Mrs. Welt's Community Service
Acclaimed As She Concludes
6 Years as NCJW President
THE JEWISH NEWS-41
Friday, September 23, 1949
other Israeli dignitaries.
Mrs.
Welt was guest of honor at a
reception at the Hebrew Uni-
versity, of which the Depart-
ment of Education is sponsored
by National Council of Jewish
Women.
While successfully filling these
important positions, Mrs. Welt
has managed to devote much
time to her family, a son, Louis
A., a daughter, Mrs. John A.
Sills, and four grandchildren.
Linda and Lois, daughters of
Louis, and Anne and Henry, Mrs.
Sills' children.
One of Detroit's leading emissaries to national and in-
ternational social welfare and philanthropic organizations,
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, is being widely acclaimed for her ef-
forts in behalf of all Jewish causes, as well as in the ranks
of movements for civic betterment, as she is about to conclude
six years of service as national president of the National
Council of Jewish Women.
Mrs. Welt assumed office in November 1943. Her term
will expire next November, at the triennial convention to be
held in Baltimore. She is not eligible for re-election, since she
now is concluding the constitutionally allotted second term.
Detroit Council Leaders
The past year was doubly auspicious for .Mrs. Welt. Re-
cently, in Paris, her impressive
To Honor Mrs. Welt
career in voluntary community ent director of the Visiting
service was capped by her elec- I Nurse's Association of Detroit.
tion as president of the reac-
Honorary Chairmanship
MRS. JOSEPH M. WELT
tivated International Council of
Jewish Women:
Detroiters have known and
respected Mrs. Welt as an ardent
participant in community affairs
since she came here from Lig-
onier, Ind., in 1913, the year of
her marriage. Her membership
in the Detroit chapter of the Na-
tional Council, the Women's
Division of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, in Hadassah, ORT,
and Beth El Sisterhood soon
resulted in her election to num-
erous offices.
Local Jewish Offices
Among the posts that she has
held in local Jewish groups are:
first president of the Detroit
Section, NCJW; first president
of the League of Jewish Wo- -
men's Organizations; member of
the board of directors of Jewish
Welfare Federation, first chair-
man of Women's Division, and
vice-president of the Jewish
Community Center:
Mrs. Welt has always had a
wide view of local and national
community needs, and has par-
ticipated to a great extent in
civic welfare organizations. She
is a .member of the board of
trustees of the National Confer-
ence on Family Life and of the
board of directors of the Am-
erican Cancer Society; a mem-
ber of the advisory board of the
Women's Committee of the De-
troit Community Fund and for-
mer chairman of the Fund's
Tribute Committee; a vice pres-
ident of the Detroit Council on
Community Nursing, and a for-
mer vice president and at pres-
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National Jewish organizations,
in addition to National Council
have expressed their esteem for
Mrs? Welt's work by electing her
honorary president of United
Service for New Americans, hon-
orary chairman of the 1946
United Jewish Appeal; a mem-
ber of the UJA executive com-
mittee in 1948; a national di-
rector of the Joint Distribution
Committee and a member of the
executive committee of the
American Jewish Community.
Throughout her term as na-
tional Council president—she
was elected for three years in
1943 and reelected in 1946—Mrs.
Welt led the movement to re-
activate the world council,
which had been forced to dis-
band activities during the war.
Last month, she saw fulfillment
of this hope.
Her visit to Paris was part
of a tour she took with Mr.
Welt, which included stops
in Athens, where the NCJW
supports a home - for girls and
where she was made an honor-
ary member of the Athens Ort,
in Rome, Germany, Switzerland,
Cyprus and finally, Israel. In the
new Jewish state, the Welts vis-
ited DP reception centers, Kib-
butzim and the leading cities and
institutions and met with Prime
Minister David Ben Gurion and
Anti-Semitism in Britain Italy Agrees to Minority
Reportedly on Decline
Rights for Free Tripoli
LONDON, (JTA)—A meeting
of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews was told by its de-
fense committee that "there is
at the moment a decline in or-
ganized anti-Semitism in Brit-
ain." The report added, how-
ever, that "vigilance should not
be relaxed since there might be
a resurgence of anti-Semitism
and Fascism" if the economic
situation in England worsens.
LONDON, (JTA)—The
Government has agreed to in-
clude all minorities in the pro-
posed treaty to protect the
rights of Italian minorities in an
independent Tripoli, following
the forthcoming elections there
under international supervision,
it was announced by the World
Jewish Congress.
Honoring Mrs. Joseph M. Welt,
recently elected president of the
International Council of Jewish
Women, the board of directors,
committee chairmen and vice
chairmen of the Detroit Section
of Council will meet with her at
a subscription luncheon Tues-
day, Sept. 27, at the Great Lakes
Club.
Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, Detroit
president, will preside at the
meeting, where, in addition to
hearing a report from the guest
of honor of her visit to the over-
seas projects of Council during
the past summer, plans will be
presented for the coming sea-
son of organization activities.
Vice presidents, Mesdames Dan
Krouse, I. I. Bittker, Sidney Sol-
omon and Joseph Geschelin, will
announce plans for the divi-
sions they head.-
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