Corré had ‘amazing journey’ with JHCC

“I am the past,” Nita Corré said several times during a recent interview, and it is time for looking to the future of the Jewish Home and Care Center.

Yet now is also a good time for looking back at what she called “an amazing journey.” Corré, who will soon be 73, in her career has encompassed much of the recent past of the JHCC and its affiliated organizations.

She was in her 20s when she began volunteering at the old Milwaukee Jewish Home on 50th St.; She began working professionally for the organization 39 years ago, and became its executive director some five years later, just when the organization moved to its present Prospect Ave. site.

Corré had been president of both the JHCC and its foundation until the two functions were separated in 2003. Corre then became president of the foundation.

In all that time, “I have been proud of being a member of a team that has really concentrated on constantly improving the quality of life for our residents,” she said. “It has been a privilege to be working with amazing people who have devoted so much love, attention and resources to the Home.”

Now that she has decided to retire, the presidencies of the JHCC and its foundation will be rejoined under the leadership of Michael I. Sattell as of July 1. Corré said, “I feel privileged at being succeeded” by Sattell. “He has sterling values and qualities, and will be a great leader.”

Corré will be “staying around for some months to help with the transition.” After that, “a whole lot of doors will open,” Corré said. Though she has no “fixed plans,” she did mention that she is also interested in the causes of Jewish education and homelessness.

She also mentioned that she and her husband, retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Alan Corré, have four children in different parts of the country. Moreover, she is connected to a very large family, descendents of her parents. Most of them still live in her native Gibraltar, but many are in London and in Israel; and “there is always a bar mitzvah or a wedding going on.”