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Sandra Chang, left, Marcia Ducharme (obscured), Rosalie Fain and Sharon Wood Prince gather at Ledgemont Country Club.
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Terry Lieberman, right, presents an award to Joanne Summer.
FUNDs raised will pay for additional equipment at The Miriam
From Page 4 been said that the way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. My mother’s voice was gentle and patient; I expect she did the same at The Miriam. She’s been helping and doing for others for as long as I have been alive.” Calling up memories of visiting the elderly at the old Jewish Home with his mother, Summer noted that she also served as a Court Appointed Special Ad-
vocate (CASA) for a boy and taught nursery school students at Beth-El for many years. “She taught us to value people,” he said. “We make a life by what we give.” Noting that he and his siblings Lori, Richard and Marcia are proud of her, Scott added, “I aspire to be more like her. I love the examples she set and I love my inner voice.” After thanking her husband, her fam-
ily and fellow Association volunteers, Summer said, “It’s never been a job or a chore; it’s been my way of giving back.” She received a congressional proclamation from U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (DRI) and an acknowledgement of the two inscribed bricks, which were gifts from her four children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One brick reads, said Terry Lieberman, an Association board member, “You make the world a
The Jewish Voice & Herald will be on hiatus, briefly
PROVIDENCE – Readers, take heed! The Jewish Voice & Herald is taking a July vacation after we publish our June 21 issue. Then, the next issue of the newspaper will be published Aug. 2. While we dearly appreciate that readers love the newspaper and miss it when they don’t have it in their mailboxes, please remember our vacation schedule before picking up the phone or sending an email to exclaim: “Where is my paper? I miss getting The Jewish Voice & Herald!” Our back to school Aug. 2 issue will be fi lled, as
always, with community news, as well as plenty of school-related information and resources … and one surprise! Nancy Kirsch, executive editor, will be available by email during part, but not all, of July. Leave email messages for her at nkirsch@shalomri.org, or phone messages at 421-4111, ext. 168 and she will respond as soon as she is able. In the meantime, can you guess from the picture, at right, where Kirsch will be during her much-anticipated summer acation?
School days need not leave you dazed PROVIDENCE – Do you have great tips and techniques to handle the back-to-school transition? If so, send us your ideas for readjusting to regular bedtimes, homework or after school activities, strategies for dealing with bullying, social dramas, etc. We are especially interested in hearing from kids of all ages – from kindergarten through college.
Please share your suggestions – whether new or tried-and-true – with us for our Aug. 2 back to school issue. Yes, we know that summer hasn’t even officially started, but good newspapers, like good students, must plan ahead! CONTACT Nancy Kirsch at 421-4111, ext. 168 or nkirsch@shalomri.org. SUBJECT LINE: ‘School.”
better place.” Before Litwin’s installation of the new officers and directors and Association President Robin Engle’s closing comments, Lieberman commended Summer. “Rabbi Gutterman always gets it right. [You are a] diamond of a person reflecting light to and on others.” THE WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION: Mary Ferreira (793-2520 or mferreira@ lifespan.org).