[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 10, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DEDICATION OF NEW STERN CENTER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FOX. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to address my 
colleagues tonight to salute a special facility within my district that 
recently opened, the Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School. This 
is a very special facility. It is going to serve 600 students. It 
recently opened, and I can tell you this, it is going to be one of the 
most outstanding facilities in our area of Montgomery County, PA.
  The Director of the Center is Dr. Steven Brown. The individuals who 
brought it together, frankly that really did quite a job to make sure 
that the facility did in fact come to fruition, included such 
individuals as Paul Silberberg and his wife, who are dedication 
cochair, along with Alan Casnoff and his wife Debbie.
  This has been a long time coming as part of the Solomon Schechter 
Affiliate and part of the New Stern Center. The facility is one where 
they are going to give people, these young students, the opportunity to 
not only participate in important class work and religious instruction, 
but also in community involvement with visits to local governmental 
offices to get students involved, at the earliest ages involved in 
their community service, which we think is so important to the rounding 
out of every young person in their exciting work with the schools as 
part of the entire campus, one that is involved greatly in the 
community with the Kaiserman Center right next door.
  This is a sister school, the Ray and Ruth Perelman School, sister 
school to the Forman School, which is in Elkins Park, PA, and together 
they represent two of the most outstanding schools in the country.
  So on the opening of the school with 600 students and over 100 
faculty and staff, we congratulate all those who helped make this 
possible. The board of directors, board of trustees, the faculty, the 
principal, all them should take great pride in knowing they are going 
to bring about, with young students who may go on to be President, may 
go on to be great leaders in medicine, the arts, science, make great 
contributions to this country.
  Joseph Finkelstein is the president of this day school and Jay 
Leberman is the head of the school and Sybil Levine is the principal, 
and together they represent the leadership within the school facility; 
and we expect that this will be one that we will hear about for many 
years to come, and I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate 
them on their opening and wish them everything good for the future.

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