[T1S1] son of Romanian immigrants; parents' marriage and residence in New York, NY; family move to Pittsburgh in 1918; father takes over a cigar store at Eleventh and Penn Avenue; names of siblings; family life and residences in Pittsburgh; family goes into grocery business; description of mother; education at Franklin School and Fifth Avenue High School and Ralston Industrial School; apprenticeship with Pittsburgh Railway Company; moves to New York; employment with F. W. Woolworth's; traveling with Ringling Brothers Circus as a pony groom; leaves Ringling Brothers in Philadelphia, PA to work as an orderly at Hahnemann Hospital, 1928; return to Pittsburgh; employment at Woolworth's and Frank and Seder Department Store; becomes assistant athletic director at IKS, 1928; early interest in swimming, water safety; fifty years service with the American Red Cross; chairman, Water Safety for the Red Cross in Pittsburgh; other recreation; more recollections of odd jobs he worked as a youth; courtship and marriage to Sara Zapler in 1930; directs a water show at North Park Pool for the Sesquicentennial; discussion of the water show; completes industrial safety engineering course at the University of Pittsburgh; 1938, becomes assistant director of County Parks; promotion to Recreation director of Allegheny County Parks.
