12 Friday, September 2, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Developer William Gershenson Dies
William Gershenson, who
with his brothers founded a
major auto supply firm and
later became successful in
the land development field,
died Aug. 27 at age 73.
Born in New York, Mr.
Gershenson lived 69 years
in the Detroit area. He and
his brothers, Charles,
Aaron and Samuel founded
WILLIAM GERSHENSON
Ned's Auto Supply, a chain
of 10 stores, which was sold
to the Firestone company
in the 1950s.
Among the land devel-
opment projects for which
Mr. Gershenson and his
brothers were responsible
are the Southgate Shopping
Center, Tel-12 Mall, the Pon-
tiac Mall and the Pontchart-
rain Hotel, of which he was
president. The brothers also
built and developed single
and multiple family housing
and motels.
Active in civii! affairs,
Mr. Gershenson was a mem-
ber of the former DSR Com-
mission for four years
under the administration of
former Detroit Mayor Louis
Mariani, a former member
of the State Fairgrounds
Commission, past member
of the Detroit Convention
Bureau, a member of the
Citizens Advisory Com-
mittee of the Port of De-
troit Commission and a
member of the board of
trustees of Providence Hos-
pital which recently hon-
ored him with the title of
lifetime adviser.
He was an organizer of
the men's division of Proj-
ect Hope in 'Detroit and its
Col. Jacob Arvey, Longtime
Democratic Party Boss, 81
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
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NEW YORK—Col. Jacob
M. Arvey, the Democratic
boss of Chicago in the late
1940s who helped the politi-
cal careers of Paul H.,
Douglas and Adlai E. Ste-
venson, Jr., and was in-
strumental in Harry S. Tru-
man's narrow Presidential
victory in 1948, died Aug. 25
at age 81.
The son of poor Russian-
Jewish immigrants, Col.
Arvey began his political ca-
reer as a teenager ringing
doorbells at election time
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for ward politicans. Work-
ing his way through law
school at night, Col. Arvey
was a precinct - captain at
age 20, a city councilman at
28, the boss of his ward at
39 and the boss of Chicago
at 51.
Col. Arvey, who che-
rished the military rank he
won in the Pacific in World
War II, was the undisputed
Democratic leader of Chi-
cago for more than seven
years, from 1946 until the
rise of the late Mayor Rich-
ard J. Daley in 1953.
Col. Arvey was a mem-
ber of the board of
Brandeis University, the Na-
tional Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs, Mount Sinai
Hospital of Miami and the
Jewish Home for the Aged
in Chicago and Miami.
He was active in the
American Friends of Hebr-
ew University, Tel Aviv Uni-
versity, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, Bnai Brith,
the United Jewish Appeal,
the Jewish National Fund,
the National Jewish Hospi-
tal of Denver, the Ameri-
can ORT Federation, the
American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute of
Science.
Among his many honors
were the United States Le-
gion of Merit, Man of the
Year of the JNF of Chicago
in 1957 and the Israel Bond
Organization Man of the
Century in 1964. He was as-
sistant State Attorney of
Cook County, Master of
Chancery in Circuit Court
of Cook County, and Demo-
cratic national com-
mitteenlan from Illinois.
Col. Arvey had served as
special gifts chairman for
the Combined Jewish Ap-
peal, predecessor to the
Jewish United Fund. He
had also been a board mem-
ber of the Jewish Feder-
ation of Metropolitan Chi-
cago. ,
If one is intoxicated, he
. should not pray and if he
does pray his prayer shall
be considered an abomina-
tion.
—The Talmud
1
first chairman. He was hon-
ored by the Interfaith
Knights of Charity in 1971.
Mr. Gershenson held
memberships in Franklin
Hills Country Club, Stand-
ard City Club of Detroit,
Circumnavigators Club,
Kentucky Colonels and the
Hundred Club. He was a li-
censed commercial pilot.
He was active in Temple
`Beth El as well as in tasks
on behalf of the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign-Israel Emer-
gency Fund.
Mr. Gershenson, who re-
sides at 5356 Woodlands Es-
tates Dr., Bloomfield Hills,
leaves his wife, Sylvia; four
sons, Joel, Dennis, Richard
and Bruce; his brothers;
three sisters, Mrs. Jacob
(Esther) Chalat, Mrs. Louis
(Dorothy) Harley and Mrs.
Benjamin (Rose) Juliar;
and one. granddaughter.
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THE HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL CENTER COMMITTEE
Wishes Continued
Good Health and Happiness for
Many Years To Come To The
GREAT JEWISH PHILANTHROPIST
NATHAN P.
ROSSEN
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Chairman of the
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We also wish to take this opportunity to thank and
wish all of our supporters a Healthy, Happy and
Prosperous Year
Leon Halpern, Chairman
Memorial Center
Committee In Formation
Irving Altus
Louis Apfelblat
Rabbi Milton Arm
Helen Balberman
Gustav Berenholz
Howard Binkow
Allen Charlupski
Irwin Jay Deutch
Henry Dorfman
Arnold Einhorn
Mrs. Julius Feigelman
Fred Ferber
Sally Fields
Dr. Leon Fill
Salman Grand
Leon Gutman
Menashe Haar
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Sol Kleinman
Kenneth Konop
Harry Laker
Louis Levine
Jack Lipton
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Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig
Rabbi Irving Schnipper
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