Compiled by San Diego Jewish World
S.D. Hebrew Home Elects New Officers At Meeting
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 4
Maxwell Kaufman, publisher and editor of Southwest Jewish Press was elected to the Presidency of the San Diego Hebrew Home for the aged for the year 1956-67.
Over 150 people were present to see Mr. Kaufman succeed Mr. Victor Schulman, president for the past 3 years. Kaufman becomes the sixth president in the Home’s 12 year history.
The Annual Meeting, held last Sunday in the dining room of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at 54th Street near University, at which Kaufman and other officers were elected and installed, paid tribute to retiring president Schulman who was presented with a beautiful plaque, in appreciation for the services rendered by him as president of the Home, and in the fulfillment of the building of the new Home.
Officers elected to work with Kaufman were: Louis Karp, Vice President; Leonard Drogin, 2nd Vice-Pres.; Carl M. Esenoff, Treasurer; Mrs. Paul Nestor, Corr. Secretary; Mrs. Sydney Goldstein, Fin. Secretary; and Mrs. Saul Chenkin, Rec. Secretary.
Board members elected at the Annual Meeting were: Sam Addleson, Milo Berenson, M.S. Berlin, Sol Bloom, Dr. Earl Brodie, Dr. Robert Epsten, Arthur Glickman, Harold Lerher, Bernard Lipinsky, Mrs. William Moss, Jerome Niederman, 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.
Mrs. Rose Neumann was elected a life honorary member of the Home.
Mr. George Kerrigan, City Councilman, representing the district in which the Home is located, brought greetings to the meeting from the governmental officials of the City of San Diego and expressed his great happiness over the construction of the home at its present site. He stated that he felt that when the complete building plans of the Jewish community were finished the community as a whole would benefit.
In his report president Schulman spoke of unfinished business which he was handing over to the new officers. He stated that there were four things that had to be done which he placed as a charge with the new administration.
First: To make plans for the amortization of the mortgage on the Hebrew Home for the Aged with prompt and continuing attention being given to the collection of all outstanding pledges within the shortest possible time. He also suggested that new ways be explored for the purpose of brining in additional money in order to retire our indebtedness in full.
Second: To work toward the further improvement of the building, its furnishings and grounds.
Third: To educate the Community as to the vital purposes served by our Home and to give them the actual facts as to its operation, particularly inn regards to its charitable nature.
Fourth: To continue the effort to expand the activities within the Home and to give serious consideration to the administration of the Home and its activities.
Mr. Schulman stated that the board must reappraise the administration in order to ascertain if the present supervisory arrangement is satisfactory and sufficient.
Other reports were given by Max Maisel, Chairman Building Committee; M.S. Berlin, Chairman House Committee; Carl M. Esenoff, Treasurer; Sam Addleson, Admission Committee; Mrs. William Moss, President Women’s Auxiliary; Sam Addleson, President Guaridans, and Saul Chenkin, Chairman, Nominating Committee.
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$25,000 Still Out In Effort To Close U.J.F. Campaign
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 6
The sum of $200,000 has been raised as of June 30th in the 1956 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund, it was announced by Milton Y. Roberts, campaign chairman.
Comparing the 1956 Fund record with 163,000 in 1955, places San Diego among 12 intermediate size Jewish communities (5,000to 15,000 population) which have exceeded last year’s campaign total. Ten others failed to top last year’s quota.
Other cities in the over the top group include: Akron, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, Louisville, Norfolk, St. Paul, Syracuse, Worcester.
“This is a very impressive figure, and represents to date a 38% increase over the amount contributed by the same individuals last year,” Morris W. Douglas, president of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, also stated. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Roberts expressed the determination of fund leaders to raise every dollar possible and declared that the job of collecting from a substantial number of contributors who in 1955 gave $25,000 has to be finished before the 1956 campaign is closed.
“We are going to continue this year’s drive,” the leaders said, “until every remaining prospect has been visited and his pledge obtained or accounted for.”
Roberts noted that there is every expectation that the community can end the campaign with a minimum of $25,000 when all the pledges have been accounted for.
“This depends,” he said, “on the people who have not yet made their contribution. I want to underscore the fact that all the dollars that will be collected for the emergency fund for Israel will go in their entirety to the United Jewish Appeal. This is a real opportunity for those who have not yet contributed to be of real help and to stand by Israel in this emergency period.”
He noted that approximately 1750 contributions have been made so far this year of 2000 potential givers in the community.
Proceeds of the campaign will be used to help maintain 45 beneficiary agencies in Israel and other overseas countries; national, service and cultural agencies, and vital community services here in San Diego County. This year in addition to the funds needed to maintain regular UJA supported programs, an additional amount is sought to meet emergencies in Israel and North Africa.
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Local Executive Leaves On Survey Mission for U.J.A.
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 4
Albert A. Hutler, Executive Director of the Federation of Jewish Agencies and the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, has been named by the United Jewish Appeal to an overseas executive survey mission which on Friday, July 6, will leave New York for an intensive three week study of refugee migration, settlement, welfare and rehabilitation programs financed by the UJA in Europe and Israel.
Mr. Hutler will serve on the mission with eight other executive heads of community campaign bodies that raise funds for the United Jewish Appeal. The group will leave New York International Airport via El Al Israel Airlines, and will visit France, Switzerland, Italy and Israel, spending a major part of their time in the new State.
The ten-man body will visit Europe first for a survey of the welfare and rehabilitation programs, and installations carried on and maintained by the Joint Distribution Committee, and will then go to Israel for conferences with leaders of the Israel Government and the Jewish Agency for Palestine and for a field inspection of immigrant settlements and agricultural projects.
In Paris, Hutler will confer at JDC headquarters with Mr. Charles Jordan, JDC Director General and with their Department Heads. JDC Country Directors from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria will be in Paris to describe the situation in each country and answer questions regarding their work. A conference will be held at the Israeli Embassy with Jacob Tsur, Israeli Ambassador to France.
After a guided tour of the Joint Distribution Committee, supported installation in the Paris area, the United Jewish Appeal Mission will leave for Israel, arriving there on Friday, July 13, for a 15-day study tour in Israel.
Hutler, who served in Germany in the Military Government Branch of the Army in World War II as Chief of the Displaced Persons Section of AMG for Wurttenberg-Badden, will have an opportunity for a brief reunion with many Jewish displaced persons who were rescued from concentration camps in 1945 and placed in Army displaced persons camps under his jurisdiction. He will study the rehabilitation process that has taken place for these people in the past ten years since coming to Israel.
In Israel the group will spend some 10 days in a field inspection of immigration settlements, irrigation projects, refugee reception centers and those areas in the Northern Negev and Galilee recently opened up for the resettlement of the thousands of immigrants now pouring in from troubled North Africa.
One of the highlights of the group’s field inspection will be visits to a number of immigrant settlements on Israel’s often violated border. The ten-man team probably will go into on of these settlements facing the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip, and into another facing Jordan.
One of the most important sights the group will see is the arrival, debarkation and processing of North African Jewish refugees at the Port of Haifa.
The survey group will also visit the newly opened Lachish area southwest of Jerusalem and adjacent to the Jordanian border where thousands of the new immigrants from North Africa have been settled in the past year and where the newcomers are pioneering the cultivation and growth of Israeli cotton.
The members of the mission will also visit Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beersheba. Their itinerary will also take them into centers and installations for the care and rehabilitation of sick, aged and infirm immigrants. These institutions are operated I Israel by a special arm of the Joint Distribution Committee known as Malben.
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Camp Jaycee Opens with Full Program of Activities
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 1
One hundred and thirty boys and girls enthusiastically greeted the opening of the 1956 Camp Jacycee session last Monday at the Indian Village campsite on 54th St., one half block north of University.
From these headquarters the groups and units of Camp Jaycee leave for such activities as cookouts, arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, roller skating, swimming, sightseeing, trips, horse back riding, story telling, sport, and a host of others.
For two weeks all groups at Camp Jaycee work toward a “Big Day” around a specific theme. The
theme for the first two week period is “Americans All” portraying the fight for freedom and independence of many peoples, to make America what it is. The theme was specifically chosen because of Independence Day falling on the second week of camp.
The second period beginning on July 9th will have a Jewish theme. A carnival and Maccabiad (Olympics) Day will highlight the period. A simple yet effective Tisha B’Av program is being planned for July 17th.
Registrations for the second, third and fourth periods are now in progress. Second period registration close on Tuesday, July 3rd, or sooner if it is filled. The Center and the camp will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th.
Morrie Novak and Leonard Zlotoff expect this to be the biggest camp season. Many of the first period children have indicated that they wish to stay the rest of the summer.
Parents are urged to register their children for the second period of the day camp while there are still openings. The second period begins July 9 and ends July 20.
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Southern California Exposition Opens 10-Day Run Friday, June 29th
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 1
The festive season begins in San Diego County Friday, June 29th, when the 17th annual Southern California Exposition and County Fair opens its doors for a 10-day run at Del Mar.
Highlight of the Exposition will be the premier performance of the Flying Indians. Six Indians will perform in a dance atop a 100-foot high pole on a platform measuring 24 inches in diameter and will fly earthward on long unwinding ropes. They will perform nightly.
Hours of enjoyment also will be provided at the festival of flowers, agriculture and horticulture exhibits, woman’s world, gems and minerals, international photographic salon, exhibition of painting and drawings –crafts display, hobby show, tropical fish, armed services, numismatic displays, livestock and junior fair.
The single admission of 85 cents for adults and 25 cents for children at the main gate includes all entertainment at the Exposition with the exception of kiddie rides and carnival shows.
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U.J.F. Makes Appointments
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 4
Committee chairmanships were announced at the last United Jewish Fund Board meeting by Morris W. Douglas, president.
With these appointments the United Jewish Fund and its board of director completed their meeting schedule until the September meeting of the board. During the summer months Mr. Douglas said work will continue with committees functioning and the campaign committee continuing to secure contributions from those who have not yet made their gift.
Dr. Joshua Rittoff was appointed chairman of the 1956 Allocation Committee and given the responsibility for recommendations for the distribution of the money raised in the 1956 campaign. Personnel of the committee, which will consist of ten members of the board of directors of the Fund and 15 members selected from the community at large, will be announced at a later date.
The 1956 nominating committee to select directors of the board of the United Jewish Fund to be elected at the Annual Meeting in December will be headed by William Colt. Colt announced the appointment of
Ben Harris, Mrs. Gabriel Berg, Milton Y. Roberts, Harry Sugarman, Carl M. Esenoff, Robert Speigel and Seymour
Rabin as members of his committee. He asked that members of the Fund wishing to submit names of candidates for the board to do so as soon as possible. Colt stated that any member could be nominated by a petition signed by 5 or more members. Nominations are not received from the floor at the Annual Meeting.
Other committee appointments made by president Douglas were: Advisory Committee on the Southwest Jewish Press, David Block, chairman; Dr. A.P. Nasatir; Annual Meeting Committee with dr. Walter Ornstein as chairman and Maury Novak, Henry Price, Mrs. Abe Ratner and Mr. Sam Friedman as members of the committee.
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Imberman Appointed USO-JWB Director
Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 6
The appointment of Robert Imberman, long time community welfare worker, to the duties of Area Director of the USO National Jewish Welfare Board for the San Diego area was announced by Morris W. Douglas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, USO-JWB. Imberman replaces Abraham Friedman, who left last week for a supervisory position with JWB in New York City.
A graduate of San Diego State College, Mr. Imberman brings to his new post experiences in community organization thru his public relations directorship in the Community Chest, social and educational directorship of Sherith Israel Congregation in San Francisco, and most recently in programming and recreational activities for Senior Adults at the San Diego Hebrew Home for the Aged.
Mr. Imberman will have professional responsibilities in connection with USO-JWB policy of serving the Jewish men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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