People Make News
H. H. FINSILVER, branch man-
ager for Business Men's Assurance
Company, qualified as a Senior
Director of the 1966 BMA Life
Club, an honor earned by selling
Over a million dollars in life in-
surance during 1965. This marks
Finsilver's 10th consecutive year
to top the million mark in life
insurance sales.
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DR. E. GORDON YUDASHKIN,
of Baldwin, N.Y., has been ap-
pointed medical superintendent of
Northville State Hospital by Ro-
bert A. Kimmich, M.D., director,
Michigan Department of Mental
Health. He will begin his duties
April 4, 1966.
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PAUL BRAGMAN, general
agent for MacCabees Mutual Life
Insurance Co., was honored at the
company's 1966 international sales
conference at the Grand Bahama
Hotel, Grand Bahama Island, the
. Bahamas. Highlighting the confer-
ence was the awards presentation
made by William H. Ellis, vice
president and director of agencies.
Bragman was accorded the gold
shield club award.
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H. Hentz and Company an-
nounces the appointment of KEN-
NETH E. ROCHLEN as a regis-
tered representative in the Detroit
office.
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The Prime Minister of Canada,
LESTER PEARSON, will be a
principal speaker at the annual
convention of The Rabbinical As-
sembly in Toronto in May. Pear-
son, a recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize, proposed the UN Emergency
Force in the Sinai-Gaza area,
which has been keeping the peace
along the Israel-Egyptian border,
during his term as president of
the United National General As-
sembly, 1956-57. He was the Cana-
dian Minister of External Affairs
at the time.
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Mrs. CHARLES D. SOLOVICH,
21820 Potomac Dr. Southfield,
has been renamed to represent
Bnai Brith Women on the national
commission of the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith. The ap-
pointment was announced by Mrs.
Arthur G. Rosenbluth, Bnai Brith
Women's president, prior to the
ADL annual meeting held last
week in New York. Mrs. Solovich
will serve on the policy-making
body for a three-year term. She
serves on the executive board of
Bnai Brith Women and is a past
president of the organization. A
practicing attorney, Mrs. Solovich
is active on the Detroit civic scene.
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Dr. MAURICE L. PERLZWEIG,
of New York, director of the World
Jewish Congress department of
international affairs, will attend
the United Nations Conference on
"Human Rights in Developing
Countries," in Dakar, Senegal,
next week.
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Cantor VICTOR GELB has been
engaged by the Waldman's Fam-
ily Hotels in Miami Beach to offi-
ciate during the coming Passover
holidays.
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Judge CHARLES KAUFMAN of
the Wayne County Circuit Court
will moderate a panel discussion
on "The Draft and the Vietnam
Protestors" before the 17th Dis-
trict Young Democrats, Monday,
Feb. 7, 8 p.m. at Region 1A-UAW
Hall, 8222 Joy Rd. Panelists in-
clude ERNEST MAZEY and
Lt. Col. EUGENE BRUNK. The
public is invited.
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The creation of an association
of Conservative day schools has
been announced by Pesach
Schindler, assistant director of the
commission on Jewish education of
the United Synagogue of America.
HORACE BIER of Irvington, N.J.,
was elected first president of the
new organization, to be known as
the Association of Solomon
,Schechter Day Schools.
A Cleveland architect, J. NOR-
MAN STARK, has been appointed
a member of the national arch-
itects advisory panel of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, a voluntary association of
more than 40 selected architectural
firms who have built synagogues
and are interested in advancing
standards of synagogue architec-
ture and in assisting congregations
in the erection of worthy struc-
tures.
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CHARLES L. JARMAN has
been named assistant to the execu-
tive director of Goodwill Indus-
tries of Greater Detroit.
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AVROHOM TABATCHNIK,
member of the Yiddish editorial
staff of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, has been awarded a $200
prize for his "Poets and Poetry,"
a collection of literary essays on
some of the major Yiddish poets
in the United States. The prize
was sponsored by the Nathan
Chanin Cultural Foundation of the
Jewish Workmen's Circle. Another
winner was Kadia Molodowsky for
a volume of Yiddish verse. The
judges of the contest also voted a
prize of $200 to The Jewish Mirror
of Chicago, which is devoted sole-
ly to the publication of transla-
tions of Yiddish works.
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JOSEPH G. WEISBERG, co.:
publisher of the Boston Jewish
Advocate, and the weekly news-
paper's executive editor, was ap-
pointed by Gov. John A. Volpe
to membership on the state's
newly-constituted board of educa-
tion. In that post, he succeeds Dr.
Brin, publisher of the Jewish
Advocate, who served for more
than 25 years on the old state
board of education. Weisberg's ap-
pointment brings to four the num-
ber of Jewish leaders on the re-
organized bodies of the Massa-
chusetts Department of Education.
Norman S. Rabb is chairman of
the new advisory council on edu-
cation; Mrs. Sol Weltman is a
member of the board of trustees
of the state coleges; and Mrs.
Frieda S. Ullian is a member of
the board of higher education.
The Jewish Advocate has also
received the first-place award for
"Best Editorial Page in Class V,"
given annually by the New Eng-
land Press Association.
New JWB President
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Louis Stern was elected presi-
dent of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board Sunday at the win-
ter meeting of JWB's board of
directors at the Warwick Hotel,
New York. He succeeds the late
Mrs. Florence G. Heller of Chi-
cago, Chairman of JWB's execu-
tive committee since 1964, and
before that a national vice-
president of the organization.
Stern is the immediate past pres-
ident of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds.
Education Arlazaroff Topic
Albert Elazar, superintendent of
the United Hebrew Schools, will
speak at a gathering of Arlazaroff
Branch of Farband, Labor Zionist
Order, 9 p.m. Wednesday at the
Labor Zionist Institute. He will
discuss "Jewish Education in a
Changing World." The public is in-
vited• at no charge.
Susan Nelson Engaged It's About So High
to Samuel Bernstein
`Please, Sir, Take Me to My Tree'
re,
By CHARLOTTE HYAMS
gets some in • memory of Presi-
MISS SUSAN NELSON
Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Nelson
of Burton Ave., Oak Park, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Susan Hilla to Samuel
Bernstein, son of Mrs. Mandell
Bernstein of Shrewsbury Rd., and
the late Mr. Bernstein.
Miss Nelson is a senoir at the
University of Michigan. Mr. Bern-
stein is a graduate of Michigan
State University, where he was af-
filiated with Zeta Beta Tau
Fraternity. He is presently attend.
ing Wayne State University's
school of law.
A June wedding is planned.
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This Week's Radio and
Television Programs
ETERNAL LIGHT — RADIO
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WWJ.
Feature: "The Last Penny" by
Joseph Mindel, adapted from a
story of the same name by S. Frug,
will be presented as seventh in
the series entitled, "Fables and
Folktales for Our Time." It dram-
atizes the story of a townspeople
who believe that when not a penny
is to be found in the pocket of a
single man, the coming of the
Messiah is at hand.
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HEAR OUR VOICE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WCAR.
Feature: "Contemporary Canto-
rial Music" will feature renditions
by Cantor Harold Orbach, host
and commentator for the series.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday.
Station: Channel 2.
Time: 9:15 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WJBK.
Feature: Views of Jewish art
and artists currently being shown
at the Jewish Center's "Festival
'66" will be discussed on "Jewish
Art and Artists." Participating in
the discussion will be Louis Red-
stone, architect and member of
the festival art committee; Mrs.
Shlomo Sperka, art instructor; and
Mrs. Allen Berlin, hostess for this
series. Selections from the exhibit
will be shown.
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TALK OF DETROIT
Time: 2:35 p.m. Wednesday.
Station: WERB.
Feature: Rabbi Sherwin Wine of
Birmingham Temple will be guest
on this listening-audience partici-
pation show. Rabbi Richard C.
Hertz of Temple Beth El will be
guest on Feb. 21.
City of Hope Couples Set
Saturday Night Session
Detroit Mr. and Mrs. Group,
City of Hope, will meet 8:30 p.m.
Saturday at the home of Mrs. Sarah
Fishkind, 20520 Charlton Sq.,
Southfield.
A social evening will follow.
Tickets for the group's annual
games night to be held in May
will be distributed. All proceeds
go to the City of Hope pilot medi-
cal center for research and pati-
ent care 4n 'catastrophic disease.
Ever wonder how your trees in
Israel are doing? I wonder all
the time, but I'm too ashamed
to ask the Jewish National Fund
to check up on them.
It's not as though I can ask
"How's my forest faring?" or "Is
my grove getting along?" No, they
would have to locate the 10 trees
planted by the fifth grade of Park-
side Hebrew School about 16 years
ago. Mine's the scraggly pine at
the very end.
Why should it matter? Well, if
you've ever planted a tree with
your own hands—just one tree—
you know. You watch it and water
it and shelter it and worry over it
when the wind blows. It becomes
a part of you.
Somewhere out there in the
Galilee I've got a graceful cypress
—it doesn't have my name on it,
but it's mine; And there's a cedar
for sure, and maybe even a euc-
alyptus.
Apparently there are other peo-
ple who wonder. Percy Kaplan,
who heads the JNF office here,
says it's not at all uncommon for
an adult to ask where he can find
his tree when he visits Israel.
And the questions go further.
"One woman asked what the car-
rying charges were on trees flown
to Israel," Kaplan said. Some
ask instructions on how to take
care of them; others are wor-
ried because the Israeli rela-
tives, in whose honor the trees
are being planted, "don't have
much room in their apartment."
Children catch on more quickly,
Kaplan added.
Although most students plant
trees for themselves, or parents
and teachers, the JNF office still
dent Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson
and Hubert Humphrey are high on
the popularity list too.
Planting a tree is a highly per-
sonal matter: one child named his
in memory of his dog.
Last year, Detroit area stu-
dents bought over 3,500 trees
in Israel. (Non-Jewish children
also help out; the First Baptist
Church of Oak Park bought
some 400 in 1965.)
The first tree certificate is an
experience, let me tell you. Last
Tu b'Shevat, by Sunday-school
first graders raised $4, and the
agonies they went through to se-
lect two worthy recipients was be-
yond belief.
Chana was all for naming the
class trees in honor of herself
and her little sister, but she lost
on the third ballot to Caroline and
John-John Kennedy.
Ghana took the loss bravely,
though, adding a philosophical
"Anyway, we have a tree in our
backyard, hah hah on you."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26—Friday, February 4, 1966
by
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