Reynold Feldman, a New Yorker now thriving in Hawaii, is an ethnic Jew and a Christian convert since his 20s.  A graduate of the Peddie School in New Jersey, he has a BA, MA and PhD from Yale, all in English.  After a career as a professor and university administrator (dean and academic vice president), he worked for twelve years as a consultant to nonprofits.  An active Lion, he is currently executive director of Medicorps, Honolulu.  WisingUP — A Youth Guide to Good Living is his third book on wisdom.

Reynold & Simone Feldman

Simone Feldman was born Hannelore Zimmermann, the second daughter of a country schoolmaster in East Prussia, Germany, in March 1931.  She escaped with her family from the oncoming Red Army in January 1945, just avoided the firebombing of Dresden, and ended up in Munich, where she went to school, worked as a trilingual secretary, and did community theater.  She spent 1951 in England and the South of France and was able to travel in Europe during the 1950’s and early 60’s.  In fall 1963 she immigrated to the United States to marry Reynold Feldman, at the time a graduate student in Connecticut.  She adopted the name Simone in 1967.  The mother of two adult daughters and grandmother of a granddaughter born in 2001, Simone is a jewelry maker, a singer in church choirs, and an author.  Currently she is completing her memoir, Voices from a Vanished Past — Memories of a Childhood in Hitler's Germany.

M Jan Rumi, born in Bangladesh, is a Muslim.  After attending a private Catholic high school, he came to the United States to study at Berea College, Kentucky.  He received an MS in Computer Science from Purdue University and, then, worked for a large hospital-supply company overseas until settling in Honolulu.  After 14 years as a management consultant for Grant Thornton International, he left to develop Aloha Medical Mission, a private social-service agency.  He is president of Consulting Factors International of Honolulu.  WisingUP — A Youth Guide to Good Living is his first book.