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Vol. 16 No. 6 Charlotte, North Carolina June/July 1994
Jewish Community Center’s 8th Annual
Meetins at Shalom Park is a Celebration
Linda Goldsmith, annual meeting co>chair.
Elaine Schefllin, annual meeting co-chair.
Gene Daumit, JCC president, awarding President’s Cup to Marshall
Rosenfeld.
More than 90 JCC members
and guests gathered on Monday,
April 18, 1994 to celebrate the
8th Annual Meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Jewish
Community Center of Charlotte
at Shalom Park. Responsibility
for chairing the well organized
meeting was shared by Linda
Goldsmith and Elaine Schefflin.
Dr. Gene Daumit, JCC pres
ident, shared with the audience
a framework for building the
Center’s future through an inter
active lay-staff partnership,
implementing a needs assess
ment analysis project, cultivat
ing targeted and purposeful
program planning as well as a
commitment to the Center’s and
the overall Jewish community’s
fmancial well-being.
Daumit also called on Center
members to become more in
volved, saying, “The Jewish
Community Center’s goals are
created by defining needs and
building consensus in our com
munity. The vehicle for accomp
lishing this task is our committee
system. Any member of the JCC
can serve on a committee and
I urge you to respond positively
when you receive the call asking
you to serve on a JCC commit
tee.”
Special tribute was paid by
Daumit for outstanding efforts
and dedication to outgoing JCC
Board members Joanne Bigel,
Nancy Blacker and Gary Silver-
stein. Hal Levinson, immediate
past president and chair of the
1994 Nominating Committee,
welcomed new Board members
Julius Goldman, Jeff Gorelick
and Peter Levinson. Dr. Gene
Daumit, Eric Sklut, Jill New
man, Elaine Schefflin, Dr, Scott
Menaker, Marshall Rosenfeld
and Gene Kavadlo were re
elected as officers of the JCC,
while Melissa Raphael, Butch
Rosen, Linda Goldsmith, Mike
Van Glish and David Silverman
were re-elected as members of
the Board.
Unique to this Annual Meet
ing agenda, “A Slice of Center
Life” was a demonstration by
participants and instructors in
the “J’s” Youth Karate Program.
Breaking with tradition, the
Volunteer of the Year Award
was not presented to an individ
ual, but to a group of volunteers
responsible for creating the
JCC’s program, “Yiddish In
Charlotte. They are: Baila
Pransky, Ruth Richardson, El-
kie Tulman. Rose and Abraham
Luski and LilUan Bayer. This
extremely devoted group fulfills
roles as organizers, managers
and teachers for the Yiddish
Institute and the Yiddish Vinkyl.
These two successful programs
help to preserve Yiddish lan
guage and culture, at the same
time infusing “yiddishkeit” into
the Center’s programming.
Past President Mike Van
Glish was presented with the
Executive Director’s Award in
recognition of the invaluable
guidance and counsel he provid
ed to the new JCC Director,
Alan Feldman. The award also
expressed the Center’s gratitude
for his many years of distin
guished and ardent leadership.
Marshall Rosenfeld was the
recipient of the prestigious Pres
ident’s Cup, presented by Dr.
Daumit. This honor acknowl
edged the excellence of Rosen
feld’s communal leadership. It
also represented the JCC’s ap
preciation for his long standing
contributions as the chairman of
the Health and Physical educa
tion Committee.
In his address, JCC Executive
Director, Alan Feldman, em
phasized the need to cultivate an
environment that values Jewish
literacy. “Our educational pro
cess,” he said, “must be coupled
with an understanding that our
most personal sense of self is
constructed from a series of
conscious and unconscious pro
cesses that culminate, finally, 'as
an inner solidarity with a group’s
ideals and identity. “He urged
JCC leaders to serve as paceset
ters by committing themselves to
ongoing programs of Jewish
learning.
Jean Allran, JCC Executive
Secretary/Office manager, re
ceived a special gift in recogni
tion of her superior efforts and
sincere dedication to the JCC.
The meeting culminated with a
delightful social hour and des
sert reception prepared by the
meeting’s co-chairpeople.
In the News
CAJE 24
Candlelighting 19
Classifieds 23
Community News 6-7
Dining Out/Ent 21-23
Eng./Marriage 23
Famity Services 7
Federation 12*13
JCC 10
Lubavitch
Teen Pafe 11
This'to That 23
Special F^itiup—
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(L-R) New JCC board member Jeff GorrUck, immediate past president
of Federation Shelton Gorelick, and Lori Sklut.
“Yiddish in Charlotte" Volunteer of the Year award winners (L-R) Abraham
Luski, Rom Luski, Elkie Tulman, LilUan Bajer and Baib Pransky.