usiness Men's Group City of Hope Set 100,000 Goal
Its Your City of Hope
This free non-sectarian Medical Center, at Duarte, California,
under Jewish auspices is your City of Hope. It's your City of Hope
whether you are one mile or three thousand miles away from this
Haven of Humanitarian research. There are many reasons why
this medical center is important jut to YOU.
You support the City of Hope as a pilot hospital—its stand-
ards of medical care have already influenced the level of public
and private hospitals in your own community.
You make possible the constant search for new methods, new
techniques, new cures for the diseases which afflict mankind,
through a continuing program of research. Your support may mean
discoveries which may save thousands of lives in your own com-
munity.
You aid the medical training program of the City of Hope
which will train doctOrs, research specialists and technicians for
communities throughout the entire Unted States.
Your dollars support a tremendous program. of research and
cure but more important, you can join the City of Hope family and
help determine its future program and policy through member-
ship in. its supporting organizations in your own communty.
You join in this never ending struggle against catastrophic
diseases which can strike any human being without warning. Cures
can and must be found for the suffering, from which no one is
safe—your neighbor, your kin and you!
How is the City of Hope supported?
Georgie Jessel To
Spearhead Appeal
Detroit Firms
To Support Campaign
All monies contributed during
the Detroit Business Men's group
annual fund-raising drive are
sent intact to the National gen-
eral fund for the maintenance
and furtherance of the free,
non-sectarian Medical Center at
Duarte, California.
In order to make this possible
the ind{vidual members of the
group act as hogts and sponsors
of guests invited to the yearly
affair. It is due to the generosity
of these guests that the drive
reaches its culmination. Mem-
bers heading business firms
support and subsidize the Cam-
paign.
The following firms made this
year's unusually extensive pub-
licity and advertising program
possible: •
Irwin C. Thickhalter, Empire
Industries, George Gray, Key-
stone Refining Co., Joseph Lee
Realty, Maurice Mackey, Mau-
rice Marrich, Max Rosenfeld,
William Rossen, Allan Salt, Ru-
bin Shay, Meyer Silverman,
State Plumbing and Supply and
the Victor Oil Co.
This National Medical Center operates on day to day contribu-
tions. Without reserves or trust funds, it has performed its human-
itarian work for more than forty years . . . a monument to man's
humanity to man. Every donation has helped to move mountains
of obstacles. Sparking its activities has been a people's movement,
embracing a representative cross-section of all AMERICA. Auxili-
Rabbi Jacob I. Siegal, spiritual
aries, clubs, management and labor groups, 'fraternal and civic or-
ganizations have enlisted countless thousands of men, women and leader of Adas Shalom Syna-
gogue will be on the speaker's
children of good will for the City of Hope.
program for the evening at the
Detroit Business Men's Group
What can you as an individual do?
Annual Champagne Dinner
The broad program and service of the City of Hope requires Dance at the Statler Hotel Sun-
money, time and effort. The fight to save lives is an endless one day, November 7.
which demands and deserves the widest possible support.
The philosophy and work of the City of Hope makes a poWer-
ful appeal to the hearts, minds and loyalties of, the people of
America. It provides every person an unique opportunity to realize
one's finest potentialities to the end that all humanity may have
a fufler and richer life.
.four support is needed. Give your best now to save lives. Your
dollars are needed. In an age when the atom is split for good as
well as evil, producing the health-giving isotope as well as the
death-dealing bomb, the future of civilization rests with men_ and
women dedicated to hope and faith.
What more gratifying feelirig than that of building up the
health of the people and thus developing and bettering the world.
For a healthy world is a good world.
'
Georgie Jessel, world famed toastmaster and noted actor of
long standing will spearhead the appeal for the $100,000 fund-rais-
ing drive set by the Detroit Business Men's Group of the City of
Hope for the 1954-55 Campaign:
•
Rabbi Siegal
To Speak
.
•
The entire proceeds.of the Campaign are used for the mainte-
nance and development of this free, non sectarian Medical Center
at Duarte, California — development of its departments, improving
its medical knowledge and equipment and expanding the building
program. The monies derived from such Campaigns, as that of the
Business Men's Group, makes possible the continued waging of
war against catastrophic diseases—cancer, leukemia, tuberculosis,
Hodgkins disease and heart disease amendable to surgery. It pro-
vides the possibilities in combining treatment, research and -medi-
cal education into one great crusade for America's health.
The Campaign will open officially with the Champagne Din-
ner Dance at the Statler Hotel, Sunday, November 7th . . . starting
with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., it will . carry on through the evening
with entertainment and dancing to the melodious strains of Mickey
Woolf and his orchestra until midnight.
A noted Hollywood star is the surprise package of the eve-
ning's entertainment. This affair has become a "looked-forward-to"
event both socially and philanthropically. The committee, which is
headed by Eugene Epstein, vice-president of the group, spares no
money nor effort to make it the most talked of affair of the year.
Mr. Nathan R. Epstein is founder and president of the group.
Rabbi Siegal, beloved by his
congregation and one of the out-
standing clergy in this area, is
well known to all Detroiters and
has gained an enviable national
reputation for hiS initiative in-
ter-faith activities. Rabbi Siegel
Ben Horowitz dynamic orator and executive director of the
will also give the benediction.sw City of Hope will be the speaker of the evening at the Annual
Champagne Dinner Dance which sets off the 1954-55 fund-raising
drive of the Business Men's Group, Sunday, November 7th.
Executive Director City
of Hope Guest Speaker
Guests Urged
To Respond Early
What The World Thinks Of
City of Hope
"By keeping open your doors to serve all patients without
charge and regardless of race or creed, you have given a moving
lesson . . . in the great public service your organization has per-
formed in the battles against cancer, leukemia and tuberculosis."
—DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the U. S.
"No disease is incurable,. though some, like cancer, are still un-
conquered. In time, however, medical science will overcome these
maladies and the City of Hope will be entitled to a large measure
of credit for these victories."
—BERNARD M. BARUCH
"4 _ . Good Samaritans have made this hospital the great hu-
manitarian institution it is ... It is a democratic institution in the
real sense of the word."
—HERBERT H. LEHMAN, Senator
"Expanding . with its physical facilities is the hospital's fasci-
nating idea: Man's highest goal is to help his fellows."
THE NEW YORK TIMES (From an Associated Press
article serviced to over 3,500 newspapers, magazines
and the Congressional Record).
Guests planning to attend the
Detroit Business Men's Group
Annual Champagne Dinner
Dance, Sunday, November 7 at
the Statler Hotel are urged to
send in their. acceptance cards
early.
This will ascertain proper and
proinpt seating the night of the
affair. As usual, because of lirn-
ited capacity, attendance is by
invitation only. Members of the
Business Men's Group are the
sponsors.
Your attendance at this af-
fair is not merely an evening
of entertainment for you but
serves a greater and most im-
portant purpose—the helping in
rebuilding a body wracked with
a dreadful disease.
The City of Hope has risen
out of suffering . . a manifes-
tation of courage in the face of
centuries of defeat under the
onslaught of disease.
This great medical metropolis
has grown from the efforts of
the multitudes, a spontaneous
movement of the people
throughout the entire country—
people like yourselves—striving
in unity to build what a few
men of vision have seen in their
minds eye over 40 years ago.
"The Good That Men 'Do Lives
After Them," cherished forever
in the hearts ,of those whose
bodies have been healed through
generosity and human kindness..
"Our • country stands in need of many more great hospitals
like the City of Hope."
6----DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
•—MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friday, October 22, 1954
Mr. Horowitz holds his audiences spell-bound as he very deftly
and very thoroughly takes them on a mental tour of this great
National Medical Center, telling them of its workings . what
makes it run ... what spurs on its activities.
He has been associated With the institution for the past nine
years having previously served as executive secretary. He replaced
the loved and note-worthy Samuel Goiter as director, December 1,
1953. Mr. Colter is now executive vice-president of the City of Hope.
(Adv-)