Our City Editor's View of
The JEWISH NEWS
"Silver Milestone"
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By CHARLOTTE HYAMS
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Danny Raskin, 25 Years With
The JEWISH NEWS
"Reminisces"
11•1•1111.,
Advertising Manager's
THA K YOU
By Sidney Shmarak
The 25th year of publica-
tion of The Jewish News is
a milestone which, as needs
and staff increased, saw us
move from the Penobscott
building to the David Stott
Building, to The Jewish
News office building at its
current location. Twenty-five years of faithful.
and unstinting service fill the need of the com-
munity, its organizations and its readers, bring-
ing them news and features not found in any
other medium in the city.
Of these 25 years, it has been my privilege
to be part of The Jewish News staff for 21 years.
To our advertisers who find acceptance and
patronage from our readers, my sincere thanks
for their cooperation during these many years.
My family and I join the community in wishing
the Slomovitz family continued good health' and
success for many years to come on this historic
occasion.
I6 Friday; • March. 17,. 1967'
I view with pride the 25 years
in which my column has ap-
peared uninterruptedly in The
Jewish News.
On March 27, 1942, we wrote
the first column. Much has hap-
pened since then. The guys 'n
gals we wrote about are today
mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfa-
thers, numbering among them many leading
citizens of our community. Girls who won our
annual Beauty-Personality Contests are still
beautiful as today's parents. Fellows who were
listed among the ten best-dressed men each
year are still dapper.
Remember "Where They Are"? How impor-
tant 'mail was to the boys in World War II, and
it was most gratifying each week to give
names and addresses of boys fighting all over
the world. And those War Bonds ! Boy how our
readers would come through. Such a source of
pride would be impossible to receive otherwise.
Made us feel mighty good when we asked for
blood, too, because very few turned us down.
Then there was that poem we wrote for the
boys at the Santa Ana Air Base in California.
It became their "pin-up," and Bombardier Bob-
by Shan sent us a picture of the bomb he was
going to drop in Germany. The inscription
read, "To Adolph Hitler From Danny Raskin."
We could go on and on, but 25 years is a
long time to elaborate upon. However, writing
the Listening Post column for so many years
has provided us with a deep sense of human
relations that cannot be bought !
Yes, we are lucky. Lucky to be in a wonder-
ful Jewish community filled with wonderful
people.
Thank you most kindly for your gracious de-
votion throughout these 25 years.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Give or take a few years, The
Jewish News and I are the
same age. We've both grown up
within the Detroit Jewish com-
munity over the past 25 years.
Of course, my real awareness
of this unique, vital community
was born some eight years ago
when the editor and publisher of The Jewish
News — "Mr. S." the girls in the front office
called him—took• on the green journalism coed
as "editorial assistant to the city editor."
(I soon learned what was the dynamo be-
hind the power plant: Mr. S. No journalism
class had prepared me for a boss who could
turn out more copy on his typewriter with two
fingers in perpetual motion than an entire sec-
retarial pool.) Those two years as a novice
gave me an inkling of the life I could expect
in this often-hectic, always-fascinating business.
But the past three years as city editor have
yielded such a harvest of experiences that the
previous ones — even on a daily paper — are
dull by comparison. And I don't mean, neces-
sarily, the big news stories that throw the
teletype machine into a fit, or even the per-
sonalities who have submitted to my questions
for interview.
I mean the letter from a senior citizen long-
ing for an apartment where she can live in
dignity. I mean the talk with a college student
seeking his identity in much the same manner
that I sought mine some six years ago.
(Everyone was yelling about apathy when I
went to school. Now they're yelling about pro-
test. I'll take the latter, any day.)
It was a small, one-floor Hebrew school
where I learned the aleph-bet. Today, the
stories that cross my desk speak of branches
in Southfield, of modern day schools in Oak
Park, of a "cultural school" for professors'
children in Ann Arbor.
I read now of the dynamics that have sent
the community ever northward in 21/2 decades.
How much more real it is that I can remember
visiting Buba on 12th Street. Now, I know
grandmas who live on 12 Mile.
To watch the remarkable changes of De-
troit's Jewish community in the past 25 years
has been the privilege of many readers of this
paper. I cannot boast such a silver milestone.
I can only say that for every bravo and every
brickbat I've caught, smiled at or grimaced
over in the past three years, I wish I could
have another equally rewarding experience
over the next three.
And to Mr. S I say, "Gee, boss, I'm glad you
hired that green college kid majoring in jour-
nalism."
A Word From The Devoted
Corps in Our Front Office
Messrs. Philip and Carnal Slomovitz:
This is indeed an auspicious occasion, the 25th
(Silver) Anniversary of The Jewish News, and
we are all proud and happy to be a part of the
organization, contributing (in our small way) to
the publication of this wonderful weekly news-
paper.
Not only do we enjoy the work assigned to us,
individually, but we enjoy working in such a
pleasant, happy atmosphere and for such won-
derful, understanding and intelligent men.
It is difficult to say complimentary things to
one's employers face to face, so we are taking
this opportunity to extend our very best wishes,
on this 25th Anniversary, via the mail, and to
express our thanks for just being the kind of
people you are.
May we add that the Michigan Jewish commu-
nity is very fortunate indeed to have a paper
like The Jewish News with such informative,
interesting and factual editorials and commen-
taries. Long may they reign.
Best wishes to you and yours, from a most grate-
ful office staff.
Marjorie Newberger
Gloria Bellock
Judy Glassman