HMH eNewsletter Spring 2016

AROUND HMH

Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Theatre Committee Chairwoman Maida Asofsky welcomed actor Tom Dugan along with HMH Executive Director Dr. Kelly J. Zúñiga and Museum Chair Gail Klein at the opening night of the one-man, off-Broadway play “Weisenthal,” cosponsored by HMH at the JCC in March.

Holly Alves, program director of the Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation, visited the Museum in March along with students the foundation helped to visit. When school budgets are cut, opportunities for field trips are often eliminated. The foundation funded the McNair Title I Field Trip and Family Access Program this year, providing funds for 14 bus transportation scholarships for Title I schools and family pack tickets for 1,680 parents.

KPRC news anchor Khambrel Marshall emceed November’s Ruth Vinn Hendler Lack Lecture featuring Susannah Heschel and a talk on the anniversary of the March on Selma and passage of the Voting Rights Act. Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, is the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King at Selma.

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