diamond setter

Vega’s parents, Louis and Tillie Bermowitz, were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who were able to move from the Lower East Side to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, thanks to Louis’s job as a diamond setter.

“I never thought of doing it as a living,” said Jules Winkler, 79, a retired diamond setter from Medford, N.Y., who became certified as a trainer five years ago.

A onetime diamond setter, Peter Foley has been running in almost every Boston Marathon since the turn of the century.

John G. Soronen, a New Jersey diamond setter, began belting the bottle first thing in the morning.