{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/z31ng4hj7b/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Oberdorfer, Donald Sr."]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDonald Oberdorfer, Sr. was interviewed by Michael Ginsberg in Atlanta, Georgia at an unknown date.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eDonald Oberdorfer (1901-1984) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Eugene and Daisy Oberdorfer. He founded Oberdorfer Insurance Associates, Inc. in 1921, and served as its president until his retirement in 1969, when he became chairman of its board. He was a graduate of the University of Georgia, where he played center on its football team, and was president of the alumni class in 1921. He was a noted civic leader serving as president of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council, president of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, president of the Joint Defense League, and civic president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. He was also a longtime director of the Atlanta chapter of the American Red Cross, chairman of the state USO during World War II and co-chairman of the Atlanta Community Chest. He was a president of the Standard Club, a member of the G Club, Phi Epsilon Phi, The Temple and Temple Sinai.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eDonald begins the interview be discussing his family history and how his family came to Atlanta, Georgia. Donald reminisces about his parent’s involvement in different political and Jewish organizations, the Jewish communities he grew up in, and his childhood homes. He moves on to discuss his school days and how he was transferred from public school to private school after an incident with being punished by a teacher. He talks about his time at the Marist School as well as his experiences attending college at the University of Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            The interview shifts to Donald’s life after college as he recalls how he entered the insurance business. He discusses his time working at Oberdorfer Insurance Associates with his brother, Eugene Oberdorfer, Jr. Donald and the Interviewer also discuss acceptable professions for Jewish boys after college in 1920. Donald also talks about handing control of OIA over to his son, Eugene Oberdorfer II, and how well he runs the company.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald briefly shifts to his personal life as he discusses how he met his wife, Dorothy Bayersdorfer Oberdorfer, getting married to her, their life together, and their children. The interview moves to both Donald’s professional and personal life as they talk about the Jewish community in Atlanta, Donald serving on the board of the Temple, and the relationships between Conservative and Reform temples during his childhood. Donald also talks about his involvement in various Jewish organizations as well as different fund raising organizations. Donald recalls being very active in organizations like the American Jewish Committee, the United Jewish Appeal, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            As a second interview with Donald at a later date begins, the Interviewer asks Donald about his involvement with the Hai Resh fraternity. Donald discusses his experiences with Hai Resh and also talks more about his involvement with the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta Community Chest. He also recalls his involvement with various clubs in the Atlanta area, including the Standard Club and the Ingleside Country Club. Donald tells the interviewer about the Jewish Educational Alliance and the Jewish Community Center that formed from the JEA. Donald closes out the interview by discussing about his time working with the United War Fund, the United Service Organizations, the AJC, and the Joint Defense Appeal.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28489"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Donald Oberdorfer, Sr. (personal name)","Dorothy Ruth Bayersdorfer Oberdorfer (personal name)","Donald Oberdorfer, Jr. (personal name)","Eugene \"Gene\" Irwin Oberdorfer II (personal name)","Eugene Oberdorfer, Sr. (personal name)","Daisy Israel Oberdorfer (personal name)","Eugene \"Gene\" Irwin Oberdorfer, Jr. (personal name)","Lyons Barnett Joel (personal name)","Benjamin Franklin Joel (personal name)","Joseph William Bean (personal name)","Julian Boehm (personal name)","Isadore Milton \"I.M.\" Weinstein (personal name)","Rabbi David Marx (personal name)","Rabbi David De Sola Pool (personal name)","Rabbi Harry Epstein (personal name)","Rabbi Jacob Rothschild (personal name)","Rabbi Joseph Cohen (personal name)","Rabbi Samuel Sandmel (personal name)","Rabbi Tobias Geffen (personal name)","Ralph Rosenbaum (personal name)","Albert Mayer (personal name)","Herman May (personal name)","Burns Club of Atlanta (corporate name)","Lucy Cobb Institute (corporate name)","University of Georgia (corporate name)","Marist School (corporate name)","National Panhellenic Conference (corporate name)","Seaboard Air Line Railroad (corporate name)","Knight-Ridder Newspaper, Inc. 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He founded Oberdorfer Insurance Associates, Inc. in 1921, and served as its president until his retirement in 1969, when he became chairman of its board. He was a graduate of the University of Georgia, where he played center on its football team, and was president of the alumni class in 1921. He was a noted civic leader serving as president of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council, president of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, president of the Joint Defense League, and civic president of the National Jewish Welfare Board. He was also a longtime director of the Atlanta chapter of the American Red Cross, chairman of the state USO during World War II and co-chairman of the Atlanta Community Chest. He was a president of the Standard Club, a member of the G Club, Phi Epsilon Phi, The Temple and Temple Sinai.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonald begins the interview be discussing his family history and how his family came to Atlanta, Georgia. Donald reminisces about his parent’s involvement in different political and Jewish organizations, the Jewish communities he grew up in, and his childhood homes. He moves on to discuss his school days and how he was transferred from public school to private school after an incident with being punished by a teacher. He talks about his time at the Marist School as well as his experiences attending college at the University of Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            The interview shifts to Donald’s life after college as he recalls how he entered the insurance business. He discusses his time working at Oberdorfer Insurance Associates with his brother, Eugene Oberdorfer, Jr. Donald and the Interviewer also discuss acceptable professions for Jewish boys after college in 1920. Donald also talks about handing control of OIA over to his son, Eugene Oberdorfer II, and how well he runs the company.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald briefly shifts to his personal life as he discusses how he met his wife, Dorothy Bayersdorfer Oberdorfer, getting married to her, their life together, and their children. The interview moves to both Donald’s professional and personal life as they talk about the Jewish community in Atlanta, Donald serving on the board of the Temple, and the relationships between Conservative and Reform temples during his childhood. Donald also talks about his involvement in various Jewish organizations as well as different fund raising organizations. Donald recalls being very active in organizations like the American Jewish Committee, the United Jewish Appeal, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            As a second interview with Donald at a later date begins, the Interviewer asks Donald about his involvement with the Hai Resh fraternity. Donald discusses his experiences with Hai Resh and also talks more about his involvement with the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta Community Chest. He also recalls his involvement with various clubs in the Atlanta area, including the Standard Club and the Ingleside Country Club. Donald tells the interviewer about the Jewish Educational Alliance and the Jewish Community Center that formed from the JEA. Donald closes out the interview by discussing about his time working with the United War Fund, the United Service Organizations, the AJC, and the Joint Defense Appeal.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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We're conducting an interview in connection with the Oral History\nProgram that is being initiated by AJC [American Jewish Committee] this year and\nhopefully to continue. I think we're lucky to have you to be one of the first\nmembers of community who has a history and knowledge of community to give us the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"benefit of your experience and thoughts on Atlanta. I wanted to help you direct\nyour thoughts first to when you first came to Atlanta. Tell us, if you will,\nsomething about your parents [and] about your grandparents, when they came to\nAtlanta, what you can remember or heard your parents tell you, where you moved\nto in Atlanta and what you did. Just going all the way back to the very beginning.\n\nOBERDORFER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm delighted to have an opportunity to be part of this project of\nthe American Jewish Committee and this Oral History [Project]. I can just say\nthat I appreciate your coming out and giving your time to interview me. The\nbeginning of my life was here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Atlanta. I was born in Atlanta on November 25,\n1901. My early days, of course, were very interesting because my father was\nbecoming to be better known in Atlanta than ever before. To begin at the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"beginning of my life, and going back, I don't recall any of my grandparents\nexcept one who was my mother's mother. My mother's mother was named Rebecca\nBaer, B-A-E-R. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She lived in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] and married in\nPhiladelphia. Her husband's name was Israel, his last name was Israel,\nI-S-R-A-E-L. I never knew him. I remember her as Rebecca Israel. My mother's\nmaiden name was Daisy Israel. Grandma, as we used to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"call my mother's mother,\nlived with us here in Atlanta during the days I remember her in life. The\nsituation is that my mother and father were married in Ocala, Florida. My mother\nwas born when my grandmother was running the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"blockade during the Civil War, and\nshe was coming from Philadelphia to Ocala, and gave birth at that time to my\nmother in Concord, North Carolina. So my mother was really a native Carolinian.\nBy strange coincidence, my youngest son, Eugene ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oberdorfer II, attended and\ngraduated from the University of North Carolina. To go back to the beginning of\nmy parents' background, I would say that my father ran away from home which was\nin Hinesville, New York, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because his mother had passed away and his father, so I\nam told, remarried. My father did not get along too well with his stepmother. I\nthink he ran away from home when he was 20. He went to Savannah, Georgia,\nworking his way down as a cabin boy on one of the ocean liners that had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"existed\nback in those days. He settled originally in Savannah, Georgia, where he had\nsome relatives. They were cousins of his, and belonged to the Lillian Farn\nfamily and the Lefler family in Savannah. He stayed there a year or maybe more\nand went on to Florida. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He obtained a job with the United States government and\nbecame the Deputy Collector of Revenue for the ports of Tampa and Jacksonville\n[Florida]. There were no other ports at that time. In connection with his work,\nhe had to pass upon what is known as a customs entry bond. That entry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bond was\nissued through, at that time, one of the few insurance and bonding companies\nwhich existed. The name of the company was the Fidelity and Casualty Company of\nNew York. They approached my father and proposed to him that instead of being\nemployed by the government, that he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accept a position as Special Agent with that\ninsurance company. In this way, my life in business really began in insurance\ndue to the incident which I just explained about my father. My father and mother\nwere married in Ocala, Florida. Then they moved to Jacksonville, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida. My\nfather appointed agents throughout the State of Florida. In 1895, the Cotton\nStates Exposition for all of the southern states throughout the country was held\nin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. The company transferred my father to Atlanta in 1895. He was\ndesignated then as Resident Manager of the company for Georgia and Florida.\nLater, Alabama and South Carolina were added to his territory. He had agents\nthroughout four ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"states. At the time of his death, which was in 1932, he was\nstill resident manager for the four states for the Fidelity and Casualty Company\nof New York. Now, do you get a break any time?\n\nGINSBERG: Certainly.\n\nOBERDORFER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Unintelligible: 8.27] I want to make a correction. I remember now\nmy father passed away on February the 22, 1931. He was prominent at that time,\nhaving been not only well known throughout the South as an insurance man, but\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also he played a prominent part in Hebrew religious affairs and civic work,\nbeing one of the founders and a past President of the Atlanta Burns Club. That\nclub was a group of men, principally from Scotland or [of] Scotch descent, who\nwere lovers of the poet Robert Burns. There is a replica of Bobby ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Burns'\nbirthplace of Aire, Scotland that was erected here in Atlanta, and it's here\ntoday. On the cornerstone of that building there is the name of the trustees,\nincluding my father, who caused this unusual edifice to be built here in\nAtlanta. Another matter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that my dad was interested in was he was Chairman of the\nboard of an organization known as the National Order of Twenty-One, which was a\npolitical order of a kind. Another matter was that he was a member [of] the Arab\nTemple or Shrine, which was here in Atlanta, having been a member of the Masonic\nOrder ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while he was in Florida and transferring to Atlanta, where he became a\nShriner. He also was the President of the Atlanta Jewish Educational Alliance.\nThat was a city-wide Jewish organization giving all that it could in the way of\neducation and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"helpfulness to any Jewish newcomers to Atlanta during those years.\nAlso, it was a center of recreation. From memory, it was located on Capitol\nAvenue here in Atlanta. I mention the location because it happens that at one\ntime the words \"Capitol Avenue\" meant a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot to me as I was born at 315 Capitol\nAvenue, which of course was in 1901, as I have stated.\n\nGINSBERG: Did your family live there?\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes, my family lived here. I was born in Atlanta.\n\nGINSBERG: Where was your first residence that you can remember?\n\nOBERDORFER: The first residence that my family had before I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born was on\nEllis Street. My older brother, who is five years older than I, was born there.\nHe was born in 1896 whereas I was born in 1901. The next location of my family\nwas at Capitol Avenue. This location ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a location of many Jewish families in\nthat area, which is not true of the Ellis Street location. Nor was it true of\nlater places that my family lived which I remember as a boy. I'll say that the\nJewish community lived in the area of Capitol Avenue and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nearby Washington\nStreet with the various other streets nearby being Pryor Street, Georgia Avenue,\nand other streets, many of them being located in the area which is now our\nAtlanta Stadium. My parents moved from Ellis Street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to their home at the corner\nof Jackson and Houston Streets. His neighbors, as I remember, were not Jewish.\nOne neighbor was our family doctor who was Dr. Duncan. Another neighbor was a\nMr. Weems who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the executive head of the YMCA [Young Men's Christian\nAssociation]. Another neighbor was the Mitchell family whose daughter, a\ncontemporary of mine, was Margaret Mitchell, the author who wrote Gone with the\nWind. I used to, as a boy, play with Margaret Mitchell's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother, Stevens\nMitchell, who is a well-known and prominent attorney here in Atlanta today. Also\nthere was a family by the name of Stevens that lived nearby. So that area was\nour home at the time I attended Mrs. Clark's kindergarten. Then my family moved\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again. I'll say that this time the move was quite a departure from that\nneighborhood which took us over to Fourteenth Street . . . Fourteenth Street\nwhich at that time was considered almost a suburb of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta and today is the\nsite, near the site of Colony Square where the Fairmont Hotel has recently\nopened. Our home was between Peachtree and West Peachtree. My mother and father\ndesigned the home and had, of course, architects to carry out their wishes of\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plan. It was located on an elevated hill. Next door to us there were twin\nColonial homes occupied by the two Joel brothers, L.B. Joel and Ben F. Joel, who\nwere the first to build on Fourteenth Street. They were an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old Jewish family.\nPart of their families were the Menkos, M-E-N-K-O, and the Bukofzer,\nB-U-K-O-F-Z-E-R, and the Joels.\n\nGINSBERG: How old were you about that time?\n\nOBERDORFER: At that time, I was in the second grade of school.\n\nGINSBERG: Where were you --\n\nOBERDORFER: The first grade of school, I went to Boulevard School which was a\npublic school located ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"several blocks from our home on Jackson Street. Then I\nattended public school for the next few years. However, as I was in the fifth\ngrade of public school, I received a very severe punishment one day because of\nthe fact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that someone had carved the initials 'D.O.' on the desk which was\nassigned to me. There was another boy in my class whose name was Donovan Owens.\nHe and I were good friends. I knew that Donovan Owens had not mutilated the desk\nin that manner. I never did find out, nor did Donny know, who did it. But\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nevertheless, I was severely punished by a brutal whipping with a switch. The\nteacher of the class took me into the principal. The principal and the teacher\nhad a hickory stick, not a stick but a switch, and they lambasted me for lying\nas well as for damaging the desk. 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But this time, being\nnot guilty and being more severely punished than ever before, I went home and I\ntold my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents about this. I showed them the blood and the severe lacerations\non my rear end. My father came home [and] had me attended by our physician. He,\ntoo, was amazed at the severity of this punishment. As a result of this, my\nfather went before the Atlanta Board of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Education. The outcome was that\npunishment to children in the public schools by teachers was abolished. The cry\nwas either \"spare the rod and spoil the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"child\" or else the parents should have\nthe privilege of whatever punishment was to be dealt to the mischievous child.\nBy coincidence, during the past year, the City of Atlanta has at long last,\nafter all these years, changed its mind and punishment being given ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by teachers\nis now permitted in the schools. But I'll never forget that the newspapers came\nout and said, \"Whipping in the public school abandoned in Atlanta due to Donald Oberdorfer.\"\n\nGINSBERG: Did you become a hero?\n\nOBERDORFER: I was a hero with my fellow classmates, but I was taken out of\npublic school. From there I attended Professor McCuhan's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School for Boys.\n\nGINSBERG: Where was that located?\n\nOBERDORFER: That was located on Linden Avenue which today is where Crawford Long\nHospital is located, near Peachtree Street on Linden Avenue. Professor McCuhan\nremained there as his own private school for one year, and then he was\ntransferred over to Marist, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"M-A-R-I-S-T, which was known as Marist College, as\ntheir charter permitted them to have a college. But they really were upper grade\ngrammar school and high school in their educational facilities. The school was\nconducted by the Catholic Order of St. Mary's. 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I attended Marist through the sixth,\nseventh, and eighth ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grades of grammar school with Professor McCuhan being\npromoted with me each year. So he and I became fast friends. I regretted the day\nthat he passed. I was a pallbearer many years later at his funeral here in Atlanta.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me ask you a question to go back a little bit. 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Our coach was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joe Bean. Joe Bean was the paid athletic director for\nthe Atlanta Athletic Club. He was also the coach for Marist, not only for\nfootball which I played at Marist, and basketball, which I also played at\nMarist, but also baseball and any of the sports. We had a distinctive ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"record at\nMarist of being outstanding in performance in various activities. The stay at\nMarist lasted for three years. At the end of my third year at Marist, I felt\nthat I would think about going to college the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"following year. In September I\ndecided to go over to the University of Georgia in Athens [Georgia] to ascertain\njust what would be the best courses for me to take at Marist for my senior year.\nMuch to my --\n\nGINSBERG: Were you in the twelfth grade or for your senior year?\n\nOBERDORFER: It was called the third year of high school. I was supposed to enter\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"next year, the fourth year of high school, which would be the senior year of\nhigh school at that time.\n\nGINSBERG: So you would have been --\n\nOBERDORFER: There were eight grades and then four. There were eight grades of\ngrammar school and four years of high school before you were eligible to go to\ncollege at that time.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me go back just to make sure I've got something clear. In the\nfifth grade you left public school and you went to Professor McCuhan's School\nfor Boys for the sixth, seventh, and eighth ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grades. Then the ninth, tenth,\neleventh, and twelfth you were at Marist? Is that correct?\n\nOBERDORFER: That would be equivalent to today's twelfth, I guess, if the\nthirteenth grade is your graduating grade today. I don't know whether --\n\nGINSBERG: No, twelfth is still your graduating grade.\n\nOBERDORFER: It would be eight and four which makes twelfth grade be senior year.\nI did not graduate from Marist. 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I was standing in line. When I got to\nhim, he asked me if I wanted to attend the University of Georgia. I told him,\n\"Yes sir.\" He asked for my credentials, which I had brought along. He told me,\nhe said, \"Why you haven't graduated from high school.\" I said, \"No sir.\" He\nsaid, \"You want to attend the University?\" I said, \"Yes sir.\" He said, \"Well,\nare you prepared to take the entrance exams?\" \"No.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Did you go to summer\nschool?\" \"No sir.\" He said, \"There's only one way I know you can do that. And\nthat is, I can enter you conditionally.\" I said, \"What's that?\" He explained to\nme that if I made grades one mark above passing during my freshman year that the\ncollege would promote me to sophomore. But if I didn't make grades that\njustified it, I would have to take the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"freshman year over again. I told him I\nwould see him later. I went to the telephone and I called my parents at home.\nThey objected and tempted me by saying that I should certainly have the pleasure\nof having graduated from high school and all of the friends that I had variously\nwould forget that I was a member of their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class and so forth. I won my point\nthat the idea of graduating from high school was so that you could go to\ncollege, and here I was almost in college if they would just let me do it. They\ngave me their permission. 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So I wore an armband that said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Non-SATC.\" There was just no way to\ndescribe a few of our associates and classmates who has similarly entered\ncollege at very young age. One of these is a well-known friend of mine in\nAtlanta, David Marx, whose father was the rabbi of the Hebrew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Benevolent\nCongregation which is known as the Temple. Which is an organization, the Temple\nhas quite a history. It hadn't been --\n\nGINSBERG: I want to go back just a moment. I don't want you to leave your\ncollege days.\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes.\n\nGINSBERG: Tell me something about what it was like to go to college in those\ndays as opposed to what you must know is the experience of many people today.\nWere there a lot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of women on the college campus at that time?\n\nOBERDORFER: No, there were no co-eds except those that came in through a special\ncourse which was held through the Agricultural College which was part of the\nUniversity. There were a number of girls who went to school in Athens. One very\nfashionable school was known as Lucy Cobb. 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So there was no such\nthing as co-education as such at that time. The truth of it is that I did not\ntake my college life too seriously. I guess I attribute that to the fact that I\nwas 16 when I entered ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college. I managed to graduate in three years. That was\nnot due to any brilliancy on my part, in my opinion, but due to the fact that I\nfelt that the purpose of being at college was to graduate. So I took some extra\ncourses. I did my best to switch my courses around so that some of them were\nknown ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as crip, C-R-I-P, courses, which mean they were easy. But nevertheless, I\nenjoyed my few years at college. I played football on the varsity team in 1919,\nat which time I was 17 years old. 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I was also captain of my basketball class\nteam, as we had what was called a splendid resource to basketball after football\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"season was over. I never participated very keenly in baseball, but I did go out\nfor track as I threw the javelin and the discus as well as the shot put. 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As his volume grew, instead of him receiving a\ncertain percent, I don't remember the figures, but say three percent override\nover the volume for the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four states that he was in charge of . . . when his\nfive-year contract was about to renewed by the company, his volume had grown so\nthat they reduced his commission to two-and-a-half percent. Then the next time,\nthey would reduce it to two percent. Although it meant an increase in money to\nhim each time, because he was a very able man, I thought it was quite unfair for\nthe harder he worked, the less percentage ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he received. So I didn't particularly\nwant to go into the insurance business. But lo and behold, that is the first\nthing that happened to me was to go into the insurance business. My brother,\nwhose name was Eugene Oberdorfer, Jr., came to me about three weeks before my\ngraduation at college and asked me what I was going to do after college. 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He had graduated from\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college before I did. We were not of the same so-called vintage because of this\nfive-year difference age. But when he said to go into business with him, I\nthought that was superb. I came to Atlanta and went into the insurance business\nthe week after graduation. I've been in the insurance business ever since. As a\nmatter of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fact, my brother and I were in business together from 1921 until . . .\nhe passed away some 10 or 11 years ago. We had separated from business about 10\nyears ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"prior to that, so that when we separated, became interested more so in\nmortgages and real estate and securities, all of which was a portion of\nOberdorfer Insurance Agency. But I was the active person in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"insurance\nbusiness. So I was the only producer that actually sold the insurance for the\nagency for many years. The reason that we finally parted ways in insurance was\nthe fact that I was the proud parent of two boys. My brother had no boys. His\nchildren . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anyway, I wanted to make provisions in the company for my two\nboys to enter the insurance world if they would choose to do so after their\ncollege career. As it happens, I'm very fortunate that one of my two sons did\nenter the insurance business. His name is Eugene Oberdorfer II. He was named\nafter my father whose name was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugene. Of course, my brother also was Eugene Jr.\nSo my son was Eugene II. My first and oldest, the older of the two boys was\nDonald Oberdorfer, Jr. He is a writer with The Washington Post. He wanted to\nbecome a writer when he was a little boy. He was editor of his high school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paper\nand was the chairman of the Daily Princetonian when he attended Princeton\n[University]. He later became a curb reporter with the Charlotte Observer which\nwas owned by the Knight Newspaper chain. He was sent to Washington to write as a\nWhite House Washington reporter by the Charlotte Observer. 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Did many become lawyers or doctors or was it more customary to\nbecome merchants in retailing or do you have any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"observations?\n\nOBERDORFER: No, there was quite a cross-section of businesses that the boys\nwould go into. Some of them entered law school, graduate law school. Some of\nthem went to the University [of Georgia] Law School after graduation or having\ntwo years of college education and then going to the University of Georgia Law\nSchool. 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Most\nof them were boys who were studying agriculture as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the State of Georgia was well\nknown as an agricultural state. 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We later became a corporation, and then the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"corporation, Oberdorfer Insurance Agency Incorporated, exists today as the owner\ndoing business as Oberdorfer Insurance Associates. The business has changed\nsomewhat in its many facets over the years. 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At that\ntime I decided that my son Gene should become the President of our company and I\nwould become the Chairman of the board, which I am ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today. I turned over the\nadministration and executive duties primarily to him. I still continue as an\nadvisor to the agency. I continue active in contacts with many of my clients as\nI had contacted them in the past, and I continue to do so. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Although the\ntechnical skills that are needed in the insurance business today are more\nextensively and more thoroughly handled by my son and the team of men that he\nhas attained for our good company, as we now have three other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"members of this\nclassification of CPCU, Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters. Also, a\ndegree is held by five of our personnel in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Risk Management. This is a newer\nphase of the insurance industry. I have one degree only, and that is, as I call\nit, the 'SHK,' and that's the 'School of Hard Knocks.' I pride myself on\nlearning the hard way, although it is no easy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job for those who are now more\nactive than I.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me ask you about your wife. When did you, how did you meet her?\nWhen did you get married? 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Her name was Julia Greenfield.\nDottie, as my wife ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is well known by that nickname, her name being Dorothy\nBayersdorfer Oberdorfer, which is quite a mouthful, visited Atlanta at a time\nthat we were about to attend a social affair at Columbus, Georgia, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where the\nJewish families would get together. I don't mean the entire families, I mean the\nyoung people at that time would have what we would call an inter-city affair\nwhich would last some several days, a weekend. They would meet in Montgomery,\nAlabama, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Birmingham, Alabama, Columbus, Georgia, and also in Atlanta. The\noccasion of the party in Columbus prompted Julia Greenfield to invite Dottie\ndown to visit Atlanta. I was happy to meet Dot through Goucher. I've always said\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I am the proud wearer of the 'G' for Georgia as well as the 'G' for Goucher\nbecause of my love of Goucher which I have learned through my wife. We are very\nhappy and consider ourselves very fortunate in our two sons and their wives ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\ntheir children, our grandchildren. One of the unusual things in my life and\nhappy situations was caused by the fact that I had no sisters as a boy. I only\nhad the one brother. Then Dottie and I had two sons and no daughters. But now at\nlong last, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married and their wives are considered as our daughters. Both of\nthe two families have, in Washington, where Don lives, a son and a daughter, and\nhere in Atlanta where Gene lives, a son and two daughters. So you can imagine\nour love of these grandchildren, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"particularly the granddaughters.\n\nGINSBERG: When did you get married?\n\nOBERDORFER: We married in June of 1927, June 22, 1927. We married in\nSteubenville, Ohio.\n\nGINSBERG: How did you end up there?\n\nOBERDORFER: My wife's home was in Steubenville, which is a small city but a very\nwell-known city [in Ohio]. 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We enjoyed\nknowing one another, meeting together at these parties which were and still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are\nbeing in the background of becoming back into reality in this day and time.\nThere's hope that the Atlanta young contingent will host a party for similar\ngroups of Jewish youngsters around this area once again. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dottie was invited back\nagain to attend a house party over Christmas and New Year holidays. Her father\nin Steubenville reminded her that she had just made a trip to Atlanta and she\nalready had another date with somebody some place, I think in Philadelphia where\nshe was going to visit some other relatives. 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The motivating influence of having the party was\nBen Joel because he particularly wanted a young lady who lived up in Kentucky\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who had visited Atlanta at the time Dottie had visited here. He had fallen\nin love with her and wanted her to come down here for this second occasion. So\nhe prevailed on me to prevail on Dottie to come down here. I wanted Dottie to\ncome and be with us for the party. 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This friend of\nmine happened to be in the jewelry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. He had already arranged that he\nwould have the mounting for the engagement ring if I would provide the stone,\nwhich I did. So I presented Dottie with the engagement ring which I had just\narranged for in Pittsburgh. 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But again I was lucky and he said yes.\n\nGINSBERG: In those days, did you ask the father first or the daughter first?\n\nOBERDORFER: You were supposed to ask the father for permission to become\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"engaged, but actually you had to know that the daughter wanted to become engaged\nwith you before you asked the father. So you actually asked the daughter first,\nand then you got parental consent, if you could. 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As in some\nthings, I was interested as was Dot, but I was active, and in others, she was\nvery active.\n\nGINSBERG: I will ask you questions about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what you can recollect about the Jewish\ncommunity in Atlanta, specifically anything you can recollect about religious\nlife in Atlanta at the various synagogues that existed while you were growing\nup, any stories you've heard about congregations, earlier congregations in\nAtlanta than even when you came, development of the existing congregations ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nwho the rabbis of those congregations were, and what, if any, interaction there\nwas between those congregations?\n\nOBERDORFER: Actually, I was a confirmant at the Temple which is the official\nname of which is the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation. 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At one time, I\nserved as a member of the board of the Temple, but it was for only a very brief\ntime because it was after my father's death that a very good friend of his, and\nwho had also been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"President of the congregation, came to me and asked me to\nserve. I told him that he greeted me with the first words of saying, \"I want you\nto do a favor for me, Donald.\" I said, \"I'll do anything you ask me to.\" This\ngentleman's name was Ralph Rosenbaum. He told me then that he wanted me to serve\non the board of the Temple. I said, \"Oh, no. You don't want me to be on the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"board of the Temple.\" I've never been active in the Temple myself. I've never\ntaken real activity, been real active in the Temple. I wouldn't like to be\npointed out as a proper man to be on the board of the Temple. I've been active\nin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish life doing other things, but I also like to drink liquor and I like to\nplay cards. I shoot craps and I do this and that and the other. Uncle Ralph said\nto me, \"Donald, I didn't ask you what you do and what you don't do. I asked you\nto do me a favor. You said you would. So I want you to become a member of the\nboard of the Temple.\" I said, \"Okay. 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He\nwas still our rabbi, it was at the new Temple on Peachtree Street which exists\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. That exact time that the Temple moved from Pryor Street to Peachtree Road,\nI don't remember. I was confirmed at Pryor Street, so naturally that was about\n16 years old, I imagine, when I was confirmed. This was many, many years later\nafter I'd been in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business for quite a while. I don't even recall whether I was\nmarried or not at the time. I think possibly I was though. It was after my\nfather had passed away, so now we have a clue. It was after 1931.\n\nGINSBERG: You say you were confirmed at the Pryor Street Temple. Did you go to\nreligious school? 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But at that time, for some reason, I don't\nquite know exactly what, I had the concept that my confirmation was my\nexpression of belief in Judaism and its teachings, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that I had now graduated\nfrom temple. I had graduated from Sunday school. I would go to services from\ntime to time, but I never attended religious service regularly. I have, since\nthe death of my father and the later death of my mother, I've always gone ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nservices on Yom Kippur, particularly the memorial services. I don't remember\never having missed a service at that time. But outside of that and possibly Rosh\nHashanah or some special occasion as the confirmation of some friend or even\nnowadays ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bar mitzvah, which at the time that I was growing up was not even\nperformed in the Reform Temple to which I was a member. It's only been in recent\nyears that children of membership in the Temple have become bar mitzvah. 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I became very close to religious activity during the war, during\nthe Second World War when I was National Vice-President of the Jewish Welfare\nBoard, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was Southeastern President of the Council of Jewish Federations and\nWelfare Funds. I was at the same time Chairman of the State of Georgia for USO\n[United Service Organizations], which included all of the religious groups who\nwere members of USO -- YMCA, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"YWCA, Salvation Army and, of course, the National\nJewish Welfare Board. 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I wanted them to get the religious benefit of the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbis that were available in the area.\n\nGINSBERG: What I had in mind more in your childhood, did you recollect any\nfriendships or how would you define the relationship between the Jews of German\norigin as opposed to the Jews of Russian or Sephardic origin? Were there places\nwhere these Jews interacted and if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so, how would you, you know, do you have any recollections?\n\nOBERDORFER: There just wasn't hardly any contact that I had as a boy as far as\nreligion was concerned. I did not attend the Orthodox or Conservative synagogues\nto participate in their hours of prayer. 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I\ndid attend in early manhood when some friend would have a child and I attended\nthe bris ceremonies as a guest. I also attended all the functions but not\npraying together, not worshipping together, but meeting together, meeting with\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the rabbis here in Atlanta on various occasions through activity in the Jewish\ncommunity. 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I was on the committee of the Temple that selected Rabbi\n[Jacob] Rothschild to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"become associated with the Temple here in Atlanta.\nAlthough this was not a board function, it was just merely as an interested\nmember of the congregation that I had the privilege of being on the group that\napproved of Rabbi Rothschild moving here from Pittsburgh.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me interrupt a second. In terms of perceiving the Jewish\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community, you expressed you didn't have that much contact as a child. How about\nafter you became a member of the board of the Temple? What kind of rivalries or\nrelationships existed between the various congregations in the community?\n\nOBERDORFER: I never looked at there being much rivalry, although there was some\nthat existed. 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He certainly knows\nmore about the operation of the Sunday school than anybody that I know of that's\nsitting here that's not confronted with the operation of the Temple or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nSunday school [more] particularly than the rabbi himself.\" Immediately the board\nreacted very adversely to my suggestion. They felt that it was the board's\nprerogative to discuss matters concerning the Sunday school. I didn't agree with\nthat. 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But as far as any conflicts\nwith the other congregations or the other religious bodies in the city, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that did\nnever enter my mind because I felt that I accepted the right of any man to\nworship as he chose to worship. I was in later life very active in the American\nJewish Committee [AJC] and in the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith [ADL],\nbased on my philosophy, practically the same philosophy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that all of us have and\nthat is the freedom for men to worship as they wish and to be free men wherever\nthey are. 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I feel keenly that loss as I did with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"others in my or my\nwife's family who have passed away. I therefore do not think that I can spend\nvery much time or helpfulness on this particular subject other than the way I've\nexpressed it.\n\nGINSBERG: How about recollections about relations between Jewish and non-Jewish\nsegments of the community over issues like the Ku Klux ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Klan [KKK], the [Leo]\nFrank case, or even [Adolf] Hitler? How did you perceive the relationship\nbetween Gentiles and Jews?\n\nOBERDORFER: I'll take the situation of the Ku Klux Klan first and say that my\ncontacts with the Ku Klux Klan were always out of being active in the American\nJewish Committee and in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Anti-Defamation League. The Ku Klux Klan itself\nbeing an organization that had already expressed itself that they did not\nbelieve that Jews had a right to worship nor even to live, as far as that's\nconcerned. 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My feeling for this was because I felt that\nalthough there were quite a number of organizations, I haven't mentioned all of\nthem, that were active in the pursuit of combatting anti-Semitism, that it could\nbe best done not through one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"organization by any means but by cooperation\namongst all organizations to the extent of knowing just how the problems were to\nbe dealt [with].\n\nGINSBERG: Let me direct you at this point. 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Begin describing to us . . .\n\nOBERDORFER: I began with, my first contact, of course, was a joint one as I was\na member of B'nai B'rith and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thereby became on a local scene as being interested\nin the Anti-Defamation League. 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One of them was Mr. Herman May.\nAnother was Mr. Albert Mayer, who today is also a good personal friend of mine\nand actually, although he may be a few years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"elder to me, he is a good golfing\npartner of mine today. I am now 74, will be 75 this year. I graduated quite\nyoung from the University of Georgia in 1921. Albert Mayer graduated from the\nUniversity of Alabama in 1906. That was 15 years earlier than I graduated. 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This\norganization had sent someone here to endeavor to organize a chapter in Atlanta.\nAnd I remember attending a meeting at that time where we considered that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our\ncommunity being active as it was in helping refugees from Hitlerism and from\nWestern Europe to better themselves and to escape from places where their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lives\nwere threatened. 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I became a member of the national board by virtue of the fact that I was\nelected as Southeastern President of the Southern, Southeastern President is\nwhat I was elected of the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds. I later\nbecame a member of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"National Council without being President of the Southern\nregion. But at a meeting of the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds, I was\napproached by a group of people who asked me to become the national chairman of\nthe Joint Defense ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Appeal. They had to explain to me exactly what the Joint\nDefense Appeal would do, what its accomplishments were, what its purposes were.\nThey explained to me that in New York City [New York] and in Chicago [Illinois],\nthe Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee raised funds\njointly. They called themselves the Joint Defense Appeal. 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I, after seeking the advice of my wife by long-distance phone as\nto what she thought about me accepting such a position as a lay person, she said\nthat if that's what I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to do, why go ahead. Having very deep convictions\nas to the splendid work being performed by AJC and ADL, I did accept with one\nprovision and that was that the organization would have to understand just why\nthey were raising money and not just go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out with a hat in hand and ask for funds\nfor ADL or for AJC. I said that the communities in America, particularly the\nJewish communities, would contribute to the Joint Defense Appeal if they\nunderstood that they were combatting anti-Semitism and making the world a better\nworld by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also providing and seeing to it that all people, whether they were\nJewish or not, had a right to live and exist and enjoy freedom of religion\nwherever they were. 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I helped because as soon as I\nreceived the names of some 24 men from around the country, Indianapolis\n[Indiana], Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], Memphis [Tennessee], you name it, Omaha\n[Nebraska], any large city where these 24 individual ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fine men had been selected\nby the two organizations. We named Chicago as the first place for a meeting of\nthe Executive Committee. A date was appointed, a date was designated for these\nmen to come. I prevailed on each one of them to come to the meeting, but in so\ndoing, I learned that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it wasn't so simple to get these two organizations\ntogether in activity other than fundraising. I wanted them to coordinate their\nefforts, which they had done by natural history of the two organizations. They\nhad been very active in combatting anti-Semitism, but from slightly different\napproaches. 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He was very\nexpressive and recognized in the editorials that he would write for the Atlanta\nConstitution combatting the Ku Klux Klan and doing things beyond the call of\nduty in being helpful in seeing to it that the very basis of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the reasons of the\nexistence of our organizations were promoted by him. He was a great man. The\nworld and Atlanta lost a fine man when he passed away. But that was the platform\nof the organization of the Joint Defense Appeal.\n\nGINSBERG: Was it successful and what has been its ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"history since?\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes, the funds were raised. The organizations became better [and]\ncloser together. They were still the parent committee, known as the Committee of\nSix, which had three members from AJC and three members from ADL in New York and\nin Chicago that were to plan the activities of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joint Defense Appeal. They\ndid a good job. They performed well. They assisted. 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A comment was made at one of, at a\ncertain time during my arguments on behalf of combatting anti-Semitism through\nAJC and ADL and the Joint Defense Appeal, that actually the people on the West\nCoast were not increasing their amounts of contribution because of JDA, it was\njust because they wanted to hear ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my southern accent. I was quite surprised that\nI'd be criticized because that was the reason that the increased amounts were\nreceived. Of course, I knew better than that. 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Our fellow Atlantans who were members of\nAJC and ADL increased their own contributions through the Joint Defense Appeal.\nWe were able to meet our goal of some, I forget the exact amount, but I would\nsay a budget of about, nationally some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$5,000,000, in my opinion. In any event,\nthe organization was gaining momentum around the country because it had members\nwho were inspired to do their work of appearing before committees and groups and\nexplaining the causes for which the money was given. 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The chief executives, the executive\nvice-presidents and other professional staff appeared ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to further give us\ninspiration on fund raising. When we of the Joint Defense Appeal conceived the\nidea that the National Executive Committee who were setting the policies for the\nprograms ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the joint venture of AJC and ADL should recognize the Joint Defense\nAppeal by letting us have representation on this committee so that we would\nlearn firsthand and participate in this program philosophy and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"planning,\nplanning the budgets of the national organizations and such as that. The number\nof people, for example, who represented AJC on that committee were 12, and the\nnumber from ADL were 12, making 24 people. 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Much to my amazement, this was never adopted\nby national AJC and national ADL. This was at the meeting which I attended at\nthe time that my term of office was to expire and did expire. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I continue to\nact as the chairman of the committee during the assembly of this meeting which\nwas the third year after its inception. 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I served again during\n1946 and 1947 and until the end of 1948, when it was decided then that they\ndidn't want the Joint Defense Appeal to have anybody directly from the Joint\nDefense Appeal ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to sit on this committee. I never understood why not, but there\nwas some rule or some reason that one of the organizations had that was to the\neffect that no one, but no one, had a right to name anybody to this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"overall\ncommittee that had charge of the activities of AJC and another group that had\ncharge of the activities of ADL, and that nobody except through ADL or AJC could\nserve in that capacity, even those who were out among the national group raising\nfunds. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"regretted that they wouldn't breathe a little more spirit into the\nJoint Defense Appeal because it was gaining momentum around the country that it\nwas considered and was an honor to be on the National Council of the Joint\nDefense Appeal. There was no divisiveness in our organization between ADL or\nAJC. 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So ADL is succeeding in raising more money and funds\nfor combatting anti-Semitism, and so is AJC. So without the Joint Defense\nAppeal, in which I was greatly interested, I am happy that the cause itself is\nbeing better supported today than even before. 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So it was a very satisfactory experience for me.\n\nGINSBERG: This is a continuation of the interview with Donald Oberdorfer. It's\ntaking place several days after the last piece of tape was recorded. He will be\nfilling in some gaps that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he recalls he omitted in our first interview. He also\nintends to enlighten and tell us about some of the other episodes and facets of\nhis life for which this interview is being conducted. 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It is still a majority, they are still a majority of our population are\nDemocrats rather than Republicans here in the South.\n\nGINSBERG: Did your father remain a Republican or did he become a Democrat?\n\nOBERDORFER: He became a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Democrat in the State of Georgia because of the fact\nthat there was no one else with whom he could buddy and be associated.\n\nGINSBERG: I see. I was going to ask, going back to that time around 1907 or\n1908, which is the date of the brochure you have in front of you, is there\nanything you remember since our last interview about your childhood that you'd\nlike to discuss? 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The purpose of\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fraternity was the banding together of an organization which formed a\nbrotherhood where they would unite the interests of the Jewish young men of this\ncountry to further the cause of Americanism and the individual efforts of its\nmembers back in 1924 and 1925. During that time that I was council ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chief, the\nmembers would meet once a year in a weekend of social events.\n\nGINSBERG: Where did you usually meet?\n\nOBERDORFER: We would meet in various cities from time to time. The Grand Council\nmet in Atlanta in 1924. I well remember going to the previous conclave, as it\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called, which was in St. Louis [Missouri], when one of my good Hai Resh\nfriends who has passed away, named Gabe Schoen, S-C-H-O-E-N, and I were the only\ntwo representatives from Atlanta. We met at the opening of the Chase Hotel in\nSt. Louis.\n\nGINSBERG: Is Mr. Schoen's family still here in Atlanta?\n\nOBERDORFER: He has very few relatives left in Atlanta now. 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I\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"proud, of course, to head the fraternity and to get to know better many of\nthe Jewish families, not only in Atlanta but around the country. 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So\nin addition to that, I had become greatly interested in the Council of\nFederations and Welfare Funds where my original contact was in the fundraising\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"field for the Federal and Welfare Fund here in Atlanta. I was elected to be the\nSoutheastern President of that Organization, and later elected to the board.\nIncidentally, at one time, I was honorary Vice-President nationally of the\nAnti-Defamation League. That was due to my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activity in the Joint Defense Appeal.\nI was also named as an honorary board member of the American Jewish Committee.\n\nGINSBERG: Tell me more about the AJC. You have talked about the Joint Defense\nAppeal and about Hai Resh.\n\nOBERDORFER: I'll go and tell you about the American Jewish Committee. 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We formed a chapter here, and\nI was one of those who was quite active in forming the chapter.\n\nGINSBERG: When you say \"we,\" who was the \"we\" who helped form the chapter here?\n\nOBERDORFER: As I remember, there was Albert Mayer and Herman May, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was an\nindividual member. There were a few others whose names I just don't recall at\nthe moment.\n\nGINSBERG: I have a question to ask and this is purely self-interested. How much\ndid the dues structure for the AJC that you set up cost at that time?\n\nOBERDORFER: I really don't remember.\n\nGINSBERG: I was just curious. It wasn't . . .\n\nOBERDORFER: I don't even know what the dues are today to tell you the truth. I\nknow I pay them, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I think that there were national dues the same way as there\nare now. We pay national dues to the American Jewish Committee. I don't recall\nthat we had any dues here at the chapter. Maybe we do. If we do, I pay it,\nwhatever it is.\n\nGINSBERG: Well, it's to the national organization.\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes. Our national organization has now two types of membership that\nyou can pay - $50 as an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"individual member or $100 as another class of\nmembership. I think the dues structure back there must have been $25 or $50 as\nthe top class. But it may have been even less than that. I just don't remember.\n\nGINSBERG: Okay. We'll go back. I'm sorry, Don.\n\nOBERDORFER: Okay.\n\nGINSBERG: So how was --\n\nOBERDORFER: The interest that I've had in various ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"organizations seems to have\narisen in some way or other due to my experience in fundraising. That is how I\nbecame interested in the Community Chest in Atlanta and later on the board and\nserved three years in other facets of the board, became the Treasurer of the\nAtlanta Community Fund, Atlanta Community Chest it was known as then. With the\nRed Cross, I became interested as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being one of the leaders in the various\ncommittees that they had for fundraising such as one class was the business\ngroup, another was the large business group, another was what they called the\nhouse-to-house solicitation or neighborhood solicitation. There was quite a big\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"organization to get together, particularly in the beginning of early days\nbecause we had to spread the base of giving to the Atlanta Community Chest. I\nhappened to meet the other day the gentleman who was co-chairman with me in the\nfundraising ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"businesses in the early days of Community Chest activity. His name\nis John Otley. 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The result\nwas that the Community Chest recognized the fact that labor certainly should\nhave a place on the board of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chest, and they at that time, and I think they\nstill do, have as members of their Board of Trustees two representatives from\norganized labor. But until the time that John Otley and I approached them, it\nwas unheard of to go to the labor channels in those days for fundraising. So we\nenjoyed having set that precedent. 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I don't know to what\nextent that picture has changed, but that was when the Council of Federations\nand Welfare Funds, the Jewish Council of Welfare Funds was quite strong and as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nunderstand it, it is very strong today in raising funds for various causes\nincluding a section known as our Defense Organizations.\n\nGINSBERG: Who did you approach in the Jewish Welfare Funds to help start AJC\nhere? Do you recall back when you were getting together to form the chapter, it\nmust have occurred to you we're going to need some money to do something with\nthe chapter. 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The question of that small membership in\nIngleside at the time was, who is this man that you are recommending, where did\nhis family come from, how long have you known him, and questions of that kind.\nMy answer was this young man works for one of the finest concerns in Atlanta or\nthat he was the head of a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"concern in Atlanta and that he likes to play golf and\nthis is a golf club, a Jewish golf club. I would like to recommend him for\nmembership because I know he has character and he will be a good member for our\ncountry club. Frequently my membership recommendation was not carried through\nand the membership of the club gradually dwindled. I resigned as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"member of the\nboard of the club and resigned as chairman of the membership committee on that\naccount. But I didn't stop playing golf out there because I loved the exercise.\nAs the war came on, it was impossible to get out to the Standard Club, to the\nIngleside Club.\n\nGINSBERG: Where was it located?\n\nOBERDORFER: It was out on Avondale. The only way you could get there was on the\nstreet car because of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9330.0,9360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gasoline rationing. A number of the younger fellows would\nlike to go out there and play golf. So the Standard Club, having dwindled down\nin membership, had to close its doors except for the fact that a few of us got\ntogether and decided we wanted to continue to play golf there. 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Inside\nof two months' time, instead of having less than 40 members, we had over 110\nmembers of fine young men here in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9390.0,9420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta that wanted to play golf. We paid $5 a\nmonth dues. We also had to pay, of course, for our caddy. There was no such\nthing as carts in those days, so you had to hoof it along.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me ask you a question. The Standard Club bought land near where we\nare right now which is in the Lenox area. 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So thereby we now go out Peachtree Road to the still standing\nwooden bridge that crosses the railroad and we turn back south again after\ncrossing that bridge to what is now known as Standard Drive. On that street we\nenter the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9510.0,9540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"present beautiful building of the Standard Club. It was a blessing in\ndisguise because as it turned out, the planning of the topography would have\nshown that had we had a major entrance on Roxboro Road, we would have had to\nsplit the golf course into two segments, one on one side of the road and one on\nthe other. As has happened in some other cities that we visited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9540.0,9570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when we were\nplanning the layout of our country club, we found that there were several\ncountry clubs, one of which I know exists today in Louisville, Kentucky. Their\nmain entrance comes right through the middle of their golf course. Another one\nwas in Chicago that we visited. Their entry way divided their golf course into\ntwo parts, and it was quite dangerous because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9570.0,9600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the traffic on these entry ways\ninto the club. So we are well pleased the way it turned out, but that isn't the\nway we wanted it. But we accepted the verdict of the powers that be in the City\nof Atlanta.\n\nGINSBERG: Can you remember some of the personalities that, some of the people\ninvolved in organizing the club, and some of the people leading the resistance\nto --\n\nOBERDORFER: Well, of course I remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9600.0,9630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the, one of the outstanding men that was\na leader in the Jewish community at that time was Mr. Lawrence Fox, who was the\nhead of National Manufacturing Stores Corporation here. He has died long ago. I\nremember Myer Baizer was one of the original founders that agreed that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9630.0,9660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he would\ncome along with the group of eight people, if I remember right including myself\nas one, that bought the property for the present site of the Standard Club with\nthe provision that we were buying it for the purpose of establishing a Jewish\ngolf course and country club. Of course, the Standard Club had been in existence\nhere over a hundred years now, but it was never a country club until the time\nthat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9660.0,9690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about 25 years ago, about the time that I was President, that the present\ncountry club came into actual being. We had our club before that on Ponce de\nLeon Avenue which was later bought by the Shrine here who occupy that site on\nPonce de Leon Avenue, 400 Ponce de Leon Avenue, as the Yarrow Temple of Shrine\nnow. 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That was an old fine residential home\nmansion that was converted to a club house where we built on to the back of it\nbefore I was really of age to know what it was all about except to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9720.0,9750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into the\nbowling alley every now and then when I wasn't supposed to and see the pool\ntables. Then in later days, before we moved from the Washington Street Club, I\nwas active as an officer of the Standard Club then. 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Let me ask you, what other clubs,\nother than Mountainside ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9810.0,9840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or --\n\nOBERDORFER: Mountaindale.\n\nGINSBERG: -- Mountaindale and Ingleside could a Jew have belonged to to play golf?\n\nOBERDORFER: There were no other clubs. We played on the city club. We played\ngolf during the time between. Mountaindale didn't last but for the length of the\nwar. 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In the\nmeantime, the third club, which has also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=9990.0,10020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been in existence for quite a number of\nyears, was from a different element of town originally because it was more or\nless of a YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] type of organization where\nnumbers of people wanted to see to it that there was a place for activity\namongst the young Jewish boys in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10020.0,10050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"town who did not belong to the Standard Club.\n\nGINSBERG: What was the YMHA? Young Men's Hebrew . . . ?\n\nOBERDORFER: We didn't have a YMHA as such, but the Progressive Club was known to\nprovide facility of activity for a large group of people here in Atlanta, of\nwhich I happened to be one. I was not a charter member of that club. It was\norganized later than the Standard Club but before I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10050.0,10080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"became active in community\nlife, it had been organized and was in full swing. It had a, by coincidence, a\nwonderful basketball team that played in the league here in Atlanta against the\nAtlanta Athletic Club and other clubs. The Atlanta Athletic Club and other\nbasketball ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10080.0,10110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clubs recognized the ability of the fine men that played on the team\nof the Progressive Club. Also, they were very active in softball and in other\nsports as well as they had their own card rooms and so forth for the benefit of\ntheir older members. The young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10110.0,10140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boys who were about my age at that time were\ninterested more in athletics.\n\nGINSBERG: Did you have a Jewish Community Center?\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes. I want to tell one more experience about the Progressive Club\nbefore I tell you about the Community Center.\n\nGINSBERG: Okay.\n\nOBERDORFER: The Progressive Club had gotten to the point where it too wanted to\nmove. Mr. I. M. Weinstein, who was a very prominent and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10140.0,10170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"benevolent man here,\nbeing the head of what is now National Service Industries which was then\nNational Linen Service or it might have been Atlanta Linen Service way, way\nback. But Mr. I. M. Weinstein was very active. He one day asked me to join a\ngroup to get together and raise funds for building a new Progressive Club, which\nI was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10170.0,10200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"glad to participate in. The club was built on Tenth Street beyond Techwood\nDrive right off of Tenth Street which is near Georgia Tech [Georgia Institute of\nTechnology]. That property enhanced in value so much over the years. The\nclubhouse itself was enlarged several times. It provided the members with a\nhealth club, tennis courts, swimming pool, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10200.0,10230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and, of course, as usual, card rooms.\nThe club was no longer looked upon at all as a YMHA group but a group of fine\ncitizens here in Atlanta who were not members of the Standard Club, although\nthere were quite a few members of the Progressive Club who were also members of\nthe Mayfair Club and of the Standard Club. 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They sold their property also.\n\nGINSBERG: Where were they located?\n\nOBERDORFER: They were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10260.0,10290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Spring Street not too far from Peachtree. I'd say three\nblocks south from where Peachtree passes the Temple, which is right near the\nexpressway entry to Peachtree. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10290.0,10320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"situation with the club life in Atlanta was\naugmented by a number of active Sisterhoods and the National Council of Jewish\nWomen and Hadassah and other Jewish organization in which the ladies were very\nactive and popular. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10320.0,10350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife, Dorothy, was at one time named as an officer of the\nAtlanta Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. I will tell the story\nthis way -- my two boys were young at the time, about the ages of eight and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10350.0,10380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nine\nI would think. My wife came home and told us all that she had been elected\nPresident of the Council of Jewish Women, Atlanta Chapter. The two boys said,\ncryingly, they did not want to move to Washington [D.C.] inasmuch as their\nmother had been elected President. They wanted to stay in Atlanta and they\nresented her being President. They thought that she was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10380.0,10410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to move away.\n\nGINSBERG: They were liberationists even at that age.\n\nOBERDORFER: Yes.\n\nGINSBERG: Women's Lib.\n\nOBERDORFER: My wife did not move away. She later became the President of the\nSoutheastern section of the Council of Jewish Women. She was very active too in\nRed Cross. She was a hard worker at Red Cross during the days of the war. She\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10410.0,10440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a constant visitor out to the military establishments here in Atlanta. She\nbecame a member of the board of Red Cross, active in its work, and became\nChairman of Gray Ladies for the City of Atlanta for the Red Cross. She is still\nwell-known by many of the members who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10440.0,10470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"served with her as workers in the Gray\nLady work at that time.\n\nGINSBERG: Let me get you back to the Jewish Community Center. You were going to\ntell me . . .?\n\nOBERDORFER: I mentioned that during World War I, my father was the President of\nthe Jewish Educational Alliance which was located over on Capitol Avenue, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=10470.0,10500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/transcript/29277/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which\nwas adjacent to Washington Street where several blocks parallel across existed\nthe old Standard Club on Washington Street. The Jewish Education Alliance was a\nJewish Community Center so to speak. 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It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDonald Oberdorfer, Sr.’s father was Eugene Oberdorfer, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA blockade-runner is usually a lightweight, fast ship which evades, rather than confronts, a naval blockade. Blockade running is done to transport cargo such as foods, arms, goods for sale, etc. into and out of the blockaded area.  In the Civil War, this was a major enterprise for the Confederacy. The Confederates had no effective navy so the Union used its considerable navy to keep ships from entering or leaving southern ports to re-provision the Confederacy or sell their wares (usually cotton) abroad.  Blockade running was highly risky as these ships were considered enemy combatants and could be sunk. By the end of the war the Union Navy had captured more than 1,100 blockade-runners and destroyed another 355 vessels.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/379","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEugene “Gene” Oberdorfer II was born in Atlanta in 1932 and in 1969 succeeded his father Donald Oberdorfer as president of Oberdorfer Insurance Associates. He had a B.S. from the University of North Carolina. He was secretary of Temple Sinai and the Standard Club. He was the son of Donald Oberdorfer, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/380","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the 16 public state Universities of North Carolina. It is a public research university specializing in medicine and law originally founded in 1795.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFidelity \u0026amp; Casualty Company of New York provides insurance services. The Company offers fire, marine, and casualty insurance products and services.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/382","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition was held at the current Piedmont Park in Atlanta Georgia. The exposition was designed to promote the American South to the world and showcase products and new technologies, as well as to encourage trade with Latin America. The exposition featured exhibits from several states including various innovations in agriculture and technology. The event is best remembered for the “Atlanta Compromise” speech given by Booker T. Washington which promoted racial cooperation.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Burns Club of Atlanta, officially organized in 1896, is a private social club and literary and cultural society commemorating the works and spirit of the 18th century national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/384","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet an various other names and epithets, was a Sottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43937/file/117009/annotation_set/527/annotation/385","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Burns Cottage in Atlanta, Georgia is a replica of the birthplace of Robert Burns in Scotland. The Atlanta cottage was built by the Burns Club Atlanta in 1911, using measurements of the original cottage. 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The JEA was once the hub of Jewish life in Atlanta. Families congregated there for social, educational, sports and cultural programs. The JEA ran camps and held classes to help some new residents learn to read and write English. For newcomers, it became a refuge, with programs to help them acclimate to a new home. The JEA stayed at that site until the late 1940’s, when it evolved into the Atlanta Jewish Community Center and moved to Peachtree Street. It stayed there until 1998, when the building was sold and the center moved to Dunwoody. 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The Braves continued to play at Fulton County Stadium until the end of the 1996 season, when they moved into Turner Field, the converted Centennial Olympic Stadium originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The stadium was demolished in 1997.  A parking lot for Turner Field now stands on the site. 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In addition to millions of soldiers wounded or killed on battlefields, the war was marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 6 million Jews were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centers (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[1] The Jewish Welfare Board is an agency providing for the religious, educational, and morale needs of Jewish military personnel. The National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was formed on April 9, 1917; three days after the United States declared war on Germany, in order to support Jewish soldiers in the United States military. The organization was also charged with recruiting and training rabbis for military service, as well as providing support materials to these newly commissioned chaplains. 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