Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1972 — Page 15
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Friday, July 14, 1972
THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION
Mrs. Levy Aids Many Persons Lubavitch Pair Make
Through Use Of Project TOOL Annual Trip To State
At age 17, Teresa Campbell of Indianapolis — a young woman of sensitivity and intelligence — was a high school drop-out and a mother of two children. With no marketable skills, her future seemed bleak indeed. Then one day Teresa learned from a friend about project TOOL — Typing Office Orientation Lab — a program sponsored by the Board for Fund a m e n t a 1 Education and adopted by the Neighborhood Youth Corps as a pilot program in 1971 which trained young women in typing and office skills through a unique process of instruction and conditioning. Teresa enrolled in the TOOL program in February, 1971, and under the skilled guidance of project supervisor Natalie Levy, Teresa responded quickly to the training techniques. Along with typing, the program included relevant studies in office orientation, with emphasis on oral and written communication. In addition, Mrs. Levy conducted class discussions in which she encouraged the young women to view the world around them and to articulate their responses. Teresa, she recalls, demonstrated keen perception and intelligence. “She came to the program highly motivated, and did beautiful work. The personal problems she faced were not atypical of the group —• all of the girls had more than their share of problems — but her determination to learn dominated - all other considerations/*
was incorporated at the Metropolitan Manpower Center fri training an initial class of 30 women in secretarial-clerical skills. The program includes special in-depth counseling, skill training through TOOL, job placement, and follow-up coaching after the client has begun work. The Board for Fundamental Education — sponsor of TOOL — is an Indianapolis-based, national organization, chartered by the Congress of the United States to develop and implement new programs to aid the poor. Executive director of the non-profit organization is Dr. Cleo W. Blackburn.
MRS. LEVY reports that during the course, which incorporates built-in milestones of success, the trainees underwent astonishing improvements in personal grooming, self confidence, regard for promptness, and commitment to mutual goals established by them and their teacher.
Teresa completed her training in January, 1972, and was successfully placed as a receptionist-typist with a local contracting company. Along with being able to support herself and her two children, her job has given her a sense of confidence and security. In reflection upon the TOOL program, Teresa credits the high degree of individual attention given to each trainee as a particularly important reason for its success. In addition, she cites Mrs. Levy’s empathy, enthusiasm and consideration aa vital contributions to the program. Several other trainees in Teresa’s class were successfully placed in office jobs, and others returned to school upon completion of the program. In May of this year, TOOL
INTERESTINGLY, several American-Indian groups who had heard about TOOL traveled from as far as North Dakota to see it in operation and to explore how it could be adapted to their needs. “Everyone is seeking programs with motivational impact,’ r explained Mrs. Levy, “and this is a builtin feature of all BFE programs.” A native of New York, Mrs. Levy, lived for nine years in Israel. For four of those years she supervised a residential youth program at Kibbutz Gesher Haziv. Her responsibilities included administration and implementation of a comprehensive development program for disadvantaged children, ages 12 to 16. This experience was to serve her well in her work with BFE, for she found that “people are the same the world over and their problems are basically alike.” Ironically, the Israeli Department of Social Welfare recently expressed interest in TOOL. From 1960 to 1963, Mrs. Levy was administrative assistant to Dr. Hugo Boyko, President of the World Academy of Art and Science, whose headquarters was in Rehovot, Israel. Another BFE program about which Mrs. Levy is most enthusiastic is Project TEMPO — Training through Education, Motivation and Personal Orientation — for candidates for parole in the prison system who are involved in the work-release program. The idea for the program developed after a local businessman, serving as a volunteer member of the board of directors of the work-release program, asked Mrs. Levy’s help in preparing a speech for men in the program. So excited was he by Mrs. Levy’s ideas that he urged her to develop a complete program around th?m. TEMPO was the result. A volunteer program, offered at
The annual visit of emissaries from the Lubavitch Rebbe in Brooklyn to Indiana took place this week as Zalman A Grossbaum and Eli D. Borenstein visited homes and offices in Indianapolis spreading the word of Yiddishkeit.
the Jewish man there to don tephillin and recite the proper * prayer. In previous years, the bearded young men were not only rebuffed, but even in some instances told to leave unceremoniously.
The two young men reported a vast change in their reception as compared to the indifference their colleagues who visited here in previous years had to contend with. They told The Post and Opinion that not once in visiting an office where they were turned down when they asked
Asked why the change in their reception, the young men thought that perhaps their photograph in Sunday’s Star announcing their visit may have been a factor as also that Lubavitch and Hassidism is becoming better known to the Indianapolis Jewish Community.
UOHC Plans Rummage Sale
MRS. LEVY
night, TEMPO is programmed to individual needs, and emphasizes building the selfesteem and confidence of the individual along with academic reinforcement. The ultimate goal is to train the ex-prisoner to cope with situations that formerly might have defeated him. Possibly for the first time in his life he will know how to make the most of his abilities and will become competitive in the work force.
A rummage sale will be held at the United Orthodox Hebrew Temple, 5879 Central Avenue, July 23 to July 25. Sunday hours will be from noon until 5 p.m. and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. For pickup service call 253-4591.
They said they invariably were offered money, even though they explained in advance that their only goal was to give Jewish men of the city the mitzvah of donning tephilproffer of money. They plan to visit throughout Indiana for the next two weeks.
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PART OF Mrs. Levy’s enthusiasm for her work revolves around her admiration for Dr. Blackburn. “The success of BFE is due largely to his genius,” she says. “He is a man of both vision and courage whose philosophy is ‘nothing is impossible.’ Such an attitude is contagious, and all of us are the better for having caught it.” One of the most satisfying moments in Mrs. Levy’s life was arranging a meeting between Dr. Boyko — whom she also admired greatly — and Dr. Blackburn. “To me, it practically had the historical significance of a meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt,” laughs Mrs. Levy.
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