October Events

The month of October is full of interesting and fun Sisterhood events. So clear your calendars, and get ready to spend some quality time with your sisters and friends.

We will start off the month with the Sisterhood Board meeting on Thursday, October 4, 7pm at my house. Although this is of more interest to Board members, any TAS member who wishes to attend is welcome. If you aren't a Board member and would like to join us, please let me know (email or call) so that I can borrow enough chairs from Jackie to seat everyone.

Here are the rest of the activities for October:
MahJongg Tournament: Sunday, October 7 email Phyllis Bigelson at [email protected] for details.
Ballot Proposition Presentation by the League of Women Voters: Sunday October 14, 9:30 am - $5 fee (waived for Sisterhood members and Friends of Sisterhood). 
And while only paid members and paid Friends of Sisterhood are invited to our 
Paid-up "Brunch for Dinner" on Thursday, October 25 at 6pm, everyone will find something of interest at the Holiday Boutique on Sunday October 28 (10am-3pm). Make time for one or more of the October events.

Sisterhood membership packets were emailed to all Temple members on September 26. The packets include a one page calendar of events, a flyer for the Paid-up event, a Membership Form you can print and mail back, and a link for easy online registration. The online Sisterhood membership registration link is http://www.tassisterhood.org/join-us.html

Within the next few days you will be receiving another email from me with links and information on how you can sign up to help out at the Holiday Boutique. So please watch for that email.

Gertrude Belle Elion is our Jewish woman of science for this week. Gertrude was born to immigrant parents in New York on January 23, 1918. She was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black. Working alone as well as with Hitchings and Black, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT. She developed the first immunosuppressive drug, azathioprine, used for organ transplants. She also developed the first successful antiviral drug, acyclovir (ACV), for the treatment of Herpes infection. Elion held 45 patents in medicine. Gertrude Elion died on February 21, 1999 in Chapel Hill North Carolina.

​Thanks for your support of the TAS Sisterhood.