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Friday, April 5, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Center Acquires Location
For Dexter Area Building

Composer to Give
Musical Lecture

Proposed Expansion Program Announced at Annual Meeting
by Samuel H. Rubiner, President; Eight Directors
Elected; "Living Gallery" Depicts Activities

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The largest and most representative audience in the
history of the Jewish Community Center attended the twelfth
annual meeting on March 27 in the Center auditorium.
From the opening of the record meeting with a "Call
to Colors" by Boy Scout Troops 369 and 469 and the singing
of the National Anthem, through the entire program, a spirit

of enthusiasm in Center activities:,
marked the evening's program.
persons in Europe and other
Accepting the report of the needy groups.
nominating committee presented
The Intermediate teen-agers
by Edward Kahn, chairman, the "jitterbugged." The Art School,
following were elected to serve housed in a garret studio booth,
on the board for a three-year sketched and painted. The 12th
term:
Street CounCil Center was rep-
The New Directors-
resented by its Chess and Check-
Dr. Harry A. August, Mrs. H. er Club including - its youngest
C. Broder, Oscar A. Kaufman, member, aged six.
Jay Rosenshine, Samuel H. Ru-
Also represented were Juniors,
biner, Emil T. Stern, Mrs. Leon- Center Journalists, Photography
ard H. Weiner and Ben F. Wig- Club, Physical Education Depart-
der.
ment and every other area of
Kurt Saffir, young Center com- Center activity.
poser, played his original compo-
sition, First Movement from So- Friends of Opera
nata in A minor, for which he
was awarded the Youth Festival Will Give Luncheon
prize. He was accompanied on For Mrs. Witherspoon
the violin by Arthur Ben.avie. -
Rubiner's Report
Fred M. Butzel, chairman of the
Samuel H. Rubiner, president, Detroit Friends of Opera, an-
in the keynote address of the nounces that Mrs. Herbert With-
erspoon, director of the Metropol-
evening, review-
itan Opera Guild, will be guest
ed the year's
speaker at the group's luncheon
activities. He
n her honor on Monday, in the
pointed out that
English Room of the Book-Cadil-
the Center mem-
lac hotel.
bership had
Mrs. Witherspoon, whose hus-
reached an all-
11,and was the general manager of
time high of
the Metropolitan Opera associa-
over 4,000 and
tion, is a graduate of the Univer-
that more than
sity of California and has held the
400,000 had par-
post of educational director of the
ticipated in or
Schirmer Publishing Co. She is
attended Center
national secretary of American
activites during
the past year. S. H. Rubiner Guild of Musicians and Artists.
Mrs. Rhetts Tilton will intro-
Approximately 1100 servicemen
have availed themselves of the duce Mrs. Witherspoon, who will
six-month free membership priv- speak on "National Opera from
ilege. He emphasized the tremen- Native Roots."
dous need for adequate Center
that existed in- the Jewish areas Arian Heads Midwest
facilities in the Jewish areas Jewish Center Workers
of Dexter and Six and Seven
Mile Road.
Mr. Rubiner made the im-
portant announcement that a
plot of land already has been •
acquired in the Dexter section
for a building in that district.
He declared that the Center is
eager to rally community sup-
port behind a broad extension
program in thickly-populated
Jewish areas.
Herman Jacobs, executive di-
rector of the Center, was . con-
gratulated upon his 10th anni-
versary of service to the Center
and was presented with a token.
Mr. Jacobs reminisced with his
HAROLD ARIAN
audience concerning his first ex-
periences in his position and em-
Three staff members repre-
phasized the deep satisfaction he sented the Jewish Center at the
had enjoyed during his long years conference of the Midwest Chap-
of service. ,
ter of National Association of
Present "Living Gallery"
Jewish Center Workers, held in
The meeting was featured by Pittsburgh March 22-23. Harold
an original presentation of the Arian, assistant director of the
Center's activities in the form of Center, and Harold Weiss, direc-
a "Living Gallery." In group- tor of the 12th St. Council Cen-
work fashion, Center members ter, were elected president and
from every age-level and activity vice-president, respectively, of
had erected booths symbolizing the association. Sam Neuschatz,
their share in the story of the intermediate director, was a
member of the delegation who
Center's stories.
represented the Center.
The Mothers' Clubs depicted
their "Citizenship in Action"
through the many discussions, Dr. Sol G. Meyers Back;
forums, legislative petitions and Resumes Medical Practice
other forms of social action that
had characterized their groups.
Dr. Sol G. Meyers has returned
The New Detroiters, refugee from military service, having
newcomers to our country, ex- served for almost the entire per-
pressed their integration in iod of the war in Africa and Italy,
American life through their serv- and has resumed the practice of
ice for the Red Cross, displaced . medicine at 1320 Maccabees Bldg.

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Page Seven

Jewish Center
Activities

10th Tea Talk Presents
Dr. Tumin, Mrs. Kailman
The women's activities corn-
mittee of the Jewish Center will
hold its tenth tea talk on Sun-
day, at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Melvin Tu-
min, department of sociology,
Wayne University, will discuss
"The Role of Women in Ameri-
can Society," and Mrs. David S.
Kailman, soprano, will provide
the musical portion of the pro-
gram, accompanied by Miss
Flora Beckman, pianist. Mrs.
William Isenberg is chairman of
the committee. Refreshments will
be served.
The tea talk programs are co-
sponsored by Bnai Brith Business
and Professional Women, Bnai
Brith Young Womne's Council,
Business and Professional Divi-
sion of Hadassah, Junior Nadas-
Sah, Junior Home Relief, Na-
tional Council of Jewish Juniors
and Service Wives of the Jewish
Center.
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Posters on Display
A series of posters dealing with
the theme of intercultural rela-
tionships comprise an interesting
display currently on view at 12th
St. Council Center, 8687 12th.
The posters are the work of
two students of Hutchins Infer-
mediate School, Leotta Patton
and Margaret Swerd, and are
being shown with the cooperation
of the social science department
of that school.
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Pre Passover Dance April 14
A pre-Passover dance, the 31st
Holiday Hop, will take place at
the Center on Sunday, April 14,
at 9 p.m., in the Auditorium.
Bobby Grayson and his Top Hat
orchestra will furnish the music.
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Cub Pack Minstrel Show
The Center's Cub Pack 369 will
hold its fourth annual minstrel
show on Sunday, April 28. Re-
hearsals take place every Tues-
day evening at the McCulloch
School under the direction of
Merton Ertz. Cub Pack commit-
tee chairman, Julius Pliskow, as-
sures that this year's show will
be the best ever held by the
Cub Scouts.,
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Mothers Clubs
This week, food showers for
the Jews in the liberated coun-
tries of Europe will be conducted
by the Mothers' Clubs.

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein will be fea-
tured in the annual concert of the
Jewish Community Center Satur-
day evening, April 13, at the Cen-
ter auditorium.
Mr. Bernstein achieved fame
Nvith his "Jeremiah Symphony,"
which was performed under his
direction by the New York Phil-
harmonic orchestra.
Only 27 years old, he has won
country-wide attention with his
music for "On The Town" and
"Fancy Free."
He will be heard in the Center
in a lecture with piano illustra-
tions on "What Is American Mu-
sic?"
Mrs. Nathan Simons, chairman
of the Center's music committee,.
Is in charge of arrangements.
Tickets are available at the Cen-
ter office.

3rd Seder at Jewish
Center on April 20

The Jewish Center Intermedi-
ate Groups plans a third Seder
for Saturday, April 20, at 8:30
p.m., at the Center. Pesach re-
freshments, songs and skits will
be followed by dancing. A new
1946 Haganda will be introduced.
The committee is headed by
Anne Lesnick, assisted by Har-
riet Simon, secretary and Henry
Lonnerstater, treasurer. Sub-
committee chairmen include:
publicity, Seymour SUbar; Ha-
gada, Phil Genser; food, Janice
Hertzberg; entertainment, Sey-
mour Mintz; decorations, Fred
Kunick and Bernard Silberman.
Tickets are available for 15c
at the Center office, or from rep-
resentatives of the two senior
Judea groups, Little Women of
Hadassah, Saturns and AZA.

Bernstein New Aid
To Treasury Head

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ed-
ward M. Bernstein, --former pro-
fessor of Economics at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, has been named assistant to
the Secretary of the Treasury,
the Treasury Department an-
nounced today.
Bernstein has been assistant
director of the Treasury's divis-
ion of monetary research since
1941. He was a member of the
United States technical mission
to Cuba in 1942, chief of the
Technical Financial - mission to
Honduras in 1943, technical ad-
viser to the United States dele-
gation at Bretton Woods in 1944.

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