Social Worker Looks Back on Fledgling Jewish Community
If all appears to he - business as
Jew i sh Welfare
usual - at the
Federation, insiders are well aware
that the retirement of one of its '
most respected staff members has
been felt keenly.
She is Esther Appelman. a par-
ticipant in the Detroit Jewish com-
munity's pioneering efforts to
develop social services and in the
continued development of an en-
viable array of Federation agen-
cies.
For almost 17 years, from 1954
to 1972. Mrs Appelman was on
the staff of the Federation as
secretary of the health and welfare
budget and planning division and
as director of both the junior and
arts and crafts divisions of the
Allied Jewish Campaign. In these
F:S-EHER APPELMAN
capacities she served as both fund
raiser and research analyst.
THE INTF:RNATIONAL MEDI-
This represented a third chapter
TATION SOCIETY announces its in Detroit service for Esther
current area introductory lectures
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RUSSELL SCHREIBER ASSOCIATES
Ma ssarhusetts General Hospital
and Presbyterian Hospital of New
York. institutions that pioneered
in medical social work
1929,
Returning to Chicago in
where her husband Morris was a
structural engineer. Mrs. Appel-
man served as a research as-
sistant. casework supervisor and
district administrator for the .J e w
ish Social Service Bureau. When
the Depression struck, she organ-
. tied and administered the Co•
ordinating Council for the Jewish
Aged, one of the first such efforts
in the country. She also organized
and supervised the home medical
service, an early experiment in
home care
It was during this period that
the Appelmans had a unique ex-
perience In 1931. Morris. a grail-
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president of
the Jewish Vocational Service and
Community Workshop, has an-
nounced the appointment of Albert
I. Ascher as executive director. He
succeeds Albert Cohen, first pro-
fessional head of the 25-year-old
agency, who is retiring.
Arthur J. Rubiner,
Ascher is former assistant to the
director of the Jess ish Vocational
Sers ice of Essex County. N. .1
During his 15 years there. he
sersed in a wide range of profes-
sional positions. supervising re-
habilitation workshops and voca-
tional counseling staff, administer-
ing in - service training programs
and developing cooperative pro-
graming with state agencies
work on special projects
for this agency has earned him
national
recognition.
COPE
(Career Orientation Program for
Employment), a program for
Newark's ghetto youth, was given
the Shroder Memorial Award by
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds in 1967.
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Ascher's first assignment with
the Essex County JVS was as a
professional counselor. Prior to
that, he seas a vocational counselor
with the Federation Employment
and Guidance Service in New
fork
His educational background in-
dudes degrees from New York
Unix ersity and post graduate - pro-
grains at Columbia. ,here he re-
ceived an MA in vocational
guidance in 197,2
Aseher has authored several
publications to the vocational and
rehabilitatke field Ile is past
president of the American Rehabil-
itation Association of New Jersey
and was a member of the board
of the .fewish Educational Associ-
ation of ESSI's County .
Ascher, his wife Peninah. and
their two teen-age children now
reside in Oak Park
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units. Esther scent with him, and
during the year or more she was
abroad saw the beginnings of
Nazism on her frequent trips to
Germany. "The swaggering brown-
shirts left an indelible and horri-
fying impression," she recalls.
Appelman, who was reared in De•
(Central High School and
troit
Detroit Junior College) and
worked here for a short period
taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi .
They include 0:30 p m. today at
Southfield Parks and Recreation before assuming positions in Chi-
Building: 12.30 and B p.m. 'Wednes- cago and St. Louis.
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Her first professional expert-
p m. Wednesday at Schoolcraft .
ence was in 1924 with the family
Community College, Livonia. For
welfare department of the old
information call the International
Jewish Charities, parent of the
Meditation Society. 842.4444.
I present Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service. After a two-year
stint in Chicago, she returned
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here in 1926 at the request of
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Ihrownliteld Township
Jersey Town Welcomes
Restored Shahn Mural
ROOSEVELT, N J.—The return
of lien Shahn's 1937 mural of life
in early 20th Century America to
the wall of the Roosevelt Public
School was a sentimental event
for many people there.
The fresco was shipped to'
Shahn's home in Bologna, Italy,
, where he restored the mural's
fecundation and colors. Shahn died
in Italy in 1969. He created the
mural as his personal celebration
of the arrival of European immi-
grants to the United States
After his return. Morris Appel-
man went into social work, start-
ing with the vocational field and
then moving into federation work.
At his death in 1953, he was ex-
ecutive director of the federation
of Richmond, Va.
Prior to Richmond, the Appel-
mans live) in St. Louis for II
years, where Mrs. Appelman
supervised refugee services of
the family agency, headed the
Central Placement Bureau for
the War Time Child Care Serv-
ice ('enters: and was a field
instructor at the George Warren
Brown School of Social Work at
Washington University. She also
served as a volunteer, organizing
and directing summer camps for
children.
Although Mrs. Appelman did not
serve professionally in Richmond,
she was volunteer chairman of the
section on services to the aged for
the Council of Social Agencies and
was chairman of community serv-
ices for the Richmond section of
the Council of Jewish Women.
When Mr. Appelman died, his
wife returned to school in Detroit.,
graduating with a master of social
work degree from Wayne State
University in 1955.
Mrs. Appelman•s son. Henry, is
an associate professor of pathology
at the University of Michigan
Medical School, where his wife
Barbara is a radiologist. They
have two sons.
Recalling her many years with
Federation agencies. Mrs. Appel-
man said. "It's a far cry from
the Hannah Schloss Building
which extended most of its ener-
gies toward the Americanization
of immigrant families, to the
present Jewish community center
which reaches into every facet of
Jewish life with a strong under-
pinning of Jewish history and
culture.
"I remember when family
service was primarily the pro-
vision of meager financial as-
sistance. This is a far cry from
the professionalization and high
caliber of the present Family
and Children's Service.
"I remember, most of all, the
North End Clinic days when fine
Jewish doctors were not always
able to get hospital placements
and their clinic patients requiring
hospitalization had to be referred
to Receiving Hospital. It was diffi-
cult to continue the doctor-patient
relationship under the circum-
stances — a situation which was
extremely frustrating to both. A
was
small hospitalization fund
established for private care to
selected cases.
"Sinai Hospital, almost more
than any other agency, demon-
strates for me the vision, energy
and dedication of the Detroit Jew-
ish community."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30—Friday, July 14, 1972
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