Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff
Camp J.C. – Everybody’s Favorite Camp
It’s the Key to Summer Fun for Boys and Girls 5 through 12 years of Age
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Pages 1, 8
With the end of the school year today, San Diego Jewish parents are fortunate in having Camp J.C., the Jewish Community Centers ay Camp, for their youngsters this summer, said William B. Schwartz, Center President.
Camp J.C. will begin its 10th year of operation n Monday, June 25th, under the direction of Irving Morton, Assistant Director of the Center.
The camp session will be for a period of eight weeks until August 17th and will be held at the Center site where the Indian Village and its colorful teepee tents will rise on the 54th street camping ground as the assembly point each morning/
Center members’ fee, for the entire eight weeks will be $80; six weeks $63; for weeks $44; and two weeks $33. There is a $2 registration fee, which is applied to the camp fee in all registrations with the exception of one week.
For non-Center members, fees will run $96 for eight weeks; $75 for six weeks; $52 four weeks; $28 two weeks and $17 for one week.
This year Leonard Zlotoff, Chairman of the Day Camp Committee, reported that on the staff are counselors with a variety of skills, including a sports and games major; a professional story teller; choir director; two swimming instructors; life-saving and first aid specialists; an arts and crafts specialist, as well as drama, dance, camp craft and nature lore.
“We hope to make camping at J.C. an important and helpful experience in the lives of our boys and girls attending camp. Activities are geared to meet the age level and interest of the camper. A well balanced program within the camper’s physical limitations is accomplished through grouping by ages; a staff of matured, experienced, trained personnel; and one counselor for every seven campers,” Zlotoff said.
Five and six year olds will be placed in one unit and will have a less strenuous program than the balance of the camp. It will include additional arts and crafts, music, play activities and story telling.
Te oldest unit, of 11 and 12 year olds, will have sports, camping and camp craft and special programs geared for the old timers in camp.
Transportation to and from the camp site will be arranged by the camp Committee for those who desire it, and where it is possible. It will be furnished by bus line pick up and delivery service at an additional $1.50 per week.
A medical certificate is required for every camper; and Camp. J.C. carries a camp protective policy, which includes payment of medical and hospitalization bills in case of injury.
Staff at Camp J.C. will again be headed by David Anfanger, Vice Principal in the City School System, who will again be the assistant camp director. Unit heads will include Irwin Demberg and Morris Frankston, elementary school teachers in the City School System, an Sam Sosna, recently graduated from Stanford University.
Other staff members will be Frances Kaplan, A.B. in Psychology; Dorothy Hess, Retha Stokes, Jay Borushek, Allan Fox, Judy McCurd, all college juniors and seniors.
Junior counselors are: Marjorie Lowitz, Glenda Pollack, Sonja Weitzman and Mickey Satter.
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$116,745 Rushed to U.J.A. To Meet Survival Crisis
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Pages 1, 7
The United Jewish Fund of San Diego was lauded by more than 65- conference delegates from all over the United States attending the United Jewish Appeal’s Action Conference in New York, for its sensational action in this year’s campaign in topping last year’s results in a period of 60 days by more than 25%, according to word brought back from the conference by Maxell Kaufman, who was the local delegate.
At the conference Kaufman presented a check to the Appeal from San Diego’s United Jewish Fund for $116,745.00 representing a part of the allocation made to the work of the constituent agencies of the United Jewish Appeal.
$60,000 was secured by a loan from the Security Trust & Savings Bank for the United Jewish Appeal’s emergency project to speed immigration of Jews from North Africa to Israel. The balance came from the regular 1956 campaign as well as the Special Survival Fund for Israel, which jointly topped the $200,000 mark, Morris W. Douglas, President of the Fund, stated.
Milton Roberts, Chairman of the 1956 campaign, cautioned all of the workers that the campaign was not yet clo0sed, since there was still $20,000 to be secured from over 300 family contributors who have not as yet given in the 1956 campaign.
“Can it be,” Roberts asked, that these individuals – these over 300 Jews—are no longer concerned with Jews who need their help all over the world? Is it possible that we have over 300 families in San Diego who are not concerned or interested in the question of whether Israel will survive or die?”
“It is hard,” he continued, “to believe that these Jews are not interested in such agencies as the Jewish Welfare Board, working with our sons and daughters in the Armed Forces; the City of Hope, with its magnificent hospital facilities in Duarte, California; Seminars and Yeshivas which train our rabbis; the Anti-Defamation League; American Jewish Congress; Jewish War Veterans and the Jewish Labor Committee, which serve us in the field of combating anti-semitism and un-democratic actions; and the other 40 organizations, all of which are beneficiaries of the United Jewish Fund.
Roberts stated that workers are still contacting individuals who have not as yet given; mail appeals will be made in the very near future; and telephone solicitation will be carried on. Every family that has refused to give, or has asked that the United Jewish Fund wait for its contribution will be contacted in the very near future for their gift.”
The United Jewish Appeal, which was the beneficiary of the $116,745 from the United Jewish Fund of San Diego is the major beneficiary of the local drive. It is made up of the United Jewish Appeal and the Joint Distribution Committee. Funds contributed help bring Jewish immigrants fron North Africa to Israel, and aid in their resettlement, rehabilitation and retraining; gives medical, vocational and rehabilitation assistance in Israel to 27,000 sick, aged and handicapped immigrants; provides food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and training for 130,000 distressed, displaced and underprivileged men, women and children in the Moslem lands and in Western Europe; meets the adjustment needs of Jewish refugees arriving in the United States during 1956.
Contributions are still being received at the office of the United Jewish Fund, 333 Plaza, San Diego 1, California.
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New Youth Camp Opens June 25
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 1
A new Youth Day Camp, limited to boys and girls 13 to 17 years old, will open on Monday, June 25th, one week after school closes.
The camp is sponsored by the Jewish Community center, a Red Feather Community Chest Agency, and a constituent agency of the Federation of Jewish Agencies.
An innovation in day camping in San Diego, the camp is planned for the teen-age group specifically and will have, besides daily activities, over-night campouts in areas of intrest in and outside San Diego County.
Program planning for the teenage camp will be done by the campers themselves, guided by a mature and experienced group leader active in working with teen-agers.
The enrollment at the Youth Camp will be limited, and since at this time there are only a few openings, interested parents are urged to make immediate registration for the Teen-Age Camp. For further information about the Teen-Age Camp and Camp J.C., call Irving Morton, Assistant Director of the Jewish Community Center, AT-1-7744.
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Retiring President of Hebrew Home for the Aged to be Honored
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Pages 1, 7
Victor Schulman, retiring President, will be honored at the 13th Annual Dinner Meeting of the San Diego Hebrew Home for the Aged on Sunday, June 24th, Sam Addleson, Annual Meeting Chairman, stated.
Held for the first time in the Home dining room, the Kosher dinner, which will celebrate 12 years of active service to older Jewish citizens of our community, will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. Cocktails will be served from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to all dinner guests. The meeting will begin at 7:45 p.m., sharp. The dinner will cost $3.00 per plate.
Because of greatly limited space, only 130 dinner reservations will be accepted, Addleson said. Invitations have been mailed to the Board of the Hebrew Home, the membership of the Women’s Auxiliary, the Guardians, Directors of the United Jewish Fund, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Social Service Agency, and to contributors of the capital fund of the Hebrew Home building. Mr. Addleson said that the first 130 reservations for the dinner would be closed. Anyone wishing to attend who does not receive a letter of invitation, may make their reservations by calling BE 2-5172.
Schulman, one of San Diego’s outstanding leaders, will be acclaimed for his work as President of the Home from 1954 through 1956. It was during his period f office that the beautiful edifice located at 54th Street near University Ave. was built.
A Past-President of the United Jewish Fund and a former fund campaign chairman, Mr. Schulman has also been the Vice-President of the Community Chest of San Diego and is at present a Director of the Urban League.
A report of the Nominating Committee for the New Officers and Board of the Hebrew Home will be made by Mr. Saul Chenkin, Past President of the Home who is Chairman of the Nominating Committee. The following Officers will be nominated at the Annual Meeting: Maxwell Kaufman, President; Louis Karp, First Vice-President; Leonard Drogin, Second Vice-President; Max Maisel, Honorary Vice-President; Carl Esenoff, Treasurer; Mrs. Paul Nestor, Corr. Secretary; MRs. Sidney Goldstein, Fin. Secretary; an MRs. Saul Chenkin, Rec. Secretary.
Those who will be nominated as Board Members are : Milo Berenson, Sol Bloom, Dr. Earl Brody, Dr. Robert Epsten, Arthur Glickman, Harold Lehrer, Mrs. William Moss, Bernard Lipinsky, Jerome Neiderman, Alex Newman, Maury Novak, Henry Price, John Ruskin, Si Rich, Ben Rubin, Mrs. Jack Stern, Dr. George Solomon, Robert Shapiro, Victor Schulman and Harry Snyder.
Sam Addleson, President of the Guardians and Mrs. Alex Newman, President of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Home, are automatically members of the Board of Directors.
Louis Steinman and Chenkin are Past Presidents of the Home and are also members of the Board.
Mrs. Al Neuman is a life honorary member of the Board of the Hebrew Home.
The Home is a member agency of the San Diego Federation of Jewish Agencies and receives its financing through monies raised in the United Jewish Fund Campaign.
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Temple Sisterhood Holds Unusual ‘Antique Fair’ From Rare Collection
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 1
If you already have the antique collecting bug, or would like to acquire it, the place to come will be the Temple Beth Israel Temple House at 2570 Third, on Sunday, June 24, and Monday, June 25, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Temple Sisterhood will sponsor and conduct the sale of a collection of antiques, rustics, early Americana, and Chinese objects of art. There will be a clock that plays a Chinese song as its alarm, petite silver pin dishes, an old coffee grinder, children’s books from the 1800s, fine frames, lockets, men’s pipes, candlesticks, and china and glass from many countries and periods. All will be priced very reasonably for immediate sale.
All articles, several hundred, are a part of a private collection of a San Diego doctor, a member of Temple Beth Israel, who for the past ten years has been an enthusiastic and informed hobbyist of collecting. He will donate the entire proceeds of the sale, as a contribution to the Temple Sisterhood for their many youth activities and educational projects.
Preparations for and conduct of the sale are under the chairmanship of MRs. Sol Brown, assisted by Mmes Herbert Eber and Donal Pogrell, co-chairmen. Mmes. Mac Esterson, Rod Horrow, Wm. Pierce, Sam Siraton, Sam Fischer, Sydney Goldstein, Jack Weinberg and Joseph Krone are committee members.
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Sosna-Mallinger Exchange Marriage Vows
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 2
Ethel Ann Mallinger, duagher of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Mallinger, was married to Samuel Leon Sosna, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Sosna, is a candle-light ceremony at Temple Beth Israel on Thursday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. The bride and bridegroom recited their vows under a canopy of white glamelias centered with an aqua Star of David. Co-officiating were Rabbi Morton J. Cohn an Rabbi Monreo Levens. Cantor Cysner sang an original song written for the wedding by Mr. Carl Haywood of San Diego.
The bride wore a gown of pure silk gauze appliquéd with a guipre lace, featuring a stand-away portrait collar dipping to a “V” in the back and ending in two floating panels. Her fingertip veil was held in place by a matching pillbox of guipre lace and seed pearls. She carried a bible topped with white orchids and a cascade of stephonitis.
Mrs. Bert James Mallinger was the Matron of Honor. Bridesmaids were Beverly Schachter, Mrs. Gerard Schissell and Lynne McDaniel. Jacqueline Brookl.er was the flower girl and Ada Picaizen was in charge of the guest book.
Ushers were Bert James Mallinger, Dean M. Greenberg and Philip M. Sosna. Best man was Harmon R. Ballin.
A reception for 300 guests followed the ceremony. The Mothers of the bride and groom were identical gowns of delicate rose peau de soi with white accessories.
The bride was graduated from Mount de Chantal Academy, in Wheeling, W. Va. She attended the University of Cincinnati and will receive hr A.B. from S.D. State College in August. The groom was graduated from the Army and Navy Academy, took his A.B. degree at Stanford University and is now attending the School of Law, U.C.L.A. The young couple plan to move to Los Angeles in September.
Over twenty out of town guests were present at the wedding. Among them were Mrs. Fanny Silverman of New York; Mr. and MRs. D.S. Mallinger; Mmes. Meyer Grumet, Nathan Kaufman, Bert Crossett, all of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Kal Schachter of Wheeling, W.Va.; MR. A.M. Sosna of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. A. Moinester of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mallinger and Mrs. Lena Frankel, of Los Angeles.
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Ben Siegel to be Wed
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 2
Mr. and Mrs. David Siegel, of 4030 32 St., announce the forthcoming marriage of their son, Ben, to Miss Ruth Fink, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Fink, of Los Angeles.
The future bridegroom has been a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California for the past five years in the English Department. He will receive his Ph.D in English from that institution this summer. San Diegans may remember him as a writer of the “Grapevine” column in the old Southwest Jewish Press.
Miss Fink attended New York University and is at present an executive secretary in Los Angeles.
The marriage will be held on August 12 in San Fernando Valley.
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Betrothal Announced
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 2
Announcement has been made of the recent engagement of Roberta (Bobbe) Recht, daughter of Mr. and MRs. Herman M. Recht to Donald Jay Solomon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Solomon.
The wedding has been planned for August 19.
Roberta and Donald, both native San Diegans, attended school in San Dieugo. Donald, a graduate of State College will enter Hastings Law School, in San Francisco, this fall.
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Personals
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 2
Ray and Lew Solomon are having a busy time attending all the graduations in their family. Mark will graduate from del Mar Grammar School and Donald from State College. Herbert, who was graduated from U.C.L.A. Law School, received the order of the COIF, (honorary law society). He has returned to San Diego with his wife, Elene, and their two sons, Bruce and Stephen.
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Dr. Richard I. Spatz, son of Jack Spatz, recently moved to San Diego with his family. Dr. Spatz, a chiropractor, has opened a local office.
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The community welcomes Mr. and Mrs. Jules Kaplan, formerly of New York, who recently moved to San Diego. Mr. Kaplan is associated with the San Diego Mill Supply. If you need another hand for Mah Jong, Mrs. Kaplan comes highly recommended.
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Mollie Rumpler, aged 84 years, flew from her home in Pawtucket, R.I., to attend the graduation exercises of her grandson, Gary Chenkin. She will spend the summer with her daughter, Eve, and renew her acquaintance with friends in San Diego.
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Burt Epstein, President of “The Gaylarks” (J.C.C. Young Adult Group), left for a two weeks’ vacation in Chicago. The members presented him with two tickets for one of that city’s popular shows.
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The six children of Mrs. Albert Shechter gathered with their families to celebrate Mothers Day with a dinner at Bahia Restaurant. Present were daughters Mrs. Ed Atkins of North Hollywood; Mrs. Lawrence Wellens of Pomona; Mrs. Samuel Cohen and Mrs. Al Perper, of San Diego, and sons, Bernard of West Covina, and Jerome of San Diego.
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Mr. and Mrs. Philip Abrams leave June 17th for Yellow Springs, Ohio, where they will attend the graduation of their son, Alvin, from Antioch College. Alvin was awarded a $1,000 scholarship to pursue his masters degree studies in Psychology at Clairmont College, Pomona, Cal. After the graduation, Mr. and Mrs. Abrams will spend three months visiting relatives and friends in the East.
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Mr. and Mrs. “Bud” Edelman, 4453 Coronado Ave., announce the birth of a son, their first child, David Charles, at Sharp Memorial Hospital on June 3rd.
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Mr. and MRs. Irwin Lang of Hollywood announce the birth of a daughter, Lisa Leah, on May 14. Weight 7 lbs, 15 ozs.
Maternal grandfather is MR. Wm. Schwartz of San Diego; paternal grandmother is MRs. Augusta Lang.
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Henceforth, it will be the Bloom brothers when referring to the children of Barbara and Arthur Bloom. Scott Alan joined brother Jeffrey, aged 2 years, on Saturday, June 9. He weighed 6 lbs, 13 ozs at birth.
Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Murray Ackerman; paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bloom, all of San Diego.
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Desert Hot Springs is where the Meyer Berners are setting out the welcome mat for their friends.
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Mrs. Goldie Kitaen is leaving soon to visit relatives in New York and other points of interest in the East.
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Pioneer Women, Negba Club honored three of their officers, Mrs. Phil Abrams, Mrs. Doris Berner, and MRs. Goldie Kitaen with a “Bid Adieu” patio party at the home of Mrs. Lil Yukon and her mother, Mrs. Rose Abrams. The honorees are looking forward to a summer of interesting trips.
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Mr. and MRs. David M. Schloss and family wish to thank their friends for the kind expressions of sympathy during the time of their bereavement over the death of George Asch, father of Mrs. Schloss.
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Ilene Heiman won the drama achievement award for the best supporting actress at Horace Mann Jr. High. Watch that girl!
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Mr. and Mrs. L. Wohlfarth of Israel will spend two weeks in San Diego visiting Mrs. Wohlfarth’s sister, Mrs. Morris Kahn. Last mnth a family reunion was held in Glens Falls, N.Y., which was attended by Mrs. Kahn’s sister, MRs. Zelma Stern, and other members of the family.
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Harriet Silverman was recipient of many awards upon graduation from Hoover H.S. Among them were the B’nai B’rith Award for “Youth of the Year”; the D.A.R. award for leadership, scholarship, and dependability; a scholarship for placing fifth out of 659 students, and life membership in the Scholarship Federation.
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The Bob Gordons and Maxwell Kaufmans spent three hours together in New York on a boat ride around Manhattan Isle.
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Nixie and Roy Kern celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary at Soboba rot Springs, San Jacinto, Calif., over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. They visited Beaumont and Banning, Redlands, and Yucaipa, and played golf daily at Gilman Hot Springs.
*Balboa Hairdresser Has New Owner
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 15, 1956, Page 2Mr. Wm Ott, formerly of Chicago, has purchased Balboa Hairdressers, it was revealed last week. Mr. Ott, who was associated with Marshall Fields in Chicago, for ten years has won many awards as a stylist and cosmetician. He holds two State and National Awards from the American Cosmetic Association. He is also a three time in succession winner in national competition.
Along with a capable staff of beauticians, Mr. Ott invites the community to take advantage of the special introductory offer during the month of June.*
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