Friday, NoveirlUer 30, 1945 THE JEWISH- NEWS Kahn Firm Starts Designing Detroit's Jewish Hospital Page- Eleven To-the Jewish People Halevy Center Plan Revealed at Social BY GABRIELA MISTRAL (EDITOR'S NOTE: Gabriela Mistral, famous Chilean poetess who was recently awarded the.Nobel Prize for literature for 1915. wrote the fol- lowing poem last year on the occasion of the disclosure of the Nazi massacre of Jews in Poland.) • At the overflow gathering of Detroit Halevy Singing Society in Planning Operations Begin This Month on First Unit to the Jewish Community Center on Consist of 200 Beds; Local World-famous Architect ural Nov. 18, entertainment was pro- Jewish race, flesh of sufferings, Jewish race, river of bitterness: h the skies and the earth, you endure and even your forest of clamors grows. and Engineering Company Picked Over 20 Bids vided by two members of Halevy, Shirley Zaft, soprano, and Jack Rosberg, tenor, who were accom- panied by Bella Goldberg. 3 111! I Dr. William Klein, chairman of tni :3 i hi:iitti:2 4#001:43- 21:6 1 Halevy activities, introduced the , IS. T1,10*4113 ". n " participants, and as chairman of the building committee, present- ed the plan for financing the pro- posed Halevy Music Center. This plan calls for a drive for Halevy members and patrons. Halevy chorus, now preparing for its 21st annual concert under the direction of Dan Frohman, University Hospital at Ann Arbor, a Kahn-Designed Institution and,featuring Igor Gorin, is seek- Designing of Detroit's Jewish Hospital is under way, ing more members, and invites with Albert Kahn Associated Architects and Engineers, Inc., singers to attend rehearsals at creators of over two billion dollars' worth of construction on Roosevelt School, Linwood at Burlingame, at 9 p. m. every six continents, as architect. Planning operations were begun Tuesday. in November on the first unit, to comprise at least 200 beds, of a hospital which, with the support of Detroit Jewish philanthropy, may expand to be- come one of America's leading medical centers. Dr. J. J. Golub, superintendent of New York's Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Jewish Hospital Association's consultant, as well as an advisor group of local physicians and surgeons, will co- operate with the Kahn organiza- tion in planning the hospital. Formed 40 Years Ago The Kahn organization was founded 40 years ago in Detroit by the late Albert Kahn. • It has ALBERT KAHN (1869-1942) designed such well known indus- trial and commercial structures in this area as the General Mo- tors, Fisher, and New Center Buildings, the Free Press, News, and Times plants, the Kresge national headquarters, and fac- tories for Chrysler, Ford, General Motors. and Packard. Hospitals which it has planned include Harper, Herman Kiefer, Women's; Children's, Ypsilanti State, and University. Choice of the Kahn firm to de- sign the Jewish Hospital came after thorough consideration of 20 leading architectural organ- izations. For each candidate, Harry Frank, Nate S. Shapero -and Israel Davidson, constituting the Jewish Hospital Association's sub-committee on selection of an architect, together with the en- tire hospital committee, weighed such fundamental factors as architectural competence, engi- neering skill, experience in hos- pital design, ability to supervise construction, and professional fee. The final choice was unan- imous. Kahn Son of Rabbi The eldest of six children of an immigrant rabbi, Albert Kahn arrived in Detroit from Luxem- bourg in. 1879, was fired from his first job in an architect's office, and went on to a career that in- cluded the designing of pace-set- ting structures throughout the world, from hospitals to trial -plants and from Detroit to Stalingrad. Outstanding for his engineering achievements, Albert Kahn put a high premium on fitness and sim- plicity in architecture, seeking distinction and beauty Of design always. "A hospital," he said, "should not look like a hotel, nor a home like a laboratory," and "the mere clothing of the skele- ton of an airplane makes a thing of beauty—so with buildings." Select 25 Key Men The Albert Kahn organization today represents the culmination of a plan inaugurated by Albert and Louis Kahn well before the former's death in 1942. Recog- nizing , that large-scale architec- ture had advanced far beyond the capacity of any one man to administer its ramified and high ly technical modern.phases, the brothers admitted 25 key men into the , management group as "Associates," thereby broadening the firm's supervisory scope and assuring its perpetuation after the Kahns were no longer active. Today, George H. Miehls, presi- dent and treasurer, Sheldon Marston, executive vice-president, Saul Saulson, Robert Linton, and 0. L. Canfield, vice-presidents, and George K. Scryrngeour, sec- retary, constitute the executive staff of the organization generally conceded to be the largest archi- tectural firm in the world. Firm of Many Experts The versatility of the Kahn firm in being able to take a com- mission for any large construc- tion project, whether a great manufacturing layout, an airport, or a health center, bespeaks an extraordinarily high degree of specialization within the organiz- ation. It has been said of the Kahn offices in the New Center Building that they house as many specialists per square foot of floor space as any like area in the world. The . average layman conceives of an architectUral workshop as a group of men bending over draft- ing boards, and there are drafts- men in the Kahn organization, but the number of graduate architects and engineers in it rivals the personnel of a great research • laboratory. ' • There are architects, civil en- gineers, • mechanical engineers, electrical engineers—degree men in lighting, heating, ventilation— specialists in every profession "and industry having to do with modern design and construction. There is even an expert on park- ing lot services. Never have they let'you expose your wounds to the air, never have they let you recline in the shade, to squeeze and purify your wound, redder than a red rose. With your moans you have sung a lullaby to the world, and she plays with the fibres of your weeping. The lines in your face, that I love so dearly, are like open wounds of mountain depth. Tremblingly you women cuddle their children, tremblingly your men harvest their grain. A nightmare penetrates into your speaking and your words say only "the death prayer." Jewish race and still you have fight and voice of honey, to extoll your God, and recite the Song of Songs with tongue, and lip and heart cut up. In your women still walks Mary, on your face is drawn the profile of Christ; on the slopes of Zion they have seen him call you in vain, when the day dies .. . `Story of Maccabees' Over NBC This Sunday "The Maccabees," a Hanukah story by Morton Wishengrad, will be presented on the Eternal Light, Sunday (NBC, 11 a.m.; WEAF, 12 noon, EST). - The program is presented under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabbi Abraham E. Halpern of Cong. Bnai Amoona in St. Louis, Mo., will deliver a brief address. 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