The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1985 Page: 21 of 61
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, December 12, 1985
OPLE
Type A personalities at
high risk for heart disease
ABE AND Dot Rosenzweig look back on many hap-
py years in Baytown. Retired owners of The
Economy and the Town and Country, they have
donated countless hours to civic and cultural pro-
jects here.
(Sun staff photo by Jim Kyle)
Rosenzweigs to move to Houston
By JIM KYLE
After nearly 60 years in
Baytown, Abe and Dorothy
Rosenzweig are moving to
Houston.
But Mrs. Rosenzweig is quick
to add: “We’re not really mov-
ing away. We’re just going to
stay over in Houston.
“We feel like that all of the ser-
vice both of us have given of
ourselves could never repay the
community of Baytown for what
they have done for us. We
started when Baytown was just
beginning and we grew with it.”
Before he was hardly old
enough to see over the counter,
Abe Rosenzweig started working
in father Harry’s clothing store
in Richmond.
Baytown was booming in the
1920s with oil wells on one side of
town and the Humble refinery on
the other. In 1927 Abe Rosenz-
weig opened the Economy
clothing store in the Ptacek
building on old Main Street (now
Harbor Drive).
He was 20 years old and deter-
mined to make a success of
himself — and did.
Abe was one of many pioneer
Baytown businessmen who wat-
ched the Model T’s sputter by on
narrow makeshift streets in the
early years.
By 1931 he combined his per-
sonality and good merchandise
to get the ball rolling down the
path of success. That same year
he slipped a wedding band on the
finger of Dorothy Gross of Lake
Charles, La., and they teamed
up to become one of the most
successful husband-wife
business operations in the
history of Baytown.
The Economy Clothing store
expanded for the fourth time to
the Aaron Building on West
Texas Avenue in 1935. Dot
remembers the year without any
trouble because that was the
year their daughter Joel was
born.
Two years later they moved to
their location at 214 W. Texas
next to the Texan Theater.
Abe and Dot Rosenzweig ex-
panded the store four times.
They cut an archway through
their store into the next building
in 1949 and that other section
became the Town and Country, a
women’s fashion store that
brought customers from all over
Southeast Texas.
The Rosenzweigs remained in
business until they closed shop
and retired in 1969.
Their combined efforts in civic
duties reads like a “who’s who”
in Baytown history.
To name a few:
Abe was a charter member of
the Baytown Lions Club. He was
on the board of directors of the
Tri-City Welfare Board. This
board later became part of the
Community Chest in which he
served on the board four years.
He was on the original board of
the Lee College Foundation.
He also served on the city tax
equalization board many years
and was a member of the board
of Citizens of Texas Savings and
Loan.
A 32nd degree Mason, he is a
Scottish Rite member and has
been an active Mason for 54
years.
The Rosenzsweigs had many
loyal and courteous employees
over their business years. One of
these was Adolph Hernandez,
who worked at Abe’s side for 40
years.
But Abe never outdid his wife
when it came to working in the.
community.
She was a charter member of
the Civic Music Association. She
is known as one of the most well-
read people in Baytown and is
always in demand to present
book reviews. As a member of
the Pilot Club she became in-
strumental in the birth of Sterl-
ing Municipal Library. The
library was her dream come
true.
Also, she was president of the
Baytown League of Women
voters and served on both the
local and state board.
Their daughter is married to
an attorney in Washington D.C.
Their son Harry born in 1937 in
Baytown, is a pharmacist at
Memorial Hospital in Houston.
They have five grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
They are members of K-
Nesseth Israel in Baytown and
Temple Beth Israel in Houston.
By SCIENCE DIGEST
A Hearst Magazine
People with Type A behavior
the potentially life-
threatening angry and ag-
gressive personality profile —
can modify their behavior
without threatening their profes-
sional success.
Type A personalities are at
risk for coronary disease but, ac-
cording to an article in the
January issue of Science Digest,
they justify their behavior by
saying It is necessary to their
jobs.
A scientific study of senior of-
ficers who were students at the
U.S. Army War College in Carli-
sle Barracks, Pa., indicated
otherwise.
Those who were counseled in
behavior modification showed
significantly less hostility and
obsession with time — the two
traits most closely associated
with coronary risk — without
compromising their leadership
While they became more
tolerant and self-confident, bet-
ter listeners and nicer to their
families, their classmates did
not find that counseling exerted
“adverse effects on the military
leadership qualities” of those ex-
posed to it.
The study, published in the
American Heart Journal, was
conducted by a team of scien-
tists that included cardiologist
Meyer Friedman, who with car-
diologist Ray Rosenman iden-
tified Type A behavior in the
1960s.
There were 118 participants
(116 men and two women) who
had been identified as Type A
personalities.
They were divided into two
groups, with 62 officers atten-
ding 21 sessions of behavior
counseling for eight months,
while 56 received no counseling.
“We pointd out various Type A
behaviors, helped people
recognize these in themselves
and assisted them in finding
ways to substitute more
tolerant, Type B behavior,” said
the principal investigator, Dr.
James Gill, a psychologist and
consultant to Harvard Universi-
ty Health Services.
“Then we helped them to learn
to accept that it takes time for
things to happen. We taught
them how to occupy their, minds
while waiting in long lAes, for
ly tolerant behavior. The Army-
has made counseling part of of-
ficer training at the War College
and some California firms have
hired researchers to hold ex-
ecutive counseling sessions.
The study also confirmed
some earlier findings about
Type A behavior.
“Seventy to 80 percnet of these
people had tnadeqate affection
from their parents,” Friedman
told reporter Susan Gilbert. "We
were surprised how much the
counseling improved family
relationships. I think it’s
because the people listened bet-
ter and verbalized affection
more."
Children with Type A per-
sonalities were the subject of a
three-year study by
psychologists at Stanford
example, by thinking about plea- a [,niverslty which indicated
sant memories, anticipating
their vacations, doing some
reading or watching other peo-
ple."
designed to help them practice
Type B behavior. One exercise
involved sitting for 15 minuts
after a meal and engaging in
conversation, instead of im-
mediately getting up and getting
busy.
Gill said perhaps the most dif-
ficult challenge was to resist get-
ting angry when someone else
became hostile.
When the experiment ended,
42 percent of those counseled
showed a reduction in Type A
behavior.
A year after the study, many
participants retained their new-
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