The Slate for our 2019-2020 Board

At the seder, we announced the slate for the 2019-2020 Sisterhood board. We will be voting at our May meeting. This year's nominating committee was Jackie Zev, chair, Sally Lax, Jo Schwartz, Sandy Robinson, Sonia Smith, and Mel Birken. A heartfelt Thank You! to the nominating committee for their hard work recruiting candidates. 
Here is the slate:
Position.................................2019-2020 Slate..
Co-President. ..........................  Kathy Barker
Co-President............................  Cheryl Frumes
Administrative Co-VP..............Judy Stehr
Administrative Co-VP..............Karen Pelmont
Ways&Means..........................   Open
Programming Co-VP................Efrat Yakobi
Programming Co-VP................Karen Jaye
Membership Co-VP................ .Joanne Averill
Membership Co-VP................. Tammy Singer
Education VP..........................  .Jan Rapoport
Religious Observance Co-VP...Andy Mann
Religious Observance Co-VP...Bobbi Ross
Treasurer................................    Robyn Blachman
Recording Secretary...............  Tove Aichenson
Financial Secretary.................  Diane Levine
Come to the May meeting and help elect next year's board!

It's baseball season! In honor of baseball season, we bring you the story of Thelma "Tiby" Eisen. Tiby Eisen (1922-2014) was an outstanding center-fielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) of the 1940s and 1950s, starring for nine years in the only professional women’s league in the game’s history.

In 1944, Eisen was one of six Los Angeles athletes chosen to try out for the All-American baseball league, and she won a spot on the Milwaukee team. In her first season, her team won the league championship.

Eisen’s best season was in 1946, when she made the all-star team, leading the league in triples and stealing 128 bases for Peoria. In 1949, she was picked for an all-star team that toured Latin America. In 1995, the authoritative Total Baseball encyclopedia named her one of the league’s twenty greatest players.

Eisen said she did not encounter antisemitism in the AAGPBL, and there were other Jewish players: Anita Foss, Blanche Schachter, and Margaret Wigiser.

After Eisen left the AAGPBL in 1952, she settled in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles and starred on softball’s world champion Orange Lionettes until 1957.