Al Garment
Al Garment, the oldest of two boys, was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, Al attended Brooklyn Tech High School, where he studied engineering. In June 1946, Al entered the military. He has been married for 65 years and together he and his wife have two daughters. Al began working in his father’s fabrics business but then switched over to electronics and mechanics. He came to Texas in 1960 and built fighter planes for many years in Grand Prairie for LTV and then worked for Boeing for around 12 years. Al and his wife have been involved for many years with Congregation Tiferet Israel, Jewish War Veterans, and the Texas Jewish Post.
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Dr. Stanley Feld
Cecelia Feld was born in 1942 in the Bronx. By the time she was in junior high, Cecelia’s artistic talents were revealed. At the suggestion of her teacher, she attended the High School of Music and Art where she majored in art. Upon graduating, she attended Hunter College and received her BA in Art, while simultaneously minoring in Education. She went to the University of North Texas for graduate school and received a Master of Fine Arts degree. Cecelia has been primarily a painter, printmaker, and photographer, and she sells and exhibits her artwork. She moved to Dallas in 1969 with her husband, Stanley, a retired endocrinologist, who started the first private endocrinology practice in Dallas in 1970. She and Stanley have two children, both raised in Dallas.
Dr. Burt Einspruch was born in 1935 in the Bronx. His father, born in Czechoslovakia, first served in the Austrian army and then ultimately served in the Polish army. His family moved to Dallas when he was 11 years old and Burt attended Highland Park High School. Dr. Einspruch married his wife, Barbara, in October of 1960. He went to medical school at UT Southwestern and was commissioned in 1956 into the military. Dr. Einspruch went into psychiatry due to his interest in the brain and made great advances by organizing many programs, including a geriatric program. He has greatly served the Jewish community, having endowed the Holocaust Lecture Series at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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