1949
The Jewish Community Center is remodeled,
enlarged and dedicated as the Aaron DeRoy Memorial
Building. It includes a pool, gymnasium, home econom-
ics unit, library, 40 club rooms, cafeteria and assembly
hall. Membership fees are $20 for men, $15 for women,
less for children. Health Club membership (men only ) is
$60.
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A short-lived Young Men's Hebrew Association
(YMHA) is started as an independent organization, meet-
ing in a house at Brush and Winder Streets.
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1904 Staff is hired at United Jewish Charities' Hannah
The Center Symphony Orchestra debuts.
Schloss Memorial Building on High Street near Hastings
to help new immigrants become "Americanized" and pro-
vide economic assistance to the underprivileged. The
building is named the Detroit Jewish Institute in 1906.
The JCC becomes a USO center during World
War II. Gertrude Glowgower is elected the JCC's first
woman president.
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A Young Women's Hebrew Association (YWHA)
is organized in a building at 89 Rowena Street run by the
Detroit Council of Jewish Women.
The JCC opens a branch at the 12th Street
Council Center (operated by the Detroit branch of the
National Council of Jewish Women).
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19c 5
The Jewish Parents Institute (JPI) is started.
The first Jewish Book Fair is held.
19c54 The JCC schedules activities at the Esther
Berman Branch of the United Hebrew Schools on Broad
Street.
1956 The 10 Mile Branch (now Jimmy Prentis Morris
Building) opens in Oak Park.
19 c59 The JCC at Curtis and Meyers Roads opens
with 10,000 members.
The Monarchs baseball team at the Curtis and Meyers Building produced
many Jewish community leaders, among them Jewish Federation President
Larry Jackier, pictured in top row, second from right.
19.6 The Jewish Centers Association is established
by the new Jewish Welfare Federation (now Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit). It operates out of a
building on East Philadelphia Street before moving to 31
Melbourne Ave. The JCA also provides clubs at various
recreation centers, synagogues and schools. A branch
with a music school and an art school is later opened on
Fenkell.
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The Jewish Centers Association and the Young
Women's Hebrew Association merge in order to provide a
more comprehensive education and recreation program.
A building at Woodward and Holbrook, the first to be
called the Jewish Community Center, is dedicated.
1945
The Jewish Community Center starts its summer
day camp program.
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The 12th Street Branch provided social services for new immigrants.