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Raymond Alan Jacobs was born on a warm sunny autumn day, October 12th 1938 in
Detroit, Michigan to Anne Begun Jacobs and Samuel David Jacobs.
Ray at age 2, at his maternal grandparents, Sadie and Alexander Begun's summer
cottage at Woodhull Lake, north of Detroit, Michigan, ca 1940.
They imigrated to the US in the early 1900's from the Minsk-Pinsk region
Belorussia (White Russia), a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union.
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Baby Ray with his father Sam at Woodhull Lake. Sam D.Jacobs owned American Tool
Supply Company in Detroit during World War II. They supplied new cutting tools
to the tool and die industry in Michigan. Around 1950, Sam Jacobs started a new
business, Americal Tool & Steel Company, a steel warehouse in Detroit. The
company purchased secondary flat rolled steel from Great Lake Steel Company and
the Ford Rouge Steel Mill. In their warehouse, they processed the material into
sheets, strips and coils to fill orders by local stamping and fabricating
shops.
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Ray at 12 years of age in front of his home on Oakman Court in Detroit on a
fall Saturday in 1950 before driving with his father and his uncle Paul Begun to
Ann Arbor, Michigan to attend his first University of Michigan football game
against Michigan State University. Guess who won?.."GO BLUE!!" Ray graduated
from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering 1961 with a degree of
"Bachelor of Science in Engineering".
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Ray, enjoying his bachelor days with his new 1967 Jaguar XKE convertible in
front of his apartment on Covington Street in Palmer Park, Detroit. The next
year Ray married Norma Elizabeth Lopez of Mexico City, and his playboy days
came to an end.
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Ray's father shaking hands with Hubert Humphrey, the Vice President of the
United States, at a ceremony in Washington D.C. in the late 1960's. To the left
Hubert Humphrey is Max Fisher, a well know Detroit area philanthropist. To the
right of Hubert Humphrey is Ray's mother Anne.
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Ray with family friend Rino Strangis, the owner of San Marino restaurant in
Lausanne, Switzerland in October 1991.
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