Moe and Marie Goldman Papers

Moe Goldman (1895 –1976), a respected realtor by vocation, was a committed volunteer and humanitarian, noted for his leadership in the Boy Scouts of America and other organizations working toward the betterment of youth. Mr. Goldman was born in Augusta, Georgia, to Louis Goldman and Pauline Silver Goldman. His father was an immigrant from Manheim, Germany, and his mother was a native of Augusta. Goldman attended Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and served in the Army of Occupation in Europe at the end of World War I. He returned to take a traveling sales position for a shoe company. Goldman moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1920 and met and courted Marie Rosenbaum (1901-1992), the daughter of Ralph Rosenbaum (1865-1960) and Harriett Kleinert Rosenbaum (1874-1948). Mr. Goldman and Ms. Rosenbaum married on March 6, 1927. The Goldmans had two children, a son, George, who followed his father’s lead into scouting, and a daughter, Harriet. Mr. Goldman entered the real estate business and became vice president of J.H. Ewing & Sons Real Estate and was a member of the Atlanta Board of Realtors for fifty-four years. Mr. Goldman served in many capacities for the Boy Scouts of America, including as Treasurer of the Atlanta Area Council, as vice chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, as a member of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America, as a member of the National Relationship Committee, and as a member of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting. Mr. Goldman was presented with two of scouting’s most prestigious awards reflecting his commitment to youth, the Silver Beaver, in 1950, and the Silver Antelope, awarded by the Region in 1958. The Silver Beaver is the highest award that can be conferred by a Local Council in recognition of a volunteer scout leader. Mr. Goldman also served as vice president and trustee of the American Humanics Foundation, an organization that supported young men and women in securing college degrees in the humanities and promoted their work after college in youth service. Mr. Goldman was the only non-Protestant on the Board of Governors of the Tom Haggai and Associates Foundation, which granted scholarships to young people involved in youth leadership courses. In recognition of his youth and civic humanitarianism, Mr. Goldman was honored with a Good Neighbor Award by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1969, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law from High Point College in North Carolina in 1972. Mr. Goldman was an emeritus member of the Georgia Masonic Lodge, a Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner in the Yaarab Temple, an Elk, a member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, a member of the American Legion, a member of the YMCA, a member of The Temple, and of the Gate City Lodge of B’nai B’rith.