48 Friday, April 15, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Report Meeting to Honor Campaign Division Leaders Division leaders of the 1977 Allied Jewish Cam- paign-Israel Emergency Fund will be honored at the first Campaign report meet- ing, 9:45 a.m. Sunday, in the Jewish Community Cen- ter Studio Theater. Guest speaker at the meeting, where campaign leaders will share the re- sults of their workers' solic- itation efforts to date, will by Hy Kalus, artistic direc- tor of the Jerusalem Thea- ter. A native of Providence, R.I., Kalus decided to live and work in Israel after visiting the country iri 1963. He is now one of Is- rael's leading stage and mo- tion picture producer-direc- tors. paign Chairman Dulcie Rosenfeld. A second report meeting, at 9:45 a.m. April 24 at the Jewish Community Center, Those on hand at the start of the report meeting will be able to view Chan- nel 2's "Highlights" pro- gram at 9:45 a.m. which will feature an interview with Jewish Welfare Feder- ation President Martin E. Citrin; Daniel M. Honig- man, general chairman of the 1977 Campaign; and Women's Division Cam- will feature guest speaker Ira Hirschmann, banker, diplomat and authority on Israel and the Middle East. ment, appeared in Look magazine. A New York City resi- dent, Hirschmann is the au- thor of several books deal- ing with the Middle East and European political movements. His latest, "Caution to the Winds," was a best-seller. *** Hirschmann has made many intensive survey trips to Israel and the Arab states. A report of his in- vestigation of the Arab refu- gee camps, made on behalf of the U.S. State Depart- WOMEN'S DIVISION SPRING FORUM SET Anti-Semitism, as viewed by two obServers, will be the focus of the annual Spring Forum of the Jewish Welfare Federation Women's Division, April 28, at the Jewish Community Center. Entitled "Apart . . . or a Part Of," the program will consist of two sessions, with special guests Robert Naf- taly, a member and officer of the national executive committee of the Anti-Defa- mation League of Bnai Brith; and Aaron D. Rose- nbaum, of Washington, D.C., director of research for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and an editor of Near East Report. During the morning ses- sion, which starts at 9:30, members of the Forum Planning Committee will present three vignettes dramatizing instances of contemporary anti-Semi- tism. A buzz session will follow each vignette. Naftaly, who is co-chairman of the Pro- fessional Division of the 1977 Allied Jewish Cam- paign-Israel Emergency Fund and a member of the national agencies budget and planning division of Federation, will moderate and respond to questions arising from the discussion. He is past chairman of ADL's Michigan Regional Advisory Board. Rosenbaum, a contributor to the Near East Report's special survey Myths and Facts, will address the Forum after lunch, focusing on the problems of anti- Semitism throughout the world. A University of Mich- igan Angell Scholar for his studies in Soviet and Chi- nese political science and history, Rosenbaum has lec- tured widely on the Middle East conflict. Shelly Jackier is chair- man of the Spring Forum committee. Assisting her, along with the committee, are Maida Portnoy, co- chairman; Roberta Stul- berg. adviser; Linda Jack- ier, invitation design; Marcy Feldman, decora- tions chairman; and Rich- ard Lobenthal, executive di- rector of the Anti-Defama- tion League, consultant. President of the Women's Division is Carolyn Green- berg. Nancy Hirsch is vice president of education. For reservations luncheon and the prog call the Women's Division office, 965-3939. Center Hosts UJA Walk-A-Thon _ In February, former De- troiter Irwin S. Field of Los Angeles, chairman of the first United Jewish Appeal Walk-A-Thon, announced that the event will be held- May 15 in more than 100 American communities as the final public event of the UJA's 1977 campaign. The Detroit Walk-A-Thon will be hosted by the Jew- ish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit at its main building in West Bloomfield. Community or- ganizations have been in- vited to participate by chap- ters or groups, and individ- uals may also join in. The Walk-A-Thon will in- clude a walk on the Center grounds, jogging on the out- door jogging track, and swimming in the indoor pool. Groups may partici- pate in any of the events. The Walk-A-Thon's goals are to raise funds and dem- onstrate the American Jew- ish community's unity and solidarity with Israel. For information, call Steve Horowitz at the Jew- ish Community Center, 661- 1000. Medical, Social Interns Helping Elderly at Home for Aged "You get a stereotyped image of old people as alone and decrepit and not interested in what's hap- pening, said William Lucas, "but when you work with them, you see they have a lot left to live for and to work with. Most of them are not even aware of the energy they have." Lucas, a second-year nurs- ing student at Wayne State University, is learning about aging from expe- rience as well as from a textbook. He and 35 .other student nurses from WSU are spending part of their sophomore year 'in an inter- nship at the Jewish Horne for Aged, a Jewish Welfare Federation agency funded by the Allied Jewish Cam- paign-Israel Emergency Fund. In addition, the Home for Aged is helping to train a senior psychiatry resident from Sinai Hospital, several social work students from the University of Michigan, two graduate students in counseling from WSU , two occupational therapy stu- dents from Eastern Mich- igan University and two stu- dents of gerontology from Madonna College. The internship programs are offered at Borman Hall, on W. Seven Mile Rd., one of the Jewish Home for Aged's two facilities. The training programs were started two years ago by the home's executive direc- tor, Charles Wolfe. Herbert Aronsson is president of the agency. The Jewish Home for Aged is one of only a few homes in the country to have such as internship pro- gram, said Wolfe. And he 1 Would like to see the pro- ram grow by the addition of a month-long elective rota- tion for senior residents in internal medicine from Sinai. The students, who spend an average of one or two days a week at the home, find their work is changing many of their ideas abou t aging. "I figured they grew old and accepted it," said Sheree Williams, a student nurse from Wayne. "I thought they didn't want to be bothered by outsiders when in fact it's just the op- posite; they think we won't be interested in what they have to say. - The internship program fits right in with Wolfe's general philosophy. "I hate quiet," he said, standing in the middle of the home's bustling lobby. "We like to have as many different people here as pos- sible. We have no limited visiting hours, and our park- ing lot is always full. We en- cogage families to visit and join in our activities. "The more people who are physically present in the building, the greater the range of stimulation and en- couragement for the resi- dents, - he said. "The stu- dent program brings in a new fresh stream of people with different viewpoints. Many of the residents have met more people since they've been here than they met on the outside where they were isolated because of infirmity." Wolfe said some of last year's student interns estab- lished such good relation- ships with the residents that they often come back to visit. "I hope some of them will return here to work after graduation," he said. Wolfe says he tries to make life at the home as much like life on the "out- side" as he can, "so resi- dents don't feel they've taken much of a step back from their involvement with the community." Unlike most nursing homes, where residents eat from trays brought to their rooms, Borman Hall resi- dents eat in a central din- ing room at tables set with china dishes and metal cut- lery. "And what does every Jewish woman do every Friday night? Light the Sha- bat candles," he said. "We came up with a way to do that here. We have a spe- cial candle room where the lights meet all the ritual re- quirements b'ut are electric. Now the women don't have to feel separated from that part of their life." - The atmosphere here is thoroughly and traditionally Jewish," said president Aronsson. "All the holidays are celebrated, and reli- gious services are encour- aged. We have a small chap- el for weekday minyanim as • well as a larger syna- gogue for Shabat and festi- Jewish community in- volvement has always in- cluded helping others, said Aronsson, and that part of Jewish life is not neglected at the Home for the Aged. "We have a phenomenal drive for the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergen- cy Fund here," Wolfe added. The 210 Borman Hall residents and the 90 residents of the Prentis Manor branch of the home together raised $1,400 for last year's campaign, he said. The money comes from their savings and from the small amount residents earn in the home's shel- tered workshop, where they do simple assembly, pack- ing and labeling jobs for area business firms. Some work up to four hours a day, five days a week. "And on Tu . b'Shevat for the last two years the resi- dents have donated a 100- tree garden to Israel, — Wolfe said. Another unique program is the cocktail party. There's no reason why resi- dents who are not medical- ly restricted should not enjoy a drink once in a while, _Wolfe said. The twice-a-month parties offer both alcoholic and soft drinks, and hors d'oeuvres are served by resident and staff hostesses. Wolfe and his male staf- fers tend bar, while Gizella Okrent, a staff social work- er, plays old favorites on an upright piano. At a cocktail party on March 17, ever y- one celebrated St. Patrick's Day with spirited renditions of "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" and "The Band Played On. - "These cocktail parties are the most popular aetivi- ty here, - said Wolfe. In- deed, 15 minutes before the party's scheduled start, residents thronged the corri- dor waiting to get into the room. - The parties last 45 min- utes, and when they're over we have to shoo them out with a broom, - joked staff occupational therapist De- De Doneson, who sports a button reading Like Older Men - on her uni- form. "In general, we try to do here what the residents liked most before, including cocktails and vacations," said Wolfe. Last year we took a group on a trip to Niagara Falls. This year we're planning to spend sev- eral days at Camp Tama- rack. We're also planning some shorter trips, like up north for the fall colors, and perhaps to Holland for the Tulip Festival. "The idea is that this place ought to be as much fun as possible. To me the highest praise a resident can give is that this is a fun place." In the top photograph, Charles S. Wolfe, executive direc- tor of the Jewish Home for Aged, looks on as two student interns work with residents of Borman Hall. From left, Mrs. Adele Deutsch; Chris Malyn, an occupational therapy student at Eastern Michigan University; Lisa Beiermeis- ter, a social work student at the University of Mich- igan—Dearborn; Wolfe; and Mrs. Toba Mark. In the bot- tom photograph, from left, Borman Hall residents Eliza- beth Margolis, Dora Smith, Dora Greenfield and Mollie Baseman, far right, join the Home's assistant executive di- rector Sylvia Serwin, second from right, in song at a cock- ' tail party as social worker Gizella Okrent accompanies at 1 the piano.