Harold Berman
Harold Berman's father, Hyman Israel Berman, was born in Russia and came to the United States through the port of Galveston in 1904 at about five years old, traveling with his mother and two brothers to reunite with his father, who was already in Seguin, Texas. The family faced hardship on arrival, including a quarantine at a Galveston hospital when the children fell ill. In Seguin, Harold's grandfather peddled goods and later ran a small grocery store. As the sons grew, they moved to Colorado City, where his father opened a variety store that became a charter Ben Franklin store. Harold's mother was born in London, lost her own mother at birth, grew up in Brooklyn, and came to West Texas, where she met and married Hyman in 1924. Harold was born in 1926, the first of three sons; his younger brothers were twins.
Growing up in Colorado City, Harold was one of only a handful of Jewish families in the area. Though there was no local synagogue, the family observed the High Holidays in nearby Sweetwater and hosted large Passover Seders in Colorado City. He recalled a warm, close-knit upbringing with an excellent small-town education, and he and his brothers excelled academically. His father served briefly as mayor of Colorado City, and his mother was well known and beloved in the community. Harold graduated high school at fifteen and entered the University of Texas in 1942, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi. Drafted at eighteen, he served in the Army, studied Japanese at the University of Chicago, and served as a censor at MacArthur's headquarters during the occupation of Japan. He later completed his undergraduate degree and graduated from Harvard Law School.
Harold came to Dallas, married, and began practicing law, eventually specializing in estate planning and probate while handling a wide range of cases over his career. He was deeply involved in the Jewish community, serving as national president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, joining B'nai B'rith, and becoming president of the Jewish Community Center, which he considered central to Jewish communal strength. He also served as president of the Columbian Country Club and helped pass Texas Greenbelt legislation benefiting private clubs. He was a longtime member of Temple Emanu-El and a member of the International Golfing Society, a worldwide fellowship of Jewish golf and country club leaders. Married three times and widowed twice, he was married to Lynn for nearly thirty years at the time of the interview. He had children and grandchildren and reflected with gratitude on a full and fortunate life rooted in family, faith, and community.
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today is July 14 2006 we are at 8333 Douglas Avenue Dallas Texas today to take the oral history of Harold Berman for the Dallas Jewish Historical Society my name is Rosalyn Ben jet and our videographer is Jan Magnussen and we're going to start mr. Berman tell us about your parents where did they come from and how did they get to Texas well my father was Hyman Israel burnable they would called him a chai or high regionally he was born in Russia came over through the port of galveston in 1904 he was about five years old at the time and he came with his mother and two brothers his father my grandfather was already here and Seguin Texas and I came over through the port of galveston that's story in itself but it's a beautiful I own today is a beautiful story my grandmother who I was 4 for 10 came over
on this trip from Burma Germany with these three boys the oldest five years old and the youngest about I guess he here a year and a half she had absolutely no money we traced all this back and determined this when they arrived all three of the sons were sick either with scarlet fever or whooping cough we haven't determined which yet but they were quarantine they were taken to the Catholic hospital at Galveston when they spent three weeks according to the record she had zero well all she had was tickets for her family from Galveston to Seguin had been sent to her by her husband after
three weeks they came to Seguin and but she arrived at Seguin she was rejoined with her husband and she had seen about three years and my father and his two brothers grew up in Seguin Texas they eventually had another job as sister a girl a girl her name was Lena Lena Berman and they at the time they came to segi my grandfather was peddling but eventually built up and he had a little grocery store which he was supporting his family and as the boys grew up they began to realize that that one little grocery store wouldn't be able to support all four of the children
and his parents so my uncle max who was the oldest had an opportunity to go to Colorado City was a Colorado man to begin working for the West Texas druggist company which was owned by Louis Landau and in those days they had these Jewish patriarchs and the various small cities throughout Texas in college city Louis Landau was the patriarch of that area his son by the way is silver landowners here in Dallas now but Malcolm X star working there and then as my my dad got a little over he middle son he says come on out here this is the land of prosperity on the
college city so he went out and looked over the land and decided he would open up a business that would compete with anyone else so he opened up and five-and-ten-cent store he was the first store in that area that laid the merchandize down the cavalry you could feel it everyone he's tapping glass cases but he had a five-and-ten-cent store it's called Burlington rowdy eventually became the Ben Franklin store he was the charter member of the Ben Franklin chain and then later became burr was right again as he dropped out of that chain but he was in business there in Colorado City my mother was a
bachelor my mother was born in London and her mother died in childbirth with her and her father left London and came to New York trying to make his way he was a tailor and he was in New York and remarried in New York he left my mother I think she was about four or five and then she was about 12 she was living with the aunt and uncle cousins they decided they were going to migrate to Australia so they got a hold over the father said you take her down or take her to Australia so he took her she came to New York and she
grew up in Brooklyn she got to calories city because her stepmother had a sister who was married to someone in cholera City the bhajans from the pods and Frank Boston went for mayor here in Dallas but he's one of the bosses color his city so she was looking for a husband and so they invited her out to New York to visit her step in and she was there and they introduced her to several men there she always says her first date was Ruben Williams Ruben Williams was a former railroad commissioner in Texas he was a lawyer in Big Spring that was her first date which
hit was Texas so he would for sure sell in West Texas he took her to a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Big Spring and she talked about that the rest of her life but she didn't eventually met my father and it was love at first sight they were married in 1924 I was born in 26 I was the first of three sons and they lived in calories City there their entire life my-my dad's younger brother eventually came to cholera City from us again because after my grandfather died he had the small store grocery store and things were changing in those days he came to calories
City and joined his brothers and opened up a grocery store so we lived wholesale on Kamara City I had more knuckle so all the clothing to us all knuckles told us all the food and what they didn't have my dad had in the variety store but it was a great upbringing they were one at the time I was growing up there were 1 of 3 of 10 Jewish families in colouring city at the time the Lando's were still there and there were a few others and almost Louis Lando's the secret of all these patriarchs were to bring these young Jewish boys out to work in
the store they always made the best clerks and then to keep them they go out and find them wives so my uncle max is married to a distant cousin of Lewis Linda my uncle Philip is married to because now the land help of one of these clerks so they all bet their lives out the coloring city and they all grew up together by my cousins my uncle max had one daughter tell us who lived here in Dallas she just passed away last year and then my uncle Phillip had two sons Joe and Melvin Joel at the Dells now you miss an Arizona and developments in
California my two brothers my younger brothers who were twins living in California now under Lake Tahoe one in Santa Cruz so I'm the only member of the Berman plan for the collaring City still in Texas although all of the others would love to come back we have a great love of Culver City my father was the mayor of choleric city for a little period of time he was elected mayor the sprinkler system ballot there were 10 people than they say there were 5000 population 10 of which tendon Christmas's and sprinkler systems and the City Council voted a special tax on sprinkler systems and that just
raised it up for more so all the people who own sprinkler systems got my dad to run for mayor and he won with a platform to reveal the tax system and to fire the chief of police as soon as he got elected on the first day the the first meeting they repealed the tax and he fired the Chief of Police which I remember the day he heard that you believes he and my mother came to Dallas to stay with us for safety it was a great great upbringing you mentioned the name Lando was that connection I don't think so I don't think there's any I
thought there was a Dallas Texas connection somehow things you know I Sylvan of course it was very well known here he became the Haggar he's with hater pants yes I hear man sir was retired but then Willy his brother officially came to Dallas so what was it like being a child in the Colorado City and during the Depression - I was born during the Depression and my brothers at the time they were born my parents did not expect twins and when they had twins my dad said the next day was the best day he had the store to that point because everyone came back and
given the condolences have to feed an extra mouth but we had a wonderful upbringing and had a marvelous education small-town education some of my teachers were outstanding in fact my English speech drama teacher was selected by the University of Texas System as the a statement did your eyes of a teacher of the 20th century her name was glass Miller she was marvelous wonderful teacher and we the whole Burman family went through the high school we we ran stream there I was bounding to her and in my class my brothers one was valedictorian what was saluted tour in this class job was valedictorian of his class
the Melvin was valedictorian of his class Melvin had the highest average I had a 98.2 of metal and BB but Melvin was probably the brightest he was did did you have enough Jews in Colorado City to have a synagogue we no we did not have a synagogue the nearest synagogue and that was built later in my life was in Abilene which was 50 miles away but we did celebrate the High Holidays and in usually with the levees and Sweetwater which is only about 20 miles away and we always used the ballroom of the Bluebonnet hotel I know the Blue Byte hotel from top to bottom
as a kid I used to run them down where they had the services the services were usually performed by a member of the community and it was strictly you know they were immigrants and the Orthodox service and our knowledge of Hebrew my knowledge was almost nil so it was a boring thing for us when I was growing up but later on when the war started in 41 our services were used and conducted by either of the chaplain from Berkeley Air Force Base are from some Jewish soldier from and this was in Sweetwater this is Sweetwater now our Seder our Passover we always had in calories
City that was the big thing and usually brought in everybody from Colorado City Roscoe or rain Snider I had another one Schneider - Lee not married someone from San Antonio and she migrated out to West Texas ended up at Schneider they had a grocery store there in Snyder but it was all we usually held at first it was held in one of the burning homes we used to run around but it got too big so we had the Colorado hotel Hana and Lawrence Ballroom and they used to furnish the entree which is for the Seder was always barbecue chicken that's right now love say there's
no but my mother used to my uncle used to make lots of balls my mother's matzah balls were famous because they were heavy she they were baked in hard as a rock in fact one of them they did drop in the plate they split the play-doh he talked about that the other was very fluffy so everyone always had one of each and I felt the fish was made by my own turned out to be a Navy cook they drafted him and he was pretty well he was his late thirties he became a navy cook when he came back he was excellent he did all our
sailors catered out there but growing up there was a wonderful experience I mean my brothers and I reminisce we have reunions we had a reunion out there about several years ago which I recorded you have to see our intake on it but we brought people from California Dallas hypnosis that go out her mayor of the town can turned out for us with around television the radio the museum had a special exhibit for the Berlin family and had a grudge florist served out solid gold plates Zola had donated to the museum they used them for us but right now there are no Jewish families left there
I was invited back and I did go back and in old-timers reunion reunion and made a speech about the Jews of cholera City and in my research of that I was I found out startling things I didn't know before my time was even the Jewish bootlegger out there at one time I was aware of the Bourbon families were very well respected there my uncle Philip ended up owning the largest grocery store and there which he sold out to the largest grocery store there now and he gave the building to the city so they have all the city offices are in the building he gifted to
the city but let me go there only the only people remember the Berman's of the older older people my dad about half the population in cholera City at one time started their careers working in my dad's store because he always had the entry-level people five attempts at store and I still get letters from people who who say that your mother didn't wear everything to me I became a CPA because he let me do for the bookwork and you know those kind of things and my mother after she moved to Dallas she was a little here and she had constant visits for people in Culver City
because she in particular was extremely well-liked she was a leader in the Eastern Star which was a Masonic my dad was regional governor Kiwanis but she used to she was with my dad every day on the store she'd go to market she was loved dolls she'd buy dolls but when she bought dollars she didn't buy them she born with someone in mind and when she got back she'd call the parents or sis I got your Christmas present put the delay away as soon as it gets here it's true merchants saw you and she was so just very well respected of all the Birman lives one
of the three she was sort of the leader she had that hutzpah from New York you know she she used to go out there no did you have any kind of discrimination and that was one of the keys of my speech my brothers and I have no recollection neither did my cousins I'm sure there was some I know that my uncle max could never get it Masonic Lodge I love my dad so much that that was because but I felt not my we observed all the Jewish holidays at carols all the stores all the dermis doors were closed during the High Holidays the a believe
he's wife free to leave he used to a little Sunday school at her house and for all of the kids in the vicinity so my parents used to take my brothers tonight to Sweetwater every Sunday when she wasn't operating and we'd have a son we knew they were Jewish looked on his Jewish the only time that we ever had any discussion about Israel there was a he's revivalist used to come to town and there was one that made Culver City every year and he advertised himself as a converted Jew and he came he was a heckuva speaker but he was no more converted than a
boss because he always wanted to always artery you know but other than that it was a marvelous upbringing what were your interests as a teenager well my mother decided when I was young that I was going to be the lawyer brothers are gonna be the doctors so we had no choice after that and so we were put on the course for that very beginning I was interested in and you know my school I was an officer of my class I remember one officer I was I did a little drama work with in high school playing tennis [Music] anyway the we were very concentrated on getting
our education I think that was my dead mother thought we had had to excel even because maybe the Jewish people this is such and anything other than I used to get an ice cream okay still going so after high school where did you go to Howard what the University of Texas this was a 1942 you know the war begun Pearl Harbor in 41 I was 15 years of age that time I graduated fifteen graduated from high school in nineteen fifteen so that's pretty impressive graduated May and I was at the University in June when I was 15 when I went down the university was operating
over 12 months kid you then because of the war and I went to the University and that's really when I probably got my first Jewish experience I joined a PI which was situation fraternity history of a cloud later but I continued the University of Texas until I was drafted I was drafted when I was 18 which turned 18 in June and I was in the Army in September I was in law school was in my first semester of law school that's rapidly at that time you didn't need a undergraduate degree to grow law school we had combination of girls and I was taking a plan
to combination business was in the Army for a couple of years got drafted to can't prove it for infantry basic American pulled out with one other two Jews and the whole company both of us got pulled out he was sent to Texas and him to study engineering under the army student training program and I was sent to the University of Chicago study Japanese so I spent nine months in Chicago concentrated study of reading or writing Japanese did you learn at that time I got along but our army service became a sensor when they sent me to Japan I was in the occupation I went over
the arms of scientists I hit Japan into September 1st of October still staring time then I was assigned to back Arthur's headquarters with the sensor and that was the only Caucasian enlisted man in the unit everybody else release a second generation Japanese third generation Japanese their language skills were far superior to mine so they kind of looked on me as an outcast although I did make a lot of friends in Japan with the Japanese community and eventually I did do a lot of the Japanese need to hear him tell us but that was quite an experience did you ever return to Japan no and I've
regretted that too I regretted I didn't go in the ice cream business to stay there but after that after I got out of there I went back the University of Texas I got my undergraduate degree I got back at midterm and law school was a little difficult to get in in midterm so my mother insisted that I make an application to go to Harvard Law School I accepted based upon the Great's I would make that next one semester at the University and get my degree and what was that experience like after the war where there are a lot of returning service people yeah I was
in the first peacetime class at Harvard Law and I have to laugh here because my mother's used to brag it off he's joy she's gonna be the only Jewish student at Harvard Law Harvard law at that time was one-third Jewish and at this time probably is more than that but most of my classmates at least old my roommates and everyone else are all tourists but I spent three years there Harvard at that time was all male I was when I got out you know we had a too many lawyers in the world I wanted to come back to Texas to get married to come back
and this town was loaded with lawyers and being a Harvard lawyer made it a little tougher cause they or afraid you didn't know the Texas even though I had a Texas background that did spend a summer in Texas most go trying to get some these Texas courses it was a little tough eventually story to practice the law in Texas 50 a story about myself and where did where did you did you go back to Colorado City or no I came to Dallas I got married in July I graduated so hearing that was some story the price and you went he started on your own start
on my own and then got a job with the firm of core blythe us and Jaffe that's you know carved up Morris Jaffe and I was with him until they broke up then I practiced a little sure an office boniva Carver for about 17 years then we formed our own and our firm dissolve it was known as permanent pick nerve and bourbon Jerry Mitchell we had about 40 lawyers when we finally dissolved worst thing we ever did and attraction lopa last 10 years and what kind of cases do you specialize in well I'm certified estate planning probate so I do a lot probate work and
state planning for the had to have more than fifty percent to keep mine my specialty but in my career I've done it all everything drawing wills to capital cases I was appointed doing the capital case way back appeal teacher I tell you something not what what would you say was the most memorable case they most memorable case was bothered by Lomax it was tried on Sweetwater it involved the lease but it turned out that he was a defendant and and one of the he was being sued because they claimed he violated a restricted covenant by renting the building that my father stores into another five
intensive story so there was a lease that was memorable for several reasons first my uncle max he passed away during the litigation substituted for him everything happened the sweetwater they were remodeling their courthouse so we tried the case in the Safeway store building and acoustics were pretty bad there when the jury was deliberating we could hear everything they said and also one of the other parties had a heart attack during the case during the trial but the jury came in against us the Supreme Court upheld it are they worth what was it like to be a Jewish lawyer in Dallas in the 50s well there
was a you know a group of Jewish lawyers here they didn't have a Jewish bar and you like me we have a group here now and that was done purposely they didn't they didn't want to be segregated as such however they were mentors to all young Jewish lawyers emic are black was one of the pillars of the community he had served in the City Council and he was really an outstanding lawyer and he cautioned me he told me you know what - I should be careful of who I should be careful of who I can trust who I could trust who I should put everything
in writing know where Jews represented in some of the larger firms at that time I was I represented boy they're Jews yeah so he Allen one of the leading firms that was Thompson Knight right Weisberg that was Alex Washburn leading well it was the largest and Alex was the managing partner of that firm in fact I'm going to a memorial service of our vandalise it's a clue Marvin why's that joined that program out of Harvard Law School so there were large firms here I will tell you rustling that Dallas Jewish lawyers in Dallas were acceptable right Houston they were not I interviewed in Houston trying
to get position there when I was looking back in 15 and I was told by a Jewish problem Jews lawyer Jewish lawyer in Houston not even him he had a firm and he wasn't hired Jewish lawyers he said that it's not good for the business but to hear it they were very acceptable orange firms it was hard to get a position you became interested in serving the Jewish community as well I did I think I will not return you for that I got very involved with my paternity Alpha Epsilon Pi so involved that I'm stoked and it 67 years later but it is now it
is the D predominantly Jewish eternity baby the only one left it's predominantly Jewish but we got we were very much involved in the Jewish community academically throughout the country became national president in 67 68 in that area and traveled the country eternity and all the Jewish organization but my reason of that we blocked national conventions to Dallas David Kaplan who was my mentor in 85 he was passed mr. president as well and we brought them here and as a result of that there were a lot of Jewish young men who were a deep eyes Dallas either most of them from the University of Texas our chapter there or another chapter and we had a very strong alumni club from that I got interested in Billy breath he mentioned that we the George levy lodge was a new lodge and they were looking for people and I was a young lawyer so 1951 or so I joined that and that led me to the Jewish Community Center Jewish Community Center in the 50s here was not like the
Jewish Community Center of today it was the black sheep of the community why was that we had a very unusual Federation that time I will think they completely left that thought behind yet but they didn't feel that we needed we had a YMCA here that good facilities that one stole that feeling I guess the Jewish lawyers had that they didn't want to be identified as such but Julia ships had put together this building program I want you know I was a member but I never really was active in one of their programs but pretty soon I started going to their meetings I became president of
the Jewish Community Center at that time and what year would that have been it was in the 72 somewhere in there I was also a prisoner Columbian captured at the same time if you want to have a varied experience that was that the Jewish Community Center really piqued my interest I never my education has been limited over the years giving her an opportunity I'm still convinced that the community center was the core of the basis for the strength you know you just get everyone an affinity towards that Center then you could pitch depend on them to be Jewish when you need it if I may
say something I remember when the JCC opened about the mid-50s and it was a small building with a little area on the side we could have our little day camps at and it was great because before that we're at Bachmann like but it seems like it pretty much stayed the same for 10-15 years was it around the time that you were president that they started expanding it because it seems like that would be into it you know my team like teen years it was a stepchild in the community until the 60s in the late 60s the director there Ernie Siegel was his name left us
went to Israel to step up for him and we were without a director and I was on the selection committee and we found Harry Rosen Harry was it was a true center of professional media had experience in Jewish community centers throughout the country and he came and that's when I began to realize I'm just a volunteer we have a professional here we'll discuss the better with him if he says we can do we do it well he turned the thing around he really he put us on the financial level we started raising money to expand put in a health club I was involved money raising
a lot to marry bumpass oh gosh we evolved in that fundraising program we raised the money ability center I was happy to be I don't think I was president at the time but I got the the honor of introducing or celebrity at the opening we had Gabe Kaplan down here I open this topic I review center and he we were all in the gym and I got to introduce him and he gave us a program forgot who brought him down some what paid his being brought him down but we had a great time that was a lovely experience still interested and you were president of
the Colombian Club at the same time what was that like different but at that time we were Jewish is what could be it was a different experience country club is a lot different than a community center it's a private organization we didn't look to any charitable funds to operate and I got very interested in the field of privacy and Jewish clubs I was instrumental in representing the Colombian Country Club all the group that put together legislation and passed the Greenbelt law in the state of Texas which has same clubs what is it it's called it's open space law that allows them to treat their property
that they keep his golf courses and open spaces for its actual value rather than as high as to best use of course the Colombian Country Club was on the land that was so more commercial being taxed I love existence even though they were using it for a golf course and others this law came into effect in the 70s and it saved the club industry we were the third state to have it now there's about 40 states that had green belt laws and as a result of that I got more stars so you know the state association clubs past present the National Park Association I was
the first Jewish person have a very strong Jewish Club private club Luke listen lubbers the useful but I didn't might be in use because there was a wonderful experience great opportunity were you involved with any other organizations well I been a breath of course I met you I've been associated of the Alpha Epsilon Pi foundation which is 501c3 Foundation what I'm most proud of is my wife's organization which is attitude to an entire it's a 501 C 3 units down ten years old it was her aspiration that was able to help her it's now they have a billion dollar budget they're just doing fantastic and
she still actively involved and I had the title and tell us about your family today well I'm married to Len Berman live on our 29th year she's my third wife I was whittled twice my first wife who was here in Dallas my daughter is Tony she's been married a year longer than I have married 30 years she lived here in Dallas for a while Rose was a pediatrician been a jitters with San Antonio he was a pediatric emergency major hospitals there I save quite a bit of her they have no children and her mother died when she was 13 i remarried several years later to
ensure a caller from New Orleans who had three children by previous marriage and she passed away nine years later she had a cancer passed away I still see at least one of those I'm in contact I don't see them as much because they were all adults when she passed away all except the youngest Bruce Bruce Katz who's here in town and Bruce lived within the denied for the first hearing he was graduating University of Texas Opportunity educate then I married Lind so four years after Charlotte's death and she has two children able to bring them up educate them I have four grandchildren buy them living
in Dallas to live in Dallas and to live in Arkansas my son Steve has twins they're just missed two weeks ago mcusic babe and Alison our daughter has as a son girl girl there's two and a half years old a son seven years old so they're young and we get to see quite a bit of Allison there anything that you would like to add well I I've been very fortunate I used when I was younger I used to think my mother was low overbearing I now realize she was correct she kept us focused to our future well my luck my life has been wonderful my
tragedy I have two great brothers who have families we do were able to talk a lot every unit replayed would now she decide where to go we're trying to play so it's really been a very good life I've been the Boober of temple Bank Wells 1915 I married into my Dallas family they were members of temple Emmanuel my first wedding was in the old temple out South Dallas but this one ever since they're gone through a lot of rabbis where's Greg my client is it's special to me very soon live not 30 years ago we celebrate our anniversary still but it's been I think we
have a great opportunity I'm a strong believer in our Jewish community probably more than most people I just feel that there's a lot of pride here we have a marvelous Jewish history as you know but this town I'd love to go the community but you have you have my grandfather in your wallet his picture in Seguin and I had never seen that picture until there was on the wall at the center I think my uncle Phillip handed and it's it's been a great experience thank you very much thank you okay Jim you all that Jam like that's fine okay I appreciate era now looks gorgeous
it's finally been round to be there but they laugh to sound I mean he's sitting there with me and I'm talking about how it Compton was I had a list of things that he didn't do and they just left us out of the court before you tighten them we were but anyway both boys we I met him both and I was ready for him to kill a bull favouritism they're horrible people even their parents hated was that any kind of landmark case or anything that decided anything they I read about in the paper occasionally we talked about Johnny sighs they talk about the Johnson Brothers
it's 20-some odd years old think about you see ya well is that a reason you got away from the criminal law you bank do much after that yeah when you're in general practice your truck thankfully you got so many don't worry to take whatever you can get you know a lot of DWIs they'll get people out of jail or used to always be available for night combs that's changed so we're continuing on talking about God now Congress had played as much as I could through the service to through wall school but when I was president of the Colombian country club I got a call one
Saturday afternoon we still work on Shabbos not profession for these days and there was a gentleman on the on the phone called from Montreal he says do me a favor do not hang up on me listen to me fruit I said why he says well because I just talked so when you used to only got a pony he's his first question was are you president of the club in the country at that time they had a Jewish Book used wasn't I said yes and he says well he says we have a a society Jewish golfers made up of presidents of our captains Jewish country clubs
our golf clubs throughout the world it's called the International coughing society we've only been in business a couple years but we're trying to get a Jewish member from Texas send me some stuff he said I'll do that he says but our next meeting is in October in Palm Springs just like to come boss prices beautiful spot I figured money giving and he says well the whole package is 600 bucks that's for a week at your hotel food oh that's for a couple that's as I said you're gonna have to send me something on this and righty so he did and that was the package and
I went and it turns out that this international docking society was created now the club in Montreal his club they celebrated their 50th anniversary and they thought it would be a great job a great idea to invite members of Jewish clothes from everywhere in the world what they didn't know is that the Jewish got captives in the UK organized so when they got the invitation they came over in mass they were over in Montreal and mass and it they decided was a great thing and they would want to create this society I was a member for 23 years every year we met someplace in the
world usually every other year in the United States then after that somewhere else in the world all Jewish and services on Friday night kosher meals if you wanted we had the first goth trip ever to the to his room it just says a real nine nine days played nine rounds thank they made a gift to says RIA of golf cards they do 23 golf cards 36 hundred dollars apiece I mean this was about what year was this this was a 1980 this group was made up Jewish golfers from all over the globe principally from the USA UK and Canada but we had members from South
Africa members from pencil a lot we had members from Israel France Australia so it took us all over the world in fact the last four meeting I went to listen to Australia but it was we had a formal way of doing it they had the same thing every year they had golf competition among ourselves dinner in fact just two weeks ago with jamberry God you know right now what the Palm Springs January was a member of the group and he was the speaker he would had the entertainment that the bank would spray that's my first but as a result of that then and I have
made friends from all over the world he passed away our closest friends were in London my mother was knighted when it was the Lord was a member of the House of Lords but play golf we're still very close to their widows the experience was unbelievable talk about Jewish I already got some real Jewish experiences and I was a holiday to them West Texas Jewish boy they had never think they couldn't believe growing up in a small town who didn't but it was quite an experience it was they are the yeah IGS still exist but most of my friends passed away but I did have a
call this year he asked me to come back for another Texas you know well thank you again thank you I'm sure I get to talk about no that's fine that's what it's about right the I think we're right on this is a picture from the Dallas Morning News where they had a feature old gray-headed women and Lynn was one of their features she wears her hair gray very short and I think she's a beautiful beautiful serious she's she's just sweet inside alright let's go look at some more over here she's got a hard to go all right let's go look over here let's start over
here with Tony I remember this is Tony I'm going after Tony amore this is around amore Silverland there now in San Antonio told me it was later she would school in Dallas graduated Hillcrest High School and she got her master's at SMU she and her husband are both math majors but he went to medical school he was from Arkansas he went to medical school at the University of Arkansas and then who else do we have well then we have Lynn and her daughter Allison who is a mother in the redheads okay yeah this is Allison son grant y'all with his dog flash and Flash's friend
here's another good one of land okay this is worse the two of you some special occasion now that this was taken in in Cannes France at the International golfing society function and we were together in France we have about 60 seconds any other pictures we'll just kind of here's a grandkid here's the green can you enjoy yours and whose are those that's uh that's Jacob and his sister Medellin I'm taking the seven and metallurgists and and they're uh they're here in Plano okay about to move to Murphy they sold her house last weekend okay was this then when they were young are these two yeah
this is st. Patrick same kid and are these these are the twins and then Bill Arkansas a Roger Arkansas their father is he works for Diablo which sells Guinness beer and spirits and okay we're at where I think that we got them we got the to know that the grandkids okay great sure well guardian angels there's a drawing that so looks like they're out there work you