First State-Wide Bank Dinner for Bonds Stanford C. Stoddard, president of Michigan Na- tional Corp. will be the re- cipient of the Prime Minis- ter's Medal, State of Israel's highest civilian award, it was announced by David B. Hermelin, general chair- man of the Greater Michi- gan Committee for State of Israel Bonds. The award will recognize Stoddard's "achievement as a distinguished banker, communal leader and humanitarian, in creating better understanding among all men; for encouraging theā€¢ strengthening of free enterprise in all free coun- tries of the world, and for outstanding support of Is- rael's economic develop- ment as a sister democ- racy." The presentation will be made to Stoddard on the oc- casion of the first state-wide dinner on behalf of State of Israel Bonds under the au- spices of a leading bank. The dinner will be held on STANFORD STODDARD June 1$ at Kellogg Center on the Michigan State Uni- versity Campus in East Lansing. Stoddard, who was a participant in a State of Israel Bond National Bankers' Study Mission to Israel in June of 1977, stated that he "was greatly impressed by the economic projects created from the bonds' funds. These projects have contributed exten- sively to the economic self-development of Is- rael and the betterment of its people. I am pleased, and proud, to be a contributor to this cause." Stoddard began his bank- ing career with Michigan National Bank in 1954 and in 1956 was appointed assistant vice president of Michigan Bank of Detroit. His communal activities include directorships of Citizens Research Council of Michigan, Economic Club of Detroit and Michigan State Chamber of Com- merce. He is chairman and trestee of the Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts; trustee of William Beaumont Hospital and trustee of New Detroit, Inc. Stoddard holds mem- berships in the Economic Growth Council of De- troit; the Governor's Michigan Economic Ex- pansion Council; and the National Advisory Coun- cil of the College of Busi- ness, Brigham Young University. He is also a trustee emeritus of Olivet College and received an_ honorary Doctor of Laws degree from that institu- tion in 1977. Stoddard was named "Business and Professional Leader of 1977" by Reli- gious Heritage of American. PEIZMANFNI 11.\11{ 1{1.:1()V.\1. Licensed ElectrologLst It I I Consultation private and confidential by appointment 358-5493 A Happy and Healthy Passover 1 HARRY THOMAS FINE CLOTHES FOR 42 YEARS 24750 TELEGRAPH at 10 Mile next to Dunkin' Donuts Daily to 6, Thurs. to 8 SUNDAY 11 to 4 c Hora A Glad Dance (Editor's note: Jean Ellmann wrote this poem in 1935, after her first visit to pre-Israel Pales- tine with her husband, the late Judge James I. Ellmann. Mrs. Ellmann has just celebrated her 91st birthday.) The Hora is a glad dance a mad dance a sad dance Driven from their roots at home and by their roots torn out, these brave of heart now come out of the night with music into the clearest light. Long have they puzzled on freedom's glittering lies, and how more than laws man's hate can victimize, and with invisible knives slash to aching fragments the pattern of their lives. The Hora is a glad dance a mad dance a sad dance with such assorted arma- ments as hope and love and laugh- ter, believing that among those hills that an ancient glory fills must be room to live and prize as a healing paradise. The Hora is a glad dance a mad dance a sad dance Now their hair is flying, see! Now their voices loud and free in choral chanting roar, and their unquiet velvet feet stamp wild with contagious ecstasy. Wave on a wave the ocean is attuned to their emotion, while the eyes of night look down, and the wind and cobalt skies with their singing har- monize as round and round they whirl fast and ever faster as some secret beauty to unfurl. And the wind gets in their rhythm and the sea is wild with joys and even freedom is much freer when born on dance and song of fleeing girls and boys. Now with human will alone they challenge ignorance. Though they come from ends of earth a dream they nourished from their birth unites them in a promise they must keep. As youth coming up the years these visionary architects can step on hatreds and on fears to dedicate their hearts' sure fire to their need and their de- sire. So they set their voices soar- ing to the throbbing of the sea and fling upon the wind tumultuously the vaguest sense of sorrow become strangely beautiful, as of danger that is over or will never never be. And I who am so free, so free, I do not sing or dance, but as I see and hear them begin to catch their trance. And I wonder and I wonder at the simple truth of it and what my heart is blind to see is wafted by the wind and is thrust upon my mind by the cadence of the sea. Charged with that strengh of fire they now go forth to conquer The Hora is a glad dance a mad dance asad dance The Hora is a glad dance a mad dance a sad dance A HAPPY PASSOVER rvo The Entire Community Complete Food Centers