Dr. I. Leo Sharfman Observes Danny Raskin's Seventieth Birthday Feb. 19 Leaders in all walks of life in the United States and in many other lands which have sent students in economics to the University of Michigan in the past 40 years will rejoice to learn that one of their favorite teachers, Dr. Isaiah Sharfman, will celebrate his 70th birth, day on Feb. 19. Chairman of the department of economics at the University of Michigan, where he began his teaching career as a lec- DR. I. LEO SHARFMAN turer in economics in 1912, Prof. Sharfman was advanced to an assistant professorship in 1913, to a full professorship in 1914 and to the chairman- ship of his department in 1927. Since 1947 he has held the post of Henry Carter Adams pro- fessor of economics. A Harvard University Law School graduate, he was • ad- mitted to the Massachusetts Bar In economics at Harvard from in 1909 and served as assistant 1908 to 1910. He held posts on the faculties of Stanford Uni- versity and the Imperial Pei- Yang Univers it y, Tientsin, China. * * * As a student at 'Harvard, he was co-founder, with Dr. Hen- ry Hurwitz, of the Menorah Movement founded by the. Har- vard Menorah Society in 1907.- Like his father, who was one of the American Zionist pio- neers, he has interested himself in Zionism. Last . October he was elected a member of the board of trustees of Brandeis University. His numerous Jewish affil- iations include the American Friends of the Hebrew Univer- sity, American Jewish Histori- cal Society, Academic Commit- tee' for the Hebrew University, Conference on Jewish Relations and American Jewish Commit- Music Study Club to Have Isadore Saslov, Violinist Mrs. Sidney Jackson, presi- dent of the Music Study Club, announces that the dessert luncheon-meeting to be held at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the home of Mrs. Ned Smokier, 1720 Strathcona Dr., will feature the violinist, Isadore Saslov. Saslov received his training with Mischa Mischakoff • with the aid of the Sylvia Simons Memorial Scholarship fund of the Music Study Club. He is now the youngest member of the Detroit Symphony Orches- tra. The club will present their annual artist concert, which raises money for the scholar- ship fund, on Feb. 28 at the De- troit Institute of Arts. Joel Rosen, young American pianist who recently performed in Town Hall, New York, will be presented. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late David Mitchell,_ of Phoenix, Ariz., ac- knowledges with grateful appre- ciation the many kind expres- sions of sympathy extended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereavement. tee, and is a Fellow of the Jewish Agency of Arts and Sciences. LISTENING * * * Chairman of emergency and arbitration boards under the Railway Labor Act of 1936, Dr. Sharfman was chief investiga- tor of public utilities for the National Civic Federation; di- rector of investigation of anti- trust policy for the National Industrial Conference Board; referee for the National Rail- road Adjustment Board and an associate member of the Na- tional War Labor Board. A farmer president of the American Economics Associa- tion, Dr. Sharfman is author of "R a i 1 w ay -Regulation," "The American Railroad Problem" and the five-volume "Interstate Commerce Commission." He is associated with many univer- sity, research economics asso- ciations. He was married to the for- mer Minnie Shikes, of. Dorches- ter, Mass., July 7, 1910. They have three children, Nelson Ames, Warren Leonard and Marcia Louise (Mrs. William M. Gilmartin) and six grand- children. Nelson is a member . of the firm of William Wyer Sr.- Co., railroad consultants, of East Orange, N. J., and Warren is associated with the New Eng- land Grocer Supply Co:, and resides at Worcester, Mass. Dr. Sharfman's daughter lives in Kensington, Md., and is mar- ried. to an economist who has been associated with the Inter- national Bank for Reconstruc- tion and Development since 1946. The entire Gilmartin family —including their sons, 9, 6 and 2, left this week for Bangkok where Gilmartin will serve for two years as the International Bank's representative in the Ministry of Finance of the Thailand government. Bnei Aliiv4- Announces New Offices on Dexter Bnei Akiva, a religious Zion- ist youth movement, has re- cently moved their offices to bexter at Cortland. Meetings, which' are held every Shabbat at 3:30 p.m., in- clude Israeli singing and danc- ing, reviewing the weekly por- tion of the Torah, informal dis- cussions on Jewish tradition and Israel, ShaloSh Seudot, and Havdala. Additional weekday activities include hikes, sports,. arts and crafts, choral and dance groups. Bnei Akiva groups also spon- sor the summer camp, Camp Moshava, at Wild Rose, Wiscon- sin. Jewish youth between the ages of 9 and 18 may participate in any of these activities. For additional information concern- ing membership or camp regis- tration call the Bnei Akiva of- lfices at TO. 8-9070. Adas Shalom Young Marrieds -Slate Annual Purim Party The annual Purim party of the Young Married Couples Club of Adas Shalom will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 in the board room of the synagogue. Highlighting the event will be a masquerade party for the members' children, which will include movies, games, prizes and refreshments. OVER 37,000 BUILDERS came from all parts of the coun- try to the National Builders Convention in Chicago . . with about 400 from Detroit . . . Yale Simons captured honors for at- tendance at just about every building clinic given . Even partner Harold Taines couldn't keep up with him. STORIES told during the con- vention included one about the three boys boasting about their parents' accomplishments . . . "My pop's gonna build a house with a flagpole on it," bragged the first . . . "That's nothin'," declared the second. "Mine's gonna build a house with a tower on it." . . . The third said he had them all beat. "My dad's gonna build a house with a mortgage on it." * * * WIFE DORIS wasn't expected to go to the hospital until the next day for baby number three . . . and so Jerry Rosen- berg was working away at the Buick plant when nature inter- vened . . She was rushed im- mediately to the hospital in a squad car, and the two police- men who had been on the force less than a year experienced their first call to - duty in such an emergency . . . While en- route, the boys in blue assisted as Doris gave birth to a baby girl. * * * LITTLE ARTHUR MANN was being shown his new baby brother, last week, and he seemed especially intrigued by the infant's hairless condition . . . "Where'd you say he came from?" he asked mother, Mrs. Ruben Mann,, and was told from heaven . . . "Well," marveled little Art, "they sure give close haircuts in heaven, don't they." * * * YOUNG WOMAN, obviously a newlywed, came into Sam Hammerstein's drug store and asked anxiously if the baby tonic advertised by the store really makes babies bigger and stronger . . Sam replied that there had been no complaints on it and that they sell quite a bit of it . . "I'll take a bottle," said the woman, who then asked in a whisper, "Who takes this tonic, me or my husband?" * * * PREPARATIONS are being made for the ninth annual P. Cincy Sachs Open Amateur Basketball Tournament, April 1 to 19 . . . games to be played in top gyms throughout the area and finals at the Univer- sity of Detroit Memorial Bldg. . . . 3,000 tickets have already been sold for the finals . Each year brings it closer to becoming the finest cage tour- nament in the mid-west . . . College players from all over the state are on many of the teams, always making for some red-hot basketball at its best . . . Cincy Sachs is again tour- nament chairman, and Walter Siporin is tournament manager . . Each of the gyms to be used will hold from 1100 to 2200 people, with large crowds expected every night . . . Sev- enty - nine engraved trophies and awards will be presented to the winning teams and players ... Entries close March 25. Twersky-Schaver Reunion Women Recall Work in PP Camps Exactly 10 years ago, Emma (Mrs. Morris) Schaver, promin- ent Detroit soprano, was in the displaced persons camp in Ger- many to help raise, the morale of the survivors from Nazism and to assist them in a return to a wholesome life. There were a number of pro- minent world Jewish leaders in the DP camps at the time. Among them was Mrs. Genia Twersky, who now is a mem- ber of the Israel Knesset. Last Tuesday evening, the two women met here to reminisce about their experiences during the great historic moments when rescue ansi rehabilitation of broken lives was a major Jew- ish concern. Mrs. Twersky was here as a delegate from the Israel Moatzot Hapoalot, the Working Women's Council to address the Pioneer WOmen. On Tuesday evening, at an intimate gathering at the Schaver home, the DP camp experiences were recalled. 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