Annual Campaign/Leadership with Grasso, Ella, 1970s, 1970-1979

8x10 Photographs:

-30th Anniversayr Pannel- Grasso holding the book "A Will To Survive" as man and woman present her with israel 30 Hartford '78 t-shirt. This picture has the photocopy.

-Grasso in middle of four men. "The fate of soviet Jewry is at stake. Gov. Ella Grasso, honorary chairman of this year's Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry in Greater Hartford, tells participants in leadership briefing at Governor's Mansion in Hartford this week. Shown with Mrs. Grasso (from left) are Jeffery Mines, chairman of Community Relations Committee of Hartford Jewish Federation; Rabbi Joel E. Soffin, assistant rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, West Hartford; District Attorney Robert F. Leonard of Flint, Mich., keynote speaker, and the Rev. Thomas J. Lynch, chancellor of Hartford Archdiocese." c. 1977

-Grasso with 3 unidentified men wearing yarmulke, April 1979

-Grasso with two unidentified men, c. 1977

-Grasso seated at desk to commemorate HIAS Centenial Week in Connecticut. Behind her, from left to right, Jerome Lowngard, board member of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Greater Hartford Jewish Federation; Bernard Kaplan, Federation President; Barbara Ruderman, third vice-president of Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford and member of its Boad of Directors; Robert Fishman, director of community relations for Federation; Barbara Berger, coordinator of New Americans Program at Jewish Family Service; Zelda Gersten, HIAS and Federation baord member; and Don Cooper, Federation Executive Director. Late 1970s (appeared in newsclipping in Grasso person file. No date but probably 1979 or 1980.

Mounted Prints:

-JHSGH Bicentenial (?) Exhibit-Celebrities with Gov. Grasso. (L to R) Mrs. S. Sheketoff, Sam Kellin, Mayor of Witt-Catherine Reynolds, Gov. Grasso, I. Martin Friberg (?)- Federation President, Doris Kashman (/) B. Cent. Chair. n.d. (1975?)

-The Connecticut State Capitol Office of the Govenor official statement declaing September 18-October 14, 1975 "Jewish Historical Society Bicentenial Month". (L-R) Joseph D. Hurwitz, Board Member, Govenor Ella Grasso, Emma Cohen, President, Sylvia Sheketoff, VP and chairman of Bicentenial Exhibit. August 25, 1975.