THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Jewish Center

Activities

(The Jewish Community Center.
8904 Woodward, is a Red Feather
Agency)

Dr. Herbert Beecher Hudnut,.
minister of the Woodward Ave.
Presbyterian Church, will address
the WEDNESDAY EVENING
DISCUSSION GROUP at 8:30
p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the
Center. Dr. Hudnut will speak on
"The World Needs a Minister's
Viewpoint."
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A new organization, SHEERITH
HAPLEITA, composed of recent
arrivals in Detroit, has been or-
ganized by the young adult de-
partment of the Center. Perma-
nent headquarters of the group is
at the 12th St. Council Center,
and the office is open from 7 to
9:30 p.m. every evening. The fol-
lowing officers have been elected:
I. Elpern, president; L. Levinson,
secretary; H. Reich, treasurer; M.
Tuchendler, in charge of youth,
and H. Kaftan, member of the
executive committee.

LIVES OF OUR TIMES

Friday, December 5, 1947

Im NORMAN and SOL NODEL

SIMON FLEXNER

RHODA_ SIMON,

BORN IN LOUISVILLE, KY., IN 1863, OF A PROMINENT
JEWISH FAMILY, FLEXHER RECEIVED HIS MEDICAL
DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE AT
THE AGE OF 26! HE TOOK ADVANCED COURSES AT
HOME AND ABROAD, INCLUDING THE PASTEUR
INSTITUTE, AND RECEIVED MANY HONORARY
DEGREES.
DEGREE
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AO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO
MEDICAL SCIENCE IN THE LAST GENERATION WERE THE
-DISCOVERY OF lit 6EM CAUSING INFANTILE PARALYSIS,
AND ME MET1100 FOR In TREATMENT,WIIICH GREATLY
LOWERED TUE MORTALITY RATE . THE MAN RESPONSIBLE
FOR THIS TREMENDOUS RESEARCH JOB WAS

IN 1899, AFTER PROLONGED STUDY OF TROPICAL
DISEASES IN THE PHILLIPPINES,HE EXPLAINED THE
CAUSE OF DYSENTERY, DISCOVERED THE BACILLUS
WHICH BEARS HIS NAME, AND OUTLINED A COURSE
OF TREATMENT/

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AS AN AUTHORITY ON PATHOLOGICAL ARAI
NE BEcA4AE A PROFESSOR FIRST AT JOHNS HOP-
KINS UNIVERSITY FROMI1391-99,AND THEN AT Ti*
IMMO OF PENN. MAINE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

AS THE FIRST DIRECTOR (1904 -SS) Of THE 111XXEFEU.ER
INSTITUTE POR MEDICAL RESEARCN,PLEXIIER MOLDED 7111
LABORATORY INTO THE WORLD'S GREATEST RESEARCH
INSTITUTION IN TIM FIELDS OF MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY.
ONE OF HIS MOST POPULAR PROJECTS WAS WE CREATION
OF A MOUSE VILLAGE" TO STUDY THE EFFECTS Of

NE THEN WORKED FOR MANY YEARS ON TILE CAUSE
Of SPINAL MENINGITIS WHICH HE DESCRIBED IN AN
ARTICLE NI 1909, AND CONTINUED ON TO THE DREADED
SUBJECT OF INFANTILE ARALYSIS.

IN 1941, WITH HIS SON JAMES, HE CO-AUTHORED A
BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WILLIAM H.WELCH, IT WAS IN
NEW YORK IN 1946, AT THE AGE OF 113 THAT HE
DIED THE MAN WHO SHARED HIS BRILLIANTLY
SCIENTIFIC MIND WITH THE WORLD -

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FLEXHER WAS ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL
OF THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOARD
OF HEALTH AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
LONDON, AND IN 1931 WAS ELECTED A
MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES.

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Community Council
Backs New Group

The Center BOWLING ALLEYS
Congress Groups Study
will be open every evening from
7 to 10 p.m. except Friday and 'Human Relations' and
Saturday, and from 1 to 5 p.m.
on Sundays. On Monday eve- 'Prejudice' at Metings
The Community Relations Com-
ninI;s, Wilbur Turner, bowling
Members of the Arlazaroff
The Human Relations Commit- mittee of the Jewish Community branch of Jewish National Work-
alley supervisor, will give in-
struction to beginners. The rates tees of the Northeast and North- Council voted on Nov. 26 to sup- ers Alliance re-dedicated them-
are 28 cents a line for for mem- west chapters of the Women's port the formation of a new or-
selves to efforts for Palestine's re-
bers and 33 cents for non- Division of the American Jewish

ganization whose purpose it shall
be to bring about the carrying
out of the recommendations of
the report recently issued by the
President's Committee on Civil
Rights.
A group of prominent citizens
met recently at the Centr al
YWCA Branch to discuss the im-
plications of the report and
a g r e e d that an organization
should be formed to carry on an
educational and legislative pro-
gram. Plans were completed for

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SATURDAY NITE DANCES
wii I be held Dec. 20 and 27 in
Butzel Hall at 9 p.m. Assisting
Sylvia Weiss, chairman, are Sam
Blender, Carole Ehrman, Lillian
Eve Field, Dorothy Stein-
man. Sam Pitts, Sol Wilchtron,
Mors Buchzeiger, Frank Silver,
Els:e Lewis, Roz Warner, Ann
Alpert and Adeline Katz.

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Jewish Community Center
Clubs for junior boys and girls,
ages 8 to 13, who live in the
Dexter neighborhood are in the
procEss of being organized by the
DEXTER EXTENSION DEPART-
MENT. The boys and girls will
enc,-,.,a7;e in wholesome recreational
a c tivities and enjoyable Jewish
experiences during their after-
school. leisure time. Parents in-
terested - in the organization of a
club for their children are asked
to contact Sam Neuschatz, Dexter
Extension Director, at MA. 8400.
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The second PLAY SCHOOL
GROUP of the 12TH ST. COUN-
CIL CENTER began Dec. 1. Mrs.
Natalie Winsen is the new
nursery teacher.
Children from 3 to 4 years of
age meet in the morning sessions
vene in the afternoon. The fee is
$4.50 a month.
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Center Groups to Celebrate
Festival at Varied Parties

Many Center clubs and interest
groups have planned parties and
programs in celebration of Han-
ukah.
All junior members, their par-
ents and friends are invited to a
program at 1:30 p. m. Sunday,
Dec. 14. The dramatic group, led
by Ruben Silver, will dramatize
the battle of Judas Maccabeus
against the Syrians. .phyllis Rash
and the interpretative dance
group will tell the story of Han-
nah and her sons. Arts and crafts,
photographic, and cooking groups
also will participate.
Teen-agers in the Dexter area
are invited to Hanukah celebra-
tions Tuesday and Wednesday
.evenings, Dec. 9 and 10, at the
D. W. Simons branch, Tuxedo at
Holmur. Movies, community
singing, 'games and dancing are
planned.
The Select Social Club's party
will be in the form of a dinner
Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Ginsburg
Lounge. Mrs. Mina Caplan is
chairman. The Los Angeles
Telcove Club will have a Hanu-
kah ball Sunday, Dec. 14. Al-
fred Klein and Pauline Epps are
in charge of arrangements.
The Council of Mothers' Clubs'
annual Hanukah ball and latke
party will be held at 8:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Dec. 9. Mrs. Ida Drap-
kin is gener=1 chairman; Mrs. Mil-
lie New cad Mrs. Fasmie Wald-

a Conference on Civil Rights to
be held at the Rackham Me-
morial Bldg. at 8 p.m. Monday,

Dec. 8.

MRS. SAMUEL ZELDES

Congress will meet jointly Wed-
nesday, Dec. 10, to hear a repre-
sentative of the Detroit Round
Table Conference of Christians
and Jews discuss the course in
human relations given at Wayne
University.
At the joint meeting of the
South and Center Chapters on
the same date, Oscar Cohen of
the Jewish Community Council
will lead a clinic on "Prejudice."
The South and Central groups
will meet at the home of Mrs.
William Cohen, 2265 Chicago
Blvd., and the Northeast and
Northwest groups at the home
of Mrs. Alfred Bleier, 18915 Wil-
demere.
Mrs. Samuel Zeldes, co-chair-
man of publicity for the Women's
Division, reports that the mem-
bership drive will culminate with
the luncheon Dec. 17 at the Book
Cadillac Hotel, at which James
Waterman Wise will be guest
speaker.
Also on the program will be
the reading, by Mrs. Harold Sil-
verston, of the poem "Hanukah
Reverie" written by MrS. Harry
Landsman.
Tickets for the luncheon may
be obtained by calling Mrs. Sam-
uel Olsher, TO. 8-6020.

Jewish Taxi Driver Slain

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Mena
chem Levi, a cab driver, was
found murdered near Latrun.
Levi was last seen when he set
out for an unknown destination
with an Arab passenger.

fogel, co-chairmen, and Mrs. Eva
Bortman, in charge of refresh-
ments.
The Center adult education de-
partment has issued a brochure
relating the history of the holi-
day and its modern significance.
The pamphlet is available at the
main desk of the Center.

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Bnai Brith Marks
75 Years in Bay City

Michigan, Nov. 28 to 30.
A Platinum Ball, Friday eve-
ning services and Oneg Shabbat,
and a banquet were among the
anniversary events. T. George
Steinberg headed the arrange-
ments committee, and principal
speakers were Rabbi Leonard
Azneer, rabbi of the Bay City
Jewish Community Association,
who delivered the anniversary
sermon, and Judge Archie H.
Cohen of Chicago.

The United Hebrew
Schools of Detroit

one scholarship to the Scholar-
ship Fund of the Schools from
Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Sobeloff of
Virginia Park in honor of their
son, Jonathan, on the occasion of
his Bar Mitzvah.

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inspired the gathering to greater
efforts were delivered by Louis
Segal, national JNWA secretary,
and Ben Zion Ilan Applebaum
of Palestine. There was a musi-
cal program by _ Z. Bistritsky,

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A four-event, three-day cele-
bration marked the 75th anniver-
sary of Bay City Lodge of Bnai
Brith, the second oldest lodge in

Pitage421attat
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violinist, and Shoshana Brooke
Friedman, vocalist. A skit on'the
life of Bialik was given by Hab-
onim. Mr. and Mrs. Blanc led in
community singing.
Greetings were extended by
Morris Schaver, past president.
Representatives of organizations
included A. Shutki, Mrs. J. Ros-
habilitation at the 13th anniver- enthal and Mrs. N. Shevin, Jew-
sary dinner at Lachar's last Sun- ish National Fund; M. Goldoftas,
day evening, the event taking JNWA Council; Wolf Snyder,
the form of a celebration in honor Farband Schools, and Mrs. D. Sis-
lin, Pioneer Women.
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