-1987-
December 10, 1987 -- "Cantor Merel To Be Honored," San Diego Jewish Times, p 35: Cantor Sheldon F. Merel will be the guest of honor at the JCC Music Committee's 17th Annual Banquet, to be held on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Beth Israel Social Hall at Third and Laurel in San Diego. The music committee's annual banquet honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the cultural life of the Jewish community and the San Deigo community at large. Previous honorees have included conductor Peter Eros, music critic Jonathan Saville and the late Cantor Henri Goldberg. Cantor Merel was selected, explained a committee spokesperson, because of his "unique and vast contribution" in bringing Jewish music to San Diego, in bringing living Jewish composers as composers-in-residence to Temple Beth Israel, and in bringing ecumenical exchanges, the combining of choirs at Beth Israel and various community churches. "Through Jewish music," said the Beth Israel spokesman, "Cantor Merel has enriched the cultural life of San Diego."
-2005-
October 31, 2005—Visit to crypt of Cantor Henri & Mollie E. Goldberg, Shalom Mausoleum, Greenwood Cemetery, San Diego:
