Photoessay #2050 - Talk with a third cousin

I was thrilled today to talk with a third cousin, Ken B in the Maier Zunder  line.  Ken's son had contacted me when he read some of my Maier Zunder posts.  He had mentioned that his father was really interested in Maier.  It took me quite awhile before I convinced him to give me his father's contact information.  I sent a draft of my paper to him and we scheduled a phone call (along with his wife) for this morning. 

Fun!  Clearly he had read my paper and enjoyed it.  We talked about other possible cousins, I'm not sure there are that many even though Maier parented 11 children.  Too many only children and people marrying late.  But I will continue to look.  He had a silver cup presented to Maier on the occasion of his 70th birthday (I might have seen that cup mentioned).  He has a lot of Mishkan Israel information.  He promised to send me a picture of the cup.

I told him about my 1974 family history and how I had revised it after talking to Regina Bear, his grandmother.  I promised to scan the two versions and send them to him.  He remembered hearing about my grandmother Regina Baumann.

Today's picture is taken from the 'new' (circa 1960) Mishkan Israel lobby.  The old stained class from the Orange Street temple were broken and made into a mosaic around a small dome.  Interesting mosaic.  I'm thinking that said "Maier Zunder".  The name of his wife Regina Zunder is more clearly shown in another panel.