Melrose, Ezra, undated
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 contains: news clipping of Melrose becoming new Weaver principal; plastic sleeve containing invitation to interview at JHSGH, news clippings, handwritten note, photographs of Melrose an company; yellow sheets of handwritten notes; plastic sleeve containing news clippings; Merit award for work at Jewish Family Service; plastic sleeve containing news clippings and envelope; plastic sleeve containing news clipping, typed material, small WWII photograph, State of New Mexico driver's licenses; Trinity alumni magazine Summer 1966; Hartford jewish community center "Scope" newsletter December 1957.
Folder 2 contains: Obituary; invotations to induction in Jewish Athletes Hall of Fame; Biography of Melrose; typed notecard promising inclusion of more material in biography.
Folder 3: Oral History tape transcript.
Subjects of interview include: Military service; religious membership and swtich to reform from conservatism; work as principal of Weaver High school and the mistake of transferring him; early life in Hartford and work in various retail jobs; education at Trinity; facing anti-semitism at Trinity and in applying for Aetna job; birth of dauther Ruth in New Mexico and unsanitary practices of hospital; relationship to black children at Weaver as their principal; participation in an Oxie; recent medical crises.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- Shapiro, Murry (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Ezar Melrose was interviewed by Murry Shapiro at the Jewish Historical Society on October 8, 1975.
Full Extent
From the File: 16 Linear Feet (2 filing cabinets)
Language of Materials
From the Series: English
Container Summary
Folder 1: News clippings Invitation to interview at JHSGH Handwritten notes Award Magazine News letter Folder 2: Obituary Induction invitation (jewish hall of athletes) Typed note card Biography Photograph of newspaper photograph Resume Photocopy of news clipping Folder 3: Oral history transcript
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Arsenal School
- Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT
- Athletics
- Bulkeley High School
- Businesses & Professions -- Salesman
- Businesses -- Clothing/Tailors
- Credit Unions and Oxies
- Emanuel Synagogue
- Family
- Fraternal Organizations
- Hartford Public High School
- Hartford history
- Hospitals
- Immigrant(s)
- Jewish Family Service
- Military Service
- Poetry
- Security
- Talmud Torah
- Teferes Israel
- Temple Beth Israel
- Trinity College
- Weaver High School
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository