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'Kovod Keys' to i e Presented tit Youth Council Program, W e d at Center; Installation of Officers Scheduled A speeiul innovation will be cil oflicers and announcement added to the ]!).")!) Jewish Youth commit lee chairmen. Council Award Night, Wednesday, I'Jdwin Sidman, head of AZ. ]\lay 20 ,'it the Jewish Comnuinily Center, when "Ko\'od Keys" will No, 1 and the son of Mr. and Mrs he bestowed upon individual mem- Harry Sidman has been elected bers who have distinguished them- president of the Council. A deselves through community serv- hater, he was recently elected ice. "Kovod" was select -d for the j president of the Central High title of the keys because ils He- ; School National Forensic League, brew connotation of honor would j He was chairman of the last significantly apply to the achievements of I he recipients,1 council ; Youth Council Thanksgiving scrvleaders said. The -program opens f ice. is a !!)."!) Y. C. Philanthropies lieutenant and is active in many at 7:30 p. m. high school clubs and activities. Club Speakers to he Judged Serving as vice-president is Best club awards, the annual Stephen Guss, son of Mr. and Mrs. feature of the event, will be based Joe Guss. He is n member of on present (it ions of club programs Rayim. Is Council reporter, and a by n represent- r~ Forensic Society member, who ntlve of each has also chalked up an enviable group. " F l i s t .' record as a Central debater. He places" will go to shares a special interest in the Youth Council official family with one girls' group is father who was its president dud one boys' tiring the l'ClH-.'M) season. The c on t e s I Siegel To Conduct Ceremonies will be judged by I Installed will be Konnie GorProfessor Man| don, of Ronu AZA. the son of_Mr. fred I' i e c k. I and Mrs. Richard Gordon as secC'relglilon UnlI retary; Arlene Grossman, of Kleaversity Law nor Roosevelt BBG, the daughter School; the Kev. "Kovod Kry" of Mr. and Mrs.. Arthur Grossman Charles Tyler, Calvin Memorial and Roni Meyer of Kdiar BKG, Presbyterian Church; .Sherman daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Poska, former Center Youth Di- Meyer, as reporters. The installarector; .Mrs. Mike Freeman, pres- tion ceremony will be conducted ident of the Federation of Jewish by Karl Slegel, Federation Adult Womens Clubs and Mrs. Donald Education committee chairman. Nogg, an active Philanthropies Music will be provided by a worker. The awards will be presented by Arthur Goldstein, Fed- "combo" consisting of Arnold eration vice-president, on behalf Fellman. I'.aylm; Howard C'hudaof the Federation. koff, AZA No. 100 and Mike Markovilz. AZA No. 1. . . Officer to be Installed The evening will be highlighted j Special guests will be eialith b y the installation of Youth Coun- | graders and their parants.
Three athletes were honored for outstanding ability at the annual Jewish Community Center Athletic Award Night Wednesday evenine. Hill Kutlcr, son of Mr. and Mrs. MorrW K. Kutler received the J. J. Greenberg Memorial trophy for being the "outstanding grade school athlete." He was captain of the I-Go Van championship midget basketball team. An "outstanding high school performer." .Justin •Ban, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ban, was recipient of the Harry Trustin trophy. He was- a member of the Youth Council All-Star basketball team, a wrestling champ, Y. C. singles handball champ and a partner in the doubles. The Les Burkenward award went to the outstanding Varsity performer, Wayne Siegel. He lms been a uMtball player in city leagues ami was a member of the
Tel Aviv (JTAl Israelis this week were celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the fitute. Officially, Independence Day, the holiday celebratim; the achievement of independence in 1918 was Wednesday. But the observance began earlier in the week with mass meetings and rallies in ninny cities and settlements, Welcome lVure. lifforts The planned four-power conferonce nt Geneva w a s greeted this weok by Israel's President, Itzhak Ben Zvi in a special Independence Day radio broadcast, l/JA Chairman Cables (Jreeting The observance was Iinilea In n cablegram to Prime Minister Ben Gurlon from New York City In
Varsity basketball team. "Hall of Fame" selections announced by Sain Ban were basketball - - Sam K a t /, m a n, Iz Schrcibman. 1/ Bogdanoff; swimming -Ted Haduzlncr, Joe Turner; handball- Morris Bloom, Manny Goldberg. Dave Frank; baseball Max Altsuler, Joe Turner; tennis-Sam Epstein, Nute Cutler and horseshoes -Jake Adler. Speaker of "the evening was Les Burkenroad, former Athletic Committee chairman for 19 years.
Center Committee The Jowish Community Center Committee will meet Tuesday, May 19, nt 12:15 p. m. at Harry's Restaurant, It was announced by Lou Cmuir, chairman.
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Tlit: appointment of sub-commit* tee chairmen of (lie Budget Com* mittee of the Jewish Federation was announced this week by Er-> nest A. Nogg. General chairman, and Daniel Katzman, Co-ehaimiaja,. of the Budget Committee. . "The limpet Committee," (lie co-chairmen explained, "is divided into I'ljfhl suli-commltlces, euch one of which is c h a r e d with discussing mid H( miring agencies which in Jurn reviews them, mid TJiese Mili-roiiiinllices make a Alike Firriiuin Dr. A. (Srcenberg thorough survey of the Institutions and agencies assigned to them, und/ siihnilt their recommendiitloas to tin- General Budget Committee, Avlde hiu turn reviews them, imi arrives nt final budget for nil activities or the Jewisli Federation, und the agencies s u p p o r t e d through tl,,. IMiilnntliropfo* ,.,, m piillfii."
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Cul»i> Jay-C-<' xtandiirdi mid »U|iKr\i»ury ratio "fur «x<i!«<li'il" those rdcomnn'iiitcd by the Amerlouii Cnmpliig Association It «ins disclosed In » study on pructlces and »t;\nilurd< of Onmlin cumps eondueteil liy die loitnl CnniinnnIty Hi-rvlces. Iteioril I'rnWed The study was headed by Herman CIrowel],. president of Ilia Slate Camping Association, w h o staled that "Camp Jay-C-C consistently provides the lop in camping supervision and Ihe ratio of at least one counselor for every four campers, certainly an enviable record In the midwest and In Nebraska." Normim Bull, camp chairman, said, In appraising the report, that by providing this type of ratio, campers are assured of individual attention as well ns greater opportunity for individual growth. Mr. Bad Indicated that this ratio docs not include kitchen, medical, maintenance or administrative alaff. Village SupitrvlNiirs Nuniwl He named Bernard Feldinan, Janet Handler and Richard Welner Village Supervisors, All three are veteran staff members and former campers. Mr. Feldman who served as Boya Village director In 1938 will "Be graduated In June from Columbia University where he has been an honor student since his freshman year. Miss Handler,
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following her graduation from the University of Nebraska, will begin her second consecutive year RS Girls" Village director. Mr. Weinor who will assume the newly created post of counselor-in-tralning supervisor, will be graduated from the University of Iowa in June. He captained 'the cheerleader's sqund when the Iowa fool bull team captured the Rose Bowl championship on two consecutive occasions, (irmltmto Ntir.tc Appointed Mrs. Joan Jensen, a pedialrlc nurse for the Omalm Board of Education and graduate of the University of Nebraska school of nursing, will bo the official camp nurse und will be assisted by two senior nursing students. Larry Kpstein, University of Nebraska Medical student, will serve on the medical stuff. Kully I'"n-(Miiiui To Serve Sally Freeman, Northwestern University student, will assist the Girls' Vlllngo director. Waterfront director will be Jim Nemer, Omaha University June graduate, who has served on the aquatic staffs of the Center and the Highland Country Club. Ranking boy's senior counselor will be Stephen Broolcstein, Harvard University law student. Camp administration will be headed by Saul Silverman, Center Aotivitios director. Miss Bes»e Blank Is camp registrar.
UiliAN AND m ' I t . \ r , OONTItAST—AS people of Israel piepured for (elehratlon of »tuto'» l l t l i anniversary of Independence, officially May 13, In photo nt left, n cidf Is welcomed to ;i fur m sett lenient by young newcomers. Farm development program Includes sonic 180,000 immigrant * of rocent years, but ninny of tho farmsteads are In need of livestock, water, tools and oilier agricultural essentials to help them develop self-sufficiency. Photo nt• TIRIIC gives indication of construction mslt to house new immigrants us well us earlier arrivals, ninny of whom aro Btlll living in lints and Nlinclis of the ma'ulmrot. To niiiintalii tho inimy-Hlded progranm wlileh niiilco process of immigrant-absorption possible, tho United JewNh Appeal I»-currently conducting1 an nrgent nationwide cusli drive for $10,000,000 from pledges received In '50 campaign. Target dato ot tlio cash drlvo la Juno 2I,<17,IA fundH also aid close to 800,000 Jewish men, women and children In 25 coiintrlcH other than Ionic1
The following will serve as Subcommittee chairmen: Dr. Jerome Bleicher, Health and Welfare institutions in the United Slates. Isadore Chapman, Overseas and Israel agencies subcommittee. Mike Freeman, National Servica • agencies, which serve American! Jewish communities. Dr. Abe Greenberg, Omaha agencies which receive support from the United Community Services. Henry Greenberg. Omaha agencies which receive support front the Jewish Philanthropies campaign. Morton Richards, Religious in* stitutions and theological seminaries. Sam Rice, Community Relation! and Civic Protective agencies. Dr. Maurice Steinberg, National Jewish Cultural agencies. In commenting on the organlza. tlon of (he Budget Committee^ Robert H. Kooper, Jewish Federation president stressed that som« 75 people participate in the Budget Committee process, representing diverse views and the thinking ot the community. Included In the, membership ard youiiff people, who represent thfl young adult Jewish community, who huve an opportunity to lie* come fiiinllinr with problems ot till! Jeulih community, loeullyi national)', Israel and overseas. "Through the process of budget* ing, as applied in Omaha," KTrT Kooper said, "we attempt to d« ft better and more intelligent job or allocating funds raised for outf institutions and agencies. Last year, under the General chairmanship of Calvin M. Newman, and eo« chairmanship of Daniel Katzman, 7.3 members of the Budget Com* mittee put in a total of over 30Q hours in their' deliberations and st udy of appropriations for Jewish activities, in Omaha, in the United Slntos, and overseas."
which a pledge to continue working in partnership with Israel's people for the "aspirations of frcj men," was made by Morris W. Bcrinslcin, United Jewish Appeal General Chairnrin. Praises Acceptance of Newcomers In his message to the Prims Minister, Mr. Berinstein stated tliat he spoke for millions o£ American Jews in expressing admiration for Israel's people and for their willingness and generosity in welcoming nearly a million newcomers who have sought new lives in Israel. Mr. Berinstein also stressed to the Prime Minister the nationwide effort to raise $40,000,000 in cash by June 21st in order to hasten the absorption of immigrants to Israel.