Saul B. Stolzberg

I went temporarily to Brooklyn College and the City College School of Business, but after going part of a semester at each, I dropped out both times. At a certain point I went to work for about three and a half years for Crosley Bendix. They made refrigerators and washing machines. I decided to get into therapy and did that for about a year, and then I enrolled at CCNY. I went through college in three and a half years making up what I had lost by dropping out. I dealt with my military obligation at the end of my school years by going into the Army Reserve. One of my best friends today, that I've known for a million years, studied engineering and went to CCNY. When I got to CCNY, I ended up majoring in sociology and minoring in psychology. I also continued to work part-time at the YM-YWHA. I became a group leader and worked with kids there, and I continue to like doing it. I got to know people and got to meet the professional staff, and that prompted me to apply to graduate school. When I graduated in 1961, I applied and got into Columbia University School of Social Work and got a master's degree there. I've been working with people my whole life. I love doing it. After I graduated from CCNY and started going to Columbia, I became more and more interested in social issues and became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was living in Long Beach, California, after I got my master's from Columbia, and I organized Friends of SNCC. It was an active civil rights organization fighting for Black people to be able to vote in parts of the country where they couldn't vote, which was a good chunk of the country. I became best friends with Mickey Schwerner. I've been a socially conscious kind of guy for quite a while since then.