Klionsky, Bernard - 1989 - Tape 1, Side 1

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[T1S1] marriage of thirty- nine years to Esther Walde; family background; his children, their ages and careers; creating the pathology department in Beersheba in 1974-75; education, Harvard College, Syracuse Medical School, and Hahnemann Medical College, PA; internship at Wisconsin General Hospital and residency at University of Kansas; move to Pittsburgh in 1961 to become director of Laboratories at Magee-Women's Hospital for twenty-seven years; 1988, takes position at Presbyterian Hospital; discussion of his work at Magee-Women's Hospital; original founder of Congregation Dor Hadash and president of Young People's Synagogue; president, American Cancer Society, Pittsburgh Chapter; discussion of American Cancer Association and other "look alike" organizations; life at Harvard, September, 1942; discussion of three years in Navy from age eighteen to twenty-one; growing-up in Binghamton, NY; recollections of public school and Hebrew School; high school activities, part-time jobs; his siblings and their careers; cultural interests; contrasting life in Pittsburgh with life in the smaller city of Binghamton; views on importance of family influence on children; wife's education at Radcliffe College and Boston Hebrew College.