Obituaries

Lawrence Horowitz

Lawrence "Larry" Horowitz of Studio City, Calif., died June 14, 2001. He was 50. Survivors include his mother, Joyce of Scottsdale. He was born in Hartford, Conn. He was an actor and worked as a casting director at Universal Studios. He starred in the Broadway show "Grease" in the role of Kenicke, and appeared in several television shows.

Other survivors include his sisters, Anne-Lynda Newman of Altadena, Calif., and Carole Lieberman of Huntington Woods, Mich.

Services were held in California. Contributions are suggested to the Larry Horowitz JCC Scholarship Fund, c/o Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, 8101 E. Morgan Trail, Suite 5, Scottsdale 85258.

Debra Susan Chalpin

Debra Susan Chalpin of Scottsdale died June 17, 2001. She was 40. She was born in New York City and came to Arizona 31 years ago.

Survivors include her parents, Esther of Tempe and Sy of Carefree; and brother, Mitch of Paradise Valley.

Services were held at Phoenix Memorial Park, with Rabbi Yossi Levertov officiating. Arrangements were by Sinai Mortuary. Contributions are suggested to Chabad of Scottsdale, 10215 N. Scottsdale Road, #11, Scottsdale 85253.

June Tamaroff

June Tamaroff , age 72, passed away Monday, June 18th, due to complications following emergency surgery. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Sam "Todd" Tamaroff; her son Dr. Marc Tamaroff of Huntington Beach; her daughter, Sara Barker of Mesa; and 4 grandchildren. A resident of Phoenix since 1946, she was a businesswoman extraordinaire, a devoted and loyal friend to many, and beloved by her family. She will be sorely missed by all whom she touched. Funeral services were held Thursday, June 21st at Temple Beth Israel Sanctuary. Donations in her memory are requested to Temple Beth Israel, 10460 N. 56th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85253. Arrangements by Sinai Mortuary.

Evelyn Smith

Evelyn Smith, a highly acclaimed community leader who devoted her life to social justice, passed away peacefully on June 13. Evelyn's humanity was so encompassing, she was known as "a one woman United Nations."

Evelyn was born on September 24, 1930 in Great Falls, Montana to Sophia Schwartz Weissman and Carl Weissman. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. On September 3, 1950, she married Herbert Smith. They owned and operated Smith Pipe and Steel together with the Smith family. Herb preceded her in death in 1993. For the last decade, Evelyn has been a general partner in Smith Investment Partnerships.

It was her devotion to the community, and the cause of human understanding, that so marked her life. She began volunteering as a young bride and for the last 50 years has been in constant service to a variety of causes.

She has served on the board of directors, often as an officer, for dozens of organizations, including Jewish Family & Children's Service; the American Jewish Committee; the Governor's Council of Children, Youth and Families; Arizona Politically Interested Citizens; the Phoenix Sister Cities Commission; the Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations; the Arizona Museum of Science and Technology; the United Jewish Welfare Campaign; the National Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal; the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix; the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Committee; the Human Relations Commission for the City of Phoenix; St. Mary's Food Bank; the Desert Botanical Garden; and Hillel at ASU.

In the 1980s, she served as liaison to the National Holocaust Memorial Council for both Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard and Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt. In 1987, she served on the Diamond Jubilee Commission for the State of Arizona. During that decade, she and Herb were leaders of several Interfaith Study Missions to Israel, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and the American Jewish Committee.

Evelyn was currently serving on the national board of Project Interchange - an international effort to bring different cultures together in the pursuit of peace - as well as the national board of governors of the American Jewish Committee. She also was serving on the boards of the Cosanti foundation, Phoenix Leadership, and the American Jewish Historical Society; and was vice president of the Phoenix Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. In addition, she was a founding member of the Hispanic/Jewish & Black/Jewish Coalition.

She also supported many other groups, giving of her time, talents and resources to help them advance their causes, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American United for Separation of Church and State, Arizona Women's Political Caucus, Charter 100, Emily's List, League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way, the Phoenix Urban League, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, the Museum for Women in the Arts, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Evelyn's contributions were well recognized and honored. She earned the Medal of Honor from the Arizona Trade Union Council for Histadrut in 1984; in 1985, she won both the Evelyn de Rothschild Award from the Arizona Technion Society and the "Most Outstanding Campaign Woman" of the United Jewish Campaign. In 1986, she received the Golda Meir Award from the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix.

In 1988 she was honored with the Recognition Award from the Phoenix Mayor's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped, and also won the Menorah Award from the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation. In 1995, Evelyn earned the RosaLee Shluker Award from the American Jewish Committee.

Evelyn was honored by AIDS Project Arizona in 1998 with the Larry Smith Community Service Award. The next year she was recognized with the Calvin C. Goode Life Achievement Award at the City of Phoenix's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Just a few months ago, she was honored as one of Arizona's most outstanding women by the Jewell Award.

Evelyn Smith's generous heart also extended to generous financial contributions to improve the community. She and her husband donated the Jewish Federation headquarters in Phoenix, which bears their name. Last year, Evelyn made a substantial contribution to Arizona State University to endow faculty and scholarships for the College of Fine Arts.

Funeral services were held Friday, June 15, at Beth El Congregation.

Evelyn is survived by a grateful community of friends as well as her sons, Ken and Michael, along with Michael's wife, Marlene; daughter Debbie, along with her husband Naty Saidoff and their children, Josh and Joanna; daughter Corree, along with her husband Billy Grodnik and their sons, Alex and Jacob; brother Leonard, along with his wife Bette Weissman; and brother-in-law Arnold, along with his wife Rachel Smith.

Contributions in her memory to Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E. Flower Street, Phoenix, AZ 85014; and Evelyn Smith Family Foundation, c/o Smith Investments, 4745 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018

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