Subject: quick bio for Bernie Elias
From: "Bernie Elias" [fbelias@yotvata.org.il]
To: "Laraine Wessels"; ALL
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: history

Laraine,
This is in response to Dave W. request for those not attending the reunion.

Since, I think history is important and those who forget it are bound to relive it as a farce...!
After my parents moved to Skokie, I finished Evanston Township High School.
A year in Israel
Three years in the army, one in Viet Nam, for those that care The First Air Calvary Division (1966).
Immigration to Israel in 1969.
B.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. As you can imagine history was my major.

For most of the past thirty some odd years. I have been working in agriculture - apples, pears,sheep, cows and for the past twenty years dates. I do have a certain amount of expertise on the subject. I am married to Fanny for the past 32 years (from Paris, France not Illinois) and have two daughters 30 and 29. One son-in-law and most important one grandson (two years old) and another grandchild due in December 2002.

Dave, I hope this fulfills your curiosity. By the way I have very tentative > plans to visit Chicago in November. If I have the time maybe I will try to > make the trip to Peoria.

Bernie