slipper she never received the role of an officer of the company rather she held the title of consultant. However, she held the patent for the slipper in addition is 18 other patents for products ranging from cushioning devices such as shoulder pads and other physical therapy machines. Before her death, she served as a consultant for Product Development and Design. Her son, author and speaker Gordon Zacks, served as the CEO of the company. He died on Feb. 1, 2014. Another son, Barry Zacks, founded the Max & Erma's restaurant chain in 1972, taking it public. He died in 1990. In 1968, Melton married industrialist and philanthropist Samuel M. Melton. Samuel Melton endowed the Melton Research Center at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Melton Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where Melton additional become an active partner to her husband’s philanthropic projects. [3] Melton was very passionate about creating a program of study to help adults attain Jewish Literacy. Many were very skeptical of the need for teaching adults about Jewish culture. Concerns about the amount of adults that were interested in Jewish study or would even want to view Jewish Study as serious as the program was outlined. Together, they created the "Florence Melton Adult Mini-School," a two-year, non-denominational program, which operates in over 70 North American communities, Australia and South Africa. In the mid 1980s, Melton initiated the "Discovery" program, which attempts to connect youths to their family ancestry, community, different denominations in Judaism, and to Israel. The program involves extensive field trips and culminates in a tour to Israel. Melton is a member of the Commission on Jewish Education in North America. Melton Schools Melton was the founder of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, a pluralistic adult learning program to enable adults to gain Jewish literacy through a broad and deep curriculum created by scholars and educators at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The School offers a life-enhancing study of different Jewish texts and ides that further depends on the understanding of Jewish communities worldwide. The school offers adult education based on the Torah and the Talmud. Melton is the largest pluralistic adult Jewish education network in the world with more than 40,000 learners experiences the school’s curriculum. Melton schools all over the globe from Sydney, Australia to Portland, Oregon continue the legacy. The Melton Centre at Hebrew University in Jerusalem expands to