All about Steve Emerman!

Steve stepped in at short notice and provided an insightful talk about his life and his work. Originally from Brooklyn New York although his grandparents came from Russia and their grandparents came from Denmark. He grew up in New York in a rough neighborhood - went to tech. school and became a Civil Engineer - he explained that Civil Engineers look after sewers and took delight in saying, " it may be sh⿦..t to you, but it is their bread and butter". Later he moved to LA and became a Transport Engineer. Met his wife when she was visiting (an Aunt?) they went back to NY to live as his dad needed help with the business, but he and his dad had very different ideas and parted ways. Went back to college at age 40 and got his MBA. Raised his kids to be independent. Daughter lives in New York -she obtained degrees in business and law, but pursued a career as an actress and now has a concierge business. Both his sons are entrepreneurs in the restaurant business - one runs Sammy J Peppers and the other the Blarney Stone. Wife has three degrees and is famous for Breast cancer research at the University. Steve has also worked on the LRT system in Vancouver and in the 80s when there was a recession he went to Turkey to help design their transit system, the building of it started in 2005. In 1988 he moved to the Island for a year designing highways, came back to Vancouver, but got sick and could not work as an Engineer. Opened a business to import giftware from China, which he ran until 1998 when he retired. Now active in Rotary, teaches English to Russian immigrants, helps out at the University. His main interest is golf and tennis. He has three grandkids and is taking the whole family to Israel where the two youngest grandkids will be "bar mitzvahed" Mary thanked Steve for his talk and announced that Maureen will be stepping in for her next week as she will be away. Notes this week by Jackie Read.