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By MARVIN DIAMOND
"There is little point in having
a Jewish-?ponsored college un-
less it is a great one," Dr. Leo
Szilard, - noted atomic scientist,
told more than 200 members and
guests of the Detroit Chapter of
Brandeis University Associates
whO contributed to the univer-
sity at a stag dinner honoring .
Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president
of Brandeis University, and Dr.
Bzilard who is in charge of the
. university's new • instituted
graduate science program, held
Nov. 18 in the 7Iotel Sheraton-
Cadillac's English Room.
Herbert G. Blumberg, chapter
president, who was master of
ceremonies, introduced Brandeis'
football coach, Benny Freedman,
who said he was making things
difficult for himself by asking
his audience to become foster
alumni' of Brandeis. "Being re-
cently founded, Brandeis has
had only two graduating classes
so when the football team loses
I am not plagued by large num-
bers of alumni telling me how
things should have been done,"
said Freedman. "But I am will-
ing to assume the worries that
come with having a large alumni
group because Brandeis operates
on a $75,000 a year deficit and
needs 75,000 foster alumni who
contribute $100 each," he said.
Nate S. Shapero, who had
ISSB Seeks Placement for Refugee Family of Eight
Seminary's Friends
Honor S. B. Solomon
Brandeis IT'q Aim to Become 'Great'
Outlined at Foster Alumni Banquet
The Jewish Social Service
Bureau is currentl:' seeking shel-
ter and a job for. Mr. and Mrs.
Chaim Gasthalter, and their six
children, who arrived here last
week from New York, after a
flight from Paris, France.
During the war, Gasthalter
worked in a Russian camp after
he was forced to leave his native
Wilno. Here, he met his wife,
Samuel B. Solomon, a chair-
is that in Europe the student man of the Detroit Friends of
receives little guidance and no the Jewish Theological Semi-
tests until the end of his period nary. of America for the past six
of study. He must ask his own years, will be
questions_ and find his own an- honored by his
swers."
friends and by
In America• the student re- t h e Conserva-
ceives a great deal of guidance tive rabbis of
and i_s "constantly given an- Detroit for
swers to queStions he ' never leader ship in
thought to ask," said Dr. Szilard. behalf of the
"What is needed is a middle ' Seminary.
ground between European and
He will be
American education," he said.- presented with
Dr. Szilard favors three years of a citation by
general science education and Rabbi Morris
one year of specialization for Adler at the in-
each student majoring in sci- itial gifts meet-
Solomon
ence. "Brandeis being a new ing of the Sem-
university is uncommitted and ; inary drive, Monday, evening, at
can blaze the trail in a more *Mr. Solomon's home, 18255 Fair-
progressive method of educa- field.
tion," Dr. Szilard said.
Mr. Solomon, president of
University president Sachar,
who also received a standing ova- United Steel Sales, is active in •
many philanthropies. He is a -
tion, made a realistic appeal for chairman
of t h e Mechanical I
funds that was spiced with Yid-
Trades
Division
of the Allied !
dishisms and full of facts about
higher education in America in Jewish Campaign, a member of !
general and at Brandeis in par- the board of Sinai Hospital, a
ticular. "Tonight's response is member of the Executive Coun-
not taken for granted by the cil of the national planning
people at Brandeis," Dr. Sachar committee of the J ewish Theolo- •,
said. "I realize your interests gical Seminary and a memoer of 1
are not unilateral," he con- the Board of Congregation
tinued. Dr. Sachar expressed Shaarey Zedek.
This year the Detroit Friends
great satisfaction that "despite
the fact that the United Jewish haVe accepted a campaign goal I
Appeal and funds for Israel must of $80,000 toward a national
always come first- with our peo- quota of $2,343,000.
ple, Brandeis has been given 10
It was disclosed by Mr. Solo-
million dollars in the last five mon that the following chair-
years."
men were delegated by their
In, founding a privately en- Synagogues to coordinate sep-
dowed denominational college arate Seminary drives:
we did not turn the clock back,
Sol Eisenberg, Adas Shalom;
said Dr. Sachar. Only 30% of
Benjamin Weiss, Bnai Moshe;
America's colleges are tax sup-
Aaron;
ported and Jews who consti- Dr. Marvin A. Last, Beth
Louis Berry 'and sqlomo ri,
tute only 3% of the U. S. pop-
ulation make up 9% of U. S. Shaarey Zedek. Edward Robin- -
university attendance. It was son is chairman of the Seminary
campaign conducted by the
time we Jews had a university
of our own. "By achievement, Men's Club of Shaarey Zedek.
'
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recently visited Brandeis, pre-
sented a check in full pay-
ment of the second half of
• the Richard Cohen Founda-
tion pledge to the university.
In introducing Dr. Szilard,
Shapero read part of a letter
from Dr. Einstein to Franklin
D. Roosevelt which told of Szi-
lard's great contribution to
Man's knowledge of atomic -
energy. Dr. Szilard received a
standing ovation.
Dr. Szilard, a native of Buda-
pest who received his Ph.D. from
the University of Berlin spoke
of science and the difference in
methods of teaching science in
the United States and Europe.
"When I was a student studying
physics some people would ask,
"What is physics?" and some
would ask, "What are physics?"
said Dr. Szilard. Since the atom
bomb everyone is familiar with
physics and physicists because
people are always interested in
mass murder and those who per-
petrate it, he continued.
"Science should be fun. The
role of science is not to provide
us with meals but to give us
something to do between them,"
Dr. Szilard said. The difference
between a scientific education in
the United States and • in Europe
not by verbalization, you gain
respect," said Dr. • Sachar.
Brandeis is and must always
be a symbol of the best, said Dr.
Sachar. He told his audience
that a New England, Christian
foundation, has given Brandeis
a check for a half million dol-
lars that must be matched by
Brandeis in order to build a
plant for graduate science study.
"Detroit has always been one of
Brandeis' best communities in
the giving sense," Dr. Sachar
said.
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Plans also will be completed
for a Hanukah party at 8 p. m.,
Dec. 9, at the • home of Ruth
Krandall, 18129 San Juan. Gifts
for children in Israel will be
Folk Chorus Schedules brought by members.
Bowling is scheduled each
Mid-Winter Concert
Sunday afternoon. Girls inter-
Sophie Richaman, noted New ested in joining should call
York dramatic soprano, will be Marilyn Moscowitz, president,
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Directed by Henri Goldberg,
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Several groups of new Yiddish,
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many to -be presented for the
first time in Detroit, will be in-
eluded in the program. The
Chorus is currently in its 27th
season.
•A major event planned by the
Chorus' Ladies Auxiliary is its
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for Jan. 20, in Holiday Manor.
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