February 22, 1980 -- UJF -- 3
Beth Sholom Auxiliary Salutes Volunteers
The Auxiliary of Beth Sholom Home of
Eastern Virginia proudly recognizes some
Polly Bernstein
Volunteer
Workers
of its outstanding volunteer workers.
Polly Bernstein and Mary Lee January,
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Regina Weinstock Mary Lee January
both of Suffolk, have done a commendable
job of making Suffolk and the surrounding
area aware of the Auxiliary and its
projects.
The Newport News - Hampton area has
conducted a successful membership drive
under the able leadership of Lil Frank,
Regina Weinstock and Ada Brenner. To
date ther are 112 Life Members and 204
annual members on the Peninsula. With
the anticipated summer opening of the
Home, additional Peninsula support is ur-
gently needed.
Belle Olshansky of Newport News and
Gertrude Goldstein of Hampton are the
Auxiliary Donation card Peninsula chair-
women and promptly acknowledge all oc.
Philosophy and Concept of Beth Sholom
During the next several issues the UJF
News will feature a series of articles des-
cribing those Considerations that were part of
the thinking that helped to share the physical
as well as the environmental design of Beth
Sholom Home of Virginia. In addition to
visits to various sites by members of the
Building Committee, Ira C. Robbins, execu-
tive vice-president of Beth Sholom Home, not
only participated in many institutes and
workshops on environmental design for the
aged, but he also conducted workshops on
"Creating a Humane Environment In Long
Term Care Facilities "as far South as Missis-
sippi and Alabama, and as far West as
Nebraska.
Laszlo Aranyi, architect and principal of
Design Collaborative, also visited the
various sites, and in addition participated in
special workshops on environments for the
elderly sponsored by The Gerontology Society
in New York and at Van(}erbilt University
in Tennessee. In fact, he and Larry Gold-
man, a Beth Sholom Home of Eastern
Virginia Board member who was a partici-
pant in the site visits, were so impressed by
their experience and the limited amount of
written material available on the subjec
they authored and have subsequently had
published -- by Van Norstrand and Corn-
building is under construction. To some it
may be a nursing home, to others a home for
aged, and to some a long term care facility.
It appears unusually large and impressive
as it is developing, but the ease of construc-
tion and the rapidity with which it is nearing
conclusion, masks the conceptualization
and preparation that were involved in its
design. Behind the apparent ease of con-
struction, are deeply held conceptual beliefs
that will not only create a different design,
but more importantly a different commit-
ment in care for the Jewish aged of the
Peninsula-Tidewater communities.
Prior to conceptualizing plans for design,
the Building Committee of the Board of
Directors, accompanied by Laszlo Aranyi,
the architect for the project, and Ira C.
Robbins, executive vice president, sought
to research thoroughly, not only the physi-
cal requirements for the project, but other
special needs for the aging. The group
visited a rich variety of facilities designed
to render care to the aged in varied locations
such as Washington, D.C.; Silver Spring,
Md.; Roekville, Md.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Al-
bany, NY; and Simsbury, Conn. The rich-
ness in diversity of design, program content,
and social accoutrements enabled the com-
mittee to experience a wide range of optionL
pany, DJsign Of LongTerm Care Facilities. It enabled the committee to coalesce its
views and to create an environment which
The articles that will follow reflect the col-
laborative efforts ofLaszloAranyi and 1 re C. would plan for the social, emotional, and
physical needs of older persons in a setting
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that was conducive to aging. The residents
in the home would be in various stages of
aging, not sickness.
Accordingly, the home conceived as a
long term care facility was not to be viewed
as a building or institution but a total living
community containing aspects of physical,
intellectual, and emotional past and present
environments. The long term care facility
was to be a place where persons came
because of age and related physical ail-
ments and spent all their time living. A long
term care facility, therefore, had to provide
more than is found in an everyday home be-
cause it replaces the street, the terrace, the
park, the town. Residents would be greatly
concerned with their immediate surroundings
because such surroundings would be their
total environment. The color of walls, the
size of the rooms where they were to spend
so much of their time, all of these things
would be of great importance to the resi-
dent than the casual visitor.
Accordingly, the following considerations
were undertaken in developing the design:
).Interior spaces - rooms, corridors.
etc. must be designed for older
adults to enhance their feelings of
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I wish to thank my friends
and relatives for being so gracious
during my recent illness.
Edna Friedman
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Rose Frances Glosser, chapter president,
plans membership drive with Lil Frank,
Newport News-Hampton membership
co-chairman.
casions. The money raised by these dona-
tions will be used, with donor donations, for
the purchase of the $25,000 specially
equipped van the Home will need.
The Auxiliary's annual donor affair is
again a $10 Phantom Donor, and all
members and even non-members are
urged to participate - and send their
checks to: Estelle Mayer, Donor Chair-
woman, 519 Carlisle Way, Norfolk 23505.
The Auxiliary welcomes a new workerl
Sandy Fink Glazer, daughter of Life
member Leak Fink of Newport News.
Sandy is a former member of the Rich-
mend Auxiliary and was very active with
the Central Virginia Home. She is now the
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