[T1S1] son of Romanian immigrants; parents' marriage and residence in New York, NY; family move to Pittsburgh in 1918; father takes over a cigar store at Eleventh and Penn Avenue; names of siblings; family life and residences in Pittsburgh; family goes into grocery business; description of mother; education at Franklin School and Fifth Avenue High School and Ralston Industrial School; apprenticeship with Pittsburgh Railway Company; moves to New York; employment with F. W. Woolworth's; traveling with Ringling Brothers Circus as a pony groom; leaves Ringling Brothers in Philadelphia, PA to work as an orderly at Hahnemann Hospital, 1928; return to Pittsburgh; employment at Woolworth's and Frank and Seder Department Store; becomes assistant athletic director at IKS, 1928; early interest in swimming, water safety; fifty years service with the American Red Cross; chairman, Water Safety for the Red Cross in Pittsburgh; other recreation; more recollections of odd jobs he worked as a youth; courtship and marriage to Sara Zapler in 1930; directs a water show at North Park Pool for the Sesquicentennial; discussion of the water show; completes industrial safety engineering course at the University of Pittsburgh; 1938, becomes assistant director of County Parks; promotion to Recreation director of Allegheny County Parks.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.228_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.228
"Kaufman, Nathan - 1978" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Kaufman, Nathan - 1978
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Nathan Kaufman, an athletic director who served as Recreation director of Allegheny County Parks, the Irene Kaufmann Settlement (IRS) and the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA); birth year, 1910.
Contributor
Kaufman, Nathan (interviewee), Cohen;Simon (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1978
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.228
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