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educated and you'll become a
professional so you don't have
to work as hard as I did.' "
Of course, that doesn't mean
Mr. Landau — today, a lawyer
— relished every moment of go-
ing to school.
"We all griped about our
teachers and about our home-
work," he says. "But we had
very good teachers — and I
don't think we appreciated it
until we got to college. Then, we
all got A's in courses other stu-
dents were struggling with."
Ninety percent of Mr.
Landau's graduating class went
on to college; the average from
other Detroit schools the same
year was 10 percent.
It wasn't all work, though.
Mr. Landau remembers when
one of his fellow students threw
a teacher's briefcase out the
window ("The teacher had to
dismiss the class that day; he
couldn't find his notes. We were
thrilled."), and another student
who, without his parents'
knowledge, joined the school
football team. (In Central High:
The Musical, this poor student
gets beaten up during a game.
His mother will scream at him
from the audience.)
Other central features in the
play will be World War II and the
founding of the State of Israel.
During the 1930s, Mr.
Tiandau recalls, "we were terri-
fied" as the world prepared for
war. Families spent every mo-
ment beside the radio, listen-
ing for the news. Some Central
boys ran off to Canada to enlist
early. In the end, 72 students
from the school died in the war.
Central High: The Musical
begins at 8 p.m. April 8.0

Softball Meeting
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"That was when you didn't
have things," Mr. Landau says.
"You had people."
On Friday nights, young
men and women went from
house to house to visit with
friends; "many marriages came
out of that."
And in the springtime, "ev-
erybody came out in the street,"
Mr. Landau recalls. "You had
a million friends. There were so
many kids, in fact, that you
could form your own softball
team just from the people on
your block."
The best thing to do on the
weekend was take the street-
car down to Vernor's on
Woodward, "where for six cents
you could get a ginger-ale float.
Then you hopped on a Boblo
-boat for a cruise."
The hangouts were Boesky's
Restaurant and the Cream of
Michigan. The bowling alley on
Dexter also was a favorite;
"some of us would skip school
and go bowling and hope no-
body from our school would be
there," Mr. Landau recalls.
On Rosh Hashanah, "you
could walk down the streets
and see everybody you knew."
Some 15 congregations were lo-
cated in the immediate area.
Mr. Landau's father, Irwin,
was a Polish immigrant and
one of the city's first kosher
butchers. He left for work at 2
a.m so he could be sure to get
the best cuts of meat and made
a fire in the iron stove to keep
warm at the store. He did not
want his son to struggle the
same way, so he saw to it that
Milton kept up with his stud-
ies at Central High.
"His attitude was, 'You'll get

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lay ball!
Well, not yet, but the
Jewish Community Cen-
ter of Metropolitan De-
troit is organizing its summer
softball leagues.
A meeting will be held at 7:30
p.m. April 13 in the Allen
Lounge, which is adjacent to the
main lobby at the Maple-Drake
Building in West Bloomfield.
Refreshments will be served.
Games will be played Sun-
day mornings (beginning at 9
a.m.) at Maple-Drake.
In other JCC sports news:
— Coach Larry Carney's
team captured its second
straight Honey Berris Men's
Basketball League winter
championship. Coaches of the
other five teams were Mike Ko-
morn, Billy Berris, Anthony

Sanders, Joe James and Tom
Bender.
— Spring classes in the
Rollerblade Hockey Program at
Maple-Drake and the Jimmy
Prentis Morris building in Oak
Park will start Sunday. Begin-
ner, intermediate and advanced
classes are offered, and all fo-
cus on safety. A game between
the advanced classes at Maple-
Drake and JPM is planned.
Most improved players in the
winter session at Maple-Drake
were (beginner) Jeffrey Taxe,
David 'Carson, Matthew Finkel,
Aric Kiar and Mason Levey; (in-
termediate) Brett Willn.er, Brett
Borock and Yale Miller; and
(advanced) Noah Stern, Jordan
Lebowitz, Andrea Lederman,
Daniel Feldman and Michael
Feldman. 111

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