" I knew how talented\nhe was. Dad looked at me and said, \"Steve, you're lucky that we'll take you\nback. Don't come in here trying to raise our payroll.\" I literally borrowed\n$10,000 and started Southern Promotions. We subsequently, within a year, became\npartners with Alex Cooley, who was the established concert promoter in town. We\nhad a great run. 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Alex's company was\nConcert Promotions . . . for seventeen million dollars about a month ago, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"half\nof which was for Southern Promotions. We had a pretty good run with it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You made a little bit of money in the interim.\n\nSELIG: We had some fun. In the sale, I kept all my good seats and tickets. We\nhad a good run with that. That is something I did on my own.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What are they doing now?\n\nSELIG: I have a particular sense of pride about that, because the fact of the\nmatter is that going into the family real estate business you have your path\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paved for you. You have your street already paved for you, and all you need to\ndo is build on the success. That is not always that easy, and we have built on\nthe success. We have taken the company to new heights, but working in the White\nHouse, that is something I did on my own. Starting this music business, that was\nsomething we did on our own. That is a pretty good success story from basically nothing.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: What has happened to Peter Conlon and Alex Cooley?\n\nSELIG: We were bought out by a New York Stock Exchange company called SFX. They\nhave stayed to run the company.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They are still involved.\n\nSELIG: They are still involved, but we all cashed in. I gave Peter 42 percent of\neverything I got. Whatever I made in the sale, I gave him 42 percent. He was\nreally the operating head of the company, and he deserved it. It was because of\nhis efforts that we did as well as we did.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: There was a good deal of controversy a year or so ago about building\na new amphitheater for those concerts on the north side of town.\n\nSELIG: That was us.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I assumed you were wanting to build it.\n\nSELIG: We wanted to build it, and the neighborhood did not want it. It is not\ngoing there. It will not be in Alpharetta. They are going to build it someplace,\nbut it will not be Alpharetta. Not on that site anyway, but they need to build\nan amphitheater.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Talk about Washington. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Talk about your involvement in the Democratic\nParty and how this all came about.\n\nSELIG: I was always active in politics, from my days even at the University of\nGeorgia, when I was a class officer for three years. I guess I just supported\ncandidates. I remember supporting John Lewis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when he first ran for Congress\nagainst Julian Bond, and nobody thought John Lewis could win. We supported him,\nand he did win. I remember my grandfather would . . . This is not politics, but\nwe used to give all these candidates and civil rights leaders office space,\ncampaign space. Martin Luther King, Jr. had space in one of our buildings. It\nwas donated. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think it was the SCLC.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Probably.\n\nSELIG: Down at 41 Exchange Place. I guess I sort of got a reputation as somebody\nwho could raise some dollars, and I do not remember how that started. If\nsomebody worked hard and you get that reputation, people hear about you, I\nguess. Sam Massell ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ran for mayor, and he was my cousin. He was somewhat on the\nfringe at that point, but . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: What does that mean?\n\nSELIG: It means that . . . I think he ran twice. The first time I do not\nremember being very active in his campaign. I remember coming in late. I do not\nknow if he was already elected. I do not remember. There was some problem. He\nwas not favored to win.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have you been close?\n\nSELIG: No, we are not close. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are friendly but not close. I am probably closer\nto him now than I have been, because I am on the board of the Buckhead\nCoalition, which he chairs. We have sort of gone our own ways.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that part of the family not . . . They were obviously part of\nthe Massell family. How was he related? Who was his father?\n\nSELIG: Sam's father and my mother's father, my grandfather, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were brothers. I\nguess Sam and my mother must have been first cousins. I guess he is my second cousin.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your first cousin once removed.\n\nSELIG: Is that the way it is?\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is how it goes.\n\nSELIG: We were not particularly close.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was not close to your mother as a first cousin?\n\nSELIG: No, I don't think so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What business were they in? They were not in real estate? He is now.\n\nSELIG: He was in real estate. Then he went into the travel business, Your Travel\nAgent Sam Massell. He did that for a while. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I see him. I invited him to my kids'\nweddings, and he me invited to his daughter's wedding. That is a very small,\ninsignificant part of my life. One day I think my friend Hamilton Jordan called\nand asked if I had had lunch. I think it was Hamilton Jordan. It might have been\nBill Schwartz. Somebody called . . . Maybe it was Jimmy Carter . . . and asked\nif I would have lunch with Jimmy Carter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My dad and I, I will never forget, went\nto the Commerce Club and had lunch with him. We had not supported Jimmy Carter\nwhen he ran for governor. We had supported Carl Sanders. I did not really know\nhim all that well. I had lunch with him, and I was blown away. Just blown away.\nI had never met anybody who was that impressive up close. I had total confidence\nin his ability. He knew all the issues. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I felt very compatible with him. We were\non the same side of the issues. At the end of the lunch, he asked me if I would\ntravel with him and help him be president. I sometimes look back and regret that\nI did not travel with him. I had young kids, and I was in this family business.\nI could not break away and just leave and start traveling around the country\nwith Jimmy Carter.\n\nSCHOENBERG: If you had been a single man, it might have been a whole different\nball game.\n\nSELIG: Absolutely. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was a level below the\nHamilton Jordans of the world, the senior staff people, but I had all the\nprivileges, the White House pass and the White House guest privileges. I played\ntennis on the White House tennis courts. It was a pretty heady time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How old were you at this time?\n\nSELIG: I was 33 when I went to Washington. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a certain pride\nabout that. You sort of wear it as a badge of honor. We took some shots. People\nswiped at us pretty good. In the final analysis, it hurt us because we did not\nintegrate more with the Washington establishment, but I think history will be\nvery kind to Jimmy Carter. 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He can grasp anything.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is his known penchant for getting into the details of things . . .\nDid that get in the way a lot?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: It did. I was not one of his close advisers up there. I do not want to\nimply that I had a lot of private meetings with him where we talked about\npolicies. I did not, but people who did said, yes, he would micromanage and get\ntoo much involved in too many things. The only thing I can say is . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Maybe better that than being a Reagan where you let somebody else do everything.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: I don't know. He was moral. He kept the peace. By anybody's standards, he\nhas been an extraordinary ex-president. Historians will have to write about what\nhe accomplished, but he did some very good things. With the Panama Canal and the\nCamp David Accords, you have to say he had some great successes. It was a heady\ntime. When you are in Washington, everyone wants to be your friend. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everyone\nthinks perhaps you can help them. Everyone has their hand out, either blatantly\nor subliminally.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Surreptitiously.\n\nSELIG: Yes, surreptitiously. You had to keep your balance. You had to keep your\nsense of who you are. 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I remember thinking to myself, \"Remember who you are and where you are.\nThis is the White House.\" When you are 33 or 34 years old and you are walking\nthrough the White House, it is interesting stuff.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your particular job dealing with business people, as a Democrat\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dealing with the business community, especially in the time of an outsider\npolitician, what was that like?\n\nSELIG: It was difficult, particularly on the level that we dealt, because we\nwould bring in the top CEOs in the country. We would bring in the business\nroundtable. The CEO of General Motors and General Electric and Ford, you name\nit. Those guys would come in, and they had their own agendas and they had their\nown staff. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We would bring in trade associations, like the Motion Picture\nAssociation, where you had the heads of all the studios. Everybody had a trade\nassociation. Truck stop operators had a trade association. I think there was a\nlot of mistrust, a lot of show me type stuff. We would put on some pretty good\ndog and pony shows in the White House. 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I cannot remember\n. . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: The Arabs . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . got their acts together?\n\nSELIG: I cannot remember exactly what they did, but they would not sell oil.\nThey held it in order to raise the price.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I remember that. I just could not remember what triggered them doing it.\n\nSELIG: I don't remember.\n\nSCHOENBERG: When you first met Jimmy Carter . . . You said when you and your dad\nmet him at the Commerce Club, you were blown away. 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All these people were cussing us,\nbecause they have got all the expressways blocked so that we could go through in\na motorcade.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right at rush hour.\n\nSELIG: Then when I was in Washington, riding on Air Force One, riding on Air\nForce Two, which is the vice president's [plane], going to the vice president's\nhome, going up into ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7110.0,7140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the living quarters of the White House, even going to the .\n. .\n\nSELIG: I was talking about going to see what I call the government in exile, in\nthe mountain, where they had the whole government set up. They have beds, and\nthey have names on those cots. I knew I did not have a very important job,\nbecause I did not have . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: You did not have your own bed?\n\nSELIG: I did not have my name down there, so I was expendable.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were not going to be one of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ones who was saved.\n\nSELIG: Right. It was an interesting life. Washington is not a bad place to live\nif you can stay out of the heart of the city, as it were.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Washington, as a place to live almost 20 years ago, probably was a\nlittle expensive.\n\nSELIG: It was terribly expensive.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Where did you live? Right in the District?\n\nSELIG: We lived in Bethesda [Maryland], right outside. There was some pain\nthere, because that is when my wife and I separated. Janet and I separated and\nultimately got divorced, but after the Carter years. 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I would dare say there is probably not a\ncandidate that comes through that I do not get a call from, local or national.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are pretty generous politically. I give money, and I can raise money. I am on\na lot of people's hit lists to support them. You have to be careful who you\nsupport. I have had a lot of people talk to me about running for office,\nfrankly. I don't know if I will ever do that or not, but it is something to\nthink about down the road. Politics is one of my passions.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You have seen it up close and personal. 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I do not enjoy the\nwhat-have-you-done-for-me-lately type of politics, but I do enjoy the type of\npolitics where you can really make a difference ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in people's lives by doing the\nright thing. That is what I enjoyed about being president of the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation. My wife, Linda, steered me in that regard. When I got back from\nWashington, I was involved in a few things. I was involved in the American\nJewish Committee. I was involved in the Standard Club, believe it or not. I was\non track to be president of the Standard Club, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Linda said to me, \"The\nStandard Club? Would you rather worry about saving people's lives or about tee\ntimes on the golf course?\" That was a pretty good comment, so I gave up being\npresident of the Standard Club. I think I was next in line. I decided to drop\nout and became president of the American Jewish Committee, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then president of The\nTemple, and president of the Atlanta Jewish Federation.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You put your priorities in a different place.\n\nSELIG: Yes. That was a fairly easy decision. The only reason I would have wanted\nto be president of the Standard Club was that my grandfather and my father had\nbeen before me. I think it would have been cool to have done that. They will understand.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You may still be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7410.0,7440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you are 100 years old. You never know.\n\nSELIG: I don't think so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What roles have you played . . . You have not played much in the way\nof local politics?\n\nSELIG: I have played a lot, more than I wanted, in every race. I have been\nbehind the scenes. I have supported all of the people I think are the right\ncandidates who have gone on to win. 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It is one of those deals\nwhere a friend of mine has the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job, and a friend of mine wants the job. Why\nwould I betray my friend that has the job for a friend that wants the job? It\njust does not make sense, so I supported Bill Campbell. It was the right\ndecision. He is also the best person for the job. Marvin may go at it again some time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you approve of the way that Campbell has been handling city government?\n\nSELIG: I am not that close to it. I think there is a lot of controversy there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nthink he has got some . . . He has definitely got a public relations problem.\nFor this particular interview, I do not think it is very relevant to what we are\ntalking about. I like Bill as a person, as a friend. I am not that close to the\nway he handles city government. I am aware of the criticism he has received and\nthe way he comes across.\n\nSCHOENBERG: As a local businessman . . .\n\nSELIG: He comes across as arrogant, but to me, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have no personal . . . As far\nas I am concerned, on a personal level, he is a friend of mine and somebody I\nenjoy being with and I respect.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I am thinking more in terms of you as a local business man with\nproperty and the fact that Atlanta's infrastructure has been suffering and in\ngreat need of help for many years.\n\nSELIG: I look at it in a different way. Our business has never been better. 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It\nall comes down to dollars and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what are you going to do with the dollars you\nhave, the union problems, you have to pay people. It is tough. I cut him some\nslack on this stuff. I give him the benefit of the doubt. I know some people he\nis working with. I know he is doing the best he can. Atlanta is thriving right\nnow. Give him some of the credit.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about your relationships with the black community? Obviously\nthe family has been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved with the black community for some time. You\nindicated as much.\n\nSELIG: I used to have a very, very close relationship in the African-American\ncommunity. Linda, too. Linda, my wife, has been executive director of Leadership\nAtlanta for the last five or six years. She just resigned recently. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I feel like we have a close relationship. It is not the kind\nof relationship where you go out to dinner together, the kids are friends, and\nyou see each other socially. It is more of a passing . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: It is a working kind of thing, I imagine, whether it is in a\npolitical campaign or something for the city.\n\nSELIG: Yes, but I know people I know I can call on. They call on me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do have\nsome friends. A lot of political friends.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I would assume, from what you are saying, that you do not call them\nwhen there is a death in the family. I mean you call them to express sympathy or\nsomething of that nature, but you do not call them for help or they would not\ncall you for moral and grief support.\n\nSELIG: Actually, when my dad died, one of my African-American friends was at my\nhouse every single day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was ten years ago, and that same person would be\nthere today. My last ten years have been focusing on the Jewish community. That\nis what I do. That is who I am for the last ten years. That is what I have been\ndoing. That is where my efforts have been. That is where my friendships . . . I\nhave pretty much gotten out of the general community to some extent. I was very\nactive in a lot of the civic and charitable work around town. You just cannot\nserve more than one master, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I had to back off a lot of the other stuff that\nI have done [because] I am so involved in the Jewish community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is that an area that you might find yourself interested in pursuing again?\n\nSELIG: Maybe.\n\nSCHOENBERG: More civic kinds of things.\n\nSELIG: Perhaps. I have served on bank boards, and I have served on school\nboards. I have done that sort of thing, but I have not taken an active role in\nthe charities. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My charity has been the Jewish community. I do not have time to\nbe involved with the Atlanta Ballet and the [Atlanta] Symphony [Orchestra] and\nthe Woodruff Arts [Center]. I'm on the board of the Woodruff Arts Center, but I\nhaven't had time to do all that stuff, go to the balls and all that kind of\nstuff. I have given that up.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about something like United Way? Most of the major corporations\n. . . From what I understand, Atlanta is unique in that respect. Most of the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"major corporations in the city feel a responsibility, or the executives of the\nmajor corporations . . .\n\nSELIG: We are involved in the United Way. We have a United Way campaign in our office.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I don't mean that.\n\nSELIG: Am I active?\n\nSCHOENBERG: I meant you personally. Have you been approached?\n\nSELIG: Oh, yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I figured you had.\n\nSELIG: My charity has been the Jewish community, and I just have not had time .\n. .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Would you be interested in pursuing some of that or the Chamber of\nCommerce or any of those roles?\n\nSELIG: I am on the board of the Chamber. Linda has been on the board of the\nUnited Way. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know.\n\nSCHOENBERG: At this point it is not something that is . . .\n\nSELIG: To take a leadership role there? No, it does not interest me. Not today.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not at this moment. I know that this may have been done prior to\nyour time, but I am not sure. We talked about your generosity in the community\nand your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"association with the Jewish community in particular in the last several\nyears. The building next door to The Temple, the Selig building, how did the\ndonation of that come about?\n\nSELIG: That came about a long time ago.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that through your father?\n\nSELIG: Yes. I think The Temple was looking at it to buy it and . . . I cannot\nremember how it happened. I think Alvin Sugarman went to see my dad, and he\nfinally agreed to buy the building and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donate it to The Temple.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is the building that is used for the [homeless] shelter and for\nthe Genesis Shelter and all that.\n\nSELIG: It has been used some for Sunday school. I think they have moved some of\nthose people out of there next door to the Davis building. I think they are\ngoing to try to lease out some of that space. I think that is how that happened.\nI cannot remember where I was. I do not remember if I was in Washington or in\ncollege. I was not very active in that one.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: What about your recent interest in purchasing the Jewish Community\nCenter property?\n\nSELIG: That is a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is that a done deal?\n\nSELIG: No, it is not a done deal. It is under contract subject to zoning, and we\nare working with the neighborhood. The interesting thing about that is that is,\nwe think, property that my grandfather at one time donated to the community\ncenter, or at least part of it. If he did not donate it, he sold it very, very\ninexpensively to them. 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We waited and\nwaited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to see if they were going to sell it. They have not, so that is why we\nstepped in.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No one else has been able to swing the zoning.\n\nSELIG: Right. I think we can swing the zoning, because we also own the frontage.\nWe will do a better development than others might.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You own the property next door.\n\nSELIG: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your donation of the building that houses today Federation and the\nBreman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"center and all of that. How did that come about?\n\nSELIG: That is probably, other than I guess the sweat and toil of what I have\ndone, the legacy that will stand the longest. Actually, that is the legacy that\nwill stand the longest. That happened . . . I will try to make this long story shorter.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: This is the property on Spring [Street], by the way.\n\nSELIG: 1440 Spring Street. Spring at . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sixteenth [Street].\n\nSELIG: Yes, next to the Puppetry Arts Center. The Federation had received a\nlarge gift from Bill Breman, targeted for a museum, a heritage museum.\nFederation started looking into building a second floor on their property at\nPeachtree ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Huntington [streets]. I think I was a vice president at the time.\nI might have been campaign chair. Several of us, after looking at it, saw that\nthat was going to be woefully inadequate, to try to put a second floor on a\n9,000-square-foot building on Peachtree that already did not have enough\nparking. That would be a huge mistake. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Federation was going to have to move out\nof the building while they built the second floor and then move back in. While\nwe were showing Federation alternative office space to move into, I thought\nabout this building we had over on Spring Street that we ought to show them as a\nplace to move temporarily for a year while they built the museum on top of\nPeachtree. While I was showing them, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I noticed that we have got all this office\nspace here, and then we have got this high-ceiling warehouse. It was an office\nwarehouse building, and . . . I can't remember who it was. It might have been\nJerry [unintelligible], but immediately everybody started thinking the same\nthing. This is great. What a great fit for us. We had IBM in the building paying\nus a half million dollars a year in rent, and it was one of those things where I\ndon't know whether I want to give this up or not. IBM was moving out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was\nright during the Olympics. We could have rented that building for a half million\ndollars a year. Over a period of months, the idea caught on that this would be a\nwonderful future home for the Atlanta Jewish Federation, with a\n50,000-square-foot building instead of 9,000 [square] feet.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Plenty of room to expand.\n\nSELIG: The museum could have their high ceilings. The Federation could have its\noffices. 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We were trying to find the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right way to do it, and this thing\ncame up. It made sense. I have to tell you that I really did not . . . Have you\nbeen there?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sure.\n\nSELIG: I could not envision it being as nice as it is. It really came out . . .\nIt is one of those things where the reality is better than the dream. I could\nnot be prouder of that building.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I never saw it before it was renovated, so therefore ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think it is\nmore difficult because you knew what it looked like originally as a warehouse.\n\nSELIG: Just imagine any old warehouse with some offices. I have had people from\nall over the country . . . I have had staff people from the UJA and CJF and what\nnot come down, and they tell me it is the finest facility of its type in the\ncountry, that no city has a better mix, with the museum, the Federation, the auditorium.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The library and an archives.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: Nobody has a better facility.\n\nSCHOENBERG: One of the things that is unique, and I do not know who started the\narchival program, but I think that is unique to this city. I have not heard of\nother Jewish communities with this strong an archival program.\n\nSELIG: There is a family that made a big donation for the archives. It escapes\nme right now who it is. I should know, but I just cannot recall it as we sit\nhere. The family has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"memorialized the archives, dedicated the archives.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is how that came about.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell me about your sister. That is another person in the family we\nhave not talked about. Cathy.\n\nSELIG: My sister is a wonderful, caring, giving person, who also does not have a\nmean bone in her body. [She is] very popular, very emotional, very family\noriented. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She met a guy from California. Let me see . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: How old is she? Where did she go to school?\n\nSELIG: Cathy is three years younger than I am, so that would make her 51 or 52.\nShe went to Northside High School and the University of Oklahoma. She spent a\nyear in New York at, I think, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of those fashion colleges or something like\nthat. She met a guy from California who she married and moved to California.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was his name?\n\nSELIG: Roger Lewis. [She] had two great kids, Brian and Greg. Greg is engaged.\nHe is getting married in December. Brian is going to get engaged shortly, I\nthink. He will probably get married next year sometime. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She went out there, and\nI think she did a couple of things out there. She was a travel agent for a\nwhile. She did a little real estate for a while, remodeling houses and things\nlike that. After my father died, [she] moved back to Atlanta and came into the\nbusiness with me. [She is] very community oriented. She is going to be the new\nWomen's Division Campaign Chair, following in the steps of my wife, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by the way,\nwho has already done that. Cathy has a lot of friends. She is a very good\nperson, very [unintelligible]\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is she still married?\n\nSELIG: No. She got divorced. Then she got remarried again, and that did not work out.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What name does she go by?\n\nSELIG: She's gone back to her maiden name.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Her maiden name. Selig.\n\nSELIG: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Her kids are Lewis.\n\nSELIG: Yes. She is single right now and having a good time and enjoying life.\nShe works with us. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She is very solid in the family. She has got a great\nrelationship with my kids, and I think I have a great relationship with her\nkids. We are very tight knit, very close. She is a very special person.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Had she been involved in things Jewish before? That seems to be a\ntrend in the family, that everybody is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming back from a sort of\ndisassociation, or a semi-association I should say.\n\nSELIG: I do not think she was very involved before. She came back and got\ninvolved about the same time I did.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is interesting. Since this is for the Jewish community, I find\nthat a fascinating aspect of . . .\n\nSELIG: She is totally involved now. She is as involved as I am and Linda is, the\nwhole way.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: I know what we did not talk about. The Olympics. You were involved\nin the Olympics to an extent.\n\nSELIG: Yes, I was involved. Billy Payne is a friend of mine. A.D. Frazier is a\nvery good friend of mine.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How did you know them?\n\nSELIG: I knew Billy Payne through the University of Georgia. We were both big\nBulldogs [fans]. I have known him for a lot of years. I knew A.D. Frazier\nthrough Jimmy Carter. We worked together in the White House for Jimmy Carter. I\nhave known A.D. for a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is he from here originally?\n\nSELIG: A.D.? He is from around here. He worked at the C\u0026S [Citizens \u0026 Southern\nNational] Bank for a while. Then he went up to Chicago and headed up a bank up\nthere. I was not one of the inner circle, but I was the circle after the inner\ncircle, what we called F.O.B., Friend of Billy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Billy came to see me a lot of\nyears ago.\n\nSCHOENBERG: When he was just thinking about it?\n\nSELIG: It was almost like the Jimmy Carter thing, like when Jimmy Carter came to\nsee me. I said, \"You're running for what? You're trying to do what?\" We gave him\nsome money. I think we gave him $10,000 for his efforts. We were one of the\nearly contributors. We worked with him during the Olympics. Triple A Parking got\na lot of contracts during the Olympics. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We gave a fair deal, and they worked\nwith us. We did not try to gouge them. I was what Billy Payne called a\npresidential ambassador, which meant somebody that Billy trusted to help in\ncertain venues with the VIPs [Very Important Persons]. It was a kick. It was\nfun. I was proud of the city. I thought we put on a great Olympics. I think\nBilly Payne was a genius, and A.D. Frazier is a great friend. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I know how hard he\nworked. He is a take-no-prisoners guy, which is what he had to be. The Olympics\ncame and went. It is done. It is hard to believe we had it now, but it was a\ngreat legacy for us. I enjoyed it. Linda and I were pretty active during the\nOlympics. It was Billy's show.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What do you think of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"legacy of having cleaned out the area where\nthe Centennial Park is now, as a real estate person?\n\nSELIG: I think it is a wonderful legacy. That was one of the worst sections of\ntown, and now it is a tourist attraction. There will be a lot of good things\nhappening around that park.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In spite of the pollution and all the other stuff?\n\nSELIG: There is going to be a lot of good stuff happening, hotels, offices,\nretail. It is going to happen.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you own property around there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: Not right up to the park, but in the area.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I just saw something about the Herndon Homes area and trying to take\nover the Vine City area, as well, and redevelop that. It was in the paper this\nlast week.\n\nSELIG: I don't know if we talked about this last time. I got more bang at the\nDemocratic Convention this year.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We didn't talk about that, as a matter of fact.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: We didn't?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No.\n\nSELIG: That was one of the great honors I had.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was 1988.\n\nSELIG: It was 1988 or 1986. I don't remember the year. It was when the\nDemocratic Convention was in Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think it was 1988.\n\nSELIG: That was really a great honor, because the governor, the mayor, and the\nchairman of the Fulton County Commission all had to agree on somebody to chair\nthis thing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think the governor was Joe Frank Harris, the mayor was Maynard\nJackson, and the chairman of the Fulton County Commission was Michael Lomax.\nThey did not agree on a whole hell of a lot at the time, but they did agree on\nme as the chair, along with Yvonne Yancy, an African-American woman. We were in\nthe forefront of that. I have got a great story ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from that Convention that ought\nto be in your remarks. This is a true story. Sometimes the true stories are the\nbest. By being chairman of the Convention, I had a box at the Omni, where the\nConvention was held, and I got to address the Convention, bring greetings. I was\non national television. Before you speak, they take you\n\nback . . . You do this the day before. They tell you [that] you have got a\nteleprompter. They run you through. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They give you a practice read on the\nteleprompter. They put makeup on you before you go on the stage and speak. I was\nsitting there, and they said, \"We know where your box is. We will come get you\n30 minutes before you are supposed to speak.\" I am sitting there, and in the box\nthat night . . . I was sharing the box with the governor, the mayor, and a few\nothers, the senator. In the box that night was Sam Nunn, who was the senator.\nJoe Frank Harris had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Billy Graham as his guest, and I was sitting next to Billy\nGraham. They came to see me, and we were talking. I told him I was a little\nnervous, speaking to millions of people on television. He put his hand on my\nleg, and he said, \"You will do fine. Go in peace.\" Something like that. I\nthought I have got God's right hand telling me everything is going to be fine.\nThere is not going to be any problem at all. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had a calm come over me. He is a\nvery nice man, by the way. I had a long talk with him that night. Long story\nshort, I went back, did the makeup, went up on the stage, and I got up there to\nspeak. I started speaking, and right in the middle of my speech the teleprompter\nbroke. There were no words on the thing. Fortunately, they tell you to bring\nyour copy with you, so I had the copy in my back pocket. I pulled it out and\nfinished my remarks. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went back to my box, and Billy Graham was there. He said,\n\"You did fine. How was it?\" I said, \"Dr. Graham, I appreciate you praying for\nme, but I think my rabbi could have done a better job. With all your good\nwishes, the teleprompter broke.\" He laughed. He thought that was hilarious.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I am sure it has broken on him many times.\n\nSELIG: That is a true story. He thought that was very funny. I had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot to do\nwith what happened at the Democratic Convention.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Talk about it.\n\nSELIG: I was in charge of all the sizzle, everything outside the Convention. All\nthe volunteers and all the hospitality. Linda and I would go from one event to\nanother, from one person's house to another. There was a party for every state,\nand we were at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every one of them. A lot of good stuff went on at the Convention.\n[Michael] Dukakis was nominated, of course, which was a disaster. Atlanta pulled\noff a pretty good Convention.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who did you support?\n\nSELIG: I don't remember. By the time it got to Atlanta, it was over, so it\ndidn't matter who I supported. Dukakis had already won by the time it got here,\nso I supported him, I guess.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was a foregone conclusion. It is interesting. Political\nconventions ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are almost like dinosaurs.\n\nSELIG: There is not much suspense left.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There is none. The only suspense that could possibly be is who is\ngoing to be vice president.\n\nSELIG: There could be suspense, but as it has gone in the past there has not\nbeen. Somebody has had enough votes to . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . lock it in.\n\nSELIG: It is not a foregone conclusion that somebody won. It could be a brokered\nConvention, but it just has not been recently, not in my lifetime.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I do not foresee it happening in the near future.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: You never know. If you have two strong candidates or three strong\ncandidates, and nobody gets enough in the primaries, you never know. What else?\n\nSCHOENBERG: I don't know. We have pretty much covered the gaps. What about\nanything else that you would like to talk about or add in.\n\nSELIG: I don't know how much we have said. I would say that the presidency of\nthe Atlanta Jewish Federation has been the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most significant volunteer thing I\nhave ever done with my life. I think it made me a better person. I think I have\nmade some great friends through my service in the community. I have learned a lot.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You had said to me in that first tape that there were three goals.\n\nSELIG: Yes. We did it, too.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9150.0,9180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Did you feel that you accomplished all three of them?\n\nSELIG: Absolutely. Raising more money, restoring pride, and having a good time.\nYes, we did all three of those things. The community is, I think, not\nnecessarily because of me but because of the work we all did, a much better\ncommunity today than it was two years ago. We had this capital campaign where we\nraised almost 50 million dollars, which is phenomenal. Historic. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have done\nsome great outreach. Our regular campaign is up. Our agencies and our Federation\nare much closer. Our synagogues and our Federation are much closer. I think\npeople feel better about their volunteerism. I think people are much more proud\nof what we do. I feel good about that. I worked hard. I am not going to be\nfalsely modest here. I worked like a dog. I worked hard. I gave it everything I\nhad while I was president, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9210.0,9240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I am proud of what we accomplished. I think for\nthe first time people are feeling very proud of what they have accomplished,\ntoo, and that is good. We have got some great agencies. All of them are doing\ngood things. Those people are the heroes out there on the street, the day-to-day\npeople. They are there before I get there, and they are there after I go. The\nprofessionals and the volunteers and all of them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9240.0,9270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: How many people [are] in the Jewish community today?\n\nSELIG: Somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000. If I had to guess, I would say\nabout 85,000 to 90,000. We did a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A survey?\n\nSELIG: Not a survey, but a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . an extrapolation, trying to figure out.\n\nSELIG: There's a word for what we did, but I cannot recall the word right this\nminute. It is like a survey.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: You came up with approximately that number?\n\nSELIG: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is pretty significant. How does that compare with other Jewish\ncommunities in the country, number-wise?\n\nSELIG: It probably puts us in the top 20.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Fundraising per capita?\n\nSELIG: I don't know.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Probably up near the top.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/transcript/41737/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SELIG: We are a good community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is what I would think.\n\nSELIG: We are not the best in terms of fundraising, but we are one of the best.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Thank you very, very much. We appreciate your time and you sharing\nall this information with us.\n\nSELIG: Thank you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I am sure the future will appreciate it also. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=9330.0,9360.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/annotation_set/982","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/annotation_set/982/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin “Ben” J. Massell (1886-1962) was a civic and community leader in both the Jewish and general communities of Atlanta. In the early 1900’s, he and his two brothers, Sam and Levi, founded the Massell Realty Company, which had a hand in the development and sale of several landmark properties in Atlanta. Civic leader Ivan Allen, Sr., was known to say, “Sherman burned Atlanta and Ben Massell built it back.” Ben Massell was the uncle of former Atlanta mayor Sam Massell. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/annotation_set/982/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eStarting in the 1920s until the 1960s, in most areas of North America, telephone numbers in metropolitan communities consisted of a combination of digits and letters. Letters were translated to dialed digits on the telephone dial. The leading two or three letters of a telephone number indicated the exchange name, for example, EDgewood and IVanhoe, and were followed by 5 or 4 digits. 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The club later briefly used the adjacent grounds as a golf course until it sold the land to the city in 1904 to create Piedmont Park. The club's facilities include dining, golf, swimming, fitness, tennis, and squash. In May 2000, the club built an18-hole championship golf course and Par 3 course several miles away on Camp Creek Parkway. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43808/file/116870/annotation_set/982/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a Jewish social club that started as the Concordia Association in 1867 in Downtown Atlanta. In 1905, it was reorganized as the ‘Standard Club’ and moved into the former mansion of William C. 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The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875.  The dedication was held in 1877 and the Temple was located there until 1902.  The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places. 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He is now duty bound to keep the commandments, he puts on \u003cem\u003etefillin\u003c/em\u003e, and he may be counted to the \u003cem\u003eminyan \u003c/em\u003equorum for public worship. He celebrates becoming a\u003cem\u003e bar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e by being called up to the reading of the \u003cem\u003eTorah \u003c/em\u003ein the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday. 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Since 1960, the Commerce Club was located at 34 Broad Street in the Five Points area, where major banks, law firms and accounting firms were headquartered within walking distance. In 2010, the Commerce Club merged with the One Ninety One Club and the new Commerce Club opened on the 49th floor of the 191 Tower on Peachtree Street. 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