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Mazel Tov & Coiigratualtions
Women of valor
women’s history
month
March is Women’s History
Month and The Jewish
Community Center of Charlotte is
proud to be a participant in the
Women of Valor project celebrat
ing outstanding Jewish Women.
If Jewish history is a map which
can help Jews navigate towards
the future, it is a map with many
missing and faded lines. )\^thout
these missing and faded lines —
the stories of individual Jewish
women who made a difference
and the collective experiences of
women and other overlooked seg
ments of Jewish communities past
— we who labor to shape the
Jewish future stumble and fall. We
falter and lose direction, because
the records of previous journeys
have been lost. Women’s History
Month is about uncovering some
of these records and redrawing the
map to create a more inclusive his
tory.
Six outstanding Jewish women
have been featured in posters that
will be displayed in the JCC
Lobby. Profiles of Glikl of
Hamelin, Rose Schneiderman,
Henrietta Szold, Rebecca Gratz,
Lillian Wald, and Molly Picon will
be posted during the month of
March. Please take an opportunity
to take some time to read and learn
about these extraordinary women.
In addition, a Website has been
created to make additional infor
mation available. The Website
address is http://www.JWA.org. 0
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Honors
Alasdair Gordon Cohen,
son of Professor Richard A.
Cohen (UNCC), was induct
ed into the National Honor
Society of Secondary Schools.
He is currently a senior at
Beth Tfliloh Community
School, Baltimore, Maryland,
and will be attending the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill beginning fall
1998,
Elko to West
Point
Brett Edward Elko, a
senior at the North Carolina
School of Science and Math
in Durham, has been appoint
ed to the U.S. Military
Academy. Brett was nomi
nated by Sen. Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., and Rep. Sue
Myrick, R-N.C. He is a for
mer IB program student at
Myers Park High School and
the son of Bill and Meryle
Elko.
AARP 55 Alive
Mature/Defensive
Driving
Accredited Instructor:
Adele Grossman
Tuesday and Thursday,
9:00 AM- 1:00 PM
March 10 & 12, May 5 & 7
A driver’s training program
specifically designed for mature
motorists ages 50+. Two days
participation is required for cer
tificate credit. Participants may
receive a reduction on automo
bile insurance {Hemiums. The
Jewish Community Center of
Charlotte, 5007 Providence
Road, continually sponsors
AARP 55 Alive Mature
Defensive Driving classes (lur
ing the course of the year. These
classes are open to the general
public. Your check, made
payable to AARP, is your reser
vation. If you have fiiither ques
tions or if you wish to register
please contact Ivy Saul at the
JCC, 366-5007. *>
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Volunteer of the month
By Linda Levy
Each issue, this column fea
tures a volunteer from one or
more of the many groups, agen
cies or organizations that add to
the quality of life of the
Charlotte Jewish community.
The volunteers are selected by
the following community-wide
groups: Jewish Federation of
Greater Charlotte, Jewish
Family Services, Jewish
Community Center and the
Charlotte Jewish Pre-School.
This month’s volunteer was
named by Debbie Block,
Executive Director of the
Charlotte Jewish Pre-School
Linda Hindel
Interviewed just before taking
her daughter to religious school,
Linda Hindel exemplifies the
key to rewarding volunteerism:
select meaningful, needed activ
ities and schedule wisely! Linda
is the Immediate Past l^esident
of the Charlotte Jewish Pre-
School (CJP). She became active
on that Boajxl about five years
ago, when her older dau^ter,
Hannah, flrst enrolled and has
continued being active while
younger daughter, Leah, attends.
Linda handed the gavel over to
current President Anita
Biedermann at the end of the last
school year, now that Leah is her
last child at CJP.
Linda’s activities while serv
ing on the CJP Board included
working with the nominating
committee that hired the current
Executive Director, Debbie
Block, working with the rest of
the Board to put the school back
on a fiscally sotxxKi u»ck —
sound enou^ for the school to
receive a Blumcnthal
matrhinc crsnt. and
the building of a new school
playground at Shalom Park.
Linda’s voice filled with enthu
siasm as she described that pro
ject. “The playground commit
tee, along with Debbie Block,
planned, designed and built —
with the help of a strong volun
teer corps — the state-of-the-art
playground enjoyed by so many
children at Shalom Park. ‘To
create the best playground possi
ble, we snooped around play
grounds in bo^ North and South
Carolina, interviewed vendors
and built it ourselves from the
ground-i^). We’re so proud of
that playground. Kids love it; it’s
strong and stable and withstands
kids’ rough and tumble play,”
she added. As is the case with all
the volunteers of the month
interviewed, Linda praised the
staff. “Debbie Block and the CJP
administrator, Cheryl Hanson,
make it easy to volunteer!”
Linda also serves on the JCC
Board of Directors, where she
chairs the aquatic program com
mittee. She works with Ivy Saul
to coordinate the J’s participa
tion in the “Room at the Inn”
program, housing twelve home
less people for a number of
nights at the various institutions
at Shalcxn Park. (NOTE: More
on that endeavor will appear in a
future column!)
Her interest in education moti
vated Linda to serve on the
Temple Beth El Religious
School committee and
Federation conununity Relations
Subcommittee that examines
religious issues of concern to
non-Christian children in com
munity schools. A successful
meeting was hekl recently at the
J to discuss these issues with
representatives of the Charlotte-
Meek Icaburs school system
Realizing the need for volun
teers in the greater Charlotte
community, and at the urging of
Penny Eisenb^g, Linda began
working as a volunteer at the
Crisis Assistance Ministry sever
al years ago. At first she sorted
clothes donated for the needy
and then was “promoted” to
interviewing clients in need of
financial assistance, helping to
expedite the review process so
that needy clients receive emer
gency financial aid quickly. “I’m
exci^ that I’ve just been asked
to serve on the Crisis Assistance
Ministry Board of Directors to
plan and implement projects that
help meet the ne^ of the
greater Charlotte community,”
Linda said.
When asked about her family,
Linda explained that her hus
band Peter, “a radiologist with
not much free time but a good
heart,” supports her volunteer
activities and does what he can
to help. “He hammered away at
building the CJP playground,”
she laughed. Linda met Peter
while both were serving in the
Air Force. With a background of
occupational therapist and later a
hospital administn^(», helping
others as a volunteer followed
naturally. She also ackled that her
mother had volunteoed in oper
ation Head Start while Linda
was growing up, planting the
seed of volunteerism.
“People ask me if I’m interest
ed in going back to wcxk," Linda
said, *T feel that at this time in
my life I feel diere is so much
thM needs to be done in the com-
mimity that I am rewarded by
doing some good even v/ithoot a
paycheck. It’s time well spent
for me." Littda concluded.
And for the community as
well, Linda! O