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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988
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I took advantage of any oppor-
tunity for employment."
Tanzman attended City Col-
lege at night while working
during the day. "I worked in
a hat factory, made
candlesticks, and buckles and
buttons. I'd start as a
messenger but I tried to ad-
vance in each job. I also sang
with orchestras and taught
dancing.
"Then I was a singing page
at a radio station, and a
sound technician and record
librarian. In 1940, as a sound
technician, I had to be a
member of the engineers'
union. Well, the union went
on strike. I then received the
response from the test I took
for the government asking
my availability to be a
messenger. I would have said
no if I hadn't been on strike."
Tanzman went to
Washington, D.C. as a
messenger for the National
Defense Mediation Board. "I
was promoted every three
months. I wrote procedures on
how to handle disputes. I
learned by being there. I sat
in meetings and picked
things up."
Drafted into the armed
forces in 1944, Tanzman serv-
ed as a field chaplain and can-
tor. "When the war was over,
I conducted a service in
Heidelberg in the city hall,"
he recalls. "You can just im-
agine the emotions."
After the war, he found a job
in the Department of Labor
and was sent to Detroit. "I
then went to work at the
Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service. They provid-
ed a training program for me
to become a mediator."
Mediation "is a profession,
and it offers attractive pay,"
Tanzman says. "I had to earn
a livelihood for my wife and
three children. But mostly it
is an exciting challenge and
an opportunity to keep learn-
ing. There are always new
issues, new arguments. It is a
privilege to face a challenge
and find suggestions and
possible resolutions:'
So it was with mazal that
Tanzman found his niche in
life. "Everyone knows that
mazal means luck. But there
is an interesting ingredient in
this word. Mazal is made up
of three letters. Mem stands
for makom, the Hebrew word
for place; Zayin stands for
z' man, which means time;
lamed means limud, which is
learning and knowledge. So, if
you are in the right place at
the right time and have a lit-
tle knowledge and ability,
then you have mazal. If the
union wasn't on strike, I
would have never been a
messenger."
Tanzman enrolled at Wayne
State University part-time in
1953 and graduated ten years
later.
Both Sperka and Tanzman
are actively involved in the
Jewish community. Sperka is
a member of Congregation
Mogain Abraham in
Southfield. He davens daily
at the Kollel Institute in Oak
Park, is a member of the
board of education at
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah,
past president of Mikvah
Israel, and a member of the
executive board of the Jewish
Community Council.
A lifetime member of the
Mizrachi Zionist Movement,
Tanzman also is on the
Midrasha board of United
Hebrew Schools. He is past
president of Akiva Day School
and a founder of Young Israel
of Greenfield. He is chairman
of the board at Young Israel of
Oak-Woods and president of
the Young Israel Council of
Metropolitan Detroit.
Does being Orthodox in-
terfere with their secular
vocations? "Parties that deal
with me know that
sometimes I will be available
and sometimes not," Sperka
says. "Groups accommodate
me when they can.
Sometimes I miss con-
ferences. Often I have to ex-
cuse myself to daven mincha."
"People know I'm available
except for Shabbes and yom
tov," Tanzman says.
"Everyone knows I'm
Jewish." Sperka says he can't
read minds, but people in
government are fairly liberal.
"Michigan is a fairly per-
missive state," he says.
He has, however, en-
countered cases involving
anti-Semitism. "I had a case
where a mental health clinic
in a small town in Michigan
hired a Jewish Freudian
analyst from New York. He
was accused of different
things and fired from the
hospital. His lifestyle was so
different from theirs that they
just couldn't read him and
there were community fric-
tions. I found that he was
discharged unfairly and he
was reinstated."
Tanzman said it is never
laid on the table, but he does
travel to certain areas in
Michigan where people are
still looking for horns on his
head. "I get the feeling that
some people think it is OK to
be Jewish as long as you don't
act Jewish."
Describing his alliance with
Sperka, Tanzman says, "Sol
and I have a very satisfying
relationship. We are inter-
related in the department. We
both struggle over the same
circumstances . . . As an ar-
bitrato• you look at two sides.