Bill grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Brighton Beach, in Brooklyn, in the 1930s and ’40s. He eventually went to college, earned two master’s degrees, developed guidance systems for NASA’s Saturn rocket program, and became a respected home builder in Connecticut. He married his high school sweetheart and together they raised three beautiful daughters. Bill is now retired and a proud grandfather of four. Here he tells the story of how he learned to speak English at age six.
Learning English
Bill grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Brighton Beach, in Brooklyn, in the 1930s and ’40s. He eventually went to college, earned two master’s degrees, developed guidance systems for NASA’s Saturn rocket program, and became a respected home builder in Connecticut. He married his high school sweetheart and together they raised three beautiful daughters. Bill is now retired and a proud grandfather of four. Here he tells the story of how he learned to speak English at age six.
