“Super Sunday 82,” the United Jewish Appeal’s second annual volunteer telephone marathon, exceeded both its goal and the results achieved in the first such event last year by raising a total of $25,260,091, according to the latest figures compiled at Super Sunday headquarters here.
“Our 26,114 volunteers in 102 communities in the United States obtained 220,101 gifts,” stated Jerome Dick, national chairman of both the 1981 and 1982 Super Sundays. “Their total surpassed our goal of $25 million and for surpassed last year’s figure of $19.1 million. The result was a new record for a mass appeal in peacetime. It has been an electrifying, explosive way to open the public phase of the 1982 Campaign,” said Dick, who is also a UJA national vice chairman.
He pointed out that when the amount raised by a Super Sunday community in Canada is added to the U.S. total, the result comes to $26,573,091. Noting that 33 additional U.S. communities will hold their Super Sundays in the coming weeks and months as campaigns open locally, Dick predicted that “the final result will be a record hard to beat — at least until Super Sunday ’83.”
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