Hebrew U.'s Rededication on Mount Scopus Carries Special Meaning for Young Detroiter By CHARLOTTE DUBIN One year ago, a hostage of the Arabs stood liberated amid the rubble of the Six-Day War. Today, two days after her rededication as a house of learning, the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus em- barks upon her 51st year, slightly scarred but erect. There was rejoicing in Israel Wednesday. But far away, in De- troit, it was a quiet celebration for Joe Zias, a Wayne State University senior who head- r!r!!!!.,.._ ed the 90 - man corps of volun- teers that cleaned up Mount Scopus after the Six-Day War. Zias, 27, is not a Jew and until he entered col- lege he didn't know any. But Zias Israel had a pro- found effect on him. When he re- ceives his degree in sociology next June, he will return to Israel as a Jew. Zias had been in Israel for nine months on the Sherut La'am pro- gram when the Jewish Agency called upon him to direct the clean-up campaign. What had brought Zias to Israel in the first place was sheer chance: partly a desire for adventure, partly curi- osity about the kibutz movement he had studied in a sociology class, Youth ews WSU Loan Fund Set Up by Central Class of '48 Alumni of Central High School's class of '48 have donated the .pro- ceeds of their 20th class reunion to the Wayne State University loan fund, it was announced by Marvin Q. Horsvitz, representing the group. The sum, $491.78, is to be loaned to needy and deserving Central High School graduates at- tending WSU as part of the re- volving student loan plan. The fund will he used for additional loans as monies are returned by the borrowers. Both undergradu- ates and graduates are eligible for the assistance. SUN., JULY 28,1968 10:30—Drop by BOOK-O-RAMA, have free coffee, pick up free pencils for children —get birthday card for Aunt Vee —look for something dif- ferent in stationary —get birthday gift for 5-year-old girl 1:00-1f we can't find enough to read in out-of-town papers, go by BOOK-0- RAMA and find latest in paperbacks dinner out with children, take them into BOOK-O-RAMA, notice what they're interested in! 5:00--Have BOOK,O-RAIVIA INC. 13645 W. 9 MILE OAK PARK, MICHIGAN OPEN SUNDAY 10:30-8:00; MON. thru SAT. 9:30-9:00 a partly a hope for free university credits. He was majoring in busi- ness at the time. "I could just as easily have wound up in Tanganyika," he said. But the publicity releases from Sherut La'am, which is built along the lines of the Peace Corps, appealed to Zias. He found more adventure than he had bargained for. Zias served as trouble shooter for the other members of his Sherut La'am group, and the Jew- ish Agency came to know him all too well. His name popped up when it came time to pick Scopus volunteers. Zias, who had been doing irriga- tion work and picking oranges on Kibutz Kfar Glickson near Haifa, took over the administrative end of the clean-up. But it was a kind of administrative work he had never confronted in a business course. "One of my biggest problems was the American kids who had volunteered after the war out of some need, hoping for escape from something. They certainly weren't representative of Ameri- can-youth." The Israelis have little patience with hippies; a country concerned with the business of survival needs its young people to work. And so, the "escapees" from abroad who had discovered Israel's one drug, hashish, were sent home. The young Detroiter was crit- ical of the fact that such vol- unteers had not been screened out. "After the war, I guess what we needed was warm bodies. But some of them were more trouble than they were worth." Once these were gone, a hard core of volunteers-25 per cent of them non-Jews, Zias estimates— set to work at a task that would have daunted their elders. Before the long, cold winter set in, they cleaned the grounds, then started on Hadassah Hospital and the university. "The Arabs had left the area in a bad state. The buildings, particularly the hos- pital, had shell holes. There was a lot of live ammunition lying about. Oddly, though, the drugs and medicines remained intact." A nurse went through the hospital, removing drugs that could have fallen into the wrong hands. "There were four volunteers to one Israeli. The girls painted and plastered; the fellows laid bricks and did carpentry. At first, there were more girls than guys, but actually the Scandinavian girls work like men anyhow." Zias who stayed in Israel till his 'job was done in February, said Israel's famous bureauc- racy—"more promises than ac- tion" — was a big stumbling block to the young volunteers. They had to work in the cold without windows, doors or hot water, until an American—inter- nationally known H a d a s s a h leader Charlotte Jacobson — cut the Jewish Agency red tape. "I guess that's one thing the Americans can't get used to; the Israelis live with it and don't seem to mind too much." Despite the hardships and ag- gravation, "no one left. We had some American girls who had never done any work in their lives, but they learned fast." Of the original 80 in his Sherut La'am group, said Zias, 30 have remained in Israel. "And I'd go back today if I could." When he returns next June, Zias plans to live in Jerusalem where he hopefully will engage in sociological research. His par- ents are not happy with the de- cision, but "I'm going back for good; it's my life." In several weeks, he will have completed an eight-month study course toward conversion to Judaism. 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