With the largest amount ever raised for Jewish charitable purposes in a single day — more than $15.1 million — total pledges to date for Super Sunday 1985, the United Jewish Appeal’s fifth annual telephone marathon, have exceeded $23.1 million in 96 communities, according to Sanford Hollander, UJA Super Sunday national chairman.
On January 27, the Super Sunday national date, some 17,400 volunteers in 75 communities obtained the record-breaking sum of $15,105,948 in pledges for the 1985 Regular Campaign. “This represents a 21.4 percent increase over pledges by the some donors last year,” said Hollander, a UJA national vice chairman. “In dollars, last Sunday’s phonathon achievement was more than $1.6 million ahead of the results on the Super Sunday ’84 national date.”
“But we’re only just beginning,” Hollander pointed out. “Twenty-one communities held their Super Sundays before the national date, raising more than $8 million, and 51 more — including such major communities at Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and San Francisco — will conduct their Super Sundays in the weeks and months ahead.
“We’re confident that when the last community Super Sunday has taken place this spring, another record will be shattered — the more than $33 million raised last year.”
Five communities have raised more than $1 million each: Boston; MetroWest, N.J.; New York City; Philadelphia; Washington and Miami, which surpassed its 1984 total by 50 percent. Two of them — New York City and Washington — again passed the $2 million mark.
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