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Nov. 3, 1972
Turover's Banquet
Slated for Sunday
Detroit Jewish Agency Performs
Mitzva f r Wayfaring Strangers
Turover Aid Society will
celebrate its 63rd annivers-
ary with a banquet 6:30 p.m.
Sunday at Cong. Bnai Moshe.
Master of ceremonies Na-
than Samet will present the
entertainment. Dinner and
dance music will be provided
by Rosenblatt's orchestra,
with Irene Pianin as vocalist.
Chairman of the banquet is
Mrs. Ben Grant, and Mrs.
Julius Honeyman is co-
chairman. Guests will be
welcome.
For reservations, call Mrs.
Grant, 342-6250, or Mrs .
Iloneyman, 398-2627.
Young Adults Invited
to Socialize at Center
Jewish young adults age
18-24 are invited to 8 p.m.
Wednesday socials at the
Jewish Center. Center mem-
bership is not required. For
information, call Michael
Berkowitz at the Center, 341-
4200.
Arils
411.-
Oct. 28—To Dr. and Mrs.
William H. Michaels (Sheri
Whitefield), 25160 Grand
Concourse, Southfield, a son,
Eric Andrew.
• • •
Oct. 25 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Bobcat( (Andrea
Gold), 6440 Rutledge Park,
W. Bloomfield, a daughter,
Lori Nichole.
• • •
Oct. 21 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Sher (Suzanne Ko-
sofsky), former Detroiters of
Scottsdale, Ariz., a son,
Bradley David.
• • •
Oct. 18 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Kurt Ernst (Jean Ellen Bar-
rer), 16718 Greenview, a son,
Jachary J.
• • •
Oct. 18 — To Dr. and Mrs.
Steven C. Gross (Susan
Smith), 23300 Providence,
Southfield, a daughter, Jess-
ica Sara.
• • •
Oct. 16 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Zvi Burstyn (Margie AdelS-
berg), 1445 l'elissier, Wind-
nor, a son, Jaron Bernard.
• •
•
Oct. 11 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis James Lautin (Amy
Wolf), 12934 Vernon, Hunt-
ington Woods, a daughter,
Leslie Lynn.
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By CHARucyrrBIN
Ile wandered in off the
street, a bewildered little old
man, w h o somehow had
found his way to the Jewish
Welfare Federation building
in downtown Detroit.
Staff members could get
little information from him,
but learned, eventually, that
he was a resident of a con-
valescent home in New York.
It took a phone call to
the home — "Oh, so that's
where he is," they said with
little surprise — and some
arrangements with Travel-
ers' Aid, and soon the gentle-
man was on his way back to
New York.
Apparently., it was learned
here, he takes an annual, un-
authorized trip as his way of
saying "don't fence me in."
This was only one of the
little emergencies that crop
urn in 'the working day of
Helen Samberg, intake aide
for the Jewish Family and
Children's Servic e, who
staffs the House: of Shelter.
The latter is a Federation
agency that draws little at-
tention — probably because
the number of cases it han-
dles is miniscule compared
with the work, say, of the
Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service. And its
clients n e v e r stay long
enough to sing its praises.
They are the transients,
the usually middle-aged to
elderly men whose rootless
lives have been' a series of
disappointments and fears—
fear of facing reality in one
place, of settling down with
a family and a job.
There always have been
Jewish transients. The Jew-
ish House of Shelter was
er by staff at the Federa-
tion building, by Downtown
Synagogue or by other
sources.
After the customary inter-
view, she arranges for the
"tourist" to be put up for a
maximum of three nights,
with meal tickets and bus
fare for the duration of that
stay — about $12 to $15.
While she insists that every
man is entitled to be treated
with dignity, "I try to im-
- iress on him that we would
rather not see him hack in
the very near future." Those
who are in the know realize
full well what she means.
"They're kind of mother
less cases," she said. "A lot
of them are borderline, men-
tally, but that's riot to say
hey all have a low IQ.
They're non-rehabilitative;
they'll never change. If they
don't return after years and
years of pattern. I assume
they've died or they're get•
tine a subsidy.
"I'll never forget when I
was new on the job, and an
80-year-old man came in. His
walk was so sprightly, and
his face so shiny. He said he
was here on business, and he
needed some help. I thought
it ought to be a casework
thing; maybe we could do
something to change around
his life," But her boss saw
things differently: "How old
is this man?" he asked.
"And how do you think he
survived before you came
along?" Mrs. Samberg "nev-
er forgot that lesson."
One of her favorite visit-
ors — "one of the biggest
and best pathological liars
I've ever seen — looks like
something out of 'Fiddler on
the Roof.' lie calls himself
'Rev' and wears a yarmulka
under his fedora. When I
founded in 1902 as a lodging
place for poor Jews, its ben-
efactors the members of an
Orthodox synagogue who be- first saw him, I was de-
lieved in the principle of lighted. And he knew it. He
"hakhnosas orkhim," care gives me this buba meisa
for the wayfarer.
about how he had just re-
In 1929, the House of Shel- turned from Israel, where he
ter received a subvention had buried his wife, and he
from the Jewish Welfare had no money left. •
Federation, and in 1931 it
"Over the pa s t seven
joined Federation as a con- years, he's returned regu-
stituent member. At t h e larly, and each time f ask
height of the Depression, the him, routinely, 'Have you a
agency handled the Kosher wife?' lie answers the same
Kitchen and gave food and way: 'Have I a wife? I just
shelter to unattached resi- buried my wife in Israel,
dent men.
and I have no money left
From 1936 until its sale
seven years ago, there was
She worries about them
a house on Taylor Ave., when they don't return —
where refugee families also like the dapper fellow in his
were given temporary quar- mid-70s who uses three
ters.
names ("he has trouble re-
But, eventually, the build- membering which name he
ing became both a mainten- t old me last") and wears
ance and a security problem. four watches ("heaven
With its sale, the agency knows where he got them").
started to place transients in
Although they're drifters,
the Toiler liotel, which to many maintain a measure of
this day has an arrangement dignity and manage to look
with Federation to provide the part of the business-
such accommodations.
man they say they are.
Mrs. Samberg said the M o s t, however, describe
only requirements for a t hemselves as unemployed
transient seeking aid are d ishwashers who have seen
that he he Jewish, that he b etter timl's. While here,
be from another city and t hey will pick up a little
that he have no means of work, primarily distrubuting
support.
hoppers' handouts.
She must take their word
They survive this way in
for all three, "but there are
ach city, going from North
ways of knowing," she said. n summer to South in win-
Mrs. Samberg has come to t er. "I should have a suntan
know these men over the Ike some of these fellows
seven years she has been h aye," Mrs. Samberg said.
with the program, and she • 'Weeks can go by and I'll
has an obvious fondness for n of see any of them. But
many of them
hen, with summer coming
Those who have been here o n, they'll drop in. After
before — and most have — t heir three days in Detroit,
head straight for Mrs. Sam- t hey'll somehow get the fare
berg's office. The first-time t o the next clty.'
ers are referred to her, eith-
At one time, there were
Miss Weiss to IVed
Mr.Mark Gorchoff
similar houses of shelter in
Washington, Philadelphia
Chicago and Cleveland. I n
most cases, the program i s
dwindling, just as it is here.
Why the number of tran
sients has diminished (i O
1961, there were 80; in th e
nine months of 1971-72, then e
were 32) is a combination of
sociological phenomena
With the decline of railroad
'n^_ and motorists' fear o f
nicking up hitchhikers, drift
ers are finding it increasing
ly difficult to get from town
to town.
Jewish transients once
could find easy access to
synagogues located in De-
troit. However, as the com-
munity has become subur-
ban, there are fewer oppor-
tunities for a stranger to be
the 10th man in a minyan.
Although the agency has
altered its direction some-
what since the founding of
"Ilakhnosas Orkhim," the
principles behind it and the
kind of leadership drawn to
the House of Shelter still
have much in common. Mrs.
Morris Dorn and a small but
I cried."
(Although the House of
Shelter building no longer
exists, Rabbi Gruskin, chap-
lain to the Jewish patients
at area mental hospitals,
continues to bring patients to
Detroit for a mammoth Pe-
sah
luncheon,
"sail smoothly" through the
new session of Congress in
1973.
Happy Birthday
Sheryl
MISS CORINNE WEISS
30 Immigrants, Most
From Russia, in U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
United Hiss Service report-
ed Monday that 30 Jewish
immigrant s, constituting
nine family units from East-
ern Europe, arrived at Ken-
nedy Airport on six separate
flights last week.
Of the 25 from the Soviet
Union, 12 came through the
U.S. attorney general's pa-
role authority. Three came
from Hungary and two from
Poland.
Art
Linkletter
Says
"lust 2 seeks
left to enroll
in our dance
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Ohio State University.
A June wedding is planned.
BARBARA M. SILVER-
STONE, for 18 years a social
worker, teacher, consultant
and administrator in the so-
cial service field, has been
named director of the sociaal
service department for the
Jewish Home and Hospital
for Aged, New York.
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Mr. and Sirs. Dorn, House
of Shelter President Barney
Barnett and other officers of
the agency, as well as past
President Jerry Bielfield,
with preserving the aims of
the House of Shelter.
The transients no doubt
are unaware of the names
behind t h e philanthropy
that sustains them on their
occasional visits to Detroit.
But they do know it's a
community with a heart.
Mother. Dad and
Brother Stewart White
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Weiss
of Franklin Hills Dr., South-
field, announce the engage-
ment of their daughter Cor-
inne Sue to Mark Gorchoff,
son of Mrs. Peg Gorchoff of
Columbus and Mr. Seymour
Gorchoff of Sarasota.
Miss Weiss graduated from
Eastern Michigan University
and Mr. Gorchoff is complet-
ing his masters degree at
sponsored • ••
by the Cooperative Council
of the League of Jewish Wo-
men's Organizations. The
House of Shelter women's
auxiliary participates in this
event.)
Mrs. Samberg
credited
WASHINGTON — Wilbur
Mills, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
predicted to a conference of
Jewish educators convened
by the legislative commis.
sion of Agudat Israel of
America that federal in-
come tax credits for non-
public school parents will
dedicated women's auxiliary New Psychiatric Unit
have augmented the agen- Recalls Arnkoff Role
cy's work, fulfilling their
The late Dr. Harry Arn-
task with a dedication bord- koff's contributions to mental
ering' on religious zeal.
health care at St. Joseph
They have performed Mercy Hospital, Pontiac, are
other mitzvot as well.
cited in a plaque mounted in
Mrs. Samberg recalled her the new 33-bed psychiatric
first week on the job—Pesah care unit opened at the hos-
week when "Rabbi (Solo- pital last week.
Dr. Arnkoff, a staff mem-
mon) Gruskin brought 29
people from the mental hos- ber from 1940 until his death
pitals to stay at the House in 1969, was credited with
of Shelter. We found room having planned and spurred
for the transients elsewhere, efforts for the unit. He was
but for 11 days these pa- the hospital's chief of staff
in 1960 and elected president
tients lived like Jews.
"For 11 days, the women's of the Oakland County Medi-
cal
Society in 1963.
auxiliary provided three
His widow was present for
meals a day. Everything Was
absolutely kosher, and there ' the dedication.
were white tablecloths. It
was really something to see;
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