By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer The first time Jeannie Opdyke Smith heard her mother’s story, she was 14. “One evening in 1972 the phone rang while we were having dinner and my Mom got up to answer it,” Smith recalls. “On the other end of the line was

Carol Pavlofsky, who raised more than $24 million for the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton between 1979 and 1997, died at her home in Kettering on May 25. She was 84. A native Daytonian, Pavlofsky began her work with the Federation in 1977 when she was hired as membership director