And Im very proud of the fact that Seminole has a synagogue here. In 1951, Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Londons West End. So I was looking at the pictures in the theater and he came over to the theater and started looking at the pictures but didnt look at me. It was definitely both certainly part religious and that a Jewish person is supposed to do a mitzvah, a good deed every day. Apparently the land was not good there. I could see him in the reflection of the glass. Although, you see, another thing, during the bombing and the war, it was frowned upon for too many people to congregate in large groups. Israel arranged a trip for Mickey Edwards to come to Israel and Jasmine and I were invited to go with him and his wife and also another couple from OKC. I sold mens clothes to there. I had to book on a ship to come out here. So I thought, well Ill go around the other way. Do you want to comment on that? JE: So this was quite an adjustment Jasmine to come to Seminole, Oklahoma? So I thought one day, I wouldnt have to make so many milkshakes if I got rid of the milk. So we try to do that and try to teach our children that. You can see the beauty on the surface, but underneath all those layers may be something not so pretty. Most houses in England were two-story. The Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum has been an integral part in the childhood and education of at least two generations of Oklahomans. She and the other chorus line actresses, including Millicent Martin who went on to become a television and screen actress, playing Daphne Moons mother on Frasier became a tight-knit group of friends. I honestly do believe that I died that day and that it changed my life. I earned more salary than he did during that period of time. A man came across and talked to me, his name was Ted dAndriole. We think that they really are interested in peace. He had eaten something and had to dart out of his car to throw up. Our squadron consisted of 25 officers and about 200 enlisted men. He said, Oh, new blood. When you go a block to deliver one paper, its not nearly as good as delivering 10 papers on a block. (Laughter.). But while I was a sophomore and taking some of my pre-journalism courses, one day a teacher said, Today a beginning writer can probably start at about $25 a week. And I thought there must be something better than that. The only other dinner guest was Shimon Peres. JM: Well, Mel had arrived late. When I first went on the board at my very. JE: Theres a point where he seemed to have a disagreement with Albert Einstein? The time that I met with Hillary, there were eight of us at a table and, I was seated directly across from Hillary. But I never did because I felt that Senator Boren had a lot smarter people to advise him. In her early adolescence, Jasmine attended a drama school, where she also took regular school lessons, as well as music, dance and acting. Thats what I love about her and her family. The guide said to me, What have you done? I said, If he thinks over the words that I have said to him, he will realize just how ugly he has been. Did we have to put a fence around it or what? People would drop by and they would say, Well I just took all of the apples off of my tree and made two pies and I brought you one of the pies. And that short of stuff, so you know we were always brought things. Loving husband, father, grandad and friend. Two ounces. Seminole County Publishing Copyright 2023. I realized I had a chance. And for the number of square feet that we needed it was going to be a floor and a half. So it really became a very, very bad area to be living in during that period of time. And some of them they bought the plug, and would go ahead and produce them, and others they bought to produce. It was a department store. Her most notable performances were in Rodgers and Hammersteins production of South Pacific.. So every time that he would leave his car for any length of time it would kill the battery and the only way that he could get it started was pushing the car to get it running again. It has amenities that no other city our size has. Even though it was such a sparse country and such a desert country it was just an amazing experience. JE: You could only buy a certain amount of any one of those products? The Italia? Because not only will they come here and fill up their tank with gas, theyll have dinner and lunch and stay in motels, so a study needs to be made of this. I thought well have the money that well need in two weeks and we will build it in six months. This town had a lot of elderly people who were on their own on Christmas Day, sitting there in front of the television eating may be a ham sandwich if they could put it together or possibly something they had bought from the store. During part of the bombing, Jasmine and her sister were evacuated to live in the homes of strangers near Birmingham. MM: Right. And when they got home we went out to dinner. Arthur W. Moran Jr., son of the late Arthur W. Moran Sr. & Emily L. Moran was born August 14, 1942 in New Orleans, LA and departed this life on March 26 . She went to the school cafeteria for lunch with her class and they were serving beanie weenies, which she hated. At 17, Moran became one of hundreds of girls competing for two spots in the musical. It was in Kansas City that he met my mother, Elsie Fine on a blind date, and she was a secretary there. as sick as I was, to have felt completely well, and not weak at all was amazing. JE: But it wasnt your husband. What is the first house that you remember living in? And I looked especially bad because the one young man that worked beside me he was very efficient. He attended schools in Tulsa before settling with his family in Seminole while working in the oil business. And he started dating her and on the third date he proposed to her. Finally a man, probably about 10 years older than me and no taller than me, maybe even shorter, it was his turn. They called the hotel to check on me from where they were. JM: No, we were not. And so for many weeks after that whenever we could get leave we would go in to London, which was about 60 miles away. Also provides pro bono legal assistance (estate planning and criminal injuries compensation). I am not sure how many terms he served, but it seems like maybe he served three terms but I am not sure. Most everything was rationed, gasoline especially, but sugar and meat. JE: Is it while you were there with the Air Force in England that you actually made your first visit to Israel? are on-call all the time and meanwhile still trying to run an oil company. No one. The three of us went to her house. JE: So by the time that you came to the United States then you had been schooled in Judaism? The first thing that I felt was that you had to have something to show them what a childrens museum is, because there were none in Oklahoma. We worked seven days a week eight hours a day, and worked until 11 oclock at night. Family flowers only. And I had seen people come by and try to sell something to my mother. When I went to work for the company initially our sales for pipe and equipment totaled. But I really enjoyed it. MM: She did. Marci and I gave Stan a tour with Kim along. Of course he went on to great things (Laughter). I remember the judges name was Bob Howell. And we were about ready to kill you. David Boren was not the forerunner at the beginning but he eked out the election. So he had two groups of wells. I looked like a skeleton. Kim told us, My children grew up in the museum. They lived in Shawnee 20 miles away. He lived through more than one Depression and rose to the top through the economic highs and lows of the last 80 years, filling his life with humor and fun along the way. (Laughter) So does that continue until this day in 2010? Senator. During both of his campaigns I was his County Chairman. A lot of us were known as the five Ms. The other possibility is that number one the doctor gave me some pills or a shot, I dont recall which one and it could be that the medication suddenly cured me. MM: At that time in Seminole, maybe four or five in the community. He had already started the one in Oklahoma City. But he walked toward the theater and I thought gee whiz here I am, you. In the early 1980s, Jasmine and Melvin visited their first childrens museum on a trip to Flint, Mich. with their 2 granddaughters. Meet and learn from the incredible Oklahomans that have passed on since sharing their stories with us. Bill was very good to dad and let dad know about scraps that Phillips had, which was quite a lot. Mom passed away peacefully at the Bonnechere Manor, after a brief illness at the age of 93. MM: By definition a childrens museum contains hands-on educational exhibits for children aged 3 to 12. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. MM: Im not sure that she ever was sure that it was really going to happen. The 14 people that I knew planned, to come. The family lived in the store. In those days it seems severe to us, but later finding out what rationing was like in other places, especially EnglandI mean, we had no rationing at all compared to what they did. I always enjoyed working after school and in the summers I worked and I just enjoyed being productive. We all came together as a group. We had a really excellent board meeting at the end of the meeting we invited Reggie to come up and name the new wing. Graduate of Rutgers, and Kean University with a double major in Psychology and Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Now the main campus of Ben-Gurion University is in Beersheba, in southern Israel. I had put two medications together that didnt go together. JE: Tell us what he was doing. The other fellow had just gone off back to the base. Being English and coming from a cold climate, I was told that my blood was like that of an Eskimo. Well, Mel had a small car, which did not have a large motor. I know we had people coming and going and the cast changed, but I dont remember him. Mel said, Why would he say he was in South Pacific when he wasnt? I said, I dont know. Well, he took his shirt off and I said, Melvin, I recognize him! JE: The hairy chest. I would send out 200 copies to 200 companies and people that might send some money. And anyone who could fly anything was brought to Hornchurch to fly it, and to try and protect London from the German Luftwaffe. He was a chorus boy in the show and he had never done anything in his life and he was a chorus boy. Weve got a spaying and neutering program going. So we got about a loaf and a half because we were a family of five in our family. MM: If I was to take a lie detector test, and get asked, Did you die that day? I would answer, Yes. If I was asked, Did you have a two-way conversation with God? I would answer, Yes. I would pass it because I really believe that. Youve been very helpful, both of you, to people in the community. It was in the middle of the hotel and everybody was listening including the old lady who was our leader and our guide. It was a very, very difficult period of time that we both went through. I was probably about six, maybe seven years old at the time, but we walked home from school together. Just a comment about your love, both of you, for Israel and what you think about peace in the Mid East. JE: Do you remember during those years rationing or that type of thing? So mother had had a hard time with us all. Happy 90th birthday on 01/02/23. There is a camaraderie that is unbelievable around the country. MM: Yes, the Fine family lived in St. Joseph, Missouri and they had a small grocery store. One of her first projects was the organization and founding of the Seminole Humane Society. One is that I did and one is that I didnt. And they would hit the roof of your house. She would have Friday night or Saturday night theater. wash two items instead of one. On the face of that, it doesnt sound like, oh I can get really excited about it. In those days I played table tennis pretty well. Melvin knew all of my friends and everybody that I worked with. JM: Yes, she was having a fit because she thought I ruined everything and that I was now making a big bridge between the United States and Israel and it wasnt a good one. We were just barely making a living. It was getting to be the end of grasshopper season, and I thought it would have a better chance of survival if I took it outside. They would burn through the second story if they didnt meet anything solid. Everyone in the cast we were all friends with each other. Meet the generous donors and sponsors that make everything we do possible. She would eventually catch the eye of a young Oklahoma serviceman and move to America. MM: Well, I thought it was wonderful. We have quite a few family members there from my fathers sister, the one that ended up staying there and raising a family there and then her children, and their children are there, so we do have quite a bit of family there. Your bread was a loaf of bread per family of four. It was a dangerous thing to leave lights on because you gave yourself (away) as a target. JM: Thank you but I dont know about that. A year later we had our first child and two years later our second, and our third five years after that. I said, Youre what is known as an ugly American and I am very disgusted with your behavior. I was living in a place called Harraton House in Exning, which is a suburb of Newmarket. Moran, who had undergone heart surgery a month prior, cracked a few pithy comments in the hot toddy English accent she still carries, smiling under a coif of paper-white hair that floated around her face like babys breath. Jasmine P. Logan FUNERAL HOME 102 South Ave Petersburg, VA JASMINE LOGAN OBITUARY LOGAN, Jasmine P., In her brief yet meaningful 28 years, she lived out a masterpiece, coloring our world. My father had been a big financial supporter of Ben-Gurion University. And Mr. I would like to think that my personality approaches hers at least in some respect. wonderful because you can have someone out of sight, a considerable distance away and make the robot move. They were his friends too. None of that, however, helped Melvin when the crisis of his life left him alone and near death in a Jerusalem hotel room. JM: No, no. While working on South Pacific, Jasmine met a member of the U.S. Air Force, Melvin Moran, on a blind date. I did not have any interest in the business that my father had started. Mickey Edwards was important to Israel because on the committee that decides on foreign aid, he was the ranking Republican. After we had dated quite a bit, I lived in London and Mel would come to my home and stay with me. See our stories in the news and how VOK's impact is expanding through your generous gifts. MM: Not the only Jewish family, but the only Jewish kid in my class. So we got a group of volunteers in there with brooms and mops and buckets and everything else and cleaned it all up. MM: Well, there are certain laws of kosher, certain things we cannot eat. MM: I was 20 then. MM: It was an excellent video and we needed to show it to people. We have family living in Israel and they were all there. By January 1927 the population of Seminole was approximately 30,000. It was during this time, the early 1950s, that she met the American Air Force Lieutenant she would marry. And she said, The next time you are in Israel, please come and see me. So, the next time we were going to be in Israel she invited me to have dinner at her house along with Jasmine and Jasmines sister Helen. It didnt matter if you worked for it or not. JE: They do run our families. He had an apartment with two extra beds and so those two officers stayed with him and I would stay at the American Officers Club, which was called Winfield House and was formerly owned by Doris Duke. It was like being in something really peculiar, everybody was looking at me. MM: When I was 14 years old my reading material was mostly comic books. At that time, in order to acquire equipment, there would be wells that were about to be plugged and abandoned. He was very skinny as a matter of fact and had one of the hairiest chests I believe I have ever seen. She knew a lot of people there and she was very good with visual things. Or, there was this big field that this farmer had, and he had been trying to grow crops in it but they were not very successful. And we were all very close friends and one of them is deceased now, but the rest of us still remain good friends. More than 70,000 visitors played to learn and learned to play there last year. I auditioned for one of two roles and I was very fortunate to it. Exactly. And of course you dont know whats going to happen with Iran. My youngest sister, as it turned out later, after I did, married a Lutheran, a German. 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