10—Friday, March 10, 1972
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Hadassah—Goin g Like Sixty
NEW YORK—Two hundred lead- Aud so in 1942, the first vocational
ers from all parts of the United training school for girls was estab-
States, representing 325,000 mem- lished; soon followed by one for
bers, had lunch at Temple Emanu- boys.
El here to mark the founding meet-
But before that. Henrietta Szold
ing of Hadassah there in 1912.
established with her life savings
A panel of past presidents re- the Szold Foundation for Children
minisced about Henrietta Szold, and Youth. This research center
founder of Hadassah. and about which deals, in one place, with
the six decades in which Hadassah every problem of children and
has become the largest woman's youth and has developed new meth-
organization in the United States. ods of education, was fulfilment
Rose L. Halprin, noted American of Miss Szold's will, executed in
Zionist leader, presided.
her lifetime, so she could see it
Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of come to fruition.
the Hadassah Medical Organization
Educator Dr. Miriam Freund des-
and head of the American Section cribed the evolution of Hadassah's
of the World Zionist Organization. educational work.
recalled that Hadassah went to
"The emphasis of the program
Palestine in 1913 to cure trachoma
during certain periods be-
and to rid the swamps of malaria changed
cause of events. Through the '30s.
and that today, the doctors of the we concentrated on Zionism and
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medi-
Jewish studies. In the
cal Center travel to Asia and Afri- traditional
we were faced with Jewish
ca to help other developing coun- I •40s
survival
during
and aftel the Holo-
tries.
caust. During the '50s and '60s we
"We started our medical school became more aware of the other
In 1948 with refugee doctors who Jewish communities throughout the
had beep trained In the great world.
European universities. Today, we
"And now, today, we are con-
are mainly staffed by our own
cerned with American Jewish
graduates.
youth, the campuses and Jewish
"We began with two American education."
nurses, opened the first nurses'
Halprin concluded: Because
training school in Palestine. and we Mrs.
cannot anticipate history, we
today we are offering a degree do not
our planning far
program in nursing," she conclud- into the project
future. Nor have we ever
ed.
to seek out projects. We are,
It was recalled that Hadassah had
however, very sensitive to needs
founder Henrietta Szold was parti- even
before they emerge full-blown
cularly concerned about girls from and we
prepared to meet them.
the oriental families who were eith- We will are
our destiny. Where
er married off at 14 or put into there is a meet
challenge;
we accept it."
domestic service by their families.
She explained that this new de-
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partment will centralize testing,
Hadassah Plans Dept.
teaching 'and research on humans.
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which
is different from the school
of Clinical Pharmacology of pharmacology
where the re-
NEW YORK — The national searchers work with animals.
board of Hadassah, meeting at Its
Mrs.
Faye
L.
Schenk,
president
annual mid-winter conference in
New York, announced that it has of Hadassah, said that the national
voted the funds to establish a de- board has voted $1,000,000 above
partment of clinical pharmacology this year's annual Hadassah Medi-
at the Hadassah-Hebrew University cal Organization quota to launch
this new department and to meet
Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chair- the additional needs of the Hadas-
man of the Hadassah Medical Or- sah-Hebrew University Medical
ganization, explained that emer- Center.
The national board also voted
gency cases are brought in daily
suffering from the side-effects of funds to set up a blood bank at
new drugs. Frequently, the pa- Hadassah to provide fractions (I.e.,
tients are in a coma, and treat- just red or white cells) as well as
ment must be delayed until a series whole blood, which is often waste-
of tests have been performed, be- ful. When blood is fractionized, one
fore the doctors can treat the pa- pint can often serve three or four
patients.
tient.
This new department will be set
up in the hematology area and
Eye Doctors
eventually moved to Hadassah's
Prescriptions Filled
Moshe Sharett Institute of Oncol-
ogy when it is opened.
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