Measures of Growth
Community's Capital Development
By ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Executive Director, Jewish Welfare Federation
As the organized Jewish com-
munity rounds out another event-
ful year, it is timely to review
recent developments and to look
at the communal projects invit-
ing our special attention in the
year ahead.
North End Clinic, the building of
a wing to provide greater bed
capacity and a school of practical
nursing.
3. The Jewish Home for Aged
is about to dedicate its two new
units, including central services
for a larger population and 120
Fifty-six years have passed additional beds. This development
since D. W. Simons, Dr. Leo M. will increase accommodations for
Franklin and a few other prog- the old folks to 300.
..•essive citizens
4. The Jewish Social Service
)f that day Bureau is studying the need for
'ounded the old a small home for the treatment of
Jnited Jew- children with special behavior
sh Charities in problems. In the offing of its own,
899 as the first or as a wing of a larger corn-
ormal instru- munity building in the new
nent to coordi- Northwest section.
late our local
5. The United Hebrew Schools
ocial services.
n 1926 the Jew- added a new facility on Schaefer
sh Welfare Fed- near Seven Mile Road and is
ration came in- about to open its eighth branch
o being as the in one of the newly-built syna-
)ioneer double- gogues on Seven Mile Road. The
)arrelled Feder- schools also are planning, to-
Sot:sewn
ation, expressing gether with the Jewish Commu-
a conviction strengthened over nity Center, for a new plant on
the succeeding 30 years, that Ten Mile Road, to serve Oak
domestic problems and overseas Park, Huntington Woods and ad-
problems were equally our com- jacent suburbs, and another
mon concern and that community branch building in the Evergreen
business was everybody's busi- area.
.
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ness. Acceptance of this thesis
has been reflected in the stability
of our central communal struc-
ture and in the fact that identi-
fication through contribution is
expressed in practically every
Jewish home.
Aid to USA
For the eighth successive year
the Allied Jewish Campaign has
raised more than $4,000,000. In
addition to allocating a major
portion of these funds -to the
United Jewish Appeal for service
in Israel and other overseas coun-
tries, we were able, thanks to
our stability as an organization
and as a community, to arrange
through the banks for a five - year
loan of $2,000,000 to further the
constructive work in Israel. Be-
hind this loan stand good faith
and credit, the respect of the
banks for our financial respon-
sibility and maturity and the
moral commitment on our part
to the causes we are determined
to help to the limit of our ability.
At the same time, we have
been mindful of the needs at
home. In our annual appeals we
have pleaded for help "around
the corner and around the
world."
Although we cannot measure
communal developments in terms
of capital plant alone, it would be
a mistake to minimize the mean-
_ ing of physical structure in ob-
.serving the growth of the coin-
rnunity.
In the old days, vocational
services, or medical care, or care
of the aged, or of children, were
each the separate concern of
small sub-community groups.
During recent years the entire
community has profited from the
ongoing responsibility and plan-
ning by the Capital Needs Com-
mittee of Federation which, with
the cooperation of the agencies,
had evolved a master plan of
communal growth.
Six Major Projects
Major projects for six basic,
"bread-and-butter" agencies have
been on the drawing boards.
1. Anyone who has visited
Camp Tamarack, near Holly,
Mich., has noted the steady prog-
ress in enlarging summer and
year-round camping facilities pri-
marily for children, but more re-
cently for adults as well. Already,
the facilities for 235 children per
session at Fresh Air Camp have
been augmented by 170 more
camp units at Tamarack — and
the expansion program is moving
ahead year by year with new
cottages, cabins and central serv-
ices.
2. Sinai Hospital is now com-
pleting its second full year of
operation, with a record that does
credit to so new an institution.
Operating at capacity, the hospi-
tal is beginning to look toward
the addition of an out-patient de-
partment, in cooperation with
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Friday, September 16, 1955
6. The most dramatic develop-
ment and the project requiring
primary attention during the
year ahead is housing for the
Jewish Community Center, both
main building and branches.
means of advancing healthy per ation cf Jewish cultural values. in a variety of directions planning
sonality development. It is by Through the art forms — music, to meet old needs and new.
way of becoming the community
clubhouse for people of all ages.
As of Sept. 15, the City of Detroit
has rented the Aaron DeRoy
Building at Woodward and Hol-
brook for the Department of
Parks and Recreation. The entire
program of the Center is being
reorganized on an interim basis,
with central offices in rented
quarters at 9999 Broadstreet near
Collingwood. The enlarged Dex-
ter-Davison Building, with its
gymnasium completed during the
past year, will serve as the main
unit for the time being. Also in
use will be the Tuxedo-Holmur
Building and the branch associ-
ated with the Esther Berman
Building on Schaefer.
drama, arts and crafts and litera-
ture—the Center, the clubhouse
for all, will stimulate cultural
creativity, expressive of both
American and Jewish values.
Ahead lie challenges to which we
shall continue to address our-
selves and intelligence and gen-
erosity, around the corner and
around the world.
Still another plot of land, own-
ed by the United Jewish -Chari-
ties, stands 'ready at Seven Mile
Road and Sunderland for capital
development by the Center and
Hebrew Schools as required.
The community has been busy
I dipt into the future far as hu-
man eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world and
all the wonders that would
be.—Tennyson.
ear
appal new
Meanwhile, the entire organ-
ized Jewish community is mar-
shalling its forces to create a
chain of appropriate Centers to
serve growing needs. It is this
task that stands out before us as
demanding our- major attention
in the year ahead.
May the New Year 5716 be
Sanctioned by Good Deeds
and • by Just-ice for all
Humanity. May we - be
blessed in the coming year
Already, the community has ac-
quired an 18-acre tract on Ten
Mile Road between Coolidge and
Greenfield. Contracts are about
to be let for the construction of
the first new center unit, adjacent
to a branch of the United Hebrew
Schools and as part of a North
Campus, housing _several nearby
congregations.
to witness further progress
in the attainment of peace
and in the advancement of
Jewry's and America's cul-
tural needs.
The Central Campus
Simultaneously, building and
planning committees of the Cen-
ter and Federation are develop-
ing the Central Campus, a 12-acre
tract at Curtis and Meyers. Here
will be erected the new main
Jewish Center Plans
building, dedicated to leisure-
The Center affords an effective time activity and to the perpetu-
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and Family
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