Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1960 — Page 1

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Friday, April 29, 1960

VOLUME XV — No. 3G

r ATTENTION: ALL CAMPAIGN WORKERS Please read the announcement in this paper of the report meeting schdeuled for your division. The 1960 campaign is drawing to a close, but before we can actually complete the campaign, we must have reports on all outstanding cards. Many people are waiting for you to call on them for their contribution. Leaders in your division are countnig on you to finish the job. Thank you for your dedication to a great humanitarian cause. Remember— General Solicitation Report Meeting—1:00-4:00 p.m., May

1—B’nai Torah.

Women’s Division Report Meeting—10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon May 2—6962 Oak Lane. Special Gifts, Trades and Professional Division Report Meeting—8:00-10:00 p.m., May 2—200 Williams Drive. “JOSH” FINEBERG ATTENTION: GENERAL SOLICITATION WORKERS Measure-Up Week is almost over! Cards must be worked this week! Let’s bring in a banner total—No card can be left undone! We’ll meet at B’nai Torah on Sunday, May 1—1:00

until 4:00 p.m.

Refreshments—Prizes—Let’s make this the best General Solicitation ever!

ROSE LEVY

ATTENTION: WOMEN'S DIVISION WORKERS Let's really measure up! Results so far in our division show an increase, but some cards are still out. We must complete all cards in our division as soon as possible. Report meeting, May 2—10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon—Mrs. Irving Linderman’s, 6962 Oak Lane. Bring your completed cards.

BEA CASSEN

ATTENTION: SPECIAL GIFTS, TRADES AND PROFESSIONAL DIVISION WORKERS We’re measuring up! Almost, but not quite! We’re on our way . . . but every card must be worked! Let’s finish the job and meet at Josh Fineberg’s home, 200 Williams Drive, on Monday, May 2.. Open house—drop in any time between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. We’ll be looking for you. MAURICE LIPPMAN

Jewish Welfare Federation campaign workers ax-e ui’ged to complete their solicitations and report the results at a series of report meetings scheduled for this week, it was announced yesterday by campaign chaii'man, Milton “Josh” Fineberg. The first of these meetings, for general solicitation workers, will be held at B’nai Torah from 1 until 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, Refi’eshments will be served to workers and prizes awarded on a point system will be given to those workers exceeding 500 and 1,000 points. Mrs. Lewis Levy, general solicitation chairman, reminds alp workers that no cai’d can be left unworked. WORKERS in the women's division will meet on May 2, from 10 a.m. until 12 noon at the home of Mrs. Irving Linderman, 6962 Oak Lane, to report on “plus giving” in the women’s division this yeai\ So far, results show a sizeable increase over the amount pledged by the women last year. Mrs. Manuel S. Cassen, women’s division chairman in the campaign, has asked that all workers complete their cards this week and bring them to the report meeting scheduled for May 2. SPECIAL GIFTS chairman, Maurice Lippman, has announced a joint report meeting for this division and for workers in the trades and professional division to be held on Monday, May 2, at the home of campaign chairman.

Milton “Josh” Finebei’g, 200 Williams dx\ In announcing the meeting, Lippman urged that woi'kers make a “special effort” to complete their cards and attend the meeting. Inci’eases at evei'y level of giving ar-e being reported so far during the campaign, and leadei's are confident that final reports will show marked increases iix every division. Council Holds Closing Luncheon May 2 The Indianapolis Sectioxx, National Council of Jewish Women will hold its closing meeting at a luncheon on Monday, May 2, at 12:30 at the Westchester Country

Club.

An original skit written by Mrs. Louis Marks, Mx’S. Paul Goldstein, Mrs. Morris Stoner and Mrs. Gerald Paul, honoring members of 45-year standings. Participating in the'skit will be Mrs. Robert Levin, Mrs. Alexander Kahn, Mrs. B. Linkon, Mrs. Robert Goldbei'g, Mrs. Oscar Alpert, and Mrs. Ernest Uorch. Council members to be honox-ed at the meeting are Miss Minnie Cohen, Mrs. Julius Falender, Mrs. Harry Farber, Mrs. M. M. Feuerlicht, Mrs. Sol Goldsmith, Mrs. Belle Weinberg, Mrs. Leon (Continued on Page 18)

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A x'ecord number of enthusiastic general solicitation workers from all sections of the city met bright and early on Sunday morning at the Jewish community centex', to begin the task of contacting every member of the Indianapolis Jewish community during “Measux'e-Up Week,” the general solicitation phase of the 1960 Jewish Welfare Federation campaign. The center was a virtual bee j hive of activity as genex'al solicitation chairman, Mx's. Lewis Levy, her cabinet members and workex's registex’ed nearly 300 wox'kex's, distributed kits, and served coffee and rolls. FRANK H. NEWMAN, executive director of the fedex'ation briefed workex's on campaign techniques. He urged volunteers to approach their prospects “with dignity as agents of one of the greatest humanitarian enterpx'ises known to man.” He spoke generally on the 65 agencies supported by the fedex'ation and pax'ticularly on the five local agen-

cies.

David M. Cook, federation president, and Joseph Cahn, general solicitation cabinet member, were on hand to give individual bx'iefing to workers arriving after the genex'al meeting. Workers left the center on foot, in cars, jeeps, and by every imaginable mode of transportation. Armed with yard sticks to remind givers that they have measured up and literature on the wox-k of the federation, the work ers, some of whom volunteered to double and even triple their jobs by taking as many as thx'ee separate lists, exuded • a kind of enthusiasm that was contagious. INITIAL REPORTS show that the general solicitation, so tar,

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Mx'S. David Cook will be in1 stalled px'esident of the Indianapolis Section, National Council of Jewish Women, at its closing luncheon meeting at 12:30 p.m. Monday at the Westchester Coun-

trmy Club.

An original skit written by four member's and honoring members of 45-year standing will be a special feature. The skit was written by Mmes. Louis Marks, Paul Goldstein, Mox’ris Stoner and Gerald Paul. Council members to be honored are Miss Minnie Cohen, Miss Frances Mazur and Mmes. Julius Falender, Hax'ry Farber, M. M. Feuerlicht, Sol Goldsmith, Belle Weinberg, Leon Hecht, J. M. Jackson, -Ralph Kahn, Edgar Kiser, V. E. Pinkus, Saul Solomon, Leo Traugott, Louis Wolf, Mendel Wolf and Albert Goldstein Sr. Mrs. COOK will be installed by Mrs. Walter Lichtenstein. Also to be installed are Mmes. Morris Jacobs, first vice-presi-dent; Jack Kammins, second vicepresident; Albert Goldstein Jr., third vice-president; Morris Stoner, fourth vice-president; Wolf Rosenblum, recording secretary; Stanley Siegel, corresponding

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has been an overwhelming success. "One of the values of this phase of the campaign,” said Frank Newman, “is the stx'ong feeling of community spirit which it fostex’s. Genex'al solicitation bx'ings all age groups together fx'om the entix-e Indianapolis ax'ea, bands them togethex', and unites them in a common cause.” MANY WORKERS completed their lists on Sunday and x'etux’ixed to the center to report results, which, almost without exception, showed incx*eased giving

WORKERS will complete their lists this week and gather for a final report meeting on Sunday, May 1, fx’om 1 until 4 p.m., at B’nai Torah, 3357 Ruckle. Refreshments will be served at the meeting and prizes will be awarded to workers in two categox'ies — those achieving over 500 points and those exceeding 1,000 points. Points ai'e gathex'ed for each x'enewed pledge, each increased pledge, each new pledge and for the worker’s own pei’* sonal pledge.

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Youth leadex's x'eport that young people of the Indianapolis Jewish community ax'e actively participating in the Jewish Welfare Fedex'ation Campaign this year, and that enthusiam among tin. youth groups is running high. AT THE Jewish community centex', a poster contest, open to all center young people, was held. Many clever and original posters, all centered around the 1960 campaign theme — “Let’-' Measure Up” — were entered. Px'e-teens at the center have voted to give a $50 contribution to the fedex'ation as iheir part in the drive. The childx-en at the Jewish Education Association will contx'ibute again thie yeax\ as they have in previous yeax'S. MEMBERS of the United Synagogue Youth Gx’oup — Beth-El Zedeck Congregation, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Tern-

GIL secx'etax'y, and Nat Moi’gan, financial secretary. Directors for 1960-62 include Mmes. Frank Barnett, Allen Dale, Alfred Dobrof, Louis Fink, Richard Glasser, Eugene Click, Robert Levin, Irving Linderman, Sylvan Perlov and Morton Wolman. Directors to fill one-year unexpired tei'ms, 1960-61, include Mmes. Ghax'les Fisch, Robert Kahn, and Stewart Ginsberg. Luncheon resex'vations will be taken by Mrs. Herbert Melrose, CL 1-7446 and Mrs. Alan Selig, VI 6-8528. Spotlight Focused On Housing Indianapolis’ gx'owing minority group housing problem will receive spotlight treatment on Station WIBC’s Indianapolis Today program in a series of five broadcasts to be presented next week from Monday through Friday at 9:05 p.m. For further information call Irving Levine, WA 4-4311, Ext. 52.

pie Teens, and B’nai I'ox'aii Youth Group ax-e active this year as volunteer workers for the General Solicitation. Mrs. Lewis Levy, general solicitation chairman for the 1960 dx'ive, reports that a x'ecord number of young people have volunteered their sexwices to this phase of the campaign. “This would indicate,” she said, “that our poung people rae becoming more and more aware of the impox'tance of total community pai'ticipation in the fedex'ation campaign.” SUBSTANTIAL contx'ibutions to the fedex'ation have been announced by religious schools in the community. At the Indianapolis Hebx'ew Congregation, Mi's. Mildred Levey, Religious School Administi'ator, repoi'ts that the majority of the students in the x'eligious school voted recently to incx'ease their conti'ibution to the" federation fx'om 50 per cent to 60 per cent of their charity fund. The vote was taken after students engaged in a thoi'ough study of community agencies. At Beth-El Zedeck Congregation, it is expected that member of the religious school, recognizing their obligation to the totality of Jewish life, will also increase their allocation to the federation when the school budgets its funds this year. IHC To Register New Pupils The Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Religion? School will x'egister new. pupils for the 196061 year Sunday,. May 15, at the temple, 6501 N. Meridian. Registration hours are 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Registrations will be accepted for the nursery school, kindergarten classes and religious school. Parents desiring information about enrollment or registration may call the temple, CL 5-6647, and ask for Mrs. Mildred Levey, the administrator for the religious school. Mi's. Lawrence Hertzman, Cl, 1-4693, or Mrs. Elaine Bloom, CL 3-3013 will answer questions about the nursery school.