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Vol. 3 No. 4
Charlotte, North Carolina
April 1981
JCC/Annual Meeting Academy to Honor Seven Women
Election of Officers
“Focus on the Family and Fun” is the theme of the JCC’s annual
meeting and election of officers of the board of directors on Sunday,
April 12th. From 3 to 5 p.m. come build and fly a family kite. In case
of rain the kites will be made to be flown another day. From 5 until
5:30 p.m. the annual meeting and election of officers will take place
along with a brief business meeting. The children will enjoy games,
stories and songs at this time.
Dinner will be enjoyed by the entire family at 6 p.m. Place your
pizza orders now for your family.
Tlie following slate was presented by the nominating committee
at the JCC board meeting on March 9th:
Officers
President
Vice President '
Vice President
Vice President
Corresponding Secretary
Recording Secretary
Treasurer
Bob Abel
Eddie Warshawsky
Harold Josephson
A1 Levinson
Florence Jaffa
Paula Musler
Bob Stein
Directors - 3-Year Term (7)
Use Bergen • Chai
Stuart ^jac - Food Concession
Louis Fein - Family Programs
Harry Lemer
Sol Irvine
Harold Weisman • Swimming
Jerry Feldman • Bingo
Directors - 1-Year Term (4)
Miles Levine - Membership
Linda Greenfield - House & GSrounds (with Paula Musler)
Mark Barkan - Pool (with A1 Rusak)
The followinfi' directors are still completing their unexpired terms
of office: Herman Blumenthal, Ann Langman, Mark Perlin, Brenda
Meltsner, Larry Horowitz, Marlene (^Idberg, Michael Scharf,
Helen Phillips, A1 Rusak, Sheldon Gioldstein and Gary Silverstein.
Magnificent Seven,** left to right, front row: Maxine Levine, Wilma Asrael, Sally
Schrader. Top row: Beryl Fishman, j^th Goldberg, Martha Brenner. Not pictured: Rita
Mond. (photo/Mike Shapiro)
Project Box Score
WISHDA Y PROJECT SUCCESSFUL
Groups of sixty to eighty people have been participating in
the Wishdays schedul^ by the JCC, Hebrew Academy, Tem
ple Beth El and Temple Israel. In intense and exciting
sessions ideas concerning the kinds of ohvsical facilities need
ed have been examined and listed. At the Hebrew Academy, a
special Wishday was held for the students.
In each instance there have been new ideas and concepts
presented by those who attended. At the JCC, Chairperson
Brenda Meltsner commented, “This has been much more than
a way of getting people involved. Every single committee has
come up with valuable new concepts previously unthought of.
The result is a ‘wishlist’ much more in line with the real needs
of the JCC membership.”
The ‘wishlists’ of each of the institutions is in the process of
being refined by appropriate ^ard committees and the
Boards themselves. In some instances this part of the process
has been completed and the results submitted to the
architects. As all the ‘wishlists’ are finalized it will be the task
of the architects to incorporate them into a cohesive visual
concept for presentation to the entire community.
« ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDED IN WISHDAY
AND ON THE PROJECT BUILDING COMMITTEE
“Our organizations are an essential segment of the com
munity. They will be major users of the new facility and need
to be fully represented in the decision making process.”
It was William CJorelick, chairperson of the Foundation
Building Ck>mmittee who spoke these words and followed up
by inviting representatives of all the organizations to attend a
special meeting held with the architects.
In attendance at that meeting on February 23 were
Charlotte Chapter B’nai B’rith Women, HaLailah B’nai
B’rith Women, ORT, Hadassah, Devorah Hadassah, B’nai
B’rith Men and BBYO. They heard Gene Warren, architect, re
quest that they hold individual “wishdays” at their
organizational meetings focused on their needs in the new
facility. Those present were asked to select one individual to
represent all the organizations on the Building Clommittee.
Mrs. Susan Bruck was chosen to be the organi^tional
representative. It is her responsibility to gather the ‘wishlists’
of the individual organizations and make them available to
the architects as well as to sit with the committee in its
deliberations.
by Saul Brenner
Seven women who have per
formed outstanding service for
the Hebrew Academy during its
eleven years of existence will be
honored at the sdiool’s annual
Patron’s Dinner on May 3 at
Temple Israel.
Called “The Magnificent
Seven”, the honorees will share
the evening’s program with Svi
Hurwitz, Minister of Informa
tion in Begin’s cabinet. Mr.
Hurwitz will address the
patrons following a 6 p.m. recep
tion and dinner in the l.D.
Blumenthal Hall.
“Formal recognition of these
devoted workers is important
for two reasons,” says Dr.
Stephen Fishman, president of
the school. “As individuals,
each deserves our appreciation
for their countless hours of
work. But they also represent
the high level of service given by
many other volunteers. Our
needs are great, but their dedica
tion has been greater.”
Although each of the women
participated in many activities
only a few of them are cited here.
Both Wilma Asrael and Max
ine Levine spent numerous
hours in the school tutoring and
teaching art to the students of
the Academy. They performed
these voluntary services during
the early years of the Academy
when the staff was small and
the needs of the students great.
Wilma, in addition, helped Beryl
Fishman in preparing the first
three Acadamy fjiMgipra, while
Maxine performed ably as the
school’s photographer for the
slide show and other publicity
activities.
Martha Brenner was
publicity chairman from 1975 to
1978 when the Academy was
strengthening its ties to the
community. She edited the
newsletter, persuaded the
newspaper to cover Academy
events, created an Academy
poster, a recruitment brochure,
a slide show and even a 15
minute show on WTVI.
Beryl Fishman has made an
outstanding contribution to the
Hebrew Academy as food chair
man of the Academy’s three an
nual dinners. With a core of
volunteer cooks, she produced a
kosher reception and dinner for
approximately 200 people on
three different occasions. This
year she will be helping Peggy
Gartner who will chair the food
committee.
Ruth (jioldberg was selected
as one of “The Magnificent
^ven” for ably performing her
job as kindergarten teacher. She
taught at the Academy for five
years and supplied the needed
stability and maturity in a dif
ficult period of staff changes
and growing enrollment.
- Most of us at the Academy are
particularly appreciative of the
volunteers who do not have
children at the Academy. Rita
Mond is being honored as such
a volunteer. She served on the
board for three years in the
capacity of fund-raising and
publicity chairman and an ad
ditional year on the executive
board as secretary. Rita raised a
great deal of money as chair
man of the raffle committee for
two years and helped obtain
much publicity for the
Academy. She continues to aid
the Academy as co-editor of The
Charlotte Jewish News.
Finally, we honor a woman
who has been honored by other
•organizations: Sally
Schrader. Sally is best known
as the one person one could
count on whenever help was
needed to carry out any activity,
whether it involved fund
raising, driving, mailing or the
education of the children.
One can be a patron at the
Academy’s dinner and obtain
tickets for two by sending $100
to either Mel Berzack, Chair
man of the dinner, at 7537
Hawkstand Lane, Charlotte or
to Dr. Stephen Fishman,
Academy President, at 5841
Coatbridge Lane, Charlotte.
Checks should be made out to
‘W.C. Hebrew Academy” and
are tax-deductable.
Yom Hashoa
On May 3 the Mecklenburg
Chapter of the National dlon-
ference of Christians and Jews
will sponsor their annual Tour
of Understanding in correlation
with the services for Yom
Hashoa. This is the first time
that both events will be observ
ed on the same day. The tour is
of various churches and syna
gogues in the community,
primarily in the Dilworth sec
tion, to promote a better under
standing of all faiths. It will
begin with the Yom Hashoa ser
vices at 12:30 p.m. to be held at
Holocaust Square. It is urged
that everyone avail themselves
of this opportunity to take part
in this very special event.
TTie Tour of Understanding
will take place from 3 to 6 p.m.
Participating will be Ovenant
Presbyterian Church, 1000 E.
Morehead St.; St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, 1621 Dilworth Rd.
E.; Temple Israel, 1014 Dilworth
Rd.; Ascension Lutheran
Cl.urch, 1225 E. Morehead St.;
Greater Providence Baptist
Church, 1829 Cleveland Ave.;
Korean Church, E. Morehead
St.; First Church of Christ
Scientist, 1048 E. Morehead St.
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p. 11
Bulletin Board
p. 10
Candlelighting
p. 2
Classified Ads
p. 11
Dry Bones
p. 12
Editorials
p. 2
For the Record
p. 2
JCC News
Lubavitcher
p. 9
Rebbe
Random
p. 2
Thoughts
This ’n That
p. 3
p. 8
World Beat
p. 4
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