family moved to Portland, Oregon, when the children were still very young.

      In June,1930, at the age of 20, Ted Riback moved to Calgary and got a job washing cars at the Blue Boys Esso service station at 11th Avenue and First Street W. As a young man he was active as an advisor to AZA and as a member of B'nai B'rith and the Masonic Order.

      Betty Riback was born Rebecca Levin on June 16,1913 in Winnipeg to Bertha (Bat-Sheva) Shuer and Avram Levin. She had two brothers, Nathan and Moishe (known as Corky) and two sisters, Sally Levin and Bertha Solomon.

      Betty moved to Calgary in the early thirties, living with her aunt and uncle, Sarah and Jacob Dubisky, and working in their confectionery.

      Ted and Betty met at a Young Judea convention in Calgary in December,1932, and were married December 9,1934 in the home of Sam and Schefra Maerov on 5th Avenue W.(Ted's sister Elsie had married Rubin Maerov.) Their first home was above a plumbing company on 17th Avenue W.

      Their first child, Faith, was born October2,1935, and Donna was born July 13,1938. For a brief period in the late 40's there were two more chil- dren-Marek and Lucia Janasz-who were brought to Canada after the war with hundreds of other displaced children.

      Ted's business career took off after 1938. He worked his way up in the staff at the Blue Boys service station, and eventually he and partner Ed Lovo were able to buy the business from Ernie McCullough of Maclin Ford.

      They called their service station Ed and Ted's. They soon purchased two more stations, Central Park Service and Three Star Service.

      Ted volunteered for the Army when Canada declared war in 1939, but was soon discharged after a medical exam indicated he had ulcers. His involvement in recapping and vulcanizing war-rationed rubber tires led to the opening of United Tire Company at 8th Street and 8th Avenue W.

      He became involved in other products and soon ran out of space. He joined forces with the Hector brothers (Sam, Max and Morris) who had an available building and opened a war surplus store. They called it Ribtor, after Riback and Hector.

      Soon another business was begun-buying and selling portable toilets. Ted Riback and Bruce Nodwell, with Imperial Oil as their first big cus- tomer, became pioneers in the portable camp building industry.

      Another major business venture followed: United Trailer Company, which pioneered the mobile home industry in Western Canada.

      Both Ted and Betty Riback supported many Jewish organizations, con- tributing not only time and dollars, but also their home for numerous large dinner groups. Catering was never considered; Betty cooked beauti- fully, always putting a tasteful touch on everything from food presenta- tion to centerpieces.

      Some of the recipients of their voluntary efforts were the House of Israel community building and Beth Israel Synagogue, including Sisterhood, Gentlemen's Dinner, and chairing the building committee of the new 66th Avenue building in 1960.

      They were also active in United Jewish Appeal, State of Israel Bonds, Jewish National Fund, Hadassah, National Council of Jewish Women, B'nai B'rith and Camp B'nai B'rith.

      Ted was founder of the Calgary (Community) Foundation and Junior Achievement. He was involved with Rotary, the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. Ted and Betty Riback have received many honors over the years for their commu- nity involvement.

      Ted and Betty Riback now live in Rancho Mirage, California. They have five grandchildren: Cheryl Green Ockrant, Howard Green, Adam Green, Tevy Grunberg and Mia Riback. Their six great-grandchildren are Jordan, Matthew, Bradley and Gavin Ockrant, and Bradley and Robin Green.

      George Robbins was born in 1900 as Gdalyah Rabinovici in Vas Louie, Romania. The youngest of Abraham and Toba Bella Ravinovici's seven children, he immigrated to Calgary with his parents and sister Rose in 1906, having been sponsored by brothers who arrived around the turn of the century.

      Gdalyah's teachers at Mount Royal Elementary School renamed him George Edward, after the English kings. His surname became Rabinovitz. William Aberhart, later Premier of Alberta, was one of his teachers.

      George attended secondary school at Western Canadian Boys'College, now Western Canada High School. He studied medicine at McGill University, and later, studying in New York, Bern and London, became an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist.

      Dr. George Robbins was a well-known and respected physician in Calgary - one who flew to remote oilfield sites to perform emergency surgery and who, in the late 1930's, introduced contact lenses for medical use in Alberta.

      He studied tropical eye diseases in Palestine and, while there, was a delegate in 1925 at the opening of Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. A strong supporter of Jewish education, he later initiated a family memor- ial scholarship which is presented annually to this day.

      George Robbin's first wife, Harriet, died in 1937 after only one year of marriage. In 1946 he married Lillian Saper of Winnipeg. They had one son, Tobin, and three daughters: twins Jacqueline and Joyce, and Dorothy.

      (Abraham) Sidney Rootman and Lillian Wolman were married in Calgary after a short courtship which began in Vancouver, where Sidney was visiting his brothers.

      Sidney followed in the footsteps of his father, Lazar Rootman (1870- 1963), to become the kosher butcher in Calgary. He was a well-respected member of the Jewish community and actively participated in the Beth Jacob Synagogue.

      Lillian and Sidney had six children. They were very warm and hos- pitable;the door was always open, especially to new arrivals in Calgary.

      Sidney retired from the butcher shop in 1960, when he bought the North Star Grocery in the Sunnyside district. The whole family worked with him until he sold the store in 1976.

      Lillian (b.1913) passed away suddenly in 1976. Sidney moved to Vancouver in 1977, where he lived at the Louis Brier Home until he died in 1988 at the age of 78.

      They are survived by five children and twelve grandchildren.

      David and Gittel Rosen and their seven-year-old daughter Edythe arrived in Calgary from New York in 1914.