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- Norman's Mom ran a small grocery store in Philadelphia through the depression. There, Norman began to learn the produce business. After graduating from a School of Agriculture in the Philadelphia area , he eventually went to Israel in 1949 to help the country develop. He began to question what he was doing one night when he was on guard duty for the kibbutz carrying a gun. He was also disturbed by reports of what was going on in the US with regard to McCarthyism. He decided to return to the US.On the return journey (ship), he met Herb and Adina Wienstein who would eventually introduce him to his first wife.
He got a job inspecting produce in railway cars in Detroit and eventually married Ruth and they had their first child. Ruth was lonesome for her family in Montreal so they moved there and had 3 more children. Norman got a job with the Steinberg supermarket chain and worked there from 1957 to 1985 working his way up from a produce clerk to being Group Vice President of Miracle Food Mart for 12 years and Executive Vice President , Supermarkets for 1 1/2 years. He worked very long hours, always wanting to make an important contribution to the organization and to the employees in it.
In 1974, he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent chemical and radiation therapy. His doctor, the wonderful Dr Alison at Mount Sinai also recommended that he do some work to heal emotionally - suggesting gestalt or Reevaluation Counselling. Norman pursued both of these as well as transactional analysis, redecision therapy and University of Toronto graduate courses in Adult Education and Counselling Psychology. These studies changed him and his managment style. He became very concerned with helping employees get in touch with themselves so that they could bring their best creativity/thinking to the organization. He did one to one Reevaluation Counselling with employees who were interested in re-emerging from their emotional hurts.
He also assisted each of his children to find jobs and in some cases find themselves. Norman was very close to his Mom and his sister. He phoned every two weeks and the few vacations that he took were always to Philadelphia to be with them.
The note on his gravestone is " Thank you for your wisdom,guidance, and inspiration ".
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1927 - 2000 (73 years)
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