Funeral services were held here Friday for Mrs. Helen Dalsheimer, the first woman president of the World Federation of YM-YWHAs and Jewish Community Centers, who died here Thursday at the age of 74. A former president of the Baltimore Jewish community center. Mrs. Dalsheimer was an honorary board member of the National Jewish Welfare Board, a leader in the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and in the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and a past president of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.
She was member of the executive committee of the JWB Women’s Organizations Services and served on the JWB board beginning in 1946. In 1960, Mrs. Dalsheimer received the JWB Frank L. Weil Award for her “distinguished contribution to the Jewish Community Center field.” During her many years of activity in the Jewish community she was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Board of Trustees and executive committee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and the North American Board of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
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