[T1S1] brief family background; education at Fifth Avenue High School, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and Hebrew Institute; affiliation with ZOA from 1949 to 1984; 1985, became Special Consultant to ZOA and director of ZOA Foundation Fund; travels for ZOA; Jewish training; marriage to Lucille Tepper; children and their education; education in Hebrew; meeting David Ben Gurion; discussion of job offers in Israel; definition of Zionism; discussion of Theodore Herzl, the father of Zionism and the World Zionist Congress of 1894; ZOA's encouragement of the Kibbutz movement; organizations that are part of ZOA including the Jewish Agency and Hadassah Hospital.