Brandeis University
National Women’s Committee
Volume 27
Number 1
Fall 2006
Expand your
Brandeis
experience
Happy Birthday,
Justice Brandeis!
BUNWC invites you
to celebrate the 150th
birthday of Justice
Louis Brandeis with
programs that examine
his passionate advocacy
for civil liberties and
social reform.
Brandeis’s insistence
on the right to be “left
alone” is often a farflung fantasy, even for
the average citizen.
What does the erosion
of privacy really mean
for all of us? Find out in
our brieflet on Justice
Brandeis and the
Evolution of the Idea
of Privacy.
How would Louis
Brandeis have
responded to three
popular films: The
Truman Show,
Metropolis, and A Man
for All Seasons? For
this new brieflet, the
university’s authority
on Louis Brandeis,
Daniel Breen, lecturer
in American studies,
examines the following
issues: privacy,
industrial democracy,
and freedom of
expression.
Contact Beth Bernstein,
781-736-4190,
bernstein@brandeis.edu.
Dedicated to the Support of Brandeis University and Its Libraries
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
B
randeis University is
making plans for the Justice
Brandeis Jubilee, a yearlong
celebration of the 150th
birthday of our namesake,
Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
whose life inspired the
university’s founding mission.
“The relentless pursuit of
‘truth, even unto its innermost
parts’ characterizes the
intellectual expedition
students undertake at
Brandeis,” said President
Jehuda Reinharz.
The first Jew appointed to the
U.S. Supreme Court, Louis
Brandeis won recognition
as a crusader for social and
political reform. Even before
his tenure as associate justice
from 1916–1939, he became
150th
life and career of Louis
Brandeis. The film, to
be aired on PBS, was
commissioned by Savings
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organization
founded by
When it came to civil liberties,
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Brandeis.
Brandeis often crusaded
• The unveiling of Andy
passionately for what he
Warhol’s portrait of Louis
believed to be right. He had
Brandeis, which was
a major impact on modern
recently donated to The
constitutional thought
concerning free speech. And, of Rose Art Museum by the
Feldman family.
course, his notion of the “right
•
An archival exhibition
of privacy,” the right to be left
of
the Louis D. Brandeis
alone, revolutionized attitudes
Collection.
toward personal protection
and spurred the legal treatment • A birthday reception on
November 13.
of privacy.
known as the country’s first
public interest lawyer and
earned a national reputation as
“the people’s attorney.”
Celebratory events in 2006–2007
include:
• Lectures, symposia, and other
academic programming.
• The premiere of a new
documentary chronicling the
For event information visit
www.brandeis.edu/jubilee.
Join the celebration!
President
Dr. Dorothy Pierce, Boca Raton, Florida
Executive Director
Shari Langenthal Meehan ‘76
781-736-4162, smeehan@brandeis.edu
Leadership
Dorothy Katz, Leucadia, California, Vice
President
Barbara Katz, Office Manager
781-736-4164, katz@brandeis.edu
Study Groups
Carolyn Latz, Golden Valley, Minnesota,
Vice President
Beth Bernstein, MA’90, Director of
Programming and Publications, 781-736-4190,
bernstein@brandeis.edu
Suzana Stucka, Department Support
Specialist, 781-736-4191, stucka@brandeis.edu
Public Image and Programming
Francoise Marcus, New York, New York, Vice
President
Beth Bernstein and Suzana Stucka
Membership
Phyllis Perkal, San Diego, California,
Vice President
Barbara Selwyn, Director of Marketing,
781-736-4168, bselwyn@brandeis.edu
Consultants/Advisers
Charlotte Schiff, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida,
Vice President
Eleanor Levingston, Executive Administrator,
781-736-4169, eleanor@brandeis.edu
Fundraising and Special Events
Bobby Starsky, Boynton Beach, Florida,
Vice President
Janice Fineman, Associate Executive Director,
781-736-4179, fineman@brandeis.edu
Treasurer
Bernice Smilowitz, New York, New York
Barbara Gilman, Accounting Manager,
781-736-4165, bgilman@brandeis.edu
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the Brandeis University National Women’s
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Presidential
Perspective
Thank you all for the honor of being
your national president. I am proud
to contribute to our wonderful
organization and to be a part of this
incredible group of foster alumni,
42,000 strong, almost all of whom
never attended Brandeis University.
What a remarkable group! Since our
beginning, we have given Brandeis
University over $100 million
through bequests, planned giving,
study groups, special events, book
fund, luncheons, and in every other
way we could think of. We have also
placed the millionth book in the
library and endowed a library chair.
It is a tribute to Brandeis University
that so many of us are willing to
volunteer for its betterment, for we
all realize the significance of the
achievements of this outstanding
university.
The last year has brought many
changes to our relationship with
Brandeis, making this an exciting
time to be your president. Our
board will be charting new paths
for BUNWC as it explores what the
new association will mean for us.
With the addition of five universityrecommended members to our
board, we will hear new voices
and perspectives. To me, it means
a return to the close association
BUNWC had with Brandeis in the
formative years, new programming
opportunities with the Alumni
Association, an opportunity for
enhanced learning, and the creation
of a new Web site that will connect
our chapters’ Web sites to our
BUNWC site.
I pledge to do everything I can to
help bring BUNWC to even greater
heights. I will work tirelessly with
volunteers, staff, and university
personnel to ensure the success
of our mission. I will always
be available to chapters and
regions. I will improve our lines of
communications. I will work with
our officers and staff to improve
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‘‘
It is a tribute to
Brandeis University
that so many of
us are willing
to volunteer for its
betterment.
—Dorothy Pierce
’’
leadership opportunities, fundraising
events, study group programs,
bulletins, marketing, and membership
efforts, and will work to increase the
overall gift to Brandeis University.
I will work with each one of you, for
each one of you has an important
contribution to make. To quote that
remarkable woman, Helen Keller, “I
am only one, but still I am one. I
cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; and, because I cannot do
everything, I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do.”
Please, all of you, do that something.
Dr. Dorothy Pierce
Brandeis Libraries:
The Future Is Now
Keeping Knowledge Current
W
hat’s happening in the twentyfirst-century college classroom?
If you picture a technology-savvy
student downloading music onto
his iPod while the professor drones
on about history, literature, or
psychology, you’re in for a big
surprise. At Brandeis the student is
more likely to be using the iPod for a
class project or adding notes on the
lecture to his laptop computer.
Much of this new, interactive
learning is facilitated by the Brandeis
Libraries. After working feverishly
over the past decade to become
a “library of the future,” the library,
students, and faculty are finding
that the future is now. The merger
of the libraries and the Information
Technology Department into Library
and Technology Services eighteen
months ago has flooded the library
with a wealth of technological
expertise that is revolutionizing
teaching and learning at Brandeis.
More than 500 courses have their
own Web sites now, based on
the university’s enhanced Course
Management System. The challenge
has been to meet the student at
his or her level of technological
sophistication.
One of the most enthusiastic users
of technology is Robert Sekuler,
Louis and Frances Salvage Professor
of Psychology and Volen National
Center for Complex Systems. For
more than twenty years, his courses
have made various uses of the
Internet. At Brandeis, the course Web
sites allow him to post PowerPoint
presentations so students can bring
them to class, either in hard copy or
on their laptops.
“This is so much better than trying
to listen and take notes and copy
down diagrams all at the same time,”
Sekuler points out. “The student can
really listen and take in a lot more.”
Historian David Engerman uses
his course Web site’s electronic
“assignment drop box” to make
and collect short assignments
online. The updated technology also
enables him and his students to
gather electronic resources available
through the library Web site while
in class.
BUNWC raises funds for both technology
and information resources. This includes
hardware and software purchased
and maintained, as well as print and
electronic resources. The library’s
electronic resource licenses and
subscription expenditures alone are close
to $2 million each year.
To ensure that these resources continue
to be available to the Brandeis academic
community, we depend on our members
and friends for their support for the
libraries.
“The breadth of online resources
available from the library, combined
with the Course Management
System, has made it possible for me
to put together in-class exercises
on the origins of the Cold War, for
example, using newspaper articles
from the 1940s. The library now has
online the entire New York Times
since its origin in the 1850s, as
well as all major scholarly journals,”
he says.
Engerman’s next foray into
technology will involve streaming
a video documentary on Berkeley
in the 1960s onto the Web sites for
two of his classes. This will not only
give his students online access to
the video, but will also allow him to
show parts of it in class.
Ironically, one of the biggest
challenges facing the library and
faculty in today’s technological age
is to educate students in how best
to use the Web.
“We need to convince students that,
even if something isn’t on the Web,
that doesn’t mean they can’t find it
The typical student, like Jimmy Luc ’08, comes to
the library with a cell phone in one ear, an iPod
in the other ear, and a laptop under the arm. The
many advances made by the Brandeis Libraries
have been driven by the need to meet students like
Luc at their level of technological sophistication.
in the library,” Engerman says.
“They need to rely less on the
Web and make better use of the
library’s electronic indexes to the
many great paper resources that
still reside in the library.”
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Brandeis News
Visit the Brandeis Web site for more information: www.brandeis.edu
Brandeis graduate named prime minister of Iceland
Leading international statesman
Geir H. Haarde ’73 has been named
prime minister of his native Iceland
and is the first Brandeis graduate to
become the leader of a country since
the university’s founding in 1948.
Haarde arrived in the United States
in fall 1971 as a beneficiary of the
pioneering Wien International
Scholarship program. His rich
Brandeis experiences changed the
course of his life.
Founded in 1958 by Lawrence A. and
Mae Wien, the Wien Scholarship is
designed to further international
understanding, provide foreign
students with an opportunity to
study in the United States, and
enrich the intellectual and cultural
life of Brandeis.
Wien Scholars from more than 100
countries worldwide have attended
Brandeis in the last forty-eight years.
Graduates have gone on to serve
as the foreign minister of Slovenia,
the minister of finance in Kenya,
and the first woman member of the
Japanese Diet.
Brandeis psychologists garner
professional kudos
Two Brandeis faculty members
and one alumnus have been
recognized for outstanding research
in their respective areas—adult
development and comparative
psychology.
Derek Isaacowitz, assistant professor
of psychology, is the 2006 winner
of the American Psychological
Association’s Springer Early Career
Achievement Award, which honors a
psychologist whose early work has
made significant contributions to
understanding critical issues in adult
development and aging. Isaacowitz’s
research examines how adults use
gaze as a tool of motivation, focusing
on images that are in keeping with
their goals and avoiding information
that interferes with those goals.
He also looks at how older adults’
attention tilts toward positive
feelings and associations despite the
time-limited future that comes with
advancing age.
Irene Pepperberg, adjunct
associate professor of psychology,
and Jesse D. Gordon, a former
undergraduate honors student in
psychology, were awarded the 2006
APA Frank A. Beach Comparative
Psychology Award for their 2005
paper, “Number Comprehension
by a Gray Parrot, Including a ZeroLike Concept,” which appeared
in the Journal of Comparative
Psychology and was chosen by the
journal’s editors as the best paper
published in 2005. The paper was
based on a study showing that
Alex, an African gray parrot with a
walnut-sized brain, understands a
numerical concept akin to zero—an
abstract notion humans don’t
typically understand until age three
or four. This research adds to a
growing body of scientific evidence
that the avian brain is capable of
higher cognitive processing than
previously thought.
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President Jehuda Reinharz presents Joyce
Krasnow as a fellow of the University
at BUNWC’s 2006 annual retreat. As
immediate past national president of
BUNWC, Krasnow helped to forge a new
partnership between BUNWC and the
university. University fellows include about
400 national leaders with broad experience
in business, educational, and public life
who lend support to Brandeis.
Executive
View
by Shari Langenthal Meehan ’76
Dear Friends,
Brandeis University National
Women’s Committee (BUNWC)
proudly presents its 2006 Library
Benefactor pin, crafted by
accomplished jewelry designer
Stephanie Goldberg.
Join us in celebrating the 150th
anniversary of Louis D. Brandeis’s
birth by giving him a special
birthday present: support for the
university that embodies the
esteemed justice’s values and
intellect.
The Brandeis University National
Women’s Committee (BUNWC)
offers many ways of saying “Happy
Birthday, Justice Brandeis!” Give a
gift for learning: Send friends and
family our stunning “Louis” tribute
card; contribute to Book Collections
and Learned Research Journals; or
donate to the Library Benefactor
Fund to provide for rare and choice
library acquisitions. Perhaps you may
decide to help further our
$2 million Science for Life campaign
by naming a laboratory in the
university’s new Center on Aging
and Age-Related Neurodegenerative
Disease or creating an endowed
medical science journal fund.
Whatever way you choose to honor
Louis Brandeis, your contribution to
Brandeis University is an investment
in learning and research.
BUNWC chapters and donors across
the country rallied last fall around
the kick-off of our Science for Life
campaign to increase fundraising
efforts and boost our contribution to
the university. Less than nine months
later, we completed the fiscal year
with campaign funds of $958,444.
Check out our campaign GoalTracker,
featured in this edition, to view yearto-date results.
Synergy
Library Benefactor Fund
The diamonds that embellish the
pin’s matte-finish silver curve
represent the four pillars upon which
Brandeis University was founded—
academic excellence, social justice,
nonsectarianism, and service to the
Jewish community.
BUNWC celebrated its strengthened
partnership with Brandeis University
in fiscal year 2006 with a gift of
$5,971,145, of which $2.2 million was
for library support and $1.7 million
for nonlibrary goals. Planned gifts
contributed $2 million. Since its
inception in 1948, BUNWC has raised
the extraordinary amount of more
than $105 million for Brandeis.
The Library Benefactor program
funds the acquisition of the rare and
prized materials that distinguish the
Brandeis Libraries. The Synergy pin
is presented to those who donate
$1,500 or more to the Library
Benefactor Fund.
For information on the Library
Benefactor Fund and how to
obtain the new pin, contact
Janice Fineman, 781-736-4179,
fineman@brandeis.edu.
The words of volunteer management
consultant Sue Vineyard certainly
ring true for BUNWC members:
“When we recognize that a
better word for ‘fundraising’ is
‘friendraising,’ we open limitless
doors to creativity in support of
our causes.”
Cordially,
Shari
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Science for Life
Brandeis University
Research
The Brandeis University
National Women’s Committee
has committed to raising
$2 million for the Science for
Life campaign—$1 million
to name a laboratory in the
university’s new Center
on Aging and Age-Related
Neurodegenerative Disease,
and $1 million to create an
Endowed Medical Science
Journal Fund.
Goal Tracker
$2 million
$2 million
goal
Older Adults Wear Rose-Colored
Glasses
National Aging Study
Takes the Pulse of Midlife
Despite the unwelcome signs of
aging, older adults gravitate toward
positive feelings and associations,
according to a new Brandeis study
published in the journal Psychology
and Aging. The research suggests
that old age itself motivates adults
to limit their exposure to negative
information and focus their attention
on the positive. Using sophisticated
eye-tracking technology, scientists
in Brandeis’s Emotion Lab recorded
the eye movements of test
subjects looking at a series of faces
portraying different emotions. While
older participants (ages 57–84)
preferred happy faces and avoided
angry ones, younger subjects (ages
18–21) showed a preference only for
fearful faces.
Psychology faculty members Margie
Lachman and Patricia Tun are making
major contributions to a nationwide
study examining the health and wellbeing of middle-aged adults. The
Midlife in the United States (MIDUS)
survey assesses a range of agesensitive mental abilities, including
verbal memory, executive function,
reasoning, and speed of processing.
The Brandeis researchers developed
the survey so that the battery of
cognitive tests can be given over the
phone, making it possible to include
a greater cross section of the nation.
“By focusing more on positive things
and avoiding negative ones, older
adults are able to maintain emotional
resilience, which becomes acutely
important in the face of dwindling
time,” says psychology professor and
lead author Derek M. Isaacowitz.
$1.75 million
“Overall, in the different cognitive
areas we tested, we saw smaller
differences between younger and
middle-aged groups, and larger
differences when we reached the
older group,” said Tun. Another
finding: in general, higher education
levels are associated with better
performance. “We will also link the
cognitive data with a wealth of other
key variables from the MIDUS survey,
such as health, personality, and life
experiences involving work and social
relationships,” Tun adds.
$1.5 million
$1.25 million
$1 million
$.75 million
$985,000 raised
so far
$.5 million
$.25 million
0
The campaign reached $985,000 as of
September 20, 2006, with major gifts
from Carol Kern (Phoenix), Shirley Spero
(Boston), and Dena and Arnold Robbins
and the Robbins family (Boston), as well
as Science for Life fundraising events
that earned over $10,000 in the following
chapters: Boca Raton and Lakes in
Florida; and Los Angeles and Santa Clara
Valley in California.
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memory makers
Poor Hearing May
Impair Memory
Older adults with mild to moderate
hearing loss might spend so much
effort on hearing accurately that
their ability to remember spoken
language suffers as a result,
according to researchers in the
Memory and Cognition Lab at
Brandeis’s Volen National Center
for Complex Systems. In one study,
even when older adults could
hear words well enough to repeat
them, their ability to memorize and
remember the words was poorer
when compared with that of other
individuals of the same age who had
good hearing.
“There are subtle effects of hearing
loss on memory and cognitive
function in older adults,” says Arthur
Wingfield, the Nancy Lurie Marks
Professor of Neuroscience and
director of Volen. “This study is a
wake-up call to anyone who works
with older people, including health
care professionals, to be especially
sensitive to how hearing loss can
affect cognitive function.”
Individuals who interact with older
people with some hearing loss
should speak clearly and pause after
clauses or chunks of meaning, not
necessarily slowing down speech
dramatically, he notes.
Easy Listening
Ask rapid-fire speakers to slow
down.
Keep It Simple
To remember a conversation,
turn off the radio or television
and try to find a quiet place to
listen.
One Thing at a Time Focusing on one activity at a
time is a simple way to improve
your memory. Talking on a cell
phone, even a hands-free one,
diminishes driving performance.
Pay Attention
If you don’t pay attention to
something while it is happening,
you won’t remember it well later.
Associate
When you meet a new person,
form as many mental
associations as you can.
Make a Note of It
Use external cues such as lists
whenever possible.
Eat Your Veggies
Vegetables and fruits such as
blueberries have been shown to
be good for your memory as well
as your body.
Take a Hike
Even moderate exercise such as
walking can significantly improve
performance on mental
activities.
Reach Out
Social activity, as well as
physical activity, is associated
with better mental functioning in
older age.
Use It or Lose It
Engage in active, mentally
challenging activities. These
include reading, doing
crossword puzzles, playing
games such as bridge or chess,
learning a new language, taking
classes.
Brandeis News is reprinted
from Catalyst, Volume 1, Number 2
www.brandeis.edu/catalyst
Architect’s preliminary
rendering of the Carl J.
Shapiro Science Center,
which is currently
under construction.
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Chapter News
Northern Virginia
Atlanta
Fairfax County police officer Anna Rizza joined Northern
Virginia’s “Private Detectives” study group to discuss drug
problems and internal drug trade. Also shown are Gloria
Cetron (left) and Jane Kraft Burstein, president.
Las Vegas
At the Brandeis Annual Book Fund and Author
Event, copresidents Michelle Nathan (left)
and Annie Tourial (right) greet author Carolyn
O’Neil.
Kansas City
Pictured at Las Vegas chapter’s Book and Author event are (from
left) authors Rocky Fino and Loraine Despres, former chapter
president Lori Barnes, ABC News anchor Tricia Kean, and author
Alan Zweibel.
Kansas City Symphony conductor Michael Stern is honored
by BUNWC. Shown from left: copresidents Blossom Block and
Patsy Shanberg alongside Michael Stern.
What’s Happening?
BUNWC welcomes
new chapters
This has been a banner year for
growing the membership of the
National Women’s Committee.
Congratulations and welcome to the
four new 2006 chapters that were
chartered at the June retreat:
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Conejo Valley, Agoura Hills/
Oak Park, California
Copresidents Honey Bencomo,
Carrie Mataraza, Michelle Stern
Harmony, Jackson, New Jersey
Copresidents Ilene Garlock,
Beverly Grush
Norfolk/Sharon
Gotham
Claire Cook, author of Must Love Dogs, is the guest
at Norfolk Sharon’s annual spring luncheon. Pictured
from left: Helen Kobey, vice president; Claire Cook;
Marilyn Stewart, president; and Sally Hamburger,
vice president.
San Diego
Hartford
San Diego past presidents gather before the camera.
Standing from left: Sylvia Schenker, Dorothy Katz,
and Gayle Wise. Seated from left: Iris Kurzweil, Rhoda
Lemlein, and Esther Polin.
The Greens, Melville, New York
Copresidents Enid Darrigo,
Carol Flyer, Jane Rosen
Tri-County, Allentown, New Jersey
Copresidents Bea Handler,
Charlotte Levitan
Estelle Green (fourth from left) is honored by her friends as a
member of the Gotham chapter for forty-six years. She was an
original member of the Boston chapter in 1948.
Hartford members tour the New Britain Museum of
American Art, led by BUNWC chapter president Judy
Silver, a docent at the museum.
To become a new chapter, a
chapter-in-formation must meet
the following criteria: have a slate
of officers, enroll at least seventyfive members, make a commitment
to the BUNWC mission, sponsor
a fundraising event, and offer its
members a Brandeis-authored study
group program.
If you are interested in starting
a new BUNWC group in your
community, please contact
Phyllis Perkal, vice president of
membership, at phyllisperkal@
sbcglobal.net or 858-487-1422.
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University on
Wheels
“Every citizen must
have education, broad
and continuous. This
essential of citizenship
is not met by an
education that ends
at the age of fourteen,
or even at eighteen or
twenty-two. Education
must continue
throughout life.”
Louis D. Brandeis
comes of age
Back to school with Zabelle, the
choice of the New Student Forum.
Join the Class of 2010 in reading
Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian. At
orientation, incoming first-year
students met with both the author
and Brandeis faculty as part of
the Helen and Philip Brecher New
Student Forum.
Zabelle is the story of a family’s
discovery of its Armenian heritage
and cultural identity through the
passing of the family matriarch,
Zabelle. The book articulates many
themes: identity, the complexity of
human interactions, coming to terms
with one’s own identity, and finding
a place in a larger community. The
story also addresses genocide and
survival, both contemporary and
relevant topics.
BUNWC members have the
opportunity to read and discuss
Zabelle in study groups throughout
the country. Your chapter can
duplicate what our freshman class
experienced on campus—lively
discussions on a contemporary topic
with questions prepared by Brandeis
faculty and the feeling of being part
of the Brandeis community.
Books are available through
BUNWC’s national center along with
a video and questions for discussion.
For more information, e-mail
bunwc@brandeis.edu.
For more information about BUNWC programming,
contact Beth Bernstein, director of programming, at 781-736-4190
or bernstein@brandeis.edu.
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New Season, New Programs
Brandeis Theater Company travels
to Florida
Brandeis alumni and BUNWC create
joint programming
Local chapters invited to participate
in campuswide events
Experience the Brandeis classroom
though exciting video programming
New film series with National Center
for Jewish Film
Elderquest II: Journeys in Midlife
and Beyond
Life expectancies have increased
dramatically. With so many living so
much longer, it is not surprising that
a number of disciplines have begun
to reexamine not only old age, but
all adult life’s stages—their duration,
purposes, and importance.
The arts and humanities provide
wonderful lenses through which we
can examine the gift of years and
their impact on how we live and
understand our lives.
Elderquest II: Journeys in Midlife
and Beyond is a new version of
an ancient narrative of later life
as a time to embark on important
transformative journeys. The
development of Elderquest was made
possible by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
at the University of Massachusetts in
Boston. Through our partnership with
BOLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute at Brandeis, Elderquest II will
be available to BUNWC.
Thanks a
The Brandeis
University
National
Women’s
Committee
thanks
donors who
made gifts
of $1,000
or more
between
July 1, 2005,
and June 30,
2006.
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Thousand
$100,000 and Above
Anonymous
Sylvia P. Howard
Helen B. Ibsen
Joyce and Paul
Krasnow
David Leavitt Trust
Zella Mervis
Estate of Mitchell and
Shirley Raskin
Dena and Arnold
Robbins
$50,000 to $99,999
Jean C. Carrus
Ruth and Robert King
$25,000 to $49,999
Emma and Oscar Getz
Foundation
Carol and Allan Kern
Lessner Family Trust
Janet Springer Trust
Shirley Sterling
$10,000 to $24,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ruth Balman 1998
Living Trust
Meta Berger
Julia and Louis Cole
Bernardine Daskoff
Barbara and Justin
Ehrlich
Charlotte C. Evans
The Lee A. & Helen G.
Gifford Foundation
Phyllis Ann Goldstein
Maxine ’63 and Stephen
Greenfield
Stephanie ’92 and Alan
Hofman
Minnie Isenberg
Ilissa and Lawrence
Miller
Dr. Harry Ostrer
The Marvel S. Platoff
Foundation
Rochelle Rubenstein
Frank Sande
Seder Family
Foundation
Charles & M.R. Shapiro
Foundation Inc.
Wolf Shapiro
Marcia Simons
The Simons Foundation
Jeanne Snyder
Marcia J. Snyder
Shirley Spero
$5,000 to $9,999
Robert J. Beugen
Harriet Blaustein
Jacqueline Kay Davis
Trust
Hannelies Guggenheim
Arlene Hecht
Lawrence Karp
LKC Foundation
Doris S. Markow
Edith Michelson and
Sumner N. Milender
Charlotte M. Novick
Trust
Rita and Bernard Panfel
Mary Ann and Harold
Perper
Sally and Robert Wyner
$1,000 to $4,999
Estate of VIolet Abrams
Olga Holman Altman
Barbara J. Auerbach
Barnes & Noble/B.
Dalton
Daron and Ron Barness
Lisbeth Baron
Myra and James Baum
Dorothy and Lee
Baumgarten
Joy and Martin Beer
Florence M. Berke
Elaine Bernstein
Harriet and Joseph
Bloom
Judith and Dr. Stuart
Brown
Lois and Richard Cohen
Suzanne F. Cohen
Carol P. and Bernard
Colby
The Dudley Cooper
Charitable Lead
Unitrust
Ethel and Irwin Daub
Maureen and Richard
Durwood
Claire Rosen Edes
Robyn and Kenneth
Ehrlich
Sherri and Clifford
Ehrlich
Stephanie Fein
Gladys Fellman
Zita Orloff Fine ’55
Janice and Howard
Fineman
Dorothy and Jay
Frankel
Professor Henry
Fribourg
Laurel Friedman
Ruth and Paul Morton
Ganeles
Ruth Getzoff
Yvette Gilburne
Constance C. Gilson
Beatrice and Jerome
Glenn
Celia Goldhaber
Sossee and Albert
Gomer
Ann Gottlieb
Belle A. Grusky
Marsha and Ralph
Guggenheim
Beatrice Hammer
Michael
Hammerschmidt ’72
and Gary M. Groth
Fanny and Maximo
Handel
Rose Hoffman Trust
Lynne Shoolman
Isaacson ’52
Dr. Susan ’71 and Larry
Jay
Rose Kahn Trust
Anita Karbelnig
Dorothy and Jerome
Katz
Nancy G. Katz
Charlotte Kirshner
Carol and Jack Kline
Dorothy Kravetz
Marvin L. Krichman
Milton & Henrietta
Kushkin Foundation
Lynette K. Lager
Carolyn and Robert Latz
Evelyn Abrash
Lawrence
Miriam Waldstein
Leavitt ’58
Nancy R. Levi
Livingston Foundation,
Inc.
Joan and Herbert Loeb
Syrul Frank Lurie ’55
Françoise and Dr. Ned
Marcus
John L. and Ray Marie
Streng Markstein
Charitable Remainder
Unitrust
Sheila and Harvey
Medvin
Shari Langenthal
Meehan ’76 and
Joseph M. Meehan
Margot R. Meyer
Charitable Annuity
Trust
Barbara and Morris
Miller
Dorothy Millstein
Andrea and Gary
Morrison
Robert Myman
Karen Neiter Nagle ’84
Aileen and Meyer
Osofsky
11
Harriet and Herbert
Paris
Leslie and Arthur
Pearlstein
Phyllis and Milton
Perkal
Drs. Dorothy and
Stanley Pierce
Lois Wisch Pierce
Ruth Piken
Roberta and Allen
Pilnick
Ellen R. and Robert L.
Plancher
Shelly and Robert Plous
Shirley and Martin
Pollock
Ruthann and Louis
Pozez
Ruth Quint
Sylvia M. and Joseph
Radov
Lois and Irving Ringel
Selma and Irwin Roblin
Dr. Bernice Rosen
Mimi and Joe Rotter
Joan and Leonard
Roude
Sarge Korman Ruck
Alyce and Robert Sadler
Helaine and Dr. Joel
Saperstein
Charlotte and Burton
Schiff
Cynthia and Leon
Shulman
Eleanor L. Shuman
Bernice Smilowitz
Charlotte and David
Smith
Glorya and Neal Spero
Helen ’63 and Jerome
Spindler
Barbara Starsky
Roslyne Paige Stern
and Robert D. Stern
Molly Stiller
Sue and Irwin Suna
Clara and Morton Tabak
Toby and Jeffrey Taylor
Toyota USA Foundation
The Wagner Foundation
Lynda and Louis
Weckstein
Leslie and James
Weightman
Iris S. Wigal
Mollie J. Wilson
Carmel and Rudolf
Winkler
Cathie and Arnie
Wishnick
Roma and Ray Wittcoff
Peggy and A. Lee
Zeigler
Lois and Burt Zollo
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