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Gloria Roden
- Accession Number
- 2023-5-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-5-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10 cm of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w and col. ; 13 x 18 or smaller
- Date
- 1947-2001
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists primarily of records related to Gloria Roden's term as the president of the Toronto section of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, from 1976 to 1979. Also includes personal records of Gloria's youth, as well as records related to committees and organizations in which she was presumably participated, such as the Association of Sponsoring Organizations – Recreation for the Elderly, the Association of Club Senior Officers – Recreation for the Elderly, the Steering Committee of the Coordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly of the United Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Association of Senior Clubs.
- Administrative History
- Gloria Barbara Roden (née Mosoff) is the daugher of Alexander Eliott and Fay Mosoff. Her mother was a member and volunteer of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada for several decades. Gloria attended Forest Hill Colegiate until her family moved to Hamilton, where she graduated from Notre Dame Academy, in Waterdown. She went on to study child management at Ryerson Polytechnical School and taught nursery school until her marriage to Jack Percival Roden, a pharmacist, in 1955. Jack and Gloria had two children: Melanie and Barry.
- Gloria was a Sunday School teacher at Anshe Shalom Synagogue in Hamilton, a board member of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and served in several organizations and committees, notably the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, of whose Toronto section she was president from 1976 to 1979.
- Subjects
- Women--Societies and clubs
- Name Access
- Roden, Gloria
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions