Stolmack_H_W index

Bari's dad Bill Stolmack (12/27/1920 - 4/06/2013) was born in Ohio. He attended Ohio State, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He was in the navy during WWII and then worked as an electrical engineer for Kaiser Engineers, traveling throughout the world. He and Molly Stolmack had three children: Alan Stolmack, Bari Stolmack, and Jay Stolmack. They returned to Oakland CA when Bill retired.

[As related to me by Bill in 2004:]
Bill lived in Ashtabula through 3rd grade, then moved to Youngstown in more difficult living circumstances during the depression until Bill went to college at OSU (eventually graduating in EE, ca. 1942). His father's employment positions worsened for some time, from yardmaster to baggage handler, before resuming an upward trend. Bill sometimes worked as assistant to switch master, running through the yard to throw manual switches. Once, he was on the phone to the switch master during a lightening storm when induced voltage from a nearby lightening strike knocked him out.

In Youngstown, Bill worked at Wilkoff Iron & Steel mill from age 14 or 15 during the summer. Conditions initially were terrible: 6am-6pm, 7 days/week, one toilet very far away, broken windows, rats. Worked at large shear machine which cut 3/4" steel strip. In the mid-30s, CIO staged a strike; the plant had contracts to meet with penalty clauses, so they settled after 3 days. Conditions immediately improved: 10h/day, 6d/week, toilets. Between freshman and sophomore HS years, Bill worked on a constuction crew building a steel-frame fab shop at the mill. He learned how to climb an I-beam after it was raised.

Bill's family pictured on this page:

Samuel Stolmack & Ruth Mohilewsky Stolmack: parents
Mariasa & Abe Mohilewsky: maternal grandparents
Tillie & Hyman Mohilewsky: maternal aunt and uncle
Rose, Frances, Joann, and David Stolmack: siblings

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