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speaking, self-effacing and never
oratorical. His attitudes toward
race and group relations have
caused him to accept readily
another responsibility, membership
on the executive committee of the
Southwest Center for Human Re
lations Studies at the University
of Oklahoma. “No other activity in
the state will insure the healthful
growth of Oklahoma more than a
progressive, satisfactory program
of human relations.”
Alfred Aaronson is no enigma
when observed through his history.
His father, Lionel Eliezer Zorah
Aaronson (the family runs to
threes in names) was one of
twelve children whose father des
erted them to sail to Palestine. He
left a note: “Send Mama and the
babies after me if you want.”
Lionel was a typical New York
Jew, neither rich or poor. His
wife’s father was a rabbi. One of
Lionel’s daughters — Alfred’s sis
ter — married an oil man from
Tulsa. When she moved west,
Lionel followed. Shortly thereafter
he made a speculative investment
in oil. Before long, he had par
layed his investments into riches.
He built the fanciest house in
town, containing a real shul. Grace
Goldin (Alfred Aaronson’s eldest
daughter, the wife of Judah Gol
din, who holds the chair of clas
sical Judaism at Yale) recalls:
“The town shul was too far away
to walk . . . This was a God-given
opportunity for my grandfather to
rule his own shul: an autocrat, de
fining policies, outlining the order
of prayer, compelling decorum . . .
The shul took up one whole wing
of the house. On each side of the
room were three long windows; on
the men’s side they looked out on
the driveway, which was their
hard luck: we women had the
flower-beds and shrubbery."
Lionel E. Z. Aaronson built a
home for each of his four married
daughters and one son, all within
five blocks of his own, and filled
his own shul with his family.
When he died, he left as part of
his legacy the privately published
commentaries he had written on
Ecclesiastes. “The name that one
leaves behind him at death,’ he
wrote, “is better than the good oil
that he was anointed with at
birth."
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At lunch with Millicent and
Alfred Aaronson, one is struck by
the gentility of this couple, and
the obvious warmth between
them. They address each other
consistently as “Darling,’ and dis
play a tenderness toward each
other that is the essence of respect
and affection. Millicent Aaronson
is still a beautiful woman, with
grandmotherly grey hair coiffed in
soft becoming waves, brushed back
from a fine forehead. She has a
round face with a ready smile and
glowing skin, smooth as a peach,
and delightful smile lines around
her eyes.
Aaronson is tall, spare, blue
eyed, earnest. Their home is un-
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