The Lipsman Family Reunion

The Lipsman Family Reunion of the descendants (and their companions) of Isadore and Morris will take place in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland during the weekend of Friday, July 25 through Sunday, 27, 1997.

• Fri 3-6PM. Check in to the Bethesda Marriott Suites . Please make reservations directly with the hotel. Call 301-897-5600 or 800-228-9290 and tell them you are attending the Lipsman Family Reunion. You will receive the special rate of $69/night. Reservations must be made by July 3. The hotel has indoor and outdoor pools, a health club, and lots more attractive features--that you can learn about by clicking on its name. Driving directions to the hotel can be found by clicking here.

• Fri 6PM-8PM. Dinner in the hotel's private dining room. There will be a choice of several entrees. Guests are responsible for the cost of dinner.

• Fri 8PM-10PM. Family gathering, also in the private dining room. Welcome video -- presented by Izzy and Morris -- and a few family vignettes -- see More Information below. Get (re)acquainted.

• Sat 8AM-3PM. Free time. We have arranged several optional entertainment opportunities. Kenny and Julee will lead a bike outing. David will lead a sightseeing tour in Washington. Montgomery Mall, Maryland's premiere mall, is near the hotel. Please be sure to complete the Saturday morning choice on your RSVP form.

• Sat 3PM-5PM. Open house and cocktail hour at the home of Ron and Shelly Lipsman.
  920 Clintwood Drive
  Silver Spring, MD 20902
  Click here for directions to Ron & Shelly's

• Sat 5Pm-11PM. Dinner, reminiscences, family stories, videos, vignettes and a momento contest. In addition, we have secured some videos, posters and books related to Ellis Island and the ILGWU. Guests are encouraged to bring similar items (pictures, videos, documents) relating to family or relevant American/New York immigrant history. We will have two VCRs set up.

• Sat 11PM-?. Young folks who care to may go to a local pub; old folks and toddlers to bed.

• Sun 10:30AM. Sunday brunch at Ron and Shelly's. Announcement of vignette, momento and memory contest winners, exchanging of addresses and souvenirs, distribution of family trees and family histories (see below), sweet sorrow.

• Vignettes. We request that every adult and teen guest prepare a 5 - 10 minute vignette about some especially meaningful event or story in Lipsman family history that they would like to share with everyone. The vignette can describe a significant ceremony (e.g. a wedding or Bar Mitzvah), and can be accompanied by paraphernalia: pictures, documents, videos, etc. You are encouraged to be creative. The focus of the vignette should be either a poignant or humorous aspect of the event. If you need more than 5 minutes, no one will mind. We will do a few at the Marriott Suites Friday night, and most of them in our home on Saturday.

• Momento Contest. Also, bring your favorite object of Lipsman Family history (momento) to show everyone! The momento contest will be modeled after a similar contest we ran at Blanche and Irv's 50th anniversary celebration. Please bring something that highlights an important event, occurrence or achievement of the Lipsman clan. These can be photos, videos, certificates (We would love to see Izzy's or Morris' naturalization papers -- does anyone have them?). The contest will be judged by Lipsman spouses. Ron's three aunts did the job in Florida--surely, we can find a few candidates in Silver Spring. Heshey won the prize in Florida for a spectacular collage of family photos. Let's be creative and see if we can dethrone him.

• Prizes. There will be prizes for the best vignette and best momento. Judges, comprised of Lipsman spouses, will consider presentation style, content and originality.

• Web Page. This Web page for the reunion will be kept up to date. It currently has family photos supplied by us, Blanche and Larry. If you want any of your photos to appear on the internet, send them to us. We will return them of course; but if you can't bear to part with them, take them to Kinko's and have a file made in either gif, jpg or bmp format--then send us the diskette.

• Photography David, our son the professional photographer, will be taking candids and group portraits. Photographs will be mailed to family members shortly after the event, and opportunities to purchase additional copies will be outlined.

• Food The cuisine at our home will be catered by Jonathan Welfeld, the catering director of Premier Catering (in Baltimore) and a lifelong friend of Kenny and our family. Jonathan will take very good care of us!

• Memory Contest. It's not too late to mail in your memory contest entries. In case you are uncomfortable using the Web, and you have misplaced your hard copy, give us a call and we'll send you another one.

• Family History Software. We have purchased software enabling the construction of family trees accompanied by family history documents. We would like to compile these for all members of the family and distribute them at the reunion. Enclosed is a sample copy of our family, as well as a blank copy for your family. Please fill in your copy as completely as you like and return it to us.

  Here are some family pictures (some of these files are large, so please be patient):

  • Four Generations
  • 50th Wedding Anniversary
  • Zadie
  • Big Zadie
  • Morris
  • Barry's Wedding
  • Irv's Three Boys
  • Ron and Heshy in Vancouver, 1974
  • Seymour's Family, 1976
  • Ronnie and Zadie
  • Daddie's Home from the War
  • Engaged, 1963
  • Kenny's Bar Mitzvah, Jerusalem, 1980
  • The Lipsman Men at Irv and Blanche's 50th
  • David's Bar Mitzvah, Jerusalem, 1985
  • Irv's 70th Birthday Party
  • Pesach in Great Neck, 1994
  • Our Front Yard in the Early 90's
  • Thanksgiving, 1978
  • The Littlest Lipsman
    Here are some pictures from Larry:
  • Heshy & Bunny and Larry & Shirley, Los Angeles 1984
  • Heshy and Larry in Los Angeles, 1984
  • Thanksgiving 1972 - Four Generations Apart (Freida & David)
  • Steven's Bar Mitzvah, 1973 (2 from column I, 4 from column M)
    And a picture from Blanche:
  • The Four Cousins, 1975
    A few pictures from Susie and Bruce
  • Susan and Bruce
  • Lipsmans and Goldbergs
  • Siblings
  • Married
    And a whole bunch from Heshy
  • Izzy, Morris and their sister Dora
  • Irv and his dad
  • Morris and his brother-in-law Sam Weishaus (Dora's husband)
  • Izzy's family
  • Irv's Bar Mitzvah
  • A mystery anyone know who this is?
  • Izzy and Lily
  • Irv as a young man
  • The Weishaus family