SERVING COUNCIL BLUFFS,
LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha. Neb., Fit, July 24,1981
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bme D Family Service Adds Therapist, Offices
Bruce Gutnik, president of the Jewish Family Service Board, has announced the expansion of both professional staff of the agency as well as the office facilities. Within the past year, Jewish Family Service has offered Jewish Family Life Education Series, which included parenting classes, family related seminars on divorce, death, alcohol, and life cycle discussions, such as middle age adjustment or the divorced man's issues. The number of clients seeking professional therapy lias also increased. More and more people who are faced with individual and family related problems have contacted Jewish Family Service, he said. Play therapy for children, conjoint family therapy, and marriage counseling have' been in greater demand, and to satisfactorily address these issues, the agency has hired an additonal therapist and enlarged its present offices, he added. The Jewish Family Service Board has approved the hiring of Ms. Toni I'astory as Jewish Family Service's new counselortherapist. Her primary
TONIPASTORY emphasis will be to provide therapy for those clients who are presently on the agency's waiting list. Her responsibilites also include c o o r d i n a t i n g Russian resettlement activities and creating and implementing programs for the Jewish Family Life Education Scries. Ms. Pastory is a graduate of the University of Nebraska's Department of Guidance and Counseling, While at the University of Nebraska's Student Employment Service, she provided counseling and was involved with public relations and career guidance programs. Certified through the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Ms. Pastory has had opportunities to work with
Jewish By Boris Smolar KdUor-ln-chlef emeritus, J.T.A. (Copyright 1981, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) With the summer session of graduations over, the American Jewish Committee has now completed an analytical study of the moods among Jewish students who entered colleges and universities in 1980. The study provides a useful, insight into the American Jewish community. Prepared for the AJCommittee by the Higher Education Research Institute, the study brings out some new trends in the attitudes and aspirations of the young students of today who constitute tomorrow's intellectual elements in American Jewry. It reveals important changes in their political views, cultural and educational interests, financial status, career plans, religious orientation as compared with those that prevailed among Jewish freshmen 10 years ago. It also compares the attitudes of Jewish freshmen of 1980 with those, of non-Jewish freshmen of that year. One oi ihe startling findings is the revelation that there was a very substantial drop - some 25 percent •- in the number of Jewish freshmen in all colleges during the decade. Ten years ago Jews constituted 4.2 percent of all college freshmen in the country; by 1980, their number
One More Needed in 30 Days
A total of $2,600,000 has adolescents and single adults. Her undergraduate been reached in the drive to studies were in the field of raise funds for the Rose speech communications and Blumkin Jewish • Home, psychology. Toni's ex- according to Lou Solomon, pertise in providing therapy executive director of the Federation of and her warm, receptive Jewish personality will be positive Omaha. additions to the Jewish "We are very pleased Family Service Staff," Dr. with the response of people Gutnik said. from all walks of life, To accommodate the members of the Jewish increased caseload in Jewish community of Nebraska and Family Service, the Board Iowa and former Omahans has sought larger facilities. who are making pledges to To meet the need for ex- assure the building of the panded facilities to ac- Hose Blumkin Jewish commodate family therapy Home," said Is Tretiak who sessions, play therapy, a with Harlan Noddle serves waiting room, an additional as co-chairmen of the Center therapist's office, and a for the Aging Phase j i l reception area, Jewish. committee. Family Service will remodel The campaign leadership its present office suite. anticipates reaching the The confidentiality and $3,600,000 goal in the next 30 autonomy of Jewish Family days in order that the new Service's clients has been of home building program can high concern, and to begin this fall. preserve these needs of the Approximately $130,000 agency, a more private and was pledged at the July 14 larger waiting room facility "kick-off" community will be provided as well as meeting which followed additional therapy offices, ground-breaking ceremonies he added. for the Livingston Plaza. The' The community is invited 52 unit Apartment Complex to visit the Jewish Family for the well-elderly which is Service offices in August and being funded through HUD at that time become 202 acquainted with the Jewish Leona rd( Buddy) Goldstein, Family Service staff, Dr. chairman of the Finance Gutnik said. Committee, told the
Construction starts on the 52-unit Livingston Plaza apartment complex adjacent to the Jewish Community Center, and the fund drive for the new Rose Blumkin Jewish Home for the elderly moves ahead. • audience of approximately 500 persons at the July 14 meeting that 2fi of the campaign goal for the new home for long-term care had been reached. He appealed to all members of the community to make their pledges and be a part of the community effort to maintain the finest service possible. "While it is important that we obtain large gifts from those who are able to give those amounts, it is also very important that those who can only contribute a small amount do so in order to be counted in this community effort", said Mr.
Goldstein. , Meetings will also be held in the synagogues in order to reach people from all walks of life for this tremendous community effort. Permanent memorial and commemorative opportunities have been made available to contributors of any amount of $1,000 and over. Payment arrangements for up to three years will be accepted for all pledges according to Soloman who may be contacted at 334-8200 to discuss any pledges. "Many people have asked about the inscriptions on the Continued on Page 9
Change Major dropped to 3.2 percent. The decline is thought to indicate a drop in the number of Jewish 18-year-olds brought about by birth control. Another finding establishes that idealism evaporated among Jewish students during the 1970-1980 period, and that their major life goals have changed markedly. In 1970 almost 85 percent of all freshmen said that development of a philosophy of life was more important than being financially successful. In 1980 the percentage dropped to SO. Ten years ago fewer than half of all freshmen expressed interest in being well off financially, or being a success in their own business. Today, 70 percent of the Jewish freshmen think it important to be prosperous. In general, Jewish students who entered the 80's choose business as their most favored career. Almost 16 percent of the freshmen last year expressed themselves in favor of studying business administration to become business executives or a business proprietor. Only 12 percent gave preference to studying law with the intention of becoming lawyers; less than 8 percent said they intend to become physicians; engineering was chosen by less than 6 percent. A sharp decline of education as a career was indicated. The drop was from more than 18 percent ten years ago to slightly more than 4 percent in 1980. The proportion of
freshmen choosing physical and biological sciences remained the same as 10 years ago - about 3 percent for physical science and 5 percent for biological. Interest in social sciences has waned.' History and philosophy did not attract even one percent for each. It is interesting, however, that 8.4 percent of the 1980 freshmen - the second largest group after business - have chosen arts and humanities as their major field. The greatest number of Jewish freshmen attend private universities, where they are 8.6 percent of the total. Three out of five attend schools further then 100 miles from their homes; most live in dormitories. About a half of them have a good part of their educational expenses paid by parents; less than a fifth receive grants orschokruhlpsjabout a third pay college tuition with government guaranteed student loans. Politically, the number of Jewish freshmen who call themselves "left" has dropped from 8.9 percent in 1970 to i:9 percent in 1980. Quite a drop. About 93 percent declared themselves in 1980 as being "middle-of-the-road", and more than 32 percent described themselves as "liberal", About 12 percent called themselves "conservatives,"