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History
Child Aid:Temple Emanuel Sinai, Worcester,MA (Saturdays): 8-12
Volunteer Temple Beth Israel, Danielson, CT: 9-12
Helping at the middle school (occasionally on half days): 9, 12
Helped organize
Helped set up/run field day
Additional Info
October 12, 2014
To Whom It May Concern:
It is my pleasure to be writing this letter of recommendation on behalf of Ms. Hannah Mainhart, a Senior at Woodstock Academy. Please let this letter serve as an official record of community service hours, which Hannah has dedicated to the Temple Beth Israel Preservation Society over the past four years.
Hannah has stood out from her peers for having done something extraordinary that most people would never know. She has been part of a community effort to preserve and maintain an historic house of worship in Connecticut’s Quiet Corner that once housed one of the largest populations of families of Holocaust Survivors.
This building was recognized two years ago by the National Parks Service for the importance of its historical connections to the Holocaust and for the nature of its architectural design and is now on both the State and Nation’s historic registers. For the past six years the Temple Beth Israel Preservation Society, stewards of this historical property have re-opened the building to the greater community, as part of its commitment to teaching lessons of tolerance.
Hannah’s role as a young emissary supporting our mission has come in the form of working with adult directors on our board to help organize and volunteer for the following community programs:
The 60th Anniversary Celebration of the original Temple Beth Israel Congregation, which drew descendents and friends, (more than 150 guests) from across America, including many local dignitaries in state government.
Two Community Interfaith Chanukah celebrations
Two Community Interfaith Passover Seders
Two Community Movie Nights
The Celebration of the area’s oldest living Holocaust Survivor – Ray Gawendo
A Painting Workday at Temple Beth Israel with the UCONN Student Hillel program.
Together a group of adults and youth formed the Temple Beth Israel Preservation Society, which has as its mission to: preserve and maintain a Jewish house of worship welcoming all who seek to observe and celebrate Jewish ritual and traditions while honoring the founders of the Temple Beth Israel community and, in particular, that generation of immigrant Jewish farmers who spoke Yiddish, observed Jewish rituals and traditions, educated their children and celebrated their new American lives in this historic synagogue. The work of this group has also honored the building’s founders by having created a setting in which to teach the lessons of the Holocaust by bringing awarene
