People Make News
I. MURRAY JACOBS, ABE
KATZMAN and MAX SILVER-
MAN were among 64 communal
leaderS from across the country
to be elected to the board of
directors of the National Fed-
eration of Jewish Men's Clubs
at its annual convention held
recently in Kiamesha Lake,
N.Y.
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DR. MARVIN REVZIN, chief
of the University of Detroit
School of Dentistry oral surgery
department, was elected presi-
dent of the Detroit District
Dental Society.
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MISS JANET BIRNKRANT
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore D.
Birnkrant of Hendrie Blvd.,
Huntington Woods, announce
the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Janet Eleanor, to Dr. Ells-
worth Levine, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Lev:ne of Lauder
Ave. -
The bride-elect is a graduate
of the Montieth C o 11 e g e of
Wayne State University and an
alumna of Mills College, Oak-
land, Calif. Her fiance is a
graduate of the dental school
of the University of Michigan.
A July garden wedding at the
home of the bride-elect's par-
ents is planned.
The appointment of ROBERT
WECHSLER as campaign chair-
man for the national fund-rais-
ing drive of the American Jew-
ish Congress was announced by
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president.
DR. ZEV ZAHAVY, president
of the Limud Society, announ-
ces the inauguration of the Na-
tional Israel Stamp Club, coin-
ciding with the 15th secular an-
niversary of the State of Israel.
Since September, 1962, the
Limud Society, at 132 Nassau
St., New York, has been func-
tioning as a non-profit organiza-
tion dedicated to the propaga-
tion of Jewish knowledge and
the welfare of Israel.
E. Roosevelt Will Give Address
at Event to Honor Schussel May 27
The Congregation Beth Abra-
ham Irving Schlussel testimoni-
al dinner, Monday, 7 p.m., at
the Jewish Center, is on behalf
of Israel Bonds. William A.
Genser is dinner committee
chairman, with Sam Kaufer as
co-chairman.
Elliott Roosevelt, second son
of Franklin Delano and Eleanor
Roosevelt, who, as a combat
g e neral in
World War II,
command-
ed Allied air
reconnais-
sance units
under Gen-
Eisenhow-
er, will be the
guest speaker.
Guest star
w ill be Lew
Genser
Norman, hu-
morist, who has appeared with
the Yiddish. Art Theater and
has performed in Town Hall,
Carnegie Hall and throughout
the country. He received the
"Show Business" award for out-
standing performance in the
Yiddish version of "Death of a
Salesman." He will appear in
a program of "Humor in Yid-
dish Life."
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman
will be the toastmaster. Rabbi
Israel I. Halpern will give the
tribute to SchluSsel, who is be-
ing honored for a lifetime of
dedicated service to Beth Abra-
ham, to the Detroit Jewish com-
munity and to the State of
.Israel. Schlussel has been a
leader in more than a . score
of organizations and has been
active in the Israel Bond cam-,
paign since.. its initiation. He
was one of the leaders in or-
ganizing the Israel Bond High
Holy Day Appeal. He has been
an active Zionist for over 30
years, served as president of
the Detroit Zionist Council and
of the JNF, was a pioneer lead-
er in Young Israel and has
served on the boards of the
Jewish Welfare Federation and
the Jewish Community Council.
Cantor Ackerman, who host-
ed a leadership reception in ad-
vance of the dinner at which
the guest speaker was Council
President Ed Carey, will lead
in the singing at the dinner.
Reservations can be made by
calling the Israel Bond Office,
DI. 1-5707.
ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT
Parley on Education
TV S1 ated at Brandeis
A national conference on the
economics of educational tele-
vision, commissioned by the U. S.
Office of Education, will be held
by Brandeis University's Morse
Communication Research Center
in conjunction with the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences
The four4lay conference, which
opened Thursday at the univer-
sity's Themis House in Weston,
Mass., brought together leading
U. S. and foreign representatives
in the fields of broadcasting, edu-
cation, economics, business, la-
bor, government, science and the
arts. Their chief obejective will
be to discuss and present views
on the needs and means of
financing U. S. educational tele-
vision (ETV) operations. :
Mangel to Address
Aleichem Institute
Gershon Mangel will address
an Oneg Shabbat 9 p.m. today
at the Sholem Aleichem Insti-
tute. An Israeli high school
teacher now serving as an in-
structor in this country, his topic
will be ."The Teaching of Classi-
cal Hebrew Literature to Seniors
in the Israeli High Schools." The
public is invited.
There are approximately one
million persons in Michigan
who are 60 years of age and
over.
JACOB IGRA, director-general
of the Jerusalem Institute for the
Blind, is to spend two years in
the United States in behalf of
the institution which is Israel's
largest and foremost training
center for the blind. Igra will
make his headquarters in the
offices of Keren-Or, Inc., 1133
Broadway, New York, the sup-
port wing of the Jerusalem In-
stitute in the United States.
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LEWIS H. WEINSTEIN of
Boston, appointed by President
Kennedy last week to the eight-
member President's Committee
on Equal Opportunity in Hous-
ing, has been chairman of the
National Community Relations
Advisory Council for the past
three years and is a leader in
many other Jewish organiza-
tions. He is a recognized author-
ity on housing.
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CHARLES TOLMAS, leading
New Orleans businessman, has
been an Israel Bond purchaser
from 1951. Earlier this year he
bought $6,000 in Israel Bonds.
When the first Israel Independ-
ence Savings Bonds were being
redeemed, he found two $100
Bonds he bought in 1951. He re-
deemed them at maturity value
of $300 and enclosed a check
for an additional amount of
$2,700 to buy a $3,000 Bond, in
addition to his previous purchase
of $6,000 for 1963.
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BARRY GITTLEN, 26399
York, Huntington Woods, and
BARRY KRIGER, 265 S. Cran-
brook Cross, Birmingham, will
participate in the American
Students Program this coming
year at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem.
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ANN LANDERS, syndicated
columnist, will speak at the
Universityof Detroit Student
Union Ballroom today, at 3 p.m.
The lecture, "Trouble, What
Else?," is free and open to the
public. It is one of the Coffee
Cup Lectures sponsored by the
University of Detroit Student
Council.
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Ambassador ADLAI E. STE-
VENSON, U. S. Permanent Rep-
resentative to the United Na-
tions, and former Supreme Court
Justice FELIX FRANKFURTER
are among the leading personali-
ties in government and public
life who have joined the hon-
orary committee for the Israel
Independence Ball, to be held
June 9 at the Sheraton-Park
Hotel in Washington, D. C. An-
nouncement of the membership
of the honorary committee,
headed by Mrs. LYNDON B.
JOHNSON, wife of the Vice
President, was made by Carl M.
Freeman, chairman of the ball.
seeks to aid Sephardi youth in
Israel.
Sephardic Group
to Enter Technion
A group of 35 Israeli soldiers,
all of Sephardi descent, is now
attending a special course at the
Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, in Haifa, aimed at
preparing them for the Insti-
tute's entrance examinations to
be held in August. The course
was made possible with the
cooperation of the Israel De-
fense Forces and a substantial
grant from the Mitrani Family
Foundation For Studies which
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VICTOR V. STOLLER has
joined Atlantic Utilities Cor-
poration's wholly-owned sub-
sidiary, Atlantic Gas Corpora-
tion, as general manager, it was
announced by PAUL ZUCKER-
MAN, chairman of the board of
Atlantic Utilities Corporation.
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27 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, May 24, 1963
Birnkrant-Levine
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