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Register for an online lecture to be given at Brandeis University on February 9, 2010

For information about the topic and instructions on how to register and submit questions click About Brandeis.

Live and Learn Update

Class #30, You Are What You Are will now be given by Toby Felcher. Toby can order each play for $7.50 from the publisher and recommends you read them prior to each class. See the Live and Learn guide for the titles. Please let Toby know ASAP if you want her to order them for you.

Save These Dates
February 25, 2010 2:00 pm	Brandeis Book Review Meeting - Randallstown Library meeting room The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. "Terrific. . . . Narrated in high-energy Spanglish, the book is packed with wide-ranging cultural references--to Dune, Julia Alvarez, The Sound of Music--as well as erudite and hilarious footnotes on Caribbean history. It is a joy to read, and every bit as exhilarating to reread." - Entertainment Weekly
March 18, 2010 2:00 pm	General Meeting - Meet the Author: Dudley Clendinen, A Place Called Canterbury at the Randallstown Library meeting room, free to BNC members and their guests After his father died, Baltimore native Dudley Clendinen, a former national reporter and editorial writer for The New York Times, became legally responsible for his sly, charming, and indomitable mother, a belle of the Old South. Spending almost 400 days and nights at Canterbury Tower, the geriatric facility on Tampa Bay his mother had chosen as her last home, he lived among a diverse group of elderly people from around the nation and the world. That experience became the basis of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America. A finalist for the J. Anthony Lucas Prize for a distinguished nonfiction work-in-progress on an important contemporary American social issue, Canterbury was excerpted in The New York Times and on Forbes.com, and has been praised across the country. Mr. Clendinen's book is quite something other than a story of decline. He finds graceful, subtle ways to slip between the past and present, so that his mother remains a wonderfully imposing figure. BNC is very fortunate to welcome Mr. Clendinen and learn from him about this engaging project.	Dudley Clendinen
May 5, 2010 11:00 am	Closing Meeting - Book & Author Luncheon - Woodholme Country Club Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg Two sisters, born two years apart to immigrant parents, grow up in Depression-era Detroit. One—Beth, my mother—escapes eight years of low-paying jobs and her family’s walk-up apartment by marrying and moving away from the neighborhood that she equates with broken promises and broken lives. The other sister? She was my mother’s secret.

GOT IDEAS...
... for speakers or performers for our meetings? Please contact Program Chair Toby Felcher.

President
Anita Potemken
Corresponding Secretary
Barbara Barr
Recording Secretaries
Mona Berman
Janet Helper
Financial Secretaries
Judith Berkowitz (A-K)
Natalie Jeffrey (L-Z)
Treasurer
Sydney Carton
Live and Learn
Ella Cohen (Syllabi)
Benita Lozinsky (Continuing Classes)
Sheila Maleson (Calendar)
Judith Stein (New Classes)
Membership Chairs
Eva Silversmith
Thelma Weiner
Chavurah
Barbara Barr
Rochelle Savetman
Book Fund Chairs
Mildred Dorf
Veronica Kestenberg
Hospitality Chair
Hulane Zolet
Program Chair
Toby Felcher
Meeting Coordinator
Lee Fox
Media Coordinator
Suzanne Strutt
Study Group Registrar
Pat Hartley
Parlimentarian
Sophie Stolberg
Telephone Communications
Norma Axel, Gilda Kahn,
Janice Rudo
Federation Coordinator
Matilda Falck
Webmaster
Yogi Savetman

Board Members

2008-2010

2009-2011

Sandy Kuperberg
Sonya Dillon
Eve Silversmith
Thelma Weiner
Edi Querido
Isabel Levin
Florabel Davis
Kay Feldmann
Ellen Pazornik
Toby Felcher

Shelly Blank
Fran Block
Aida Bloom
Elinor Eisner
Tikva Jeral
Estelle Kabik
Vivian Krawitz
Verna Kushel
Judy Langenthal
Carol Oppenheim
Barbara Rubin
Sue Steinman
Sharon Tiplitz
Fran Weinstein
Merle Ann Siegelman

Ex-Officio Board Members

Barbara Barr, Rochelle Savetman, Diane Stillman

Nominating Committee

Marcia Snyder, chair
Barbara Barr	Mona Berman
Jan Helper	Mary Joan Levin
Gig Margel	Sondra Montuori

Mission Statement

Brandeis National Committee is an organization committed 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 fundraising and through activities that reflect the values on which the University was founded: academic excellence, social justice, non-sectarianism, and service to the community.

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BNC allocates significant financial resources to establish general and named scholarships and fellowships.

Members can attend lectures given by faculty and enroll in study groups that use Brandeis faculty authored syllabi. See our Live and Learn page for course listings and our calendar page for class meeting dates and times.

There is also an opportunity for service to local communities with projects emulating the University's mission focusing on education, literacy and ending hunger.

The Bulletin is the newsletter of Brandeis National Committee - Baltimore Chapter, and is distributed to all Baltimore Chapter members.

Membership Notes The next scheduled Chavurah meeting is Monday, February 15 at 1:30 at the Park Towers West meeting room, 7121 Park Heights Ave. Call Barbara Barr or Rochelle Savetman to let them know you'll be coming. Bring a friend.
The topic of discussion will be: "my eyes are now wide open".

Change of address? New phone number?

Please let our data keeper Yogi Savetman know... so you'll be sure to get the bulletins and new study guide, Live and Learn, in a timely fashion. You can easily send your new data to Yogi by sending e-mail. Also, keep us informed of your e-mail address!

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

Give to the BNC Book Fund with these cards...
Contact Vera Kestenberg or Millie Dorf

Other higher special contribution cards
available at the BNC National website.

The Millionth Book Tribute Card	$5.00
Louis D. Brandeis Tribute Card	$10.00
Chai Card	$18.00
Maroon LRJ with red design insert	$35.00
Blue Medical Science Journal	$55.00
Special Book Collection	$100.00
10+ Pen Cards	$10.00
6 Science for Life Cards	$5.00

Attention Baltimore Members

Got Books???
Call Connie Yasinow to hear about how you may turn them into cash for Brandeis.

WANTED: A Free Book Depot...
...commercial real estate in this area to store books prior to our Book Sale. Contact us here!

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