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Page 10 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN September-October 2012<br />
BUSINESS BITS<br />
By Marsha Liebowitz<br />
TOURIAL AT GDA. Sidney R. Tourial,<br />
DDS, is the new<br />
president of the<br />
Georgia Dental<br />
Association. Dr.<br />
Tourial received<br />
his DDS from<br />
Emory University<br />
School of<br />
Dentistry and<br />
practices in<br />
Sandy Springs.<br />
Dr. Sidney Tourial<br />
He is past president,<br />
Northern<br />
District Dental<br />
Society; past international president, Alpha<br />
Omega Dental Fraternity; fellow, American<br />
College of Dentists; fellow, International<br />
College of Dentists and Pierre Fauchard<br />
Academy; and a GDA Honorable Fellow.<br />
He has served on the Atlanta <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
Community Center Board of Directors,<br />
Epstein School Board of Directors, and<br />
twice as president of Congregation Or<br />
VeShalom. He and his wife, Susan, reside in<br />
Sandy Springs.<br />
LEGGE NAMED ASSOCIATE<br />
PROVOST. Jerome Legge, who has served<br />
as interim associate provost for academic<br />
planning at the University of Georgia since<br />
January, has been named to the post on a<br />
JSU News<br />
NIGHT OWLS. <strong>The</strong> recent 2nd annual<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong> Student Union of Atlanta and<br />
NCSY All Nighter was a resounding success,<br />
attracting over 250 teens from<br />
almost 35<br />
Greater<br />
Atlanta high<br />
schools. <strong>The</strong><br />
All Nighter<br />
was held at<br />
Andretti’s<br />
Entertainment<br />
, as the culmination<br />
of a<br />
shabbos<br />
weekend<br />
event. <strong>The</strong><br />
shabbos portion<br />
of the<br />
weekend<br />
closed with<br />
inspirational<br />
words from Rabbi Chaim Neiditch, at a<br />
moving havdalah ceremony.<br />
<strong>The</strong> entertainment began with a gokart<br />
race among the JSU club presidents,<br />
cheered on by enthusiastic supporters<br />
from their respective clubs. An extreme<br />
permanent basis.<br />
Legge most<br />
recently served<br />
as associate dean<br />
of UGA’s School<br />
of Public and<br />
International<br />
Affairs and also<br />
has been director<br />
of the school’s<br />
highly ranked<br />
master of public<br />
Jerome Legge administration<br />
program. He<br />
taught graduate courses in research methods<br />
and program evaluation in the department of<br />
public administration and policy, as well as<br />
an undergraduate course on the Holocaust<br />
and contemporary German politics in the<br />
department of international affairs.<br />
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTAND-<br />
ING. <strong>The</strong> Metro Atlanta Chamber and<br />
Federation of Israeli Chambers of<br />
Commerce entered into a joint agreement at<br />
the conclusion of the July 18 “Exporting to<br />
Israel” seminar, coordinated with the<br />
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce,<br />
Georgia Department of Economic<br />
Development, and Consulate General of<br />
Israel to the Southeast. <strong>The</strong> Memorandum<br />
of Understanding includes: exchange of<br />
information on possibilities for market<br />
research, trade fairs, exhibitions, and trade<br />
ropes course, unlimited-access arcade,<br />
bowling alley, rock climbing wall, and a<br />
host of other indoor attractions kept participants<br />
wide awake and active throughout<br />
the<br />
night. To<br />
boot, an<br />
N C S Y<br />
alumnus<br />
helped create<br />
a party<br />
atmosphere<br />
as the<br />
event’s DJ,<br />
by pumping<br />
awesome<br />
simcha<br />
music;<br />
dancing in<br />
JSU All Nighter held at Andrettiʼs<br />
the sky<br />
lounge lasted<br />
into the<br />
wee hours.<br />
News of the event has reached many<br />
across Greater Atlanta, and there have<br />
been several requests to open more JSU<br />
clubs this coming school year.<br />
missions organized in their countries; support<br />
and cooperation in organizing and<br />
exchanging trade delegations; and assistance<br />
in organizing lectures, symposiums,<br />
and other events promoting further development<br />
of economic relations between their<br />
countries.<br />
MACʼs Jorge Fernandez (left) and<br />
FICCʼs Uriel Lynn sign Memorandum<br />
of Understanding, with Tom Glaser<br />
witnessing.<br />
ABBADABBA’S IN EAST COBB. Atlanta<br />
footwear purveyor Abbadabba’s has opened<br />
a new store, the company’s largest retail<br />
space, at 1255 Johnson Ferry Road,<br />
Marietta. Located in Market Plaza, just<br />
south of Merchants Walk, the space marks<br />
the relocation of the Roswell store, which<br />
closed March 30; no jobs were lost in the<br />
transition. Abbadabba’s focuses on offering<br />
footwear that helps people enhance their<br />
overall health, activities, and passions.<br />
Major brands include the Israeli company<br />
Naot together with Toms, Vibram Five<br />
Fingers, Birkenstock, Dansko, Chaco,<br />
Merrell, Dr. Martens, Converse, Vans,<br />
Clarks, Frye, New Balance, and more. For<br />
more information, including locations, visit<br />
www.coolshoes.com.<br />
Abbadabbaʼs new store in East Cobb<br />
SMALL BUSINESS BANKER. Bank of<br />
America has appointed Jonathan Lyons as<br />
small business banker for Sandy Springs<br />
and East Cobb. With more than 25 years’<br />
experience working with small businesses,<br />
Lyons will provide more personalized attention<br />
to small business owners and enable<br />
clients to have convenient access to local<br />
small business expertise from a dedicated<br />
resource. Lyons will work primarily at the<br />
Bank of America Sandy Springs branch but<br />
will also service the Parkaire and Shallow<br />
Falls locations. He lives in Marietta and is<br />
active with the East Cobb Rotary,<br />
Congregation Etz Chaim, and Eastside<br />
Baseball. For information, visit<br />
www.bankofamerica.com.<br />
NEW PROGRAM. <strong>The</strong> Greenfield Hebrew<br />
Academy welcomes<br />
Dr.<br />
J e n n i f e r<br />
Rosenberg and<br />
her new program<br />
for gifted students,<br />
the Etgar<br />
(Challenge)<br />
Program. In<br />
addition to meeting<br />
the needs of<br />
students identi-<br />
Dr. Jennifer<br />
Rosenberg<br />
fied as gifted or<br />
high achievers,<br />
Dr. Rosenberg<br />
will provide enrichment opportunities in<br />
reading and language arts classes, as well as<br />
differentiated teaching in every classroom.<br />
Dr. Rosenberg already has language arts and<br />
math enrichment opportunities in place for<br />
elementary school students, and she is<br />
assisting Middle School teachers in promoting<br />
higher levels of thinking in all classes.<br />
DIRECTOR OF DRAMA. Taryn Bryant is<br />
GHA’s new<br />
director of<br />
drama. Ms.<br />
Bryant, who has<br />
spent the past<br />
decade as a professional<br />
singer,<br />
actor, and teaching<br />
artist, brings<br />
all her experience<br />
as a performer<br />
and edu-<br />
Taryn Bryant<br />
cator to GHA<br />
Middle School<br />
students. Ms. Bryant’s plans include staging<br />
one play and one musical per year; she<br />
offers training in behind-the-scene skills as<br />
well. She believes that combining arts and<br />
education is as important to students’ academic<br />
development as it is to their emotional<br />
development.<br />
MASON AT YESHIVA. Dr. Pamela Mason<br />
is the new school<br />
counselor at<br />
Yeshiva Atlanta.<br />
She received her<br />
undergraduate<br />
degree in psychology<br />
from<br />
Barnard College,<br />
Columbia<br />
University, and<br />
her Ph.D. in clinical<br />
and school<br />
Dr. Pamela Mason<br />
psychology from<br />
H o f s t r a<br />
University, studying the impact of cultural<br />
and religious factors on body image and eating<br />
behaviors among <strong>Jewish</strong> Orthodox adolescents.<br />
As a school psychologist at<br />
Ardsley High School, Westchester County,<br />
New York, she implemented a comprehensive<br />
skills program to help teens improve<br />
their ability to regulate their emotions and<br />
improve interpersonal skills; the program<br />
was the first of its kind in a mainstream<br />
school setting.