He [her father, Ignaz Maybaum]had a wonderful facility for relating to people and I’ve heard it said, you know, he would conduct a funeral for somebody he never met but the relatives would come to him just and speak to him for maybe half an hour and he would give a hesped [eulogy] and they said, people would say, “But did Dr. Maybaum known them?” and, no, he’d never met them but he spoke as if he had known them. He had this facility and people warmed to him.