Jewish Community Center Dedicates Gymnastics Pavilion to Local Donor

In a recent dedication ceremony, the Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody named its state-of-the-art gymnastics pavilion after donors, center member and Holocaust survivor Abe Besser and wife Marlene Gelernter Besser.

The 7,000-square-foot Besser Gymnastics Pavilion hosts the center’s youth and adult gymnastics programs, as well as cheerleading, birthday parties, and active summer camps.

The facility features a spring floor, three gymnastics pits, six beams, three bars, a vault, and a regulation length runway.

More than 1,100 gymnasts joined one of the community center’s competitive Perimeter Gymnastics teams last year, a league that trained nine state champions and three regional champions.

“The Besser Gymnastics Pavilion enables us to offer a broad array of gymnastics programs and provides the space and equipment to house what has become one of the largest gymnastics programs in the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs area,” said the community center’s CEO Gail Luxenberg in a press release. “It was a lovely dedication ceremony and we are so pleased to have this beautiful facility carry the name of such a special family.”

The Bessers are also the benefactors of the Jewish Community Center’s Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden.

For information on events, programs, and services offered by the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, call 678-812-4000.

Photo courtesy of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta

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