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He was a quiet man but one-on-one you could feel his warmth and interest. It was to stand him in good stead throughout his career.
Sol was born in Tel Aviv in 1935, the eldest of three children. The family immigrated to Perth, Australia, when he was very young and he spent his formative years there. He eventually went on to medical school and graduated from the University of Melbourne in i960. It was during those university years that he met Valda at the Maccabiah Games that were taking place in Melbourne. Both were competing, he in swimming and basketball and she in swimming and diving. They married in 1958, while Sol wa in medical school. Sol would tend bar for extra money, and in the summer, when back in Perth, he would drive taxi. Drawn to McGill because of the diploma course in psychiatry, he and Valda packed up for what they initially had anticipated would be a short period in Canada and they, along with their three children all under the age of four, came to Montreal. They were not sure just what to expect. Sol worked at the Verdun Protestant Hospital (later known as the Douglas Hospital) and then back at the Jewish Institute in 1970.1 always marvelled at the way he could handle his clinical work, his analytic learning, and taking care of a young family, although I suspect Valda did her usual yeoman service in that area.
Subsequently, he moved on to McMaster and was one of the key contributors to the McMaster model in family therapy. Later, he became associate dean of the integrated postgraduate medical education program.
After seven years at McMaster he was recruited to the newly established Northeastern Ohio University's College of Medicine. Although he was successful in guiding the Department of Psychiatry in achieving accreditation,