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Page 4—THE NEWS—February 1980 Changes At the JCC Lovely to Look At For a while there was a sign on the front door of the JCC which said, “Your Building Fund Contributions Make These Im provements Possible.” The often asked question was, *‘What im provements?” Nobody is asking that question these ^ys. Thanks to the dedicated work of Harold Josephson, Brenda Meltsner, Norman Maxwell and Paula Musler the JCC has a proud and pleasant new look — inside and out. Here is just a partial list of what those Building Fund dollars have accomplished: new carpets, drapes, upholstered furniture, wall paper, lighting, heating and electrical systems, a non-leaking roof and a complete paint job! The sign was taken down during the decorative work. It will be go ing back up as the J CC’s way of saying thank you to the donors who made it all possible. More than the physical facilities have changed at the JCC. There have been some exciting changes among the staff assignments with more still to come. After two and a half outstandingly successful years as Children’s Worker, Sara Schreibman is moving up the ladder. She will super vise the new Children’s Worker as well as the new Mother's Morn ing Out Worker. In addition, Sara will develop two new areas of programming, cultural activities and programs for those people with more leisure time as a result of partial or complete retirement. With Sara’s record for getting things done the JCC is looking forward to a lot of action and people in these two new areas. Linda Kaplan has accepted a half-time position as Children’s Worker. She wall be organizing and coordinating the classes, holi day and vacation programs and working with all aspects of the Day Camp. lila Josephson will continue as the Ptogram Director for the Day Camp for kindergarten age children and up. If there were any doubt about the success of the 1979 Day Camp it was dispelled when calls for 1980 registrations began coming in as of January 2. That ex plains why this issue of tiie News has the Day Camp Registration information — a full two months earlier than in 1979. Mother’s Morning Out is the latest addition to the JCC program line-up. Directing this exciting new activity is Vicki Hopki^ \^cki will also direct the pre-school portion of the Day Camp. Bobbi Bernstein I^gan her JCC duties a little over a year ago by focusing on families. Now her focus is exclusively on adult classes and programs. In the past few years the efforts of volunteer chairpersons like Florence Jaffa, Bedla Pransky and Gail Fein have creat^ an outstanding adult program. It grew and grew until everyone decided it needed a professional worker to give the necessary guidance and backup to the volunteers. Bobbi was chosen; it became her complete and only assignment. She has done and continues to do a superlative job. There is one more staff addition in the offing. Through an agree ment with BBYO a staff person will work half time as State Director of BBYO and half time as Tween and Family Programming Direc tor for the JCC. Human Relations Award BBW Charlotte Chapter Academy Class Activities In reference to last month’s story on Kiryat Shmona, four days after Mr. Bienstock visited Kiryat Shmona, two katyusha rockets blew apart the top floor of an apartment house. / BY RESERVATION ONLY PRPMOM ft. CONTINENTAL CUISINE A MOST UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE IN DINING Entertainment Private Parties Dinner 6:30 PM Til 10 PM Sunday 5 PM Til 9 PM 364-1360 2915 Providence Rd. USF&G Building Comer of Sharon Amity and Providence Aerobic Exercise , Good For You Before participating in winter sports, join the aerobic dancing and exercise class now being offered at the JCC. The class is designed to condition your muscles by trimming, firming, and shaping. The exercise and dance routines will help develop a highly efficient muscle struc ture and strong cardiovascular system. Participation in this class should ready you for the slopes as well as the ice. The women taking the class now have found aerobic danc ing offers help with weight reduction and muscle toning, as well as mental challenges and a great deal of fim. You exercise at your own level of endurance. You control the amount of energy you expend as you jog, exercise, stretch, and dance. TVeat yourself to a program of physical fitness designed just for you and Have Fun! The Key toaSuoB^ Red Estate Tiansactlon Ann Langman RmKot CR MLS Office; 625-6900 Reeidence: 364-1691 B’nai B’rith Women Char lotte Chapter is pleased to an nounce that the recipient of the 1979-1980 Human Relations Award will be Mr. Gilbert Brauch. The award will be presented to him at a luncheon at Raintree Country Club on Wednesday, February 6th, at 11:45 a.m. Mr. Brauch is the guiding force of the Charlotte Exchange Student Program. Tlie follow ing excerpts from letters receiv ed recommending him for this award indicate how justly he is deserving of this honor. “We recognize the valuable contributions which Mr. Brauch has made to the school system and the community as Ex ecutive Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Exchange Student Plrogram. He has built bridges around the world between otiier nations and Charlotte. He has gone far beyond the call of duty.” Mr. Chris Folk Assoc. Superintendent Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools “He has worked tirelessly in this program to make oppor tunities for growth avaiiable. The brunt of the paperwork and the leg work, the planning and the administration of this far reaching educational project is borne by Mr. Brauch. We are all in the debt of this dedicated and BBL Lecture The Charlotte Lodge of B’nai B’rith will present its second lec ture of its annual series on Sun day, February 10 at 8 p.m. at the JCC. Wolf Blitzer, inter nationally known Washington correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, will speak on “An Israeli View of America.” Mr. Blitzer has been covering the Washington foreign policy scene since the 1973 Yom Kip- pur War. He has written articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to The Jerusalem Post, he has had his articles printed in other major international newspapers, including The New York Times. He also served as the Washington correspondent for the London Jewish Chroni cle. Mr. Blitzer spent two weeks in E^pt in December 1977 covering the first Israeli- Egyptian peace conference. His trip to Egypt followed the disclosure by President Sadat that Mr. Blitzer’s question to him posed at an April 1977 Washington news conference had triggered the train of thought which eventually resulted in President Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem. Tlie Egyptian leader had been asked by Mr. Blitzer about the possibility of Egypt’s beginning some direct, human contact with Israel. He has been a guest on many TV programs such as NBC’s live telecast of Sadat’s arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel in November 1977, ABC evening news with Barbara Walters, “Good Morning America” and “MacNeil-Lehrer Report.” Until earlier this year, Mr. Blitzer was the Editor of the Near East Report. Before com ing to Washington, he worked as a foreign correspondent in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters News Agency. Pay Your Today public-spirited community leader and world citizen.” Mr. Leroy Miller Pi^dpal, ' East Mecklenburg H.S. “He is a past president of the Charlotte-North Rotary Club (1^4-65) and has remained ac tive. He has been a member of the Charlotte Chamber of Com merce. In Cub Scouting, he has been a den dad and a pack master.” Mr. Donald Mackay Charlotte-North Rotary Club “He has made himself available day and night to assure the success of this program. It would take hours to give his total involvement. Due to his hard work and meritorious efforts, many have benefited by a cultural enrich ment.” Mrs. Elizabeth Klein Presentee and BBW member Reservations are required for the luncheon by February 1st. Checks are to be made payable to Charlotte Chapter BBW in the amount of $6.^ per person, and are to be mail^ together with the names of those atten ding to Bernice Russo, 6501 Newhall Rd., Charlotte, N.C. 28211. For further information please call 365-3489,364-7996, or 847-4342. Purim at JCC In anticipation of the Megilla readings and Purim parties to come the following week at the Temples, the JCC is offering a FAMILY PURIM FUN FAC TORY Sunday, Feb. 24th from 2- 4 p.m. featuring an opportunity for individuals to make groggers (noisemakers), masks and homentashen. Patterned atftex the very successful Chanukah Dreidle Factory in which over 60 families participated, the Purim Fun Factory is structured to per mit families to work together to create each project. The steps for making the groggers and the masks have been simplified to permit even the youngest child the satisfaction of accomplish ment. Ben Jaffa Jr., President of the JCC, one of the planners of the day, said, “It is wonderful to watch even the pre-schoolers bef^n with a piece or two of wood going through the various steps. When their groggers finally make just the right kind of loud noises the smiles that light up their faces are worth everything.” Pre-registration is not re quired. There is a nominal charge for materials. Yiddish Institute A unique happening will take place May 8-11, 1980 at Wild- acres, a picturesque retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, when the sec ond annual Yiddish Institute sponsored by the JCC will pre sent guest lecturers, workshops in language, poetry, music cmd literature, musicals and folk- singing. T^e lecturers are Abraham Shulman and Ruth Rubin. Mr. Shulman is associate editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, writes for many Yiddish and English periodicals, a novelist, lecturer, playwright and world traveller. Ruth Rubin is a folk- singer, recording artist, lecturer, author and a leading authority on Jewish folksong. She is a guest instructor at major uni versities and colleges and has performed for audiences in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel. Photo by Mike Shapiro by Ruth Goldberg . The first, second and third graders of the Hebrew Academy visited the Hezekiah Alexander House at the Mint Museum of History. In addition to a guided tour of the home, the curator presented a program, “Whisties and Whimmy-diddles,” which introduced the children to the toys and games of the Colonial Period. In preparation for Tu B’Shvat, the kindergarten and first graders have had many ex periences with plants and seedlings. Right after Sukkot, the esrogs were opened and tast ed. Then each child planted a few esrog seeds in paper cups. The seeds took severed mon^s to germinate. About a month ago, children who had been watering, watching and wai^ ing for something to happen ^ally saw litUe green shoots start to grow through the soil. When the seedlings were about an inch tall, the children trans planted their baby trees into fiower pots and took them home for a Tu B’Shvat treat. They know that these plants will not bear firuit, but they do make lovely green houseplants. During the month of January, the children saw several films about plants, bulbs, and how to grow them. *^ey planted a dish garden of daffodil bulbs and will be able to watch these grow into flowers. They have planted orange, grapefhiit and avocado' seeds and will care for them on their windowsill garden. They are forcing forsjrthia and apple twigs to see what happens to them. The children are becom ing conscious of the importance of trees for protection of the soil, for food and for beauty. The study culminated with the celebration of “the birthday of the trees” in Israel, the holiday of Tu B’Shvat. The entire school planted fruit trees on the Academy grounds for Tu B’Shvat. Hebrew Cemetery Association Wherever Jews have setUed, one of the first things they did was to purchase some small plot of land as a sacred resting place for their dead. Over 100 years ago, the few Jewish families who were then living in Char lotte purchased about 20 acres of land which has since been used as the Jewish Cemetery of this area. The Cemetery is available to all of us, regardless of our sta tion in life. It dramatizes the roots which many of our fancies have established and which, as time goes on, will become even more sacred in the hearte of our Jewish communi ty. The Institute is open to women and men interested in increasing their knowledge of Yiddish and enriching their cultural ties with a language that carries within it the spirit of human individuality. The next issue of the Charlotte Jewish News will carry further information and reservation applications.
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