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End Of An Era
Subsation II
For more than 50 years, the Brandeis
University Women's Committee of
Greater Detroit (BUWC) played a sig-
nificant role in raising money for
Brandeis University's libraries, which
expanded from one to four over the
years.
"We collected around $20,000 a
year from our book sales," BUWC
member Frances Fisher of Oak Park
says of their renowned annual sale, the
largest in Michigan.
The women's group held their last
book sale two years ago, passing the
torch to T.H.E., the Friends of
Literacy Used Book and Media Sale.
Then on June 30, 2004, Detroit's
BUWC retired its chapter, citing a
dwindling membership.
"We don't have enough young peo-
ple joining," said Fisher, a retired
teacher from Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit. "It's been too
hard for us to have quality fund-rais-
ing.There's fewer of us and we physi-
cally couldn't run the book sale any-
more," she said.
"It's the end of an era," longtime
.
member Ida Nathan of Bloomfield
Hills wrote in a letter to the JN. She
remembered the first book sale in
1953 at Maxine Sheldon's courtyard at
Livernois and Seven Mile in Detroit.
The sale eventually moved to
Southfield: Northland Mall and later
Tel-12 Mall, until 2002.
"The group meant a lot to me. It
introduced me to lovely women and
the camaraderie still exists. We're plan-
ning to meet for lunch two or three
times a year," Fisher says.
"About 450 members are still
around, down from a high of 2,000
members in the earlier days," says
Estelle Robinson of Bingham Farms,
considered the historian of the group.
"I feel the book sales served both
Brandeis and the Detroit community,"
she says. "We sold books reasonably
priced and a lot of people, especially
teachers, purchased them. It helped
out with the city's literacy program.
We did wonderful work."
— Sharon Zuckerman, staff writer
99 Years Of Good Living
Philip Langwald is just one year shy of
a century. On July 18, he celebrated
his 99th birthday with friends and
family at Peking House in Royal Oak.
The theme of the party was "Aged
to Perfection," which is ironically
apropos. Langwald attributes much of
his longevity to being a perfectionist
throughout his life.
Born in 1905 in Chenciny, Poland,
Langwald is a graduate of Central
High School and the University of
Detroit's school of commerce and
finance. His first job was as an auditor
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Service, but he was lured
away to work for three
Detroit mayors — Albert
Cobo, Louis Miriani and
Jerry Cavanaugh. He
worked as their secretary
to the Detroit Board of
Health Commission. He
also served as secretary to
the Detroit Board of
Water Commissioners. All in all, he
put in more than 40 years of service to
Detroit.
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With the addition of cushioned
booths, new kitchen equipment and
a high-tech computer system, a bare
room at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield has
become a casual dining and carryout
kosher restaurant.
After a couple of weeks of setup,
Subsation II — the sister eatery to
the Subsation restaurant inside the
JCC in Oak Park — is up and cook-
ing.
The restaurant is run on the site
where several other kosher diners
opened and closed the last few years.
Subsation II will be open year-
round.
Throughout the summer, staff will
juggle orders at a counter inside the
new restaurant and at a window at
the outdoor pool.
"When the Jewish Academy (of
Metropolitan Detroit) opens in the
fall, we will offer a lunch program
for the students," said Subsation
owner Eli Weingarden. "The kids
can purchase a prepaid card that we
will swipe for them as payment."
A special employee-discount menu
will be available for JCC staff at
both Subsations.
The two restaurants use a point-
of-sale computer system, with
restaurant management software to
make service quicker and more effi-
cient.
"The system will also make it easi-
er if we find we can offer a delivery
service this winter."
The eatery, supervised by the
Council of Orthodox Rabbis of
Greater Detroit, offers a menu
including subs — both meat and
vegetarian — shwarma, falafel, ham-
burgers, hotdogs, kids' meals and
side dishes.
Subsation II is located inside the
West Bloomfield JCC at 6600 West
Maple Road, West Bloomfield. The
phone number is.(248) 592-9287.
Hours are: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday; 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Fridays; closed Saturday.
And he also claims to
be, when he was 29,
the youngest station
master for the Detroit
Department of Street
Railways — that's
streetcars, he reminds.
He also was a builder, a
real estate appraiser and
broker, and a bank-
ruptcy appraiser.
Israel is another pas-
sion, he says. He's. been
there more than 20 times, the first
trips being before Israel became a
state. As Mayor Cobo's secretary, he
went while David Ben-Gurion was
prime minister.
He was an ardent sponsor of Boy's
Town of Jerusalem, which he gifted
with $200,000, and he's got quite a
few trees in the Jewish National Fund
forest near Modi'in.
Langwald was married for 51 years
to Gladys; they had one son, Shelby,
now deceased. He is happy to be near
his three grandchildren, Michael,
Andy and Sheri Langwald, all of West
Bloomfield. Langwald still drives occa-
sionally. He lives at the Trowbridge in
Southfield.
— Shelli Liebman Dorfman,
staffwriter
staff
— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor
Quotables
Do You Remember
"When many Jewish people come to Poland, they fly
into Warsaw, go straight to Auschwitz, then want to
get out. But until the war, Poland had the most pro-
lific, culturally diverse, creative Jewish population
anywhere, ever. We can't afford to relegate those 3.5
million people to a postscript in history."
July 1954
— Tad Taube, a California philanthropist whose
father died at Auschwitz. The Polish Jewish Heritage
Program of his Taube Family Foundation for Jewish
Lift & Culture promotes interest in Poland among U.S.
Jews and enhances Jewish culture in Poland. The Holo-
caust claimed 3 million Polish Jews. Quoted by JTA.
In honor of Bertha Pappenheim, the German
Jewish social worker who founded the National
Association of Jewish Women, the West German
Federal Republic unveiled the design for a
postage stamp to be issued in the fall.
Pappenheim died near Frankfort in 1936; she
was a pioneering organizer in many fields of
Jewish social and educational endeavor.
— Sy Maned°, editorial assistant