36 Friday, July 31, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Gus Newman's 90th Emphasizes Continuity in Leadership

Gus Newman is a symbol
of Jewish continuity and
stauchness in identification
with nearly every aspect of
Jewish life.
This inspires the saluta-
tions for him on his 90th
birthday, Aug. 10.
The celebration will be a
modest one — a family
dinner at which his closest
relatives will express their
affections for him. The
appreciation for his lifetime
of services as a native De-

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troiter who never deviated
from his devotions to the
country of his birth, his
faith, his sharing in all
Jewish responsibilities, will
be marked by the saluta-
tions from the entire com-
munity at the annual Stag
Day of the Detroit Service
Group on Sept. 8 at
Knollwood Country Club.
At 90, he is hale and
hearty. Three times a
week he participates in
gymnastic workouts. He
has long walks daily. He
retains contacts with the
movements which count
him as the pioneer. When
consulted, he relates de-
tails about the many de-
cades of activities in the
Detroit Jewish commu-
nity. He is among the few
able thus to relate re-
miniscently because his
memory is like that of an
elephant.
A native Detroiter,
Newman has fond
memories of his birthdays
on Dubois Street in a home
which was later demolished
to make room for Miller
High School. He recalls his
grandfather, Abraham
Jacobs, who was born in
Russia, went to Manches-
ter, England, as a youth and
came to Detroit in 1856.
With his father, Henry
Newman, also a native De-
troiter, and his mother, who
came here as an infant, Gus
shared the religious activi-
ties to which they were de-
voted. With his father he
walked to services at the
Beis Yankev (Beth Jacob)
synagogue on Montcd.lm
and at Hastings, later affil-
iated with Shaarey Zedek in
which he retains member-
ship for more than half a
century.
His recollections are of
Shaarey Zedek dating back
to the synagogue. on Con-
gress and Antoine, prior to
the assumption of the pulpit
by Rabbi Abraham M. Her-
shman, and the many con-
gregational events since
then.
Gus attended the
Bishop School on Winder
at Adelaide. He joined the
Henry the Hatter firm
which was organized by
Henry Koprofsky as a de-
livery boy, later becom-
ing a partner in the firm
with which he was asso-
ciated for nearly 40 years.
In that capacity he met
many of the country's

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GUS NEWMAN

including
notables,
Eddie Cantor, Jack De-
mpsey, George Jessel,
Benny Leonard, Mark
Hellinger and scores of
others who came often to
see him at Henry the Hat-
ter on Michigan Avenue.
The community leaders
were his associates and
friends. With George. Stutz -
he shared chairmanships in
the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Fred Butzel, Julian
Krolik, Clarence Enggass,
Samyinsterwald, scores of
other notable names were in
his fellowship of service to
civic causes, to the, Allied
Jewish Campaigns, the
Jewish Community Center,
Hebrew Free Loan Associa-
tion and other movements.
"I have been a Zionist all
my life, I continue it, I -am
affiliated and proud of it,"
Gus said. "I plant trees and
am a Jewish National Fund
adherent. I urge such an
interest in family and
friends."
Among his major activi-
ties is the Detroit Service
Group of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation and the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign. He
was preceded as DSG
president by Aaron DeRoy
and Dora (Mrs. Joseph)
Ehrlich and his successor
was Irving Blumberg.
At all of the last 10 DSG
Stag Days, Gus Newman
was honored in apprecia-
tion of his pioneering
labors.
Hebrew Free Loan Asso-
ciation is among his major
concerns. He was honored
with special plaque by the
HFL last year "for his 40
years of service to the
cause" and as a past
president.
It is in the Hannah
Schloss Old Timers which
he organized with Sam
Raskin that Gus Newman

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has another communally
historic role. He was among
the leading factors, in the
then nationally acclaimed
Tri-Squares Club of Han-
nah Schloss which preceded
the Jewish Center move-
ment. He played basketball
and baseball with the team
and he coached teams for
the then active . Young
Men's Hebrew Association
(YMHA).
He also coached and re-
fereed games of the then
popular T.V. Rayl teams.
In his recollections of
Detroit Service Group ac-
tivities, he speaks praise-
fully of the activities of
the late Esther Prussian.
He recalls the direction-of
Jewish Welfare Fund
services by the executive
directors starting with
Morris Waldman, con-
tinuing with John Slaw-
son, Kurt Peiser, Isidore
Sobeloff, William Avru-
nin and now Sol Drach-
ler.
He expresses enthusiasm
over his association with
Shaarey ,Zedek where he
was Bar Mitzva, recalling
participation in a play at
the Congress and Antoine
synagogue during the
presidency of M. Saulson,
then a widely popular
leader in Michigan political
as well as social service cir-
cles. His gift for participa-
tion in the play was a box of
candy kisses.
He recalls also that the
Shaarey Zedek then was
constructed in the Sephar-
dic style with the bima in
the center.
The movements in which
Gus Newman was active
was the Home for the Aged,
starting with the era when
the home was on Edmund
and Brush and Jacob Levin
was the president. He rose
to the presidency of the
Jewish Home for the Aged,
recently having been hon-
ored for his services.
His recollections are of
many leaders, and of the
period when major func-
tions were held in the
Phoenix Club on John R.
His memberships include
Men's Club of Shaarey
Zedek, Men's ORT, of which
he was one of the organiz-
ers, and Pisgah Lodge of
Bnai Brith.
In a letter from his sister,
Molly, to The Jewish News,
some interesting facts about
• the nonagenarian were re-
vealed.
According to his sister,
Newman counted
entertainers Ted Lewis and
Fred Allen among his
friends in show business.
His father, Henry, was a
linguist who spoke seven
languages. His mother was
active in Jewish charity
functions.
Gus Newman, who re-
mained a bachelor all his
life, makes his home now

with his sister, Mrs
Doraella Horowitz, at 24380
Jerome in Oak Park. He has
two other sisters; Molly

(Mrs. David) Ruby and
Fanya (Mrs. Albert) Green,
and three brothers, Barney,
Joseph and Hyman.

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