After 40 years, volunteers ready Detroit's final Brandeis University used book sale.

good times working with each other
and the community at the Brandeis
University book depot. From kft:
Rose Braiker of Huntington Woods,
Donda Rossman of Farmington
Hills, Harriet Shogan of West
Bloomfield, Helen Lipton of
Southfield Eleanor Roberts of
Birmingham, Gladys Bernstein of
Southfield Rose Bankler and May
Bussell of West Bloomfield and
Shirley Finkel of Southfield.

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very Monday and
Tuesday; week-in, week-
out, a small storefront in
Oak Park hums with
activity By 8:30 a.m., Roz Berman
of Southfield puts on the coffee
while Rose Braiker of Huntington
Woods and_ Jack H. Schwartz. of Oak
Park open the doors for business at
the Brandeis University used book
depot.
Come September, the volunteers'
service will end. This year marks
Detroit's final Brandeis Book Sale,

part of a national fimd-raising effort
for the university's library in
Waltham, Mass., by Brandeis
University's National Women's
Committee (BUNWC).
Detroit is not alone. Other cities
are eliminating or cutting back on
their book sales because new volun-
teers aren't stepping forward to do
the work accomplished for decades
by a dedicated, but aging, volunteer
work force.
"Brandeis doesn't have the same
draw for younger women as it did
for these volunteers," says Annette
Bechek of West Bloomfield, a mem-
ber of Detroit's BUNWC, who helps

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with publicity.
But the work must go on, and
there's much to do for the last sale
that runs from Aug. 15-20 at Tel-12
Mall in Southfield. So Berman,
Braiker, Schwartz and the 17 other
depot regulars sort, categorize, price,
box and label books from the dona-
tions piled high in the front room of
the storefront depot.
Brandeis book sales are notorious
for great bargains. At the mammoth
Chicago sale in June, the largest of
the 30 Brandeis book sales, nearly all
books go for 50 cents, tops, except
for valuable art books or first edi-
tions. In Detroit, hardcover prices

