Publication Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
The JCC, then and now
The JCC, then and now
(March 31, 2004)
The efforts to first establish a Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto go back more than four decades:
<"Times"> 1960: The South Peninsula Jewish Community Center meets in a church in downtown Palo Alto.
<"Times"> 1961-65: The JCC expands services and moves to a site on Middlefield Road.
<"Times">1971: The JCC moves to the former Ortega School.
<"Times"> 1982: The JCC moves to East Meadow Drive.
<"Times"> 1983: The Albert L. Shultz Jewish Community Center leases the former Terman Middle School.
<"Times"> 1985: Membership expands to 4,000.
<"Times"> 1992: Russian ...migré program opens.
<"Times"> 1999: Palo Alto Unified School District announces plan to reopen Terman as a middle school.
<"Times"> 2002: JCC, in partnership with other groups, buys former Sun Microsystems site on Charleston Road.
<"Times"> 2002: JCC begins interim lease at Cubberley Community Center. --Don Kazak
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