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He succeeded his father as president, and subsequently chair and CEO, of the company. He has served as president and board chair for the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association (SFMA), the largest furniture trade association in the United States. He is a life member of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce and has been a vice president of the YMCA and president of the Rome Rotary Club. He has served on the National and Southeastern regional boards of the Anti-Defamation League. He has been a member of the board and past president of the Rodeph Shalom Congregation. He and his wife Jo Marks Heyman have three children: Deborah Heyman Harris, Lyons Joel Heyman Jr., and David Marks Heyman.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eLyons talks about his family: his parents Helene Joel Heyman and Charles Simon Heyman, his maternal grandparents Lyons Barnett Joel and Ray Deborah Samuels Joel, his paternal grandparents Minna Simon Heyman and Arthur Heyman, and his brother Charles Simon Heyman, Jr. He says he was born in Atlanta but spent only his first ten years ten years there. He tells how his father co-founded, with Lawrence Fox, a furniture manufacturing business in Rome, Georgia—the Fox Manufacturing Company—which required his family to relocate from Atlanta to Rome when he was ten years old. He discusses his home and his neighbors on Horseleg Creek Road, the Morrison family and the O’Neill family. He talks about graduating from the Darlington School, a private elementary-high school, and Vanderbilt University. He discusses working for the Fox Manufacturing Company after graduating from Vanderbilt. He says the Fox Manufacturing Company flourished and added two plants in Dothan, Alabama and Lindale, Georgia. He recalls his parent’s activities in the Rome community. He tells about his father’s role in raising money to construct a YMCA building in Rome. He mentions his father’s role in bringing the Community Concert Series to Rome. He contrasts Jewish life in Atlanta with Jewish life in Rome. He relates that his family was more comfortable in the Reform Jewish community in Atlanta than the Jewish community in Rome that revolved around Rodeph Shalom Congregation which was Orthodox when they first moved to Rome. He talks about attending Sunday School at The Temple in Atlanta, but dropping out of Sunday School in Rome. He mentions that his parents socialized primarily with non-Jewish friends and neighbors in Rome. He talks about the transition of Rodeph Shalom from an Orthodox to a Reform congregation. He recalls his family’s involvement in Rodeph Shalom, how he and his father were both presidents of the congregation and his wife Jo was president of its sisterhood. He tells about the importance of its Sunday School to his children who attended schools where they were the only Jewish students. He mentions other active members of the congregation: Ruth and Oscar Borochoff, Rose Esserman and Jule Levin, Murray Stein, and Shelly Stein Peller. He mentions other members of the Jewish community in Rome: Max Meyerhardt, Eva and Louis Gavant, Mke Kraft, Joe Rothman, Isadore “I. M.” Levinson, Sol Schwartz, Babette and Herb Blumberg, Joe and Isadore Levy, Sylvia Esserman, Casper Stock, Louise Stein, Isaac May, Edna and Joe L. Sulzbacher, and Susan Gavant Wall. He recalls many of  their retail stores and manufacturing firms. He remembers few, if any, instances of antisemitism during his childhood and business career in Rome. He tells how the small number of Jewish residents integrated into Rome’s overall community and about the positive influence of Rome’s Jewish merchants in the town. In his recollection of the Civil Rights Era, he cannot recall any active involvement of the Jewish community in Rome in the Civil Rights Movement. He talks about dating non-Jewish girls and his social life revolving around non-Jewish activities and friends. He discusses meeting and marrying a Jewish girl, his wife Jo Marks Heyman. He relays his satisfaction with the insulation of small-town life in Rome while enjoying proximity to Atlanta for cultural activities. He expresses concern at the dwindling Jewish population in Rome.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28426"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLyons Joel Heyman interviewed by Sandra Berman on April 10, 2001 in Rome, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyons Joel Heyman was born on January 25, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Helene Joel and Charles Simon Heyman. He moved to Rome, Georgia as a child when his father founded Fox Manufacturing Company in Rome. After graduating from the Darlington School and Vanderbilt University he returned to Rome to work for Fox Manufacturing Company. He succeeded his father as president, and subsequently chair and CEO, of the company. He has served as president and board chair for the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association (SFMA), the largest furniture trade association in the United States. He is a life member of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce and has been a vice president of the YMCA and president of the Rome Rotary Club. He has served on the National and Southeastern regional boards of the Anti-Defamation League. He has been a member of the board and past president of the Rodeph Shalom Congregation. He and his wife Jo Marks Heyman have three children: Deborah Heyman Harris, Lyons Joel Heyman Jr., and David Marks Heyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyons talks about his family: his parents Helene Joel Heyman and Charles Simon Heyman, his maternal grandparents Lyons Barnett Joel and Ray Deborah Samuels Joel, his paternal grandparents Minna Simon Heyman and Arthur Heyman, and his brother Charles Simon Heyman, Jr. He says he was born in Atlanta but spent only his first ten years ten years there. He tells how his father co-founded, with Lawrence Fox, a furniture manufacturing business in Rome, Georgia—the Fox Manufacturing Company—which required his family to relocate from Atlanta to Rome when he was ten years old. He discusses his home and his neighbors on Horseleg Creek Road, the Morrison family and the O’Neill family. He talks about graduating from the Darlington School, a private elementary-high school, and Vanderbilt University. He discusses working for the Fox Manufacturing Company after graduating from Vanderbilt. He says the Fox Manufacturing Company flourished and added two plants in Dothan, Alabama and Lindale, Georgia. He recalls his parent’s activities in the Rome community. He tells about his father’s role in raising money to construct a YMCA building in Rome. He mentions his father’s role in bringing the Community Concert Series to Rome. He contrasts Jewish life in Atlanta with Jewish life in Rome. He relates that his family was more comfortable in the Reform Jewish community in Atlanta than the Jewish community in Rome that revolved around Rodeph Shalom Congregation which was Orthodox when they first moved to Rome. He talks about attending Sunday School at The Temple in Atlanta, but dropping out of Sunday School in Rome. He mentions that his parents socialized primarily with non-Jewish friends and neighbors in Rome. He talks about the transition of Rodeph Shalom from an Orthodox to a Reform congregation. He recalls his family’s involvement in Rodeph Shalom, how he and his father were both presidents of the congregation and his wife Jo was president of its sisterhood. He tells about the importance of its Sunday School to his children who attended schools where they were the only Jewish students. He mentions other active members of the congregation: Ruth and Oscar Borochoff, Rose Esserman and Jule Levin, Murray Stein, and Shelly Stein Peller. He mentions other members of the Jewish community in Rome: Max Meyerhardt, Eva and Louis Gavant, Mke Kraft, Joe Rothman, Isadore “I. M.” Levinson, Sol Schwartz, Babette and Herb Blumberg, Joe and Isadore Levy, Sylvia Esserman, Casper Stock, Louise Stein, Isaac May, Edna and Joe L. Sulzbacher, and Susan Gavant Wall. He recalls many of  their retail stores and manufacturing firms. He remembers few, if any, instances of antisemitism during his childhood and business career in Rome. He tells how the small number of Jewish residents integrated into Rome’s overall community and about the positive influence of Rome’s Jewish merchants in the town. In his recollection of the Civil Rights Era, he cannot recall any active involvement of the Jewish community in Rome in the Civil Rights Movement. He talks about dating non-Jewish girls and his social life revolving around non-Jewish activities and friends. He discusses meeting and marrying a Jewish girl, his wife Jo Marks Heyman. He relays his satisfaction with the insulation of small-town life in Rome while enjoying proximity to Atlanta for cultural activities. He expresses concern at the dwindling Jewish population in Rome.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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We are\ninterviewing him for the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project for the\nWilliam Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and the American Jewish Committee. I'd\nlike to begin by asking Mr. Heyman just a little bit, if he could just give us a\nlittle background to his family, his parents, their names, when he was born, his\nsiblings, their names, and just a little bit of background about the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"personal\naspect of the family.\n\nHEYMAN: My mother was Helene Joel, who was born in Atlanta [Georgia] in 1903,\none of three children of Lyons Barnett Joel and Ray Deborah Samuels Joel. Ray\nDeborah Samuels came from Savannah. I'm not sure where Lyons came from. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was\nborn in 1903. My father was Charles Simon Heyman, whose mother was Minna Simon\nfrom New Orleans [Louisiana], and whose father was Arthur Heyman from West\nPoint, Georgia. My father was born in 1900. It was very easy to keep up with his\nage because he went right with the year. They were married . . . Charles and\nHelene were married on October ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"23, 1923 in Atlanta at The Temple by Rabbi David\nMarx. They lived in Atlanta until 1936. They lived at 1303 Briarcliff Road. I\nfound some old pictures of that house, which I have upstairs. The house was . .\n. I think that my grandfather, Lyons ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joel, helped my dad buy the house at that\nparticular time. I'm not sure what year it was. It must have been around 1925 or\n1926. I was born on January 25, 1928. I was named, of course, for my\ngrandfather, Lyons Joel, my name being Lyons Joel Heyman. I have a younger\nbrother, who is three and a half years younger than I. He was born on June 30,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1931. He was named for my dad, Charles Simon Heyman, Junior. We lived in Atlanta\nuntil 1937, actually, when my dad went to work for the Fox family, Lawrence Fox\nand Al fox, Alfred Fox. He had a very good friend, Philip Shulhafer, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who was a\ngood friend of my dad's. After dad got out of college at the University of\nGeorgia in 1920, he suggested he see his Uncle Lawrence, maybe get a job. My dad\nwent to see Uncle Lawrence. He did get a job. He was, as he says, a glorified\noffice boy for a great many years and what we would today call a gofer. But he\nwas a very successful, very personable, very charming young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man. The Foxes both\nwere crazy about him. In the middle 1920's, Lawrence Fox became very much\ninterested in the retail furniture business. They formed a new corporation,\nwhich they called the National Manufacturing Stores Corporation. Lawrence really\nlooked after that part of the business. Al Fox ran the factory. My dad was more\ninvolved in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"factory part of it. In 1931 and 1932, when Al Fox died, my dad\nkind of helped manage the factory with Lawrence because Lawrence was interested\nin the retail business. Around 1936, they were in a very old, dilapidated\nfour-story building on Marietta Street in Atlanta. The facilities were just\nhorrible. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lawrence was much more interested in the retail business than the\nmanufacturing business. This is what I've been told. How true it is, I'm not\nsure. My dad went to Lawrence and said, \"You know, we've been partners for a\nlong time. I don't own any of this business. I'm going to have to leave.\nNobody's paying any attention to what I'm saying. You're not really interested\nin the factory part of it.\" According to the story, Lawrence said, \"No, whatever\nyou do, Charles, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want to do it with you. They agreed to buy Fox Manufacturing\nCompany from the National Manufacturing Stores Corporation. There was available\nin Rome, Georgia, a former furniture manufacturing plant called the Rome\nFurniture Company. They negotiated, and they bought that factory. They bought\nthat building, and they moved here in 1936 in December. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At that point, Lawrence\nFox and Charles Heyman each owned the same amount of interest in the company.\nEach of them had 25 percent. The other 50 percent they made available to five\nother people, each with ten percent, who were close friends. One was Welborn\nCody. One was Ralph Uhry, who was Lawrence's nephew-in-law, married to Alene\nUhry, who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alfred [Fox]'s daughter. That made the 100 percent at that time.\nThe family . . . My mother, being born and raised in Atlanta, was not really\ninterested in coming to Rome. After about two years of my dad's commuting every\nday--long before there was an 1-75 and long before U.S. 41 was four-laned--it\nwas a two-lane road-- she finally decided that if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she wanted to maintain a\nfamily life, she had better come to Rome. In 1937, they started construction on\na home in Rome, and we moved into it in 1938. At that time, I was ten years old.\nWe moved to Rome. The family actually moved to Rome about three or four months\nbefore the house was completed. We lived at the General Forest Hotel for about\nthose three months and finally moved into our home on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Horseleg Creek Road. On\nHorseleg Creek Road at that time, we were the second house down the road. The\nthird house belonged to the [Julian K.] Morrison family. He was the general\nmanager of the . . . What do they call it in those days? Brighton Mills, I\nthink, in those days. Beyond that point, Horseleg Creek Road was merely a dirt\npath. Today that's totally different. 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I went into the sixth ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grade. Charles went to the school\nthat was called Cooper Hall. That was a school that was founded by the Cooper\nfamily here who had a bunch of daughters. They were not satisfied with the\npublic schools, so they founded Cooper Hall, which was in existence as long as\nthere were Cooper children and grandchildren. That school is no longer in\nexistence. When Charles eventually was old enough, he went to Darlington. He\nended up going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Darlington to Sewanee Military Academy at Monteagle\n[Tennessee]. He actually graduated from Sewanee. I graduated from Darlington\nand, in 1944, went to Vanderbilt [University] with the purpose of studying\nmedicine. After about two years, I decided medicine was not my cup of tea. I\ntalked to my dad, and I said, \"If I don't study medicine, could I come to work\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for Fox Manufacturing Company?\" He assured me he would be delighted. He had\nnever pushed me to do that, but he tells me he was very thrilled that I would\nconsider. I did. I changed my major to a B.A. from a B.S. and I graduated in 19\n. . . actually I got out of school in December of 1947. I had to go back and\ntake some extra credits in the summer of 1948. I'm actually in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class of 1948\nat Vanderbilt. I started work on January 1, 1948, with Fox Manufacturing\nCompany. The company had been very successful. Both my dad and my mother,\nCharles Heyman and Helene Heyman, were very well-absorbed into the Rome\ncommunity, both socially and business. Being a manufacturing company, as opposed\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a merchant on Broad Street, for instance, we were fortunate enough to have\nmaybe a little more resources than some of the other people. We were able to do\nthings for our synagogue and do things in the community and for the community in\na very nice way. My dad was a great photographer, an avid photographer, an avid\ntennis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"player, and very interested in the YMCA, of all programs, for a Jewish\nman. He grew up in the Atlanta YMCA and felt like it really did a fine job for\nhim and for his friends and even his siblings. He played racquetball. There was\nno YMCA building because they had a racquetball court over one of the retail\nstores on Broad Street. Dad and a couple of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other people got together and\ndecided they needed to have a building, a facility. In 1950 or 1952, he and Don\nMacLaughlin, who was the YMCA executive at that time, and Tom Harbin, who was a\nvery close friend and a physician here, along with the members of the \"Y\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"board,\ndecided to raise money to build a YMCA building. In those days . . . and they\ndid. They went out to raise $485,000. That was an unheard-of amount of money to\nraise in a small town other than for the churches. They raised it. My dad and I\nsay this with no pride or anything. Just say it factually. He went out to the\nindustry in this town. He explained to them that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they would have to give big\nmoney, that we are not talking about $500. We are talking about $50,000. He was\nable to get sufficient seed money to put this thing over the top. They raised\n$492,000 at that time. The building, of course, exists today. It has been added\non to. For years, those in the know kind of said, \"This is the house that Heyman\nbuilt.\" It was a great compliment to him and to the family. My mother was very\nactive. 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She was very much involved in the\nladies' women ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college . . . Just a minute. She was very much involved with the\nAssociation of University Women. She was very much involved with the Music\n[Lovers] Club of Rome. She played bridge. She was quite a hostess. My father was\nquite a host. They loved to entertain, and they entertained beautifully. In the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business world, my dad was very much involved with the Southern Furniture\nManufacturers Association, which was the largest furniture manufacturers\nassociation in the country. The bulk of the manufacturing business of furniture\nwas located in the Carolinas and Virginias. Even though we were located in Rome,\nGeorgia, he was of such prominence among his peers that he was asked to become a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"member of the board of directors of the association. No one other than the North\nCarolina-Virginia manufacturers had ever had such an honor. Eventually, he was\nasked and did serve as president of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers\nAssociation. The company in Rome grew quite well. We expanded in 1960. We built\na new plant down in Dothan, Alabama. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the late 1950's, we built what we called\na \"dimension plant\" out on property that we bought toward Lindale [Georgia]. We,\ntherefore, operated three plants. At the peak of our production, I guess we\nemployed almost 1,000 people between Rome and Dothan. The Dothan operation . . .\n\nHEYMAN:. . . made our tables to go with our upholstery pieces that we shipped\nout of Rome. We brought all the tables into Rome so we could coordinate\nshipments of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"upholstery with the tables at one time. My dad was active in the\nchamber of commerce. He served on its board. He was an avid Rotarian. He joined\nthe Rotary Club as soon as he came to Rome. He was one of the . . . He was\ninvited immediately. In 1960--I believe it was--he was asked to be and did\naccept the presidency of the Rome Rotary ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Club. No, it was 1964, because it was\nthe fiftieth anniversary of the Rome club. The club was founded in 1914, so it\nwas 1964, 1965. He held that presidency for one year, as is normal. We were very\nmuch involved in what in those days they called the Community Chest. 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Although Fox\nManufacturing Company was not nearly the size of GE, Burlington Mills, Lindale\nMills, or Inland-Rome, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our contributions per capita were larger than any other\nindustry in this town. [This] was really right remarkable, because in those\ndays, the budget of the United Way was very small. We became a pretty good part\nof that amount of money that was raised. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can remember many Sunday afternoons--when we lived on Horseleg Creek\nRoad--that they and several others would come over to the house. They would have\nimpromptu music sessions and concerts. Because Dad went to New York [City]\nregularly for business, they asked him to communicate with the Community Concert\nSeries, which he did, and brought it to Rome. He served as president for a\nnumber of years, and lavishly entertained the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"musicians and the artists who came\nand presented music programs for the community. Rome was a great place to live\nand a great place for me and my brother, Charles, to grow up. When I came to\nwork for the company, in 1948, I was a general flunky. My dad had always been\nvery strict. Neither Charles nor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I received any favors for anything. I guess I\ncarried that down to my children's generations. I think that one of my greatest\nbackers was Lawrence Fox. I don't remember what I was hired at, but I do have a\nletter that somewhere in 1949 my wages were raised to $55 a week. 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They gave me a wonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"territory. We had a man\nwith us by the name of Jack Shoaf, S-H-O-A-F, as a matter of fact. Jack and Edie\nShoaf lived here in Rome. They came to Rome with the company. Jack was\noriginally from Tennessee. Jack had kind of a territory that included\nMississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. He was only going to Memphis [Tennessee]\nNashville [Tennessee] and Louisville [Kentucky]. He really wasn't working the\nterritory. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They carved out a territory for me of all the small towns in\nTennessee and Kentucky. Our Texas salesman also had the State of Arkansas. He\ndidn't give a hoot for Arkansas after Texas. He volunteered that he would give\nme Arkansas. Therefore, I had the whole state. I would go to Little Rock,\nArkansas, and stay in a hotel that had about nine floors. I think at that time,\nArkansas . . . Little Rock had a population of about 80,000 people. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I thought I\nwas in New York City when I went there because in Tennessee I did not have\nKnoxville or any of the Eastern Tennessee towns. I didn't have Memphis or\nNashville. I had Kentucky, but I didn't have Louisville or Lexington [Kentucky].\nI went to the coal fields of Harlan [Kentucky], Hazard [Kentucky], Pineville\n[Kentucky], and all those places. When I would go out to Arkansas, it was really\nabsolutely great. I got married in 1949. I met a very nice young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lady in\nFebruary of 1948, who was a student at Shorter College. She was from Albany,\nGeorgia. She was Jo Marks. Her mother was Mable Goldman Marks from Florida. Her\nfather was Henry Charles Marks. He was from Albany. I met Jo and we dated for a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while. She finally convinced me that we ought to get engaged. I think we did. We\ngot engaged in February, I think it was, of 1949. We married on June 23, 1949.\nThat's about 52 or 53 years from now, back ago. I bring that up only because she\nwas a junior at Shorter College when we married. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Part of the marriage agreement\nwas that she would have to go back and finish her degree, which would be 1950.\nFox Manufacturing Company put me on the road in January of 1949 . . . Was it? Am\nI wrong? 1949? Cut it a minute. We married in June of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1949. I went on the road\nin January of 1950. Jo, of course, was still in college. When she got out of\nschool in June of 1950 and graduated, she traveled with me for about the next\nfour or five months. Then I would make trips without her. Finally, in March . .\n. February of 1951, my dad called me. We were in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nashville. He said, \"I want you\nto come back to Rome. The man that we had heading our sales department is\nleaving. I want you to come back and head the sales department.\" From then on we\nwere in Rome.\n\nBERMAN: Just to backtrack a little bit. I want to know, your parents both grew\nup in Atlanta. How difficult was it for them to make that transition from\nAtlanta to a much ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"smaller community in Rome? Did they try to . . . did they miss\nsome of the Jewish connections that they had in Atlanta?\n\nHEYMAN: The answer to the Jewish question is yes and no. My parents grew up in a\ntime in Atlanta when Reform Judaism was very Reform. Rabbi Marx was not called\nRabbi Marx. He was called Dr. Marx. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Although there was never any question about\nmy dad and mother being Jewish, they weren't--what you would call\ntoday--observant Jews. I went to five years of Sunday School at The Temple. When\nwe moved to Rome, the synagogue here was a synagogue. It was an Orthodox\ncongregation. Being like any ten-year-old, I didn't want to go to Sunday School.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I convinced my parents that all they were doing was talking Hebrew, that it was\na foreign language, and I didn't want to go to that kind of Sunday School. I\ndropped out with their permission. There was a Jewish connection in Atlanta that\nwas nonexistent in Rome. Most of my mother's friends were Jewish. In Rome, that\nwas not the case. There were very few ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish women here that were--I don't know\nhow to put this--friendly-type people to her kind of Judaism, with the result\nthat my mother really . . . From a social point of view, most of her friends\nwere non-Jews. There were a few people here that were Jewish that they became\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"close to: their neighbors, their future neighbors, Joe and Jenny Rothman. The\nothers basically were not . . . They didn't fit together.\n\nBERMAN: This was because the congregation . . .\n\nHEYMAN:. . . were very, very, very Orthodox. Over a period of eight to ten\nyears, they began to move a little bit more toward ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservatism. Eventually they\nmoved to the point where they were using a student rabbi from Hebrew Union\nCollege [HUC] to come here on alternate weekends. When they did that, my dad\nsaid, \"If you are to use this facility, then we ought to become a member of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UAHC. It's not right not to be.\" On one of his many New York trips, he went to\nsee the Union office in New York, and we formally and officially became a UAHC\naffiliate congregation.\n\nBERMAN: The name of the congregation?\n\nHEYMAN: Rodeph Shalom Congregation. It was actually established in 1876. It was\n100 years old in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1976. We are now, this year, celebrating our one hundred and\ntwenty-fifth [anniversary].\n\nBERMAN: Are you active there today?\n\nHEYMAN: Very active. I have . . . My dad, of course, was president of the\ncongregation. I have been president of the congregation. Currently I still serve\non the board. I'm the old-man member of the Rodeph Shalom Congregation board. Jo\nhas been president of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sisterhood more years than she's not been. This year\nis an off-year for her, but she has held the sisterhood together for all these\nmany years. It's also interesting from a Sunday School point of view. When our\nchildren came along, it was very important for Jo to have these children raised\nas Jews. It's very hard in a small community. None of their friends were Jewish.\nThere were no . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When Lyons, Junior was in Darlington, he was the only Jewish\nchild in Darlington. The same thing in high school. The same thing in elementary\nschool. When my kids went to the first six years of school, they were the only\nJewish children in the school, or just about, maybe one or two. It was very\ndifficult. In years gone by, a lady by the name of Ruth Borochoff had always\nheld the Sunday ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School together. She and her husband, Oscar, just saw to it that\nthe Sunday School existed. As she got older, the next generation was run by Rose\nEsserman Levin. Rose was a member of the Esserman family, a very prominent\nJewish family here. Her husband was Jule Levin. He was from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cincinnati [Ohio].\nHe originally . . . When they got married, he went to work for the Esserman\nstore here. Eventually he managed it until he left to go back to Cincinnati.\nMeantime, Rose held the Sunday School together. Rose, as her children left the\nSunday School, became less involved. It fell to Jo. Jo picked it up from that\npoint. Through all the years that our children, all three of our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children, were\nin Sunday School, she was there. She was a teacher. She and Murray Stein\nconvinced me at one point in time to become the Sunday School superintendent. We\nall had a good time. We kept the Sunday School going. Today our congregation is\ndown to about 25 families, if that many. Many of them are mixed . . .\n\nHEYMAN:. . . marriages. That doesn't mean that they are not active, because they\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are. We have a young president, first female president, Shelly Stein Peller.\nThey do a fine job. They are doing a real good job.\n\nBERMAN: When you were growing up and living here in Rome, were your parents\nconcerned for you and your brother to have a Jewish connection? Did they try to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"encourage you to . . .\n\nHEYMAN: No. The answer to that is no.\n\nBERMAN: Were they later concerned that you might not . . . because you didn't\nhave those introductions, that you might not marry within the Jewish community?\n\nHEYMAN: If they had that concern, I didn't know it. It's strictly by an accident\nof fate that I married a Jewish girl. My brother Charles did not. If I had not\nmet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jo, I don't know who I would have married. I never dated a Jewish girl until\nI went to Vanderbilt, with one exception. I did date Harriet Zaban. I did. I had\ntwo exceptions. There was Harriet Zaban, and Lou . . . Gosh, I can't even\nremember her name now, from Atlanta. Basically I did not date Jewish girls. Our\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"social life involved dances and parties in Rome at Darlington, birthdays, and\nthose kinds of parties. I dated Baptist girls and Episcopal girls and Methodist\ngirls. In those days, they had social groups, young people that met usually on\nSunday evenings . . . BTU, the Baptist Training Union. I went to all those\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things. My dates . . . There would be five or six \"couples\" of us that would go\nto the Episcopal church, the Baptist church, or the parish houses. I've been to\nmany Catholic midnight masses at Christmas time. I sang Christmas carols with\nthe best of them. I knew I was Jewish. There was never any question about my\nbeing Jewish. I had no idea that I would . . . I didn't even think about it, as\na matter of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fact.\n\nBERMAN: You had family in Atlanta.\n\nHEYMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Was there requests from them to perhaps come there and go to Ballyhoo\nwith them. Ballyhoo was still very popular in 1946. Was there that urging from\neither the relatives in Atlanta or your parents to maybe . . .\n\nHEYMAN: None from my parents. 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I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't . . . I remember going to, I think, Passover\nsometimes out at Pinehurst. We had Passover, I'm sure, in Rome. I don't remember.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever think about in your growing, your teenage, or your young\nadult years, about leaving Rome and moving back to a big city?\n\nHEYMAN: No. Very simple. Never. There was no pull of the big city for me. I grew\nup here. 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I was never pulled to\nAtlanta for anything. After about four or five years, my mother became very much\nacclimated to Rome life. Although she enjoyed going to Atlanta, she really\nenjoyed going to New York and Chicago a great deal more.\n\nBERMAN: What about the relationship between the small little Jewish community\nhere and the greater ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rome community? Were there times during that relationship\nthat were tense ever? Was there any overt or subtle antisemitism that you may\nhave experienced?\n\nHEYMAN: I would answer basically no. There is always antisemitism. There were\ntwo or three people that I knew that talked about the Jews in a derogatory\nmanner, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not the people that I really was involved with. The Rome Jewish\ncommunity, to my knowledge, had then and has today a very fine relationship with\nthe large community, one of the reasons being that the Jewish community was so\nsmall. We were not big enough to really make that much of an impression or\ncreate that much diversity in a town like Rome. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Most of the merchants, or many\nof the merchants on Broad Street, were Jewish. They were regarded well by the\nRome Merchants Association. Oscar Borochoff, Isadore Levinson, all these people\nheaded the Rome Merchants Association. They were presidents of that group from\ntime to time. Jule Levin was even president of the Chamber of Commerce, very\nactive in the community, well thought of, and even ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remembered today. The Rome\nJewish community melded in and became part of the overall community. I can't\ntell you that there were any overt or even subtle acts of antisemitism. Now, let\nme back up. From time to time, there are people that come to town, the skinheads\ntoday and that sort of thing, who will write something ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the synagogue doors or\nsomething. When that happens, the Rome police department is very actively\ninvolved. They let it be known real quick that that's not accepted behavior. We\nreally have not had any small-town antisemitic activities, to my knowledge.\nSomebody else may tell you different. I went through my years at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Darlington,\ncertainly my growing up, my early business career, and my business career\ngenerally in Rome. I have been honored by a lot of different organizations here.\nI've been involved. 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We were not like the Atlanta\nJewish community that banded ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together, that actively supported black\n\"independence,\" if you want to call it that. I don't recall that the Jewish\ncommunity took a real stand in that era. I didn't hear of it. You got to\nunderstand, too, that in those days I was very deeply involved with my work. I\ntraveled a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot for business. Jo and I traveled a lot for meetings with the\nassociation and various organizations involved with the industry. We were just\nnot politically inclined. As far as the family was concerned and, to my\nknowledge, as far as the Jewish community is concerned . . . I may be wrong,\n[but] my impression is that this was not an overly active ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group. The Jewish\ngroup was not overly active for or against [the Civil Rights Movement]. I'm sure\nthat individually we all sympathized with black people. We all felt that they\nshould have all the rights of anyone else. As far as politically involved or\ninvolvement, I don't remember any.\n\nBERMAN: Darlington was a private school, correct?\n\nHEYMAN: Correct.\n\nBERMAN: Were there any African-American children . . .\n\nHEYMAN: Not in those days.\n\nBERMAN: And today?\n\nHEYMAN: Today there are plenty. Today ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Darlington's enrollment includes not only\nAfrican-Americans or black, but a lot of foreign country . . . A lot of Asians\nare here and a lot of Hispanics. Darlington, to my knowledge, was never\nrestricted as far as Jewish students. There were two or three Jewish students\nall the time that I was in school. One of them was from Atlanta. Joe Freitag\nwent to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Darlington for a year or two years. I'm not sure. There was another boy\nfrom Macon, a Jewish boy, that was in Darlington. Both of them were older than\nI. We had, from time to time, Jewish students. Understand that when I went to\nDarlington, I went to chapel. I sang the songs and listened to all the\npreaching. I didn't accept any of it, naturally, but I was one of the fellows. I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't stand out. I didn't boycott the chapels. I didn't boycott singing the\nsongs as maybe kids today would.\n\nBERMAN: This is a very general question. If you want to take a moment to think\nabout it, please feel free. How has growing up and living in a small community\naffected how you view the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world and your life in general?\n\nHEYMAN: That's not a difficult question. It's one that I have considered quite\noften. You also must understand that although I lived in Rome and grew up in\nRome, in my business career we traveled an awful lot. From 1949 when we married\nuntil 1970, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were in Chicago, New York, and New Orleans. We went to Bermuda.\nWe went to Jamaica. We went to the Bahamas . . . all with our business, most of\nit connected with business. In 1970, Jo and I took our first trip overseas. From\n1970 on, we were--if you want to call it--world travelers. In ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my view, and I\nwould even say our view--and she'll correct me when I'm wrong, and she will--our\nview . . . My view of the world is not confined to Rome, Georgia. I can see a\nlot of people who live here who have very confined views. We read the obituaries\nevery day. Somebody was born and never left Floyd County [Georgia]. There's an\nawful lot of very conservative people in this community. We are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not quite that\nconservative, but we are certainly much more conservative than the Jewish\ncommunity in Atlanta, personally that is. I don't speak with a Southern accent.\nDon't ask me why, except that I don't. I used to go to camp when I was 10, 11,\nand 12 years old in northern Michigan. My brother Charles went to the same camp.\nAt the end of the summer . . .\n\nHEYMAN: . . . all of Charles' friends talked like Southerners. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talked like the\nYankees. My view of the world is a lot different than Atlanta. Still, in Rome,\nI'm almost considered a liberal. You've got to view it . . . have I answered\nyour question?\n\nBERMAN: What is it about small-town life here, or smaller community life, that\nyou would like to instill or you would try ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to instill in your children?\n\nHEYMAN: I think the best example of that is when Lyons married, when Lyons,\nJunior married Gail Goldstein. They lived in Rome for a couple . . . three . . .\nmore than that. They lived in Rome for about four or five years. Gail's comment\nwas that you have no anonymity. In a small town, particularly as it used to be,\neverybody knew who you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were. This was very comforting. We felt like we were part\nof a larger community. We escaped a lot of the problems that Atlanta people had,\none of them being integration type of thing. We had a very confined life, shall\nwe say. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't . . . Our parties were not wild. Growing up, I didn't smoke or\ndrink until I went off to college. When you had a date [and] if you held hands,\nthat was very exciting. I think that living in a small town was very comforting.\nToday, I wouldn't change it for the world. All of my children live in Atlanta or\nMarietta [Georgia] or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Smyrna [Georgia], and all of them are involved . . . Two\nof them are involved in big Atlanta life. That is not for me. I would go crazy\nwith the traffic and with the constant controversies that exist in the political\nand social community. We don't seem to have that in Rome. If we do, we ignore\nit. We love it here because we are an hour and a half away from Atlanta. We go\nto operas. We go to theater. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go to symphony. We go to shows. We go to dine.\nWe meet friends in Rome to take to Atlanta. We go to Atlanta for meals and for\ndinners. It's close by. We don't have that kinship with Chattanooga, although\nit's the same distance. I think Rome, to me, has been kind of like . . . You\ncover yourself in small town ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activities, and you are kind of protected from the\nworld, if that makes any kind of sense.\n\nBERMAN: I think that does. It makes a lot of sense. I wanted to backtrack for\njust one moment, back to a little bit of earlier years. You told me a lot about\nwhat your family did and what their business was. If you have a recollection,\nwhat were some of the other Jewish-owned businesses here and what some of the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other members of the Jewish community participated in?\n\nHEYMAN: The most prominent family was the Esserman family. They had been here\nsince, I guess, the mid-1800's or the late 1800's. Esserman's store was a major\ndepartment store in the community. 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Over the years,\nwe had a kosher grocery store here that was a meat market inside one of the\ngrocery stores down on Broad Street, which was owned by Joe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Levy and his brother\nIsadore [Levy]. Somewhere in the early 1950's or maybe middle 1950's, Joe and\nSylvia Esserman--who were cousins of the Esserman family--bought out the Lad 'n'\nLassie Shop from Mike and Ray Kraft. They went into . . . They moved into\nAtlanta. One of the old families was the Stock family. 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He was one of the founders of the Rome Manufacturing\nCompany, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which made pants. He and the Burnes family were partners in that\nbusiness. They were never considered part of . . . The Jewish people never\nconsidered them really part of the Jewish community. They didn't attend\nsynagogue. They may have been members from time to time, but they were not\nreally part of the Jewish community, as such.\n\nBERMAN: Who was the other individual that you said . . .\n\nHEYMAN: Max Meyerhardt. Max ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meyerhardt was a devoted Roman. He was a judge.\nThere have been books written about him. When Henry Grady came to Rome, Max\nMeyerhardt was quoted as making some statements about the personality of Henry\nGrady. There is a plaque at the library that tells you the whole story, or part\nof the story, of Max Meyerhardt.\n\nBERMAN: When did he come here to Rome?\n\nHEYMAN: This was before my time. He was gone when I was here. He was one of the\njudges. 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Are you worried, or does it bother you,\nthat this may ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be, not the last generation or that the synagogue is getting\nsmaller and smaller . . . that in another maybe 20 or 30 years, there may not be\na Jewish community in Rome? Is that something that is affecting you or that is\nbothering you?\n\nHEYMAN: Very definitely. When we first came to Rome, there was something like 80\nor 90 Jewish families here. 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Everybody else . . .\nWe lost Susan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gavant Wall this past year--a young woman, 50 years old--due to\npancreatic cancer. I was hoping . . . My hope for the future of our congregation\nlay in these two ladies. What's going to happen 25 or 30 years from now, I don't\nknow. I'm encouraged by the fact that we do have younger people that are coming\ninto the community. We have more professional people than we ever did before.\nThere are more Jewish doctors. There are several Jewish professors out at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Berry\n[College]. Whether they will hold the community together as has been over all\nthese years, I can't tell you. I don't know. Yes, it does concern me, because we\nhave a very old and a very proud heritage. There's only this one person today\nthat's of the old Rome family. That's a phrase that we use here quite often.\nWe've been in Rome 60 years. That's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/transcript/24912/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long time for a lot of people. We used to\nsay, if you weren't born here, you couldn't criticize Rome. If you hadn't been\nhere for 40 years, you weren't really Roman. We've been here 60 years. We take\nseriously old Romans. If we lived in Atlanta, there is no such thing. Yes, it\nconcerns me. It bothers me. 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Rome is located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains approximately 70 miles northwest of Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHelene Joel Heyman (1903-1992)\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJoel, Lyons Barnett (1872-1933) was a native of Milledgeville, Georgia. In 1897, he co-founded the Bass Dry Goods Store in Atlanta, Georgia with his brother Benjamin Franklin Joel. He was conferred the honorary title “lieutenant-governor” while serving on the staffs of two Georgia governors, Clifford Walker and Lamartine Hardman, from 1923 to 1931.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRachel “Ray” Samuels Joel (1876-1952) was a native of Savannah, Georgia who resided in Atlanta, Georgia after marriage to Lyons Barnett Joel. She was a member of the National Council of Jewish Women and The Temple. She was a Gold Star Mother as a result of the death of her son Yoel Lyons Joel in the Argonne Forest during World War I.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Heyman (1900-1983) started his career as an office boy for Fox Manufacturing Company in Atlanta, Georgia in 1920. He bought the company, moved it to Rome, Georgia in 1936, and relocated his family to Rome in 1938. Charles was a past president of the Southern Furniture Manufacturing Association.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMinna Simon Heyman (1873-1952) was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana who relocated to Atlanta in 1896 when she married Arthur Heyman, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Heyman (1867 - 1951) was a prominent Atlanta attorney born in Chambers County, Alabama. He was a graduate of the University of Georgia and a member of Phi Betta Kappa, the Standard Club, and the Hebrew Benevolent Association (forerunner of The Temple).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple, or ‘Hebrew Benevolent Congregation,’ is Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation. The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875. The dedication was held in 1877 and The Temple was located there until 1902.  The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Reform congregation now totals approximately 1,500 families.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi David Marx was a long-time rabbi at The Temple in Atlanta, Georgia. He led the move toward Reform Judaism practices. He served as rabbi from 1895 to 1946. 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He was a graduate of North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina and was a salesman for Fox Manufacturing Company.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39921/file/111545/annotation_set/487/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLawrence Moyses Fox (1889-1959) was an Atlanta businessman who was born in Streator, Illinois. He succeeded his brother Alfred Fox as president of National Manufacturing and Stores Corporation and was a director of Fox Manufacturing Company in Rome, Georgia. 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His family included his wife Anna Friedman Esserman; sons Benjamin and Hyman, who operated the store with their father; and daughters Mildred Esserman Feinbloom, Edna Esserman, Fay “Fagie” Esserman, and Rose Esserman Levine. Other family members followed Pressley in relocating to Rome, including his brothers Louis, Charles, Harry, Sam, Joseph “Joe”, Edward, and his father David Esserman, a “shochet” who served as the rabbi of Rodeph Shalom Congregation in Rome until his death in 1917. 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