36—Friday, May 10, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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People Make News
RABBI GERALD WERNER, a
member of the Akiva Hebrew Day
School teaching staff, received a
degree in education-administration
from the University of Detroit
graduate school. Rabbi Werner re-
sides at 24378 Rensselaer, Oak
Park.
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NORMAN R. SCOTT, associate
dean of the college of engineering
at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, is the new dean of the
University's Dearborn Campus. He
will succeed Dr. William E. Stirton,
who is retiring as director of the
Dearborn Campus and vice presi-
dent of the university.
ARTHUR NEEF, former dean of
the Wayne State University law
school, will receive the annual
Faculty Service Award from the
WSLT Alumni Association at the
Centennial Alumni Reunion May
18.
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ABEN-ASTAR, Israeli actor,
who in his 20 years in Hollywood
has appeared in over 60 roles —
mostly portraying Russian gener-
als and German spies — and co-
starred in five Broadway shows
with the Lunts, Katherine Cornell
and Elaine Stritch, returned to Is-
rael on a short visit to entertain
troops during the Independence
Day celebration.
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HARRY L. JUBAS social stu-
dies teacher at Robert Frost Junior
High School, Oak Park, has been
selected as one of 35 educators to
participate in a summer institute
on South and Southeast Asia spon-
sored by the U. S. government
under the National Defense Edu-
cation Act. The institute will be
held at Michigan State University
June 24-Aug. 2.
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LOUIS SITKOFF, former presi-
dent of the Long Island ZOA Re-
gion, and past president of "Bnai
Aliya," who had settled in Israel,
arrived here to tour the United
States in the interests of Aliya
under the auspices of the ZOA aliya
department. His mission was made
possible by the Jewish Agency
aliya department in Jerusalem.
Sitkoff is on the administrative
committee of Kfar Silver and the
Mollie Goodman Academic High
School in Israel.
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One of the country's leading
rocket propulsion experts has been
appointed to Bnii Brith's national
commission on adult Jewish educa-
tion. BARNET R. ADELMAN of
Atherton, Calif., an active partici-
pant in local Jewish education pro-
grams and a frequent visitor to
Israel on technological matters—
the most recent last month as a
member of the U.S. Economic
Mission — was named to the com-
mission by Dr. William A. Wex-
ler, president of Bnai Brith.
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Former Detroiter STUART S.
OPOTOWSKY has been elected sec-
retary of Glass Containers Corp.
of Fullerton, Calif. Opotowsky will
also serve as a . general attorney
for Glass Containers. He is a grad-
uate of Wayne State University
with a BS degree in business ad-
ministration and an LLB. Opo-
towsky is a certified public ac-
countant, and a member of the
Michigan and California State Bar
associations. Married and the fa-
ther of two children, he lives with
his family in Hacienda Heights,
Calif. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rubin Opotowsky, 19308 Whit-
comb. Edward D. Goldstein is
president and chief executive offi-
cer of Glass Containers Corp.
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The United Synagogue of Amer-
ica has named DAVID ZUCKER
of Great Neck, L.I. to head a new
Israel Affairs Committee to co-
ordinate the numerous activities of
the 825 Conservative congregations
in relation to the State of IsraeL
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Rabbi SEYMOUR E. FREED
MAN has been selected to serve
as rabbi-in-residence at the Con-
cord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.,
according to Raymond Parker,
general manager of the upstate
New York resort. Rabbi Freed-
man, who is serving at the hotel
on a full-time basis will be in
charge of religious services for
guests, supervision of the Kasreth
and coordination of Jewish educa-
tional programs desiring this serv-
ice.
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The appointment of Prof. HANS
LINDNER as head of the Weiz-
mann Institute's department of
biodynamics was announced by
institute president, Meyer W.
Weisgal.
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Kennedy Memorial Scholarships
were awarded at the Weizmann
Institute of Science to three out-
standing students at its Feinberg
Graduate School: JOSEPH ALONI,
of the genetics department; UZI
SMILANSKY, of the nuclear
physics department; and MEIR
SHINITZKY, of the biophysics de-
partment.
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MICHAEL V. FOX, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Fox of Silver
Spring, Md., will be ordained a
rabbi at commencement exercises
of the Cincinnati School of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, the American Seminary
of Reform Judaism. Fox received
his BA degree from the University
of Michigan in 1962, and an MA
degree in 1963.
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HAL LEHRMAN was elected
president of the Overseas Press
Club for another two-year term.
MISS DELLY ELBINGER
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Elbinger
of Kipling Ave., Oak Park, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Deily to Robert Michael
Rycus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
E. Rycus of Parkside Ave.
Miss Elbinger and Mr. Rycus
are graduates of Wayne State Uni-
versity.
An August wedding is planned.
Summer Jobs
at Post Office
Postmaster General W. Marvin
Watson, on a whirlwind tour of the
Detroit post office, announced that
395 city youngsters will be offered
summer jobs a a part of the effort
to provide employment for the un-
derprivileged.
Watson commended Postmaster
Edward Baker for Detroit's parti-
cipation in the Post Office Depart-
ment's program to provide summer
jobs for 15,500 young people
throughout the nation.
In Detroit, eligible persons inter-
ested in these positions should ap-
ply at the Michigan Employment
Security Commission, 7310 Wood-
ward, telephone TR 2-4900. No
written test will be required.
The post office is one of De-
troit's leading employers of minor-
ity group members.
Deanna Sperka's Art
at Dearborn Campus
The Dearborn Campus of the
University of Michigan is showing
a one-woman exhibit of oil paint-
ings by Deanna Sperka in its main
library through May 30.
Mrs. Sperka, who studied art at
the Cooper Union, where she won
the Cooper Prize and post graduate
scholarship to the Brooklyn Mu-
seum, now teaches oil painting at
the Jewish Center and also lec-
tures on contemporary art. She
studied at the Bezalel Art School
in Jerusalem and during her stay
in Israel created murals for Kibutz
Shluchot.
Mrs. Sperka has had one-woman
and group showings of her work at
the Steuben Glass Gallery, the
Cooper Union Gallery, Brooklyn
Museum, City Center.
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LUBAVITCH JEWISH HOUR
Time: 8 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WKNR.
Feature: The Hasid interpreta-
tion of "Love Your Neighbor" will
be discussed. Part two of "The Lu-
bavitch Tefilin Campaign" will be
presented. Hasidic melodies.
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HEAR OUR VOICE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WCAR.
Feature: Yaffa Yarkoni will sing
"Composers in Israel—.-Mordechay
Zeira." Host is Cantor Harold
Orbach.
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COMMUNITY CURRENTS
Time: 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WJBK.
Feature: Moshe Leshem, ambas-
sador extraordinary and plenipo-
tentiary with the permanent mis-
sion to the U.S. from Israel, will
discuss with Walter Klein the atti-
tudes and conditions of the Arabs
and Jews in Israel since the Six-
Day War.
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ETERNAL LIGHT
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WWJ.
Feature: "The Work of Crea-
tion," a paean to man's labor
through history since the creation,
written by Joseph Mindel, will be
presented.
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MESSAGE OF ISRAEL
Time: 8 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WXYZ.
Feature: "God, Israel and the
Holy Land," featuring an address I
by Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Tern- I
pie Israel, Hollywood.
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Local Democratic Unit
Endorses 'Poor' March
James Pino, chairman of the
Michigan Conference of Concerned
Democrats and Clinton County
Democratic Committee chairman,
congratulated State Democratic
Chairman Sander M. Levin on his
endorsement of the Poor People's
March on Washington.
Pino stated that "Senator Levin's
call for Michigan Democrats to
support the march is the kind of
progressive leadership that the
MCCD has been seeking from the
Democratic Party in Michigan.
Robert RockaWay, son of Mrs.
Betty Rockaway of Snowden Ave.,
has been awarded a $5,850 grant
from the National
Foundation for
Jewish Culture
for historical re-
search on the
Jews of Detroit
between 1850 and
1950.
Rockaway, a
doctoral c a n d
date in history at
the University of
Michigan, also Rockaway
was one of 10 students to receive
a Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Award from the university.
Funds for the research grant
were made available by the Jewish
Community Foundation of the Unit-
ed Jewish Charities of Detroit.
Rockaway holds a bachelors de-
gree from Wayne State University
and a masters degree from the
University of Michigan. He is a
former youth director of Cong. Bnai
David.
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