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ident. The group met at Congre-
gation B'nai David at 14th and
Elmhurst in Detroit.
After high school, Raymond
enrolled at Wayne University,
where he majored in government
and minored in journalism (he
was night editor of the Wayne
University Collegiate).
Soon after graduating with
high honors in 1941, Raymond
Bloch was drafted. He complet-
ed officers training school; then
Lt. Bloch was assigned to the
77th infantry division.
Lt. Bloch participated in land-
ings at Guam and Leyte in the
Philippines. His last assignment
was Iwo Jima, an island off of
Okinawa.
Erwin Bloch heard the news
from his sister-in-law, Rhoda. At
first, he learned only that Ray-
mond had been wounded. "I
think they didn't know how to
break it to me," he says. Final-
ly, he found out his brother had
been killed.

Raymond Bloch died April 18,
1945, in an attack that also
claimed the life of famed war cor-
respondent Ernie Pyle. "Know-
ing Raymond as I do, Tin sure he
made his presence known to
Ernie since they were both jour-
nalists," his brother says.
Soon after her husband's
death, Rhoda had a daughter —
Raymond Bloch's only child —
named Lynne. She is "the image
of her father," Erwin Bloch says.
Lynne is married to an attor-
ney and lives in Massachusetts.
Rhoda resides in Florida.
"After the war was over, all of
Raymond's AZA buddies got to-
gether and had Post 495 named
in his honor," Erwin says. "He
was the only one who didn't come
back from Chapter 314."
Among the most frequent vis-
itors to Raymond Bloch's grave
was his childhood friend Harry
Kovitz, who came once a year,
every year, until the end of his
life. ❑

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aniel Wolfe went to Wash-
ington hoping to be one of
a handful of students shar-
ing $205,000 in scholar-
ship money from Westinghouse's
prestigious Science Talent
Search.
Forty finalists from around the
country went with the same as-
pirations. Ten winners returned.
Mr. Wolfe was not one of them.
No big deal for this finalist. He
was elated to have the opportu-
nity.
"I would be happy no matter
what," said the 18-year-old
Roeper School senior. "The mon-
ey would have been nice, but
knowing I surpassed my goal of
being a semifinalist was enough."
While Mr. Wolfe did not finish
among the top 10, he was thrilled
to place 12th, an alternate in the
contest. If two of the winners de-
cide not to major in science, or not
to accept the scholarship for any
reason, Mr. Wolfe, with his poly-
mers research, still has a slight
chance of winning.
His experimentation with
polymers, a chain of long, tangled
molecules, and his efforts aimed
at getting them to transmit light
as a way of speeding up comput-
er operations, earned him final-
ist status. More than 1,600
students entered the competition,
which in its 54 years has honored
five who went on to become No-
bel Prize winners.
The top contest winner, a stu-
dent from San Diego, presented
a study on cancer research which
sought to learn the function of a

Daniel Wolfe: Westinghouse finalist.

specific cancer cell in the spread
of cancer.
Second place went to a Long
Beach, N.Y., student who devel-
oped an electronic device to tell
individuals with visual impair-
ments denominations of money.
"The experience was incredi-
ble," Mr. Wolfe said. "This was
by far the best competition I've
ever participated in and I met
people I know will be lifelong
friends."
Mr. Wolfe spent six days in
Washington. He presented his
research at the National Acade-
my of Science, interviewed with
contest judges, toured the capi-
tal and met political notables like
Vice President Al Gore, Sens.
Spencer Abraham and Carl
Levin. ❑

