Herb Adelman:  

Well, Herb graduated Yeshiva Rambam, but couldn't get into the coed Yeshiva of Flatbush High School, so he settled for the all boys, Yeshiva University HS in Brooklyn, However, there was always the YUHSB for Girls down the block. In his senior year, much to the surprise of Rabbi Zuroff, his high school principal, Herb received a New York State Scholarship and was accepted into Pratt Institute's School of Architecture. One year later, he flunked out of Pratt and lost the scholarship. (Long story). He then switched over to the Yeshiva University Extension, Brooklyn College. At the end of four years, he received a BA in Speech and Theater (and television and film) and a teaching fellowship for graduate school. While in grad school, Herb was recruited by his set design professor to work on designing all sorts of projects including the decorations for a gala charity ball for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (where he worked with the Cabots, Lodges and Saltonstalls), a temporary and permanent Greek theater in Ypsilanti, Michigan (where he worked with Dame Judith Anderson and Bert Lahr) and a project on Broadway... all the while he was attending class and fulfilling his fellowship duties. And the while, he remained a sabbath observer and kosher. One of his professors was recruited to head a Peace Corps educational television project in Colombia. The professor then recruited Herb. After three months of intensive cultural and language training at Brandeis University (where he fell in love with a nice Methodist girl from Kansas) and Puerto Rico, he found himself in Bogota, where he was the Peace Corps leader at the national ETV station... and living with the only kosher butcher in Colombia. Early on, he stopped being a sabbath observer and kosher. (Another long story) Oh, and during the Six-day War, he protected the Israeli Embassy in Bogota. He was then transferred to a university in Cali, Colombia to ...Expand for more