Jewish Scholarship Service Gives Helping Hand to College-Bound Students Jerome L. is a third-year student at Wayne State University's medi- cal school. His professors rate him among the brightest in his class. Although Jerome works hard at a part-time job, and receives some assistance from the university, he needs an additional $1,400 to com- plete his senior year. Shana R., an exceptionally gifted pianist, is studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Although she usually 'works summers to help defray tuition costs, this year her teachers insist she devote her sum- mer to intensive practice. liar father is ill and can contribute only a tiny fraction of her tuition and living costs. This, plus the balance of her small savings, will still leave her $1,500 short of the funds she needs for school next year. Both students asked for, and have just been granted, interest- free loans from the Jewish Scholar- ship Service to enable them to continue their education. They represent just two of the 70 worthy, needy students who received loans now when the general tightening from the Jewish Scholarship Serv- of the economy has made many ice in the past year. scholarships a n d government The Jewish Scholarship Service grants unavailable. was formed in 1948 by the Jewish He explained that the committee Welfare Federation. Responsibility ; prefers to maintain students in for implementing its programs is; Michigan schools. Exceptions are assigned to the Jewish Vocational made, "when local schools are un- Service and Community Workship. able to accommodate a student's In its 25 years, the service has field of interest, or if there are helped hundreds of bright • talented other overriding reasons 'shy the and needy young people achieve student should go out of the state ;their educational goals. Many ' to study." One student. for ex- have in turn contributed funds to ample, a Hebrew scholar, will be help other students with similar doing graduate work at the Ile- problems and goals. brew University. However, the bulk of the money The University of Michigan and comes from some 35 individually Wayne State University are still administered private and corn- 1 the two most popular schools for munal foundation funds. Repre. scholarship students. Graduate stu- sentatives of these funds meet as dents outnumber undergrads al- a committee three times a year to most 4 to 1 in aid requests. Last listen to and consider the appli_ year. 27 out of 43 students request- cations of students. Since there is ing aid were studying in the field no central pool of scholarship of medical sciences, including money, it is not necessary to have medicine, dentistry, osteopathy unanimous or even majority agree- and podiatry. ment to act. One, two, three or ' Loan recipients are given 5 to more of the committee members , 10 years to repay. The record of may opt to help any given student. collection has been excellent. J. J. CLARKE STUDIO Some of the funds have a par- ; While a few students do not cool- Portraiture of Distinct i on ticular scholarship interest. The . pletely pay back their loans. many For Your Wedding Music Study Club. for example, more not only repay in full. but Formals - Candids - Direct Color helps fund only music students. add a gift for future generations. 3223 W. McNichols The Alpha Omega Dental Frater- The annals of the service contain Nr. Muirland nity aids those studying dentistry. many such instances, such as the Call 341-4141 Other funds, such as the Jewish Benjamin Greenfield Fund, started Welfare Federation Scholarship by the grateful mother of a former Fund, are less limited in scope. ; loan recipient. A reading club to John L. Greenberg, chairman of the Jewish Scholarship Service, said, "Last year we loaned out Trepper Wants Family more than $45.000 to needy stii- to Abandon Campaign Eyebrows—Neckline—Arms—Legs dents. In nearly every case we Recommended by Physicians to 'A in His Release were a court of last resort when FREE CONSULTATION PARIS (JTA)—Leopold Trepper, '1. part-time work, family help, scholarships and government loans , I the World War II master spy, has , Registered Electralogist asked his wife and sons to stop were inadequate to finance stu- j ADVANCE BUILDING dents. We cannot, of course, campaigning for his release from g ive 23077 GREENFIELD Room 260 f u 11 Poland because there are "other scholarship aid. There simply - ; more important causes than mine." is not enough money. Also, by act- PHONE 557-1108 IS roars Downtown ing as a supplement to other aid the weekly NouVel Obscrvateur re- ported. we are able to help mn ay more • - ---°- ; Bernard Guetta, who interviewed students in a given year... Trepper. said the former chief of Soy goodbye to Greenberg, chairman of the the "Red Orchestra," the Soviet tossing over your scholarship service committee for espionage network in Western hog this summer. two years, followed in the foot-1 Europe during the German occu. / Just for July we offer steps of his father, the late Samuel . pation. told him, "Now is not the this unique perm° S. Greenberg, who was chairman time t o struggle for ,„, '• nenf. I f keeps your ho g of the program for many years Trepper has been seeking an brushable, crushable and in whose memory a fund was exit visa in order to join a son practically inclestrych established. John, an attorney, in Israel but Polish authorities ble' A casual set then represents this and several other have withheld it on grounds that iv,' Brush n Go. Ready funds at meetings. Trepper, who is nearing TO. still for sun 'n fun without o Before each meeting. Kalman possesses vital secrets. His wife care about your hog. Tillem, coordinator of the activity Elisabeth and two of his sons No muss no fuss styling and a member of the staff of the are presently in Copenhagen. keeps you looking great. Jewish Vocational Service-Com- The French weekly reported that munity Workshop, screens appli- Trepper stressed that he had no 13725 W. ► Mile cants and presents a summary of quarrel with Edward Gierek sec- ) (.1.-1 R. sit each student's income, prospects • retary of the Polish Communist ; _398-2727 needs and past loan history. Party's central committee, but with Tillem pointed out that while the I the bureaucracy. - loan program has always provided He said Gierek was not respon- a valuable service to the Jewish I sible for his treatment or for the M•IR STYLISTS community, it is particularly vital wave of official anti-Semitism in • Poland several years ago. He charged, however, that the party bureaucracy opposed his going to HAVING A WEDDING or BAR MITZVA! Israel because "it may be too REGISTER YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS AT THE BEAUTIFUL humiliating for them. - In Copenhagen, Edgar Brojde,1 Tripper's son, said he is going back home to Israel Brojde re- portedly has stated that he in- Ideally Located 1/4 Mile From Northland tends to carry out another hunger COLOR TV - Heated Pool - Hi-Fi - Restaurant - Water Beds strike on behalf of his father's fight for an exit visa from Polish authorities "if this is useful I FACIAL HAIR PERMANENTLY REMOVED SHIRLEY PERSIN nthle. 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"With more and more youngsters ez-Iger fir a university education. we' are encouraging the develop- ment of new funds to help them." said Greenberg. At the commit- tee's meeting July 6, Mrs. Edith S. Frank, who has already con- tributed one fund in the name of her late husband, Arnold, an- nounced the establishment of a new scholarship fund to honor the memory of her son, Richard. Also announced at the meeting was the retirement of Mrs. Sol Grossman as chairman of the r scholarship committee of the par- ticipating Detroit section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Mrs. Grossman served in this capacity for many years. Mrs. B. Benedict Glazer was selected to fill the post. Federation President Alan E. Schwartz noted there are at least 20 prominent Detroit families with active scholarship funds partici- pating in the Federation group, in , addition to those named previously.1 Ile complimented organizations like the Probus Club, Aesculapian Auxiliary. 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