WAYNE 1 11E E V I S I T ED Urban university works to strengthen its enduring ties to the Jewish community. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer ollege memories don't fade quickly. George Zeltzer of West Bloomfield remembers when Wayne State University was still Wayne University and the only large building on campus was Old Main — Detroit's old Central High School. Larry Gormezano of West Bloomfield, a WSU student in the mid- 1960s, recalls Verne's, a beer hall and "great hangout" on Forest near Woodward, where students who worked and took night classes gathered after dark. Roberta and Sruart Pinsky of Farmington Hills, also WSU students in the mid-1960s, remember when the Traffic Jam and Snug were two separate places. Students went to Traffic Jam for beer and greasy food in plastic bas- kets. The Snug was an adjacent ice cream shop. Those days, Rabbi Max Kapustin ran the old B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation in a creaky house south of Warren Avenue and students organized the ingenious Oak Park car- pool that ferried maybe 300 people to and from Wayne. There also were coffeehouses, like the Raven, and pro-Israel and anti-Vietnam protests on campus. And when the Tigers won the pennant in 1968, everybody at WSU forgot their WSU President troubles and took to the streets. Irvin D. Reid During its heyday for Jewish students, in the 1940s- 1950s, a third of the Wayne enrollment was Jewish; WSU educated Detroit's first wave of Jewish immigrants and their children. Chances are the Jewish doctors, lawyers, teachers and other professionals from Detroit trained before the 1960s received their education at WSU. But how many of those graduates have recently visited their alma mater? After the Detroit riots in 1967, Jews and many other white Detroiters left C Wayne State's Old !Wain.