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He is the oldest child of Meyer and Roslyn Stone Balser. Jack grew up in Atlanta with his parents, younger brother, Ron Balser and younger sister, Ellen Balser Hyman. His father worked as an insurance salesman for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and was very active in the Jewish and Atlanta community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJack attended Inman Elementary School and later O’Keefe Junior High. He graduated from Henry W. Grady High School, which later became Midtown High School. Jack attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from their Wharton School of Business. After graduating from college, he worked in Washington, D.C. for Hecht Company, but later returned to Atlanta. He sold insurance for a period before becoming a banker at Fulton National in 1967, becoming one of only two Jewish bankers in Atlanta. Jack later moved to Houston, Texas to work for Houston National, later Republic National Bank. After 11 years, he left the banking business and worked for Natchez Steel and later opened his own bookstores, Spectrum Books. In 1986, he and his wife returned to Atlanta where he later worked for the Jewish Federation as their Endowment Director for 13 years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJack met his wife, Patricia “Pat” Rabhan at a friend’s wedding. They later reconnected when she was at Emory University and married in 1959. They have three children, David, Heidi, and Michael. They also have ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Jack has been very active in the Jewish and Atlanta community. The annual Balser Celebration, previously the Balser Symposium, is named after him, and focuses on education and networking events for professional advisors. Jack and Pat continue to reside in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJack begins the interview by sharing his family history. He talks about his dad, how his parents met and what he did for a living. He discusses where he was born, his siblings and where he grew up in Atlanta. He recalls where he went to school and the few antisemitic experiences he had in school. Jack remembers some of his friends from high school. He talks about where he went to college, why he decided to go there, and where some of his friends went.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe discusses what he did after college and how he got into the banking industry. Jack shares the story of initially meeting his wife Pat and how they later reconnected and started dating. He talks about his children, their spouses, and shares about each of his grandchildren. He details his career working in banking at Fulton National and how his family moved to Houston where he worked at Houston National. He shares about leaving the banking industry, working for Natchez Steel, and eventually opening two bookstores.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJack recalls he and Pat returning to Atlanta in 1986 and becoming the Endowment Director at the Atlanta Jewish Federation. He remembers the state of the endowment program when he began and the effort it took to get the Jewish community to understand the importance of the endowment. He shares stories of things he and others did to get the endowment program in order and get it established. Jack discusses the Balser Symposium, how it started, how it has grown over the years, and the importance it plays in educating the wider community on estate and gift planning. He shares that he would have liked to have been a college professor if he had not gone into banking. 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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":["Balser, Jack (personal name)","Balser, Patricia Rabhan (personal name)","Balser, Joseph (personal name)","Balser, Esther Mollie Seligson (personal name)","Stone, Ella Robinson (personal name)","Stone, Harry (personal name)","Kahn, Dora Robinson (personal name)","Lewis, Anne Robinson (personal name)","Levine, Lena Robinson (personal name)","Wender, Jennie Balser (personal name)","Balser, Anne (personal name)","Balser, Sam (personal name)","Balser, Arnold (personal name)","Balser, Claire Freedman (personal name)","Balser, Jake (personal name)","Rotenstreich, Helen Balser (personal name)","Balser, Meyer (personal name)","Balser, Roslyn Stone (personal name)","Hirsh, Leo (personal name)","Hirsh, Bertha Klein (personal name)","Fine, Pauline Hirsh (personal name)","Davis, Harry L. 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He is the oldest child of Meyer and Roslyn Stone Balser. Jack grew up in Atlanta with his parents, younger brother, Ron Balser and younger sister, Ellen Balser Hyman. His father worked as an insurance salesman for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and was very active in the Jewish and Atlanta community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJack attended Inman Elementary School and later O\u0026rsquo;Keefe Junior High. He graduated from Henry W. Grady High School, which later became Midtown High School. Jack attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from their Wharton School of Business. After graduating from college, he worked in Washington, D.C. for Hecht Company, but later returned to Atlanta. He sold insurance for a period before becoming a banker at Fulton National in 1967, becoming one of only two Jewish bankers in Atlanta. Jack later moved to Houston, Texas to work for Houston National, later Republic National Bank. 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He talks about his dad, how his parents met and what he did for a living. He discusses where he was born, his siblings and where he grew up in Atlanta. He recalls where he went to school and the few antisemitic experiences he had in school. Jack remembers some of his friends from high school. He talks about where he went to college, why he decided to go there, and where some of his friends went.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe discusses what he did after college and how he got into the banking industry. Jack shares the story of initially meeting his wife Pat and how they later reconnected and started dating. He talks about his children, their spouses, and shares about each of his grandchildren. He details his career working in banking at Fulton National and how his family moved to Houston where he worked at Houston National. 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It is July 12, 2024. On behalf of the William Breman Museum and specifically the Herbert and Esther Taylor Oral History Project, we have the distinct honor and privilege of interviewing and speaking with Jack Balser today. Jack, Good morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=0.0,23.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Good morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=23.0,25.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e We're going to be asking just a series of questions today about yourself, your family, Jewish life in Atlanta [Georgia], your professional career, and some other topics as we go along. Jack, just tell us a little bit about yourself. Your parents, your grandparents. How did they get to this country, if they were immigrants?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=25.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My grandparents on my father's side were married here in Atlanta . . . My grandfather was related to the Rich Morgan family, and they apparently sent for him. As nearly . . . I don't know as much about that side of the family, as nearly as I could constructed, my grandmother, whom I did know, was a mail order bride kind of thing, arranged marriage. She came over to marry Joe Balser.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=47.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What was your grandmother's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=92.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My grandmother name was Mollie. She died when I was ten. My grandfather died before my parents were married, so I never . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=94.0,103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . What was your grandfather's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=103.0,105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Joe. On my mother's side, my grandmother came over when she was about six years old with her parents, and they lived in the Washington, D.C. area. I have no idea how they got there. My grandfather's story is pretty interesting. He came from a family in Russia called Hochberg, who apparently were professional class people. [There was] a doctor, a sister or an aunt was a concert pianist. He was the black sheep, and at age 15, he ran away to come to America. On the ship, a sailor befriended him and got food for him and took care of him. The sailor's name was Stone, so when he went through Ellis Island, he gave his name as Stone. He took [the] American name of Stone. Somehow my grandmother, they met in Washington, he was several years older than she was. She had, I think, four sisters and two brothers and her parents. They all ended up in Atlanta. Though the brothers moved away, one went to New Orleans [Louisiana], one went to St. Louis [Missouri]. They were early in the movie business, and . . . I knew them. I met them, I knew a couple of their kids, but not much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=105.0,216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What were their names? We like to put names with folks. Your mother's father's name and your mother's mother's name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=216.0,224.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . .  I don't know what my mother's mother . . . Oh, my mother's mother was Ella Stone, and my grandfather was Harry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=224.0,235.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Harry Stone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=235.0,237.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Harry Stone. My grandmother's sisters that lived here were Dora Kahn, Anne Lewis, Lena Levine or Levin. Her brothers were Harry, I've forgotten the other one. Her father was a shammas at the AA [Ahavath Achim].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=237.0,276.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Down on Washington Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=276.0,277.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's my great grandfather.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=277.0,278.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=278.0,279.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know what age they came to America.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=279.0,283.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e All right. Your grandparents, the four grandparents on your father's side. The two, one of the children was your father.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=283.0,292.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=292.0,292.28571"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Tell us a little bit about your dad and his siblings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=292.28571,296.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . His father died when my dad was a young teenager. There . . . were two sisters who were the oldest. One was Jennie, and she married a Wender in Atlanta. The next one was Anne and she never married. She was the women's division director of [the Jewish] Federation in New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=296.0,323.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, my goodness, that's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=323.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The next one was Sam. Sam Balser lived here. He was Arnold's father . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=328.0,336.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Arnold and Claire Balser are cousins of yours, and Sam was Arnold's father.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=336.0,341.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Sam was Arnold's father. He worked for Southern Wood Preserving Company . . . a fancy name. What they did was they preserved telephone poles. It was a good business, and he did well. The next one was Abe. No, Jake was next. He was known as Jabo. He was a bachelor. Never married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=341.0,372.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e He was legendary at the Jewish Community Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=372.0,375.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Legendary. He was a great guy. Very smart, very nice. He dealt with us younger people very well. He was very open with me. Taught me things I did not know otherwise. Then there was Abe, Abe who was sort of a ne'er do well in the family. He was a bachelor for many years. In the Army, he was stationed in World War II in North Africa. They made him a cook. He took that as a profession. He eventually married a woman, not Jewish, with a couple of kids. They lived in the Jacksonville [Florida] area, and he had a drive-in kind of restaurant across from the high school. He was a character; he was very funny.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=375.0,443.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Then where does your dad fit in that birth order?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=443.0,446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He was . . . then my dad. He was next to the youngest. Then there was Helen, who married a Rotenstreich in Birmingham [Alabama].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=446.0,459.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Your dad's first name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=459.0,460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . .They all had to sort of fend for themselves and work at a young age. They were apparently very good to their mother. She lived very comfortably, and she had bachelor and unmarried children to kind of take care of her. I remember her being an exceptional cook. But she died when I was ten, and my memories are childhood memories. My dad . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=460.0,494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Tell us his name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=494.0,495.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Meyer Balser.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=495.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Meyer Balser.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=496.0,497.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My dad was a very good athlete in high school. All-City basketball player. He . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=497.0,509.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Do you remember where he went to high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=509.0,511.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He went to Commercial, as did my mother, and they . . . were teenage sweethearts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=511.0,519.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What was her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=519.0,520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Roslyn Stone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=520.0,522.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Roslyn Stone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=522.0,523.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Going back to my dad's family. One of my grandmother's sisters married a Hirsch and there were like seven children or eight children. Four boys, who remained bachelors, it seemed to run in the family. One of whom, Leo, was married to Bertha, whom you know about. Then there was Pauline, who married a Fine. They had another sister who married someone in Birmingham, but I didn't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=523.0,573.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Your dad, Meyer, in addition to being quite the athlete as a young student, he also was very successful in business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=573.0,583.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=583.0,583.27273"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about your dad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=583.27273,586.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My dad . . . started out selling shoes at a department store. He decided . . . My parents were married right as the Depression started. Dad decided there was no future there, and he went into insurance selling business. He worked for Metropolitan and did like door to door kind of selling. Maybe selling funeral things. You had enough to pay for a funeral. You had to collect monthly premiums. Then he met a guy named Harry Davis, who was the regional manager of Massachusetts Mutual, and Harry took my dad under his wing. He became a different kind of insurance salesman, and extremely successful, and became extremely interested in the community. As a child, I remember him, like your wife, never being home, always in meetings. But . . .  Dad was a very caring individual, and he went out of his way to help people personally. If he ever had an argument or falling out with anyone, he didn't sleep. He got up early in the morning and went to their house and straightened it out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=586.0,700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What a great character trait. He was totally a people person. He was totally a people person. He was totally a people person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=700.0,703.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He was totally a people person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=703.0,703.66667"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Great character trait.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=703.66667,704.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He could not . . . He wanted everybody to be his friend, and most of them were. He took . . . I think it was . . . mutually beneficial. He was very close to leaders in the community, and that was good for his business. But he really spent a great deal of time on the community. In those days . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=704.0,734.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . What years are we talking about or decades?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=734.0,737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We're talking about the 1940's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=737.0,740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right after the war.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=740.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right after the war.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=741.0,743.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e 1940's, 1950's and 1960's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=743.0,745.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e When the original Jewish home opened. When was that, the early 1950's on 14th Street. [He] was active there. The community center, very much so. I remember the community center being on Washington Street and Pryor Street or wherever it was on the south side. I went to pre-kindergarten there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=745.0,778.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember where . . . ? We'll shift a little bit, and we'll come back to your dad in a minute. Where were you and your siblings born? What hospital? Where'd you'll grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=778.0,789.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born in Piedmont Hospital on Piedmont Avenue in the south side. I lived there until I was five. We moved . . . It's hard to think of in these days. I was born in 1934. During the Depression. We lived with my mother's parents, her single brother, her younger sister, who eventually was married, and her husband lived there. I was born. It seemed like a very big house. One bathroom on Washington Street. We moved from there when I was five.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=789.0,834.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about . . . your siblings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=834.0,837.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm five years older than my brother, Ron, and ten years older than my sister, Ellen Hyman. To Ellen, I'm more of a father figure than a brother, almost. We're . . . a very close family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=837.0,858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Great . . . When you were five, you all moved away. Your parents eventually had your brother Ron, then eventually . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=858.0,866.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Ron was born on Washington Street. But when he was an infant, we moved to Eighth Street. We lived . . . upstairs in [a] duplex. A family lived below us, a Jewish family, the Schreiber's. It was three single women and their mother. They also had a brother who lived in Washington, DC., Max. Max is Sandy London's father [in-law]. Of course, Bob and Sandy are our lifelong friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=866.0,906.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a great story because between Washington Avenue, Prior Street, Central Avenue that was the hotbed of Jewish Atlanta in the 1920's and 1930's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=906.0,917.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e That was the center of Jewish Atlanta. Delicatessen, Siegel’s, the AA. The AA was on Washington Street until . . . We were married in 1959, I think. I think maybe a year before that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=917.0,937.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e It moved from Washington Street to Peachtree Battle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=937.0,939.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e To Peachtree Battle. But in the meantime, they had an educational building on Tenth Street, almost to the corner of Piedmont.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=939.0,950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right near Piedmont Park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=950.0,951.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right near Piedmont Park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=951.0,952.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is near the Jewish . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=952.0,954.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is where we lived, about three blocks from Piedmont Park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=954.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I have to have to digress for a moment. When I was born, we lived on Taft Avenue and Eighth Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=957.0,963.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We lived . . . where Taft Avenue ended at Eighth Street, that's where our duplex was, right across the street. You lived near the Hillman's and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=963.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . It was Mr. Silver's old . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=975.0,979.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . The Diamonds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=979.0,980.50485"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Mr. Silver's old apartments, so B.J. and Erwin Jacobson. BJ's mother or father owned the building, and it was a quadplex, I think four units. BJ and Erwin lived in one apartment. My parents lived in another apartment. Like you said it was, there were two bedrooms and you had two or three kids and one bathroom. I'm very familiar with that story. When you moved to Eighth Street, Boys’ High or now Grady High School, Midtown High School was right around the corner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=980.50485,1010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, but in those days, it was a junior high. I went to Inman, which I had to ride the bus, then went to O'Keefe Junior High School, which is . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1010.0,1022.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . On the Georgia Tech campus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1022.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . CNN now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1023.0,1023.25"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1023.25,1024.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e They're Georgia Tech . . . There were a lot of Jewish kids there because the Jewish community had moved to the area north of Ponce de Leon, up to Piedmont Park, where we lived, and you lived. There were also . . . a junior high school was closed somewhere that was near a mill town kind of places and so there was . . . an element at O'Keefe that were very working class . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1024.0,1068.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Children of factory workers, blue collar folks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1068.0,1070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Children of factory [workers], and very antisemitic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1070.0,1071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I was going to ask about that. What was it like in the 1930's and 1940's when you went to public school? Even though there were a number of Jewish kids in your community, when you go to public school, I assume most of your teachers, if not all of them, were not Jewish, and many of your classmates were not Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1071.0,1090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, we were a distinct minority even at Inman. Looking back, I can think of encountering antisemitism. I remember having a sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Kerwin. She never showed overt signs of antisemitism. But in those days, we had . . . There was an Atlanta school system had a program on the public radio station. It was called \"Quiz on Air\" and different . . . a student would represent the school and it was a tournament kind of thing. I and a friend of mine, not [a] Jewish boy were representing Inman. Interestingly, Rosalie Baranovitz was a friend of mine, represented her school, and we were the two finalists in the end. I did win \"Quiz on Air,\" and my teacher only was congratulating John, who was a quarterfinalist, and never said a word to me. That's when I realized that she didn't like Jews. Interestingly, the next year, Larry Frank represented Inman and Larry won also. He and I are lifelong friends, we're in the same travel group and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1090.0,1209.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Was Larry a year behind you at school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1209.0,1211.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He was a year behind. I'll tell you about that. We're actually almost the same age. In those days, there was a semester . . . There were two fifth grades. There was one that entered fifth grade in the fall. One entered fifth grade in February based on their age, their birthdate. At some time when I was in the third grade, they decided to do away with that. You kind of had a choice if you were offered a choice, and I went up and didn't go to the second half of the third grade. Larry stayed where he was, so he was a year behind me, though we're almost the same age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1211.0,1274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm going to ask this question just because I think it's important for our listeners to hear and also for history. Were there ever any other antisemitic acts, whether they were in middle school, high school, college, or that you wanted to share with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1274.0,1292.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I really personally seldom encountered antisemitism. You knew it was there. The world was not integrate[d] for good or for evil. The Jewish community was separate. We were not welcomed into institutions and country clubs, for example, though there were Jewish clubs. We thought that was the way of the world. I didn't think of that as a kid. I'm not so sure that what has happened, where there is complete freedom of . . . a completely, integrated society. Jewish people completely integrate into a larger society. I see with my grandchildren especially that they so easily slip into big part and welcome a non-Jewish world. Much more so than we felt. But I did have close non-Jewish friends at grade school and high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1292.0,1376.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you go to high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1376.0,1377.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Grady.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1377.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e To Grady. It had shifted over from Boys’ High to Grady High? Or was it Boys’ High when you were there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1380.0,1386.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e There were four year high schools. There were Boys High, Tech High, and Girls’ High. While I was in middle school at O'Keefe Junior High School, they decided to make high school five years. I did not go to the Eighth grade at Grady, but I was in the first Ninth grade class at Grady after Boys’ High, Tech High and Girls’ High. I graduated Grady in 1951.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1386.0,1419.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Who were some of your classmates from our community, from the Jewish community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1419.0,1423.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Many . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1423.0,1428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Share with us just a few.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1428.0,1431.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My close friends were Jack Horowitz, Ted Schlossman, whom you may or may not remember because he didn't end up living in Atlanta very long as an adult. Chuck Kroloff, who later became a prominent Reform rabbi in New York, New York area. Al Beerman, Larry Lewis, Larry Frank. There were lots of others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1431.0,1463.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Some of the girls at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1463.0,1467.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a different world. We'd go in crowds, and we'd meet the girls at the Fox Theater on Saturday afternoon. My first, I guess, crush was Charlotte Friedman. Her dad was Jake Friedman from the music store business. Vivian Horowitz was in that crowd, Jerry Horowitz's [sister]. Jerry was a close friend of my brother's . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1467.0,1514.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Were you privileged enough to go to college? Some kids did and some kids didn't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1514.0,1519.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e That was interesting to, most of our contemporaries stayed in Georgia for college. At that time maybe not so much in the Reform community, but in the community, I know very few people went. That kind of started to break in my era.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1519.0,1547.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Were they at school at either University of Georgia or Emory or Georgia Tech?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1547.0,1551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tech or Georgia State. I went to Penn. I had an economics teacher at Grady, who said she never had a student go to the Wharton School and she wanted to have one.  She thought I should go there. I looked into it, and I found a lot of Jewish people at Penn. It was a really good school, Ivy League. I wanted to go up East. Oh, another friend was Marvin Harris, and Marvin went to MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] . . . a lot of my other friends who were not Jewish, Jimmy VanBuren, went to an Ivy League school. A girl named Jane Gaines went to Penn, as I did. That class . . . we were told, after our freshman year, that our class, had the highest average class standing of any public school in the United States in their freshman year in college. We had a really smart class and a lot of smart Jewish girls in the class. \"Babs,\" Barbara Hillman [who's now] Barbara Levitas went to Michigan. I can't remember now who went where, but . . . there were a lot of really bright girls and a lot of them went away to school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1551.0,1671.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You finished your education at Penn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1671.0,1674.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1674.0,1675.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you come back to Atlanta, or did you work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1675.0,1679.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My first job was in Washington, DC. I was an assistant buyer of rugs at the Hecht Company in Washington, which was the largest department store. Then I went in the army. They had a six month thing. You were in the reserves. Then I came back here and went in the insurance business, like my father was . . . I did not go in the life insurance business. I went in the general insurance business. I worked for Sidney Saul. It wasn't really, I was not comfortable in that. I took some tests - What I should do? It came up that I should attempt to be a banker. There were. . .  hardly any Jewish bankers, but Fulton National was the quote, Jewish bank. A lot of Jewish people, Jewish companies banked there, and they offered me a job. I remember I was friendly with Sol Golden and Jon Golden's father. I don't know how or why, but we had a relationship. I went to talk to Saul about it, and he said, \"Yes, that would be a good idea, Jack. I think it'd be a good fit. But you know, this is the second time you've changed jobs. You don't want to be known as a job hopper. Make sure you want to stay there.\" Today, my grandchildren, a year and then they're looking for the next better job and another company . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1679.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Five years into their career, they'd had five jobs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1799.0,1801.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1801.0,1801.4"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I understand that's a different world. Tell us a little bit about how you met your wife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1801.4,1809.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's a good story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1809.0,1810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us her name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1810.0,1815.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My wife's name is Pat. Patricia. Pat . . . Rabhan. She was from High Point, North Carolina. She went to Emory. Okay, this gets a little complicated. When I was a kid, I was very active in Young Judaea. I was on the regional board of Young Judea and a friend of mine on that board was Barbara Chardkoff from Jacksonville. Just keep that in mind because . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1815.0,1850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . We'll come back to . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1850.0,1854.75728"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My friend, Ted Schlossman, my very close friend, married Bea Chardkoff, Barbara's sister. I was best man in the wedding, and Barbara at that point was married to Pat's brother. She'd been married maybe a couple of years. Bea, Ted's bride, invited Pat to be a bridesmaid. She was 16. I was best man. I was 21. I don't remember much about meeting her. Of course, I knew who she was because of the Chardkoff connection. After working in Washington, I came back to Atlanta, I had been away four years at school, a year and a half working in Washington. Six months in the Army. I was out of the Atlanta social scene. Barbara and Harold, Pat's brother, were coming to visit Bea and Ted, who lived back in Atlanta, working, which they eventually moved to Jacksonville . . . I had said to Bea, \"Look, I know Pat's a freshman at Emory. Would you mind calling her asking her if she'd fix me up with some of the older girls at Emory?\" She said, \"Yes, I'll do that.\" Bea called Pat, and Pat said, \"Barbara and Harold will come again. Jack wants to be with . . .\" I was friends with Barbara, as well. \"I want to be with him. It wouldn't kill him to take me out one night.\" Bea said, \"I don't know, but I'll try to talk to him about it.\" She called me. I said, \"Sure.\" We went to a dance at the Progressive Club, and that was it for me. I fell in love at first sight. I fell in love with Pat. She came from the small town, a relatively small town in North Carolina. Here she was at Emory. She was in the fourth class of girls, so there were very few girls. All the boys at Tech. All the boys at Emory. She was in heaven. She didn't want to get stuck with one guy, so we had an on and off courtship, the first couple of years, she was at Emory. Then in the third year, we got engaged and we got married. She finished the following year when we were already married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=1854.75728,2046.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a great story. That's a wonderful story, actually. Tell us a little bit about . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2046.0,2051.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . We’ve been married close to 65 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2051.0,2053.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Congratulations. Tell us a little bit about your children and their names, their ages now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2053.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The oldest is David. He's 62. He's a very senior partner at . . . You know that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2063.0,2074.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I know, but I want [you to] share it with our audience because not everybody knows your family. He's a very prominent attorney at King \u0026 Spalding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2074.0,2081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e King \u0026 Spalding. Very big cases. He's married to Karen. Wonderful girl. She's an Atlanta girl, Karen Levine. That's another interesting story how they met . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2081.0,2096.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Small world. I was Karen Levine's counselor at Camp Barney Medintz in 1973.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2096.0,2104.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, really. Then you'll know that Karen is a terrific person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2104.0,2106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e She's lovely. She's delightful. I had to share that story with you, because even though I was a male, 18 year old for the kids when they were 15 or 16. I wasn't the direct counselor. I was a counselor in the group, and so we all worked together. [cell phone rings, interview pauses and resumes] His wife, Karen. Tell us a little bit about them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2106.0,2131.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e David was always a very serious kid. [I] remember we took them to see my in-laws in North Carolina, and we thought it'd be fun to go on the train. They'd never been on a train, and we got on the train. It starts off in about five minutes and David was, I guess, six years old. \"Where's my work?\"[interviewee laughs]. He hasn't changed a lot.  But David is a caring, good human being. Lucky to have Karen. She's . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2131.0,2178.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . They're a good couple together. They really are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2178.0,2179.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Wonderful couple. They have three boys. They have exceptionally allowed us to be a real major part of those boys lives. We are very fortunate with the three boys as well as the two of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2179.0,2200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Share with us their names. It's always good. . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2200.0,2205.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The oldest is Blake. He . . . went to the University of Texas, went into the advertising business. He worked for big advertising companies for five years, decided to go back and get his MBA [Master of Business Administration], and he just completed that in the spring. Quick story, we went to his graduation in Austin [Texas] . . . David said, \"Before we go to dinner, everybody . . . \" He has a girlfriend, lovely, really great girl. She was there, and her parents, who live in Dallas [Texas] and us, David and Karen. Unbeknownst to us, her brother and sister were upstairs hidden in a hotel room. We were sitting outside, in a garden at the hotel. It had a patio where we were having a drink to congratulate, having champagne to congratulate Blake on his MBA. There's a garden that goes to the river. Very pretty setting. He's out there. He said, \"Come on,\" to his girlfriend. \"Come on. Let's go, see if we can find a place for everybody to take a picture that would be good.\" The next thing we know, he's down on his knee proposing. They got, not only graduated, but got engaged. He is going to work for Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo in Dallas. They're getting married in February.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2205.0,2328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2328.0,2329.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a good story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2329.0,2330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's Blake, your oldest grandson. Who's the next?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2330.0,2334.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He's not my oldest grandson. I'll tell you about my daughters family [when] I finish David's family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2334.0,2337.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Finish with David's kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2337.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e David's second son is Alex. He has a girlfriend also, a lovely, nice girl. They met at University of Georgia law school. He went to Texas as well. They went to University of Georgia Law School. She was a year ahead of him because he took a year break and taught in a school in Africa. He is at Sanders . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2340.0,2385.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Troutman Sanders.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2385.0,2386.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Troutman Pepper. Used to be Troutman Sanders, and she's at a large law firm. Alex is . . . Blake is somewhat serious, like his dad. The youngest is also serious, most like his dad. But Alex is not, he's fun loving, as well as being a good student. He's a very lovable kid.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2386.0,2420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Your youngest of . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2420.0,2421.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . The youngest of those . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2421.0,2423.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . His name is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2423.0,2424.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e His name is Reid Balser. Reid went to the University of Texas also. They all, like Karen, went to the University of Texas . . . He's in New York working for an investment banking firm. They're very close in age. Two years or less apart. Okay, so . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2424.0,2455.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Then your daughter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2455.0,2456.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Then my daughter who just called.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2456.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2460.0,2461.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name is Heidi. All three of my kids went to Penn. David graduated magna cum laude and Heidi graduated cum laude. I'll tell you about Michael in a little bit. Heidi, when she was at Penn met a guy. They wanted to get married. I said, \"You've got to finish school first.\" She finished a semester early, and they got married quite young. He was a spine surgeon. He became a spine surgeon. He was not my . . . Heidi's brother's favorite person, let me say. They were married for 15 years. They had three children. Two girls and a boy. The boy also went to Texas, and he was really the first of the group. Michael, our youngest, has a son also, and all of them went to the same camp in Wisconsin for years. They were all very close cousins, and I think that they more than following Karen, the boys followed Mark.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2461.0,2553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What were Heidi's children's names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2553.0,2556.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Heidi's children are Michelle, Marcy, and Mark.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2556.0,2565.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Where do they live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2565.0,2567.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Michelle and Marcy live in the Chicago [Illinois] area. Heidi and her husband settled in Detroit [Michigan]. He did a fellowship there. They made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and she agreed to stay. They were married for 15 years, and then they were divorced. Michelle is in human relations, and she works for About a Fourth company that are all online start-ups and things I couldn't describe to you, but this one . . . sells insurance . . . automobile insurance online. She was recently, this year, got married to a wonderful kid, not Jewish, Greg McLain. They live in Chicago, the city. Marcy has been married for about three years. Her wedding was during Covid and . . . I had Covid very early. In those days they didn't know a lot, so I thought I was immune, so I went to her wedding, but Pat did not travel during Covid. She married Scott Bagan. He's a really great kid. He's in the produce business and she is a psychologist. They have a daughter who's a little over, about 15 months old now and she's fabulous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2567.0,2677.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Is that your first great-grandchild?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2677.0,2680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because I want to tell you that Heidi remarried, and her husband had two teenage daughters who became our grandchildren, too. The oldest one is about 38 now, I guess 39, is married and has two boys who are now like nine and seven. We've had them since they were born. He had another daughter whose name was also Michelle. She married, [Ian] Sherman, who is from Minneapolis [Minnesota]. One of three boys and Rabbi [Neil] Sandler knew the family well. She has two boys, and they are like, just turn three. No, just turn four and two. They're terrific kids. We're very close to those kids, but they're in Detroit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2680.0,2757.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e All the reason to visit and have them come visit you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2757.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, we do . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2760.0,2762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Then your son, your youngest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2762.0,2767.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e There's one more. Mark got married. He married Meredith Zale.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2767.0,2778.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e From Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2778.0,2779.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e In Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2779.0,2780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Part of the Zale family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2780.0,2781.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. They have a six month old boy. We have that one girl, so when you ask if she's special. She's very special.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2781.0,2793.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You got a lot of good great-grandsons, but the great-granddaughter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2793.0,2797.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We have five great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter. We have ten grandchildren in total.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2797.0,2805.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. That is very . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2805.0,2807.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . They're all good . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2807.0,2808.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . A beautiful legacy, that's a beautiful legacy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2808.0,2811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e My youngest son is Michael.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2811.0,2814.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Where does Michael live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2814.0,2816.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Michael lives here. He's married to Laura Eisenberg, another wonderful, sweet, good person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2816.0,2825.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Who is her family? Who are Laura's parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2825.0,2828.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Her parents names are Barbara and Steve. Barbara . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2828.0,2832.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Steve the cardiologist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2832.0,2834.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e No. I go to that cardiologist, but this is the same name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2834.0,2839.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, different Steve Eisenberg.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2839.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e He's retired. Her mother, Barbara['s] partner is Norman Asher.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2841.0,2852.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, small world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2852.0,2855.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Small world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2855.0,2858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Norman Asher is the son of Joe and Helen Asher, a very prominent Atlanta family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2858.0,2863.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2863.0,2864.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Norman in his own right, and his older brother, Tom, we're just legends in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2864.0,2871.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, and don't forget the father, Joe, who was . . . Joe was one of the older people who could talk to kids. Not treat them as children but as people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2871.0,2885.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I got to tell you a quick story, even though it's your interview. But when I first dated my wife, Beth Weiller, and we started getting serious, I had to go have dinner at Joe and Dunkey's house for approval because I couldn't marry Oscar Strauss's granddaughter unless Joe gave me the thumbs up.  I went to their house on Blackland Road, and we had a very formal dinner. To this day, I have some of Helen's artwork that . . . It's a prized possession of mine. She gave me some of her artwork . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2885.0,2919.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . It's a small world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2919.0,2920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e It really is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2920.0,2924.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e They're good people. Michael is an entrepreneur. His first job, David had a client. He was with McKenna at that time before he went to his current firm. This company sold greeting cards, not greeting, collectible cards, sports figures and that kind of collectible. They were very big. Next to Topps, they were the biggest company. They were out of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. They had a big office here . . . and Michael went to work for them. He soon went up the ladder and they had to move to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] . . . He'd gone to Penn, but they lived downtown. I don't think Laura settled in. She was a Southern girl. They wanted to move back here and the company let them . . . It was a family owned company. About that time, the father suddenly passed away, he was a fairly young man, but he had a son that was in the business, and the son was a nut case. He'd call Michael three in the morning to have conversations and that kind of thing. Anyhow . . . Michael and another guy that work there decided they'd go in their own business. They would get, let's say Shaquille O'Neal. That was one of the people they had. They wouldn't get his basketball card, but they would do other promotional items for him. Shoes . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=2924.0,3057.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Sports promotions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3057.0,3059.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Sports promotion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3059.0,3061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3061.0,3061.55147"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Sports figure promotion. That grew into all kind of marketing and promotions. Michael and his partner separated. They wanted to do different kind of things. Michael is here and he's made a big business out of his marketing company . . . I'm not sure I completely understand what he does, but I know they do a lot of promotional type stuff. Dunkin Donuts is a big customer. If they're opening a store and they have these trucks that look like donuts that go. That's Michael's stuff. He does that kind of thing and he's very good at it. He has offices in several other cities now. He has two children. The oldest, Drew, is in Atlanta. He works for a real estate investment company that primarily invests in medical . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3061.55147,3136.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Office buildings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3136.0,3137.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Office buildings and their nationwide, kind of company, but they're headquartered here. It's not a real big company, but it's good size. Oh, I didn't tell you what Mark does. He works for a company called Hillwood, which is a Ross Perot company, and he's their youngest vice president. It's huge real estate investment company, international. He and Meredith lived in London [England] for about a year and a half in their offices there. That was before the boy came. She came back to have the baby. They wanted the baby born here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3137.0,3182.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Good for them. Have we exhausted all your grandkids?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3182.0,3190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e No, we left out. I have all these grandsons.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3190.0,3195.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about your granddaughter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3195.0,3200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Here, I only had grandsons, but Michael's youngest is a daughter, Julia. She's [a] very special person. Just really glowing individual. She just graduated from the University of Alabama this spring. She has just this week gone to work for National Distributors. She's doing promotions. Wonder where she got that. But . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3200.0,3237.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Good for them. It's wonderful that you've got your many of your children here, many of your great grandchildren and great-grandchildren here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3237.0,3244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. We have . . . of the ten grandchildren. We now have three here. Not a lot, but good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3244.0,3258.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a start.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3258.0,3263.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e No great-grandchildren here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3263.0,3266.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You told us earlier about your career in banking and you started off at Fulton. Tell us. Let's go back a little bit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3266.0,3273.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's go back to that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3273.0,3274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Talk a little bit about business and what it was like, because as you noted, there weren't many Jewish bankers in the 1950's and 1960's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3274.0,3281.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e There was one other one. I'm not coming up with his name right now. He was at First National. I went to work for Fulton, and we were the only Jewish bankers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3281.0,3296.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it Marvin Botnick?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3296.0,3297.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Marvin Botnick, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3297.0,3299.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. You're right, there weren't many because I could name both of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3299.0,3308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. I was with Fulton National for a number of years. Pat says, I was in my . . . turning 40 and got restless . . . There was a company here that was like, a wholesale. You remember Ellman's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3308.0,3333.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3333.0,3333.66667"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e They were like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3333.66667,3337.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Ellman's was a department store, but it sold jewelry and specialty items, some housewares . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3337.0,3341.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Mostly jewelry, luggage and stuff like.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3341.0,3344.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Absolutely, it merged with Service Merchandise . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3344.0,3346.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . That was a big business . . . There was a chain out of Tennessee, Jewish also. Fulton National was one of their lenders, and so was a bank in Houston [Texas] that happened to be a Jewish owned bank, at one time it had been bought by Tenneco. Anyhow, this company, the lending was headed by two large New York banks. There were like, I guess 12 banks in the consortium. We went to a meeting in New York. The guy from Houston and I said, \"No, this is not going to do. We want out.\" They'd either have to pay up or out. The New York banks didn't feel that way, and so they bought us out. That was my association with the Houston guy. They started calling me and asking me if I would come to work out there because they wanted another Jewish banker at this bank which had a huge Jewish clientele in Houston. After a while they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. My kids were . . . David had just been bar mitzvahed. Michael was eleven, and Heidi was nine. I eventually accepted the job in Houston and went to work for what was then Houston National. It became part of Republic National Bank while I was still there . . . The two younger kids adjusted immediately because they were in Jewish Day School here. They went in the Epstein School, and they went in to a Conservative Jewish Day School in Houston. It was like going to school [in] the same place. No problem making friends and adjusting, David was at Westminster . . . We moved in . . . January because we wanted the kids to go right to school and be able to have a life. David could not go to a private school there, it started in January, so he went to public school. The adjustment was difficult. But then in the fall, he started at Kinkaid, and the others eventually went to Kinkaid as well. David made many friends, and he did fine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3346.0,3533.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e How long were you in Texas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3533.0,3535.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We were there 11 years. I left the bank to go, as executive vice president of finance with a customer that was as steel supplier.  We had at that point two offices, two yards . . . one in Houston, one in Natchez [Mississippi]. It was called Natchez Steel. The owner was from Natchez. Then I helped him open an office in New Orleans. That was fun buying all the equipment and stuff. There with some things taking place there that . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3535.0,3577.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Are we now in like the 1980's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3577.0,3581.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Let's see, 1983, 1984. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3581.0,3587.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you do next?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3587.0,3590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e There were things going on at the company that I was not comfortable with. I sold some apartments here in Atlanta. Decided this is the time to go in business for ourselves. We opened a large bookstore, kind of like the one that's on Peachtree Battle here. It was like our lifetime dream. I was always a bookworm. We did real well until we saw the discounters coming in. It was very hard for an independent, especially a large store. By that time, we had two stores to compete.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3590.0,3637.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the name of the stores?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3637.0,3639.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Spectrum Books. We sold out, and decided it was time to come back. We always said we're coming back to Atlanta, and we came back to Atlanta. We're lucky enough that David and Michael want to settle here too. David, I wasn't sure he didn't want to go to work in New York or whatever, but it worked out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3639.0,3669.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . What year did you and Pat moved back to Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3669.0,3671.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We moved back to Atlanta in 1986.  I went in with a couple of friends, and we were sort of business brokers. Then . . . [the Jewish] Federation was looking for an endowment director.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3671.0,3697.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was Federation leadership at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3697.0,3700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e David Sarnat was the exec[utive]. I think my friend Michael, my good friend Michael Schwartz, was endowment involved if not chair, I can't remember. Jerry Horowitz and Betty Ann Jacobson. Betty Ann was, by the time I started talking to them, Betty Ann was chairman of the endowment. If you could go work with Betty Ann that was a very good thing to do. She was truly great. We were still in the old building.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3700.0,3746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e On Peachtree Street, right next to the JCC [Jewish Community Center].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3746.0,3749.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e On Peachtree, next to the JCC.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3749.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3750.0,3755.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . [I] talked to Michael a lot and talked to Jerry. We decided it would work, that I could do okay financially. I came, naively came, to Federation. There was almost no endowment. I think if you took away the Breman Foundation, there was almost nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3755.0,3786.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You were tasked with really, literally growing, creating and growing the foundation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3786.0,3791.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The first thing I had to do was organize it. It was a kind of a disaster. The papers piled up all over the office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3791.0,3806.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Back in those days, it wasn't electronic files organized, it was paper hard copy files.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3806.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e There was. We had bought. I'll go back to a Fulton National story about the electronics and stuff . . . We had Mac computers. But nothing was computerized. This is going to be hard to believe, but I'm going to tell it like it was. I was interviewing . . . people to be an assistant, a secretary [to] help me get, at least get straight. I interviewed a young African American woman who I thought was terrific and when I talk to David about hiring her, he just didn't know how that would be received. It's hard to imagine. This is 1990. But I hired her. She did straighten everything out. She said, \"If I ever touched a file, she was leaving.\" [both laughed] We started, and I knew I could get people to do things. But the attitude toward endowment was from the . . . few unenlightened . . . besides the few enlightened people. The unenlightened . . . did not understand the role that endowment played in most of the nonprofit world, but not the Jewish Federation world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3810.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Or particularly in the South.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3930.0,3932.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Particularly in other than the very top Jewish communities, largest Jewish communities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3932.0,3940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e New York or Cleveland [Ohio].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3940.0,3941.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e New York, Los Angeles [California], Chicago, Cleveland, and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3941.0,3945.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Maybe Detroit . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3945.0,3946.79592"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Even there, it was stepchild. By that time, we . . . moved over here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3946.79592,3956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e To 1440 Spring Street or . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3956.0,3959.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, 1440 Spring Street. That was, I guess, in the 1992.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3959.0,3965.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e 1990's. Yes, the early 1990's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3965.0,3967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e We moved over here. I said, \"I've got to prove in some way the value of endowment to David to the leadership.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3967.0,3984.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e The lay leaders and the professionals . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3984.0,3986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The lay leaders, aside from Betty Ann, who did not need convincing. I can't remember the sequence of presidents, but none of them were really understanding of the potential. I said, \"What can I do?\" . . . Just knowing the people that had donor advised funds. By then, we had sold a few. By their performance, I know how they feel about belonging and that they are better givers [to] the annual campaign and better participants in the community, after they open a fund than they were before. But how can I prove that there were no real records. I said, \"They have records of how people were giving to [the] campaign, they've got to be somewhere.\" They were on cards, and they were stacked in the basement of the Jewish home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=3986.0,4068.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e All these historical records. Donor cards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4068.0,4072.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e By then, we'd gotten so big, which today we'd be tiny. I had an assistant, Debbie Shindelman. Debbie had a son who had just, who I think had just graduated high school and was going to Georgia Tech. He's a brilliant kid. I said, \"Debbie, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to hire . . . \" I could talk David into it. \"I'll hire your son, pay him by the hour. I want him to go and work in the basement . . . make records of these cards. I think they will show that people that have donor advised funds increase their gifts at a much faster rate than people who don't.\" He was a very great kid. He did that and . . . it was astounding. It was . . . maybe double the rate of increase in their gifts. We had some evidence and we started to do it. I think I'm proudest of the fact I always thought that the key was to change the perception and the attitude, that we had to be . . . that people had to realize in the future, communities were going to be different. We . . . as Federation and we as a Jewish community had to have like any hospitals or universities. We couldn't just depend on current revenue. It wasn't all about the annual campaign. We had to have capital.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4072.0,4199.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack, I think one thing that you brought to this community that no one else really did, was you recognize the import of working with professionals, Jewish and non-Jewish professionals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4199.0,4211.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4211.0,4212.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e One of among many legacies that you have in your professional career. That's a hallmark. Would you tell us a little bit about how that evolved and your experience?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4212.0,4228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The trick was to find a few. Then you could tell the stories of how they helped their clients and how it benefited the community and the client. I was lucky enough to find a few.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4228.0,4250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember who they were?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4250.0,4254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Steve Berman. Dick Babush. Miles Alexander.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4254.0,4266.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's take a brief pause and swap out . . . [interview pauses and resumes] Dick Babush and Steve Berman and Miles Alexander. What other professionals?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4266.0,4274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Hal Abrams for sure. He and Dick had a lot of . . . clients in common, and they realized the value. I'll tell you . . . there was one key moment when things changed. Betty Ann was my chair, I said, \"Betty Ann, I want to have a dinner for past presidents. I want it to be a really nice dinner out.  I think we can get many of them to make a commitment to leave a legacy and to start either . . . a supporting foundation or major donor advised fund.\" We did, we had this dinner and I think we had 20 people there. That was really the breakthrough moment. They all did something. I think maybe one or two of the 20 didn't do something immediately. But we convinced them of the value and that really started the ball rolling. I have to say, I thought my role was to be . . . important part of my role was to be just almost a nuisance as an advocate for the role that endowment could play in the future of our community. Both on local and national level. I was twice president of the endowment directors group nationally . . . Your job is to be an advocate, to be a messiah. You are bringing something, and this is a really important something. As the world changes, this is going to be a key to the health of our community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4274.0,4424.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Another one of your legacies in your professional life was allowing the community to honor you with the Balser Forum.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4424.0,4438.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4438.0,4438.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us a little bit about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4438.3,4441.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e That was Steve Berman's idea and Milton Weinstein. He calls on a few other families and, in those days, going back, I started to say at one point that in the community of my father's leadership, a group of men could do anything. They were going to do the work. They were going to raise the money and they could get most anything done. Steve was sort of the young acolyte of that group . . . That was his idea, and he got several people to participate in and started the Balser Forum, which was a major, as you say, business comes from the professionals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4441.0,4494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Share with us a little bit about it, because they'll be people listening to this tape, archivist or there may be historians or people wanting to know about our community years and decades from now. They're going to want to know what is or what was the Balser Symposium and the Forum.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4494.0,4510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e The Balser Symposium was founded to have an annual event that would bring important national experts in planned giving to talk to professionals, that would be, insurance agents, lawyers, accountants, investment managers together to exchange ideas and it sort of took off. Just there was a hunger for it, and they had good speakers. We found good speakers, and it started being successful. Then we entered into a partnership with the Community Fund of Greater Atlanta, I guess it is now. It used to be the Community Chest, whatever the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4510.0,4578.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . United Way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4578.0,4581.18182"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e United Way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4581.18182,4585.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e United Way, the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations partnered together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4585.0,4591.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Together to do this, to expand this. It would draw several hundred people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4591.0,4603.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I believe we just celebrate or getting ready to celebrate the 19th anniversary of this forum and this symposium. Jack, that's yet another legacy that you are helping to leave the Atlanta community with, because I think you recognize the import of having not only Jewish professional advisors, but non-Jewish advisors as well, to advise their Jewish clients of the importance of philanthropy, giving.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4603.0,4633.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e And vice versa.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4633.0,4634.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4634.0,4637.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e At one time there was a guy who, an attorney, whose main client was the Trust Company of Georgia, [indistinct: 1: 17:30: possibly Trustco] I guess they're something else now, it merged again. But they were the big trustees of major estates here, and he was the one expert that really, I can't think of his name right now, but he . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4637.0,4675.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Ben White or John Wallace or as a lawyer or trust company.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4675.0,4679.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Not John, Ben. 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Ben White was really the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4680.0,4685.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . He was . . . one of the though leaders of estate planning . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4685.0,4689.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Of that, because he was involved with so many of these large estates, and he saw the value to the community and to the client, tax wise and financially, to do this kind of estate planning to include nonprofits, charities of their choice in their estate plan. He was sort of the lone voice out there . . . I think maybe he spoke at the first forum. Now . . . all young lawyers know this, anybody that works in estates is aware of this, and I hope that the Balser Symposium has helped that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4689.0,4743.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e It absolutely has. I've been a participant for many, many years, and I've seen it grow over time.  It's one of the great community resources we provide both our Jewish and non-Jewish community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4743.0,4755.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e It's grown to be more than just the annual forum. There's a training group that teaches. 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It's a major thing, and I'm very grateful and proud of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4784.0,4792.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack, as we sort of wind up this conversation that we have, there are a couple of questions that I like to ask folks sometimes that are a little more whimsical or light. If you didn't have a professional career in banking and in philanthropy, what would you have done?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4792.0,4810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I guess I had been a college professor. In my old age, I don't have anything else to call it. I did do some teaching. I have now for about 15 years taking courses that Osher Lifelong Learning at Emory and for about a four year or five year period, I taught literature there and it was a great experience, but it became too much work. Most of the people that did it had some teaching background and had dealt with the material before. It was from scratch for me with each course. It was great fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4810.0,4862.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack, I can't help but think that as an Atlanta native, you've seen Atlanta grow tremendously in different ways. As a young child, you had experienced some antisemitism, not overt all the time. Sometimes quiet or subvert. You went away to college, lived in Washington, DC, served in our military, came back to Atlanta and left to go to Houston. You've had the benefit of living in two or three other major metropolitan areas. Can you share with us a little bit of how you've seen Atlanta evolve for the good and for the challenging?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4862.0,4904.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e You know going from a small . . . growing up in a small city, and seeing it turn into a major metropolis. Having lived in Houston, for the time we did, we saw where Atlanta was going. The interesting thing, the one interesting thing to us is the class stratification. Here African Americans, who were the lowest working class and the lowest working class jobs. Even though Atlanta was the center of education and that community nationwide. We . . . always had a substantial upper middle class black world here, with which I was somewhat familiar. The basically, the janitorial, whatever jobs, busboy jobs were all African American. When we moved to Houston, Hispanics were that class and the black people were lower middle class, working some white collar, so saw the potential. I do want to go back to the young woman that I hired to be my assistant. Eventually, I convinced David and the leadership to make her an officer here at Federation. She was the first black officer in the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. I had a little training in that because there were no women officers at Fulton National. My assistant was a brilliant immigrant from Chile. She was just everything a banker should be. Eventually convince Fulton National to make her an officer. She was the first female officer at Fulton National. I've seen the world evolve in many ways. I think, despite what seems right now to be America headed on a very dangerous, on the edge of very dangerous stuff. That I've seen really with the acceptance, a different kind of acceptance, especially of women, medical schools and law schools now populated by more women than men. That's a big change in the world. To see it happening at the same time that people want to take away a woman's right to control her own body. It's a very anomalous kind of change.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4904.0,5123.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e You've also seen Atlanta grow from a small Jewish community from a few thousand people to a . . . city with over 120,000 plus . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5123.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Hundred thousand Jews . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5130.0,5132.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . In the metro Atlanta area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5132.0,5133.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Even when I came to work for Federation, 20,000 Jews, 25,000. The change is enormous. But also, the composition of that population is very different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5133.0,5150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e How so?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5150.0,5153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it's much younger, much younger demographic and much less their norm to be affiliated with Jewish institutions. We have to find, and yet, I think there's a strong yearning for Jewishness and their heritage, in much of that community. They just need to enter in a different way. Many of them are intermarried. We have to handle that situation much differently than people thought of it when I was growing up. Realize that these people, many of them would raise their children Jewish, would be Jewish, or at least partly have Jewishness in their family, if we made it, the community welcomed them. Some things like that are going on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5153.0,5235.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e I can share with you that Federation is spending time and effort and resources in that because they recognize that. It is a different place. It's a much more diverse Jewish community than it was in the 1930's and 1940's with four synagogues and . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5235.0,5254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Geographically as well as.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5254.0,5255.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAROGETI:\u003c/strong\u003e From Canton [Georgia] down to Riverdale [Georgia] and from Stone Mountain [Georgia] over to Douglasville [Georgia] or Villa Rica [Georgia]. It's much more geographically diverse than and those are challenges and opportunities. It's been wonderful speaking with you these last few minutes. I'll conclude by just simply saying thank you. It's been a delight and a joy to speak with you and have you share with us a little bit about you and your family, your Jewish experience, and the legacies that you've left us, both you and Pat individually, as parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, but also professionally. I think Atlanta is a much better place because of you and Pat. Thank you very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5255.0,5306.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/transcript/69112/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBALSER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=5306.0,8908.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/annotation_set/1429","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/annotation_set/1429/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJoel S. Arogeti (b. 1956) is a lawyer and active member of the Atlanta Jewish community. He graduated with his undergraduate degree from George Washington University, he worked for Congressman Elliott H. Levitas both in Washington, DC, and Decatur, Georgia. He received his law degree from Emory University. He has also served as Chair of the Board of The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Hosea Helps, the Boards of The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, President of Congregation Or VeShalom, along with board service with The Epstein School Board, The Louis Kahn Group Home, the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and Hillels of Georgia. In 2024, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Foundation for Jewish Camp. 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In 1895, he married Mollie Seligson and they had two daughters Jennye, Anne and three sons Jake, Abe, and Meyer.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=47.0,92.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/annotation_set/1429/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEsther Mollie Seligson Balser (1874-1944) was born in Riga, Latvia and immigrated to the United States in 1894. She married Joseph Balser in 1895. 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Wallace was active in various civic events including Morehouse College, The Westminster Schools, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra League, the Atlanta History Center, and the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953#t=4675.0,4679.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/132977/file/247953/annotation_set/1429/annotation/450","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOsher Lifelong Learning Institutes were found in 2001 as a way for mature students to engage in learning for the joy of learning. It allows individuals 50+ to take courses without examinations or grades. 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