President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, 1988-1990
By: Annette R. Dobbs. Interviews conducted by Eleanor K. Glaser in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Glaser, Eleanor.; Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2002
Subjects: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.; Jewish women -- California -- Interviews.; Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Charities.; Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Family background, St. Louis, MO and San Diego, CA, Depression years; marriage to Harold Dobbs, 1941, five children, assisting his political campaigns, Mel's Drive-Ins; federation's women's division president, 1972-1974; San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation: campaign chairman, 1978, involvement with Israel, Project Renewal, Jewish education, challenges to Jewish Agency, "Who is a Jew" issue; president, 1988-1990: strategic planning, rescue of Ethiopian and Soviet Jews; national and local Jewish organizations: national vice president, United Jewish Appeal, board of trustees, United Israel Appeal, first woman board member, Concordia-Argonaut Club.