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Ladd Plumley, board chairman
and president of State Mutual
Life Assurance Co. of America,
flew to Detroit recently to honor
the company's outstanding produc-
tion leaders, among them SOLO-
MON ROTHENBERG, one of the
company's top sales associates
who qualified for the Circle of
Honor last year by selling over
$1,500,000 in insurance.
* * *
H. MANSFIELD HORNER,
chairman of the board of United
Aircraft Corp., has been named
recipient of Yeshivah University's
1966 Distinguished' Science Award,
to be presented May 22 at a dinner
at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria which
will advance a $20 million Science
Center development program to ex-
pand the academic and physical
facilities of the university's Belfer
Graduate School of Science.
* * *
Practical ways of helping Ameri-
cans and Canadians adjust to life
in Israel will be highlighted at
the convention of the Labor Zion--
ist Organization of America-Poale
Zion in Chicago, May 27-30. DAVID
BRESLAU, president of the Asso-
ciation of Americans and Canadi-
ans in Israel and assistant director
of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
at the Hebrew University, Jeru-
salem, will address the conclave on
"The_ Living Bridge — American ,
Aliya" at the May 29 session at
Sherman House.

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the historic congregation, the old-
est Conservative synagogue in the
United States and the second old-
est Jewish house of worship in
New York City.
* *

Dean SAMUEL H. MILLER of
the Harvard Divinity School an-
nounced plans for a four-day col-
loquium in October on Judaism and
Christianity, paralleling in some
sense a historic Roman Catholic-
Protestant colloquium held at Cam-
bridge, Mass., in 1963. Scholars
from throughout the world will
gather for lectures and discussions
during the colloquium and there
will be lectures open to the public.
Joining the divinity school in the
planning and support of this con-
ference is the American Jewish
Committee.
* * *

Herbert Millman, Rye, N.Y., as-
sociate executive of the National
Jewish Welfare
Board, was in-
ducted as presi-
dent of the Na-
tional Associa-
tion of Jewish
Center Workers
at a business
session of the an-
nual convention
of the organiza-
tion of 1600 pro-
fessional social
workers employ-
ed in Jewish
* * *
Community Cen-
The appointment of Mrs. Henry ters and YM -
N. Rapaport of Scarsdale, N.Y., YWHAs through-
as chairman of
Millman
out the United
the National
States and Canada. The NAJCW
Jewish Welfare
convention was part of the 60th an-
Board women's
nual meeting of the National Con-
0 r gani za ti o n s'
ference of Jewish Communal Serv-
services, was an-
ice held in Washington. Morris Le-
nounced by Louis
vin, executive director of the Ber-
Stern, JWB pres-
nard Harwich Jewish Community
ident. She suc-
Center, Chicago, was elected pres-
ceeds Mrs. Irving
ident-elect of NAJCW and will
3. Sands, who
take office in 1968.
served • as chair-
* * *
man from Octo-
DR.
SAMUEL
RUBEN, who per-
ber 1961 through
fected the mercury battery used
April 1966. Vice-
in the life-saving heart pacemaker,
chairman of
has been designated "Inventor of
cooperation with
the Year for 1965," it was an-
other organiza-
nounced in Washington by the
tions of the Na-
Patent, Trademarks and Copyright
tional Women's .
Institute of George Washington
League of the • gdir
.
University. He was recognized for
United Syn a- Mrs. Rapaport
gague of America, Mrs. Rapaport his many achievements in elec-
is a member of the National Worn-. tronics. The mercury battery is but
en's League, JWB and Religion in one of some 300 inventions patent-
American Life. She has been pres- ed by Dr. Ruben.
* * *
ident of Temple Israel Center,
White Plains, N.Y., and is now an
Yeshiva University will confer
honorary trustee of that syna- its Distinguished Science Award
gogue.
upon H. MANSFIELD HORNER,
* * *
chairman of the United Aircraft
DR. MAX A. LIPSCHITZ, rabbi Corporation, at a dinner, May 22,
of Beth Torah Congregation of at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
North Miami Beach was elected to further the establishment of the
by the Rabbinical Association of Science Center for the university's
Greater Miami as its president Belfer Graduate School of Science.
for the coming year. His wife, Participants in the event will in-
Miriam, is the daughter of Rabbi clude Dr. Samuel Belkin, president
Moses Lehrman of Cong. Bnai of Yeshiva University; dinner
Moshe. Rabbi Lipschitz was or- chairman William Wishnick, and
dained at Yeshiva University. He guest speaker Senator Jacob K.
received his MA from Columbia Javits.
* *
University and a doctor of philo-
sophy degree at the University of
MRS. BERNARD SPEAR, chair-
Wisconsin. His dissertations on man of the membership committee
the Hassidic School of Gur will of Sinai Hospital's Women's Guild,
be published this year.
was recently named "Volunteer of
*
the Week" by Shoppers' News. In
President LYNDON B. JOHN- addition to her work at Sinai,
SON sent his greetings Sunday where she served for seven years,
night to those assembled at the Mrs. Spear is a life board member
Waldorf Astoria acknowledging of Louis Marshall Chapter of B,nai
the 140•th Anniversary celebration Brith, a member of the Detroit
of historic Cong. Bnai Jeshurun Round Table, Hadassah, Hebrew
and honoring Rabbi WILLIAM
BERKOWITZ. National and local,
Since its establishment as a
civic and religious leaders joined state in 1948, Israel's population
in the commemorative program to has grown from 650,000 to 2,600,-
00, with 1,300,000 of the increase
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consisting of immigrants. Israel's
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per year.

Benevolent Society and a life mem-
ber of the Jewish Home for the
Aged. Most recently, she received
the Community Service Pin from
the Central Volunteer Bureau of
United Community Services. The
Spears, who reside on Marlowe,
have two children, Mrs. Gerald
Sampson and Dr. Victor I. Spear,
and three grandchildren.
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JOHN R. DIXON and RAYMOND
A. INDREICA, associates of the
Ruben Gold agency of the Mas-
sachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Co., completed 10 days of special-
ized training in Springfield, Mass.,
as members of their company's
58th home office school for career
underwriters.
* * *
WILLIAM E. LEVENSON of
Western Reserve University, who
is former superintendent of schools
in Cleveland was keynote speaker
at the second- regional conference
on school volunteers sponsored by
the National School Volunteer
Program and the Detroit Public
Schools last week at the Statler-
Hilton Hotel. Detroit's volunteer
program, now two years old, has
1,389 regularly scheduled volun-
teers and several hundred resource
people.
* *
HOWARD J. SAMUELS, an in-
dustrial engineer active in Jewish
affairs- , has announced his candi-
dacy for the Democratic nomina-
tion for governor of New York.
The candidate is chairman of the
American Histadrut Cultural Ex-
change Institute, a member of the
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Israel Public Affairs Commis-
sion and served as chairman of the
1964 annual dinner of Boys Town
of Jerusalem.
* * *
Mrs.- Raliald Brown of Cleveland
was elected president of the Inter-
national Council of Jewish . Women
at its triennial
convention this
.week in London.
Other Ameri-
cans elected by
the world body,
which represents
Jewish women's
organizations in
19 countries, are:
Mrs. I. Lee Levy,
New York, vice-
president; M r s.
Alexander Mintz,
Cleveland, secre-
tary; Mrs. Louis
Broido, New
York,
assistant
secretary;
Mrs.
Mrs. Brown Ira Copen, New-
ark, t re-a surer; Mrs. Jerome
Curtis, Cleveland, assistant treas-
urer. All represent the National
Council of Jewish Women of the
United States. Convention sessions
were devoted to needs of children,
the status of women under Jewish
law and other aspects of Jewish
family life.
* * *
MRS. STEVEN G. RUBY re-
cently was elected president of the
Oak Park Symphony Society. Other
officers include Dr. Seymour
Smelsey, chairman of the execu-
tive board of directors; Jack Kop-
nick, executive vice president; Mil-
ton Merry, Oscar Genser, William
Petersen and Gerold L'Heureaux,
vice presidents; Mrs. Jack Kop-
nick and Mrs. David Weisberg,
secretaries; and Gordon Pitcher,
treasurer. Ben Etkin and Louis
Miller, past chairmen; and Mrs.
Earl Ack, past president, serve on
the executive board of directors.
The next meeting will be held 8:30
p.m. Thursday.
* * *
DR. ALBERT SCHRUT, former
Detroiter who is assistant clinical

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professor of psychiatry at the Uni- dience ever addressed by an
versity of Southern California's raeli in this country.
* * *
school of medicine, has been
awarded the Franz Alexander Es-
JUDGE BURNETT WOLFSON
say Prize for 1965 by the Southern of the California Superior Court,

California Psychonalytic Institute.
Dr. Schrut, a graduate of the
Wayne State University medical
school, wrote his winning paper on
"The Importance of Play in Chil-
dren: Some Psychoanalytic Ob-
servations of Communication and
Other Aspects." Staff - psychiatrist
at the Suicide Prevention Center,
Schrut lives in Beverly Hills. He
is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.
Manuel Neiman of Detroit.
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announced his retirement from the
bench June 15, after serving for
a period of 11 years. He is prom-
inent in the Los Angeles Jewish__
community, and served as pre
ident of the Guardians of the Jei
ish Home for the Aged and as one
of the Home's directors.
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MRS. JOAN COMAY, wife of
the Israeli ambassador to the Uni-
ted Nations, addressed 8,500 Chris-
tian women in Portland Ore., last
I Saturday night at the Methodist
Women's National Assembly. She
called on the audience to partici-
! pate in a "woman-to-woman" pro-
gram to aid less developed lands.
She was applauded when she asked
that educated American women
mobilize their resources in such
a program. Earlier, at a luncheon
session, Mrs. Camay described the
birth of Israel, 18 years ago, and
Israel's development since 1948.
She assured the women that Is-
raelis "cherish the sacred associ-
ation of our land for your faith
and ours." The Methodist Wom-
en's assembly is believed to have
been the largest non-Jewish au-

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