Resolution Adclc Shore Bernstein, one hundredth birthday June 6,2014
WHEREAS, Adele Shore Bernstein, will be celebrating her one hundredth birthday June 6,2014; and
WHEREAS, Adele Shore Bernstein was born in Philadelphia and moved with her family to Chicago shortly after her birth and lived in Chicago most of her life; and
WHEREAS. She has resided in all sides of the City: Grand Boulevard/Washington Park; Albany Park; South Shore; East Avalon; Calumet Heights; Hyde Park; and
WHEREAS, She currently resides in a health care facility in the Lakeview area; and
WHEREAS, Adele attended Chicago public schools: Edmund Burke, South Side; Bryn Mawr, South Side; Ulysses S. Grant, West Side, where she presented at the annual meeting ofthe Grand Army of the Republic on the anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, her award winning essay on the Battle of Shiloh; McKinley High School, West Side; Marshal! High School, West Side, from which she graduated in January 1932; Crane Junior College, West Side and Wright Junior College, North Side from which she graduated in the school's second graduation in June 1935; and
WHEREAS, Adele married Norman Bernstein in 1940. Norman was a third generation Chicagoan, his grandfather having settled in South Chicago in 1888; and
WHEREAS, Adele worked for Sack Realty Co., from about 1938 to 1941, and again from 1957 to 1994. According to her grandson, Rabbi Edward Bernstein (a Kenwood High School graduate), she was a "pioneer for women in the workplace," being promoted to a job at Sack Realty that had previously been held by a man, and holding that job for twenty-seven years; and
WHEREAS, She was Neighborhood Chair ofthe Southlawn Girl Scouts when she lived on South 85th Street. She also served as Social Secretary ofthe Congregation Rodfei Zedek Sisterhood in Hyde Park for many years; and
WHEREAS, Adel has two children. Her son, Charles B. Bernstein and daughter in-law Roberta Lesner Bernstein are both graduates of the University of Chicago, Adel's daughter, Barbara, and son in-law Stephen Low are both graduates of the University of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Adele has six grandchildren, two of whom are graduates of Kenwood High School, and five great-grandchildren; and
WHEREAS, Adele has excelled and has been a role model and inspiration to many as a student, daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, community worker and businessperson, and has been a great blessing to the City of Chicago; Now Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Chicago will honor Adele Shore Bernstein, in recognition of her one hundredth birthday June 6,2014. We wish her a very Happy Birthday and thank her for her years of dedicated service to Ciry of Chicago; and
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BE IT FUTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy of this resolution will be presented to Adele Shore Bernstein
Leslie A. Hairston
Alderman, 5th Ward
in honor of said birthday.
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