COMMUNITY

AJCommittee To Honor
Saul and Marjorie Saulson

The American Jewish Com-
mittee, Detroit Chapter will
present its Cyrus Adler Dis-
tinguished Jewish Communi-
ty Service Award to Saul and
Marjorie Saulson 7 p.m. May
17 at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek. The Saulsons will be
recognized for their contribu-
tions to the Jewish communi-
ty, to interfaith relations and
to the civic community.

Doug Ross, former Michigan state senator and director of the
Commerce Department in Lansing, addressed the final gathering of
the Jewish Federation Young Adult Division Political Awareness
Series, chaired by Suzanne Gildenberg and Ronald Klein.

Synagogues Group
Names Dinner Chairmen

Phyllis Strome and Allan
H. Tushman have been nam-
ed co-chairpeople of this
year's Fund For Reform
Judaism Dinner June 4 at
Ibmple Israel. Each year local
Reform congregations honor
at the dinner a member of
each congregation for special
service to the congregation
and to the community.
Ms. Strome is a former
president of Temple Kol Ami
in West Bloomfield and Mr.
Tushman is a former presi-
dent of Temple Emanu-El in
Oak Park.
The proceeds from the din-
ner and the parlor meetings
preceding the dinner go to the
Fund for Reform Judaism.
Funds are used to support
numerous programs of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. Among the
programs supported are the
nine UAHC youth camps
around the country, high
school and college programs
in Israel, a task force on

Strome

Tushman

youth suicide, the Religious
Action Center in Washington
and outreach programs.
Funds also support the
UAHC Television and Film
Institute which brings into
the home and classroom video
productions from animated
Bible stories to exposes of
cults and missionary groups.
A second parlor meeting
will be held at the home of
Cecilia and Sanford Lakin on
May 18. The speaker will be
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, also a
vice president of the UAHC.

The Home For Aged
Plans Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the
Jewish Home for Aged's
board of directors will be 7
p.m. May 21 at Fleischman
Residence/Blumberg Plaza in
West Bloomfield.
Election and installation of
board members and officers
will take place. Also, life
membership status will be
bestowed upon Bernard
Weisberg, longtime board
member, for his dedicated ser-
vice to the Home.
The Arthur Fleischman
Memorial Lecture will be

presented that evening by
Roger Myers, executive direc-
tor of the Michigan Masonic
Home in Alma. Roger, the im-
mediate past chair of the
Michigan Non-Profit Homes
Association, recently com-
pleted a new construction and
replacement project at the
Masonic Home and
celebrated that organization's
centennial year.

A dessert reception will
follow. Call Michael Daitch,
661-2999.

Saul and Marjorie Saulson
have long supported the
American Jewish Committee,
the Ecumenical Institute for
Jewish-Christian Studies, the
Women's League for Conser-
vative Judaism and Congre-
gation Shaarey Zedek. Mar-
jorie Saulson is president-
elect of the Detroit Symphony

Orchestra Hall Volunteer
Council.
Speaker for the evening's
program is Dr. Eugene Fisher,
associate director, Secretariat
for Ecumenical and Inter-
religious Affairs of the Na-
tional Conference of Catholic
Bishops. The Rev. James
Lyons and David B. Jaffe will
present the award. Emery
Klein is the evening's chair-
man and tribute planning
committee members include
Harriet Alpern, Beverley
Geltner, David B. Jaffe, Rose
Kaye, Arnold Michlin and
Miriam Berry Seagle.
A dessert reception will
precede the evening's pro-
gram. There is a charge. Pro-
ceeds will benefit the In-
stitute of Human Relations,

Saul and Marjorie Saulson

the American Jewish
Committee.
For reservations, call AJC,
646-7686.

Holocaust, Resistance
Are May 12 Program Topics

Benjamin Meed, co-founder
and president of the
American Gathering of
Jewish Holocaust Survivors
will speak at a program on
the Holocaust and resistance
7:30 p.m. May 12 in the
Janice Charach Epstein
Gallery at the Maple-Drake
Jewish Community Center.
Mr. Meed's talk will be part
of the programming con-
nected with "A Day in the
Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday
Trip in Hell," an exhibit of
photos taken by a young Nazi
soldier on his day off at the
Warsaw Ghetto. The exhibit

is on display at the Janice
Charach Epstein Gallery.
Mr. Meed's life-long goal is
to assure the remembrance of
those who perished in the
Holocaust and to create a per-
manent record of all
Holocaust survivors and their
children through the Na-
tional Registry of the
American Gathering of
Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
During World War II, Mr.
Meed was an active member
of the Warsaw Ghetto. With
his wife, Vladka, he assumed
many dangerous missions on
both sides of the ghetto walls.

Benjamin Meed

ADL Dinner And Program
Recognizes Two Leaders

Anti-Defamation
The
League will present its
Distinguished Community
Service Award to philan-
thropist Frank Stella and its
Lifetime Achievement Award
to composer Burton Lane at a
special evening in their honor
6 p.m. May 19 at the Westin
Hotel. The Michigan Opera
Theatre will perform an
original show.
Mr. Stella, an appointee of
Presidents Nixon, Ford,
Reagan and Bush, as well as
Goys. Milliken and Engler,
and Mayor Young, makes his
home in Detroit. He's founder,
chairman and CEO of F.D.
Stella Products, a 36-year-old
food service supply company
serving markets in Michigan

and throughout the United
States.
Academy Award nominee
Burton Lane was born in and
now resides in New York Ci-
ty, but spent the earliest parts
of his career as an employee
of the Remick Music Com-
pany in Detroit. Mr. Lane has

become a popular composer in
the United States.
The event will begin with
cocktails and supper followed
by the show and awards
presentation. Three is a
charge. For reservations and
information, call ADL,
355-3730.

City Of Hope Unit
Seeking Rummage Items

The City of Hope New
Horizons Group is collecting
donations of household goods
for a rummage sale to be held
July 18-19. Funds raised will
benefit the work of the City of

Hope in the research and
treatment of disease.
To arrange for pick-up call
Marsha Greenstein,
354-0774; or Shelly Katlein,
851-2091.

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