Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff
Lasker Lodge News
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3
By Lou Levitz
Lasker Lodge’s annual Father and Child’s Night is being planned this year for the first Monday in May. It will be manned by Sam Bennett and Herb Reder. Local TV talent will entertain. As in the past, favors will be given, and all children are invited.
Delegates elected for the District Convention in Spokane this week were: Mickey Fredman, Dr. Milton Millman, Edward Brent and Jerry Aronoff, Harry Wax and Joseph Kaplan.
On Wednesday, April 6th, Lakser Lodge is assisting in a Seder for the servicemen in the area to be held at the San Diego Hotel beginning at 6 p.m. Jerry Aronoff will be representing our lodge doing his usual heartwarming best. He reminds us that we should thank publicly Mr. Joe Busalacchi and his partner Geo Bissel for the fine fish that was donated so selflessly for the Seder.
B’nai B’rith is sponsoring an essay contest concerning the theme, “Prospect for World Peace.” Entries must be in by June 10. Anyone interested please contact Dr. Milt Millman. Morey Kraus tells of a fine service the BB Vocational Guidance service is offering to parents of children who are approaching the college age. It is a booklet telling just about anything one would like to know about any college in the country. It covers information on fraternities, costs, facilities for Jewish students, sororities, etc. Just another service by B’nai B’rith that makes belonging worthwhile.
Dues are still delinquent by many of our members and Jack Spatz is reminding us to take care of this little matter and get those gold menorah cards.
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J.C. Nursery School Has New Openings
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3
Mrs. Bert Eifer, Membership Director of the Cooperative Nursery school of the Jewish Community Center, announces that all children on the waiting list have been successfully integrated into the group and that a new waiting list is now being made up, the first one since the school began the current year in Septem[ber]m, 1954.
Children between the ages of 2 ½ and 5 may be accepted into this organization, whose classes are held in the Jewish Community Center at 3227 El Cajon Blvd. The school is held on Mon, Wed. and Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon, under the supervision of Jean Fry, a qualified nursery school teacher. It is maintained on a cooperative basis, the mothers putting in two mornings a month as assistants to Mrs. Fry, besides attending a business and educational meeting twice in the evenings. The fathers are usually asked to participate in a workshop approximately every three months.
The nursery, licensed by the State of California, invites all parents eager to take advantage of this opportunity to participate in this educational, cooperative venture, to contact the Jewish Community Center for further information.
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Yo-Ma-Co Club
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3
The next meeting, April 13th, will be a closed one and matters of vital importance will be discussed as to financial status. Treasurer Hy Kitaen will make his semi-annual report. Inasmuch as it is the YoMaCo’s policy to have one business meeting every six months in which members only participate, guests are welcomed at all other meetings.
Our USO Committee, with Sada Cohen as chairman, is performing an excellent job along with the or ther organizations toward entertaining the ever increasing number of servicemen in our community.
Pleasse, please save your rummage for YoMaCo.
Refreshment Chairman John Abelson has announced the following hostesses for the coming meeting: Edie Gelman, Mitzi Spivak, Sue Lowitz.
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Jewish Community Center
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3
The Passover theme will dominate all activities at the Center during the week preceding Pasover, since the Center will be closed the opening and closing days of the holiday.
The Young Adult Group is planning a Pre-Passover Party on Tuesday, April 5th. Passover music and folk dances will highlight the program. Dancing and a refreshment hour will follow. All young people between the age of 20 and 30 are invited. Of special interest to ping-pong enthusiasts is the big Ping Pong Tournament which begins on April 19th. Any member of the Tuesday night group is invited to participate. Stan Cohen is in charge of the tournament.
The Teen-Age Planning Committee held its first meeting last Thursday night and made plans for a series of interesting programs to be sponsored in the future. The big Mystery Program which is to be given on April 21st has the Teen-Age group sharpening their wits as they plan to compete for interesting prizes.
The Girls’ Club and The Gents (the boys club) are showing much progress in helping to make the Junior High group which meets every Monday night a very outstanding Center group.
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Double Talk
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3
By Janet & Susan Solof
It soon will be Passover week
On Seder night the Matzahs you’ll seek
A wonderful nite with good food and wine
And with your family you will dine
To make it more perfect – vacation is due,
So here’s wishing a very happy one for you.
Lunch! Movies! Games! It was terrific. Yes, Stevie Horrow really “lived it up” for his sixth birthday. Helping him celebrate the festive day were Jeff Elden, David Cohen, John Carter, Mark Neiderman, Barry Levenson, Dennis Brown, Paul Levine, John Sapp, Jill Brown, Leslie Jo Burnett, Kathy Nelson,m Shirley Quint, Elaine Hemel, Karen and Susan Kitaen. Many more happy birthdays, Stevie.
Our Kosher Krowd was well represented, we are glad to say at the C.S.F. (California Scholarship Federation) banquet. C.S.Fers are Harriet Silverman, Sonya Weitzman, Marjorie Lowitz, Gail Kahn, Sherry Newman, Fred Goiodman, Sonya Feldman, Brenda Heiman, Linda Douglas, Janet and Susan Solof and Barbara Belwin. Keep up the good grades gang.
The Junior Prom at Hoover High School was really wonderful. The music was “dancier,” the party was “fancier,” so said Linda Zuckerman ‘n Gary Naiman, Diane Fogelman ‘n Alan Friedman, Janice Klaskin ‘n Sandy Ratner, Susan Solof ‘n Gary Cantor, Zena Fierzeig ‘n Stan Breitbard, Elaine Shapery ‘n Larry Prager, Barbara Silverman ‘n Buddy Kader, Marje Gordon ‘n Bob Bloomer, Roberta Wylogue ‘n Robert Brenes and Judy Freedman ‘n Alvin Cohen.,
Sandy Berman celebrated her 12th birthday last Saturday with a dinner-0dance party in her home. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Berman were on hand to greet the many guests including Phylis Rivers, Arlene Lieberman, Marilyn Eidex, Marty Freedman, Ronny Baranov, Michael Bennett, Melvin Brav, Bartley Doctor and Larry Addleson. A grand time was had by all.
Scoop: Were you one of those parked in front of the Frat house Saturday night?
Call CY-5-0679.
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City of Hope
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 4
City of Hope by Samuel H. Golter, $3.50-Putnam-Pub.
Samuel Golter, who has played a leading part in its development here tells the story of the unique medical center in Duarte, California, known as the City of Hope. From two small tents in the desert near Los Angeles in 1913, it has grown to a multi-million dollar complex of specialized hospitals, clinics, research laboratories, with nationwide support. Started by a few people sick in body and spirit, who fled the congested Eastern seaboard in search of health in the pure desert air at Duarte, it became a large sanatorium for victims of tuberculosis. Today, the City of Hope is in the fight against such catastrophic diseases as cancer, leukemia, heart trouble and tuberculosis, which present unsurmountable financial and family problems for most people. No patient is ever asked to pay one cent for the highly specialized hospital, surgical and medical care given at the City of Hope.
There are no wards at the City of Hope. Rooms have one or two beds, patients order meals from menus, a large variety of outlets for creative expression are provided, and the patients enjoy the advantages of educational and job-training facilities. The word “charity” is never heard at the City of Hope and every effort is made to maintain the dignity of the patient and his family.
The great nonsectarian medical center, operated under Jewish auspices, is supported by people in all walks of life, of every race, religion and creed. It is not endowed and has no invested capital. Chartered auxiliaries all over the country provide about sixty percent of the millions of dollars needed annually to carry on its fifth against catastrophic diseases and the balance is made up by voluntary contributions received from labor unions, fraternal organizations, business and industrial associations and interested individuals.
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