32 — Friday, June 2, 1967 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS People Make News Detroit businessman Harry L. Modell was appointed a director of American Savings and Loan As- sociation at a meeting of the board of direc- tors, it was an- nounced by Al- fred L. Deutsch, president of American S a v- ings. Modell is president of Mo- hawk Liqueur Corp. and a di- rector of "21" Modell Brands. Inc. Ile is a graduate of the University of Illinois and at- tended Detroit College of Law. * • • IRVING "PAT" SPIEGEL, vet- eran New York Times reporter and for the past 25 years its spe- cialist in Jewish affairs, will be honored by Bnai Brith at a dinner Tuesday at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. An Irving Spie- gel Scholarship Fund is being es- tablished to assist teen-age and college youth to take part in the summer institutes conducted by the Bnai Brith youth programs. • • • A drive to establish an endowed faculty chair in cinema at Bran- deis University in honor of motion picture producer SAM SPIEGEL was launched last week during a reception in his honor in New York. An array of prominent fig- ures in the movie industry and the arts attended the reception in tri- bute to Spiegel, who was inducted as a fellow of the university. The Sam Spiegel Chair in Cinema, which will be a gift from Spiegel and his friends in the industry, will become a part of the depart- ment of theater arts at Brandeis. * • • NICHOLAS RODIS, 42, special assistant for athletic programs in the Department of State the last five years, has been named direc- tor of athletics at Brandeis Uni- versity. Rodis will be chairman of the departments of physical edu- cation, intramurals and intercol- legiate athletics. Prof. BENZ ION KATZ was elected rector of Tel Aviv Uni- versity by a majority vote of the university senate. Prof. Katz, 60, was born in Galicia, and emigrated to Palestine in 1940. $ * * Frank Bob, president of Red Barns of Michigan, Inc., announced the appointment of SEYMOUR SANDWEISS of Templar Circle, Southfield, to the new position of controller of the restaurant chain. Sandweiss is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Michi- gan Association of CPA's. • • • MRS. F. WILDER-OKLADEK, a research fellow at Brandeis Uni- versity's Lown Graduate Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies, has been awarded the 1967 Theodor Keener Foundation Prize for the Advancement of Art and Science. The prize. awarded annually in Vienna to artists and scientists whose work shows considerable promise or merit, was given to Mrs. Wilder-Okladek for her the- RICHARD N. BLUESTEIN, exe- sis, "The Return of the Jewish Population to Austria after the cutive vice president of the Na- Second World War." Her thesis to tional Jewish Hospital at Denver, date is the on'y work on various will address members of the hos- aspects of post-war Jewry in Aus- pital's Detroit committee and tria, including questions about guests at the Sheraton-Cadillac their absorption and return from Hotel noon today. His topic will be "Medical Progress in Chest Dis- Israel. • • • eases." The Detroit committee as- RABBI SEYMOUR FRIEDMAN, sists in public education programs for the past five years spiritual of the free, nonsectarian chest dis- leader of the Jewish Center of ease center, and facilitates the ad- Spring Valley, New York, has been mission of patients from this area. appointed to the new post of assis- Chairman and luncheon host is tant to the president of the Jewish David Schimmel. Theological Seminary of America. Prize for Economy The new administrator is an alum- The owner of a big company nus of the seminary, ordained by its graduate rabbinical department offered $25 to any employe in 1962. The appointment was an- who would come up with a money- nounced by Dr. Bernard Mandel- saving idea. The first winner sug- gested, "Cut the award to $10." baum, seminary president. Humphrey Accepts Histadrut Award Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (center) accepts the 1967 Histadrut Humanitarian Award plaque from Zeev Barash, American representative of Histadrut, while George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions, looks on. The ceremony took place in presence of 500 top American labor leaders, who contributed toward the establishment of the Hubert H. Humphrey Histadrut Scholarship Fund in Israel, which will enable needy teen-agers to obtain vocational training in the "Amal" schools. Meany announced that the American labor movement would subscribe up to $10,000,000 in Histadrut deben- tures that would help finance new industries in Israel. Together with loans from Histadrut pension funds and from the Israel govern- ment, $40,000,000 in new industrial activity would be set in motion. Miss Gersten Engaged to Clifford Weisberg Slomovitz to Give Eyewitness Account of Israel Crisis at June 12 Dinner Philip Slomovitz, editor and pub- lisher of The Jewish News, will give an eyewitness account of the grave crisis in Israel at the Israel Bond emergency dinner 6:30 p.m. June 12 at Cobo Hall. The affair, on behalf of Israel Bonds will honor The Jewish News for its 25 years of service and will mark the presentation of the Israel Achievement Award to Slomovitz. The presentation will be made by Ambassador Arieh Eshel, dep- puty director-general of Israel's ministry for foreign affairs. The dinner will give the De- troit Jewish community an op- portunity to express its soli- darity with the beleaguered peo- ple of Israel who are facing the MISS MARILYN GERSTEN gravest crisis in the 19-year his- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gersten of tory of the Jewish nation. Curtis Ave. announce the engage- ment of their daughter Marilyn to Clifford Lawrence Weisberg, son National and Local Talent of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Weisberg of Jr ENTERTAINMENT Cherrylawn Ave. The bride-elect is a graduate of * SEYMOUR SCHWARTZ Wayne State University's college AGENCY of education. Her fiance is a grad- Professional Shows uate of Wayne State's college of le for Any Occasion law, where he wr.s affiliated with 356-8525 Tau Epsilon Rho Fraternity. Berkley, Mich. An early summer wedding is planned. t George M. Zeltzer, re-elected president of the United Hebrew Schools at the 47th annual meeting of the schools, Sunday, reported that the UHS is currently serving more than 3,( 00 children daily in the Detroit metropolitan area and that there are 300 students in the Hebrew high school. Examples of the product turned out of the Hebrew school system were enumerated by Joel Roth, a graduate of the Midrasha, who is now study- ing at the Jewish Theological Semi- nary. • Besides Roth, t- UHS alumni who have gone into the field of He- brew education include Jeffrey Zeltzer Tigay, a Yale- Seminary doctoral candidate in biblical studies; Clifford Miller, chaplain in Thailand; and Sheldon Kirsch, a chaplain in Vietnam. Mandell L. Berman, chairman of the education commission of the Council of Jewish Federa- tions and Welfare Funds, re- ported that the last two years have seen a significant accept- ance on the part of federation funds throughout the country of a groiving responsibility to sup- port Jewish education. Of particular concern, he said, is the need to support secondary Jewish education, as well as schol- arship and training programs to meet the ever-growing shortage of qualified Hebrew teachers throughout the country. 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