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The Charlotte TEWISH TtEWS
Vol. 9 No. 1
Charlotte, North Carolina
January,1987
Super Sunday Soars to Sensational SbSyOOO
The first SUPER SUNDAY
to be held at SHALOM PARK
was an overwhelming success
raising over $65,000 for the
FEDERATION/UJA ’87
CAMPAIGN.
On Sunday, Dec. 14, more
than 2000 telephone calls were
made by over 100 volunteers.
Calling began at 10 a.m. and
continued straight through
until 10 p.m.
Months of hard work and
preparation had gone into this
effort. The Super Sunday
Committee, Dayle Fligel, Jack
Levinson, Robert Damsky,
Hal Levinson, Barbara Free
man, Hal Levinson and Bob
Salvin, worked countless
hours to make this day into a
“spectacular” on every level.
They succeeded beyond their
expectations.
Visitors to Gorelick Hall
during SUPER SUNDAY
found themselves caught up in
a carniv£il-like atmosphere.
The room was filled with men,
women and teens all dressed in
bright blue SUPER SUNDAY
t-shirts. Proudly displayed in
bright red on the shirts were
stick-on patches reading “I
PLEDGED”. These spots of
color meant that the indi
vidual had made their own
pledge to the ’87 CAMPAIGN
as well as committing their
time.
There were three tables with
At end of day, tired but happy Super Sunday Chairs (L to R) Bobby
Damsky, Hal Levinson, Jack Levinson, Dayle Fligel.
14 phones manned by enthus
iastic volunteer solicitors.
Rushing back and forth from
these tables to the processing
and mailing tables were volun
teers ceirrying the completed
pledge cards. The time it took
between a solicitor taking a
pledge and a personalized
acknowledgement going out in
the mail was often less than
two minutes.
At the recycling table, a
crew took the cards of those
people who weren’t home
when c£illed and resorted them
into new time slots for contact
later in the day or during the
Monday-Thursday evening
follow-up calling period.
A careful observer could see
some of the volunteer “run
ners” carrying stacks of
“pledge data slips” out of
Gorelick Hall and returning
moments later empty handed.
If they had followed the run
ner, they would have seen
him/her take the slips to the
accounting office where the
clerical and business staff of
the Federation/JCC/Founda-
tion were putting in their time
as volunteers posting the
pledges, putting the data into
the Federation computer and
keeping track of the results of
the day’s efforts.
Hidden from view in offices
around the building, a special
squad of the very best solici
tors, both women and men,
were making calls to newcom
ers who needed to have more
**Pot OS Gold*’ Won By The Gerbers
Alan Kronovet, Sharon
Don Katz, Murray Feit.
and
Lavish food, terrific prizes, wonderful evening!
On Dec. 6, Larry and Marty
Gerber “found” the pot of gold
at the end of the
rainbow...$5,000 worth that is!
Congratulations go to them
and to the lucky winners of the
J’s “At the End of the Rain
bow Celebration” other prizes
of weekends at resort con
dominiums/homes: Sue and
Sam Simms, Claire and Alan
Krusch, Elaine and Marvin
Baron, Barbara and Josef
Sklut, Suzanne and David
Pliner, Vivian and Leonard
Jacobs, Pearl and Alan Mann,
Over 280 tickets were sold
to this special fund-raising
event, with 375 people in at
tendance. A bountiful cocktail
buffet was enjoyed by all as
well as the entertainment and
dancing to the Instant Credit
Band. Though the complete
figures are not in as to the ac
tual expenses of the evening,
it has been estimated that the
profit is between $13,000 and
$15,000. Everyone who at
tended voiced that the
“Celebration” was a social
success!
explanation about Campaign
and about the needs of our
community.
Back in Gorelick Hall, one of
the committee members car
ried out his task of attaching
a balloon to the chair of a
solicitor every time an in
creased or new pledge was ob
tained. Some chairs had so
many balloons, the solicitor
was in danger of floating
away.
As if this wasn’t enough ac
tivity, periodically a raucus
alarm clock went off signeding
prizes for the next soHcitors
who obtained a new pledge
and an increased pledge. The
prizes all came from local mer
chants and restaurants as did
the dozens of bagels on which
volunteers munched when
they could grab a spare mo
ment between jobs.
Thanks to the JCC’s spon
sorship of special activities
and early bird registration all
day on the 14th, SUPER
SUNDAY was indeed a public
spectacle as hundreds of
visitors stopped by to gawk
and, occasionally to make
their pledges and and save
themselves a phone call.
SUPER SUNDAY ’87 will
be long remembered as the
first of the SUPER SUNDAY
SPECTACULARS. Tired but
satisfied, the committee
members sat at the end of the
day already discussing what
could be done to make even a
greater spectacular out of
SUPER SUNDAY ’88.
A full page of photos of
SUPER SUNDAY will be fea
tured in the February Char
lotte Jewish News along with
a list of the names of all those
volunteers who made the
day’s success possible.
Computer Gift Honors
The Late Charles Stein
Bob and Maddy Stein try out new computer hardware which is
part of a most generous gift from John Gerard of Madison Leasing,
New Jersey, to the Jewish Center of Charlotte in memory of Robert’s
father, Charles Stein. The gift includes the computer, monitor and
printer shown in the picture as well as software, systems and pro
gramming. When installation is complete, the new computer system
will be tailored to the needs of the JCC, the Foundation of the
Charlotte Jewish Community, and other local Jewish organizations.
Complete programming and installation will take place over a period
of some 24 months. Modules such as word processing, accounting
and statistical network will be installed one by one, with each
module tested and in place before proceeding to the next stage, ac
cording to Barry Hantman, executive director of The Foundation.
—In The News—
Academy
5
Calendar
16
Classifieds
16
Editorials
2
Family Services 3
Federation
12
JCC
7-11
Lubavitch
6
Organizations..
14-15
Temples
13
This 'n That....
15
World Beat
4
Jewish/Catholic Dialogue Presents **The Courage To Care**
ticipate in this opportunity for
mutual solidarity and enrich
ment. Please come and bring a
friend.
On Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:30
to 9 p.m., at Shalom Park the
Jewish-Roman Catholic Dia
logue will present a special
program on the Holocaust. An
excellent film, “The Courage
to Care,” will be shown. This
half-hour film originated from
the conference, “Faith in
Humankind: Rescuers of Jews
During the Holocaust.” The
conference was sponsored by
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council, which was held in
Washington, D.C. in Sept.
1984. Elie Wiesel, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize, is pro
filed, pointing to the relevan
cy of the evening’s theme.
Another victim-hero featured
is Blessed Fr. Maximillian
Kolbe, who died a martyr in
the Auschwitz deathcamp in
August, 1941.
Survivors of the Holocaust,
Mr. Irving Mond, Mrs. Susan
Cernyak-Spatz, et. al., will
share their experiences, in
cluding references to persons
and groups who had the
courage to rescue persecuted
Jews and Christians from Nazi
crimes.
People of all denominations
are cordially invited to par-
The program is coordinated
by Rev. Oscar Burnett,
0. S. B., of Belmont Abbey,
and is sponsored by the
Ecumenical Institute, Wake
Forest University-Belmont
Abbey College.
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