Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • January 11, 2012 Area Community Relations Advisory Board appointees named by John Koster The Ridgewood Village Council has approved the appointment of Ridgewood and Glen Rock members of many faiths and professions to the Community Relations Advisory Board for 2012. At the head of the list was Ridgewood educator Helen Aslanides, who was honored at the local and state levels for her contributions to education, human relations, and racial and religious harmony at Ridgewood High School. Among her other assignments, Aslanides is the perennial advisor to Ridgewood High School’s annual Asian Festival, in which students from China, India, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, sometimes joined by friends of European heritage, demonstrate dancing, music, martial arts, and other aspects of their national cultures. Glen Rock Mayor John van Keuren – who is also the honorary mayor of Onomachi in central Japan, whose middle school students visit Glen Rock each summer -- and Ridgewood Mayor Keith Killion, a Vietnam veteran with a U.S. Army engineer battalion, Glen Rock Police Chief Fred Stahman, and Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward are also members of the group. Rev. Jan Phillips-Singer and Rev. Thomas Johnson were appointed as members from the clergy. Other members include Paulette Perry, Jean Dorsey, Geoff Scowcroft, Roann Rubin, Sid Dawson, Avon Morgan, Alice Newton, Barbara Brown, Janet Chambers, Helen Lindsay, Avtar Singh, Carol Martin, Oliver Newton, Sidney Smith, Pam Scarpa, Amy Plasencia, Susan Donnelly, Simon Stoffel, Beatriz Pinzou-Jordau, Andrew Brown, Barbara Goldberg, Sean CcCooe, Fay Reid, Al Blake, Mahmoud Hamza, Medha Kirtane, Nadeem Dawson, Richard Majors, and Richard Ostling have also been appointed. Glen Rock Jewish Center will present a screening of “Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg” on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. A discussion with “Mrs. Goldberg’s” grandson Adam Berg will follow. The film tells the story of radio and television pioneer Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer, and star of “The Goldbergs,” a popular radio show for 17 years. “The Goldbergs” became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Berg wrote 12,000 scripts for “The Goldbergs” (CBS’s number one show) combining comedy and social commentary—with Jewish characters, particularly matriarch Molly Goldberg, at the center. On the air, Berg was the endearing matriarch Molly Goldberg. She was depicted kibitzing with neighbors across airshafts in the Bronx. Off the air, Berg won the first ever Best Actress Emmy Award, earned a Tony on Broadway, and charmed audiences on TV variety shows and through her advice column. Polls showed she was the second most respected woman in America, after Eleanor Roosevelt. When her co-star Philip Loeb was attacked by Joseph McCarthy’s blacklisting machine, Berg fought to save his career and “The Goldbergs.” “Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” includes fabulous, rare clips from “The Goldbergs” kinescopes, and other period TV shows and films, including “The Ed Sullivan Show,” “The Honeymooners,” “The Perry Como Show,” “I Love Lucy,” Vintage TV hit to be screened, discussed Television character Molly Goldberg “The Milton Berle Show,” and the Marx Brothers. The film also features interviews with historians and fans, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ed Asner, Norman Lear, Gary David Goldberg, and many others. The Glen Rock Jewish Center is located at 682 Harristown Road. Admission is $5 at the door. For more information call (201) 652-6624.