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Local authors new book tells of immigrant parents seeking a better life in the states
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After retiring as president of Alfred State College in New York, Hall County resident Bill Rezak began the "labor of love" that led to his new book, "The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants."
As a child, Bill Rezak often was questioned about the origin of his last name. "And I would always answer that my father was Palestinian and my mother was British," Rezak said. "And that I’m the quintessential American in a country of immigrants."