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Melrose, Ezra

 Digital Record
Identifier: melrose, ezra (zeke)_1975

Dates

  • Creation: undated

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Ezar Melrose was interviewed by Murry Shapiro at the Jewish Historical Society on October 8, 1975.

General Note

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.

General Note

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.

Repository Details

Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository

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