THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8—Friday, March 10, 1967 Norman Drachler Named Superintendent of Detroit Public School System Wiesel to Give Hass Memorial Talk Wednesday Acting Superintendent Norman Drachler Tuesday became Super- intendent of Detroit Public Schools by unanimous decision of the Board of Education. At a special meeting, the board entered into a four-year contract with Superin- tendent Drachler. On July 26, 1966, the board had approved the promotion of Dr. Drachler to Deputy and named him acting superin- tendent, effective Sept. 1, 1966. He has carried on the full responsi- bility for the De- troit Public Schools since the departure of Dr. Samuel M. Brow- nell who had been Detroit su- perintendent for Drachler the previous ten years. "Dr. Drachler has demonstrated great educational leadership while serving as Acting Superintendent. His thorough knowledge of the complex operation of our public schools and his ability to accept the heavy responsibilities of this temporary assignment have reveal- ed to the entire community his out- standing qualifications and skills in administering the affairs of the Detroit Public Schools. He shares with the Board a determination to provide equal opportunities for quality education for all children of the City of Detroit," said Mrs. Gladys F. Canty, chairman of the Board's personnel committee. The board said that it had inter- viewed more than 40 candidates in- cluding some of the nation's finest school administrators during its 1965-66 year of search for a new ELlE WIESEL Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel will deliver the annual Daniel M. Hass Memorial Lecture of Temple Israel at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, at the Temple. Wiesel, whose powerful novels, "The Town Beyond the Wall," "The Gates of the Forest" and "The Jews of Silence" have become best sellers, will speak on the subject "Accessory to Crime." The Nazi holocaust, which pre- dominates in Wiesel's novels, and the treatment of the problem of genocide as a major world concern will be treated in Wiesel's address here. Hungarian-born Wiesel was de- ported as a child to Auschwitz dur- ing World War II, and after libera- tion made his way to Paris where he began writing. Among his many honors are the 1964 Prix Rivarol, the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award of the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Heritage Award.. The Hass lecture will be Wiesel's first speaking engagement in the Detroit area. Morris Garvett will preside at the Wiesel lecture. The lecture, named for Daniel Michael Hass, is maintained by a fund established at the temple to honor his memory. Daniel Hass was an honor student at Tulane Univer- sity, winner of the Mildred Simons Youth Award of the League of Jew- ish Women's Organizations and a president of the Temple Israel Youth Group. The lecture honoring his memory is open to the public. There is no admission charge. Carlos Israels Named President of HIAS - (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) NEW YORK — Carlos L. Is- raels, a leader in philanthropic ac- tivities for more than 30 years, was elected president of United HIAS Service, the worldwide Jewish migration agency. Author, lecturer on corporate and financial law, and adjunct pro- fessor of law at Columbia Univer- sity, Israels was previously presi- dent of United HIAS in 1958-59 and has been associate chairman of the board since then. He succeeds Mur- ray I. Gurfein, who served as pre- sident since 1960. Gurfein was elected chairman of the executive commission. The United HIAS leader is active in many civic, professional and philanthropic organizations. He is a "founder" and member of the executive committee of the New York UJA; a member of the board of directors of JDC; and a director and treasurer of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. . superintendent. They decided that the best qualified candidate was on its own Detroit staff. Dr. Drachler, in accepting the superintendency, said, "On all sides people speak about the 'deficits' of our children. We certainj.y must understand these shortcomings but what is more important is the fact that all of our children have many strengths. Let us build our pro- gram on the strengths of our chil- dren and move forward to the ful- fillment of our goal. Let us seek new insights that will raise our visions, broaden our horizons, and increase our discontent. We owe this to our children and to our- selves." A veteran Detroit educator,' Su- perintendent Drachler has been a part of the Detroit Public Schools since his student days at Central High School. He was a Detroit teacher, assistant principal, prin- cipal and an assistant superinten- dent. He became well known in 1958 both in Detroit and across the country for his work with the Citi- zens Advisory Committee on School Needs. He was selected to head up that study, the first massive school study effort for any major city in the country. In 1959 he was promoted to exe- cutive administrative assistant of the newly created Division of School Relations and Special Ser- vices—another first in school ad- ministration. In 1960 he was named assistant superintendent of this division. Other large city school systems such as Denver and Kansas City have engaged him as consultant for school studies similar to the CAC 1958 report. He also has served as Knesset Asks All Nations to Adopt Laws Banning Swastika in Public (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — Israel's parlia- ment approved Monday night a motion appealing to all nations to adopt laws banning public use of The swastika 'in any form. The proposal will now be sent to all nations with which Israel has rela- tions. The motion, made by Herut leader Menahem Beigin, was adopted after the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee submitted a report urging a 11 peoples who had suffered from Nazism to maintain a constant alertness against any recurrence of neo-Nazism so that the holo- caust "which swept over our gen- eration" should never recur. The report was placed on the Knesset agenda on a motion by Mapf.,...2 Deputy Mrs. E. Talmi after For- eign Minister Abba Eban spoke on the question. The committee's conclusions are now part of the Knesset's official record. The committee in effect rejected Eban's view that there should not be an exaggeration of the sig- nificance of the electoral victories last November by the extremist National Democratic Party in elections in the West German states of Bavaria and Hesse. The committee declared, on that point, that "Historical ex- perience shows that calls not to overestimate this danger tends to lull public opinion. The elec- tions in the two states prove this is a real danger which may increase." The NPD won parlia- mentary seats for the first time in those elections. The committee, in calling on parliaments throughout the world to bar the swastika, said that the emblem, the symbol of Nazi Ger- many, "which committed the most terrible of crimes — genocide — is identified by peoples with abominable crimes against human- ity and its hoisting is therefore tantamount to public incitement to commit such crimes." In London, a resolution calling on the West German government and the Social Democratic Party in Germany to combat the dangers of rising neo-Nazism in that coun- try was adopted at the annual conference of the British Poale Zion. (The resolution, which referred to the fact that the Social Demo- cratic Party there is now part of the Bonn government- coalition, urged both the party and the gov- ernment "to prosecute with vigor a policy in defense of democracy and freedom in West Germany, and to stem the advance of neo- Fascist ideas which are a danger to the whole free world." (The resolution was adopted after the conference heard a report showing the headway being made in German state elections in re- cent months by the neo-Nazi Na- tional Democratic Party.) Newhouse Purchases Another Newspaper CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest news- papers, has been purchased by Samuel I. Newhouse of New York, it was announced by Thomas Vail, editor and publisher of the paper. The eldest of eight children of Russian immigrant parents, New- house left school at age 12 and worked his way up from a $2-a- week office boy to his present posi- tion of awning 16 newspapers and shares in two others. He is now 72. The price paid for the Plain Deal- er was estimated at $50 million, which is believed to be the largest sum ever paid for a newspaper. tfETIEFA9"E YOUR HOME? PVTI!...., DEAL w1TH A REPUTABLE BROKER MEMBER DETROIT REAL ESTATE BOARD I consultant to the U. S. Office of Education on Title IV of the Civil Rights Act. On the state level he helped develop and write "Suggest- ed Guidelines for Providing for the Maximal Education of Children of All Races and Creeds in the Schools of Michigan." He served, too, on the state committee writing guidelines for Michigan's Released Time Bill. Widely noted as an outstanding speaker, Superintendent Drachler has addressed many audiences on de facto segregation, treatment of minority groups in textbooks, and the implications of federal educa- tion legislation on relationships be- tween public and parochial schools. He ,served for 15 years as direc- tor of religious education of Temple Beth El. Former president of the National Association of Temple Educators, Dr. Drachler was a member of the governing board of the National Commission on Edu- cation, Anti-Defamation League, and American Association for Jew- ish Education. He was a member of President Eisenhower's 1960 White House Conference on Edu- cation of Children and Youth. Dr. Drachler is a member of the American Association of School Administrators and several other – professional groups and the De- troit Economic Club. Born in Europe in 1912, he came to the United States at the age of 10., He lived for a few years in New York, attending elementary school there. His high school years were in Detroit and he received his B.A. from Wayne State Uni- versity in 1936, his M.A. from the same school in 1939, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1951. Dr. and Mrs. Drachler make their home on Littlefield. They are par- ents of a son and two daughters— all now in college. David is com- pleting medical school at the Uni- versity of Michigan; Judith a sen- ior at Brandeis College; and Ruth in her first year at Michigan State University. Mrs. Drachler is a De- troit kindergarten teacher. The four year contract calls for a salary of $35,000 for the first year, $37,000 for the second year, and $39,000 for the third year. RIDE THE FORD For 1967 Your Best Buy Is At Northland Ford UNITED BRANDS • DETROIT. U. S. 10 Mile at Greenfield A. • 42 PROOF All international airlines are offering new low fares— fares that are based on your traveling with a group of 15 people. Now! 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