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Friday, January 19, 1951

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

JWF Parley

Mothers' Clubs to Celebrate
30 Years of Civic Activities

U. S.-Israel Air Service
to Plan Budget to Be Started in March

Charter members of the Jewish Community Centers' Mothers'
Clubs, which celebrate their 30th anniversary Wednesday, exam-
ine photographs and documents of the clubs' early days. Seated,
left to right, Mesdames Gittel Garber, Rose Granitz, Ida Drapkin
and Mina Kramer. Standing, Bessie Carron, Sarah Avrin and Eva
Lang. Mrs. Drapkin is dean of the Mothers' Clubs. Mrs. Granitz
was the first Jewish woman to obtain citizenship under the Cable
Act of 1922, after graduating from a Mothers' citizenship class.

Immigrant mothers of 30 years
ago who formed a club to share
their experiences and problems
of adjustment to the new world,
will celebrate a milestone next
week.
Seven charter members who
have been active in the Mothers'
Clubs of the Jewish Community
Center will be honored at the
anniversary banquet, Wednesday
evening, Jan. 24, at the Center.
A house-to-house canvass to
turn up students for an English
class at the old Hannah Schloss
Institute led to the first Mothers'
Club. The canvasser, Mary Cap-
lan, still directs the Mothers'
Clubs' program as she has contin-
uously since 1920, except for an
interval in 1928-34, when she was
called to Bronx House, New
York.
Soon the immigrant mothers
began to attend club meetings at
the Schloss Institute with their
infants in tow.
When the Jewish neighborhood
around Hastings street began to
break up in the 1920s, the

ter Club were organized.
In 1923, the Mothers' Clubs
rented a group of cottages to con-
duct a camp for mothers and chil-
dren. They conducted the camp
five years without outside help,
until the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion built the present Camp Chel-
sea.
In 1925, when Detroit organized
a Civic Pride Association to con-
duct the first clean-up, paint-up
campaign, the immigrant mothers
were responsible for the Oakland
section.
Mrs. Oscar Robinson, then
chairman of the Mothers' Clubs'
advisory committee, aided the
garden project and other major
activities. Mrs. Sidney J. Allen
and Mrs. Miriam Van Baalen
have played vital roles in the
mothers' program of self-develop-
ment.
Mrs. Ida Drapkin, a charter
member, has been designated as
dean of the Mothers' Clubs. Other
charter members include Mrs.
Sarah Avrin, Mrs. Rose Granitz,
Mrs. Bessie Caron, Mrs. Gittel
Mothers' Clubs pioneered in ex- Garber, Mrs. Mina Kramer and
tension programming. An Oak- Mrs. Eva Lang.
Mrs. William New is chairman
land Mothers' Club, a Fenkell
Club, 12th Street Club and Dex- of arrangement for the banquet.

Federation Women's Institute
Will Feature Helen Douglas

When members of the women's
division of the Jewish Welfare
Federation hold their fifth annual
institute Wednesday, Jan. 31 at
Temple Beth El,
their major
speaker will be
Helen Gahagan
Douglas, former
congresswoman
from California.
1' h e institute—
"A Day Wit h
Women of Dis-
tinction" — will
begin with regis-
tration at 9:30
Mrs. Douglas
Women who will speak at other
sessions include Mesdames Mor-
ris Beckwitt, Robert Coggan,
Samuel Grandon, Herman Ja-
cobs, Benjamin E. Jaffe, Maurice
A, Klein, Alexander W. Sanders,
Carl Schiller, A. Joseph Seltzer
and Joshua S. Sperka.
The morning convocation will
feature Mrs. G. Mennen Williams,
wife of the governor, and Mrs.
Philip Adler, director of the
school program on community
service of the Council of Social
Agencies.
Mrs. Douglas has achieved
recognition for her statesmanlike
approach to the problems of pub-
life life. She was elected for three
terms to Congress.
Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Adler
will describe how the well-ad-
justed, mature woman can make
a contribution both to her com-
munity and to her home by prop-
erly allotting her time among the
various activities which interest
and concern her.
Mrs. Raymond Sokolov, pro-

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gram chairman, is assisted by
Mrs. Charles Briskman and Mrs.
Herschel V. Kreger, vice-chair-
men; Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner,
division president; Mrs. Paul P.
Broder, Mrs. J. Shirley Horwitz,
Mrs. Harry L. Jones and Mrs.
Milton Marx.

Members of six major groups
have been invited to attend the
1951 pre-campaign budgeting con-
ference to be held at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Dexter
Center.
Those invited include members
of the Federation board of gover-
nors, the Detroit Service Group
(fund-raising arm of Federation)
board, the Federation women's
division board, the board of the
Community Service Committee of
the Young Adult Council, the
Federation budget and planning
divisions and Federation member
agency boards.
The purpose of the conference
is to develop a formula for the
allocation of 1951 Allied Jewish
Campaign funds for overseas and
Israel, local programs and na-
tional agencies.
Presentation of agencies' needs
will be made by chairmen of the
budget and planning divisions—
Maurice A. Enggass and Milton
K. Mahler, health and welfare;
Henry Meyers, educational and
cultural, and Morris Garvett,
community relations.

Temple Israel
to Mark City's
Anniversary

In celebration of the 250th an-
niversary of the founding of the
city of Detroit, Rabbi Leon Fram
will begin a series of sermons on
"the Spiritual Foundations and
the Moral and Civic Implications
of the Founding and the Growth
of the City of Detroit."
Rabbi Leon Fram represents
the Jewish community on De-
troit's 250th Birthday Festival,
Inc. He is vice-chairman of the
religious participation committee
of the Festival.
The title of the first sermon in
the series to be delivered at 8:30
p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 in the new
building of Temple Israel, 17400
Manderson, will be "The Spirit-
ual Foundations of the City of
Detroit." Cantor Robert S. Tul-
man and Karl W. Haas, music di-
rector of the Temple, have pre-
pared special musical background
for the occasion.

HistadrutRally
to Hear Segal

Louis Segal, general secretary
of Farband, Labor Zionist Or-
der, will address a Histadrut
campaign rally next Thursday
evening at Labor Zionist Insti-
tute, 13722 Linwood. A musical
Pierre Van Paassen, famous program will be presented by the
author, will address a meet- Yiddish humorist, Al Harris.
ing of the Zionist Organization
Officers and campaign work-
of Detroit Monday night, Feb.
5 at Northwest Hebrew Con- ers of affiliated landsmanschaf-
ten will hold the annual lands-
gregation.
The speaker will discuss his manschaften breakfast at 10 a.m.,
Sunday at the Labor Zionist In-
recent book "Jerusalem Call-
stitute.
ing."
Louis Levine, chairman of or-
ganizations, announced that plans
ISRAEL ISSUES STAMPS
for the campaign will be dis-
HAKIRYA— (ISI) —The first
cussed.
series of official Israel stamps is
being issued this month for use
on official mail of government DANCE CLASS FOR YOUTH
Registration for a beginners'
offices. Collectors may place their
orders with Philatelic Services, dance class for teen-agers is now
open at the Dexter Center.
Hakirya, Israel.

ZOD to Be Host
to Van Paassen

THE FARBAND - LABOR ZIONIST ORDER

`A TOWN AWAKENS'

NEW YORK—(ISI)—Twice weekly service from New York to
Lydda, Israel, will be inaugurated by El Al, Israel's National Air-
lines, in March. The trip will be made in 26 hours, with a stop in
London. 0
El Al ("to the skies") recently world.
received the first of its fleet of
El Al is also planning to estab-
Constellation aircraft. This 57- lish a civil aviation school for
passenger transport was modi- air and ground crews at Lydda,
fied, to incorporate the most to be headed by an expert from
modern devices.
the United States.
One of the innovations is a set
of 11 loudspeakers by which
passengers will receive flight re-
ports as well as news bulletins
and music from ground radio
stations.
WASIIINGTON—(WNS) —
El Al is one of four major air-
lines authorized to schedule serv- President Truman this week re-
ice between New York and Lon- ceived the 1951 Henrietta Szold
don. World service by El Al in- award for distinguished humani-
cludes a route system from Lydda tarian service from Hadassah,
to London, Paris, Zurich, Vienna, the Women's Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.
Athens and Istanbul.
The $1,000 award was set up
El Al's new division, also op-
erating through the gateway of in 1949 in memory of Henrietta
Lydda, heads south to Khartoum, Szold, founder of Hadassah, who
Nairobi, Livingstone and Johan- died in 1945 in Jerusalem.
nesburg.
Mr. Truman returned the
Interchange agreements be- check to Hadassah to be used
tween El Al and leading inter- toward the establishment of a
national airlines make it possible fellowship in the name of the
for passengers to use El Al tickets President's mother, the late Mrs.
for inter-line services around the Martha Ellen Young Truman.

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Hadassah Award

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