Caroline W. Halpern Dies; Led Woldenberg Foundation
Times Picayune 12-4-1996

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Caroline Woldenberg Halpern, a philanthropist and president of the Woldenberg
Foundation in New Orleans, died Nov. 22 of cancer at her home in Coral Gables,
Fla. She was 74.

A native of Madison, Wis., Mrs. Halpern attended the University of Wisconsin
before graduating from the Fashion Institute in New York. She lived in New
Orleans from 1946 to 1959 with her husband, Jerry Halpern, before moving to
Florida.

In the past few years, her family's foundation donated $5 million to help
build Tulane University's Woldenberg Art Center and $2 million to the Audubon
Institute to expand and upgrade Woldenberg Riverfront Park in the French
Quarter. The park is named for the late New Orleans businessman Malcolm
Woldenberg, Mrs. Halpern's uncle.

Mrs. Halpern also was a director of Hospice in New Orleans, Touro Infirmary
and the Woldenberg Living Centre, and a member of the Paul Tulane Honorary
Society at Tulane University.

Her civic work and philanthropy were not limited to New Orleans.

She was president of the Alyn Hospital for Handicapped Children in Jerusalem,
past president of the Temple Israel of Greater Miami's Sisterhood and a
founding member and "sustaining babe" of the University of Miami Project
Newborn.

She received the Outstanding Woman Award from the Greater Miami Opera in 1992
and in the same year was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the
University of Miami Project Newborn and Papanicoiaou Foundation.

Mrs. Halpern was a professor of marketing at Bauder Fashion College in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and regional director of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority.

Survivors include a daughter, Minette Brown; a son, Mark Halpern; a sister,
Ann Bliss of Los Angeles; a brother, Bill Woldenberg; and four grandchildren.

A funeral was held Nov. 24. Burial was in Lakeside Memorial Park in Miami.
Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel handled arrangements.