JOHN AND LEE SECTER DEPART ON ALIYA
Friday, August 13, 1971—THE BULLETIN—7
URGE MORE DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNAL ORGANIZATIONS
—Photo by Tibor
HANDSHAKE OF SHALOM at Vancouver airport last Sunday, Aug. 8, when Dr. John Secter and his wife, Lee, left on the first leg of the journey that takes them on aliya to Israel. Sara Kaplan, president of ^ Pacific Region FZOC — Canadian Zionist Federation, at left, bids them farewell. . x
Realizing a lifelong dream, John and Lee Secter left Vancouver last Sunday for Israel where they will start a new life with the realization of their ultimate goal. Both former Winnipeggers, they
will pause j^nroute in Winnipeg to say adieu to family and.friends and will bid farewell also to Zionist circles in Montreal. Stopping in Amsterdam, where-they will be guests of the Zionist community, the Sectors will then cruise and rest in the Greek islands before reaching their destination in Israel.
Mrs. Secter boarded the plane straight from hospital where she has been recuperating and taking rehabilitation training following extensive surgery to alleviate an arthritic condition. "I never evert had time to be home and phone to say goodbye to all my friends," she said.
Dr. Secter, who himself only recently had recuperated from a heart attacki terminated his Ker-risdale practice and wound up their personal affairs prior to departure date.
The Sectors enter a resident ulpan near Natanya, Israel where on Sept. 1 they launch into crash courses in Hebrew. Dr. John will be boning up on medical terminology in Hebrew prior to taking up what he expects will be a challenging new career to fill some of Israel's growing needs formodern medicine.
Graduate of medical school in Manitoba, the. 56-year.-old practitioner described the period before retirement as "a time in life for new dedication and new goals." He explained that he believes that peagle do not prepare tiiemselves effectively for living their later years.
"That period prior to retirement should be a time when we seek to utilize more fully th& wisdom and, knowledge we have acquired over the years," Dr. Secter stated.
A lifelong Zionist, he is immediate past national president of the Zionist Organization of Canada and a member of FZOC-Canadian Zionist Federation. Mrs. Secter has been an active participant over ttie years in the work of Canadian Hadassah-Wizo and was a board member of Canadian Jewish Congress as well as partaking in . the work of National Council of Jewish Women.
The Sectors have a son, Jonathan, born in Jerusalem, who received his masters degree in reisource ecology from Utah State university. He is now engaged in directing an ecological project in Saskatchewan which is part of his doctorate degree.
Jonathan Secter and his wife visited here last month with their young son.
GROSSINGER, N.Y.- The Association of Jewish Centre Workers, meeting here recently, adopted resolutions urging increased democratization and ajustment of proirities in Jewish communal organizations.
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The National Conference of Jewish Communal Services, of which the Association is one of several constituants, refused to introduce a resolution on the same issue but promised a serious study of the problem. Both groups met here separately. About 700 persons attended.
The Association of Jewish Centre Workers expressed concern over the alienation of Jews, particularly the young, from Jewish institutions and suggested in its resolutions that the situation could be remedied by broadening the structure of community policymaking bodies; providing programs that enhance Jewish
identity; providing, "quality" Jewish experiences'and by eliminating aspects of Jewish organizational structures that are unattractive to many Jews.
It recommended specifically that boards of directors be made more representative of their communities and that the distribution of Jewish communal funds must not be solely in the hands of the wealthy contributors, according to Barry Shrage, chairman of the Association's social actions committee.
The Association adopted a resolution denouncing "blatant job discrimination" on the basis of sex. Shrage said that women were
discouraged from taking jobs with communal organizations and from seeking promotions to executive positions by various acts of omission. He mentioned the failure to provide day-care centres and other facilities enabling women to fill responsible jobs.
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