Our Game Day will be held on March 14 at the East Valley JCC, 908 North Alma School Road, Chandler, from 10:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Donation is $25 per person which includes lunch provided by Carrabba’s.  There will be raffles, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle.  Bring your favorite game and your friends (they do not have to be Hadassah members) for a fun day of food, games and friendship. RSVP by March 11 to Gail Scheck at 480-981-6963 or Patti Byhoff at pattisue1220@ yahoo.com   Checks should be made out to Hadassah and mailed to Gail at 2600 East Springfield Place #4, Chandler AZ 85286.  Your check will be your reservation.

Rabin goes Out to Lunch the first Wednesday of every month. A minimum donation of  $3.00 per person is required and donor credit is given. Reservations are required and must be made by the Sunday prior to the lunch date! You also must call if you need to cancel, since the restaurant will need a final count. We request that the restaurant provide separate checks for everyone.  However, if they are unable to do this, then the total bill, including tax and tip, will be divided equally among all those present.  You will be notified if this should be the case.  Call Marcia Gurian at (480) 838-1226 or email her at mgurian@att.net for information and reservations. . .

• Wednesday, February 1: Join us at Noon at SanTan Brewing Company, 8 San Marcos Place, in downtown Chandler.  The parking lot is shared with the San Marcos Hotel. Their phone number is 480-917-8700.  Separate checks will be provided. Food is cooked to order.  RSVP to Marcia by Sunday, January 29.
• Wednesday, March 7: TBA

Remember you can pay in advance for Out to Lunch for the year, or for a few months at a time, by paying a minimum of $3.00 per lunch for the next 12 lunches ($36 or more) and receive full donor credit for this donation. That way you will have 12 entries in the drawing for the certificate even if you miss a luncheon. Send your check made out to Hadassah to Marcia Gurian.

As Hadassah celebrates its Centennial year, we continue our stroll down memory lane along our Centennial path to glimpse, decade by decade, some of the highlights in Hadassah history.

The 1950’s were a quieter time. In 1954, television thrives. The Supreme Court orders school desegregation in 1955. Alaska becomes the 49^th state and Hawaii the 50^th in 1959. Watson and Crick discover DNA in 1953. The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in 1957.

Fantastic “Hadassah Women of the 1950’s”

ETTA ROSENSOHN: Hadassah National President 1952-1953

Etta Lasker Rosensohn was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1885. Etta was involved in many social and health-related organizations during the first half of the century. Chairman of the Department of Service to the Foreign Born at the National Council of Jewish Women from 1919 to 1930, she also headed its Naturalization and Immigration Service for six years, and founded its newspaper, The Immigrant. Etta did some of her most important work as a leader of Hadassah, serving as a member of the National Board for more than two decades. In addition to her time as president, she served as chairman of the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO).

REBECCA SHULMAN: Hadassah National President 1953-1956

Rebecca Beldner Shulman was born in Vienna in 1896 and came to the United States as a young girl. Rebecca became active in Hadassah, and held virtually every other major office on the National Board. As a trained nurse, she took particular interest in the medical aspects of Hadassah’s work, serving as chairman of the building fund for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, and as chairman of the Hadassah Medical Organization. As a Zionist, Rebecca became concerned with the urgent issue of a Jewish national homeland during World War II. In 1945, at Hadassah’s national convention, she called on the organization’s 150,000 members to take up the struggle for Jewish statehood.

MIRIAM FREUND ROSENTHAL: Hadassah National President 1956-1960

Dr. Miriam Freund Rosenthal served as Hadassah’s 11th national president. In the early 1960s, she persuaded Marc Chagall to create the 12 magnificent stained glass windows that now live in the Synagogue at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Miriam served as editor of Hadassah Magazine, as national education chairman, national vocational education chairman, national Youth Aliyah chairman, and national Zionist affairs chairman. 

Hadassah Timeline: The Fifties

• 1953: Fundraising for the Hadassah Medical Center at Ein Kerem began.
• 1953: Hadassah Neurim youth village opened under the name Rural Center for Vocational Education
• 1953: Hadassah planted 300,000 trees in the Jewish National Fund Memorial Forest of the Six Million.
• 1956: Young Judaea established its first Year Course in Israel.
• 1958-59: HMO introduced open-heart surgery in Israel, installed the cobalt bomb for cancer therapy.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
LOCK:

• February Birthdays:  2^nd Arleene Forgang, 10^th Suzy Wortman, 13^th Roxanne Banta, 15^th Betsey Silverman, 19^th Marion Cohen, 21^st Sue Reeves, 22^nd Barb Melamed, 23^rd Ellen Gurwitz, 29^th Mary Nieto
• February Anniversaries: 19^th Gina and Cap Caplan
• March Birthdays: 2^nd Phyllis Aboyoun, 7^th Ruth Lieberman, 16^th Ruth Tabot, 31^st Betty Goldstein, 31^st Carol Fink Raskin
• March Anniversaries:  3^rd Betsey & Stewart Silverman, 13^th Barbara & Marty Silverman, 18^th Sue & Jerry Reeves, 19^th Joyce & Hank Stein, 25^th Marilyn & Joe Koss
• To add your birthday and/or anniversary, please contact Susan Fox at (520) 705-3226 or email susan@ramblerman.com

• Get Well Wishes:  Myra Buckner
• To submit member news, please contact Susan Fox at (520) 705-3226 or email susan@ramblerman.com

• Wednesday, February 1: Out to Lunch, TBA, Noon, $3 donation per person
• Sunday, February 5: Weaving the Fabric of Jewish Identity, VOSJCC, 10 –11:30 AM
• Wednesday, February 15: Rabin General Meeting, 7 PM, Temple Beth Sholom, Book discussion
• Wednesday, February 22: Film - Mah Jongg: The Tiles That Bind, 2 – 5 PM VOSJCC. Stay & play
• Sunday, February 26: Hats Off to Hadassah
• Monday, March 5: Forty Years of Women in the Rabbinate, 7PM, FREE
• Wednesday, March 7: Out to Lunch, TBA, Noon, $3 donation per person
• Wednesday, March 14: Rabin Annual Game Day
• Thursday, March 15: Rabin Board Meeting, 7 PM
• Wednesday, March 21: Rabin General Meeting, 7 PM, Lakes Community Clubhouse, Women’s Seder
• Wednesday, April 4: Out to Lunch, TBA, Noon, $3 donation per person
• Wednesday, April 18: Rabin Installations
• Wednesday, May 2: Out to Lunch, TBA, Noon, $3 donation per person