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Tucson Chapter Volume 15, Number 1 www.TucsonBNC.org January 2016 Speaker: Tom Doherty, Brandeis Professor and Chair of American Studies, “Jews, Nazis, and Hollywood Cinema, 1933 to 1939” Please Print Name(s) __________________________________________ _________________________________________________ ____ @ $18; ____@ $22; $_____enclosed Contact information (phone and e-mail) _________________________________________________ Write check to BNC and mail by December 31 to Arlene Zuckerman, 5448 N. Paseo Sonoyta, Tucson, AZ 85750. (Call 577-1457 for transportation help.) University On Wheels, ursday January 7 e 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast $18 Members $22 Nonmembers $8 Not tax-deductible Bring hotel toiletries, personal-care items, and NEW socks and underwear for children, teens, and women for the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse, one of our Social Action Programs. Profits Benefit Our Scholarship Campaign

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TucsonChapter

Volume 15, Number 1 www.TucsonBNC.org January 2016

Speaker:Tom Doherty,Brandeis Professor and Chair of American Studies,“Jews, Nazis, and Hollywood Cinema, 1933 to 1939”

Please PrintName(s) __________________________________________

_________________________________________________

____ @ $18; ____@ $22; $_____enclosed

Contact information (phone and e-mail)_________________________________________________

Write check to BNC and mail by December 31 toArlene Zuckerman, 5448 N. Paseo Sonoyta, Tucson, AZ 85750. (Call 577-1457 for transportation help.)

UniversityOnWheels,ThursdayJanuary 7 The 9:30 a.m.ContinentalBreakfast

$18 Members$22 Nonmembers

$8 Not tax-deductible

Bring hotel toiletries, personal-care items, and NEW socks and underwear for children, teens, and women for the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse, one of our Social Action Programs.

Profits Benefit Our Scholarship Campaign

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M e m b e r s h i p P a g e

As the year comes to a close and I stop to review the last 12 months, I immediately recognize how much the world has changed. What has not changed, for me, is the significance of my family and the importance of spending time with them. Fortunately, family can be defined differently for each of us. Although the traditional family

still exists, many more families define themselves as non-traditional.

Several times each year, Stan and I are lucky enough to be able to travel to different parts of the country to spend time with various family members: a parent, our children, our granddaughter, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins—plus close friends who have become family to us. We are social animals. We cannot live alone for long. We always need the company of our fellow beings. The best company is always family. If we don’t have family, we tend to create family.

For me, the holiday season is prime family time. Stan and I travel East each year to spend Thanksgiving with our son, daughter-in-law, and teenage granddaughter. We arrive back in Tucson before the holiday season is over. If you’re not going to be with your traditional family for the holidays, can you think of a better way to spend December 24 then having dinner with your “Brandeis Family” at Gee’s Garden on North Alvernon Way?

As the year ends and the new year begins, consider joining us, your Brandeis family, at the Tucson JCC for the University on Wheels Program, which includes a continental breakfast. Tom Doherty, Professor and Chair of American Studies at Brandeis University will speak about the “Jews, Nazis, and Hollywood Cinema, 1933 to 1939.”

Davya Cohen, Presiding Officer

Presiding Officer’s Corner

The officers, board, and members of the Tucson Chapter of BNC wish:

Lois Bodin Condolences on the loss of your sister, Esther DavidsonMarianne Taussig A speedy recoveryIf you know of anyone with a simchah or a sorrow, contact

Sunshine chair Charlotte Hegwer, [email protected] or 529-8484. A card will be sent and an acknowledgment will appear in the bulletin.

We Wish Our Members…

New MembersSince the last bulletin, the following people have joined

our chapter:Ruth Abnee 6060 N Tocito Pl, 85718 529-6836 (Victor)Jill Sobieszyk 6200 E Country Club Vista, 85750 847-274-3229 (Mike) [email protected] Sorkin 3420 N Camino de Piedras, 85750 298-2757 [email protected] & Allan 5084 E Calle Brillante, 85718 847-269-0280 Sternstein [email protected]

Add them to your Membership Directory. New members are the life of our chapter. When you see new members at a Tucson Chapter event or Study Group, welcome them warmly.

“Critters in Your Own Backyard”A Study Group by a Docent

at the Desert Museum.Tuesday, February 23,

10:30 to Noon.Don’t Miss It!

Contact Terrie Sherman, [email protected].

BNC Scholarship CampaignThe Tucson Chapter’s goal over the next two years

is to raise even more to benefit the Tucson Endowed Scholarship Fund to award scholarship support to a worthy Brandeis student, with a preference for a student from the Tucson metropolitan area.

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Lesley Poling-Kempes says her latest book, Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest, “was an adventure to research and write and a privilege to bring to light the remarkable stories of women who a century ago loved and lived upon the same landscape I call home.”

Although born and raised in New York, the author began a lifelong love affair with the high desert of the Abiquiu and northern New Mexico while on a family vacation at Ghost Ranch as a child in the 1960s. She states that she was captivated by the wild vast empty desert and wide blue sky, and somehow she kept working her way back there. After college, she moved full time to the region, where she began to write “the real and

imagined story of my adopted community.”Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts

of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. About it, the Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote, “It’s a kind of prequel to our common history of the Southwest, peopled by women with long skirts and cinched waists in the desert heat, riding cowboy style, trying to do right by the land they all loved.”

Educated, restless, and inquisitive, these plucky, intrepid women’s lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included author Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and the women who would follow them. Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopis, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo tribe.

These women’s journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons is also the tale of Boston’s Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe’s art and literary colony.

Poling-Kempes’ previous works have received the WILLA Literary Award, as well as the Tony Hillman Award. Several of her books have been finalists for the Western Writers of America Spur Award. The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West, based on 76 interviews she conducted in the 1980s, is considered the definitive work on that subject and period in women’s history.

Poling-Kempes is the third author to sign on to the twentieth annual Book & Author Events on March 9 and 10.

Author to Bring Southwest Women’s History to Lifeat the Book & Author Event

Show Your Support: Become a Sommelier

For only $10 per person, you can contribute to the Sommelier program to provide wine at the Book & Author Wednesday night dinner and be acknowledged in the program for the two-day event.

Send in your check made out to BNC to Steve Seltzer, 5001 E. Calle Guebabi, Tucson, Arizona 85718, to show your philanthropy for our Tucson Chapter.

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New Study GroupOn Thursday, January 14, at 1:00 p.m., Jean

Nerenberg will lead a one-time discussion of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost at Villa Hermosa. This is the book assigned to all Brandeis freshmen to read over the summer and to be prepared for a discussion with the author during freshman orientation. Ondaatje is best known for The English Patient, which was turned into a very popular film.

This spellbinding book is about love, family, identity, the unknown enemy, and the quest to unlock the hidden past, a riveting mystery.

Jean will lead a discussion of the book, and we will have an opportunity to watch parts of the video of the author’s discussion sent by the university.

To register, send your check for $10 made out to BNC to Terrie Sherman, 7580 E. Río Verde Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715.

Boring Black and WhiteIf you get the printed

bul let in, this beaut ifu l multicolor butterfly is boring. You should be receiving your bullet in by e-mail announcement and see how colorful the bulletin is.

Contact Steve Seltzer, [email protected], for the “real thing.”

The Tucson Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee and the Tucson Jewish Community Center are jointly sponsoring our University on Wheels program, featuring a professor from Brandeis University, including a continental breakfast, on January 7, 2016, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the J in the Heritage Room.

Tom Doherty, PhD, a professor of American Studies and department chair at Brandeis, with specific expertise in American Film and Culture, will be speaking on: “Jews, Nazis, and Hollywood Cinema,” based on his book Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939.

He will discuss the rise of the Third Reich, which confronted Hollywood with an unwelcome set of economic, cinematic, and moral problems—how to conduct business

with the Nazis, whether to address or ignore Nazism in Hollywood movies, and the coverage of Hitler and his victims in the newsreels. During the 1930s, the image of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, like a picture looking for a focus—fuzzy and dimly lit at first, clearer and more ominous as the decade wore on.

Percolating under the surface of the controversies over trade relations and motion picture content was the issue that for the Nazis overrode all others. In Berlin, Jews were Hitler ’s chosen victims; in Hollywood, Jews were titans of industry, esteemed artists, and adored stars. The disproportionately Jewish backgrounds of the studio executives and the artists on the payroll shaded the approach to what could never be merely a business decision. A decade of prosperity and visibility for American Jews, the 1930s was also a decade of simmering anti-Semitism. On radio, domestic demagogues snarled the old medieval slurs. Pro-Nazi outfits agitated openly for an American Reich. Might the virus in Germany spread to America? Should Hollywood’s Jews lie low—or stand tall and sound the alarm?

Don’t miss this exciting and informative event. Make your reservation by January 4, using the front page of this bulletin as an RSVP form.

Professor Doherty to Speak on Significant Subject at the University on Wheels Event

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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 school supplies.

Books From Mom is a program that gives new and gently used children’s books to women in prison so they can read to their visiting offspring.

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, or Arlene Gray, [email protected] or 229-0006.

Nobody can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody!

Buy from Amazon, Earn Money for Brandeis

• Gotowww.tucsonbnc.org. • ClickontheGObutton(youmayputasearch).• Buyanything from Amazon.• TheTucsonChapterwillbenefitfromallyour Amazon purchases made this way.

New and Prospective Member Event

On November 13, the Membership Committee held a successful brunch for new and prospective members at the home of Marilyn Lobell. The prospective members all joined the chapter

Hostess Marilyn Lobell (left) with new member Phyllis

Sorkin

New member (left) Marilyn Sternstein with B.J. Koppel

EDF Fellows MeetingOur men’s group, the EDF Fellows, will hold its next

lunch meeting on Monday, January 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Viscount Hotel.

The speaker will be UA Professor Carol Bender of the Undergraduate Biology Research Program and Related Programs speaking on the program

Anyone in Tucson is cordially invited to attend, join the fellowship, and enjoy the fascinating speakers. Members are encouraged to bring guests. Women are invited. For a reservation, contact Steve Seltzer by Thursday morning before the meeting.

Lunch is $22. For more information, contact Steve Seltzer, [email protected], 299-3788; Howard Schwartz, [email protected], 615-2915; or Tom Herz, [email protected], 745-5852.

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Sue Keller was born in Portland, Oregon, but her family moved to the St. Louis suburbs when she was four, where she spent her youth and teen years. Her mother was an artist, and that is when Sue began her interest in art.

Sue and a girl friend went to college at the University of Arizona. She realized how much she loved the sun, Tucson, and history. She met her husband as a student in a class. They wed when she was twenty (too young) and Sue graduated. After college, her husband needed to work on his dissertation in Washington, D.C., so they relocated to nearby Virginia. During that time, Sue became very active in the women’s rights and black civil rights movements. For her first teaching job, she taught American history to middle school students who had just been integrated.

Two years later, Sue and her husband left for New Hampshire, where he would be a professor. There, she first learned what it was like to live in small-town America and be one of a few Jews. Sue again was hired to teach middle school English and history. She also had a baby, David, and she and her husband became very involved in a presidential election. One day, her husband called and asked if he could bring some people over. In walked Eugene McCarthy and several aides, including a very young Julian Bond! It was also there that Sue met Gloria Steinem, and they kept up with each other for years.

After seven years, Sue and her spouse divorced and she moved back to the St. Louis area to provide the best schooling for her child, who had Down syndrome, as she became a single working mom. David thrived, and she was hired to teach middle school history, social studies, and English in two schools in the western suburbs.

Love for volunteering began with Sue’s involvement with organizations for special children and Special Olympics. She also became active in National Council of Jewish Women, worked with abused women, and taught English as a Second Language to adults.

Sue left teaching after over 20 years and studied to become a paralegal. She freelanced for several years and continued volunteering; she especially liked working with Legal Aid.

Sue’s son was high-functioning and could live on his own. Thus, she could pursue her dreams of travel and move to Tucson, which she did in 1998. She is thrilled to be back in the sun, play tennis, and work more on her photography—some of which sold. She was told about OASIS. There, she took classes, some in art, and eventually began to teach

Tucson Chapter NewsletterEditor-in-chief ..................................................Steve SeltzerBoard Liaison ....................................................... Meg SivitzAssociate Editor ........................................ Bob RothenbergProofreaders .. Soralé Fortman, Lois Bodin, & Janet SeltzerCirculation .............................................................Fern Feder

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

The newsletter is published from August through May. The deadline is the 10th of the preceding month.

Meet Your Study Group Leader

OfficersLeadership Team Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynn CramerVPs of the Book Business . . . . . . . Rachel Barker &Meg SivitzVPs of Membership . . . . . . . . . . . Terri Freed & Marilyn LobellVice-president of Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis FasslerVice-president of Publications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steve SeltzerRecording Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lois BodinFinancial Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Jane KoppelCorresponding Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davya CohenTreasurer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arlene ZuckermanAdvisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaine Lisberg

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

2015–2016Tucson Chapter Calendar

Holiday Fund-Raiser Thursday, December 24Board Meeting* Monday, January 4University on Wheels Thursday, January 7 Board Meeting* Monday, February 1Book Sale @ Foothills Mall Thurs.–Mon., February 11–15Board Meeting* Monday, March 7Book & Author Soirée Wednesday, March 9Book & Author Luncheon Thursday, March 10Board Meeting* Monday, April 4Spring Luncheon and Installation Week of April 11Board and Planning Meeting* Monday, May 2

*Come to our open Board Meetings.

Save the dates and mark your calendar

Continued on page 8

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For the 2015–16 year, your Brandeis Chapter will have a Leadership Council with rotating presidential leaders.The gavel will pass at the end of one board meeting to the end of the next meeting or two. The presidential leaders will be:

December and January: Davya CohenFebruary through April: Lynn CramerFeel free to contact any officer with your questions

or your suggestions. The officer will then transmit the information to the current presidential leader.

Book Sale, Foothills MallThursday, February 11,

through Monday, February 15. Celebrate Valentine’s Day ♥ and

Presidents’ Day with us.Sign up to volunteer (insert in mailed

bulletin, the last page of the on-line bulletin).

For further questions on helping to prepare for the Book Sale, contact Rachel

Barker, [email protected] or Meg Sivitz, [email protected] .

Make this a successful Book Sale!

Western Region Mini-Retreat in ScottsdaleOn November 5. Lois Bodin, Lynn Cramer, Phyllis Fassler, Terri Freed, and Steve Seltzer attended the mini-retreat

of the Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson chapters of the Brandeis National Committee. The meeting was held at the Gainey Suites Hotel in Scottsdale. Western Region President Pauline Green and two members from San Diego-area chapters were also present. Those present rotated among tables discussing Study Groups, Leadership, Membership, and Programming. Lynn Cramer was the moderator at the Study Group table. Cross-fertilization of ideas, sharing of problems and success, and working on innovative improvements led to a great meeting.

Western Region President Pauline Green

Terri Freed on the right

Lynn Cramer on the right

Lois Bodin and Phyllis Fassler

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Donor Message RecipientPhilanthropy, Learning, and Community Card

Zelda Aaronson Sincere condolences on the loss of your husband Sheila Sackler

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 Shelly Abell (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 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 Sustaining the Mind Tribute Card $36.50 Learned Research Journal $56.50 Learned Research Journal Folio $100.00 Special Book Collection $500.00 Major Book Collection

Contact Book Fund chair Shelly Abell, [email protected], or 409-2346.

Next Board MeetingMonday, January 4, 2016

10:00 a.m. to noonMartha Cooper Library

1377 N. Catalina Ave.All members are encouraged to come

to this open meeting.

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

Contact the ChapterBook Depot Phone (leave a message) ... 520-747-3224Chapter Web site ........................... www.TucsonBNC.orgChapter e-mail .................... [email protected]

history and photography classes.The past ten years have gone by fast. Sue traveled, went through the sudden death of her son, and continued to

volunteer. Recently, she joined Brandeis and has worked at the Book Depot and at the book sales. She also volunteers every year at the Festival of Books. Her interests have kept her busy learning new art techniques and more about Jewish history, developing her photography, and returning to exercising.

Sue’s extensive travels include Alaska, Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, driving most of the Pacific Northwest, visits to New Hampshire and St. Louis, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Amazon River, much of Europe, and finding her dad’s birthplace in Romania.

Becoming active in Brandeis, Sue is now leading an exciting Study Group: “History of Jewish Immigration to the United States.”

Meet Your Study Group Leader continued from page 6

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Tucson Chapter Calendar January 2016Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Dec 31 New Year’s Eve

1 New Year’s Day

25:30 Single

Women’s Circle

35 Nostalgia

Trip

410 Board

Meeting1 Guided

Bridge

51 Foreign

Film1 So. AZ

Jewish History

612 Contemp.

Fiction12 Men’s

Book Club2 Twelfth

Night

79:30 University

on Wheels

81 Beginning Mah Jongg

9

1010 Books &

Bagels

1112 EDF 1:00 History

of Jewish Immigration

1 Guided Bridge

121:30 Meditation7 Current

Public Policy

1310 Page

Turners2 Twelfth

Night

141 Gotta

Have Art12 Sit ’n’

Stitch3 Jewish

Worship

151 Beginning Mah Jongg

16

17 181 Guided

Bridge

1910:30 Jewish

Art/ArtistsTBD Cinema

for Singles7 Fabulous

Flicks 1 & 2

2011:30 Mys-

tery Books12:30 Lady

Boomers

2 Twelfth Night

211:30 Borscht

Belt

2210 SW Native

American Culture

1 Beginning Mah Jongg

23

24 2510:30 Gourds1 Guided

BridgeTu B’Shvat

2610 Art Under

Glass1:30

Strindberg

2712 Ethnic

Lunch2 Twelfth

Night

28 2910 SW Native

American Culture

1 Beginning Mah Jongg

30

31

New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015; New Year’s Day, January 1; Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 18; Tu B’Shvat is January 25.

Philanthropy is activism.—Eli Broad“

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MARCH 9Book & Author Dinner Event

JANUARY 7University on Wheels

MARCH 10Book & Author Luncheon

2016 CALENDAR

What’s New at Brandeis University in Waltham?

NON-PROFIT ORG.U. S. POSTAGE

PAIDTUCSON, AZ

PERMIT NO. 970

Brandeis UniversityBrandeis National CommitteeTucson Chapter3825 North Oracle RoadTucson, Arizona 85705-3254

In November, Christopher Bedford, Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, announced that Baltimore businessman, author, and collector Stephen M. Salny has made a promised gift to the museum of 48 works on paper created by some of today’s leading contemporary artists, including 11 lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly. Among the other artists represented in the gift are Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Robert Motherwell, and Sean Scully.

Salny’s gift will augment strengths of the Rose Art Museum collection, which includes paintings and other works by some of the artists, notably Kelly, Johns, Motherwell, and Frankenthaler, while also extending its holdings in new directions, among them the first work by Hirst to be acquired by the museum.

“Steve’s vision goes to the heart of what the Rose Art Museum’s holdings represent,” said Bedford. “Featuring some of the best artists of the postwar era, his collection gathers works of extraordinary passion held in balance with uncommon elegance. It will enrich our exhibitions and ability to serve as a center of research and instruction in postwar modern and contemporary art.”

Central to the promised donation are the lithographs by Kelly, dating from 1970 to 2012, including “Blue-Green” (1970), “Green Curve” (1999), and “Dartmouth” (2011). Their addition to the collection will allow the museum to showcase the artist’s achievement in works dating across 50 years, beginning with his landmark 1962 painting, “Blue White,” a centerpiece of the collection. An exhibition of works from Salny’s gift along with the Rose’s existing holdings by Kelly will be on view from February 12 to June 5, 2016.

Rose Art Museum Receives Major Donation

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Book Sale Volunteers—Sign Up Now!

The sale benefits the Endowed Scholarship for a Tucson-area Student to Brandeis to be held at the Foothills Mall (Ina Road at La Cholla Boulevard)

Thursday, February 11, through Monday, February 15, 2016.Please sign up to work for as many shifts as possible during the SET UP and SALE. Also indicate any spouses, friends, or acquaintances who will accompany you.CHECK THE BOXES BELOW. Fold this sheet, stamp it, and return the entire sheet as

soon as possible, but no later than Tuesday, February 3, 2016, toMeg Sivitz, 6361 E. Valle di Cadore, Tucson 85750.

You can reach her at [email protected] or 615-4739 for more information.

Name _______________________________________________________________

Contact Info: E-mail ______________________________ Phone ________________

Men will load books at the depot from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m., Thursday, February 11, supervised by Hal Hegwer and Rachel Barker.

+ I will help unpack and set up on Thursday, February 11, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m., led by Elaine Lisberg and Meg Sivitz.

I will help sell books on:

Thursday, Feb. 11 from + 10 to 1 + 1 to 5 + 5 to 9Friday, Feb. 12 from + 10 to 1 + 1 to 5 + 5 to 9Saturday, Feb. 13 from + 10 to 1 + 1 to 5 + 5 to 9Sunday, Feb. 14 from + 11 to 2 + 2 to 6Monday, Feb. 15 from + 10 to 1 + 1 to 5 + 5 to 9

+ I will come on Monday, February 15, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. to pack up the remaining books.

Thanks for your help. No heavy lifting. Join this worthwhile endeavor.