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Page 3-THE NEWS-August, 1986 Hebrew Academy News Experienced Staff Returns to the School The setting may be new, as the N.C. Hebrew Academy moves to Shalom Park, but the teaching staff will all be beloved, faniliar faces. Our ad ministrator and three key teachers will be returning, one for her fifth year. Berta Straz Berta has served as ad ministrator since January, 1986. Earlier, she served on the school’s board of direc tors and as president of the PTA. A Charlottean who was con- Straz firmed at Temple Israel and was an active USY and BBG member in her teens, Berta received a bachelor’s degree in Jewish Literature from Herzliah Jewish Teachers Seminary. She studied at the Chayim Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem and was award ed a teaching accreditation for teaching Hebrew from Israel’s Ministry of Education. Her daughters, Florie and Michelle, are Academy students. The following teachers will be welcoming back students this month. Helen G. Bronson Helen joined our staff at the N.C. Hebrew Academy in January 1986. She is a sec ular general studies teach er with many years of ex perience. Be fore moving to ^ Charlotte with her husband Bronson Noel, she taught at Kenwood Elementary School in Miami, Florida from 1971 to 1984. The mother of six children, Helen has received several awards and honors in her pro fessional ceireer. As a student at Miami Dade Junior College, she was elected to Phi Lamb da Pi and Phi Theta Kappa honorary societies. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the education honor society at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. At Kenwood Elementary School, she was named “Teacher of the Year” and was also honored as the Scholarship Award Honoree of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association. Helen has been active with the Girl Scouts and PTA and has been a hospital volunteer and a Bible school teacher. Among her many hobbies is her love for journalism. She has had many articles and a special series published in The Miami Herald. Helen also enjoys being a miniaturist and has passed her enthusiasm £ilong to our Academy children who have already made VEirious projects involving the art of miniatures. For the coming school year, Helen will be teaching second through sixth grade and will supervise art programs at the school. Zira London Ziva has been involved with the N.C. Hebrew Academy since arriving in Charlotte. She comes to us from Beer- sheva, Israel £ind has been a committed and inspiring Hebrew-Juda ic teacher. She attended Ben-Gurion Univer sity in Beer-sheva where she majored in Bible, and the history of Jewish thought. She is well versed in Talmud, rab binic thought, Torah, Zionist political theory. Midrash, classical prophets and all sorts of Halachic training. Ziva’s professional career began when she taught in the Army in Israel. From there, she went to Ashdod, Israel where she spent a couple of years teaching and working with underprivileged children. The following two years, she worked in the town of Omer, London The Key V loaSuccaMful \ Real Estat* Transaction ANN LANGMAN **Serving your real estate needs since 1972** Mary Ryder Realty Office 364-3300 • Home 364-1691/1693 ^eenspon Associates f Inc. '125 Cottage Place 376-7434 Providing a complete line of life insurance products, medical plans, disability plans, group-employee benefit plans. STAN GREENSPON DAVID SWIMMER which is next to Beer-sheva, In “Omarim” (the school's name), she was fortunate to offer her talents to the gifted program which the school offered. She worked with sixth and seventh grade students there. She was also in charge of all the holidays, programs and events during the course of the school year. Ziva and her husband Andy, lived in New York for some time, where she was employed as an afternoon Hebrew school teacher. This is Ziva’s fifth year with the school. Ziva states: “This has been a very challenging and exciting experience in my life,” Her love of Judaism in spires all and the children love her dearly. Her “ruach” vibrates in the school. Lynne Tarleton Lynne has been with our staff at the Hebrew Academy since 1984, having taught kindergarten, first and se cond grades. Yet her cred its go beyond that. Lynne has been a ** general stud- Tarleton ies teacher since 1963. She taught third, fourth and fifth grades in Colorado, England and in Illinois prior to moving to Charlotte. She moved here with her husband Neal in 1970, and has worked with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools since their arrival. She taught pre-school through fourth grade prior to joining our staff. Lynne has two daughters, Kelly, 13 and Meagan, 9. Lynne has been actively in volved with “International Reading Association” at its local, state and national levels and with the “Association for the Education of the Young Child.” Among some of her honors are being elected to Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi. Lynne is a creative and dynamic individual. She is cur rently very involved in profes sional writing workshops which are given to teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area. A. New Year Begins With A Ne'v^ Location for the Academy By Berta Straz, Administrator The school bells will be ring ing soon and the Academy children will be coming to Shalom Park for their first day of school. It will be an awkward feeling not pulling into the old school building on Sardis Lane. Yet, with lots of excitement and enthusiasm, we will open the doors to our new school year at Shalom Park. Oh what a feeling! Our children have been waiting pa tiently for this moment and it will occur on our first day of the school year, August 25. ow lucky is our school to have a fully equipped gym, a separate arts and crafts room. and a gorgeous multi-purpose room. How lucky and thankful we are to have everything the Hebrew Academy ever dream ed of at Shalom Park. The Hebrew Academy is committed to giving our young children the best of Judaic and general studies in a learning atmosphere that is personal, caring and moti vating. I am honored to be the administrator of this school. Our staff is remarkable and dedicated. They have a great deal to offer our children. I am certain that as you stroll through Shalom Park you will pass our classrooms and look in. Please feel free to visit us anytime. Patronize Our Advertisers Tell them you saw their ad in “CJN” HX, HEBREW ACADEMY GIVE VO CHILD AN EDUCATIONA ADVANTAGE Secular and Judaic/Hebraic curriculum • Small classes with individual atten tion • Excellent, experienced teachers • Shalom Park educational and recrea tional facilities. ENROLL NOW FOR GRADES K-6 N.C. Hebrew Academy Shalom Park P.O. Box 13053 Charlotte, N.C. 28211 FOR INFORMATION CALL: Berta Straz-Administrator 537-4878 Ruth Groldberg - Recruitment 366-8903 SUNDAY Brunch 364-8220 2200 REXFORD ROAD l^rtRRtpflbnLS'
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