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`Footprints' Brings Out New
ff7orlds, Teacher's Book Says
A Review
By SALLY KORNWISE
High quality artistry is the
appropriate desc r i p t i o n of
"Footprints and New Worlds,"
newly published book by Te-
mina Gezari under sponsorship
of the Reconstructionist Press.
The book, which discusses ex-
periences in art with child and
adult, is in itself an artistic
production of the highest cali-
bre. With eye-appealing typog-
raphy, illuminations and layout, 1
the book's format complements
a beautifully written text on
the possibilities of human crea-
tion.
The author is a teacher of art
in Jewish camps and schools.
She deliberately inserts descrip-
tions of students' art experi-
ences connected with religious
training because she feels that
"sometimes we arrive at the
universal much more quickly
through the ! particular." Any
merit in the book lies in the
fact that its roots are nourished
by a deep reality, Mrs. - Gezari
stresses.
While in many sections, the
book addresses teachers, spe-
cifically, it is valuable read-
ing also for parents.
The work is based on the
theory that "through art," one
may "become a better, more
sensitive, more understanding !
personality," that art has a way
of "developing the finer, more
godlike characteristics of man,
that through art one could be-
come a more fulfilled human
being." The author believes
that everyone is potentially a
creator.
Her book not only conveys
hints on art techniques but also
provides advice for teaching in
general. A teacher should be
willing to sit on the floor, take
part in play, be a pal and col-
league, Mrs. Gezari emphasizes.
The teacher should cast aside
routine, she asserts.
Among diverse activities, she
suggests field and museum trips
for giving students unforgetta-
ble emotional and educational
experiences. On such ventures,
the teacher should remember
children's "inner sense for re-
volt." He should not stress
merely the objects the children
"may not touch." He should
make a point of locations where
the child should "please touch,
push the button or move the
lever."
The author's philosophy about
such field trips has inspired the
title of her work. As a camp
counselor she one day conduct-
ed a group of children for a
walk along the beach. At one
point she told the children to
stop walking and in the sand to
outline one foot with a nearby
twig. She then instructed the
children to observe all objects
within the outlined print. The
children discovered many small
animals and minerals within
their prints. With new observa-
tion, they received new aware-
ness of the world's richness. It
was as if they had found new
worlds. -
In her very personal, con-
versational book, the author ad-
vocates "art as an expression of
the individual's experience."
She maintains that "inthe class-
room, the teacher ought to do
more than give students paper
and brushes and say "paint as
you please." The teacher should
create the situation out of which
children are inspired to produce
art, she declares.
The author has earned this
reviewer's admiration by de-
nouncing "fill-in paintings" as
stifling creativity, forcing peo-
ple to fit into molds. Such
mediums are "viciously damag-
ing to the inner growth of their
users," the art teacher under-
lines.
It is thrilling to read of the
effect of successful art experi-
ences stimulated both for chil,
dren and adults by Mrs. Gezari.
One chapter tells how girls in
a school for retarded students
were inspired toward new pro-
ductivity. Another section de-
scribes how through - art a
widow found new meaning in
life.
"Footprints and New Worlds"
serves as an excellent reference
book for all interested in the
development of man's capacities.
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Local POSTAL CLERKS are
planning a picnic and field day,
similar to that held by the Let-
ter Carriers Association, on
Aug. 18, at Jefferson Beach
Park, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pro-
ceeds will go to the Benevolent
Fund of the Detroit Federation
of Post Office Clerks.
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HERSCHEL LEIB will con-
duct the Department of Parks
and Recreation Band next week
at 8 p.m., in the following loca-
tions: Monday, Palmer Park;
Tuesday, Cannon Center; Wed-
nesday, Stoepel Park No. 1;
Thursday, Patton Park; and
Friday, Clark Park. The pro-
gram will include the works of
Delibes, Thomas, Lehar, Enesco,
Gliere, Anderson and Tschai-
kovsky. William De Maria,
baritone, is soloist.
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Sinai Expands
Isotope Program Business Briefs
Expansion of Sinai Hospital's
radioactive isotope program was
IRVING & LEON'S ULTRA-
announced this week by Max
MODERN BARBER SHOP has
Osnos,
president.
pals of Pat Doyle Associates,
opened at 13432 W. 7 Mile Rd.,
and N. BREWSTER BRODER,
Seven radioactive elements ; at Snowden. The proprietors of
formerly affiliated with a De- and compounds have been the new shop are Irving. Shulak,
troit insurance firm, announce newly-acquired from the U. S. formerly with the Joy-Petoskey
the formation of Rubiner, Doyle ' Atomic Energy Commission at Barber Shop for 25 years, and
and Broder, with offices in the Oak Ridge, Tenn., by Sinai's Leon Popowski, formerly with
Michigan Building. The firm Isotope Laboratory.
Sam's Barber Shop, on Dexter
will offer real estate and insur-
The new isotopes will extend and Richton for six years.
ance services.
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the Jewish hospital's resources
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for
diagnosis
and
treatment
of
Albert Schiff, nationally,
JACK'S FOOD BOX, special-
prominent industrialist, treas- certain anemias and other ists in tray catering, - located at
blood
diseases,
explains
Sinai
urer of the Jewish National
22175 Coolidge, in Oak Park, has
Fund of America, was named director, Dr. Julien • Priver. just announced that due to
They are also expected to serve
chairman of a
many requests a new home de-
as tools in the hospital's ex-
three - member
livery service has been added.
panding
research
program.
presidium
For information call LI. 5-7042.
which will ad-
The isotopes, which have
minister J N F
been made radioactive by ex-
affairs during
posure in the U. S. Govern-1
You Can Be Sure . . . If It's
the absence
ment atomic piles, include ele-
abroad of Dr.
ments chromium-51, gold-198, I
Harris J. Le-
iron-59, and phosphorus-32.
And His Orchestra
vine, president
The new acquisitions also in- ,
of the fund.
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The other
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members of the
radioactive cobalt) ; radioactive'
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The passage of the radio-
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General Council (Zionist Ac- a Geiger counter, thus aiding!
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G a g l a r d i, Sinai's associate,
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radiologist and director of the
Rabbi Jacob K. Shankrnan, of Isotope Laboratory.
Temple Israel, New Rochelle,
Some of the isotopes may also
N. Y., was be inserted . under the skin,
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elected as where their radiations are ef-
chairman of fective against certain types of
the American tumor and cancer cells.
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American Jewish intellectuals
invited by the Jewish Agency
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and Zionism.
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Two business executives and
an educator have been appoint-
ed to the President's Council of
Yeshiva University. They are
Charles Fruchtman, Toledo, 0.;
Leo Robinson, Dania, Fla., and
David S. Merrall, vice president
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SAMUEL H. RUBINER and
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OSCAR ROSE, former deputy
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Voice of America, has been ap-
pointed assistant director of the
audio=visual department of the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
Dr. Aronstam Named Wayne
Delegate to Israel Parley
Dr. Noah E. Aronstam, prom-
inent Detroit physician and
author, was reappointed by the
Wayne County Medical Society
as its representative !to the
Congress of World Jewish Doc-
tors, to be held in Haifa.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Jos-
eph Tenenberg acknowledges
with grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of sym-
pathy extended by relatives
and friends during the fam-
ily's recent bereavement.
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