LOOKING BACK

HALF a
CENTURY
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In its first

years,
the Young Adult Division
has seen many changes
and many faces

Norman Beitner, right, turns the gavel over to new president Dennis Bernard.

HEIDI PRESS

News Editor

is first fund-raising drive netted
$17,000. In 1988,the Young Adult
Division of the Jewish Welfare
Federation raised a whopping
$500,000-plus.
Dennis Bernard, newly elected
president who will see the division
through its 50th anniversary year,
wants his group to build on the foun-
dation set by its predecessors. "We
want to spring forward to take advan-
tage of the opportunity of the seeds
that have been planted," Bernard
said. Among the plans he would like
to see instituted are joint projects
with young adult groups from other
organizations, developing community
awareness among the membership
and getting more people involved in
YAD activities.
A real estate investor originally
from Cleveland, Bernard has become
actively involved in the Detroit
Jewish community since coming here
two years ago. He is on the board of
the culture and education division of
Federation, on the national United
Jewish Appeal Young Leadership
Cabinet, involved in Israel Bonds,

At left, in 1956, Saul Saulson, (second
from right) joins friends at a Junior
Division social event. Above, Michael
Maddin takes the gavel from Stanley
Frankel in 1971. Above left, Allan
Nachman, George Zeltzer, Michael
Hermanoff and Richard Komer attend
a 1968 Campaign event.

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