Relatively Speaking 1999

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Volume 12 1999 On-line Edition November 1999
Circulation: 627 Voluntary Subscription $2 per annum

I promised to be helpful whenever I can, and the following are "free plugs" for some very dear cousins:

    Dr. Ira Ross and his lovely wife Helene Strousse Ross, retired to St. Petersburg several years ago. But they have not completely retired. In fact Helene has been very busy in the art world and Ira became very involved with Eckerd College in its continuing education department.
    He has developed a program which is now being put on CD called "Opera for Everyone." Ira narrates the story of an opera with descriptions about the music. The first printing of the CDs is now available. I promised him to help him get some publicity on the Internet about this venture, so here it is.
    This will make a wonderful teaching tool for schools as well as for personal education about operas. The first opera covered in the first CD is The Barber of Seville.   Music is provided by Music by Naxos. For family members the cost will be $12 plus S&H $4. It is regularly $15 + S&H. Or you can go to his website: www.OperaforEveryone.com to get a preview and pay the regular price.
    Ira has made me the official family representative for the CD, so if you are interested for yourselves or for a school, for more information or to order, write Joan Glanz Rimmon, P. O. Box 49456, Los Angeles, CA 90049, or e-mail Jgrimmon@aol.com.
    Thank you for your kind attention. We are quite enthusiastic about this project and I hope you will want to get a CD.

Another cousin, Harry Bachenheimer sent me the following:
    Joan, Maybe you can help me on my project. Could you ask all our family members to provide information as per Veteran Search. Thanks for your help. Forward info to Gerschonb@aol.com
Veteran search.
    Recently I saw a book listing Jewish Veterans, who served in the US Armed Forces. It occurred to me that many who served had escaped from Hitler's Germany and/or Europe.
    For Instance: I left Germany in July of 1941. Served in the U.S. Air Corps from 4/1943 to 1/1946. (I had one brother who served with the British in Palestine. One brother with the USA Air Corps, cousins with Australian, South African, British and anti Franco Forces.)
    I am assembling information on those veterans who escaped and served in any and all of the allied forces If you have any information / data or sources of information, on veterans, living or deceased, who left Europe between January 1933 and May 1945, please contact me. Use my "E" mail or fax at 818-789-9649. Only statistical data will be used, all other information will require consent unless public record.
    Please provide; name, address, contact numbers (telephone, e-mail, fax.) Indicate the country, service branch, location, rank, dates of service, dates left Germany/Europe, date of birth. Partial information is also useful.

    The next letter was addressed to me after the mailing of the family contact lists last year.
     "A question of ethics. I recently started my own investment advisory practice. May I use the list to send a mailing announcing this and soliciting business? My best wishes to you and all of yours. Charles Sandmel" Csandmel@aol.com
My response was the following:
    Dear Charles, I will be happy to give you a free plug in the newsletter, but the list is specifically for family members to contact each other, not for business. So here is the free plug. He can be contacted at the above e-mail address or by snail mail at 13 Fairmount, Brookline, MA 02445. He was most understanding of my reasoning. PS I'll plug something for you too!

Sometimes I wonder if all of you out there read Relatively Speaking or even care that I write them. The following letter, and several others, gave me encouragement:
"Just wanted to wish you and your family Happy Chanukah and a wonderful holiday season. I also want to thank you for all your work on the family newsletter. We are blessed to have someone like yourself helping us keep in touch. Best wishes, Marjorie Rothschild.

Many members of our extended families have developed their own web sites. Here are a few for you to visit:

Adam Spigel's: http://www.myartwork.com

Gary Ubert helped put together a web site for the North East Kansas chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. http://www.ahsgr.org/ksnorthe

Paul Abramson 3d: http://www.sfhealth.org

Mark Abramson: http://www.forwardthought.com

Ira Ross: http://www.operaforeveryone.com

Pam Briggs and singing partner Maggie: http://www.effectnet.com/pamandmaggie/

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