36 Friday, November 12, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Nostalgia Assumes Aspect of Communal Realism
at Spectacular Fresh Air Society 75th Anniversary
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1. 4VeW i5eitersfloq .
NOSTALGIA: Longing for
experiences, things, or ac-
quaintanships belonging to the
past.
Fashions For Girls "At
sizes 4-14
— Random House Dictionary, Col-
lege Edition.
Lar est selection of this size ran e in area
Lexicographers would
have been elated at the
just-quoted definition at
the 75th anniversary
celebration of the Fresh
Air Society held Saturday
evening at the new
Jewish Community
Center.
It was, indeed, a night
of reunions, nostalgic re-
collections of camp life,
back-to-life community
singing measuring up to
all occasions affecting
campers in love with their
experiences away from
home.
For nearly two hours
former campers and coun-
selors and former and pre-
sent members of the Fresh
Air Society's board of di-
rectors, socialized, drank
toasts, recalled the sad
and the humorous experi-
ences at the many camps
that were conducted by the
society, leading up to the
present Tamarack Author-
ity's vast venture that
serves young and old —
the summer campers and
year-long seminarians and
the retarded.
Under the direction of
Leonard Herman, who
had Marilyn Rosenthal
and Morris (Moishe) Last
as his chief assistants in
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the musical renditions
reminiscent of camp, the
audience laughed and
cheered and joined in
songs and applauded re-
cipients of special men-
tion about events of the
days of old. The entire
gathering of more than
350 — at least 100 more
were unable to secure re-
servations due to the
space limitations — par-
ticipated until long after
midnight in a program of
such unusual merit that
its master of ceremonies,
Herman, emerged as a
new hero in the amateur
(non-professional) enter-
,tainment field of this
community.
They sang and sang
and among the melodies
they recalled were:
"Campfire Song," 'Taps
(in Hebrew and En-
glish)," "1915 Camp
Song" by Abe Levin,
"Fresh Air Camp Song
1930s," "F.A.C. Girl —
1930s" and "Fresh Air
Song — 1937."
There were many old-
timers. Abraham J. Levin
was honored as the first
paid counselgr for boys,
Ruth Klein as the first
girls' counselor. They re-
ceived citations. So did
Agnes Brown Scott as the
representative of the
Keidan and Brown
families whose names fi-
gured prominently in
Fresh Air Society history.
Benefactors were re-
membered and honored
— Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Rosenthal (in their mem-
ory their daughter,
Maxine Breuer, received
a citation), Mr. and Mrs.
Nathan Silverman, Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Smokler,
Mrs. Aaron DeRoy, Melba
and Sid Winer, as heads of
the committee that ar-
ranged the event, were
the chief architects who
engineered a notable
program. Michael Mad-
din was the toastmaster
and Robert Kasle, as cur-
rent president of the
Fresh Air Society, gave
an interesting analysis of
the society's history and
achievements. Rabbi
Seymour Rosenbloom
gave the invocation.
There were honors for
such early camp directors
as Irwin Shaw, who re-
ceived special acclaim on
his services as executive
director of the Jewish
Community Center which
are now terminating on
his retirement; Robert
Luby and many others.
Sam Marcus, executive
vice president of the Fresh
Air Society, who continues
to direct Tamarack and
other activities, came in
for special recognition.
The honorees, the par-
ticipants in the spectacu-
lar function and the
communal participants
formed a veritable Who's
Who of Greater Detroit
Jewry. The former offic-
ers were honored and to
assure recognition for all
of them the reporter of
this magnificent event
introduces the complete
list of past presidents:
Ida V. Kopple, 1902-1912 ; Mrs.
Samuel Van Noorden, 1912-1916;
Edith Heavenrich, 1916-1920 ; Mrs.
1967-1970 ; Sol Kurtzman, 1970-
1973 and Sidney J. Winer, 1973.
1975.
Henry Wineman, 1920-1923 ; Mrs.
Edith
1923;
Wolf Kaplan,
Heavenrich, 1923-1931 ; Mrs. Edwin
Rosenthal, 1931-1937; Mrs. Douglas
(Brown) Nirenberg, 1937-1939 ;
Harry L. Jackson, 1939-1941 ; Alex
Schreiber, 1941-1944 ; Harry Jacob-
son, 1944-1946; Charles N. Agree,
1946-1947; Barney Smith, 1947-
1950; Milton M. Maddin, 1950-1953 ;
Nathan L. Milstein, 1953-1956; Dr.
living Posner, 1956-1959; Maxwell E.
Katzen, 1959-1962; Dr. Peter G.
Shifrin, 1962-1965; Arnold A. Agree,
1965-1967 ; Mrs. Julian H. Scott,
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