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November 20, 1998/ 1 Kislev 5759, Vol. 51, No. 9
Sandra Fromm picked to lead National Conference for 1998-99Sandra J. Fromm has been elected as the new 1998-1999 Chairwoman for the National Conference for Community and Justice, formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews.Fromm is a lawyer, certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a specialist in family law, and is a partner in the Phoenix law firm of Cohen and Fromm P.C. She is also a judge pro tem in the domestic relations division of the Maricopa County Bar Association. Fromm has served on the NCCJ Board of Directors since 1984 and has been the chairwoman of the board's Anytown USA committee. She has also acted as an adviser and co-director of Anytown USA camps for several years. Anytown USA is NCCJ's signature program which has been providing leadership and prejudice-reduction training to teenagers since 1957. Every summer, about 600 teens from throughout Arizona attend eight camps at the Anytown campsite in Prescott. NCCJ also provides Unitown and Minitown, which are condensed versions of Anytown, to single schools or school districts during the school year; an annual state-wide youth conference on leadership and diversity for teenagers, planned for Feb. 6, 1999; workshops for school faculty and students on diversity, unity, prejudice-reduction and violence reduction; and tours to the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles for school children, teachers and parents. For more information, call 265-9256. |
