Cancer Center Named for Meyer Prentis

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

A "cement-pouring" ceremony
noon Thursday will mark the
formal beginning of construction of
the new $4,500,000 Michigan Can-
cer Foundation building, named the
Meyer L. Prentis Cancer Center.
Mrs. Prentis, widow of the first
treasurer of the General Motors
Corp., will be joined by civic offi-
cials, Michigan Cancer Foundation
board members, staff and volun-
teers.
The five-story Meyer L. Prentis
Cancer Center will house research
laboratories a n d administrative
offices providing the advanced
technology vital to the Michigan
Cancer Foundation's role in cancer
research. It will rise on the north
side of the original MCF site at
A (111 John R, to face Warren Ave.,
ween the cultural center and
Liie developing medical complex to
the west and south.
The major bequest is by the
Meyer and Anna Prentis Family
Foundation to the Michigan Can-
cer Foundation.
The late Mr. Prentis was one of
the United Foundation's most dedi-
cated volunteers. Chairman of the
goals and allocations committee of
the UF for five consecutive years;
vice president of UF; president of
the Citizens Research Council;
treasurer of the Jewish Welfare
Federation; and president of the
Jewish Center, Prentis served
widely in Detroit civic groups until
his death last July 15 at age 84.
Mrs. Prentis, the former Anna
Steinberg, was a young secretary
at GM when she married Meyer in
1914. The Prentis family includes
four daughters: Mrs. Lawrence
Lande of Montreal, Mrs. Lester
Morris, Mrs. Prentis Straus and
Mrs. Marvin Frenkel; and nine
grandchildren.
The major gift by the Prentis
Family Foundation, with support-
ing gifts from the United Founda-

McCarthy: U.S. Support Is Best Chance for Peace

tion, the Kresge Foundation, Gen-
eral Motors Corp., and the Anas-
tasia R. Buhl Memorial Fund for
Cancer Research, and others have

MEYER L. PRENTIS

and the buffet luncheon will follow
the naming of the cancer center.
Representatives of the iMCF board,
staff and volunteers will don lab
coats and pour symbolic portions
of the foundation. Rehabilitated
cancer patients will be among the
participants.
Mr. Prentis, treasurer of General
Motors Corp. for 32 years, retired
in 1951, after 40 years of pioneer-
ing service with the corporation.
He began his long career with
GM in August 1911, when he
moved to Detroit and became chief
accountant and auditor for the cor-
poration. He had been with GM
only five years when he was named
comptroller. In '1919, eight years
after joining GM, he was elected
treasurer.
He organized and served for a
short period as president of the
National Bank of Detroit during
the bank holiday. He was presi-
dent emeritus of Citizens Re-
search Council of Michigan.
The Meyer and Anna Prentis
Building, school of business ad-
ministration at Wayne State Uni-
versity, was named in his honor
because of Prentis' efforts as a
member of the Businessmen's Ad-
visory Committee of WSU, which
led to the creation of the school of
business administration 25 years
ago.
As a trustee of Temple Beth El,
he led the drive to pay off the
mortgage on the Woodward Ave.
temple. He ws active with the
Allied Jewish Campaign and Re-
form Jewish Appeal by which he
was elected to the society of honor
in 1970; was a founder of the Al-
bert Einstein College of Medicine;
and was on the national executive
committee of the Joint Distribution
Committee.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Former policy on Israel reflected "confu-
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy told sion and lack of clear commit-
the American Jewish Congress ment."
that the best chance for peace in
the Middle East lay in "American
Good is that which makes for
support for Israel's right to secure unity; evil is that which makes
and agreed borders."
for separateness. —Aldous Huxley
Speaking at an American Jewish
Congress dinner here, Sen. Mc-
Carthy declared: "Our commitment
to Israel has clear legal, moral
and historical bases. Our involve-
ment in Southeast Asia has none
of these. There is no comparison
between the situations."
The Minnesota Democrat, who
returned last month from a visit
to Israel, criticized Secretary of
State William P. Rogers for sug-
gesting the possibility of sending
American troops t o the Middle
East.
He added that State Department

made it possible to begin the Meyer
L. Prentis Cancer Center designed
by Louis G. Redstone Associates of
Detroit.
Alfred R. Glancy, Jr., chairman
of the MCF building committee, is
confident that the new building
will be completed as scheduled by
fall 1972.
Dr. Michael J. Brennan, MCF
president, pledges all the human
and material resources of the
Michigan Cancer Foundation in
the war against cancer. MCF's
research focus is on breast can-
cer, the most common cause of
cancer death among women.
"The entire nation will share in
the progress of the Michigan Can-
cer Foundation's Meyer L. Prentis
Cancer Center," said. Fred Hunt,
chairman of the executive commit-
tee of the MCF board of trustees.
A man may have no bad habits
The cement-pouring ceremony and have worse.
—Mark Twain

Rabbi Irving Leh rman Heads Synagogue Council

Rabbi Irving Lehrman was elect-
ed president of the Synagogue
Council of America.
Also elected at the annual meet-
ing last week were Rabbi Irwin
M. Blank of Tenafly, N.J., and
Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein of New
York, vice presidents; Harold H.

United Synagogue of America,
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre-
gations of America and Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
The Synagogue Council has
conducted an investigation of the
controversial dismissal of a Jew-
ish director of pediatrics, at Lin-
coln Hospital in New York,• it
was revealed by the agency's
retiring president, Rabbi Solo-
mon J. Sharfman.
Rabbi Sharfman released the text
of a policy statement adopted by
the Council's board which denied
"a widespread impression that
anti-Semitism played a major role
in the dismissal." The incident
occurred in November of 1970, and
involved Dr. Arnold Einhorn.
The policy statement notes that
"not every conflict of interest
arises out of anti-Semitism or out

of racial bigotry." It warns the
Jewish community and the black
and Puerto Rican communities not
to allow themselves "to be divert-
ed by racial or religious divisive-
ness."

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