[T1S1] birth in Springfield, OH; early life in Dayton, OH; his only sibling, a sister; involvement of grandparents in early life; maternal grandparents, Russian and Polish; paternal grandparents, German; description of his grandmother, Rosie Sajowitz; the mixture of Orthodox Russian and Reform German in his family; his desire to be a rabbi from an early age; his Bar Mitzvah; activities in school; his training for the Rabbinate; education, University of Dayton, University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College; his first position in San Antonio, TX at age twenty-four; courtship and marriage to wife, Ruth in San Antonio.
