.6—Detroit Jewish News
Friday, May 4, 1956
Israel's Scientific Research Praised By Dr. F. Bloch;_ Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Felix. Bloch, of Stan-
ford University, 1953 Nobel
Prize winner in physics, in an
address before t h e Detroit
Technion Society, Tuesday eve-
ning, at the Rackham Building,
told of the importance of sci-
entific research for Israel's de-
velopment and emphasized that
there will be a need for basic
equipment and apparatuses to
assure proper use of findings
arrived at in such research.
"The building up, at the root,
of a " well-trained scientific
_youth is one of Israel's most
important developments," Dr.
Bloch stated. He praised the
three institutions of higher
learning in Israel — the Haifa
Institute of Technology (Tech-
nion), Weizmann Institute of
Science and the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
Calling attention to the view-
point of some people that "to
exert oneself toward the ad-
- vancement of scientific re-
search in a country like Israel
may be somewhat of a lux-
ury," Prof. Bloch said he does
not share this view and that
he is convinced, on the con-
trary, that "advanced research
is most important in a land
like Israel." He added that
"from such research something
great will develop not only for
Isl'ael but f o r the entire
world."
Dr. Bloch recalled that in
1953 he advised against Is-
rael's entering the field of
nuclear research, but that he
has later learned that the
Israeli scientists have devel-
oped so well in that field
that their decision was -a
wise one."
Dr. Bloch, who was awarded
nical High School in Haifa,
who is in this country under
the "United States technical as-
sistance program. Dr. "Aharoni,
who has been with' the Haifa
high school for 22 years, de-
scribed the progress made in
training youth for mechanical
trades and in preparation for
engineering at the Technion.
Giaduates of the Haifa high
school do not have to serve
apprenticeships, as do gradu-
ates in the U. S., because they
devote 27 hours a week in
classrooms and 20 hours a
week in workshops, as corn-
pared with a total 30-hour
school week in the U. S., he
pointed out. Plans are being
made for the expansion of the
Haifa school and for introduc-
tion• of greater facilities in the
training of good mechanics, he
reported.
Dr. Joseph Epel, president,
presided at the Tuesday meet-
ing. Louis Milgrom, chairman
of the program committee, .an-
nounced that Dr. Irving Rozi-
an, research supervisor at the
Ford Motor Co. steel division,
will address the society May
14 on "World Resources of En-
ergy for Tomorrow's Steel Pro-
duction."
the Nobel Prize for developing
nuclear induction, was ,intro-
duced by another distinguished
scientist, Dr. Jacob Goldman,
head of the physics labora
tbries at the Ford Motor Co.
Dr. Goldman, who was chair-
man of the Technion Society
in Pittsburgh before coming to
Detroit, called attention to
Prof. Bloch's cooperation in ad-
v- ancing the work of the Haifa
Institute of Technology. He re-
ferred to the guest speaker as
"one of the world's leading
physicists."
Prof. Bloch came to Detroit
as guest of the Ford Motor Co.
Another guest at Tuesday's
Technion meeting was Dr. 0.
Aharoni, principal of the Tech-
Part Seven of a Series
Wayne University Students
Find Hillel a Second Home
Workmen's- Circle
Awards Plaques •
To Civic Leaders
(Editor's Note: This is the
concluding article in a, series
on community Young Adult
Organizations th at are open
to men and -women in the
18 to 30 age category.)
* * *
By FRANK SIMONS
On the campus of Wayne Uni-
versity there are approximately
2,000 Jewish students. Half of
this number are day students,
the rest attend evening classes.
They don't all know it, but
each of the 2,000 is a regular
member of the Hillel Founda-
tion, operated at Wayne and
over 200 other college campuses
by Bnai Brith.
About a quarter of this num-
ber are registered art Hillel and
many of them participate in its
three areas of activity; social,
cultural and religious.
Like most of .the other or-
ganizations covered in this
series, the social aspect is a
boy meet girl proposition,
from which has developed
many a courtship and mar-
riage.
The socials include informal
programs, dancing, games, com-
munity singing. Some are
planned events, but much of
the time such activity is spon-
taneous. There are also movie
nights and music nights.. .
The cultural and religious
programs are the responsibility
of Dr. Max M. Kapustin, direc-
tor of the' Foundation.
The former activity includes
a variety of events, including
guest speakers, lectures and
panel discussions by the stu-
dents themselves.
Religious programs take on
the same aspect. A variety of
subjects has been covered in
Hillel's Thursday Lecture Se-
reis, including discussions by a
Reform, Conservative and Or-
thodox Rabbis and a series on
"The New Thinking and Juda-
ism," highlighting Marx, Dar-
win, Freud, Einstein and Kirke-
gard.
—
Circuit- Court Judge George
Ed-vvards, toastmaster at the
recent annual awards program
of Workmen's Circle Branch
463-E, stated that Dr. Edgar G.
Johnston, Charles C. Lockwood
and Rev. Sheldon Rahn were
receiving "deserved, but un=
sought" honor because of their
distinguished service to the local
community.
In presenting the plaque to
Dr. Johnston, Dr. Orville Linck,
Wayne University English pro-
fessor, stated, "Dr. Johnston has
a rare quality of dealing with
the moral, social and economic
dilemmas of our time. with a
singular self effacement_ and
openness of purpose."
Dr. Johnston, professor of
guidance and secondary educa-
tion at W a y n e, received the
award for his work with civil
rights, .migratory labor and the
Consumers' League.
Dr. Alfred Kelly, chairman of
Wayne's history department, de-
scribed Lockwood as "a man of
principle, who understands the
meaning of constitutional liber-
ty and has fought for this in the
courtrooms as a good lawyer."
Lockwood, who was cited for
his legal defense of individuals
who have had their civil liber-
ties restricted, stated that it is
not always the popular thing to
be in a fight for civil liberties,
but unless we "all stand up and
be counted," we may go the
way of other countries, in which
complacency lost the freedom
of the people.
Rev. Rahn's award was pre-
sented by Boris Joffe, executive
director of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, who said that
the theme by which Rev. Rahn
works is described in the line
of Walt Whitman's, "Whoever
degrades another, degrades me."
Rev. Rahn accepted his award
for work with the FEPC and
creating a better understanding
between church and labor, by
saying that there is an inten-
tion in history "to maintain a
constant creative effort to build
the community into that which
we want to see." Issues of sur-
vival, such as civil liberty, can
be laughed at; he said, "only at
the price of self-destruction."
Max Burns, chairman of the
branch's executive board, read
greetings from Gov. G. Mennen
Williams and introduced six of
the 26 past award winners who
were present: Joseph Bernstein,
1950; Judge Edwards, 1949;
Mildred M. Jeffrey, 1955;• Boris
Joffe, 1955; Dr. •hmarya Klein-
man, 1951, and Dr. Orville
Linck, 1952.
Meyer • Schneider presented
greetings from the . Workmen's
Circle and paid tribute to the
deceased Leon C o u s e n s, in
whose honor the awrds were
made. Original songs by Kay
Peven and the buffet supper
.
Most of the programs are at-
tended by a hard-core of ex-
tremely interested student s,
about 25 or 30, but for more
popular activities attendance
jumps to over 100.
Hillel, primarily, Dr. Kapus-
tin asserts,' is an adult educa-
tional program. It is gratifying
to work with young adults and
to watch them mature.
However, the progress in
many cases is slow as far as
Jewish orientation is concerned.
While Hillel attracts large num-
bers - for social programs, the
cultural and religious aspects
go slower.
This doesn't discourage the
rabbi, • however, since he says
it's hard to undo in four years
what parents have bungled in
18. He Considers himself suc-
oessful if in the course of a
school term, he can positively
mold two or three students for
future Jewish leadership.
the \
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award to Harold and Leonard
Seroff was handed down in a
decision by Judge Mark A. Sul-
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Those who attend the AilleI
events are concentrated in the
18 to 22 age category which
parallels the ages of college
students in general, although
at evening programs, when
night students attend, there
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