Jewry's Role in
Human Affairs

Golfers Raise Money
For Hillel

Jim Davenport, Bob Bloomberg, Bob
Crockett and Dave Gaabo claimed first
place.

The sixth annual Hillel Day
School Golf Classic, held Sept. 10
at Tam O'Shanter Country Club
in West Bloomfield, raised more
than $30,000 for the school. One
hundred thirty golfers participated.
The team of Robert Bloomberg,
Bob Crockett, Jim Davenport and
Dave Gaabo came in first place
with a score of 11 under par. The
team of George Johnston, Dr.
Gary Koloff, El Maroko and Steve
Margolin came in second.
Chrysler Jeep was the corporate
sponsor of the event. Other tour-
nament sponsors included Karen
and Jim Berger; Commercial
Resource Group; Efros/Sav-On
Drugs; Surgical Associates; the

Lisa Jaffe and Helene Indianer
head for the links for Hillel.

Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg
Foundation; Steve Schlafer and
Prudential Securities of West
Bloomfield; Drs. Ada and Howard
Yerman/Edgewood Center Ear,
Nose and Throat; the Friedman
Group; Dennis Chaiken's Direct
Optical; Associated Dermatology
of West Bloomfield/Drs. Dorman,
Kerwin and Merkle; and Pet
Supplies Plus.
In addition to Steve Schlafer, the
golf classic committee consisted of
Jim Berger, Michael Cutler, Otto
Dube, Jay Greenspan, Art
Indianer, Ashley Israel, Jeff Tackel
and Dr. Howard Yerman. Natalie
Newman serves as fund-raising
chair.

Patrons Support Jewish Book Fair

A patron event benefitting the
Jewish Community Center's annual
Jewish Book Fair will be held 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the JCC
in West Bloomfield.
Donors of 5300 or more are eligi-
ble to attend the by-invitation-only
dessert reception. Patrons will
receive a copy of Misconception,
opening/patron night speaker Robert
Shapiro's new book. Shapiro, mem-
ber of O.J. Simpson's legal defense
team, will autograph copies. He will
speak about his book at 8:45 p.m.
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JCC locations through Nov. 18. JCC
President Sharon Hart and book fair
co-chairs Teri Sinkoff and Sandy
Stark will welcome guests to the
opening night talk.
The Book Fair also will have its
fifth annual local author fair, featur-
ing works by Jewish authors or of
Jewish content, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 11, at the JCC in West
Bloomfield.
For information about Book Fair,
call Elaine Schonberger, (248) 432-
5577.

LEADERSHIP IN ADVANCING THE LIFE SCIENCES
The dominance of men and women of Jewish origin among Nobel Prize
Laureates has been awesome. In just one category--physiology or medicine
more than forty such awards were given through the years to Jewish
researchers since the prize's inception in 1901.
To name a few: Robert Barany, the Swedish otologist who did
much to further our understanding of the inner ear's balancing apparatus.
Joseph Erlanger, an American physiologist who discovered how nerve
fibers are electrically energized. Konrad Bloch, a German-born biochemist
whose studies linked cholesterol to heart disease. Others include:

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OTTO MEYERHOF, M.D.
His first ••••
(1884-1951) b. Hanover, Germany
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achievement was in psychology as the author of
Contributions to a Psychological Theory of
Mental Diseases. Shifting focus to physiology
and physical chemistry, Meyerhof joined the
University of Kiel at which he taught and
researched the metabolism of muscles (1913-24).
While there he formulated a basic law of muscular
action and a phenomenon which came to be called the Pasteur-Meyerhof
effect. His 1923 Nobel Prize was given "for discovering the fixed
relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of
lactic acid in the muscle." After heading the department of physiology of
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg (1929-38), Meyerhof was
removed from that post by Nazi oppression. Within two years of escaping
to Paris, France, he again fled the Germans and found a haven in America.
He became a research professor at the University of Pennsylvania's medical
school and lectured widely in the U.S. and England.

JOSEPH HERMANN MULLER, Ph.D.
(1890-1967) b. New York City The disting-
uished geneticist and long-time professor in
zoology at Indiana University-Bloomington (1945
-67) received a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering
that X-rays could induce mutations or hereditary
changes. He was also among the first to profess
•• *.: that at evolutionary changes within populations may
' large part result from such mutations. Muller's
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career also took him to research institutions in Germany, Scotland and in
Russia where the false theories of biologist T.D. Lysenko were bringing
objective Soviet genetic studies to a standstill. He led the successful
repudiation of Lysenkoism while in Russia and after his return to the U.S.
As a spokesperson for environmental sanity he was a vocal critic of
radiation and industrial processes which threaten the human gene pool and
future generations. Elected in 1931 to the U.S. National Academy of
Science, Muller authored two classics in their field: The Mechanism of the
Mendelian Heredity (1915), and Genetics, Medicine and Man (1947).

SIR HANS ADOLF KREBS, Ph.D.
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(1900-81) b. Hildesheim, Germany Yet another
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escapee of Hitler, the son of a Jewish physician
left The University of Freiburg for Cambridge
University, England, in 1933--the year after he co-
discovered the "urea cycle" which governs how
the great majority of mammals produce and
excrete urine. By 1937, the biochemist further
discovered a process on which nearly all meta-
bolic reactions depend, and which provides higher organisms with nearly
two-thirds of all their food-derived energy. Knowledge about the cycle is
central to understanding molecular biology and cell metabolism.
Commonly known as the "citric acid cycle" or the "Krebs cycle," his
finding earned a 1953 Nobel Prize. Krebs was knighted by the English
crown five years later, and also won the Royal Society's coveted Copley
Medal in 1961. A summation of his research appears in Energy
Transformations in Living Matter, co-authored by Krebs in 1957 and
considered an invaluable scientific work of these times.

- Saul Stadtmauer

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