Jewish Humor at Borman Hall
Betty Walker, television comedienne who was in Detroit for
the Bnai Brith All-Star Revue, trades wit with residents of Borman
Hall, Jewish Home for Aged where she spent more than an hour
chatting and entertaining last week.
Two Profs get Probus Awards
Two Wayne State University pro- 11959-1962. Married, he and his wife,
fessors have been selected to re- Joan are the parents of one child.
Dr. Roellig, who joined the WSU
ceive the sixth annual Probus Club
awards for acadmic achievement at faculty in 1958, is currently en-
gaged in the studies of positron an-
the university.
They are Dr. Reuben M. Baron, nihilation in gases, conducting re-
21663 Stratford, Oak Park, as- search in the forefront of this field,
sociate professor of psychology, He is a graduate of Denby High
and Dr. Leonard 0. Roellig, 816 School in Detroit and received BA,
Bedford, Grosse Pointe Park, MA and PhD degrees from the
University of Michigan.
associate professor of physics.
Both will receive $500 grants,
without restrictions, and Probus New Drive-In Facility
Club plaques at the annual Probus Planned by Livonia Bank
award dinner, Saturday, at the
Elvin D. Dougherty, president of
Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel.
Livonia National Bank, announced
The two recipients were selected that approval has been received
by a seven-man committee, three from the comptroller of the cur-
from the community and four from rency, Washington, D.C., on the
th Probus Club.
construction of a new drive-in facil-
Dr. Baron, a member of the WSU ity on the northeast corner of
faculty since 1964, is conducting Farmington and Five Mile roads.
important research studies in the
Livonia National Bank also an-
process of social reinforcement, the nounced plans to erect a multi-
modes of influence by which par- story structure to provide enlarged
ents and teachers mold child be- office quarters for its rapidly ex-
havior. He received a BA degree panding customer and business
from Brooklyn College in 1957, services at the Farmington-Five
graduating Magna Cum Laude, and Mile location.
PhD degree at New York Univer-
sity in 1963.
Six Named to National
In collaboration with Dr. Alan R.
Bass, also of the WSU psychology Conservative Council
Six leading rabbis who head
department, Dr. Baron has been
operating an experimental program congregations in different parts of
designed to raise the motivational , the country have been appointed
level of underprivileged youth. Dr. to t Rabbinic Cabinet of the Con-
Baron received a special recogni- se ative movement by Dr. Louis
tion award from the City of Detroit Finkelstein, chancellor of the
for this work. He is the author of Jewish Theological Seminary of
several papers which have ap- America. Newly named are: Rabbi
peared in professional journals and Joseph Brandriss, Silver Spring,
ald.: Rabbi Ezra M. Finkelstein,.
books.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Whitestone, N. Y.; Rabbi Robert
Psi Chi Dr. Baron was the recipi- Hammer, Akron, 0.; Rabbi Murray I
ent of the New York State Regents Levine. Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rabbi
Scholarship in 1953 and three Uni- Harold Romirowsky, Philadelphia,
versityWoodrow Wilson Fellow- , and Rabbi Irving Weingart, Des
ships at New York University from Moines, Ia.
Try and Stop Me
A
By BENNETT CERF
FRAIL YOUNG MAIDEN hauled a hulking big bruiser
into court, charging, "Your Honor, this bum is my
Lance. Last night he mocked me is the jaw, .broke my right
arm, stamped on my toes,
and knocked out four
teeth. "Don't pay no at..
tention to her, Judge,"
interrupted the bruiser.
"She's punehdrunk."
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The great Russian coati.
Igor Stravinsky, tells
•
the story of a. series of
cables he once exchanged
with our own George Gersh-
Win. "How much will you
charge to teach me orches-
tration?" Gershwin wanted
to know. "How much do
you make a year?" count-
ered Stravinsky. "About
$200,000," cabled Gershwin.
There ensued a few days of silence, then Stravinsky cabled
tack, "How about your giving ME lesson.a?"
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The paying teller in a. Missouri bank always keeps a paper
napkin at his elbow. "Whenever a customer goes off without his
change," he explains, "I bang the counter with it as hard as
can."
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"My wife is the best-informed woman in Utica," boasted At-
torney Nagle. "She can speak for a full hour on any subject."
"Poof," sneered his friend. "MY wife doesn't need a subject."
O 11368, by Bennett Cut Distributed by King Features Syndicate,
UN to Be Explored THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
by U.S. Observer
Cantor Orbach
at Adas Shalom
to Sing for ZOD
Mrs. Philip Gentile will speak at
Next Wednesday
Adas Shalom Synagogue at 9 p.m.
Tuesday for current institute
series. Her subject will be "United
Nations: Accommodation or Anni-
hilation?"
Mrs. Gentile,
whose husband is
a noted Protes-
tant minister, has
served on the fa-
culties of Wayne
State University
and the Uni-
versity of Michi-
gan adult educe-
: tion departments
Mrs. Gentile
land has played a
leading role in many liberal civic
1 causes and organizations.
I She has been particularly active
as a spokesman and representative
of the United Nations, has been
an of f i c i a 1 - U.S. delegate to
UNESCO conferences and is a per-
manent observer at all UN deliber-
ations, through a grant from the
Ford Foundation for Adult Edu-
cation.
In her official capacity, Mrs.
Gentile has participated in high-
level UN meetings in Rome,
Geneva and Paris. Last year she
received a distinguished service
award from the United States
Committee for the United Na-
tions.
Mrs. Gentile, is particularly
aware of the continuing crisis in
the Middle East, and will include
in her talk her views on Israel
and the Arabs. Rabbi Jacob E.
Segal will be moderator.
There is -a nominal fee for those
who have not registered for the
series.
Walt Whitman Papers
Going to Jerusalem
as Gift of Detroiter
NEW YORK — Noted Detroit col-
lector Charles E. Feinberg donated
41 pieces of material associated
with Walt Whitman to the Jewish
National and University Library in
Jerusalem in tribute to sculptor
Jacques Lipchitz.
Feinberg said than he wanted to
honor the sculptor for "what he
has given to the world."
Earlier, Feinberg has presented
to the library first editions of
Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson, Mel-
ville and Hawthorne. The new gift
consists mostly of proof sheets of
Whitman's poems corrected by the
poet.
THE LETTERMEN, coming in
concert to Masonic Auditorium
Sunday, 8 p.m. March 10, are one
of America's most popular vocal-
recording groups. They are a trio
of young men who parlayed a
simple theory — "songs were writ-
ten to be sung as composers hoped
they'd be sung" — into a success -
ful singing career.
Museum Exhibit Traces
Negro History in Detroit
Marking the 40th anniversary of
Negro History Week, the Detroit
Historical Museum has an exhibit
Cantor Harold Orbach will be that features items and pictures as-
presented by the Zionist Organiza- sociated with the Diegro in Detroit-
tion of Detroit in a "Salute to The exhibit, through March, was
Israel" concert,
created from material in the Mu-
at the Zionist
seum's files and collection of
Cultural Center.
artifacts associated with prominent
8:30 p.m. Wednes-
Detroit Negros.
day. This function
Negro History Week was insti-
marks Jewish
tuted in 1926 by Dr. Carter Good-
Music month.
win Woodson, director of the As-
Cantor Orbach
sociation for the study of Negro
will present a
Life and History.
program of
"Songs of Zion—
P ast and Pres-
MUSIC UNIQUE
ent." He will be
FOR EVERY OCCASION
accompanied b y
Bella Goldberg. Orbach
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcement also is made
by Richard B. Kramer, ZOD
453-5891
president, that the teen-agers'
assembly sponsored by ZOD will
be held. at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Teen-agers and their parents are
invited to this assembly at the
Zionist Cultural Center to hear',
projected plans for scholarships ,
)Ort
for Kfar Silver in Israel and the,
COUTURE-BOUTIQUE
Molly Goodman High School at
Kfar Silver. Rabbi Milton Arm
CUSTOM DESIGNS
heads the scholarship committee.
LINGERIE - LOUNGEWEAR
ACCESSORIES
ANTAL DORATI is the conduc-
tor of the internationally-famous
HARVARD ROW MALL
STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC
11 MILE & LASHER
ORCHESTRA, which appears at
353-7640
Masonic Auditorium 8:30 p.m.
March 1.
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Council Nominees
to Be Presented at
Delegate Meeting
Nominating committee recom-
mendations for all Jewish Com-
munity Council offices and execu-
tive committee vacancies will be
presented at the next council dele-
gate assembly 8:30 p.m. March 14.
at the Jewish Center.
The program portion of the as-
sembly will feature an address by
I. L. Kenen, authority on Ameri-
can policy in the Middle East and
editor of the Near East Report.
Kenen will comment on the politi-
cal prospects for Israel in 1968.
In addition to the nominating
committee's report, which will be
presented by committee chairman
Sidney M. Shevitz. council Execu-
tive Director Walter E. Klein will
review recent council activities
subsequent to the last delegate
meeting.
Hostesses for the social hour will
be provided by the sisterhood of
Cong. Ahavas Achim.
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