Flint Community News
To Honor Leaders for Service to Campaign at Meeting
The Flint Jewish Community
Council's annual meeing 6:30 p.m.
Sunday at Temple Beth El will
honor leaders of the Flint United
Jewish Appeal and Israel Emerg-
ency Fund, as well as other com-
munal leaders.
Among them are Jack Shaprow,
past president of the council;
Joseph Megdell, chairman of the
1966 and 1967 UJA and Israel
Emergency Fund drives; and Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Rubenstein, col-
lection chairmen of the emergency
campaign.
Others are Mesdames Max
Harris, Carl Myers, Milton Rosen-
baum and William Shapiro vi•o-
men's division chairmen.
Special awards will go to Jacob
Pines in campaign: Dr. Bernard
Dickstein, cult u r a 1 committee
chairman; and David Gotlib, who
will receive a youth service award.
For service during the emerg-
ency fund drive, Mesdames Her-
bert Harrison, Philip Agree,
Michael Pelavin, Edwin Schrei-
ber and Ted Vinacow will be
honored. Young leadership award
winners are Michael Pelavin,
1966, and Dr. Ira /Warder, 1967.
Women's division chairmen for
1966, Mesdames Jerome Arenson,
Joseph Megdell, Jack Shaprow and
Norman Sorcher will be honored,
Communa 1 Calendar
Nov. 5—Flint Jewish Com-
munity Council Annual Dinner-
Meeting.
Nov. 6—Hadassah Board
Meeting.
Nov. 7—Temple Beth El Sister.
hood Meeting.
Nov. 7—Bnai Brith Meeting.
Nov. 9—Jewish War Veterans
Auxiliary Meeting.
Nov. 9—Council Community
Relations Committee Meeting.
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Dr. Gutowitz Named
Trustee at Bellefaire
Mrs. Jacob Roumm,
Widow of Merchant
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as will division campaign chairmen
Arthur Hurand, Louis Kasle, Law-
rence Covitz, Alfred E. Klein, Wil-
bert Roberts, Dr. Peter Kronick,
Dr. Leon Bosky, Edwin Schreiber,
Dr. Saul S. Gorne, Philip Agree,
Harry Binder and Samuel Catsman.
Guest speaker at the dinner will
be Dr. Howard Morley Sachar.
Comings ...
and
. Goings
Mrs. James IIallem wlil be the
Genesee County delegate to the
convention of the Michigan Federa-
tion of the Blind to be held in De-
troit this weekend.
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Herman Cohen, past commander
of Flint Post of the Jewish War
Veterans, has been appointed a
national deputy chief of staff by
National Commander Samuel
Samuels.
Mrs. Jacob H. Roumm, 2553
Mason, widow of a Flint merchant,
died Sunday. She was 83.
Mrs. Roumm's husband operated
Roumm's Department Store on In-
dustrial Avenue from 1916 until his
death in 1943. She was a member
of Cong. Beth Israel and its sister-
hood, Hadassah and Pioneer Wo-
men.
Surviving are a son, Milton of
Seattle and two daughters, Mrs.
Hyman Loikrec of Grand Blanc
and Mrs. Louis Shulman of Iowa.
Dr. Erwin J. Gutowitz, Flint
physician, was elected to the board
of trustees of Bellefaire, resident-
ial treatment center in Celeveland,
at the 99th annual meeting.
Dr. Gutowitz was a graduate
of the Jewish Orphan Home, fore-
runner of the present Bellefaire.
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Bea Greenberg and her co-chair-
man Roz Kramer announce the
Sales Manager
arrival of 10 dolls to initiate a
presentation program to the execu-
tive council of the Girl Scouts in
Flint. In addition, the Dolls for
Democracy committee has sched-
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Phone: DI 1-9500
uled presentations for temple,
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senior citizens and civic groups. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
between 7 and 8 Mile Roads
The famous people represented in
Friday, November 3, 1967-15
life-like reproductions include
Emma Lazarus, Jonas Salk, Danny
Kaye, Marion Anderson and Flor-
Temple Beth El Sisterhood is ence Nightingale. The doll program
considering a class in Braille in will be previewed at the Nov. 28
conjunction with "Service to the meeting of Bnai Brith women.
Sightless," a project of the Nation-
To obtain furniture for Michigan
al Federation of Temple Sister- State University Hillel House,
hoods. Many volunteers are needed chairman Millie Steinman and her
as secretarial asistants, reception- co-chairman, Gerta Wapner, are
ists, chauffeurs, and for recording welcoming all trading stamp books.
books on tape for students. For in-
formation, call the local and state
chairman, Mrs. James Ilallem,
787-7166.
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The Detroit Chapter
Flint Chapter of Bnai Brith will
participate in a pre-natal care
of the American Society for
clinic sponsored by the March of
Dimes opening Nov. 28 at the
Richard S. Barham, owner with
Burston Field House. The women his wife of the Betty Richards
will volunteer their services along Shops, died in the downtown store
with a professional staff of nurses, Oct. 7. He was 51.
doctors and a social worker one
Mr. Barham, 51. and his wife,
Israel Institute of Technology
morning a week. Chairman Sybil the form er Elizabeth Kovacs,
Mills, along with her co-chairman, opened the Betty Richards Shop
cordially invites you to attend
Mary Leiter, have completed dis-
at 123 E. Second St. in 1952. They
tribution of pamphlets in a desig- started a second shop in August
nated area which describes the
its
at the Bella Vista Mall.
function of the clinic for prospec-
The couple was married in 1948
tive patients.
Dolls for Democracy chairman in New York City and moved to
Flint a year later. He was a buyer
for a Saginaw apparel store before
Senior Friendship Club the first Betty Richards shop was
started.
HONORING ITS LIVING PRESIDENTS
Has Dinner on Agenda
Mr. Barham was a native of
The Flint Jewish Community New York City, where his father
Council's Senior Friendship Club was a clothing manufacturer. The
at Congregation B"Nai David
will honor Herman Acker. vice father. Herbert J. Barham, and his
president, for his leadership and wife, Ann, came to Flint in 1953
service to the club at a dinner and were active in operating the
24350 Southfield Road
meeting 6 p.m.. Wednesday at shop. They died in 1963.
The son was a veteran of World'
Temple Beth El.
The dinner committee is headed War II, a board member of the ,
Sunday, November 5th. 1967
by Mrs. Philip Fisher and Mrs. Phoenix Club and Cadillac Life
Insurance Co.. and a member of
Hyman Leff.
A Sukkot program held recently the Elks, Temple Beth El and the
by the club featured a presentation old Civic Guild of Flint. He was
Guest Speakers:
on the holiday by Israel Sendler, president of the shops and his wife
program chairman, and songs by was vice president.
Also surviving are two daugh-
Cantor Abraham Ranani of Cong.
Beth Israel. Mr. and Mrs. Benzion ters. Barbara and Sandra; and a
Gotlib showed slides of their re- brother, Robert of Emerson, N. J.
cent trip to Israel, and greeting
were extended by Mrs. Max Fran- JWB Fellowships Aid
kel, club president; Dr. Evelyn
Golden, chairman of the senior Social Work Students
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Na-
citizens advisory committee; and
Executive Director. American Society for Technion
Irving L. Geisser, executive direc- tional Jewish Welfare Board an-
was
the
council.
Mrs.
Leff
nounced
the
granting
of
four
schol-
tor of
arships totaling $4,700 to women
in charge of refreshments.
$25.00 per person
A new transportation committee attending graduate schools of so-
Cocktails 6:30 p.m.
has been formed under the chair- cial work.
Dietary Laws
manship of Mrs. Seymour Osher
The scholarships, named in
Dinner 7:30 p.m.
and Mrs. Marvin Levey. Any club honor of Miriam R. Ephraim, re-
member may have a ride to and tired former director of the JWB's
from all functions, by calling the national program services, are in-
tended to help overcome the short-
council office, 767-5922.
FOR RESERVATIONS PLEASE CALL TECIINION OFFICE, 358-3070 .
age of fellowships for women pre-
OPEN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5th. 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M.
paring for Jewish community and
YM-YWHA service.
The recipients are Ann Dresner
Jeffrey Lovitky, son of Mr. and of Bangor, Me., Vivian Becker of
Mrs. Bernard Lovitky, will be cal- Brooklyn, Belle Likover of Cleve-
Bar Mitzva land Heights, Ohio and Joan Neu-
led to the Torah as a
Safurclay" Carig: Beth Israel. • • feld of New York City.
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G.
Northwestern Dodge, Inc.
Richard Barham;
Owned Apparel
Shops in Flint
TECHNION
Twenty-Second Annual Dinner
GENERAL S. L. A. MARSHALL
EDWARD R. VAJDA
Bnai Mitzva