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Volume 18, Number 4 www.TucsonBNC.org April 2019

Tuesday, April 9, 11:30 A.M.Spring Closing Luncheon and

Installation of Officers

Lodge on the desertPRICE $37 per person

Meal: choice of Herb chicken breast, Seared Fresh SALmon, or VEggie-Vegan Chef’s Choice

Enjoy a Social Luncheon, good food, and the installation of our new officers.

Please bring teen hygiene productsand high school supplies.

Profits From This event support our Elaine Lisberg Tucson Chapter BNC Endowed Scholarship.

Yes, I’m coming to the Spring Closing Luncheon at $37 per person. Anything contributed over $33 is tax-deductible.

Name(s) ______________________________________

Meal Choice(s) ________________________________

Phone & e-mail ________________________________

______________________________________________Send your check payable to BNC to Barbara Wilder, 14106 N. Forthcamp Ct., Tucson, AZ 85755, by April 1.

We Love Our Members Invitation Is on page 3

Tucson Chapter, BNC April 2019

D i r e c t o r y C h a n g e sPlease make the following corrections in your

Membership Directory (changes underlined):Harriet Kronman © 205-1658Leonard Kronman © 205-1620The Kronmans have given up their land line.

M e m b e r s h i p P a g eMembership VPs: Roni Bader-Tables, [email protected] or 305-898-5754, and Pam Shaw, [email protected] or 617-593-8300

Welcome April! Our Book & Author Events received

rave reviews! Thank you to Sheila Rothenberg and her committee for an amazing, successful event. The authors and the moderator were wonderful. The members and friends who came were delighted. It really does take a village. Our committee volunteers were:

Zelda Aaronson, Skyline Country Club contact (who made sure our lunch buffet was delicious).

Sheila Rothenberg, Author Selection (who coordinated a terrific Dinner With The Authors).

Davya Cohen, Silent Auction.Monique Steinberg and Susan Sussman, Boutique.Steve Seltzer, Program Book and Name Tags.Marilyn Sternstein, Treasurer.Soralé Fortman and Sandra Tobin, Reservations and

Registration for the Luncheon.Arlene Zuckerman, Table Decorations.Bob Rothenberg, Invitations and Program Copy Editor.Meg Sivitz, Program Book.Lisa Ungar and Marilyn Lobell, Host Facilitators.Amy and Malcolm Levin, Marilyn Lobell, Joy Page,

Marsha Rosenblum, Sheila and Bob Rothenberg, Meg and Ron Sivitz, Author Hosts.

Lisa Ungar and Marsha Rosenblum, Author Hospitality Baskets.

COMING SOON! We Love Our Members event at the Jewish History Museum and Holocaust Center, to be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25. Davya Cohen and Ellen Saltonstall will be our docents. Enjoy dessert along with history. See the invitation on page 3.

The Spring Closing Luncheon and Installation will be held at Lodge on the Desert, on Tuesday, April 9. See the invitation on page 1. We will wish our winter visitors adieu and socialize with the board, year-round members, and friends. Enjoy a lovely afternoon!

Congratulations to Rachel Barker and Meg Sivitz and all the volunteers at the Book Depot for another record-breaking quarter. We love your gently loved books!

Please volunteer. Our chapter is enhanced by each person, and your input is valued.

We are a FUN-raising and FUND-raising group. Your participation helps student scholarships and research

The President’s Corner

We have two exciting events coming in the next month. We Love Our Members is happening on Monday, March 25, and our Spring Closing Luncheon and Installation will be on Tuesday, April 9.

The We Love Our Member s event will feature tours of the completely changed Jewish History Museum, although the Holocaust Center is as it was. The Museum now features may elect ronic

views of The Old Pueblo. After the tours, we will enjoy sweets.

O u r S p r i n g C l o s i n g Luncheon and Installation at the Lodge on the Desert will feature a social event with schmoozing and finding new friends, a wonderful luncheon, and then the installation of our new officers.

Two Exciting Events Coming!

thrive at Brandeis University.Happy Purim, Passover, and Easter. Enjoy the spring

holiday season!Marsha Rosenblum, President N


WE LOVE OUR MEMBERSMONDAY, MARCH 25, 2:00 p.m.

at the JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM$10 PER PERSON

There will be a guided tour by Davya Cohen and Ellen Saltonstall, our members who are also docents at the

completely changed Jewish History Museum.

There will be sweets and water after the tours.

Money raised froM this event goes toward the elaine lisberg

tucson chapter bncendowed scholarship caMpaign.

please bring hotel toiletries and personal-care iteMs, new socks and underwear for children, teens, and

woMen for the eMerge! center against doMestic abuse.

Yes, I’m coming to the We Love Our Members at $10 per person. Anything contributed over $5 is tax-deductible.

Name(s) ______________________________________

______________________________________________

Phone & e-mail ________________________________

______________________________________________Send your check payable to BNC to Marilyn Sternstein, 5765 E. Finisterra Dr., Tucson, AZ 85750, by March 18.


Volunteer to enter data on one of our five computers at the Book Depot. We are overwhelmed with shiny new books that have been donated by generous community members. They have been picked up on the far east side, in Saddlebrook, and in the Foothills. We are delighted with the titles and need to distribute the data entry among our five computers.

It is as Rumplestiltskin once said, “We are spinning straw into gold.” Each book listed and sold funds the scholarship for our student. National tells us that, as of June 30, 2018, we have given $250,183 to the Elaine Lisberg Tucson Chapter BNC Scholarship Fund. Their money managers have invested wisely, so that the latest value of the funds

is $311,608. The Fund is administered under the oversight of the Brandeis University Board of Trustees and in accordance with relevant provisions. We are proud of our enthusiastic members who keep this fund growing.

Why Support Brandeis?We are often asked why we here in Tucson, who attended college

many miles from Brandeis, support this university on the east coast, located just outside of Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts. Could it be because of its legendary founders: Abraham Sacher, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and those who supported and encouraged its creation? Maybe we care about Brandeis because we admire Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, who developed the “right to privacy” concept and who fought the corrupt. He was a “Robin Hood” of his time, defending workplace and labor laws.

We might advocate for Brandeis University in the era of racial tension and white supremacists that attempt to arouse fear among us. We recognize the need for Jews and Gentiles to stand tall and

support and educate the next generation in this school, a nonsectarian institute of higher learning. It may be that we support this Eastern top-ranked university because of the talented alumni it produces. If

you laughed out loud watching Friends or find delight in Grace and Frankie, then you will be pleased to know that television producer Marta Kauffman ’78 is one of us. She knows “Why Brandeis?” Her social comedy touches on issues of the day. Kauffman is proud that she hosted a politically active program. She is one of the many reasons we are proud to boast a response to “Why Brandeis?”

Thanks For Your Concern and ContributionDavid and Kathyn Unger and the family of Lloyd Scott Zorn thank all who contributed toward a Elaine

Lisberg Tucson Chapter BNC Endowed Scholarship Fund donation in memory of the Unger’s son-in-law Scott Zorn.


Have you met Terry Williams: volunteer, entrepreneur, quilter, dog trainer and handler, yoga enthusiast, mother, widow, grandma, and great-grandma? We know her as the serious gal glued to a computer and sharing a laugh. We know her as a multifaceted loyal friend of those in need.

Terry was born in Morenci, Arizona. Her parents moved to Canada when she was in kindergarten, but later brought the family to Spokane, where Terry attended high school and graduated from Eastern Washington University, majoring in psychology. During the summer, between high school and college, she worked in Yellowstone National Park, the year they had an earthquake. When she had time off, she and a friend went hitchhiking to many of the surrounding areas. She saw all of Wyoming and visited an aunt in Salt Lake City.

While in college, a good friend introduced Terry to the man she would marry, Gary Williams. He worked for United Retail Merchants, supplying grocery stores. They lived in Spokane until 2006, when they moved to Tucson, which they had visited and loved. They settled in comfortably until Gary passed away in 2014.

In Spokane, as a wife and mother, Terry assumed a housewife role. She had two daughters, Heather and Shayne, and a son, Scott. As soon as the youngest was in school, she went to work in a dog grooming shop and shortly thereafter opened her own pet store with a friend. When her friend wanted to leave, Terry bought the shop from her and ran it for many years. When Gary decided to retire at age 64, Terry decided to join him. Her retirement lasted only six months because Terry found a volunteer position at a hospital making quilts for the pediatric ward. She fell in love with quilting and has continued to this day. Shortly thereafter, she went to work at a House of Fabrics, which became Joann Stores, and became its manager.

Over the years with Gary, Terry showed and trained pure-bred dogs. Gary had Great Danes and Terry had Shetland Sheepdogs and Yorkshire Terriers. Today, Terry has one old Yorkie, Dabby.

Terry and Gary enjoyed travel. They went to Hawaii several times and also traveled to Tahiti and Fiji. She recently toured Israel for 16 days. She gets to fly to visit her grown children and six grandchildren and one great-grandchild in Ohio and Washington State.

This busy lady travels the U.S.A. for Shriners’ conferences. Her father was a Shriner, and she became a Rainbow Girl as a teen and now belongs to Daughters of the Nile, the

Mission StatementBrandeis National Committee

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 fund-raising and through activities that

reflect the values on which the university was founded:

academic excellence, social justice, nonsectarianism, and

service to the community.

Social Justice/ Community ServiceThe Tucson chapter gives back to our community.Marilyn Lobell, our Community Service Chairman, reminds

us of the organizations we are supporting this year:The Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse is in need of

hotel toiletries and personal-care items. They also need NEW socks and underwear for children, teens, and women.

Youth On Their Own (YOTO) is an organization that supports high school graduation of homeless youth by providing financial assistance, basic human needs, and guidance. They always need teen hygiene products and high school supplies.

Sister Jose Women’s Center is a program to assist homeless women. We help by donating walking shoes, sweatclothes, towels, twin-bed sheets in good condition, and women’s hygiene products.

Brandeis is always looking for new ways to help our community. If you have a way to help or wish to make a donation, contact Marilyn Lobell, [email protected] or 615-0877.

Nobody can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody!

Meet Your Board Member

women’s division of the Shriners. She makes quilts (one to three a month) and creates other objects kids need at Shriners’ hospitals such as pre-op dolls, storage bags, and cast pillows which please her young patients. Twice a year, Terry volunteers at the miniclinic near TMC where children come from the Southwest and Mexico and doctors from Arizona and California provide medical care, where they examine and x-ray the children to see if they are in need of Shriners’ help. The Shriners pay for a bus to bring the children up from the border.

Continued on page 6


Tucson Chapter BulletinEditor-in-chief ..................................................Steve SeltzerBoard Liaison ....................................................... Meg SivitzAssociate Editor ........................................ Bob RothenbergProofreaders .. Soralé Fortman, Lois Bodin, & Janet Seltzer

To provide articles or information for the newsletter, con-tact Meg Sivitz, [email protected], or Steve Seltzer, [email protected].

The bulletin is published from September through May. The deadline is the 10th of the preceding month.

2018-2019Tucson Chapter Calendar

We Love Our Members Event Monday, March 25Board Meeting* Monday, April 1Spring Luncheon and Installation Tuesday, April 9Board and Planning Meeting* Monday, May 6

*All are welcome to our open Board Meetings.

Save the dates and mark your calendar

Your OfficersPresident ......................................................... Marsha RosenblumVPs of the Book Business ............. Rachel Barker & Meg SivitzVice-President of Book Fund ....................................... Lois BodinVPs of Membership ........... Phyllis Schwartz & Tammy Strobel Vice-President of Communications ......................Steve SeltzerVice-Presidents of Study Groups ..................Maxine GoldsteinRecording Secretary ............................................. Barbara WilderFinancial Secretary ................................................Terrie ShermanCorresponding Secretaries .......Sandra Lachter & Karen LoebTreasurer ...........................................................Marilyn SternsteinChapter Advisor ....................................................Soralé Fortman

Questions? Leave a message on the Book Depot phone, 747-3224, or e-mail us at [email protected].

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Congregation Anshei Israel is Terry’s synagogue, where she volunteers in their gift shop. She will tell you that she works at the Brandeis Book Depot once a week and finds it fascinating to discover the value of books. She has enjoyed many Study Groups through Brandeis. She took yoga this year and participates in the Single Women’s Circle.

They say, if you need a volunteer, call on the busiest person you know. We did that. Terry Williams will serve on the Brandeis board next year and will be a member of the Nominating Committee.

Meet Your Board continued from page 5

How sweet it is that the Study Group Guide will be mailed first-class to the membership on Monday, July 1. You will have to return your Study Group choices no earlier than Wednesday, July 31. All class information will be decided by Monday, August 19.

Because the Jewish High Holy Days begin on the evening of Sunday, September 29, many

classes will start in September.If you are a winter resident, do not fail to sign up in

July. We know you will miss some classes in September or October or even as late as December, but sign up right away so that you can be in the class when you arrive in Tucson.

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Janet Seltzer at the Registration Desk

Enjoying the meal at Reed Farrel Coleman’s table.

Richard Pincus and Harold Lisberg at the Cocktail Hour.

Elizabeth George with Marsha Rosenblum and Janet Seltzer

Marilyn Lobell, Lynn Cramer, and Michael and Lauren B. Grossman

Authors Reed Farrel Coleman, Lauren B. Grossman, Elizabeth George, and Susan Silver during the question-and-answer session

Soralé Fortman and Sandra Tobin at the Registration Desk

Lauren B. Grossman speaking

Chapter President Marsha Rosenblum with Luncheon Event

Chair Zelda Aaronson

Moderator Victoria LucasSheila Rothenberg, Chair and

Author Selection

The crowd attentively listening to a speaker

Continued on page 9, bottom


Next Board MeetingMonday, April 1, 2019

10:00 a.m. to noonMartha Cooper Library

1377 North Catalina AvenueAll members are encouraged to come

to this open meeting.

Contact the BulletinSteve Seltzer, Editor ............... 299-3788, [email protected] Sivitz, Board Liaison ......615-4739, [email protected]

Contact the ChapterBook Depot phone (leave a message) ............747-3224Chapter Web site ........................... www.TucsonBNC.orgChapter e-mail .................... [email protected] ...............................www.facebook.com/TucsonBNC

Express Your ThoughtfulnessWith a Book Fund Card or Journal Donation

Sending a Brandeis tribute card or a Learned Research Journal (LRJ) is a quick, meaningful, and philanthropic way to express support, congratulations, get-well wishes, sympathy, and appreciation. No more running to the store to find an appropriate card — just contact Lois Bodin (contact information below). The recipient is acknowledged in the bulletin so others can learn about the simchah or sorrow and respond. Show you care—send a Brandeis card or LRJ.Book Fund donations: $5.50, Philanthropy, learning, and community (or six for $25) $10.50, Light of Reason Card. $10.50, Goldfarb Library at night (or three for $25) $14.00, Brandeis art cards (set of four different covers) $18.50, Louis Dembitz Brandeis portrait card $25.50 or more, Sustaining the Mind Tribute Card $25.50 or more, Elaine Lisberg Tucson BNC Scholarship Card $36.50, Learned Research Journal $56.50, Learned Research Journal Folio $100.00 to $499.00, Special Book Collection $500.00 or more, Major Book Collection

Contact Book Fund VP Lois Bodin, [email protected], or 702-219-6704.

To make a donation, contact Book Fund VP Lois Bodin, [email protected] or 702-219-6704.

Donor Message RecipientSpecial Book Collection in Judaica

Brandeis Friends Mazel tov on the Bat Mitzvah of your granddaughter Bethany Marsha Rosenblum

Learned Research Journal FolioBrandeis Friends We hope you feel better each day. Stan Lehman

Learned Research JournalBrandeis Friends A message of sincere and heartfelt sympathy on the loss of your son Sam Ruth Zales

Elaine Lisberg Tucson Chapter BNC Scholarship Fund CardBrandeis Friends Get well. You are in our thoughts. Stan LehmanBrandeis Friends Mazel tov on the Bat Mitzvah of your beautiful Bethany Marsha RosenblumSoralé & Marvin Fortman Get well. We are hoping you are feeling better. Stan LehmanMarsha Rosenblum Condolences on the death of David Rothenberg. Family of David Rothenberg

Goldfarb Library CardMarianne & Stuart Taussig Get well Herb Siegel


Tucson Chapter Calendar April 2019Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 10 Board Meeting

1 Social Bridge

7 Legal Puzzlers

2 10 Begin Mah Jongg1 Foreign FilmTBD Movie

Tuesday

3 12 Con-temp Fiction

4 1 Intermed Mah Jongg

5 1 Begin Mah Jongg

6 5:30 Single Women’s Circle

7 8 8 Hiking1 Social

Bridge2 Art Talks

9 10 Begin Mah Jongg

10 10 Page Turners

12 Men’s Book Club

11 1 Gotta Have Art

6:30 Couples Dine

12 1 Begin Mah Jongg1 Short Story

Book Club

13

14 15 8 Hiking1 Social

Bridge12:30 Sit ’N’

Stitch1:30 SW Art

16 10 Begin Mah Jongg1 Remember

the 1950s

17 11:30 Mystery Books

1 Sonoran Desert

6:30 Couples Dining

18 1 In-termed Mah Jongg

1 Murals2 Art by

Brandeis


20

21 22 8 Hiking12 Nonfic-

tion Book Club

1 Social Bridge


24 12 Ethnic Lunch 1 & 2

25 10 Wom-en in the Bible


27

28 29 1 Social Bridge


Palm Sunday, April 14; Good Friday, April 19; Passover, April 20-27; Easter, April 21.

Passover

Passover

Good Friday

Book & Author Luncheon Photos continued from page 7

Reed Farrel Colemanabout to speak

Elizabeth George preparing to talk

Susan Silver speaking

Lisa Ungar giving the blessing


APRIL 9Spring Closing Luncheon and Installation

MARCH 25We Love Our Members Event

JULY 1Study Group Guide Is Mailed

2019 CALENDAR

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News from Brandeis University

Aichuk Tripura ’22 heard plenty about Brandeis while growing up from his father, Prashanta, a member of the university’s class of 1986. But Aichuk wasn’t sure he’d be able to follow in his father’s footsteps, as he, like most of his friends in Dhaka, Bangladesh, considered studying in America to be a dream, not an expectation.

“I always wanted to study in the U.S.,” Aichuk said. “It is the land of opportunity. There is also very high-quality education here, so all my friends wanted to study in the USA. For me, personally, I didn’t know for a fact that I would study in the U.S. It was more of a hope.”

However, both members of this father-son duo were able to turn their educational dreams into reality thanks to a first-of-its kind scholarship that identifies students from around the world to enroll at Brandeis. Both Aichuk and his father arrived at Brandeis through the Wien International Scholarship Program. The program, which was celebrated on its 60th anniversary on March 9, encourages its scholarship recipients to use their Brandeis education to become engaged global citizens. Since its inception, 894 students from 115 countries have attended Brandeis.

Prashanta, now an economics professor at BRAC University in Bangladesh, brought his son on a tour of Brandeis last year during a family vacation. Aichuk, who finally got to see where his father studied as an undergraduate, knew he wanted to return to campus as a student.

“My father’s old stories about Brandeis were interesting, and I think there was definitely a spark within me when I heard some of them,” Tripura said. “Even then, in my father’s time, the social justice elements were very strong on campus. He helped paint a picture of Brandeis, and it seemed great.”

Prashanta, who returned to Brandeis for the first time in nearly three decades while on his family trip, is thrilled that his son is following a similar path.

Wien Scholar Aichuk Tripura ’22 Follows in Father’s Footsteps

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