I went to Hebrew school four days a week, and Sunday. It was a very traditional Hebrew school. Most of the teachers in that Hebrew school were themselves immigrants.

I think I started going to the JCC probably as a fairly young kid when I was still living in West Lynn, to certain play programs.

I think it gave me some very, very important values. Values of kindness to other people. Values of giving back to the community from which you came.

What I would do is go home for Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippu—to celebrate the Jewish holidays.

I became involved in AZA. I eventually became aleph godol; I became the head of that organization. A lot of the focus of AZA in Lynn was sports.

It was right next to a public school which also housed what was called then the Americanization School. It was a place where the immigrants first started to learn English.

Pierce: Did you go to Hebrew school?
Sherman: I did.

We would go to shul on all of the important Jewish holidays. My father knew how to daven.