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Jewish Federation Promotes Staff

The Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit has
announced the promotion of several
professional staff members.
Margo Lazar has been promoted
to senior campaign associate. Lazar,
who came to Federation in 1998 as
Pro-Detroit coordinator, will take
on additional supervisory and pri-
mary duties in the Women's
Campaign and Education
Department.
Norm Lyle, who became graphics

manager for the Marketing and
Communications Department in
1999, has been promoted to the
position of associate director of
graphic services.
Maxine McGlinnen has been pro-
moted to human resources associate.
McGlinnen will function in a pro-
fessional capacity to handle the day-
to-day concerns of health, dental,
life and long-term disability insur-
ance as well as other human
resource matters.

Yiddish Club Honors Founder

societies for recent immigrants. In
During December, the Yiddish
1937, he was one of the founding
Culture Club at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park
members of the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit. The
observed the centennial birthday of
Sholem Aleichem Institute was the
Charles Driker, founding president.
focal point of the Yidishkeit in his
He arrived in Detroit at age 22 in
1922, having lived through war,
life.
pogrom, revolution and civil war. His
In 1954, Driker entered the real
estate business. In 1975, he organized
father, Yehuda Laib, a carpenter, had
immigrated to America
in 1913, planning to
bring his wife Sarah and
children as soon as he
could pay for passage.
Howevei, the doors
were closed for nine
years.
Driker, named Ishiah,
was born in Zhitomir in
Ukraine during czarist
rule. He became fluent
in Russian and versed in
Russian literature as well
as Yiddish. He was
skilled in mathematics
Charles and Frances Driker
and calligraphy.
Driker was conscript-
ed into the Red Army and served at
the Yiddish Culture Club at the
the front for 18 months during the
Jewish Community Center in Oak
civil war in Russia.
Park and for many years served as its
Arriving in Detroit in 1922, he
president. One of his pioneering
took the named Charles and found
innovations was the Third Seder, a
employment at a 12-hour, night shift
cultural and religious event.
in a foundry.
Driker died in 1988 at age 87.
He met Faige (Frances), in night
Frances died in 1999 at age 94. She
school and they married in 1922.
has continued his legacy of activism at
They then opened their own small
the Yiddish Culture Club and the
laundry shop with capital saved from
Sholem Aleichem Institute. Their
their job incomes and they lived
children continue to live in the
behind the store.
Detroit area, with grandchildren and
After losses in the Depression, they
great-grandchildren throughout the
moved to Chicago, returning to
United States.
Detroit a year later to start over.
Chaim Rosenthal succeeded Driker
Charles became active in the
as president of the Yiddish Culture
Odessa Progressive Aid Society, one of
Club, advancing Yiddish culture
Detroit's landsmanshaften, mutual aid
though music and literature.

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