THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Michigan Dorm Completion
Marked at Technion Dinner
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The Benard L. Maas Michigan Dormitory on the
Technion campus will provide housing for 36 students
per school year.
What began as a dream has supplied Israel with 75
three years ago has become percent of its country's sci-
a reality as the Detroit
entists and engineers.
Chapter of the American
There are 20 faculties
Technion Society marks the
and
includ-
conclusion of fund-raising ing departments,
10 in engineering
for the Benard L. Maas (civil, mechanical, elec-
Michigan Dormitory con- trical, chemical, agricul-
structed on the Technion tural, aeronautical,
campus.
industrial, good, mate-
The completion of the rials, and biomedical);
project will be marked at 6
in science (math-
p.m. Thursday at the 34th six
ematics, nuclear science,
annual dinner of the Techn- physics, chemistry, bi-
ion at Adat Shalom ology and computer sci-
Synagogue. Former Israel ence); one each in archi-
Prime Minister Yitzhak tecture and town plan-
Rabin will be the guest ning, general studies and
speaker.
teacher training. Since
Technion is Israel's oldest 1971, the Technion also
institution of higher learn- has a medical school.
ing, accepting its first stu-
dents in 1924.
For information, contact
In the more than 50 years the Technion office, 559-
of its existence, Technion 5190.
United Synagogue Park
Site of Katz Family Forest
RABBI AND MRS. JOSEPH KATZ
Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph
(Ann) Katz have estab-
lished the 10,000-tree Rabbi
Joseph and Ann Katz Forest
in the United Synagogue
Park, which was launched
by the United Synagogue of
America's convention in
September 1981, as a link
between the Conservative
movement in the United
States and the state of Is-
rael.
Besides JNF, the Katzes
are active in the Jewish
Welfare Federation, Israel
Bonds Prime Ministers'
Club, Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Zionist Organization of
America, Bnai Brith,
Hadassah, Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, Hebron Yeshiva,
Beggars breed and rich
men feed.
Israel Tennis Centers and
Knollwood Country Club.
Cohn Re-Elected Federation President
Avern Cohn was re-
elected president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
at the Board of Governors
meeting Oct. 26. Judge
Cohn will be serving his
second term.
Also re-elected were vice
presidents Ruth Broder, Dr.
Conrad L. Giles, Thomas I.
Klein, Dulcie Rosenfeld and
Joel D. Tauber; treasurer
Stanley D. Frankel; and
secretary George M. Zelt-
zer.
Elected to a one-year
term as members-at-large
on the Executive Commit-
tee were Lawrence S. Jac-
kier, Alan E. Schwartz and
Frieda Stollman. Mandell
L. Berman, Irwin Green,
David Handleman, Robert
The autumn Jewish Na-
tional Fund Blue Box clear-
ance is coming to a close
with many of the 4,000
Detroit-area Blue Boxes
still uncollected despite the
efforts of volunteers, re-
ported Mrs. Frank Silver-
man, chairman of the Blue
Box Committee.
Funds gained from the
Blue Boxes are used for
planting trees, developing
access roads and settlement
sites.
To volunteer or for Blue
Box clearance, contact the
JNF, 557-6644.
K. Page, Capital Needs;
James M. August, Commu-
nity Services; Mark E.
Schlussel, Culture and
Education; Robert H. Naf-
taly, National Agencies and
Community Relations; and
Bruce E. Thal, Conference
of Division Chairmen.
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Junior Women
Campaign Event
The Junior Division
Women of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, on behalf of
the 1983 Allied Jewish
Campaign and Israel
Emergency Fund, will be
hosting a fund-raising
meeting 7:30 a.m. Nov. 16
at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Israel's former attorney
general for the West Bank,
Jonathan Livny, will be the
Young Leadership Awards were presented by guest speaker. A native Is-
Jewish Welfare Federation President Avern Cohn, raeli, Livny has a private
right, at the recent Board of Governors meeting. law practice in Jerusalem
Shown with him are, from left, James Deutchman, and has been :serving as a
recipient of the William H. Boesky Memorial Leader- representative for Hebrew
ship Award; Linda Lee, the Sylvia Simon Greenberg University.
Young Leadership Award; and Dr. Martin Hart, the
The meeting will include
Frank A. Wetsman Memorial Leadership Award.
a cocktail reception.
Don't be left out
Harry and Sophie Ar-
nowitz were among the
clerical personnel during
the Oct. 24 Solidarity
Sunday • which saw
$500;000 pledged to the
Allied Jewish Campaign.
A. Steinberg and Stanley J.
Winkelman were re-
elected. Continuing as hon-
orary chairman and honor-
ary member are Max M.
Fisher and Paul Zucker-
man, respectively.
Also on the Executive
Committee for the 1982-
1983 term, in addition to
the officers of Federa-
tion, are the following
who serve by virtue of
their office or chairman-
ship: Martin E. Citrin,
former Executive Com-
mittee chairman;
Richard Sloan, president
of Detroit Service Group;
Joseph H. Jackier,
president of the - United
Jewish Charities; and
Jane Sherman, president
of Women's Division.
A final category of auto-
matic Executive Committee
membership consists of five
individuals who chair Fed-
eration's budgeting and
planning process, all of
whom are appointed by the
president. They are David
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