The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
From civil rights to war resistance to arms control, Ruby family members embraced liberal social causes
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.