THE JEWISH HOSPITAL and YOU
EIGHT FRANK QUESTIONS WITH
SEVEN CANDID ANSWERS
The Answer to the Eighth Question Is Up to You!
These, are fair questions—and we want you to
have clear, detailed answers
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When is it planned to begin con-
struction of the new Jewish Hos-
pital?
2.
Everybody wants to see the hospi-
tal built. What caused the delay ?
3.
What is the Greater Detroit Hospi-
tal Fund ?
4.
What is the relationship of the
Jewish Hospital Association to this
fund?
5.
If I gave to the 1944-46 building
campaign for the Jewish Hospital,
why am I being ,called on to give
again?
Question No. 1—When is it planned to begin
construction of the Jewish Hospital?
Answer—Albert Kahn Associates, our architects,
have advised us that the revised plans will be ready
for the Building Committee's approval on October
31st. The next step will be to ask for bids—and to
award the contract.
Question No. 2—Everybody wants to see the
hospital built: What caused the delay?
Answer—The, original i funds were raised in 1944-
;16. It was not until the war priorities were lifted
that we were able to consider building. Costs were
mounting rapidly. The 'amount on hand was so
much below costs that revision of plans and the
conduct of a supplementary drive were clearly indi-
cated. The overseas situation, the liberation of the
• D.P. camps and then the great new opportunities
for reconstruction in Israel turned all our energies
in those directions. Much as we felt the need' for a
hospital in Detroit we bowed tcya greater emergency.
6.
Question No. 3—What is the Greater Detroit
Hospital Fund?
Answer—Fortunately, as we began turning some
of our attention to the hospital problem—without
relinquishing our interest in the overseas causes—
there emerged a city-wide movement to meet the
-, major medical needs of our whole metropolitan
area through a Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, a
cooperative venture headed by our leading citizens.
Our needs were recognized promptly as valid. It
%vas to the advantage of the city-wide movement to
have individuals and groups from every geographi-
cal area, from all the industries and from various
religious backgrounds, all ready to campaign to-
gether for their own special requirements, and at
the same time for the combined, •over-all hospital
needs of the entire city.
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It also was to our advantage, at a time when we
had our hands full with other,problems more. pecu-
larly our own, to have the friendly partnership of a
strong, centralized drive for creation of four new -
hospitals—ours one of the four—and for the im-
provement of the existing hospitals.
. The Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, then, is a
-fine, cooperative venture in which we, 'the Jews of
Detroit, are full partners, enjoying the benefits of
participation in the form of a $2,500,000 grant,
above and beyond what we were able. to. raise inde-
pendently in our own earlier (hive. •
I. With benefits come responsibilities—which we
'gladly assumed and which-we now are called on to
fulfill.
7.
If the business with which I am
associated gave an amount for each
employe, based on the Greater
Detroit Hospital Fund formula,
does this discharge my obligation
as a member of the Jewish com-
munity?
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8.
Will sufficient funds be contrib-
uted at this time, so that construc-
tion may begin now?
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Question No. 4—What sis the relationship of
the Jewish Hospital Association to' the Greater
I Detroit Fund?
Answer—The Jewish Hospital Association is a
,Constituent agency of the Greater Detroit Hospital
iFund.
If the campaign succeeds—and we are pleased to
report that it idready has raised $17,000,000 toward
its goal of $10,720,000—we shall receive $2,500.000.
As citizens interested in the general well-being
of our entire community we are being asked to con-
tribute through the Greater Detroit Fund in the
same way and with the same generosity as if we
were now conducting our- own separate drive for a
;Jewish Hospital. If possible, we shall want to put
in some extra energy and assistance, as evidence of
our interest in the total program for all the hos-
pitals.
Is a contribution at this time to the
Greater Detroit Hospital Fund the
same as a contribution to the Jew-
ish Hospital Fund, or shall I be
called on to give to two campaigns?
Friends of the Jewish Hospital may earmark
gifts in hOnor of living persons or as memorials to
the departed, with appropriate units designated.
Gifts earmarked' for the Jewish Hospital or made
without special designation are equally welcome
and equally helpful, both to the Jewish Hospital
and to the general drive. The Greater Detroit Fund
is the campaign agent for us, as it is for the other
beneficiary institutions.' By contributing to this
single campaign,, you are doing a double civic duty
and discharging your..two-way obligation.
Question. No. 5-41 I gave to the 1944-46 build-
ing campaign for the Jewish Hospital, why am
I being called on to give again?
Answer—When you gave tb the first drive, you
contributed toward an announced goal of $2,000,000.
You and your fellow-contributors oversubscribed
the requested amount by some $300,000, but neither
your generosity nor 'the planning of the hospital
board could foresee the fact that by the time the
war priorities were eased building costs would rise
to the point where the original plans would_require
more than $6,000,000.
The best that ;they could do was to revise the
plans to a more financially-manageable amount and,
in due cburse, to join with the Greater Detroit Hos-
pital Fund, in a united drive that would bring out
the best work and the most Understanding giving by
allour own- group of contributors along with
everybody else.
Joining this partnership certainly did not relieve
any of us as individuals—or all of 118 as a group—
from the responsibility of beiug as considerate and
as generous as if we were out "on our own" to raise
the additional $2,500,000 needed for our hospital
alone. To be sure, we can properly claim some pro-
portionate credit for the large gifts to the Greater
Detroit drive by large, publicly-held corporations
in which Jewish stockholders participate. But,
above and beyond such gifts, we shall want to ex-
press our civic interest and our Jewish interest by
doing our fair share.
When you gave $5,000 or 410,000 or $25,000 you
bought an interest in a $2,000,000 project. You have
a fair sense of values: It is impossible to build what
costs $2 with one dollar. Where but to you, the
friends of the hospital, shall we turn for finishing a
job that all of us want to see completed?—and that
can be completed promptly--immediately if we re-
spond 'as we always have.
Question No. 6—Is a contribution at this time
to the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund the same as
a contribution to the Jewish Hospital Fund, or
shall I be called on to give to two campaigns?
Answer—Your contribution at this time will be
in the form of a pledge to the Greater Detroit Hos-
pital Fund. There will be no separate campaign for
the Jewish Hospital. All member hospitals of the
Fund have agreed, as a condition of. their applica-
tion, not to conduct independent campaign‘for at
least five years.
Those who subscribed hospital units to the earlieir
campaign will be given an opportunity to select
memorial or honor designations from the revised .
plans, and the amount of the earlier gift will:also
be taken into account in determining the nature and
location of the memorial.
Your pledge card will be from the Greater De.
troit Fund.
Through one pledge at this time you will be in-
suring the early construction of the Jewish Hospital
and the ,completion of the other parts of the city.
wide program as well.
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Question No. 7—If the business with which I
am associated gave under the employees' for-
mula ($27.91 for.cvery worker in the plarit or
business) to the Greater Detroit Fund, does this
discharge my obligation as aanember of the Jew-
ish community?
Answer—Corporation giving under the formula
took care of your civic responsibility as a business .
house in Detroit. This is a voluntary tax which you
would be called on to assume even if the campaign
to relieve the shortage of beds did not include the_
Jewish - Hospital. -Individuals of .other faiths, parti.'.
cularly interested in other hospital's, matte sub-
stantial gifts beyond their corporation giving.jn-
elusion of our hospital in the drive was based on
the validity of the need—but let us be frank—it was
also based, certainly in part, on the fact.that a group
in the' community which had given more than
$2,300,000 in its own drive and which needed
$2,500,000 more to build, would be as loyal, as de-
voted and as generous for the double appeal of
Jewish Hospital plus thirteen more institutions as
we would have been if the Jewish Hospital were
campaigning alone under our auspices to raise this
extra amount.
We all want a Jewish Hospital in Detroit.
Your 1944-46 contribution helped provide one
half of the funds required.
Your gift now will help raise the balance of the
funds needed—to start building now—and to finish
ta job! -
Avail yourself of your privilege as a member of
the Jewish community—and, at the same time you
will be fulfilling your civic obligation, too.
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THE JEWISH HOSPITAL DIVISION
OF THE
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GREATER DETROIT HOSPITAL FUND
601 OWEN BLDG.
DETROIT 26, MICH.
JEWISI4 N.EWS Frids.v, October.
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1960