December 16, 2004

arshall, 92, served as the center\’s first public relations director five decades ago. For an instant, he allowed himself to become lost in remembrance of things past.

\”There was always so much going on back then,\” he said. \”Never a dull moment.\”

And so it was on Sunday, Dec. 12, when the Westside JCC threw a 50th anniversary party for itself, and 250 of its friends came. Septuagenarians and octogenarians who hadn\’t seen each other for years reminisced about the good old days, when the Westside JCC was considered one of the country\’s state-of-the-art Jewish community centers.