THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30—Friday, April 6, 1973
Pinsker Celebration
to Honor a Member
Hyman N. Gilman, vice
president of the Pinsker Pro-
gressive Aid Society, will be
honored at an Israel 25th an-
niversary celebration 8:30
p.m. Monday at Cong. Bnai
Israel-Beth Yehudah. The
program, under the auspices
of the Detroit Israel Bond
Committee, will feature Max
Sosin as entertainer. For
reservations, call Israel
Bonds, 557-6770. Everyone is
welcome.
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Gerald Davidson and 'Elan'
Ex-Detroiter Helps Troubled
Youth Rebuild Shattered Lives
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
To a parent who has seen
his child die a living death
through drugs, it is as though
there are no answers. Coun-
seling, mental hospital, jail.
Do you watch him deterior-
ate, disrupting all the lives
around him? Or do you throw
him out, pretending he's no
longer yours?
It's a question middle-class
Jewish parents ask, no less
than their Gentile counter-
parts.
A former Detroiter may
have an answer. He's Dr.
Gerald Davidson, a graduate
of Wayne State University's
medical s chool, who has
achieved some renown as a
'psychiatrist in Boston.
Last week, Dr. Davidson
addressed a group of psychi-
atrists at Sinai Hospital who
had heard of his unique pri-
vate resident center for the
treatment of troubled adoles-
cents. It's called Elan, a
French word meaning eager-
ness of spirit.
Dr. Davidson, son of the
Harry Davidsons of Lancas-
ter Rd., Southfield, described
the therapeutic community at
Sebago, Me., whose idea he
conceived while he was as-
sociate director of drug treat-
ment programs at Boston City
Hospital.
With him on the Detroit
visit was Joseph Ricci, a
former addict, who is thera-
peutic director at Elan.
Two years after its crea-
tion, Elan has "graduated"
22 young people. There are
currently 81 in the year-long
program, and only nine have
dropped out — a phenomenal
figure compared to o t h e r
treatment programs, said Dr.
Davidson. One resident and
one graduate have come from
Michigan.
He estimated that up to 30
per cent of the 14-23-year-olds
at Elan are Jewish.
And it is on the Jewish
community, with its large,
affluent middle class, that
Dr. Davidson hopes to have
an impact.
Long ago, the discovered
that troubled middle-class
youngsters have no place to
go. "There were programs
for kids from the inner city,
but kids from the middle
class couldn't get along there.
And the mental hospital is
no answer because it simply
creates more problems. The
middle-class boy or girl in
trouble either must compro-
mise his identity to get along
with the majority or he must
become totally withdrawn.
"In the inner city, it's often
the healthiest, most aggres-
sive kids who use drugs. In
the suburbs, it is the young-
sters who have had the ag-
gression crushed out of them,
the more introspective kids,
who turn to drugs. It seems
the farther out you get from
the core of the city, the more
troubled is the boy or girl
who uses drugs."
Elan (or, rather, Elan I,
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Broners to Lead
WSU Art, Writing
Course in Israel
Topic: 'Jewish Uncle Toms'
The regional director of
American Jewish Congress,
Ruth S. Rosenbaum, an-
Wayne State University for nounces that J. J. Goldberg,
the first time is sponsoring
credit-approved courses in
Israel this summer. An artist
and a writer on the faculty
will head this program in
creative arts June 25-Aug. 6.
Prof. Robert Broner of
Monteith College will teach
drawing, painting, photog-
raphy and printmaking from
the Israeli landscape. His
wife, Esther, writer-in-resi-
dence of the WSU English
department, will teach crea-
tive writing for the beginning
and advanced writer.
This program, open to be-
ginning and advanced college
students, consists of a six-
week stay in Israel, one
month of which is in Jeru-
salem working at the Bezalel
Art School, another week in
the Kabalist center of Safed,
and six tours throughout the MISS ROCHELLE POLLACK
land. Leading Israeli writers
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pol-
and artists will share their
creative experiences with the lack of Cloverlawn Ave., Oak
group. Students can study Park, announce the engage-
both writing and art or can ment of their daughter Ro-
concentrate on one discipline. chelle Marsha to Rob e r t
They can earn eight hours Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs.
credit at Wayne State Uni- Jerry Baker of Beverly Ave.,
versity or transferable to Oak Park.
Mr. Baker was graduated
other universities. For in-
formation, call the Broners, from the Detroit College of
863 0200, or write to them at Business with a degree in ac-
Wayne State University, counting.
A June wedding is planned.
Monteith College or English
department.
The Broners spent a sab-
batical year, 1972, in Israel,
where both of them taught.
Robert Broner taught at
Bezalel and fie University
of Haifa art department.
Mrs. Broner led writers
workshops at the University
of Haifa and Bar-Ilan and
did readings from her work
at the University of the
Negev and in Jerusalem.
Pollack-Baker Rites
Slated This June
DR. GERALD DAVIDSON
since Dr. Davidson plans
more communities like it)
emphasizes t h e reconstruc-
tion of young lives by build-
ing self-esteem. Unlike other
treatment programs which
Dr. Davidson describes as
degrading, Elan frowns on
"therapeutic sadism."
Instead, the young person
is encouraged to rise to posi-
tions of increasing responsi-
bility, learning to demand
respect from his peers. At the
same time, he has the op-
portunity to purge from his
system " t h e accumulated
rage in growing up," said Dr.
Davidson.
The young residents do
everything f o r themselves,
including cooking and clean-
ing, administration, banking
and printing a newspaper.
"We've set up a social sys-
tem where directions come
from their own peers. If they
fail in performance, it's their
peers — not their elders —
who tell them so." No one is
babied.
Getting their heads together
is not cheap. It costs $1,000
a month to stay at Elan, in-
cluding five to six hours of
therapy a day. But Dr.
Davidson emphasizes that the
cost is one-third of that in a
hospital.
Residents continue t h e i r
schooling, whether high
school or college equivalency.
One graduate has completed
his education at Princeton
and had a book published by
H a r v a rd University. Dr.
Davidson and Ricci can re-
late many other success
stories.
Despite the expensive tui-
tion, Elan has generous schol-
arships, which amount to a
free stay, for those who can't
afford the full cost. Some
states subsidize part of the
expense for young people who
are referred to Elan.
To those who claim that the
drug scene is simply a fad
and will die out as do other
fads, Dr. Davidson points out
that it is not the drugs but
the underlying emotional
problems that must be
treated.
He feels that what has
given marijuana its biggest
boost is the rhetoric sur-
rounding it. If the courts and
press would treat it with "be-
nign neglect," much of the
chic would wear off, he said.
Dr. Davidson considers
drug education programs "to-
tally useless, and, in fact,
harmful" because they tend
to glamorize drugs among
the marginal, disturbed
youngsters who are suscept-
ible to the suggestion of for-
bidden fruit.
Drugs will always be
around, he stresses — not
just heroin, but more sophis-
ticated types like LSD, and
yes, even alcohol. Troubled
youth will find an outlet in
one form or another.
But to those who thought
there was no way out of the
tunnel, there may be. It's
Elan I, Route 107, Sebago
Center, Me. 04024, or call 617-
738-4500.
director of its national youth
commission, will address the
Wayne State University Jew-
ish Students Educational
Forum on "To Jewish Uncle
Toms" 2 p.m. Monday in
Room 289, University Center
Building.
The 'meeting is open to all
interested students and fac-
ulty.
Goldberg, 23, joined the na-
tional staff of American Jew-
ish Congress after completing
a curriculum in Jewish stud-
ies at McGill University,
Montreal.
The youth commission will
participate in the Midwest
regional meeting of the Na-
tional Commission on Jewish
Affairs.
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A June wedding is planned.
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engagement of their daugh-
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rence H. Brenner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall I. Brenner
of Concourse Ave., South-
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graduated from Michigan
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received a bachelors degree
in psychology. Her fiance
was graduated from Wayne
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