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September – October 2014 San Dieguito Chapter
Congratulations to San Dieguito We have won the highest award given by BNC:
Chapter of the Year! See page 5
And Coming up:
Special Program: Who Was Sousa Mendes?
Sunday, November 9 at 12:45 p.m. Lee Sterling, his story, and the prize-winning film ‘Disobedience’
See page 3
The Jewish Book Fair
Tuesday, Nov. 11 at noon The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands
See page 3
Breakfast & Style! at Chico’s
Sunday, November 23 – 9 to 11 a.m. See page 4
Study Groups begin the week of Oct. 1
Presidents’ Message
Dear Friends:
What a way to start our year! An exciting September 10th Opening Meeting chaired by our most recent
past presidents, Bea Sklarewitz and Joyce Spiegel, a remarkable choice of Study Groups and programs
chaired by Sherrie Hunninghake along with Rita Boskin and Ann Zall, an opportunity to read along with the
Freshman class....”Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson in a group led by Llyn Mallen, a continuing
partnership with the Day Timers’ program at Beth Israel which this year offers David Ellenstein of North
Coast Rep, and Susan Shirk, PhD UCSD expert on all things China, and the opportunity to work in fused
glass with an Israeli artist to create a latke platter or menorah.
We are now firmly planted in the ‘information age’, thanks to Joan Kushinoff and Jane Polgar, with our own
web site. Check it out http://blogs.brandeis.edu/bncsandieguito/
Each and every Study Group has a vibrant and dedicated leader. Check the bulletin containing the guide
and sign up soon....you won’t be sorry.
Each member of our Presidium looks forward to greeting you at the Opening Meeting at Lomas Santa Fe
Country Club to renew, reacquaint and sign up for the coming year. We have taken on the leadership of our
beloved chapter so each member can continue their dedication to our Mission and the friendships they have
created over the years....a double gift, as it were.
As this is the last year of our Sustaining the Mind campaign, I urge you to think seriously about supporting
the study and research into neurodegenerative disease....as time goes by we are learning more and more
about how to deal with and treat these maladies as we hope you, too, become part of the cure by supporting
our campaign.
In saving the best for last....we are excited to announce the Oscar, the Emmy, the Pulitzer of awards....to
the San Dieguito chapter… for being awarded Chapter of the Year! Only five chapters nationwide received
this prestigious award. It goes to each of you who has made the chapter the shining star it is.
Wishing you a sweet and peaceful New Year.....
Sondra Albers & Gayle Wise
Officers: Presidium:
Sondra Albers, [email protected]; Linda Epstein, [email protected]; Phyllis Perkal, Lenore Shapp, [email protected]; Gayle Wise, and
Vice President Administration – Gayle Wise [email protected] Sandy Marin, [email protected]
Vice President Service – Dorothy Katz [email protected]
Fund-raising Chair – Phyllis Perkal [email protected]
Treasurer – Jayne Marx [email protected]
Financial Secretary – Elaine Eisenberg [email protected]
Recording Secretary – Duxie Smukler [email protected]
Corresponding Secretary – Susan Moroff [email protected]
Nominating Committee – Bea Sklarewitz, Joyce Spiegel; Sherrie Hunninghake, Susan Moroff, Ann Zall
Honorary Board Members – Etta Schankerman, Sylvia Schenker
The Bulletin is published every other month by the San Dieguito Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee
Co-editors: Jane Polgar 760-633-2259 [email protected] Rita Boskin 760-274-6606 [email protected] Contributor: Judy Allegan Proofreader: Renee Parker
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Who Was Sousa Mendes?
Sunday, November 9 - 12:45 p.m. at Seacrest
Join us for a fascinating program and dessert. Meet guest speaker Lee Sterling, and see the award-winning film ‘Disobedience: the Sousa Mendes Story’. Sterling’s own family and he, as a young child, were among tens of thousands saved by Sousa Mendes during the Holocaust.
Considered to be the greatest single rescue effort by one individual during the Holocaust, it was accomplished by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul serving in Bordeaux, France in 1940. Despite Nazi Germany occupying the country and disobeying his government’s direct orders, he and his staff prepared visas for thousands of Jews escaping Nazi controlled France.
Come see the film and hear Lee Sterling’s story, followed by a discussion. Dessert will be served.
Please send $15.00 to Joyce Spiegel by November 1. Mail in form is on page 11.
San Diego Jewish Book Fair
Tuesday, November 11 at noon (includes lunch)
Seacrest Village 211 Saxony Road, Encinitas (new venue for the Jewish Book Fair) The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands
Award-winning travel writer Judith Fein’s newest book traces her Russian Jewish heritage to find the truth behind the shrouded story of where she came from, what the Old World was like, and what remains of the places so many of our own ancestors left behind when they came to America.
We accompany her as she treks through Ukraine’s graveyards, meets a gypsy baron and ‘the last Jew standing’, quaffs cognac with Russians, and hears the voices of her ancestors. Los Angeles Times called her book “as tense as a thriller and as tender as a love story” It is our story as well. Those attending will receive a genealogy booklet to help them get started on their own searches.
See a complete list of authors at their website: http://www.sdcjc.org/sdjbf/index.aspx
San Dieguito is a community partner of the Jewish Book Fair
San Diego Jewish Book Fair – Tuesday, November 11
Mail this form and include a stamped return envelope and an $18.00 check made out to BNC before Nov. 1
to Sue Berger, 7420 Magellan St., Carlsbad, CA 92011
Name(s)_______________________________________________________________________
Phone________________________Email_____________________________________________
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Sunday, November 23rd, 9~11:00 Chico’s at The Forum
1925 Calle Barcelona, Carlsbad
BN C
Breakfast & Style
San Dieguito ChapterBrandeis National Committee
Presents
!
$18 may be claimed as a charitable contribution.
Intimates& Soma
Enclosed $I am not able to attend; enclosed is my donation of $
NameReservations to: Suzie Kaplan, 6991 Batista St., San Diego 92111
Phone
November 15th Please mail your check by November 15th (check payable to BNC)
@ $23 per person
Please join us for a wonderful morning of fashion, food and friendship. The latest fall, holiday and resort styles
will be shown, you can use your Chico’s Passport coupon when you make a purchase AND. . .
.There will be a treasure hunt, prizes, and lots of fun!
Chico’s and Soma Intimates will donate 10% of every purchase at this event
Questions? Call Suzie (858.309.8348)
Proceeds from this event will benefit our campaign, Sustaining The Mind: Scientific Research and Scholarships
will donate 10% of every purchase
Chapter of the Year!
Of all the 47 chapters in the country, only FIVE were named Chapter of the Year for 2013 -2014, the highest award BNC can give. San Dieguito is one of them!
To everyone who helped – on committees, in study groups, working behind the scenes – and who contributed to BNC’s various funds, and helped in so many ways, however small, thank you. Congratulations - this award belongs to you.
San Dieguito Has a Website!
We have just taken a huge leap into the digital age. Thanks to the guidance of Tamar Vogel at BNC, who actually set it up, the chapter has a website. Tamar instructed Joan Kushinoff and Jane Polgar, who will keep it up to date, via a conference call from her home in Massachusetts (the Brandeis offices’ security was too good to let us in) with her 3-month-old daughter in her arms and an active 3-year-old son kept interested by the Sesame Street characters she cleverly used to illustrate her points. Be sure to check us out online at http://blogs.brandeis.edu/bncsandieguito/ You will find current activities, Bulletins, Study Group descriptions, a gallery of photos (are you there?), a bit of history about BNC and San Dieguito, and all sorts of links to BNC and the University. What else would you like to see there? Additions and corrections happily accepted.
Snail Mail Bulletins
Many chapters now deliver their Bulletins by email only. Those members who receive print editions pay a subscription fee. Although we have offered our Bulletin online for several years, many are reluctant to receive it there. Meantime, printing and mailing costs are rising. For instance, the permit for bulk mail has risen from $60 to $220 per year, and we’re ‘snail mailing’ too many costly copies. To counter the rising expense, we are now asking for a voluntary contribution of only $10 a year. Won’t you send a check (made out to BNC) to Linda Epstein, 2126 Pintoresco Ct., Carlsbad 92009. To try the digital edition, contact Jane Polgar at [email protected]. You can still receive a mailed paper edition if you wish, but please consider giving $10 to help defray our costs. 5
Wanted!!!
One garage for brief fund-raising sale.
Must be able to store items for a week or so,
have no neighborhood restrictions,
and host a Saturday morning sale (committee will do all the work)
Please contact Cheryl Weeber, 760-452-6408 or Bobbie Henry, 312-502-7661
Study Groups Dates – Beginnings and Ends
Because of the timing of the Jewish Holidays, here are the starting dates and possible end months for each study group.
Contemporary Literature Oct 13 thru Aug Current World Issues Oct 1 DayTimers as listed on calendar Ethics Oct 21 thru March Great American Music Oct 28 thru Mar Greatest Artists Oct 29 - not Nov - thru May History of the Supreme Court Nov thru April History of Israel Oct 8 thru March Jewish Knowledge Nov 13 Knitting Nov 7 for 12 months
Legal Puzzlers Oct 31 thru May Marathon Bridge Oct 13 Medical Myths Nov 3 thru March Movie Talk Oct 21 Potpourri of Film Nov 21 Privacy, Property Nov 13 Shall we Dance? Oct 20 thru March Great Composers Nov 19 Tuesdays @ Movies/Deis Flicks Oct 14 Women/Difference Nov 14
Presidium Rotation
Lenore Shapp July and January Sondra Albers August and February Gayle Wise September and March Phyllis Perkal October and April Linda Epstein November and May Sandy Marin December and June
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THE BRANDEIS SCOOP
Tidbits about Brandeis University 1. The Class of 2018, consisting of 865 first year students from 40 U.S. states and 24 different countries, began the official start of the new student year with an orientation the last week in August.
2. Three Brandeis University students recently presented research findings on nail salon air quality at the 2014 International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology in Houston. They reported that workers in 15 nail salons in Greater Boston were exposed to high levels of harmful chemicals which are common in nail polishes, polish removers and acrylic and gel nails. The students’ findings were from a study they conducted with colleagues in Professor Laura Goldin’s Environmental Health and Justice Program, which is offered through the Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS). The Justice Brandeis Semester program is part of Brandeis’ commitment to creating and supporting intensive learning experiences with enduring impact, a central goal of the university’s strategic plan.
The trio, the youngest to present at the conference, said their findings were well received. “The attendees were very impressed with our age and student status,” said one. “When we first got up to present, it felt as if people were skeptical, but after we started, people seemed to change their expressions to those of genuine interests.” In addition to gaining experience presenting to a professional audience, the students met environmental health professionals from around the world.
3. Two Brandeis University professors were honored at the 2014 American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in August. Professor David Cunningham (who has spoken to our chapter) won the Outstanding Book Award for “Klansville, U.S.A,” his work on the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan Associate professor Sara Shostak was awarded the Robert K. Merton Book for her book, “Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health.”
Downtown San Diego Library Tour Our first Study Group trip was a guided tour of the new San Diego downtown library. The building and all it houses were amazing. Thanks go to Susan Moroff, who organized the day. Here we are on the 8th floor patio, under the dome.
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BOOK FUND
LEARNED RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
A contribution to this fund was made in honor of Marilyn & Lou Tedesco's 50th Anniversary
by Marjorie & Marvin Golden A contribution to this fund was made in memory of Michael Simon's sister Leslie by Sandra & Irving
Rubin
LEARNED RESEARCH JOURNAL
A contribution to this fund was made in memory of Lorna & Stuart Goodman's son William Alan by Carol & Burnam Friedman A contribution to this fund was made in honor Phyllis Perkal's birthday and Phyllis & Milt Perkal's Anniversary by Etta Schankerman
SUSTAINING THE MIND
A contribution to this fund was made in memory of Elaine Beals by Sylvia Schenker A contribution to this fund wa made in honor of Flora & Ken Plant's 40th Anniversary by Susan and Syd Moroff A contribution to fund was made in memory of Mel Shapiro by Sylvia Schenker EMBOSSED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CARD (CHAI) DONOR RECIPIENT OCCASION
Etta Schankerman Pauline Green Congrats-Region President Inez Kaufman Flora & Ken Plant Happy 40th Anniversary Judy & Dan Marks Flora & Ken Plant Happy 40th Anniversary Judy & Dan Marks Elza Rzepa Memory of Parents
TRIBUTES
DONOR RECIPIENT OCCASION
Phyllis & Milt Perkal Bill Albers Happy Birthday Etta Schankerman Bill Albers Happy Birthday Irene Rubinstein Max Kacev Birth of Baby Sister Phyllis & Milt Perkal Dorothy & Jerry Katz Happy Anniversary Etta Schankerman Dorothy & Jerry Katz Happy Anniversary Lenore Shapp Dorothy & Jerry Katz Happy Anniversary Etta Schankerman Renee Parker Happy Birthday Suzie & Neil Kaplan Flora & Ken Plant Happy 40th Anniversary Phyllis & Milt Perkal Jane & Peter Polgar Happy 50th Anniversary
GET WELL DONOR RECIPIENT
Bea Sklarewitz Ruby Farber Lenore Shapp Sherrie Hunninghake's Sister Lenore Shapp Inez Kaufman's Daughter MEMORIALS DONOR RECIPIENT IN LOVING MEMORY
Judy Allegan Lorna & Stuart Goodman Son, William Alan Bea Sklarewitz Murray Fleck Son TO SEND A TRIBUTE, CONTACT JUDY ALLEGAN (760-598-2934) or email [email protected] OR SYLVIA SCHENKER (858-458-1358) or email [email protected] $501 Major Book Collection $36 Learned Research Journal $101-$499 Special Book Collection $18.50 Louis Brandeis Card (Chai) $56 Learned Research Journal for Medical Research $10.50 BNC Library Photo Card $25.50 Sustaining The Mind Research Card- NEW $5.50 Blue & White Card
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Celebrate!
Happy Birthday .
Happy Anniversary .
Carol & Matthew Shakter Ann & Bob Fry Leah & Herb Karp Ida & Ben Shreiber
Sept. 2 Sept. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 17
Get Well Wishes to
Mickey Kopol Anne D’Errico Jayne Marx Gail Pliner
Our sympathy to The family of Lilly Lenson Sylvia Feldman on the loss of her husband, Dan
Be sure to contact Carol Shakter to share your sunshine or sadness
[email protected] or 760-931-0612
What makes this fruit fly so beautiful to Brandeis researchers? Understanding the fruit fly’s neuron system could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of human neurodegenerative diseases.
Support the Brandeis $3 million Sustaining the Mind campaign at www.brandeis.edu/bnc/philanthropy/sustaining-the-mind.html.
Thinking about Planned Giving? The simplest form of planned giving to Brandeis University is a bequest. This is a gift that is made through the donor’s will and offers these advantages: Donors do not have to part with this money during their lifetime; it reduces estate tax by removing assets from the estate; it reduces probate costs; it saves professional management fees on the estate; and there is no minimum amount. Contact M'Lissa Brennan, Director of Strategy and Development, Brandeis National Committee at 781-736-4178 or [email protected].
Peter Polgar Marvin King Morry Shechet Sheila Needle Norman Cypers Marcia Abelson Joel Kayne Duxie Smukler Norman Abelson
Sept. 2 Sept. 15 Sept. 18 Sept. 19 Oct. 1 Oct. 11 Oct. 16 Oct. 21 Oct. 31
A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS
Arthur Birnbaum (see Cynthia) Karin Bensusen 191 Triton Circle Encinitas, CA 92024 760-436-7890 [email protected] Luba Berk 1815 Wilton Road Encinitas, CA 92024 760-942-0696 [email protected] Alice Chary 1350 Cassins Street Carlsbad, CA 92011 760 -213-9549 [email protected] Fern Levine 693 Bird Court San Marcos, CA 92069 760-659-6606 [email protected]
Marilyn Freitag 1110 Ballata Court Vista, CA 92081 760-536-9167 [email protected] Cheryl Gombos (Associate) 11215 Mayan Ct. San Diego, CA 92127-1280 858 592-1514 [email protected] Florence (Bunny) Hallstrom 1257 Columbus Way Vista, CA 92081 760-598-2604 [email protected] Anita Hoban 6229 Paseo Privado Carlsbad, CA 92009 619-504-6826 anitahoban@sbcglobal,net
Deborah (Debbie) Rolls 3203 Sitio Rosalia Carlsbad, CA 92009-7110 760-918-0009 [email protected] Sharon Rosenstein 1369 Ranch Road Encinitas, CA 92024 760-632-7742 [email protected]
Connie Robin 4968 Lassen Drive Oceanside, CA 92056 760-630-9654 [email protected] Eleanore (Ele) Lavender 6146 Citracado Circle Carlsbad, CA 92009-2284 760-804-1388 [email protected]
ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, AND CHANGES
Carol August Butler 395 Fern Glen La Jolla, CA 92037 858-204-4722 [email protected]
Elza Rzepa [email protected] Mickey Kopol [email protected]
“FRIENDS TELL FRIENDS ABOUT BRANDEIS”
To all our Jewish members, and your families
and friends,
We wish you a sweet and healthy
New Year!
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If You Haven’t Renewed Your Membership Yet… The Brandeis fiscal year begins July 1, and it’s time to pay your dues if you want to participate in
this year’s exciting Study Groups, receive the Bulletin, and be listed in the updated Directory, coming soon. If you haven’t renewed, please mail your check now to our Financial Secretary, even if you’ve received a bill from National. Please mail dues directly to
Elaine Eisenberg 8544-A Villa Mallorca
La Jolla, CA 92037
To those of you who have paid, thank you, and thank you for your continued support of Brandeis University.
All our members are cordially invited to board meetings
Next Meeting
Monday, September 22nd at 10am Seacrest Village, 211 Saxony Rd., Encinitas
Refreshments will be served. Stay for a no-host lunch at Mel’s Place afterwards.
A Calendar of the Year’s Events will appear in the next issue.
AND. . . it will be available soon on our website!
Mail in form:
‘Disobedience’ with Lee Sterling – Sunday, November 9
Mail this form, with a check made out to BNC, by Nov. 1 for $15 to Joyce Spiegel 2535 Navarra Drive B5 Carlsbad, CA 92009
$10 tax deductible – benefits Sustaining the Mind Campaign
Name(s)_______________________________________________________________________
Phone________________________Email_____________________________________________
I can’t attend, but I’d like to contribute to Sustaining the Mind $________________________
Mission Statement
Brandeis National Committee is dedicated to providing philanthropic support to Brandeis University, a distinguished liberal arts and research university founded by the American Jewish community. Its membership is connected to the university through fundraising and through activities that reflect the values on which the university was founded: academic excellence, social justice, nonsectarianism and service to the community.
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San Dieguito Chapter
Harriet Wadia 1660 Luneta Drive Del Mar, CA 92014
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October 1 – Study Groups Begin November 9 – Special Program November 11 – Jewish Book Fair
November 23 – Breakfast & Style! at Chico’s
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