Ifehudah News

September 27, 1957

Beth Yehudah Schools, Dexter at Sturtevant

Vol. 5, No. 1

Eighth Annual Dinner and Show Oct. 27

Bloch

Latin Quarter s
Scene
to
of Social Event

With preparations ender way
for the Eighth Annual Dinner
and Show of the Beth Yehudah
Schools,/ the following commun-
ity leaders were named this
week to serve as Chairmen:

The eighth annual Dinner and
Show of the Beth Yehudah
Schools; held jointly under the
co-sponsor•hip of the Business-
men's Council and . Synagogue
CoUncil, will be held this year
at 6 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 27, at
the Latin Quarter, 3067 East

Named
to Head List
of Chairmen

HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Hon. PatriCk V. McNamara
U.S. Senator from Michigan

DANIEL A. LAVEN
Treasurer

Grand Boulevard.

It was announced_by A. How-
ard Bloch, general'chairman of
the program, that U.S. Sen. Pat;
rick V; McNamara, of Michigan,
will serve as Honorary Mali,-

GENERAL CHAIRMAN
Mr. A. Howard Bloch

DINNER CO-CHAIRMEN
Benjamin P. Freedland
Joseph. Lee

TREASURER
Daniel A. Laven

A. HOWARD BLOCH
General Chairman

Hon. PATRICK V. MeNAMARA
United States Senator
Honorary Chairman •

Man.
-Mr. Bloch also stated that , the
Dinner and Show would fea-
ture as entertainment two yoting
stars who are rising quickly in
the field of show business.
They are Brooklyn-born co -
median Jack Wakefield, who
has just been signed by Ed Sul-
livan for a series of six tele-
vision shows, beginning on Dee.
1, and Wilhelm Silber, brilliant
op-eratic tenor who came to this
country as an escapee from
, Communist oppression.

SECRETARY
Morris Karbal

TOASTMASTER'
Nathaniel H. Goldstick

MORRIS KARBAL
Secretary

ASSOCIATE CHAIRMEN
David I. Berris
Nathan Borinstein
'
David J. Cohen
Irwin I. Cohn
Nathan I. Goldin
Samuel Hechtman.
Jack Korman
Samuel B. Solomon
Morris Snow
Phillip Stollman
Meyer Weingar den
Morris W. Zack

MEMBERS OF THE
DINNER COMMITTEE
Joseph Benz
Max-Carmen
Isadore R. Cohen
Wolf Cohen
Reubin Dubrinsky
Peter S. Goldstein
Harry Levine •
Isadore Muskovitz
Abe Nusbaum
Irving Palman
Irving Raimi
Alex Saltsman
Joseph B. Silver
Abe Silverstein
NATHANIEL II. GOLDSTICK
Max Stollman
Assistant Corporation Counsel,
Norman Sukenie
City of Detroit
Julius Wainer
Toastmaster

Traditionally, one of the out-
standing social events of the
season, the Dinner and Show
serves to provide funds for the
maintenance of the school sy_s- •
teni of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.

JOSEPH LEE
Co-Chairman

BENJAMIN P. FREEDLAND
Co-Chairman

To Our Members and Friends

and to the Many Loyal Supporters of the

BETH YEHUDAH SCHOOLS

Our Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy
And' Prosperous New Year

innnm Iznn

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At present, the schools serve
over -800 students on an all-day
or afternoon school basis. The
Main building is located at Dex-
ter and Sturtevant, while there
are two branches in the North-.
west section.
The newest branch, called the
Suburban Hebrew Academy, is
an all-day school for suburban
and Northwest area youngsters.
It has been started this fall with
enrollment in the pre-sob:KJ,
kindergarten and nursery
classes. The school will expand
its facilities in the coming years.

Comedian Jack Wakefield, Tenor Wilhelm Sitter to Entertain at - Show .
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Rising Young Stars to Headline Dinner Program

A Brooklyn-born comeman
wiho received his stage name
from a section of the Bronx
where he grew up will enter-
tain Detroiters attending the
Eighth Annual Dinner and
Show of the Beth Yehudah
Schools on Oct. 27. •
He is Jack Wakefield who re-
cently finished a,Broadway
run in the musical revue "Catch
a Star." Jack, born Milton Fa-
gin, started his - career, in his
teens by appearing in amateur
contests.
Later, he went on to club
dates, and has appeared in night
spots from Miami Beach to
Montreal. Many Detroiters will
remember his appearance' at the
Elmwood Casino in Windsor. He
also has been on a number of
television Shows, including the
Red Buttons Show, and has
been signed by Ed Sullivan for
six telecasts later this year.
His chief claim to fame came
in the Broadway musical,
"Catch a Star," in which he
won rave reviews appearing
with Pat Carroll in a parody of

WAKEFIELD

Wilhelm Silber, who has' been
* • * * called "a tenor with gold in his
voice," will be one of the stars
featured at the Eighth Annual
Dinner and Show of the Beth
Yehudah Schools.
Although a . comparative new-
comer in this country, his repu-
tation in the musical world al-
ready is established. Only a ,
few years after arriving in the
U.S. from Vienna, where he fled
in 1949 froth his native Hun-
gary, he thrilled audiences in
many American cities, as he did
previously' in Europe and South
America.
He began singing at the age
of five with the choir of his
father, the Cantor of Debrecen,
and, in 1945, he succeeded his
father who had died in a Nazi
concentration camp. After his
escape from Hungary, he served
for two years as Chief Cantor
•
of a Vienna synagogue. -
He has been a soloist at New
York's Town Hall and CE..rnegie.
Hall, appeared on the Chicago
Theater of the Air and sang be-
fore 75,000 people at the 1953
Chicagoland Music Festival. He
currently is a member of Chi-
cago's Lyric Opera.
WILHELM SILBER

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