Trent D. Pendley:  

Trent D. Pendley is a fine jeweler, writer and an advocate for social justice. He became the President of The Indiana Jewish Historical Society in 2003 and served six terms in this position, now a life past president. He has been a member of the organization since he was age 18. Trent has also served on the Board of Directors of UJA, JNF, Hillel-Arizona State University, Aviv, and the Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum in Greater Phoenix; The Greater Crown Point Chamber of Commerce, The Northwest Indiana Open Housing Center, The Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana and Temple Beth El in Odessa, Texas. He has also served in positions with the ADL, AJC, and B'nai B'rith. He is a member and board of director of Temple Israel in Miller Beach. He plans to retire from all but serving the IJHS board by the end of 2011. He is also on the ADL's Upper Midwest Division's Civil Right's committee. He was a 1993 Leslie Wexner Heritage Foundation nominee; a columnist and former editor of the 'Illiana News.' He covered the historic Sadat visit to Jerusalem in 1977 when an Indiana University overseas studies student at the Hebrew University in Israel. Trent has served as the Social Action chair of Temple Israel in Gary, Indiana and he is the Public Relations counsel to American Dream Realty in Crown Point. He wrote the script to the 'FIRST WALK' a historic walking tour of a genteel turn-of-the 20th century neighborhood in his home town of Crown Point, Indiana and has given public readings of a 1930 novel by a local author, long forgotten, which had scandalized Ruffle Shirt Hill. In 1999 he commissioned the Wyeth-Hurd prodigy, David Rogers, to paint his 'Faces in Time' a cubist portrait of the 187...Expand for more