Well never eat anything that comes from a pig or shellfish or anything like that. It cut off about a mile of the walk to school. Michael James Moran, Esq. That was her way of expressing her chagrin and her unhappiness with the whole thing. Can you tell us that story? And Ive tried to find the house today, but I. It was definitely both certainly part religious and that a Jewish person is supposed to do a mitzvah, a good deed every day. So I walked around again and several more times and had just about decided to go back home when a black limousine came up and this man jumped out all wet and in an American uniform, and he was soaking wet. I just didnt realize how Ive behaved and Im just so very sorry. We picked them thinking about what Nancy Anthony had told me. And they had met a man in London and his name was Peter Miles. One of Seminoles most generous and beloved benefactors, Jasmine Moran, died at her home on Saturday morning, March 5, 2022, at the age of 87. He didnt have any money at all. We remained friends over it because Roberts always been very enthusiastic about anything English and historical and stuff like that, so I was right up his alley. During those years a number of times people came up to me and said, Why dont you run for mayor? And I had no desire to be mayor. I really did. That one day I was kind of proud. I did that while I was in London. Throughout her life, she faced hardships few would comprehend today, but used her looks, singing voice and talent to succeed on London stages as a chorus-line dancer and actress. During the years before, I had served on a lot of various boards and commissions around the state so I know a lot of people. MM: It was an excellent video and we needed to show it to people. Listen now to this remarkable story made possible by The Williams Companies Foundation, one of the founding sponsors of VoicesofOklahoma.com. And said, Are you Jasmine? And I was so, taken aback I didnt have time to think and I said, Yes, I am. And he said, Well, Ive had an accident. There was a man and a woman in the car. He took the three senators to his office and on the wall of his office were maps. The women in Morans family were Gaelic, known as the faerie people, and they were famed for being able to see the future. He was very skinny as a matter of fact and had one of the hairiest chests I believe I have ever seen. And then several years later David and Molly Boren became personal friends of Jasmine and mine. Thats the only way anything will work, is if you take a group of people willing to put their backs in no matter how embarrassing or sweating its going to be, do it, and it will come to be. One morning Kim called and said, Give me something to do. Well, receiving a call from the First Lady Im certainly not going to tell her theres nothing we want, her to do. Our squadron consisted of 25 officers and about 200 enlisted men. She is a woman of resolve and a very strong advocate for children and animal rights.. And of course I dont kid myself that they really needed me for advice, but I was very honored to go. JE: Also back then you were impressed with a young state representative named David Boren? Loving husband, father, grandad and friend. But most of them anyway did manage to volunteer and we had some wonderful stories come from this. I had three really nice years at Central High School. There was another girl there who was just so pretty, and they sent us home and told us they would call us in the morning if we made it through, Moran said. This thing was barely seaworthy. Mike was born in Portland, and, except for a few years in Nebraska during his childhood, he was a lifelong resident of Oregon. Basically, the government in Israel is kind of like one big family. She would have Friday night or Saturday night theater. JE: Are there names that you remember today of people that attended your Bar Mitzvah? Our family has all played on it and pretended that theyre driving in it and theyve done everything to it. She accepted, and they were married not long after. I had never seen such a large piece of meat in my life because rationing in England at that time was 2oz of meat per person per week. All Rights Reserved. And we worked six days a week. And then I attended kindergarten in Seminole up through the first half of the seventh grade in Seminole schools. That was David Boren that got us that. Well, this would be Jasmine? I wasnt a very good athlete. after that I went into active duty as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Admitted as a lawyer and officer of the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 6 November 2020. We pick up the spaying and neutering for the animals if it is adopted from our local shelter which I helped build. JE: You would ride the bus with your mother and she taught you something on those bus rides? So I really was not very well terribly well schooled in the Church of England. Sie knnen Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ndern. JE: You and Judge Robert Henry have a long relationship dont you? How the pioneers made it across this country Ill never know. JE: Were you named after somebody special? I was born in 1930. Your headlights had to be left on all night, the dim part of your headlights. She never knew how many were coming. The reason is we had to wash the dishes. They didnt know what it was but someone had been taken out on a stretcher but they had no idea whom the person was. His face was red and he was so angry and he just walked away. MM: She was the most, gentle person Ive ever met. It would just be a huge boom. Upon her return, her teacher discovered that Jasmine could sing and asked her to perform in the air raid shelters to cover the sound of the bombs. She was not able to leave Latvia to come and she ended up spending the war years in Siberia. Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 15.55 EST. MM: I was fairly socially active. So, we landed in New York and went straight to the Rabbi Kahn in New York who performed the conversion ceremony. first meeting, most of the board members were there already. When I first went on the board at my very. We looked around at buildings and none of the buildings we looked at were the correct thing. So we thought this would be a really nice idea to do something here in Seminole. JE: But I am sure you are over it by now? My mother decided that since we did not know at the time when I was a child that I was dyslexic. But we were very fortunate. I, was blessed with a very good singing voice. One of Seminole's most generous and beloved benefac 2023 Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Chapel. The family lived in the store. I thought that if I contacted city leaders about this project that they would want to have me committed. I had always been just a good member of a committee or board and just did my yeomans work. They had their gunnery lessons every day with us. Jasmine Moran: Going back though, he skipped several things. He said, I helped get the money. We had our next meeting in the Phillips Pavilion which is adjoining the governors mansion. Years of dance and scoliosis have caught up to her, but her mind, humor, kindness and passion remain the same. I was in one show called Excitement, which was a variety show. MM: She took my two videos together, the one I took and Flint and the one I took in Denver and she composed a video for it. JM: Actually, I tried to talk Melvin into staying in England. I met with PM Peres several times and during the times that I met with him he has been prime minister, hes been foreign minister, and he is presently president. There were very few in the country and most, probably not one out of 1,000 Oklahomans had ever heard of a childrens museum, much less seen one. Another time it had to do with economics and tax rates. Almost single-handedly, Jasmine funded and created the Seminole Animal Shelter and Seminole Humane Society, which adopts out 75 animals a month. So after that dreadful blind date Melvin, how many dates did you go on before you proposed marriage? They would say, Where are you going? And take him on a few miles because he was on leave from his camp and he was maybe going home or sometimes he was going back to camp. Thank you for visiting this Oklahoma oral history website, VoicesofOklahoma.com. She knew a lot of people there and she was very good with visual things. And so I said, The next time you come to Oklahoma, I would love to take you around the Oklahoma oil fields. He said, I would much prefer to see your agriculture. The next time that I was able to see him the congressman from OKC was Mickey Edwards. Lillian Burchell, Morans mother, was adept at reading tea leaves. JE: Do you have any estimate of how many wells were in operation in the 1920s and 30s? Giving to charity is a meaningful way to honor someone who has died. The other fellow had just gone off back to the base. They were very lucky to get turkey and anything else that was edible. He helped me with Judaism and to convert. Before we were married I had already purchased a small home, so Jasmine moved to a home she had never seen before. They were adamantly trying to get into London to smack London to pieces because that was the way they were going to arrive and make England theirs. JE: Nobody thought of him being pretty special at that time? JE: You were a worker way back when, one of your first jobs was you delivered papers for the Tulsa Tribune? And my brother Sidney was born in 1932. He explained that he had been boating on the River Thames and the boat had developed some problems with the propeller. Douglas Miller Art Director I was standing there waiting for an American to appear, and one did, and he was probably 350 pounds and 52, and in a uniform. She was shot at on the way to school and practiced how to use gas masks. You could see, but never touch, and I hated that. I had invited him to come to the museum a number of times and never got any response. They were going back home to be with their children in their apartment in London. volunteered for us and they have loved it themselves so much that they find another four hours a week to volunteer, and so on and so forth. Yes it was over there in Israel but not at that time. MM: We were out an OIPA Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association meeting in Shangri-, La before the museum opened. As we crossed the Michigan border headed toward Mackinac Island, we knew we were going to be one day ahead of our reservations, so we felt like we would kill a day someplace somehow. It as a VIP kind of trip, we visited all of the historic places. So we were really scared to death by this time. JE: And then I believe there was a drugstore at 21st and Utica? Meet and learn from the incredible Oklahomans that have passed on since sharing their stories with us. I didnt know who it was but I really thought I was in the middle of Chicago. And this well was making about five barrels of oil a day. Senator Gore commented, he said, When we landed in Guam there were troop ships and troops everywhere as far as you could see. General Stilwell was in charge of the forces in that part of the world. 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. I barely got it in the trunk of my car. Then, when it hit the concrete, it would explode. We maintain it not just for the three families here, but for families in the area who come down. Because I was being discharged, my term of duty was up and I was being sent back (to the states). So they made me a soda jerk. So the next day I got out of journalism school and went into business school. The hotel called a doctor and he came and gave me shots and pills. I realized I had a chance. MM: Yes, absolutely. But fortunately for me, my mother was in the hospital, having just had surgery. I did, but more so during that time. And we are grateful that he did. More than 70,000 visitors played to learn and learned to play there last year. It was just a few blocks away. 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 auditioned for one of two roles and I was very fortunate to it. And the equipment that he sold was used equipment. Challenge your brain, adults and children alike! JE: All right, so lets pick up from your side here Jasmine. It is hard maybe for us to understandwhen they are getting shelling all of the time, why dont they want to give up their land and put Israel back to its original United Nation partitions that were like 15 miles wide. As she entered the museum for an interview Nov. 1, her face was only slightly bruised from a bad fall she had suffered while recovering from heart surgery. The Japanese are fierce fighters and we are going to have to kill a million Japanese. A few days later, the same three senators went to the Philippines where General McArthur was. JE: Did you buy yourself a bicycle or any of those types of things? Its very nice to meet you. I despise cruelty. I found out she was dead when I went to school the next day and they said they never found all of her body she was just blown to pieces. It was a dreadful drive back from Beersheba all the way back across the desert never knowing what had happened and where you were. Several hours after they had gone I woke up and I felt fine. Jasmine and our oldest daughter went, and my brother and his wife, and my sister and her husband. MM: Yes, I think so. That was probably our first success. (Laughter) But I am certain that the reason that I was invited is that I had a good relationship with then Senator David Boren. MM: Weve walked around the streets of both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at midnight and never felt insecure. JE: But here in Seminole, would you have been the only Jewish family here in Seminole? Do you have any comments along those lines here in 2010 for what you might project about it? JE: During your summers then, while you were in college, you said you worked at Streets department store. And I said to him, If you were my child, Id turn you over my knee and I would spank your rear end right in public because you really deserve a jolly-good thrashing and Ive had it with you. And he turned off and he stormed away. And I would lay it out on the lawn and give another section to another person. Do you want to comment on that? We bumbled around so badly that I was getting pretty seasick too. He was born on March 16, 1932 in LeSueur, Minnesota to William F. and Dolores (Moran) Dietrich. You know we keep hoping that some day, there will be peace. MM: It was officially made in New York. Its about a 10-minute video and if you could please give me the time? And he said, Sure. As we played the video I could see that he was getting emotionally involved in it. "Melvin & Jasmine Moran: Founders of Childrens Museum" Interview by John Erling. Minister Shimon Peres, can you tell us about that? Two ounces. JM: No, actually when you went downstairs was when we were arriving back at the hotel. JM: Thank you but I dont know about that. Melvin, you saw the need to serve your city. Of course I made a lovely spectacle of myself by slipping on one of the slick areas. I thought that was terrible. After the death of Morans scoundrel father, Lillian raised her three surviving children alone. They're not a map to follow, but simply a description of what people commonly feel. And so weve always tried to do that. And Im very proud of the fact that Seminole has a synagogue here. He went to Stanford University and then became a lawyer. In fact I dont think it really was. So I bought a TV VCR combination and a console, you know. And meanwhile the Korean War had started, so at graduation I came out as a Second Lieutenant. MM: Right. In fact the very first show he made was From Russia With Love. Mel Myers Audio Editor I always enjoyed working after school and in the summers I worked and I just enjoyed being productive. There were dozens and dozens of schools, sometimes a school on every section, because they were just so many people. staring at me for? I always. What is the first house that you remember living in? These were rubbers that were made out of inner tubes from tires and (stretched) over sticks, and you let them go and they sting a little bit when they hit you. MM: I was 20 then. And then we would climb over that and then to the other side and we were much closer to the school. melmyershonestmedia@cox.net, Mllerhaus Legacy Website Team Five years later in 1937 my sister Ethel was born. After the judge talked three of the people that he excused into coming back, it turned out that they were 12 of the most dedicated people that you could possibly imagine. JM: Yes, it was the worst date I have ever been on. So we simply went down every name in the directory and discussed every person in the phonebook to determine if they worked, or if they would be good with, children and so forth, and we made a mark by their names and we called them and thats. JE: You still use your English phrases dont you? The average price for the year 1986 was $14/barrel. Ive got to go back to the headlight business. Then fast-forward to 1945. You know, it was a really wonderful place. that particular issue. A man came across and talked to me, his name was Ted dAndriole. JE: Did you or your family feel any discrimination for being Jewish? The family of Jasmine Dolores Moran created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories. Melvin knew all of my friends and everybody that I worked with. All the way up in the elevator I have this big piece of furniture with me. Because they couldnt be seen by anyone, you know going around driving. And if you made a milkshake or malt you had the glass you served it in, plus the metal container that you stirred it in. So the board of directors had much more vision than Jasmine and I, because we were thinking small and our museum is probably six times the size of the one in Flint, Michigan. Well, going back to Seminole Moran Pipe & Supply bought oil leases. Jasmine Moran Seminole, Oklahoma May 7, 1934 - March 5, 2022 Share Obituary: Tribute Wall Obituary & Events Share a memory Send Flowers Share a memory of Jasmine Moran. I arrived in 1953. Her sister, however, said no, that wasnt accurate, she was born in Russia. I well remember that the first time I had gone to meet the President, Jasmine says, Wheres your camera? and I said, This is an economic discussion, that would not be appropriate. I didnt take a camera and I was the only one there who didnt. We recommended disbarment of five lawyers. A chance to visit with the author and subject of Jasmine Moran's much-anticipated biography has been scheduled for Sunday. Israel is probably more secure than most any major city in America. Located in Seminole, OK, we are just east of Oklahoma City at 1714 Wrangler Boulevard. JM: Oh, no, no. Most houses in England were two-story. And Melvin went through the same thing. My father operated the company from the Tulsa office. I remember being introduced to him by Senator Sam NunnI followed Senator Howard Baker. But after having several dates, she decided she wanted to dump me, but to do it in a nice way. 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