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Closing up shop after 67 years,
the Primrose Benevolent Club remembers
its good deeds and friendship.

SHELLI DORFMAN

Editorial Assistant

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become a charter member of the
Holocaust Memorial Center.
The club gave money to needy
families and provided clothing and
furniture in emergency situations. At
the farewell luncheon, treasurer Rod-
man dispersed the $6,000 remaining
in the club's bank acchunt to such
groups as Kadima, Jewish National
Fund, JARC, Yeshivah Beth Yehuda
School.
President Margaret Meretsky says
many of the women became friendly
because of their common European

rene Rodman was there when
the Primrose Benevolent Club
was beginning 67 years ago and
she was there at the end.
"We started little, and we have
accomplished a great deal," she said,
and the club flourished by following
the rule, that says "to give tzedakah,
no one should know."
Rodman, who is now 90, was a
newlywed when the club was founded
in 1931. Then, she
recalled with a laugh, the
club constitution exclud-
ed potential members
over the age of 30.
At its peak, the club
had 75 members, Rod-
man recalled, and they
were "just like family."
Now, the charitable
group has closed its
doors for a lack of young
members.
The group began
when members of
Eva Maister, Irene Rodman and Molly Kaplinsky talk
Yeshivah Beth Yehuda
at the Primrose Benevolent Club farewell luncheon.
Synagogue approached,
their daughters to start a
backgrounds, coming from Russia,
junior organization. The seven original
Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
women — including Fanny Friedman
Death has claimed members such
and her sister-in-law Beckie Weinman,
as Anne Bergman, who attended every
who attended the farewell luncheon at
meeting for years before she died this
Meriwether's restaurant in Southfield
summer at 102. Others now unable to
earlier this month with 21 of the
remain active include charter members
club's current 37 members — were
Fay Margolis and the group's first pres-
recruited as fund raisers by the Los
ident Rose Ainbinder.
Angeles Sanitorium, a cancer-fighting
After the meeting officially
group that became the City of Hope.
adjourned,
a few of the members lin-
In the early years, the club held
gered
On
in
the small private banquet
fund-raising bazaars at the former
room, at linen-covered tables set with
B'nai Moshe Synagogue on Dexter in
vases of roses and baby's breath. They
Detroit. Funds came from tribute card
sat, some in floral-print dresses,
sales, individual gifts and profits from
beneath the club's fabric sign with its
the annual donor event, which attract-
fading painted primroses. The
ed up to 750 attendees and was the
women
were laughing, crying, remi-
main source of income. Last year,
niscing
and planning what they will
Primrose gave away $15,000.
do next. [1]
Once it invested $5,000 in Israel
Bonds, then casehed them in to

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