Community members look at photographs and newspaper clippings on the memory board during the reunion's Friday night registration and reception held at the Sheraton Caswell Inn, 19 June 1987
The Sheraton Caswell Inn was the site for a large portion of the reunion, including the opening registration and the grand gala dinner held on Saturday 20 June 1987. The reunion organizing committee set up a number of memory boards throughout the hotel. The board in this photograph displays clippings and images of the Dorothy Rothschild Chapter of Hadassah.
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Welcome to Sudbury, 75th Anniversary Cake
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Tree of life sculpture commissioned as part of the reunion, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue
The tree was formally dedicated on Saturday, June 20th by the Mayor of Sudbury, Peter Wong, and the shul's President and reunion co-chair, Mitchell Speigel.
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Bill Braverman, Donna Speigel and reunion co-chair Mitchell Speigel, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue, Saturday June 20th
During the 1980's, Mitchell Speigel and his wife Donna Speigel were active members of the community. Mitchell has strong ties to Sudbury. He grew up there and was taught Hebrew and Jewish traditions by Rabbi Rosenthal. After leaving for a short time to attend the University in Toronto, he returned to Sudbury with his wife Donna.
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Donna Speigel with Judy Zelikovitz standing in front of the tree of life sculpture, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue
Donna Speigel and Judy Zelikovitz were both part of the reunion organizing committee.
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Hannah Suk Cammy and reunion co-chair Vivian (Ironstone)FieldHannah (Suk) Cammy lived in Sudbury from 1952-1963. Vivian (Ironstone) Field was another prominent community member during the 1980s. She is the granddaughter of one of the first wave of Jews to settle in Sudbury during the 1880s, Hyman Ironstone. Despite this deep rooted connection to the community, she grew up in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Although she has many fond memories of visiting family in Sudbury, Vivian and her husband Donald Field did not move to Sudbury until 1960.
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Sam GreenspoonSam Greenspoon was one of the communities founding members. He was still living in Sudbury at the time of the reunion.
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Goldie (Greenspoon) Barth and Uriel OkoGoldie Barth is the daughter of Sam and Mary Greenspoon. She lived in Sudbury from 1946-1965. She currently resides in Guelph, Ontario.
Uriel Oko lived in Sudbury from 1969-972. He traveled with his family from Tulsa, Okalahoma to attend the reunion.
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Joe Jafir, Marie Witchel and Mort PliskowMort Pliskow is the son-in-law to one of the community's early settlers, Benjamin Greenspoon. He lived in Sudbury from 1954-1985. During that time he managed the family's scrap metal and brick business Greenspoon Bros.
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Dorothy Moses at the Shul luncheonDorothy Moses lived in Sudbury from 1946-1983, during which time she and her late husband, Wolfe Moses, were highly respected within the community. Like his father, Hascal Moses, Wolfe was a successful businessman who owned the famous Wolfe's Bookstore. Dorothy helped her husband at the store, which sold everything from technical textbooks, romance novels and stationary. Today she resides in Toronto.
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Joel Zelikovitz, Jay Richmond with lawyer Dennis PerlinJoel Zelikovitz lived in Sudbury from 1966 to 1982, while Jay Richmond lived there from 1959 to 1976. Dennis Perlin was the lawyer from Nova Scotia who conducted services during the 1970s.
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David Witchel (Wichefsky)David Witchel is the grandson of Rabbi David Wichefsky. Following the Rabbi's death in 1922, his children changed their family name to Witchel.
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Uriel Oko giving a speech at the gala dinner, Saturday 20 JuneOntario Jewish Archives, accession 2007-8/6
Dancing a traditional horah at the reunion gala dinner, Saturday June 20thDonna Speigel can be viewed in the centre of this photograph.
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Sunday Brunch held at Culpepper's Restaurant, Sunday June 21st.From left to right: Ruth Pliskow, Hannah Enchin, Zol Enchin and Donna Speigel.
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