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Campers ?rom Three to 83
Chelsea's-Program Coordinates
Interests of Wide Age Groups
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Detroit Community Leaders to Have Prominent
Part In Meeting at Toledo on Health Services
Detroit community leaders fig-
ure prominently in the program
of the regional meeting of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds on Jewish
Community Planning for Health
Services and Care of the Aged
at the Commodore Perry Hotel,
Toledo, Sept. 6 and 7.
Mrs. Charles Lakoff, president
of the Detroit Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau, will participate in a
discussion on New Developments
in Community Programs for the
Director SAMUEL NEUSCHATZ (right) inspects the children at Ill and Aged. She will discuss the
presentation by Morris Zelditch,
Camp Chelsea, all dressed up for Shabbos.
director of the department of
By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE
social planning of the Council.
Jewish News Staff Writer
Max Osnos, chairman of the
CHELSEA, Mich.—An unusual system of group living is Detroit Jewish Hospital Associa-
having excellent results this season at the Jewish Community tion Board, is a member of the
Center's Camp Chelsea, 55 miles from Detroit,- serving program committee planning the
conference. Abraham Srere is a
campers from three to 83.
in the field of health, care of the
aged, case work and community
planning will join with commu-
nity leaders from major cities in
the East Central States area to
discuss the problems of meeting
the increased need for service to
the acutely and chronically ill,
the convalescent and the aged,
under Jewish auspices. The re-
gion includes five states and east-
Under the direction of Samuel Neuschatz, the camp
program is geared to serve the needs, and coordinate
the interests, of the small chil-
dren, young mothers, and even part, with an eye to the basic
grandmothers who are the camp- Jewish interests of the campers.
ers.
Most of the evening programs,
The idea of a camp for mothers for example, are conducted par-
was instigated in 1927 13y Mary tially in English and partially in
Caplan, adviser to the Center Yiddish. There is plenty of time,
Mothers' Clubs. Located at first too, for sunning and "shmoosing."
at a temporary site on Lake
Study Children's Problems
Huron, in 1929 the camp was
Although the basic principle be-
built on a 27-acre tract of ground, hind the camp program is to
five miles out of Chelsea, and the provide relaxation for the women,
program expanded- to care for an educational program has been
mothers and children.
introduced this year and is meet-
Camp Chelsea is sponsored by ing with heartening success. Out-
the Jewish Community Center, side speakers, experts in ,„child
and offers special rates to the care and family relationships,
members of its Mothers' Clubs have addressed the group, and
and their children, although reg- the women hold weekly discus-
istr6tion also is open to non- sion mwtings where the prob-
members. The fees are low, and lems of children at camp are ex-
are supplemented by gifts from amined.
the Jewish Welfare Federation
"For many of these mothers,"
and the United Jewish Charities. Neuschatz declared, "it has been
Some part and full camperships the first introduction to the study
are available, so that no mother of children's problems, and has
need be denied a- vacation.
proved most enlightening."
Children from three to eight
The adult campers operate on
are permitted to come with their a self-government system. Each
mothers. There is no age limit of the four two-week sessions
for adults, however and one of elects its own Adult Council,
the most enthusiastic campers which, in turn, chooses officers.
this season was an 83-year-old This Council determines the pro-
woman.
gram for the group, settles any
differences between campers, ar-
Separate Children's Program
The campers are housed in two ranges table service schedules and
dormitories, one for mothers and appoints social, program, recep-
children, the other for unaccom- tion and SOS committees.
Raise Funds for Charity
panied women. .A staff of four
Both adult and child campers
counselors, headed by Marian
Haidy, directs activities for the participate in charitable work
children who, except before while at camp. The women have
breakfast, at rest hour and at bed sponsored plays, concerts featur-
time, participate in a completely ing noted Detroit artists, bazaars,
drawings, ane. a sparkling Tel
separate program.
The adult schedule, highly suc- Aviv carnival, all to raise funds
cessful this year, is the result of for SOS and the Child Rescue
careful programming and adept Fund. Some of these funds were
leadership. Mrs. Jeannette Katz, converted into supplies for friend-
wife of Harry Katz, the Center's ship bags for children on Cyprus,
adult education director, is the made by the children at Chelsea.
Neuschatz and his staff are
adult counselor. Equipped with
a fine Jewish background, both obviously making the most of a
Yiddish and Hebrew, and a dy- difficult situajion, keeping so
namic personality, she has man- many age groups contented and
aged to bring both the younger busy. In addition, the camp plant
and older women into a unified is far from new, and Grass Lake,
group that works and plays to- on which it is situated, has be-
ge,her with an unusual degree of come unfit for swimming. The
cooperation. Mrs. Katz is as- latter hindrance is avoided by
sisted, -'n weekends, by her hus- driving campers to nearby Clear
band, who leads the Oneg Shab- Lake and Cavanaugh Lake.
The Federation's camping com-
bat each Friday evening.
In addition to swimming, boat- mittee, however, has on its agen-
ing and recreational sports, the da the prospect of building a new
women's 'program features dra- mothel's and children's camp.
matics, singing, dancing, arts and Soon, perhaps, even more Jewish
crafts, newspaper and discussion women may enjoy similarly re-
groups, all slanted, for the most laxing vacations.
MRS. CHARLES LAHOFF
JUDGE THEODORE LEVIN
ern Canada. William Avrunin is
the regional director.
The Council is a membership
association of some 265 Jewish
welfare funds, federations and
community councils throughout
the United States and Canada.
Stanley C. Myers of Miami is
.. national president, and H. L.
Lurie, executive director.
Polish Survivor of War Gets
New Start In Life Through JDC
JULIAN H. BROLIII
regional vice president of the
Council and will participate in
the business session of the re-
gional executive committee pre-
ceding the opening of the con-
ference.
Julian H. Krolik, president of
the Detroit Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, and Judge Theodore
Levin are members of the re-
gional executive committee.
Mr. Krolik is secretary of the
national board of the Council.
Henry Wineman, Isidore Sobe-
loff anel Mr. Srere are members
of the board.
The meeting will feature an
address by Dr. Samuel Soskin,
medical director and director of
the research institute of Michael
Reese Hospital, Chicago, at the
opening session.
A number of Detroit leaders
600 Romanian Orphans
Granted Visas by France
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — Six
hundred entrance visas have been
issued by the French Govern-
ment for Romanian Jewish or-
phans saved from deportation
camps, it was reported by Rachel
Sternbuch, representative of the
Relief Committee for Refugees.
The visas will be granted only
to orthodox children. The Joint
Distribution Committee main-
tains 60 homes housing 5,000
children in Romania. They in-
clude 1,500 orphans whose par-
ents perished in Transnistrian
camps.
Kennedys Give $50,000
To Boston Jewish Fund
BOSTON, (JTA)—The family
of former Ambassador to Eng-
land Joseph P. Kennedy, com-
memorated the death of Joseph P.
Kennedy, Jr., by donating $50,000
to the Associated Jewish Philan-
thropies of Boston to be used for
a project tenefitting children
Three other charitable disburse-
ments were made by the founda-
tion, which bears the name of
the young aviator who was kill-
ed three years ago in a military
plane over the English Channel.
Jacques Millstein, JDC officer, congratulates Abraham Bednash
of Detroit and his bride Leonie who has escaped the Nazis and win
soon begin a new life in this country.
Life will begin again this Rosh land, Leonie returned to Cesto-
wize. She received an award from
Hashonah for Leonie.
Eight years ago, Leonie was 21. the Polish government for her
She was a cashier in a little tea intelligent care of the Polish or-
shop in her native village of Ces- phans who were in her charge.
towize. Poland. Leonie corres- There, too, she wrote to her sister .
ponded regularly with her sister, in Detroit.
An answer came from her sis-
who was married to a watch-
maker in Detroit. Some day ter's husband. His wife had died
Leonie thought, she would like in 1941, he wrote, but on her
death bed had asked him to
to visit her sister in America.
When the Nazis invaded Po- marry Leonie and care for his
land, Leonie managed to escape two children. Would she wed
towards the Russian frontier. Her him?
Leonie said yes. Her brother-
mother and father, two sisters
and a brother were shot down by in-law, Abraham Bednash, left
Detroit
and came to France. On
a German sentry and killed.
Leonie was moved by the Rus- July 19, with the assistance of the
sians to a town near the Urals Joint Distribution Committee's
where she worked in a factory. Emigration Service, which had
Later she was appointed director helped bring Leonie from Poland
of a home for Polish Jewish war to Paris, the couple was married.
orphans who had also found Now the JDC is arranging trans-
portation for Leonie to go to the
haven in the Soviet zone.
Following the liberation of Po- United States.
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