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Friday, /Inc 13, .1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

JNF Erects Memorial Bench in Honor
Of the Late Sylvia Simons of Detroit

to the Hebrew University and
the Hadassah Hospital have been
erected on the land donated by
Mr. and Mrs. Simons. Elias M.
Epstein, a member of the direc-
torate of the Jewish National
Fund, writes from Jerusalem:
"For your information, may I
add that the gift of -land from
Mr. Simons was in shares of
quite a number of separate plots.
Hence, we were unable to place
a plaque in any building erected
on this site, seeing that the area
he had bought and donated to us
was made up of scattered parcels.
"Hence the arrangement of
the bench in the gardens, creat-
ing a happy arrangement. With
the plants and flowers which
have been laid out, the spot is
exceedingly pleasant. Seated on
the bench one faces the wonder-
ful panorama of the city of Je-
rusalem which is unobscured
over the valley which divides
Mount Scopus from Mount
Sinai."
Mrs. Simons was deeply moved
when she was informed this
week of the tribute accorded the
memory of her daughter, Sylvia,
and when she was shown the
photographs reproduced here.
She expressed gratitude for this
mark- of respect shown her late
daughter and husband, and she
stated that the contributions her
family had made towards Pal-
estine's redemption have been
among her life's most pleasant-
experiences.
Party for Grandson
Mrs. Samuel Lewin-Epstein, of
Jerusalem,' sister-in-law of Dr.
and Mrs. A. M. Hershman, has
been helpful in arranging plans
for the establishment of the
Ohel Sarah in Haifa.
Mrs. Lewin-Epstein recently
reported that a holiday party
was arranged at the Ohel Sarah
Nursery in honor of Israel Brodie
Simons, grandson of Mrs. D. W.
Simons and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Nathan Simons.

THE SYLVIA SIMONS MEMORIAL BENCH IN JERUSALEM

Jewish National Fund Headquarters in Jerusalem Pays
Great Tribute to Daughter of Detroiters in
Recognition of Gifts to Palestine

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Palestine has shown the great-
est mark of respect ever accord-
ed to Detroiters in the erection of
a Memorial Bench on the
grounds of the Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem, to record the
generosity to Eretz Israel of the
Simons Family.
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael
(Jewish National Fund) head-
quarters in Jerusalem this week
reported that in recognition of
the many gifts to the JNF and
for other Palestinian institutions

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1932, during the visit here of the
late Menahem Ussishkin, world
president of the Jewish National
Fund, at a dinner at the Phila-
delphia-Byron Hall. Theodore
Levin made the presentation in
behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Simons.
Judge Charles C. §imons, of the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
son of the donors, was a guest of
honor at the dinner.
Mr. Simons originally pur-
chased the land with the inten-
tion of building dormitories for

Center Lists
Art Winners

The Art School of the Jewish
Community Center, which is
holding its annual exhibition at
the Center, announces the names
of prize winning students in both
the advanced and the elementary
classes.

The Jury of Awards consisted
of Sarkis Sarkisian:- G. Alden
Smith, Mrs. H. Farbsten, Mrs.
Hoke Levin, Mrs. David B.
Werbe, Stanley J. Twardowicz,
Leon Makielski-and Mrs. Edward
D. Quint.

In the advanced class, the fol-
lowing distinctions were award-
ed: The special prize to Bertha
Rosenbaum; first prize to Sam
Rosen; second prize, Miriam
Salomon Aston; third prize,
Sylvia Stein Welton; first honor-
able ' mention, Max Firetog; sec-
ond honorable mention, Louis
Kormandy; third honorable men-
tion, Abe Lansky.

In the elementary class, the
first prize went to Moishe Smith;
second prize, Michael Eremia;
third prize, Helen Isaacs; first
honorable mention, Marjorie
Kuttnauer; second honorable
mention, Selma Arkin; third
honorable mention, Sheila Bur-
kow.

Approximately 200 drawings
and paintings appear in this ex-
hibition, which is open through
June 25. The public is invited.

Members of the Center Art
Committee are: Mrs. Hoke Levin,
Mrs. Bayre Levin, Mrs. Harold
Smilay, Mrs. Milton Strauss,
Mrs. Morris Garvett, Mrs. Ed-
wafd D. Quint, Mrs. Alexander
Freeman, Mrs. David B. Werbe,
MT's. Mortimer H. Meyers, Mrs.
Harry Farbsten, and Mrs. Julian
Wolfner.

LATE D. W. SIMONS

THE BENCH, FACING THE CITY OF JERUSALEM
Seated on the Sylvia Simons Memorial Bench when this first
photograph was taken is Mrs. Samuel Lewin-Epstein of Jerusalem,
sister-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Hershman of Detroit.

Made by the late David W.
Simons, and his family, a memo-
rial bench has been set up in
tribute to the late Sylvia Simons,
daughter of Mrs. Laura .Simons
of 9,000 LaSalle Blvd. and the
late Mr. Simons.
Inscription on Bench
The inseription on the bench,
which faces the beautiful setting
of the Hebrew University and the
Hadassah Hospital, reads:
"In Memory of SYLVIA
SIMONS, died on July 19,
1930. Daughter of Laura and
the late David Simons_ of De-
troit, U. S. A., who donated a
Plot of Land in the vicinity of
the Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael
for the Hebrew University.

1943."

students and professors, but the
depression interfered with these
plans. On his second visit to Pal-
estine, in 1931, he decided to pre-
sent the land to the Jewish Na-
tional Fund as the site for the
Hadassah Hospital.

Was on 9-Man Council
Mr. Simons, one of Detroit's
most /distinguished citizens who
was a member of the first nine-
man Council, died in 1933.
During their 1931 visit in Pal-
estine, Mr. and Mrs. Simons
created a free loan fund in
Tiberias, known as the Keren
Gemiluth Hesed David ve-Leah
Simons, and for many. years
Mrs. Simons financed this fund.
Among the other significant
gifts made by the Simons family
was the contribution of $5,800 to
the Jewish National Fund by the
late Wolf Kaplan, the Simons'
son-in-law, in memory of Mrs.
Kaplan (Sarah Simons), for the
establishment of a day nursery
in Haifa known as "Ohel Sarah."
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presentation of the gift"' of the
land parcels on Mt. Scopus, Je
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