132 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7f3992c973297d8e50344147d373d646.pdf 6dce3e8ed4e762149731376fc19e2ea7 PDF Text Text Ir. "· {jtnrgt 1Jfnx RABBI SOUTH SHORE TEMPLE 7215 )BFFBRY AVBNUB l'HONB FAIRFAX 3275-6 CHICAGO 49 Nov . 11, 1948. Mr. Fred Rodoff, 119 ,I._ Western Av., Muslfgon, Mich·. Dear Mr. Rodoff: Thank you for the invituticr- t o the dedication and the tickets to the dinner. \ We shall not be able to share the happy occasion w1 th you, but of course you know that our hearts a.re ,tith you. Thanking you again, Cordially GGF:L �November 19, 1948 Past presidents: Prior to 1938 _ Henry Rubinslcy Isaac Grossman (Well to make mention of these) Subsequent to 1938 - Milton Steindler Samuel Gluck Leo s. Rosen Samuel Lipnan Samuel K1.ayf I!JliJ ding Committee: Co-Chairmen - J. M. Kaufman Members: Hebert Fisher ~ l Klayf Paul Wiener - Harold Rosen �F1t01i P rt Pne;: 1 'r. Pr 1d.cnt, Rnbb1 Un n, Ouoot In behnlf or tho offiooro and on th1 Fri ndo, a.nd l 1 oober : I ob roof th Bn 1 Ior el Con..~ ot1on Sohool and 1..1brnry, l t l lcriou our day of Dod1o tion of our no bta you voloooe. w 0 1th uo to celebrate th1 o.ro happy you ar h V lonn- OOr.l wt ny . un loolt bo.o joyoua ooono1on. ap:o, n'bout 40 y n h~n ful of Jcwo, thoro uero not rony f ~ll1 oh r hen at that t1n • cot o.t enoh othorn honoc , o.nd froc thoro to a ooo.11 Syna. ,ori'llo on Mua • gon hloh 2S yoar venue, '!O aci n I ride to th old. r folk , ond- no our ,n1f cont Tenplc, lo r llY h re . drcan, th1o The pact hno R1vcn un tr d1t on, h1oh \ revere; it ho ,::1ven uo fr nd, hon u lv n uo o nloo ole n olty , chcr h; lt hnc ut noot of nll , our pa t boa ~1von uo ch ract r nJoy. lool· 1nto th futur • hloh nd ctr n~th to \t_J s? The tutur of tho To• l lo 1 o lonf! elf r wo lorn to b of our follo honC'lrnblo in our 6n1ly 11.voo , loo· to th t\r?o to good dv ntor;o th\.o Teeple Thi Tonpl b on bu1lt tor us lone that m-ondch110ron that thy nay 1h1lo cvoryon 1n th1 thlo ~1f1cc , and nll h v n oula b nd uo our 1.11 rro pr 1n our oon~n1ty . 1o built ln honor of Oo~ Al~1(?hty , 1n c thooc who ltrv 11vod here , and p uo th prop r r ver~no • on , ~ ve our Lo to tholr Juot r w rO . 017 of oll Ith o not oelf1oh, but for our oh1ldron nd nJoy 1tn bl oo1nga . v1o1n1cy hao haO ah nd ln h lpl n 1v n f r and o 11 nttent on to on r ly to build of tho1r tlr.10. nm'l oonoy • w muet 1·o too,. tho 1 d no o: 1 t through. �He ho.s hnd nnny re tles bu 1neee; he ho. opent thousands of dollar trips to different c1t1es. besides you Temple. n1ghto nnd m ny llo.ye to.ten woy from hie for long d1ct nee oalle, Th1s r.ioney came out of h1o o n pocJcot, nnd 111 find h1s name as one of the lnr e contributors to th1e We truly 010 n de p debt of r titude to Leo Rooen. Leo dee~rven the henrt-relt th nk of every nm:iber, 1n br1ng1np; th1e bu1ld1n~ to co~plet1on . no "LJe have adeC'u te f c111t1e~ for our sp1r1tunl , cultural , and coc1 l life . 1th our dream fulfilled men, womon, and children can con- reg te 1n 1rayer ---In tho 1th1n our rn gn1f1oent Temple . me tone or benuty end dignity 1th which our Temple hne b en planned, nnd furn1nhed, so are our eerv1oec nd rP11glou echool conducted u~der R bb1 8 mucl Ur.ien. · Rnbb1 Unen ie a f1ne rPeourA ful Je tsh schol r , nd one horn c cnn proudly ter~ as the Spiritual Leader of our Congr gt on. For our brief ncqu 1ntnnoe w1th hie, one cannot fn11 to reco~n1ze h1o undernt nd1ng of pc.et Je 1 h h1Rtory,and !')r 1e ent world trendc. hould congradul te ouroelver, ond our co~mitteea 1n securing Bnbb1 Unen'n cervloeo . He 1111 go place not only by our people, but by all who kno 1n Muo-er;on and hin. 111 be drn1red, �PROGRAM FOR THE DEDICATION OF SCHOOL AND LIBRARY OF TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL SUnday November 14, 1948 J:15 P.U.. 1. 2. llATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION J. .GREETINGS 4. READING 5. THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 6. PSALM 1. SERMON 8. SEU SHORIM 9. POEM ON LIBRARIES f;\ 1J. 11. 12. 13. lh. 15. 16. 17. 18. MESSAGE SRMA PRAYER FOR GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES IN MEMORIAM EL MOLE ROCHAMIM KADDISH ADON OLAN BENEDICTION MAY THE WORDS CHOIR AND AUDIENCE RABBI SAMUEL UMEN MILTON STEINDLER Chairman MAX ROSENBERG Pres. Zionist Organization JEAN BERMAN Religious School Principal ELAINE PAGE RABBI SAMUEL OMEN CHOIR MRS. EDWARD KRAUSE CLIFFORD WHIGHTMAN -Chief Librarian- Hackley Library. CHOIR HORTENSE BERMAN SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT MILTON STEINDLER RABBI SAMUEL UMEN CHOIR CHOIR RABBI SAMUEL UMEN CHO+R �TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL Muskegon, Michigan Dedication Week ABRAHAM ROSEN LODGE NO. 818, B'NAI B'RITH Sponsor and Host for OPEN HOUSE AND MINISTERS' NIGHT . Tuesday Evening Eight O'clock November 16, 1948 PROGRAM Presiding Chairman ...................... Edward H. Krause Program Chairman ............ ............. Samuel Lawson Presentation of Colors Color Guard ................................................ . . . . . Abe Berman, Jack Steindler, Morton, Fogel, Sam Schumacher National Anthem ..................................... Audience Pledge of Allegiance .................................. Audience Invocation .................................. Rev. George A. Mooers Greetings to Guests ............................... Edward H. Krause President of Congregation ................................ Leo Rosen Rabbi of Congregation ............... ....... ... Rabbi Samuel Umen Response .................................... Rev. Glenn M. Sauder Main Speaker .............................. Dr. Duncan E. Littlefair Benediction .................................... Rev. Samuel Oliver Organist - Hubert Baker MOVIE - "THIS IS B'NAI B'RITH" RECREATION ROOM REFRESHMENTS TOUR OF BUILDING � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI-ReligiousSchoolDedication Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948-11-14 Title A name given to the resource Religious School Dedication Description An account of the resource Materials on the dedication of the religious school and library of Temple B'nai Israel, November 14 1948. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/229a979d5f0260047fec6400811f179b.pdf b30bfa4770139ffe191aaad55568b7d8 PDF Text Text 25TH ANNIVERSARY SABBATH RESPONSIVE READING Leader; Cong: I rejoiced when they said unto me; Let us go into the house of the Lord. Lord, I love the habitation of Thy house., And the place where Thy glory dwelleth. I love Thee, 0 Lord., my strength, My shield and my hem of salvation, my high tower. One thing have I asked of the Lord; That will I see after: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life. To behold the graciousness of the Lord. And to visit ear)Jr in His Temple. 0 Lord., my God., I will give thanks unto thee forever• I will sing, Yea., I will sing praises unto the Lord. We have meditated on Thy lovingkindness., 0 Lord, In the courts of the Temple. I will fill this house with My glory., And in this pl.ace will I give peace. I will now say; Peace be within Thee., Peace be within Thy walls. For the sake of the House of the Lord, our God., I will seek Thy good. Blessed be the Lord, God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting Amen. Barechu Et Adonai Ha-M 1Vorach Praise Ye the Lord to whom all praise is due. Baruch Adona 1 Ha-M 1Vorach L'olam Vo-ed Praised be the Lord, to whom all praise is due forever and ever. �, THE PLEDGE Leader: Cong: And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, God of their fathers w.i.th all their heart, and with all their soul. In like manner are we gathered to renew our covenant as a Congregation in Israel. What common experience leads us into spiritual fellowship w.i.th God and one anotheri Acknowledging the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as our God, we have established this Congregation as the Symbol and Center of our corporate life as Jews. Even as God made His cover.ant first with Abraham, so do we invoke His divine aid in this enterprise, undertaken in His name. By what pledge do we seal this covenant? By the same pledge as did our forefathers at Sinai., making our children surety for the sincerity of our hearts and minds. We are organized to insure that they shall find here a well from which they may draw inspiration for their daily life. What are some of the privileges and duties in this, our Congregation? With this aim, we engage to strive together for the advancement of our body in knowledge of our God and of His Holy Torah; to transmit such understanding as we gain to those who shall later join our ranks; to sustain the ordinances and commandments, disciplines and doctrines of Historical Judaism and to worship God after the dictates of our Rabbis and sages. What duties do we gladly undertake as stewards of that \,nich God has entrusted to us? To contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the synagogue edifice which houses our Congregation, and to maintain its devotional, educational, and recreational facilities as God will give us the strength and means to establish them. For the sake of our home and loved ones, what tasks do we prayerfully assume? We undertake to maintain regular hours of service; to educate our children in the religious way of life; to seek the good of all whom our influence shall reach; to maintain the bands of union with the whole household of Israel; to ask after the peace of Jerusalem by working for the upbu.ild.ing of Zion. For the sake of our brethren who are scattered all over the world, how shall we govern ourselves? We agree to remember that we are part of a greater Congregation of Israel and therefore we will recognize in deed as well as word, the principle that all Jews are responsible for each other. We will remember each other in prayer; aid each other in sickness and distress, and practice the ancient Mitzvah of relief and rehabilitation. We Pray that the God of our fathers keep us steadfast in this determination and bless the work of our hands. Amen. (Congregation and Reader) Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Praised be His name whose glorious kingdom is forever and ever. �Leader: • Cong: Thus saith the Lord; the heaven is My throne, and the earth is My toot stool. ' What manner of house will ye build Me, and what shall be My rest? for all tmse things hath My hand made. But to those men will I look, even to them that are poor, and of a contrite spirit, and that tremble at My -word. We have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for Thee to dwell in forever. Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, who knoweth the strong am tender ties that bind us, and who understandeth the fair memories and the stilTing hopes that make us one, look upon us in canpassion as., with united hearts and undivided purpose, we consecrate ourselves anew to thee and Thy service. We, the people of this Congregation, do now dedicate ourselves anew to the mrship of God in this place, so that we may help establish His kingdom on earth. For many years of fellowship with each other, for the courage which has made burdens easier to bear, for the patience which has led us through the valleys of fear and across the mountains of despair; For many years made precious by sharing common burdens, enduring common sorrows, completing common tasks and triumphing in common purposes; For many years of coming week by week to renew our friendship with God and our fellows, for hopes renewed, for hearts encouraged., for sins forgiven, for burdens lightened, for problems solved, and for visions of eternal values; We give thanks unto thee for Thou art the Lord, our God, and the God of our fathers forever and ever. In loving memory of all those whose hearts and hands have served this sanctuary; with deep gratitude for loyal comrades in this spiritual adventure; We dedicate this solemn hour in gratefulness to Thee, for our lives which are canmitted into Thy hand and for our souls which are in Thy keeping. Let us then cont:inue our tasks as we echo the words of the prophet speaking in Thy name; I will remember Thee and the affection of Tey youth I remember my covenant with Thee, and will establish for Thee an Nerlasting covenant. Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the mighty? Who is like unto Thee, Glorious in Holiness, Awe-inspiring, working wonders? Thy children acknowledged Thy sovereign power and exclaimed: The Lord shall reign forever and ever. SILENT DEVOTION We call unto Thee, O Lord, out of the wordless places of our being. There are thoughts too deep for words; yearning too great for the lips to frame. But Thou knowest our thoughts before we utter them, and the yearning of our innermost self is not hidden fran thee. May our thoughts soar unto the heights where Thy greatness dwells; may our yearning find ful.fillment in the work of our hands. In the silence of our heart, we pray, 0 God., that Thou strengthen us by the memory of dear ones.. Let their lives continue through us, and their work find completion in our own. Thus the generations will be linked :in love and in reverence; and the grandeur of man will become clearer in our sight. For those who made this, our Temple, strong~ we thank Thee. For those who labor to keep it wortey of Thee, we expt"ess our gratitude. Blessed art Thou O Lord, the Guardian of the hope and the Keeper of the Dream. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_25th-Anniversary-Sabbath Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973 Title A name given to the resource 25th Anniversary Sabbath Description An account of the resource Script of reading, pledge, and devotion read by the leader and congregation during the 25th Anniversary Sabbath. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2d2d4bab0d2dc6890b8531d8ec4f92ef.pdf ea26946f6e16d22978b2276a43a320bc PDF Text Text P B T I T I ON ,, __j· �E ! ! 1 l I .Q ! TO THE OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ~F O~NGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: we, the undersigned, being members ot congregation B'nai Israel, do hereby join in a Petition protesting the proposed action o-r the Officers and Boa.rd ot Trustee ot aongregat.1on B'na:i Israel to employ a religious leader for the purpose ot oonduoting reform services in the new House ot Worship or in any other place that services will be oonduoted until the %few Rouse ~- of Worship is completed; and hereby ~xpress our desire for the employment of a religious leader and rabbi who Will be e.hle to and will conduct conservative serv1oes; (we further join in protesting against t h e purchase, or pla cement of an organ heretofore proposed in the general synagogue assembly room for use with religious services 0 and we request that you eithe:r pass a resolution in your meeting expressly prohibiting the foregoing protested matter or submit these matters to a vote ot the general membership of the congregation at a meeting called tor that purpose • . ~ ~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI_Petition_Appointment_of_Conservative_Rabbi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Title A name given to the resource Petition in Opposition of Reform Services Description An account of the resource Petition to the officers and Board of Trustees of Congretation B'nai Israel, protesting the proposed employment of religious leaders and rabbis to conduct reform services, and expressing a desire for conservative services, undated. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/46a384185b5a924eb039d536a2822340.pdf 2f324080f4726e683ae5920ad1353c1b PDF Text Text P J; T I T I ON -. �E E ! I T < '•i. • • - I Q N TO THE OFFICERS ANO BQ_-;___rm OF TRUSTEES OF COWGREG.A.TION B ' NAI ISR.1 ,.,L: We, the undersigned, being members of congregation B'nai Israel, do hereby join in a Petition protesting the proposed ction of the Officer3 and Bo rd of Trustees of Congregation B'nai Israel to employ a religious leader for the purpose of conducting reform services in the new House of Worship or in any other place that services will be conducted until the new House of Wo.:rship is completed; and hereby express our desire for the employment of a religious leader and rabbi who Will be able to and will conduct conservative services; we further join in protesting against the purchase, or placement of an organ heretofore proposed in the general synagogue assembly room for use with religious services; and we recuest that you either pass a resolution in your meeting expressly prohibiting the foregoing protested matter or submit these matters to a vote of the general membership of the congregation at a meeting called for that purpos ~ ', I ---i - -. J -~ ~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI_Petition_Opposing_Use_of_Organ Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Title A name given to the resource Petition in Opposition of Reform Services Description An account of the resource Petition to the officers and Board of Trustees of Congretation B'nai Israel, protesting the proposed employment of religious leaders and rabbis to conduct reform services, and expressing a desire for conservative services, undated. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/68509a63d9c5ea2132877fe036c98b15.pdf b8206e89fab3ebb44b07549191bf9a0e PDF Text Text �--__. CARSON SCRAP BOOK 0. B. CARSON 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N. Y. ESTABLISHED 1923 ��������J �•. __J J ����The Musl<egon Jewish Con11nunity's * Drea1n Shall Be Fulfilled * "Jfappy ar-, tl,ey wf,o dll'el/ in Tf,ey DEC are /ort1l'Cr praising E MBER, T/,y f,ous-,; Tl,ee." 1940 ��A ,!ital ]eLcis/1 Co111111u11ity Center . This Is The Dreain of Every Group and Organization. There is no community in all western :\Iichigan that is so closely knit as the Jewish Community of Greater ::\luskegon. From its people, leaders have emerged to interpret and stimulate the desires, hopes, dreams and aspirations of the community as a whole. A Jewish Center, a central meeting place for the joint and cooperative endeavors of all peoples of ::\luskegon is the dream of this community. A Center wherein the cultural, communal, social and spiritual life of the new :\luskegon . the :Muskegon that has grown so greatly in character and stature . . may be given full outlet and further encouragement. All of Greater Muskegon will benefit by the erection of a Center that will encourage group interest and activate leadership in Jewish and Civic affairs. Specifically . . . the Center will have adequate facilities for housing social, cultural and religious gatherings, both large and small. These will include, among various others, the Congregation, the Children's and the Adults' Religious School, the Sisterhood, the Brotherhood, the B'nai B'ritb Lodge, the Hadassah, the United Jewish Charities, and the Zionish Organization. But beyond these, the Center will be available to various other civic groups and organizations. 1fie Center \\11i// Belong To You 1fie Pu//il/ment Is Up To You! �This Jewish Center Will Provide Proper Space and Facilities For Your Spiritual, Cultural and Social Life And Will Be Situated To Best Serve and Represent Tl1.e Entire Comn1.unity. When this dream shall have been fulfilled, men, women and children will meet in prayer within the walls of its beautiful main chapel, with a normal first floor seating capacity for one hundred seventy persons. A flexible seat- 1 l ing arrangement which includes a balcony will provide a maximum seating capacity of three hundred. As shown on the accompanying floor plans, the first floor also has a social room or salon and a small chapel of proper atmosphere to serve the requirements of small groups on occasions of meetings for religious purposes. On the ground floor, part of the space is used for heating, ventilating and storage, leaving sufficient area for a complete modern kitchen which adjoins a large recreation room equipped with a stage and other necessary facilities for dinners, dances, or social affairs. In the other parts of the building, in addition to the Rabbi's study, there will be a library and three cheerful rooms having proper size and equipment to meet the Religious School requirements. and which are also planned to serve other useful purposes. The site selected for the Community Center is at the southwest corner of Fourth Street and Webster Avenue Hackley Park. . . directly across from beautiful Here. ample parking facilities, too, are available. This location is truly the ideal choice ... with churches and such institutions as the Hackley Library, the Hackley Art Gallery, the Hackley School, lending an air of culture to these surroundings. Easily reached by bus and but a five minute walk from the downtown business district, the Muskegon Jewish Center will in reality be the Center of Muskegon's Jewish life. 1 I �FLOOR PLANS KINDERGARTEN UPPER PART OF (.HAPEL.. CLASS RM. CLASS l=IM. SECOND COATS FLOOR PLAN T L Loe,e,y u ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ I). FIRST FLOOP, ·--- .. ~o• PLAN l) 0 10' 3d 40' +==:t I SC.ALE: T. RECRE:ATION OOILER ROOM HALL LOe,e,y MEN RAe.e.1' 5 STUDY SEG. T. CHAIP. STOil.. T WOMEN COATS GROUND !=LOOJ2. PLAN �How Is This Dream To Be Realized, and When? This will be determined by your further contributions. A splendid start has been made ... and now . . . to bring this dream to full realization ... you are asked to make an additional contribution according to your means and capacity. The benefits you will derive out of your contribution cannot be measured in dollars and cents. It will be an investment returned many times over . . . to you . . . to your children and their children. Whether your contribution be great or small . . . one day you will know that you have done your share ... that your children shall proudly read your name among those which will be inscribed on a bronze tablet as having made the Center possible. The answer is for you to supply. If you respond now . . . if you make as generous a contribution as you can possibly make, and make it at once ... then, upon completion of the architect's final plans and specifications, the basement will be completed and the balance of the building will go on uninterrupted until there will arise this magnificent edifice . . . l\luskegon's Jewish Center. And, sitting within the walls of its beautiful chapel on Rosh Hashonah, 5707 (1946), you will say, "I helped build it, -and it is ours." Say It Believe It Do All You Can For It and Your Dream Sizall Be Fu/filled. �Officers ... Members of T/1e Board of Trustees . . . Committees OFFICERS President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leo S. Rosen Vice-President ................................................... J. M. Kaufman Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Lawson Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Rodoff MEMBERS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES Harold Rosen Harold Silverman Sol Silverman Fred Stein Joseph Strifling Abe Ashendorf Maurice Golden Sam Klayf Chas. Locke Sam Price Paul Wiener ADVISORY TRUSTEES Harry Fisher Marian Fisher Herman Grossman Sadie Grossman Ely Smith Francis August Jean Berman Harry S. Berman Ruben Berman Hortense Berman COMMITTEES BUILDING COMMITTEE - J. M. Kaufman Co-CHAIR.MEN Harold Rosen BANQUET PROMOTION AND STEERING COMMITTEE Maurice Golden-Chairman Dr. Phillip Miller Louis Berman Ted Neumar Hy Braverman Sam Rosenbaum Francis Fine Rabbi Louis Satlow Dr. Martin Friedenberg Fred Stein Ed. Krause BANQUET MENU COMMITTEE BANQUET MUSIC COMMITTEE Sam Rosenbaum-Chairman Joe Aron-Chairman BANQUET FLORAL DECORATIONS BANQUET GUESTS COMMITTEE Lillian Kaufman-Chairman Jerome Fisher-Chairman �MUSKEGON HOUSE OF JEWISH WORSHIP In behalf of Congregation B'nai Israel Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies Program OCCIDENTAL HOTEL BALLROOM Muskegon, Michigan \ November 25, 1947 Kislev 13, 5708 �PROGRAM 9,,,/,:,Yt/,:o,, TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL SUNDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 21, 1948, e:ou P.M. �MUSKEGON HOUSE OF JEWISH WORSHIP In behalf of Congregation B'nai Israel Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies Program OCCIDENTAL HOTEL BALLROOM Muskegon, Michigan \ November 25, 1947 Kislev 13, 5708 �America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ensemble Invocation ............................. Rabbi Herman Kieval Opening Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leo S. Rosen Rea<ling of Scripture ... . ................ Rabbi Jacob KliLzner Acceptance of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel G. Klay£ Pre-,enLation of records: 1. Sisterhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Harry S. Berman 2. B'nai B'1 ith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francis Fine 3. United Jewish Charities ................ J. M. Kaufman 4. Mona View Cemetery As~ociation ..... .Milton Steindler 5. Hadassah .......................... Mrs. Charles Locke 6. Congregation B'nai Israel ............ Harold Silverman 7. House of Jewish Worship ................ Harold Rosen 8. Zionist Organization of America ........ Max Rosenberg 9. History of Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Fred Rodoff Signing and depositing this program (see facing page) Sealing o( Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Isaac Grossman Blessing of Thanksgiving Abraham Shmookler Laying of Cornerstone ........................ Paul M. Wiener Wielding of trowel ....... Robert Cherin, Morris Friend, Samuel Lipman, Herman Mendleson, Nathan Price, Samuel Rosen• baum, I. Rubinsky, Sol Silverman, Eli Smith, Jos. Strifling. Address .................................. Rabbi Harry Essrig Hatikvah ........................................ Ensemble �CONTENTS OF BOX: 1. Statement from Sisterhood. 2. Statement from B'nai B'rith. 3. U. J. C. program of 1946-47. Officers of 1947-48. --1· Statement from Mona View Cemetary Association. 5. Statement from Hadassah. 6. Ac.~ of Incorporation of Congregation B'nai Israel. Names of p1c~ent officers. ;. Statement from House of Jewish Worship. Officers and donori.. Photograph of officers and trustees. :'•fames of architects. 8. Statement from ZOA. 9. History of the Community. 10. This program. In witness of the depositing of the above records at the corne1,cone laying ceremonies, we hereunto subscribe our names this 25th clay of November, 1947, corresponding to the 13th day of Ki~lev, 5708. :Mrs. S. Ashendorf Dr. Ralph V. August ................................... . Ruben Bc1n1an ........................................ . Harry Fisher .......................................... . Komma Gudelsk) Hyman Lipman, Registrar ............................. . Dr. Phillip Miller ...................................... . Duplicates of these documents will be available for impection in our lilwa1'1f. �PROGRAM 9,,,/,:,Yt/,:o,, TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL SUNDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 21, 1948, e:ou P.M. �·. $tr, ft ,,/,Jlr 1/, 11 l/2e u1/r,1/lft1'I r/ l/2i.J jt "f'.'j l'ft m fJ a N1/' n ,rl,u·lion r/ //,,,r·r•1f'I' rj //,e (j},,(rl,,11 ,J1r1rl 1/f" i11jt nf,a Ht lion ly 7;;.,1'/""//"liu1 .J1'11ai , f,rar'/ �• �rite Stor!I of Our voldeH Rook .\ filll10ll' arli,l is 110\\ rni.rnard in prrparina ror 0llr Conarraation. ii 1,,rae ,t1tracth< hook. to hr kno,, n "' thr COl.l)E" BOOK OF CO'\CREGATIO~ H'" \I ISR.\El. or· \IL'SKECO'\. \IICI IIC ,\ " · In thi, hook. "ill he- rrcorclc-d the- HISTORY of th<' rr~.\I ISR.\EI. co,r. CRl:C \TIO'\. the- m<·mhc-r, of the- building co111mitlee: the <ontrilmtors to tl11• nr" S,nagoauc- building: tlw) ilr✓ heil date-, of our hc-lo,c-d: the \nnhc-r,ar) clatr~ of our nwmhrr,hip; thr Birthd,\\, of our childrrn: the names of our Conrirmunh and Bar \litz,·ah,: th(' nam('S or the- men and \\Olll('n \\ho S('n('d the ("Ollllnunit) f tithfulh and lo, ally. and other i111porlant ma tier, of interest. The Book is de,i(!rlC'd lo lw \:\ J:\'l:R l:"\P \ '\Dl'\C HISTORY OF JE\\'ISH LIFI-: in :-Slu,ker.?on ,111d its , iciniti<•s. Ii is inlerc,-lina ho" the iclen of the hook came about: .\fter om ne\\ Syna 1-!0(!u< huildinl'.! "<1s comtructed. the Board of Directors de( ided that they would de, iale from the a(!e old custom of marring the heaul) of the Temple and the ohj,·c h then•in. hy either <ommemoraling conlrihutors "ho pa,,ed "" ay. or honorin(! l,irac• donors still ali,r. h, perpetuatinl'.! their names and gifts throul'.!h pluqur, and ins< riptions on the \\,di, or al\\ other pc1rl of the building . •\ , a SL'BSTITLTE. the Board thoughtfully recommended that all those who earned the c1ffet1ion of the community throuah gifts and deeds. and deserved lo lw rememlH·recl. he insc-rihecl instead. in a special book lo be named a, the <;QI I )E:\ BOOK. Throuah this BOOK not on!) will the heaul) of the Temple l," 1msen ed. hut E\'ERY O"I: "ill ha\C a chance to BE l:'\SC'RJBEf) and r<'rnembered. he his aift lari:.ie or small. The recommendation of the Board \\as un,tnimously adopted. hence-a COLI )E'\' BOOK. Be«ws<' of the nature of this hook and the spirit ii symbolizes. il might \\ell lJC' <alled the Democratic Book of Congregation lrnai lsrn('l. for it truly represents ideal Je\\ i,h wa)-th<.' dc·mocralk lib('ral :.?re.11<.'r "\ Iuske(!on. I he WU). This is the wa) of the Je" s ol Tl,<' COLl)I-::'\ BOOK is op<•n lo member, a, \\ell ,1, uuesls. :---Ir\KI---: .\ CTFr TO Tl IL TE\IPJ.E \'\I) YOL'R "r\~IE \\'ILi . HE 1'\'SCl~IRED. l I �-~'~7J'rf'J1l DE D I CAT l O '\ 0 F TE i\I PL E B . ~ A I I S R A E L Sl:NDAY EvENING. :\'ov1c:,1BER 21, 1918 - 8:00 P.'.\I. PRESENTATIO:\' OF THE COLORS NATIONAi. ANTHEi\1 INVOCATION . Color Guard Audience /~crhhi Snmuel Umen ~½,,,r,1/11//J a 11d //r,/coJ'llf-' LEO S. ROSEN PRESIUENT OF CO:-IGREGATION, s':-IAI ISRALL SEU SH'ORI1'-I PSAl.1\ I OF DEDICATJON \ IY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD Choir Rabbi Cl1oir .¼'l'IJl()l'J"l, RABBI SAj\lUEL UMEN El. YIVNEH HAGAIJL PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY - SHIVISI ;-. JEMORJAL PRAYER El. MOLE RACHAMli\l UNIVERSITY or CHICAGO Choir Rabhi C'Twir In Mc>mory o/ Congregcrlion Meml>c>rs and Our Sons \\//10 Fc>ll in Hattie Figl1ti11g /or Democracy PRAYER FOR l r. S. GOVER:\'MENT l lt\l.LEI.UYAI I BE:\'EDICTION \DON OLAJ'-1 Hol>l>i C'Twir /~nl>l,i ('/wir ��' �����, ���i Congregation B'nai Israel MU • KEGCN, MICHIGAN 9,,1,;.r,/,-, n a ,,,1 ;/rJ/i,nn,u,/. 9'1,u,cr• SUNDAY, Novt• :::u:A: 3:0C: i P. M. 21, 1948 ��I Congregation B'nai Israel MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN ~,:d,ffllt'nn rv,1(/ 3eJl/~no1tia/. (l)inneJ', SUNDAY, NOVt:' :JER 3:00 ~. M. 21, 1948 �.. !JZe (,.£J'li.,l1;,1 un l/4efJulel'jttfl'Iry?t/4,jft ''fi,.;/ l'rtm iJ a Nj, n 1,luckon o/'tlte co 11er oj Me C§olcle11 :.JdooJ.'ltoff' i11 jtnfw rall"on I:; Y5r,,'(/n'/lalio11 f!J·naiJ':mel ��"Cite Stor11 of Our Jo/den Rook ,\ famous artist is no" engaged in prept1ring for our Coni:ire(!ation. a lari:ie alt ml tin hook. to I)(" known ,., the GOl.l)E:'\' BOOK OF CO'\GREGATIO:\ tr"\AI ISRr\EI. OF \IL.:SKECO:\. \IICHIGA '\. In thi, hook. will hc- recorded the HISTORY of the IY"\.\I ISR.\El. CO"-: GRl-:C .\TIO"\. the memlH'rs of the huilding rnmmilte<': the contrihutors to th,. "''" Synagogu<' building: the Yau:heit <i.ile, of our beloV<'d: the \nniY('rsary dales 0 [ our mc-mlwrship: the Birthda,·s of our <·hildren: the name, of our Confirmanh .ind Bar \ lit/\ al": thc- names of the men and "omen "ho serH·d the com1mmit) f.,ithfulh and loyally. and other important matters of interest. The Book is designed 10 he \ '\ E\ 'ER EXP\ '\1)1'\G I IISTORY OF JE\\'ISI I LIFE in :'-lu,kel'.!on ,ind its ,icinities. It is interesting ho" the idea of the book came about: After our ne" Synn1'.!0J:!UC' huildina "ns constructed. the Board of Direclors dee ided that they would deviate from the aae old <Ustom of marrina the benuty of the Temple and the ob j<'ds therein. by either commemorating contributors who passed il\\a). or honorini:( lari:(e donor, still ali\C. by perpetualina their name, and aifts through plaques and inscriptio1h on the walls or any other part of the building. As a SUBSTITL'TE. the Board thoughtful!) recommended that all those who eMnecl the affection of the community throuah aifts and deeds. and deserved lo be rememhl'red. be inscribed instead. in a spe(ial book to be named as tlw c;OI.DE:'\ BOOK. Throuah this BOOK not only ,,ill the beaut) of the Temple I,<' presened. but l::\'ERY 0"-:[ "ill h<1,e a C'hance to BE l:'\'SCRIBED and remembered. be his gift lt1rge or small. The recommendation of tl,e Roard was un,,nimou,i) adopted. hentc-a GOLl)E'\ BOOK. Because of the nature of this book and the spirit il symbolizes. it might well l,e called tlw Democratic Hook of Coni:(rl'gation B' nai Israel. for ii truly represents the ideal Jc-"i,h "ay-the democratic liberal way. This is thC' way of the Je"s of :;!realer ;\ luskegon. 1111· COi .DE:\' BOOK is op1•11 to nwmher, as well ,1, guesls. ~JAKI: ,\ CIFT TO THE Tl-:\IPI.I: \'\I) YOL ' R '\,\\IE \\'II L BE !"-:SCRIBED. [ �CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL i'IUSKEGON. MICHIGA 'lerlicalio It ({ '71 1 d YeJ !t»l01UCf t 9'm-nr-'1! Sunday. . 1ovember 21. 1948 OccmENTAL HoTEL 3:00 P.M. THE NATIO:\IAL ANTHEM Assembly INVOCATIO ' Rabbi Samuel Umen DINNER . GREETI 1GS AND WELCOME . Samuel C. Klay{ ENTERTAINME T MESSAGE Hortense Bel'mon I >RESENTA TlON OF TESTIMO 11AL TO LEO S. ROSEN Paul M. Wiener REMARKS Ral)bi Samuel Ume,1 VOCAL SELECTION RESPO SE . Leo S. Rosen HATIKVAH Assembly BENEDICTION Rabbi Samuel Umen PAUL M. \VIENER SAMUEL G. KU\ YF CHAIRMAN TOASTh·IASTER �eo mmit tees COCKT,\ll S .\:'\I) 1)1:'\"'.ER I L1RR) S. 131 R~a.,:s-Chairman F rands Fine RECEPTIO'\ co,1:'11TTEE ;\ In. 1:--.D '\ IR::-. 11. \. S1L1, n,11:--.-Chairman \fr. and ;\lrs. '-lilton Steindler :'-Ir. and \Ir,. Joe Strifling '\ Ir. and '\ Ir,. Ted "'.eumC'r ;\Ir. and '\ I rs. I h·rman Grossman \Ir. and '-Ir,. Jerom<' Fishn PROCRA;\ I A:\'I) Pl 'BU CID' CO;\ I:" 11n-EE TICKET \'-.I) l"'.\'rJ \TIO"'. CO0Ji'lrnEr: FR, 1> Rono,, -Chairman f: '\TEln.\l:\:'-11: :'\T CO\ f\ IITTEE l)ECORXrtO"'. CO0l:'-IITTl:l: ,\ lRs. i' lrs. f _eo RosC'n t IARR) F1s11 rn-Chai rman \Jrs. Samu<'! Lipman �~ARL[ PRESS( INC., MUSK[CON J ��and COLl)E'\ BOOK DEDICATIO'\' SIJ',l).\Y f\TNINC '-10\'I 'llffR 6. )()1() 6:00 p,11.l. • I I �l 3'ieaJ<tiit'J(,yon tkeouteJ<j1,a1<to/t/4iijtJroc7Jtam iJa J<e/v-0ductwn o/t/4e co 'lf,e Jt o/t/4e r.#otden !!Jook o/<ef1onc7"'e!falwn &#',n ai .fi,,af't �SAGE SAID THAT IIE FOUND REASON FOR HONORING ALMOST EVERYONE HE KNEW. '1 HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS ONE IN WHOM I FAILED TO RECOGNIZE SUPERIORITY OVER MYSELF. WERE HE OLDER, I HAVE SAID HE HAS DONE MORE GOOD THAN I; WERE HE RICtlER, I SAID HE HAS BEEN MORF. CliARITABLE; WERE HE YOUNGER, I SAID I HAVE SINNED MORE; WERE HE POORER, I SAID HE HAS SUFFERED HEAVIER TRIBULATION; WERE HE WISER, I HONORED HIM FOR HIS WISDOM; WERE HE NOT LIGHTER." WISER, I SAID HIS FAULT IS THE �I ~r /~/,[/ leJ luntll?Uat'; UH;, 1 ,tile !ia/fli and/ <#t"ee;-J/ r @,(J~~e:.,qa-1:iott liitai '.:#,sraci o/71luJh"2lfft, 1l/elt~an/ 71zah-e ltnMtm l<Yd/:,,,na,:t'trul-eur r✓ul!Ufe, ~ ' hMtff>'- and l'~kl'41'1/ /IYr 7he ,nany ec>mmend«/'&. Je1'l~ iceJ roule~d r~uu-rt?IY?l~yaltMv a-1ui,M ~ CM1V71Vli,l1l~ ?'': :tltube-tt11'e-~nm11:- ju¢it- £f i.O-~%matt Ja,~ah- ~itit-itt- :l~bu-~a.,f ,ltmo_o~lev L~ :JR,,o,%e-nb~u$ 3.~~ •iatifmatt ~~a~o-.io :~a~~ ,a,. :Jri%h¢-v ~~,~tt- 2{0-fo'~k ~ ~rifiui.s • ~!ftnatt • frS'matt ©ii~.. jmith, 1~%ia-1t ~i(,tt~~ Jia- A%iunc,o-~ 11tcr1(,d ~k~irin:~~(ttltUiU-~CltC¢-i,-0tt- '7/e ,:n IUhMrt-· t'/k .f/U/Pt't tJ/ ~ ffi&'Mu✓ ,c,v:atu~-e.f -/ake✓,d.d~h"t;,i,i htw/k, .yujq,'t cj',all'de j14<e,Jent tahei de~tjlft. ':_" ~. ,1 G?--✓~~;,t~~-~J ~:<~•"' l �I ,_% l/1no11 ,·,, l!?)/11.,11 e1r an clPerlirationoj(j}o/den f!/Jook ¼11day C//Pe·11.i1711,. f~v.r~111 le/}( 6: 1.94.9 6':f)(} &,,A_ l NATIONAL ANTHEM Audience INVOCATION Ra/Jbi Samuel Umen GREETINGS Herbert Fisher Pres. Young People's League VOCAL SELECTION Ilene Gudelsky PRESF.NTATJON OF TESTIMONIALS RESPO SE TO TESTIMO !AL Paul M. Wiener Pres. Cong. B'nai Israel Harold Rosen (Representing Group) PRESE'-!TA TION OF GOLDEN BOOK EXPRESSION DEDIC.I\TJON OF GOLDE AMERlCA BE EDICTION . Francis Fine Member Golden Book Com. Elaine Baru Pres. Confirmation Closs ·so BOOK Samtiel Umen Rabbi Cong. B'rwi Israel Audience Samuel Umen Rabbi Cong. B'nai lsmt>l �congregation is a social ul\it and like society as a \\ hol<'. is made up of diHerenl individuals striving toward certain definite goals. In ib struggle for exisl('nce and for the realization of its objedives. the rnnf:!regation has ih ups and downs. its headaches. problems. failure~ and achievements. This struggle for existence is what makes historv. Th<' his tor} "hich is made by society from da} lo day. and yt•ar to }<'M. is regularly r<'< orded by its historians. Smt1ller unih "ithin the social make-up such as rnn- gr<•gnlions for example are not always inclined lo keep a rernrd of their own ~pecial history. As a result of this negligence. posterity is deprived of a good deal of inform,1lion. inspiration and guidance in problems which the past has successfully solver! and "hich nevertheless rrop up again for the future. Bearing these facts in mind. we of Congregation B' nui Israel huve therefore created a book. to serve as a rernrd for the Coni:iregation's history as it is m.,de from day lo day by our trials and achievements. Tonight. \\e are happy lo dedicate this book "hich ull agree is a thing of b<'auty. Beginning tonight this Colden Book remains a challenge lo all of us. \ \ 'hether or not we shall meet the challenge in the form of great and worthv d"<·ds depends upon our allitucle toward the sacrifices, altruism, courage and vi~ion demanded by our work and goals. I .et us on this historic occasion. resolve to meet the <hullenge of the "Book" in ~uch a manner so that the future may call us blessed. �I DINNER COMMITTEE FRA CIS AUGUST * CHAIRMAN ARRANGEMENT COMMITrEE EUGENE FISHER * CHAIRMAN PROGRAM COMMITTEE HERBERT FISHER * CHAIRi'--IAN GOLDEN BOOK COMMITTEE LEO S. ROSEN * CHAIRMAN JNVITATJO JS AND RESERVATIONS COMMITTE!: IRENE STEINDLER * CHAIR:'vIAN TESTIMO 'IAL COJ' IMITrEE PAUL l\1. \VIENER* CHAIRMAN �• • • ��• • • • ��.. It u"£Clh . fn ,u11-e'}(JaJ(y ./J"o/ J a 1n 1 I 1.9.f/ �• ... �... f.9(}/ f.95-1 • �• • �I / ~ I ''9o~ Hte s~n.aqoque, besi.des beinq a., ralL~in.9 c.omrn.uttt1l c.enter keepinq uql.ow all tha.t is vita.l, pt""ecious and. sacred itV lsra.el, serves a.s a. d4n.Jl.mic. symbol tha..t tke Almi9hty is evev- n.ea"" hi5 cniLdv-e,i, ever tecui~ fc listen. to lkeir pra11eYs, toe,:- ·. ' . ..r tend ketp 4nd Cort.sol4tiott to Ute weat"'f '1tUi ~tdy, to solace and comfort tkv su.ffev-i.riq (l.nd di.stressed an.a to ittspire witk fadk Qn.c.'. hope iht doubtin,q a.rui. pirplef.ed.. _ £Jh.e absolute un.itLJ of- ihe, EJernat, the oMness of 1he i.d~al trittit~ of Jorah, God, ttYLd l5rael, has alwa~s been the P"~mavy teac:hin9 of-Hti~ hallowed. i,n,sti.-lu.tion . ..• the s~nagoqw( 3tafetr.. Jtayi.m �THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Dear Rabbi Umen: Hearty felicitations and wannest personal greetings on the happy occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Congregation B1 nai Israel. I trust tnat for long years to come the Congregation will continue to exemplify the highest teachings of the ancient culture of Israel. Very Rabbi Samuel Umen, Congregation B1 nai Israel, Fourth and Webster, Muskegon, Michigan. �• S 'TAT E OF M ICI-I IGAN orflCE OF THE GOVERNOR L A NS IN G G . MENN E N W I L LI A MS GOVERNOR .. TO THE MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: On the occasion of the Jiftieth Anniversary of Congregation B'Nai hrael, it is a pleasure and a privilege to send you personal good wishes and to greet you on behalf of the people of Michigan. In these days when change and confunion are rife throughout the vorld, it ia heartening to find a people whose devotion to the ancient faith of their fathera remains unaltered through the centuries. If every American pledged the same 1teadfast allegiance to the principl es of liberty and freedom upon which our great democracy is founded, the future security and welfare of tho United States would be assuredo During the fifty years since Congregation B'Nai Israel was established, it has not only served its members well but has contributed in no small meaeure to the community life of the City of Muskegon. It ia '147 ear nest hope t hat in the years to come, ae in the past, Congregation »'Bai Israel will continue ateadily to grow and prosper. Sincere~. 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IT IS IHPOSSIBLE TO THINK THAT, AS HAS SO'IITl:>IES IH F.l\ SCPPOSI .JLBIL.11 IS \ CO'\( UlNS TIii I \:-.D TIO:-.: 01 \\IIICII TIii RI IT 'IL'ST DATI I), TIii 'lrRF PAPI R· l.,\\\: (nm \Ill INSTITUTIO'\ AT LEAST TIil. Pl.lllOlllCAI or· TIIE AS FAR ,\S Ill OISTRIBU \'\,\1.0GILS 1:-. OTIIJR NATIONS), I RO'! Al\('11 'IT T"II S l'1 ISRAII' (DRIVER) \(CORDl'-G TO TIIL T\L'll I), TIii I,\\\ 01 T I ii JL'BII FE WAS 01151 R\'LO ,\S 10",'(, ,\', Tl II I '\TIRI Tl llRJTOllY or THE 1101 Y I,\",'[) \\AS l'sll \BIT! I) BY ISRi\FI !TFS. wur ......\ POR- TION OF TIii TRIBFS \\ 1:-..T l'sTO F'ldll. Tllr I \\V J.APSFn. I R0:'-1-PF'ITATf'l' ('II C"'O'l'IT'-TS fl) ( P. JOSFPII II. JIFRTZ 512 I \'OL. F.O.) l �,J/ ,_ftr,,,,,, Jl;,l·A,·e tI✓,' I . .J4t /, , _y;·"/"JlJU,·if-ePJaJ~ ()/ft., u~'O'J(Z/Jlr'uvv, u,,__ c7 W/,,,., Judailvni WEDNESDAY EVENING. .i\.O\ El\lBEl<. 18. 8:00 P.r--1. l "Judai.;11, i; :iQJJWl/4u'!/ IJtQn· //,an a 6i1<t/4 'IJUI/J</c, it,~ u la,/;;", ltje. ,. Jf,JJle//4i,'!/ IJtQl'<J l/4un c-lORRIS JO!>LPII, a 1848-1930 National Anthem ....................... ................................. ................ Audience Invocation .......................................................................... .. Samuel Umen RABBI, CONGRl:.GATION B NAI ISRAEL Greetings ............. , ............. ............................................. I Lerman Grossman l'Rl:.SIDt::NT, CONGREGATION B.NAI ISRAEL Violin Solo ................................................................ \\lamer Galombeck ACCOMPANll::D 0Y lllJBEllT BAKER CONGREGATION 8 °NAI JSRAl:.L ORGANl!>T Remarks ....................................... .. ........................ Jacob 2'1. Kaufman FIFTIETH ANNIVERSAllY PROGRA 'I CIIAIR1'1AN Vocal Solo .................................................................. Evelyn Galomheck Chairman of the Evening ...................................... Rabbi Sc11nuel Umen -fnJlrlule 111 SuBJtCTS FoR D1scuss10N ,J, rrlor°.J)JI ANo PARTICIPANTs: - \Vhat is Judaism? ................... .......·.................. Rabbi San[oNi Sapersteill TEM PL£ BET! I JACOB, PONTIAC, MICH. What Are Some Of The Factors Thal SNved In The Preservation of Judaism To This Day? .............. R.abhi Al/reel Friedman CONCREGA TION 5ll AAREY ZED EK. LANSING. 'IICI IICAN Has Judaisw Anyhing To Offer To The Jev, ln Our Day? ....................................................... Rabbi Gershon Winer CONGREGATION AIIAVA ISRAEL. CRAND llAPIDS. MICH. \Vhat ls The Relationship Between Judaism And Chri,lianity? ........................................ R<.>uercmcl Samup/ i\'. Oliver I IRST CONGREGATIONAi. CIH'IICJI. .:>IUSKEGON. M IC!!. \Vhat ('an Be Done To Brinti About .\ Clo~N Under~tandini:r Between Jew and Christi.:in? RL\'EREND IA\lF'- D. SKINNFR SAINT PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CIJL' RCII. I\IUSJ<FGON. J\11C1!. Discussion Audience .?Jlecejdion �.:J,jt,;r-llz .'"'/ nnt're?tJfU'!f .¼1,,;tcf' FRID \Y E\'C'\["C '\;Q\' Dll31 R 30. 1031 - " :00 i>.'I. .. _ 1,,.,,,/, ,,,,/,. 1/,,, '/,,.,/ //,, 1,,,'l,I"' ,,,,/, Jiu . /,,,,,,.. u,,,J/,,j, //,, !/,.nl 7 flt //, , /,,-u,l 'l 1J ,u fu,1 .JJ P~Al'.'l!!) 29 :l . ~1: R\ ICE l)l])IC \ "I EO TO Tl I[ P \~ I PRI SIDl:.'\ I'S OF ·111E CO'-.CRI .CATIOf\ Ho" Cood It I, To I hank The I ord . ................................. .. Clwi, Reacli Ill( Rahl,1 .......... ............................................. .. T11•0 Sisterhoocl Member., Pray1·r for I .ight ..... ............................. .. .. .. Clwir Bl<•"ing of I ighl, ................................. R('ading ........................... .... ........ ............... Presicle11I cut</ \ 'ice f>reside11l Leho Cl1oir l)ocli .......................................................................... . R«bl,i RNcling .............. ........... ........ .................................. ...... ....................... .. ........ Clioir Sn1 Shorim .... 1/) . • ,/J'fJCf'JJ f fJ II SA'll' LL "1.,\\F PALL "l. \\'ll ,LR SA'I U EL I.I l'"IAN LIO S . ROSI , 'Ill To, !:,Tl l'DLER II \ROI.D ROSI'\; SAl\ll l l L GLUCK ........ Ral,l,i In, oc al io n Prmrr Sc•ncc- P. 30 (Union Pranr Book) Cude/sky Pn·,<•nlal io11 of 1,icldu,h Cup ................................. K.ommn O<•dication of Kiddush Cup ... ........................................ _ ...... .. .......... . ... lll'mwn Crossmc111 Cn•l'linQ, PIO SIDI NT CON(;RI CATION Jl."1,\1 ISR.\I I DI!. , .\\ll 11 Pf!Oll.SS <m Clioir ..... .................. ..... .... ........................... .. R.\11111 I \J I RITlJS. \cloralion S. C OIIO', or TIIIOLOG). lll· BRI\\ UNJO, COIIIGE-J.I.R. I .c hu '\;.R 111noh ....... . :'- Ic•ss,1gc Ral,b, rJ \IPI I l\f\l.\,\ ' El DR. S.\ 'I l . El ,r\\ GOLOEN~ON YORK C IT) Rnhbi :a �SABBATH MORNING SERVICE-December AM. 1. 1951. 9:00 PSALMS SERVICE DEDICATED TO THE PAST PRESIDE I 18: 10. rrs OF SISTERHOOD MRS. ANNA RUBINSKY MRS. BIRDIE KOLBERT MRS. HARRIETT GROSSMAN MRS. LIBBY ROSE MRS. ESTHER GROSSMAN MRS. BERNICE WEINBERG MISS FANNIE ROSEN ~IRS. :.IIRIAM FISHER MRS. ROSE BERMAN MRS. MILDRED RODOFF MRS. LILLIAN NIMS ~ms. ~IRS. MARTHA GUDELSKY MRS. GENE BERMAN MRS. FRANCIS AUGUST MRS. IIORTENSE BERMAN ROSE LAWSON Message ......................................................................... Rabbi I .eon Fram. TEMPLE ISRAEL, DETROIT. ~IICJIIGA .'1 f!ltecejd,on A,miuersury Souue>11irs To The Children Of Our Religious ScTtool �SU 'DAY E\'E:'-JING, DECE~IBER 2. 6:30 P.:'-1. al the i\lASO:'--IIC TEMPLE PSALH National Anthem 133: I . ..................................................................... Audience ln\'ocalion .................................................................. Robbi Samuel l1men Greetings .... .................................................................. l ler111c1.1 Grossman !'RESIDENT. CONGREGATION B N,\I ISR.\fL t'--lessage .................... . ................................................ /ocolJ f\1. ANNIVERSAR) Kau[maa PROGR/\l\l CIIAIR:--IAN RC'marks b) Toaslmasln and Introduction of Guests ...... Jf,ll'o/cl Rosen f'-lessage ................................................................. . T-?.ahhi Samuc>l l lmen flABBI IIER.'IAN SCIIAAL;>-IAN-OIRECTOR OF GllE.\T LAKES REGION OF HEBREW UNION CONGREG.\TIONS Expression of Gratitude .................................................. Marslrnll Be1·man Phyllis Greenhc>rg TE.'IPLE B'NAI ISRAEL SUND/\) SCHOOL STUDENTS Am('rica ........................................................ ................................. ,\mliN1ce Bc,wdiction ..................... ..... ................................................................. Rahhi �,rd,,d all lku:li w o,·mj,!/ Mem,;,,/1.1-l<> ,·,, j!,it/,jalnci.J u;i/lt //,e ,,.,o,/.J lhe 'ft'o,,!l"''/la/,011 lllll!f ,;,,, Jf.CCONtj,t· nJf/ . . ,$;1:J U,u: /le,,.;,,,/ t,, .Yte y~1.1-e . o/ t/,e;n //,,,,,, PRAYER BOOK PROGRAM CO.l\ IMITIEE Jacob H. Kaufman, Chairman Herman Crossman Leo S. Rosen Rabb; Samuel Ume11 Samuel Klayf Co-Chairmen * * * TICKET COf\lMITTEE Mrs. Louis Aron, Chairman Mrs. Jacob M. Kaufman, General Chairman of Banquet and Reception Mrs. Leo S. Rosen, Co-Chairman Mrs. l'vlax Lebow, Chairman of Arrangements l\lrs. Milton Steindler. Advisory Chairman Mrs. Jack Steindler, Advisory Co-Chairman * * * INSTITU'lE 01\' JUDA.IS.l\J,.....,\Vednesday, i'\ovember 28, ;-.Jrs. Harry H. Berman. Chairman of Refreshments :'vlrs. Harry S. Berman. Co-Chairman Mrs. Samuel Klayf. Chairman of Decorations Mr;,. Fred Rodoff. Co-Chairman * * * FRIDAY EVE 11NG. :'\OYE:'-113ER 30. lrs. Louis Aron, Chairman of Refreshmenl~ Mrs. Harold Rosen, Co-Chairman 1951 1931 * * * SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1. 19'5I Mrs. Samuel La...vson, Chairman of Refreshments ;Vlrs. Robert RosC'nberg, Co-Chairman Mrs. Ernest Klein ~ 1rs. Komma Guddsky Mrs. Isaac Grossman * * * BANQUET. SUNDAY E\/El\'1 'G DECEMBER 2. 1931 Mrs. Jerome Fisher. Chairman of Dinner Arrnngemenls Mrs. Joseph Strifling. Scnting Arrnn!,!ements Mrs. Harry Fisher. Chairman of Decoralions '.\!rs. Paul \Viener. Co-Chaim1an �l,od of i\:..ilions: Happy are "c who dwel I under the flag of , \merica ! Here men arc free; here men are equal: here men are guaranteed inalienable rigbls. here men, respecting difference. learn lo live logdher as brothers. Blessed is this sacred heritage of ours! Out of overflo" ing hearts. we give Thee thanks. 0 Lord! \,lake u~ mindrul. "e pra) Thee. of the price paid for this heritage. Our forefathers lra,·ersed uncharted waters; they endured the hungers and perils of the frontier: they shed their blood on man~ baltlefields in defense of the nation's ideals. The flag we honor is tl.e symbol of their heroic pioneering, of their age-old quest for a land of freedom. peace and brotherhood. God of our fathers, endow us with the hcarl of the pioneer and the palriol that we of this generation may do our parl lo preserve this sacred heritage. :'-lay we guard ii with that eternal vig.lann• which is the price of liberty. 0lay we cherish ii with a lo,c t hat kindles into flame in the hour of crisis. \\'e know that pillage and carna~e ha,e bcen wrought for the glory of a flag that the t>arth has been ravaged by flame and fury for love of country. Do Thou inspire our patriotism witl1 Thine ancient law a 11 cl covenant that wc may measure the greatness and the glor) of our nation not onl) h~ the vastness of ils domain. nor lhe surfeit of its ,:iold. nor I he might of its conquests. hut by the frf:'edom of our people. the sac- rcd1)('SS of our rights as m<'n. the cqual opportunity and fair play and J!ood-wi ll of our \\ay of lire. :-\mt>rirn. our America! Thine. Almight~ God. he the (!race to bles~ ii! Ours he the will to prcserve it for our own blrssing and I he bl<'ssing of the nat ions of the earth! UNIO, OF ,\~I Lill CA'\' II FllJH.\\' CO,GRIG.\ TIONS ���I I I .. r.,. 1'" .,.. I ..., ·, ,;'!- - , ·~,.-i:•. -, ' I * wr ' • ,. ~ ,._ ·-r,; • ' .. • .'.t �FH·7U HI A '\:'\:l\'f.RS \RY Bl I I I 11'\: S1 PT£ '-llll R 1030 - -,~ 11 C( ):'\(~REC,,\ 110'\ lf:'\AI ISR.\1:- I I Ol RTII STRI I I AND \\I 8Sfl R A\ I NL l 'll SKt:(.,ON. 'IIC'IIICA"I ~r-/cfdiu-c Jhall. /Ital ~ijli,,//, :l/4a:,, I, u-nl, you LEVITICUS XXV•ll �( I I I I I I I' I ! I I ! I I I I I .. �---, FIFflETH ANNIVERSARY BULLETT SEPTEM UER l 1950 - 371 I CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL FOURTJ-l STREET AND WEBSTER AVENUL 1'1 USKEGON, MICI IIGAN d cfettdee Jhall t/4cd .fli/t(eth C!J/4co l.e unto /loa,. ( LEVITICUS XXV-11) �PAGE II The BulleUn of •·011.:rci::ation B'nai Israel is pubUshcd bl-monthly 'rom Sc1, tem1Jcr lo June. Samuel Umen Temple Telet>hone 2-2702 _______________________________ Rabbi 19 5 0- OFFICERS-195 0 Samuel Lipman ___ -------·---·-- __ President Harold Rosen ------------------------------ _ 1st Vice-Pres. Herman Grossman _______________________________ 2nd Vice-Pres. Reuben Berman __ _ ____ ____ ________ _______ _ __ __ Treasurer Rose Lawson _ ___ __ ____ __ ___________________ ____ _ _ __ Secretary The Rabbi, Officers and Board of Trustees of Temple B'nai Israel extend New Year greetings to the entire congregation. May God grant that in the New Year we and all mankind may be free from war worry, sickness and mishap. S CHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS 1950 - 5711 Rosh Hashonnah-Tuesday and Wednesday, September 12th and 13th. Monday Evening, September 11Traditional Maariv Service 6 :00 P.M. (In small Chapel.) Formal Community Service ________________ _______ 8 :00 P .M. Sermon Tuesday, September 12th-1st day of Rosh Hashonnah Traditional morning service ( Scha charis) _________ ____ _______________________ 8 :30 A.M. Reading of the Scroll _____________________________10 :00 A .M . Formal Community Service ______________________ ll :00 A .M. Sermon End of Service --------------------------------------- 12 :45 P .M. Tuesday Afternooo-September 12th Trnditional Mincho Service ---------------------· 5 :15 P.M. Traditional Maariv Service _________ 6 :00 P.M. Wednesday, September 13th-2nd day of Rosh Hashonnah Traditional morning service (Scha charis) _____ ---------------------------- 8 :30 A.M. Reading of the Scroll _ ____ - ·--- __________ l O:00 A.M. Sermon Sounding of the Shofar (ram's horn) _________________________l l :20 A.M. Traditional Musaf Service ______________ l l :30 A.M. End of Service _ -------------------------------- _______12 :45 P.M. Wednesday afternoon-September 13th Traditional Mincho Service ________ ---··· _______ 5 :15 P ..M. Traditional Maariv Service ___________ ______ _ 6 :00 P.M. * • * * * * YOM KIPPUR Yorn Kippur-Thursday, September 20th Wednesday Evening, September 19th, Traditional Kol Nidrei Service ________________ 6 :00 P .M. (In large Chapel) Formal Community Kol Nidrei Service 8 :00 P .M. Sermon Thursday Morning, September 20th Traditional morning service (Scha charis) --------------------------· _ _ _ _____ 8 :00 A .M . Reading of the Scroll _ ________ ____ __ _ .10 :00 A .M . Traditional Yizkor Service ________ _______ ..10 :45 A.M. Formal Community Service ··--·-------------·-··11 :15 A.M. Sermon Recess ___ __ ___ -·-·-----------------··-··------- 1 :15 P .M. Traditional Musaf Service . _·-··-------··-···-· 1 :30 P.M. Junior Service . ______ ______ _·····--·----·-··· _ 2 :45 P.M. T raditional Afternoon (Mincho) Service __ _ _ ·-·-------·--· .... _______ 3 :30 P .M. COMMUNITY MEMORIAL SERVI CE ____ 4 :45 P.M. Neilah (Closing Service) -------·-·--------- ·--·-- 5 :15 P .M. End of Service ____ ----·--··--·-------------··-------···. 6 :15 P.M. THE S ERVICE SCHEDULE Congregants are urged to acquaint themselves with t.llc Service Schedule given in this bulletin. Services begin and end as per schedule. SCHEDULE OF SERVICE FOR SUCCOTH September ·26th and 27th, Tuesday and Wednesday first two days of Succoth. ' Monday, September 25th Traditional Evening Service -·· _·-·····-- -····· ... .. 7 :30 P.M. COMMUNITY SERVICE -·___ . .... _ 8 :15 P.M. Tuesday, September 26th Traditional Morning Service _____ ···-· .. ···-······ 8 :30 A.M. Traditional Evening Service ·---··-· ·-···-···-· - -····· 6 :30 P.M. Wednesday, September 27th Traditional Morning Service _______ ___________ .. ·- 8 :30 A.M. HASHONNAH RABAH-OCTOBER 2nd Mot1day, October Z'?ld Traditional Morning Service .. __ ______ ... ·-··· .. 8 :30 A.M. SHMINI ATZERES (8th DAY SUCCOTH) October 10th Monday Evening, October 9th Traditional Service . _______ ·-·-· ·····-···-··· ··---·-·· ... 7 :30 P.M. COMMUNITY MEMORIAL SERVI CE ..... __ 8 :15 P.M. Tuesday, October 15th Traditional Morning Service ______ . ·-·---· 8 :30 A.M. YIZKOR 9 :45 A.M. Tuesday, October 10th CHILDREN'S' SIMCHATH TORAH PARTY ____________ --··-··-··-- ··----····-· ... 4 :00 P.M. Traditional Simchath Torah Service 7 :30 P.M. SIMCHATH TORAH Wednesday, October 11th Traditional Mo1•ning Service .. _ ______ 8:30 A.M. ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 1950 - 1951. ( 5711 ) OPENING SESSIONS Sunday School, Sunday, September 10 Hebrew School, Monday, October 16 Adult Hebrew, Monday, October 23 Bible Study, Wednesday, November 1 10 :00 4:00 1 :00 8:15 a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. THE SERVICES FOR THE HIGH HOLYDAYS The services for the High Holydays may well be considered the climax of Jewish worship. In them the most important Jewish ideals are expressed: The Sovereignty of God over all creatures, the brotherhood of the human family, the revelation of the divine spirit to man, the providence of God, the concept of reward and punishment, the restoration of the Jewish people and the sanctuary in Zion where a center for enlightenment for mankind shall be created. In addition to these ideas, the idea of renouncing one's own sins, seeking forgiveness, and vowing to lead a clean life is emphasized on the Day of Atonement. On these days, it is the desire of the Jew to elevate himself above his daily routine and to draw near to God. For this reason, these days are dedicated entirely to worship and meditation. For this purpose, the service was daborately built up on Iaudations and prayers, hymns and poems, meditations and petitions. ROSH HASHONNAH And in the Seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation ; ye shall do no Serville work; it is a day of sounding the shofar unto you . -Numbers XXIX,1· The New Year is called in Hebrew Rosh Hashonnah. It is sometimes called "Day of Judgment" (Yom Hadin). . Because on that day we represent ourselves as being judged by God for our past lives. ,, r It is also called "The Day of Sounding the Shofar , 0 ram's horn. The Shofar is sounded on that day, to remind us to appear before the Lord. . We Our life during these days should be more senous. must repair any wrong we have committed, and remov; any cause of ill-feeling between others, and ourselves. . father cannot be pleased when his childr~n are at van· ance. We are all children of our Father m Heaven. �- PAGE III REASONS FOR BLOWING THE SHOFAR The Jewish philosopher Saadya Gaon gave the foUowmg reasons for the blowing of the Shofar: . 1. T proclaim the sovereignity of God on the anmversary of the creation. 2. To stir the people to repentance. 3. To remind the people of the revelation on Mount Sinai. 4. To remind us of the messages of the Prophets. 5. To remind us of the destruction of the Temple. 6. To remind us of Isaac's sacrifice. 7. The sound of the Shofar causes the human heart to tremble. 8. To remind us of the Day of Judgment. 9. To remind us of the blasts of the Shofar of redemption10. To remind us of the resurrection. THE TEN DAYS OF PENITENCE The ten days that follow Rosh Hahso·nah are known as the Ten Days of Penitence. During this period, the individual is supposed to repent his or her untoward deeds and to make amends - either actually or by resolving not to tepeat such actions. SHABBA T SHUBAH Shabbat Shubah derives its name from the Haftarah of that day, Hosea XIV, 2-10, which begins with the word Shubah - "Return," i.e. Repent. YOM KIPPUR And ye shall have qn the tenth day of this seventh ,110nth a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict yonr souls; ye shall not do any work thereon.-NumJ.,e,·s XXIX,7. The Day of Atonement is called in Hebrew Yorn Kippur. It is the da) on which we solemnly ask pardon from ~od for sins whkh we have committed against Him. Pardon is granted to us for those sins only when God who knows our hearts, sees that our repentance is sincere. Orn Yorn Kippur we do not obtain pardon for sins committed against our fellow-being unless we have righted any wrong we have done to him. We fast on :he Day of Atonement. We fast in order to humble ou1·selves before God, to realize how dependent we are upon Him for food, and therefore for life, and to learn to restrain earthly desires. A CLEAR CONSCIENCE One of the most pleasant experiences a person can have is through the knowledge of a free and clear conscience. How wonderful it is for one to feel that he has cione his duty toward his God and fellowman! With the New Year approaching, you will want to start with a clean record. By paying your dues now, you will be straightening out with your God and your fellow man. Perhaps by paying your dues, you wilJ experience the joy !hat comes from a clear conscience. Send your check to the Temple office today. SUCCOTH The fifteenth <lay of this seventh month shall be the feast of the Tabernacle for seven days unto the Lord. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days, every Israelite-born shall dwell in booths. That your generations may know th3t I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.-(Levit XXIII, 43). Succoth is kept to 1·emind us of God's loving protectic-n of our fathers when He caused them to be sh~ltered in booths or tabernacles in their journey through the dese11.s after they left Egypt. In our synagogue, a palm branch, a citron, ,;ome myrtle, and willow are used during service. The palm-b•·anch ( Lu lab) represents our frame; the citron ( ethrog) represOO'!IS the heart; the mY1-tle-leaf (hada.s) represents the eye, and the willow--leaf (11.rbe nahal) represf'nts the lips, teaching thus that our frame, our heart, our eyes, and our lips are to be used in the service of God. HOSHANAH RABBAH Hosha-nah Rabbath, the seventh day of Succoth, was the climax of the festival in Temple times, v·hcn seven processio·ns were made around the altar, and many ve1'Ses of Hoshanah (0 Save) were sung to the waving of the palm branches. SHEMINI AZERET Shemini Azeret (Eighth day of Assembly) designated in the Bible as a day of holy assembly, is celebrated after the seventh day of Succoth as the concluding festival of the season. SIMHAT TORAH Simhat Torah (Rejoicing in the Torah) is the second dav of Stemini Azeret. Then the reading of the Pentateuch is completed and begun anew for the coming year. SIMCHATH TORAH PARTY On Tuesday afternoon, October 3rd. 4 :llO p.m., there will be a Simchath Torah party for the children of our Religious School. The Rabbi will explain the nature of the celebration, the children will march in the Torah parade and then t·eceive a special treat from Sisterhood. OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICE OCTOBER 27, 8:15 P.M_ As we are about to resume the Friday night services, we cannot help but think of Sisterhood and the hostesses that Sisterhood furnished throughout the past season. There is nothing that hits the spot better than a hot cup of tea or coffee after the Service. Sisterhood with its hostesses made this possible last year. We look forward to the continuance of this lovely gesture. ON CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL'S JUBILEE YEAR by RABBI SAMUEL UMEN BEN CHAMISHIM L'EITZOH. "At fifty for counsel." The first twenty to thirty years of an individual is spent in growing, devel~ping and maturing_ . 1'.'roi:r then on he begins to devo~e himself to some purs_mt m hfe.. At about fifty, one begms to take stock of his accomphshments and analyzl! his life. It is at this point that one becomes philosophic, about himself and the world tn which he lives- If this is true of an individual, it is also true of an institution in a degree. In any case, it surely is true of Congregation B'nai Israe1, which dates back to the year 1901 when about ten Jewish families formed what is now known as Congregation B'nai Israel of Muskegon. Without a permanent home, like the Jews in the rlesert, the small Congregation carried on its community life and held its !>ervices wherever it was permitted. Slowly but surely the ranks grew in number, wisdom and experience. In 19,17 it dedicated its own home-one of the most beautiful modern Temple buildings in the mid west. It is in this Temple with its inviting facilities that the accumulated '·Counsel" of the Congregation is manifesting itself through its many faceted program which 1eaches out to our <,Id and young. If Congregation B'nai Israel was late in developing, it is now making up for lost time. This Congregation at Fifty stands ready to offer some counsel to those who are still in their embryonic stage, and wliose growth and development is hindered, due to a squabble over a scull cap, talis, an organ, more or less Hebrew at services, veering more to the right, more to the left, or cleaving to the middle. Thanks to the democratic $J>irit of our leaders, their vi!:'ion and courage, all elements and all shades of thought in our community are united under one roof. May it be Thy will 0 Lord to presel'Ve the unity of our Con~regation so that we may be privilegc>d to serve as a living example of what can be achieved by A community when it acts in the name of peace and the sanctity of Thy name. "1Iay all Thy children unite in on<' fellowship to do Thy will with a perfect heart." ---. �I I PAGE IV •I CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN MUSKEGON, MICHI GAN I JUBILEE MESSAGE FROM TEMPLE ' B'NAI ISRAEL PRESIDENT If I were to mention the most outsta:nding accomplishment by our congregation in its half century of existence, I would without a second of hesitation say "harmony." While our congregatio'n is rather small as compared with some of the great communities in our country, yet the \ iews of our congregants in not the remote past have been as many and as varied as one f~'nds in a very large community. However, a way was found by our leadership to unite every shade of religious thought in our community under one roof. Thus. we have one Temple which is one of the most beautiful in the midwest. It is th.rough this harmony that building the Tem'ple of the spirit within the framework of the stone building is rendered easier for our benefit and for the benefit of our people at large. May harmony and peace always reign in our hearts, homes, our community and throughout the world. Sam Lipman CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN A MESSAGE FROM TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT The last half century of our people in Muskegon, may be compared to the life of the Hebrews in the desert. Our Jewish life was built on quicksand. There was nothing to hold us together, we had no home-we had no program of any consequence. We lived from day to day. For the wandering Jew of the desert it was finally Palestine. For us at the end of fifty years, it is a beautiful Temple, a well organized program for the young and old. May the Jubilee Year of our congregation mark the beginning of many fruitful achievements by our congregants for the benefit of Judaism and Democracy. Sophie Lebow A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MUSKEGON HADASSAH CHAPTER Many worthwhile organizations and institutions could not exist if it were not for the moral and financial support which they d erive from the Synagogue. It was from the Synagogue that Zionism drew its strength in a large measure for the past fifty years. Hadassah's success too, is due to the help it receives from the Synagogue. As president of The Muskegon Hadassah Chapter, it therefore, gives me great pleasure to congratulate Congregation B'nai Israel on its Jubilee Year. 1. congratulate B'nai Israel not only because in its half ceintury of existence it served well as a l'eligious institution in our community, but helped in the furtherance of such noble work that is related to Judaism and Jewish life. May this congregation ever grow in its strength and influence. May those who work for it be blessed and may their work be unto a blessing. Reva Levy A MESSAGE FROM OUR U. J. C. CHAIRMAN As we go forward in our Temple and community work it is only natural, that we should simultaneously take ~ glance backward. Foii the past is the best guide for the future. The past shows up our foibles, omissions, negJi. gence, gropings ,Jnd every achievement as nothing else does. A glance at the past of our community, shows up one thing in our accomplishments so clear and so large that everything else disappears, in the background. This thing is Muskegon's charitable nature-Muskegon's generous gifts to the United Jewish Appeal. The reco1·d show5 th:it in proportion to the size of other communities our own community ranks first and best in helping out· brother man. Let us hope and pray that through the merit of our liberal giving and life saving, we shall receive God's blessings of exte'J'lded life to carry on the high ideals and deep aspirations which are ours as Jews and as Ameiicans during this Jubilee Year and in the years to come. Harry A. Fisher UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS 3 East Sixty-Fifth Street New York Z.l, N. Y. August 3, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi Umen: In the name of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations I extend my warmest felicitations and ~ffer the heartfelt congratulations of your four hundred sister congregations throughout the country on this happy occasion of your Jubilee Year. Well may you of B'nai Israel Congregation review _the past years with a. sense of deep inner pride. Yours 1s_a congregational heritage rich in tradition and sweet In memory. Countless are the souls who have been console_d in grief and strengthened in trial, who have opened their hearts in uplifting prayer within the portals of your sanctuary. May this moment of jubilee bring pause and retrospection. As you toll your multiple blessings and breathe your gratitude, as you look back upon your triumph and past, so m~ you utilize this occasiOln to pledge yoursel".e~ to an even more consecrated spiritual future. In the B1bhcal book of Leviticus we find the injunction. directed to ~ur forefathers, commanding that "fire shall be k~pt b_urm~f upon the !iltar conti_nually; it s~all never b~ extmgms:: ·i The rabbis tell us, In commenting upon this verse, t . 1 was the wont of the entire household of Israel to s~t a~ide on a designated day the mundane routine of their hves and to gather wood so that the altar fires should never be dimmed. So must it be for the entire household ~f B'n~i ~sr::l Congregation. This is the day to be set aside, this 1s ~ moment for a)] of you to place your vows of persona consecration upon your hallowed altar. The!l the flaj: of your faith will never flicker, but will _ignite the of your children and your children's children, klJ! 1 . within them "an everlasting light", that lig_ht which~~ the glorious heritage of our people, for such 1s the mea t ing and intent of your jubilee celebration. God gran that such be your deed this day. Wi,th warmest greetings to a.II of you, I am Yours most cordially, (Maurice N. Eisendrath) dl'~g �PA GE V THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE . . . CINCINNATI JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION ... NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT: Clifton A venue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio July 5. 1950 i\fr. Samuel Lipman, President Congregation B'nai Israel, Fourth and Webster, l\Iuskegon, .Mich. Dear Mr. Lipman: On behalf of the Board of Go\·ernors and the Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, we extc.'l'ld congratulations to you, and the officers :rnd members of Congregation B'nai Israel on the occasion of the celebrat,ion of ils ,Jubilee year. We know of nothing which is more important i.n our modern Jewbh life than to build fortresses of faith which will be the strongest protection we can ever possibly have for ourselves and for our children. A temple devoted to the teachings of Judaism is a blessing to all of those who participate in it. We p1 ay that God will blc~s and con:seci-ate your cong1 egation and yoU1· rabbi in all your works. May you e\·cir continue to be a tower of strength in the service of Judaism and America and all humanity. Since1·ely yours, (NELSON GLUECK, PRESIDENT) LESTER A. JAFFE, CHAIR;\IAN BOARD OF GOYERNORS) THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE . . . CINCINNATI JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION .. NEW YORK Office of the Assistant to the President 40 W. Sixty-Eighth Street-New York 23, N. Y. June 19, 1950 :\fr. Sam Lipman Congr<>gation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Mr. Lipman: I am delighted to learn that you are preparing to celebrate your Jubilee Year. Certainly such an important milestone in the history of your community deserves to be marked and celebrated. You have made great progress as a Congregation in the fi1·st half century of your existence, particularly in recent years. God bless you and your Rabbi. '.\lay you continue to go forward together from strength to strength, deriving rerrewcd joy and satisfaction from your c.>ndeavors in the vineyard of the Lord. Sincerely, (RABBI ABRA'.\I '.\1. GRANISON) 1 I MICIIIGAN FEDERATION OF TEMLE SISTERHOODS 2224 Chicago Boulevard Detroit 6. ;\lichigan July 5, 1950 Conirregation B'nai lsrael 1\1 nskegon, Michigan Dear Friends: In the same spirit of broad humanity, love amonl-( all men and cosmopolitan philanthropy, with which you have pi,, m('ated your communitv throughout the years, it is m:I:' very great pleasure, Congregation B'nai Israel, to onng you the warm co~gratulations of the Michigan Federation of Temple Sisterhoods on your joyous Golden Anniver:.:irv. It i~ indr.ed, through a Temple :such as youi-,;, with fift~• ~·t>ars to its credit, that our .Jews in )lichigan arc prepared for a career of spiritu:11 creativeness. Wilh warm personal greetings, I am Sincerely, (SYLVIA DAN'l'O) (.\IRS. SAllUEL B.) President CE~TRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS Office of President 117 Gibbs Street Rochester 5, N.Y. Dennis, )lass. July 10, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Congregation B'nai Israel Foarth and Webster )1uskegon, ;\Iichigan flcar Colleague: On behalf of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, I felfritate Congregation B'nai Israel of Muskegon on its Jubilee. This is both a happy and a very significant cv<"nt. World events and developments in Jewish high life high-light the indispensibility of religious values. ~~ience will not save mankind; religion alone oan. Normalization of the Jewish position in the world gives American Jewry both the right and the duty to strC'ngthen their own spiritual institutions. We must not only survive. but have a good reason for survival. Historicaily, the best reason for survival has been our faith. Therefore, on behalf of the olde,;t, largest, and most influential Rabbinical body in the world, I congratulate your <"ongregat.ion which is devoted to strengthening and pc.>rpetuating our faith. May it go from strength to strength. Faithfully yours (PHILIP S. BERNSTEIN) President TEMPLE ISRAEL 900 Park Avenue Detroit 26, Michigan July 19, 1950 Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi Umen: l\lay your Jubilee Year find our world realizing the ,Tubilee mes~age of )loses, "Proclaim libe1ty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Your devotion to the faith of Israel through these 50 yc·nrs, your recent building of a beautiful sanctuary of GoJ are evidence of the contribution you are making to a world of peace and freedom. Sincerely yours, RABBI LEON FRAM RABBI HARRY ESSRIG Temple Emanuel Grand Rapids, Michigan August 7, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Cong B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Mich. Dear Rabbi Umen: The increasing number of congrl'gations in America who commemorate their Jubilee celebrations is eloquent proof of the deep roots that we have struck in the soil of our country. We are an integral part of the religious forces of this commouwealth and have shown how it is possible to blend our histodc spiritual heritage with the finest flowering of the American genius. Your Jubilee obHervance is therefore not only of great significance to your own congregation but of moment to the entire Jewish community. As your neighbors, who have watched your progress in recent years with much commendation as well as envy, \,e congratulate you for reaching this milestone in the long career of your congregation. B'nai Israel has distinguished it~elf in many respects and rendered many worthwhile services to the cause of Judaism. May you t·cmtinue to labor in the vineyards of the Lord and to prosper in all your undertakings. Sincerely your:;, ( HARRY ESSRIG) �I I I I I PAGE VI ============~===========----===== CONGREGATION SHAAREY-ZEDEK North Pennsylvania and Linden Grove Lansing, Michigan August 11, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, :Michigan Dear Rabbi Umen: Please convey to the B'nai Israel congregation, a hearty '.\laze! Tov on the occasion of their completing fifty vears of congregational activity. Although your congregation has grown in numbers and their physical environs have bet,n beautifully expanded during this half century, let us also hope and pray that their spiritual resources have co1Tespondingly deepened and their vision of life's higher purpo~es have enlarged. May this Golden Annh·ersary bring added luster to J;:wish dignity and pride in lluskegon. May it be a foretaste of the ,vealth of knowledge of which they shall all partake. May the next half-century, see you and your congregation go from strength to strength contributing to those forces which will cause the light of peace. freedom and justice to cast a warm glow upon Israel and all mankind. May God bl<:>ss the fruit of your labors. Sincerely yours. Rabbi Alfred L. Friedman TEMPLE BETH EL RABBI MORTON M. APPLEBAUM, M.II.L. Flint, Michigan August 18, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen, Congregation B'nai Israel, 4th and Webster, Muskegon, Michigan. Dear Sam: I am most grateful to you for this privilege and o_pportunity to extend my heartiest felicitati~ns and ~ontmu~d best wishes to you and your Congregation on thL,; auspicious occasion. As Rabbi and members of Congregation B'nai Israel reflect with pride upon a half-century of past achievement may all be moved to re-consecrate themselves to the l~ftiest teachings of our faith, and aspire, throu~h continued toil, energy and resourcefulness, to add to its glory and that for which it stands. Cordially yours, Morton !\1. Applebaum PAUL M. WIE NER FOUNDR Y CO. Muskegon, Michigan August Z·2, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen :3-10 West Forest Avenue .Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi: September 1st was two years since you took over th_e leadership of our congregation, and I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the magnificent job vou have done. · With you as our guide, our community has experienced a higher' spiritual level of attainment than ever before in i l u history. I realize that your work is not easy and that many difficulties fa<.'e you in carrying on your progressi\·e program .. I also klnow that if anyone can succeed, you will. With our high holidays approaching, I wish you cont:nucd succcss and a vel'y happy and prosperous New Year. Faithfully, PA UL l\1. WIENER COKGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL Fourth and Webster Muskegon, ~ichigan June 12, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen, 340 W. Forest, Muskegon, Mich. Dear Rabbi Umen: With the termination of the y<:>ar 1949-1950 in the congregational life of our community, it behooves me to dl'Op you a few notes, particularly with regard to mv own personal association with you during Mr. Sam Lipman's absence from the community. It is impossible lo expre~ in word>', the comfort and mental relief you ha\'e brought me in your tenure of office in our community. There alway:; has been a tremendous need for a restatement of ideals and ideologies which give mankind tools for creating a better world, and i:n a world wherein man has an opportunity of being honored in a more deeent way to the extent of developing his own potentialities. You have given this community, I believe, the proper i>.ppreciation of the inter-relatedness and the inter-indebtedness of Christianity to Judaism. You have a'so given us the lesson that the greatest gift in the world is the gift of love. At least 'I feel that your te:iching,, add up to this summation. ~1oreover in ;-our sermom· you have taught those who \vi:shed to listen· and learn .. the other gre'.lt gifts of life-courage, belief, under• sbndmg, not to omit the other precious gift of confidence. I pa~s over the fact that you integrated the community into one ha_rmonious whole, and in so doing you haYe made all factions feel that your respective needg were at all times being fulfilled. . W~en ~ Rabbi ~oes all this in a short span of time, he 1s sat1sfymg _the highest traditions of his great profession. And what 1s more, he satisfies the question which worthy people should and do constantly ask themselves, "For what ye come on this earth, that is a virtue seldom tailed." With kindest regards, I am Sincerely, HERMAN GROSSMAN, ( 2nd Vice President) TE~IPLE BETH ISRAEL Jackson, Michigan August 20, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen: Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster ;'\i uskegon, :llfichigan Dear Sam: It is indeed a great joy for us to learn th.at Congreg~tion B'nai Israel will commemorate ill; Jubilee Year m 1951. Since time immemorial such an occasion has al• ,,.ays been of importance within the religious history_of our people and in the case of youi' worthy congregat,of it is, indeed, a fact for grateful reflection, a sourc_e 0 pride and an admi1:able milestone of outsta\1~ing achieved ments. Congregation B'nai Israel through its. ne~ an beautiful Temple has made a noteworthy contnbut1on t~ the growth and progress of Judaism within our St~te_. It~ pulpit, through your magnificent and devot~d m1m 5lr~ has become the sounding board of faith, inspiration an courage not only for your constituents, but also for you~ colleagues and friends, and through us for so man. congregations in our State and our Country. It is therefore indeed an honor and a pleasure for ~e to send the feli~itations of my congregation and t •~ heartfelt greetings and wishes of my own, to you 8 ~ 0 your congregation. May you go forth from streng(h ur strength, and may the future years for you and congregation be of a blessing. May the ne~t 50 years d permeated with peace, inspiration, prosperity for all an f further progress for you and for the whole household 0 Israel. Chazak, Chazak, veniss-chazek ! ! ! Faithfuly and fraternally, bb' DR. FRANK ROSENTHAL, Ra_ h1 Temple Beth Israel, Jackson, )lie · Y\c �---, PAGE VII THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 20, 1950 Dear Rabbi Umen: Hearty felicitations and warmest personal greetings on the happy occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Congregation B'nai Israel. I trust th,at for long years to come the Congregation will continue to exemplify the highest teachings of the ancient culture of Israel. Very sincerely yours. (HARRY TRUMAN) Rabbi Samuel Umen, Congregation B'nai Israel, Fourth and Webster, Muskegon, Michigan. ------0-----CITY OF MUSKEGON MICHIGAN July 3, 1960 CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL, Please accept my most heartfelt congratulations for your 1''iftieth Anniversary. Rabbi Samuel Umen, the Offi. ce.s, the Trustees, and the whole Congregation are most deserving, for their continued faith and perseverance. They all have shovm themselves not only to be trustworthy in the sight of God, but to be thoroughly loyal, contributing their full share toward the social, political, intellectual and artistic advance of all peoples within our community. In your desire to better serve God and your community you have produced large numbers of musicians, scholars, business people, and men and women in public life. You people have carried the religious ideals of the one true God throughout the years, and h.ave continued to be the standard bearers even in the City of Muskegon for these fifty years. You number in the membershp of your Congregation many persons who do now greatly honor your people, our people and all the city; and there are still many more who will be known for their prominence in the building and history of Greater Muskegon. May I, therefore, present to the Congregation B'nai hrael not only my own personal tha,nks and congratulations, but that of all the people of Greater Muskegon. Yours truly, (H. J. DEYETTE. MAYOR) CITY OF MUSKEGON THE MUSKEGON CHRONICLE Muskegon, Michigan July 31, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth at Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi Umen: I am pleased to be among those to welcome the forthcoming Fiftieth Anniversary of Congregation B'nai Isrnel, with a brief word in your Jubilee Year Bulletin. I have been in Muskegon more than thirty years and hence have seen at first hand much of the development lhat has come to your Congregation. It is in the blood of a newspaper editor to take a kind of personal pride in the constructive accomplishments of the community, and hence I feel a real kinship with you in the progress of your group. I know this progress will continue into the second fifty rears, as indeed it must. As individuals and communities, we are remiss to the extent that we take our religious institutions lal·gely for granted. Religious freedoms are at the heart of this whole present world struggle and the obvious answer, from our side, is churches that are even stronger, even more ably supported. As in the past, The Chronicle will always be happy to cooperate in your events in any way it can. You have my own most cordial congratulations for the big Golden Anniversary milestone which is just ahead in 1951. With best wishes, Ve1·y sincerely, (C. D. l\1cNA.MEE) Editor STATE OF l'IIICHIGAN Office of the Governor LANSING July 18, 1960 TO THE .MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL: On the occasion of the Fiftieth Anni\·ersary of Congregation B'nai Israel, it is a pleasure and a privilege to send you personal good wishes and to greet )'Ou on beha·r of the people of Michigan. In these days when change and confusion :arc rife throughout the world, it is heal"tening to find a people whose devotion to the ancient faith of their fathers remains unaltered through the centuries. If every American pledged the same steadfast Allegiance to the principles of liberty and freedom upon which our great democracy is founded, the future security and welfare of the United States would be assured. During the fifty years since Cong,:egation B'nai Israel was established, it has not only served its members well but has contributed in •n o small measure to the community life of the City of Muskegon. It is my earnest h')pe that in the years to come, as in the past, Congregation B'nai Israel will continue steadily to grow and prosper. Sincerely, (G. Mennen Williams) GOVERNOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STA TES WASHINGTON O. A. Seyferth President June 28, 1950 Rabbi Samuel Umen Congr<'g..:tion B"nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi Umen: It gives me pleasure to respond to your letter of .June 15. The Fiftieth Anniversary soon to be observed by Congregation B'nai Israel marks a long period in the lives of the members of your Congregation, but a brief span only in the annals of the faith to which you subscribe. That faith has made its imprint upon the world throughout the centuries of man's prog:ress. It has insisted on the highest st.andards of human behavior, and even more important it has given inspiration to millions who express through it their belief in spi1;tual values. I have long felt that religious bodies could do much towr.rd bringing closer accord among the different groups thnt make up our society. Solidarity and tolerance are natio'lal essentials. The religious faiths can cnntrihutP toward their advancement in America. I know that your celebration of your Congregation's attainment of the half century mark will be successful. Sincerely yours, (0. A. SEYFERTH) President THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF MUSKEGON MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Attention: Rabbi Samuel Umen Dear Friends: A half century of service to the Greater Muskegon community by Congregation B'nai 'Israel is a matter deserving not only congratulations, but sincere appreciation on the part of all citizens. True community values are inevitably found in people ;ind institutions making positive contributions in the spiritual, cultural, and educational areas. In these respects, Congregation B'nai lsl'ael has ably accomplished its full ~hare, and more. May the next half century be one of continuing success and service. Yours truly, (C. W. BEMER) SUPPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS �PAGE VIII STATE OF MICHIGAN LABOR MEDITATION BOARD LANSING Noel P. Fox 208 Montgomery Building Muskegon, Michigan July 8, 1950 Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Attention: Rabbi Samuel Umen Dear Rabbi: The Congregation B'nai Israel, in Muskegon, should receive the whole-hearted congratulations of the entire community. The members of the Congregation have lived and practiced fundamental principles, and by example have raised the standards in this community. These principles emphasize the sacred character of the individual; the sanctity of the home as the basic unit of the whole human family; that the human rights of every person come from God, and not from the State; and due respect for domestic, civil and religious authority. Muskegon is a better place in which to live because the Congregation B'nai Israel is here. My very best wishes to all of you, and may God Bless You, one and all. Very sincerely. (NOEL P. FOX) CONGREGATION HONORS PAST PRESIDENT Paul M. Wiener, past president of Congregation B'nai IHael. was presented a bronze plaque at the Treat of the Year Dinner held on Sunday evening, June 25th 1950 at the Temple. The testim0'11ial to Paul was for his many years of service in the congregation and United Jewish Charities which he organized in Muskegon ten years ago. ,_; ...'<"~ -, "~ THE iEMPLE LIBRARY The Temple libmry is slowly but surely expanding. Several excellent volumes have been added to our library shelves this summer and a goodly number of other volumes have 1·ecently been ordered. Much credit for the growth of our library is due to Fred Rodoff, who as chairman of this project is doing an excellent job. On birthdays, anniver!-aries, or OT! the day of commemorating dear ones, let us iemember the Temple Library. THE SIX MISTAKES OF MAN 1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others. Z.. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is im.possible because we cannot accomplish it. 4. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying. 5. Refusing to set aside trivial preference. 6. Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do. -Cicero ANNIVERSARIES FOR SEPTEMBER Mr. and Mrs. Milton Steindler September 2 Mr. and Mrs. Max Shumacher September 3 Mr. and Mrs. Anton Aron September 7 WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR OCTOBER Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Rodoff October ll1r. and Mrs. Max Ashendorf October l\1r. and Mrs. Max Schubb October llfr..and Mrs. Eli Smith October Mr. and Mrs. Seymour I. Rosenberg October 1 22 23 29 31 BIRTHDAYS FOR SEPTEMBER Rochelle Louise Cherin September Alexander Samue l Krause September William Dean Rosenberg September Jack Stanley Roberts September Burt Hess Roberts September 12 13 15 20 24 CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAYS FOR OCTOBER Marc Leslie Berman October :l Roger Michael Krause October 4 Jeffrey Allen Rosen October 16 Susan Lee Ashe ndorf October 20 Sheila Mae Miller October 26 EA ~ Ll PRE$$, INC , ~ USX[GO N PAUL M. WIENER FOUNDRY CO. Muskegon, Michigan August 24, 1960 Congregation B'nai Israel Fourth and Webster Muskegon, Michigan Dear Rabbi, Officers, Trustees and Members: . . I am extremely grateful for the beautiful testimonial presented to me by the congregation. . . Although I no longer serve B'nai Israel in any off1c1al capacity, I shall continue to do my utmost to_ help support and maintain the high level of spiritual .achievement our community has attained. . I feel deeply honored in the possession of this plaque, because of the generous spirit in which it wa~ presente~. May our congregation always preserve th~ u~1ty and sohdnrity of purpose, of which this testimonial 1s a symbol. Faithfully, p AUL M. WIENER LEO ROSEN AND KELLY M. KAUF.MAN HEAD TEMPLE JUBILEE YEAR PROGRAM This is a special year for Co11gregation B'nai_ I~rael. In a few months it wil) hit its fiftieth year. A f1tti~g p~gram to mark this important occasion is now being/\; ranged by a special Jubilee Year Committee, of :v ic _ Leo S. Rosen is chairman and Kelly M. Kaufman 15 coe chairman. With these two capable leaders at the head w can look forward to some memorable doings in our congregation during this year. B'NAI BRITH It is expected that t~e forthcom\ng _yea1: will ~eep ~~~ congregation very active. Our B nat Bnth Lo g_e therundertaken to carry on for a would be Temple Biof hood. B'nai Brith's· combined progi·am should, there ~:;. have much to give to, and a great deal to expect from Temple membership. ��i TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL MUSKEGON I MIC HIGAN PROGRAM CONFIRMATION SERVICE SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1969 2 :30P . M . CONDUCTED BY RABBI PHILLIP ROSENBERG, B.A. Th. D. AND CONFIRM ANDS Dr. Morton Kantor, President of the Congregation Mrs. Herbert Steinman, Chairman of the Board of Education �TEMPlE 8 1 NAI IS RAEL MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN T B MP L E PROGRAM CONF I RMATION SERVICE SATU RDAY, MAY I 9lli , 1968 3:00 P.M . B I NA I I S R A E L MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN PROGRAM C O N F I R MA T I O N S E R V I C E SATURDAY, MAY 21 , 1966 10:00 A, M. CONDUCTED BY CONDUCTED BY RABBI PHILLIIP ROSENBERG B.A. Th. D. RABBI PHILLIP ROSENBERG B. A. Th. D, AND AND CONFIRMANDS CONFIRMANDS MR. ALAN OPPENHEIMER - President of the Congregation MRS. HERBERT STEINMAN - President of the Board of Education MR. JOEL WIBNBR - PRESIDENT OF THE a>NGRBGATION MR . EUGENE FISHER-PRESIDENT OF nm BOARD OF EDUCATION �TEMPLE B ' NAI ISRAEL MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN PROGRAM CONFIRMATION SERVICE SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1969 2 :3 0 P. M . CONDUCTED BY RABBI PHILLIP ROSENBERG, B. A. Th. D . AND CONFIRM ANDS Dr. Morton Kantor , President of the Congregation Mrs . Herbert Steinman, Chairman of the Board of Education �---NAMES OF CONFIRMANDS Left to right: Seth Telles , Annette Libner, Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg, Marc Rosen, David Stern . .., �MEDITATION FOR PARENTS FOR SILENT CONTEMPLATION BEFORE SERVICE God, and Father, in this hour of family gladness, I turn to Thee in Gratitude, that Thou has brought my beloved son (daughter) to this day. I thank Thee for the blessing of parenthood, which, through the years, has so deeply enriched my Ii fe. In this moment of fulfillment I am also aware of my failings. At times I have faltered in my obligations as a parent . Yet in Thy goodness Thou hast enobled me to care for his (her) physical needs and to provide for his (her) spiritual nurture. Grant me the steadfastness to guide him (her) through the years ahead by precept and example. Enoble me to develop within him (her), by what I do and say, love of Thee and devotion to compassion, learning and charity. Help me to show him (her) the way to seek Thee through the habit of prayer, Jewish observance and personal socri fi ce. May the teachings of Thy prophets and sages inspire him (her) to a life of honour and faithfulness. May he (she) grow to love the good, overcome evil, be patient under trial, and seek peace and truth. As we ore privileged to shore the joy of this day with our child, so may it be granted that we see him (her) at the wedding altar. Moy our home be consecrated to Thee, and may we and our children always serve Thee side by side. This day strengthen us. This day g ive us Thy blessings. Amen Choir: Boruch-Habah Procession of Confirmands The Ark is Opened INVOCATION BY CONFIRMAND 0 Lord, we thank Thee for the blessings that hove brought us to this sacred hour, all that we have, all that we are, comes from Thee. Words alone cannot express our gratitude. May our lives then show forth our thankfulness . Help us, 0 Lord, to be worthy of the privilege and challenge of this day . Strengthen within us the faith that binds us to Thee and to Thy people Israel. Move us to devote ourselves to the service of our fellow men. Teach us to find joy in doing Thy will and to commit our energies and talents to Thy Torah. In Thy grace our lives have been sweetened by the love of our dear ones, deepened by the wisdom of our teachers and ennobled by the heritage of our people. May we give as generously as we hove received. Accept our prayers, 0 Lord. Moy the meditations of our hearts this day flower into deeds that merit Thy blessing. Amen �:'• _._ . . ~=- ·.. ·_ .-..! • . --=·.:-'C..: Barchu et Adonai Hamvorach Praise ye the Lord to Whom al I praise is due Baruch Adonai Hamvorach Leolam Vaed Praised be the Lord to Whom all praise is due for ever and ever. FLORAL OFFERING Confirmand We come, 0 Lord, before Thee with our floral offering. On this festival our fathers came on pi lgramage to Thy Temple. With songs of joy they approached Thy sanctuary bearing Bikkurim, the first fruits of their harvest, the choice of their orchard and vineyards. We bring a spiritual harvest, our young lives, our hearts and minds, our wills and strength, to offer these before Thee. We would consecrate ourselves to the highest and holiest in life. We would be guided by ideals worthy of man's dedication. We would devote ourselves to Thy service and to the service of our fellow man. May our offering find favor in Thy sight. Moy we merit Thy continued blessing on us and our dear ones. Amen ' ) RABBI'S INVOCATION Our God and God of our fathers, we come before Thee on this holy day with gratitude and hope. We are grateful for the heritage of our people and we hope that our children will foster and preserve it for the ages. We thank Thee for the many blessings with which Thou host enriched our lives, for the harvest of field and orchard and for the fruits of our minds and hands, for the joys and challenges of home and family. We ore grateful for the sacred opportunities to ennoble the life of man. Thou hast given us freedom to choose our way in life. We open our hearts to Thy presence this day. Let Thy spirit illumine our souls and Thy word guide us in the ways of righteousness. Thou hast made Thy wi 11 known to us through Thy Torah. Teach us to find joy in pursuing Thy commandments. Help us to receive our dear ones and our fellow men with love and understanding. Strengthen in us the faith that binds us to Thee and to Thy people, Israel. May our children accept our sacred heritage with devotion. May they enrich it with their own spirit. And may they bequeath it to generations yet to come. Amen Ark is closed Choir: Mah Tovu ' ) �CONFIRMATION SERVICE Union Prayer Book . . . • . • • . . . . . . • • • . • • Page 218 - 253 TORAH SERVICE Union Prayer Book . . . Page 144 - 145 RABBI Generation after generation, since first our people stood at Sinai and accepted the Torah, we have sought to live by its commandments to love God and man. We have upheld its teachings even when suffering was the price of our devotion. Thus we keep alive in the world a message that brings hope and healing, brotherhood and peace to all mankind. "Not with you only do I make this covenant; but with him that stands with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day." With these words, spoken at Sinai, our forefathers received the Torah for themselves and for all the ages to come. You, our children, are the next generation in the chain of Jewish tradition. Take this Torah now and make it your own. Confirmand ( Holding Torah) With gratitude and pride we, the members of this confirmation class, now receive the Torah. We accept its doctrines as our holy discipline and guide. As our fathers cherished and preserved the Torah throughout the generations, so it is our duty to study it and strive to live by its commandments, so it is our prayer that we may prove worthy of this sacred gift, and that we shall transmit it to those who came after us. Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is One. Choir: Reading from the Torah Deutronomy 5-6 Hebrew and English Prophets - Book of Ruth, Chapter l �PRAYER BY ALL CONFIRMANDS With joy, our God, we members of this Confirmation Closs come before Thee in this gladsome season of the year. At this time, we remember the day of Sinai, when Israel entered into a Covenant with Thee to become a Kingdom of Priests and a holy notion. With Thy law in their hearts, Thy people has gone forth as Thy witness and amidst deadly foes and endeavoring flames hos proclaimed Thy name in all the earth. Through the ages Israel has been faithful to Thee. He found strength in troLhle, light in darkness and hope in adversity. In the some spirit, 0 Lord, we Thy children come before Thee and renew the vow of our Fathers. Imbue us with true knowledge and discernment and guide us in the paths of Thy wisdom, so that we may live by Thy laws and precepts. May Thy spirit which rested upon our Fathers and Mothers never depart from us. Grant that the truth revealed to Israel may become the possession of all men, and that the time not be distant when all the children on earth shall recognize Thee as their God and father. Amen .., Union Prayer Book . . . . . • . . • . • . . Page 14 9 - 15 O Rabbi Addresses Confirmands Presentation of Certificates By Chairman, Board of Education, Mrs . Herbert Steinman Presentation of Junior Membership Certificates By President of Congregation, Dr. Morton Kantor Adoration Kaddish Shalom Aleichem Benediction .... �RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STAFF Principal • • • . . . . . . . Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg Teachers Mrs . Florence Bishop, Miss Ellen Cahill, Mr . Alan Oppenheimer, Mr. Alan Parker, Miss Frances Price, Mrs . Phillip Rosenberg, Mrs . Irving Singer, Mrs. Kurt Strauss Executive Secretary . • . . . . . Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer Confirmation and Bar-Mitzvah Class • . . . . . Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg BOARD OF EDUCATION Chairman Mrs. Herbert Steinman Mrs. Arthur Greenberg, Mrs. Lewis Jaffe, Mrs . Arthur Jenkins, Dr. Phillip Miller, Mrs. Daniel Silberman, Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg CHOIR Music Director and Organist . . . Mr . Arnold Bourziel Mrs. Louis Aron, Mrs . Arnold Bourziel, Mrs. Audrey Cahill , Miss Ellen Cahill, Miss Ileane Gudelsky, Miss Lori Miller, Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer, Mr . Daniel Silberman, Mrs . Irving Singer, Miss Regan Teles �TEMPLE B1 NAI IS RAEL MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN PROGRAM CONFIRMATION SERVICE SATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 1968 3:00 P.M. CONDUCTED BY RABBI PHILLIP ROSENBERG B.A. Th. D. AND CONFIRMANDS MR. ALAN OPPENHEIMER - President of the Congregation MRS . HERBERT STEINMAN - President of the Board of Education �NAMES OF CONFIRMANDS First row seated left to right: David Wiener, Diane Levin, Shelley August, Paul Stern Standing left to right: Steven Rothschild, Andrea Bess, Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg, Donald Roetter, Richard Kishner �r). MEDITATION FOR PARENTS FOR SILENT CONTEMPLATION BEFORE SERVICE God, and Father, in this hour of family gladness, I turn to Thee in Gratitude, that Thou has brought my beloved son (daughter) to this day. I thank Thee for the blessing of parenthood, which, through the years, has so deeply enriched my life. In this moment of fulfillment I am also aware of my failings. At times I have faltered in my obligations as a parent. Yet in Thy goodness Thou hast enabled me to care for his (her) physical needs and to provide for his (her) spiritual nurture. Grant me the steadfastness to guide him (her) through the years ahead by precept and example. Enable me to develop within him {her), by what I do and say, love of Thee and devotion to compassion, learning and charity. Help me to show him (her) the way to seek Thee through the habit of prayer, Jewish observance and personal sacrifice. May the teachings of Thy prophets and sages inspire him (her) to a life of honour and faithfulness. May he (she) grow to love the good, overcome evil, be patient under trial, and seek peace and truth. As we are privileged to share the joy of this day with our chi Id, so may it be granted that we see him {her) at the wedding altar. May our home be consecrated to Thee, and may we and our chi Idren a Iways serve Thee side by side. This day strengthen us. This day give us Thy blessings. Amen Choir: Baruch-Habah Procession of Confirmands The Ark is Opened INVOCATION BY CONFIRMAND 0 Lord, we thank Thee for the blessings that have brought us to this sacred hour, all that we have, all that we are, comes from Thee. Words alone cannot express our gratitude. May our lives then show forth our thankfulness. Help us, 0 Lord, to be worthy of the privilege and challenge of this day. Strengthen within us the faith that binds us to Thee and to Thy people Israel. Move us to devote ourselves to the service of our fellow men. Teach us to find joy in doing Thy will and to commit our energies and talents to Thy Torah. In Thy grace our lives have been sweetened by the love of our dear ones, deepened by the wisdom of our teachers and ennobled by the heritage of our people. May we give as generously as we have received. Accept our prayers, 0 Lord. May the meditations of our hearts this day flower into deeds that merit Thy blessing. Amen �Barchu et Adonai Hamvorach Praise ye the Lord to Whom all praise is due Baruch Adonai Hamvorach Leolam Vaed Praised be the Lord to Whom all praise is due for ever and ever, FLORAL OFFERING Confirmand We come, O Lord, before Thee with our floral offering, On this festival our fathers came on pilgramage to Thy Temple, With songs of joy they approached Thy sanctuary bearing Bikkurim, the first fruits of their harvest, the choice of their orchard and vineyards. We bring a spiritual harvest, our young lives, our hearts and minds, our wills and strength, to offer these before Thee, We would consecrate ourselves to the highest and holiest in life. We would be guided by ideals worthy of man's dedication. We would devote ourselves to Thy service and to the service of our fellow man. May our offering find favor in Thy sight, May we merit Thy continued blessing on us and our dear ones. Amen RABBI'S INVOCATION Our God and God of our fathers, we come before Thee on this holy day with gratitude and hope. We are grateful for the heritage of our people and we hope that our children will foster and preserve it for the ages. We thank Thee for the many blessings with which Thou hast enriched our lives, for the harvest of field and orchard and for the fruits of our minds and hands, for the joys and challenges of home and family. We are grateful for the sacred opportunities to ennoble the life of man. Thou hast given us freedom to choose our way in life, We openourhearts to Thy presence this day. Let Thy spirit illumine our souls and Thy word guide us in the ways of righteousness. Thou hast made Thy wi 11 known to us through Thy Torah. Teach us to find joy in pursuing Thy commandments. Help us to receive our dear ones and our fellow men with love and understanding. Strengthen in us the faith that binds us to Thee and to Thy people, Israel. May our children accept our sacred heritage with devotion. May they enrich it with their own spirit. And may they bequeath it to generations yet to come, Ark is closed Choir: Mah Tovu Amen �CONFIRMATION SERVICE Union Prayer Book . . • • . . . . . . . • • • • • , •• Page 218 - 253 TORAH SERVICE j Union Prayer Book . Page 144 - 145 RABBI Generation after generation, since first our people stood at Sinai and accepted the Torah, we have sought to live by its commandments to love God and man. We have upheld its teachings even when suffering was the price of our devotion. Thus we keep alive in the world a message that brings hope and healing, brotherhood and peace to al I monk ind. "Not with you only do I make this covenant; but with him that stands with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day." With these words, spoken at Sinai, our forefathers received the Torah for themselves and for all the ages to come. You, our children, are the next generation in the chain of Jewish tradition. Take this Torah now and make it your own. Confirmand (Holding Torah) With gratitude and pride we, the members of this confirmation class, now receive the Torah. We accept its doctrines as our holy discipline and guide. As our fathers cherished and preserved the Torah throughout the generations, so it is our duty to study it and strive to live by its commandments, so it is our prayer that we may prove worthy of this sacred gift, and that we shal I transmit it to those who come after us, f l Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is One. Choir: Reading from the Torah Deutronomy 5-6 Hebrew and English Prophets - Book of Ruth, Chapter 1 Opening of Ark �PRAYER BY ALL CONFIRMANDS With joy, our God, we members of this Confirmation Class come before Thee in this gladsome season of the year. At this time, we remember the day of Sinai, when Israel entered into a Covenant with Thee to become a Kingdom of Priests and a holy nation. With Thy law in their hearts, Thy people has gone forth as Thy witness and amidst deadly foes and endeavoring flames has proclaimed Thy name in all the earth. Through the ages Israel has been faithful to Thee. He found strength in trou:>le, light in darkness and hope in adversity. In the same spirit, 0 Lord, we Thy children come before Thee and renew the vow of our Fathers. Imbue us with true knowledge and discernment and guide us in the paths of Thy wisdom, so that we may live by Thy laws and precepts. May Thy spirit which rested upon our Fathers and Mothers never depart from us. Grant that the truth revealed to lsrae I may become the possession of all men, and that the time not be distant when all the children on earth shall recognize Thee as their God and father. Amen Union Prayer Book . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . • . . . Page 149 - 150 Rabbi Addresses Confirmands Presentation of Certificates By President, Board of Education, Mrs. Herbert Steinman Presentation of Junior Membership Certificates By President of Congregation, Mr. Alan Oppenheimer Adoration Kaddish Shalom Aleichem Benedict ion �RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STAFF Principal • . • • • • • • • . • • • • • . • . • Robbi Phillip Rosenberg ,. Teachers • . • • • • • • • • . . • • Mrs. Florence Bishop, Miss Ellen Cohill, Mrs . Arthur Jenkins, Mr. Alon Oppenheimer, Mrs. Worner Golombeck, Miss Frances Price, Mrs. Phillip Rosenberg Executive Secretary . . • • • • . • • • . • • Confirmation and Bar-Mitzvoh Class • Mrs. Alon Oppenheimer Robbi Phillip Rosenberg Assis ted by Mrs . Harry Berman BOARD OF EDUCATION Chairman • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • Mrs . Herbert Steinman Mrs. Louis Aron, Mrs. Rolph August, Dr. Arthur Greenberg, Mrs. Lewis Joffe, Mrs. Jock Lipman, Dr. Phillip Miller, Mrs . Alon Openheimer, Sisterhood Representative CHOIR Music Director and Organist • • • • • • • • • • . Mr. Arnold Bourziel Mrs. Louis Aron, Mrs. Arnold Baurziel, Mrs. Audrey Cohill, Miss Ellen Cahill, Miss Beth Cherin, Mrs . Worner Golombeck, Miss Ileane Gudelsky, Mrs . Alon Oppenheimer, Mr . Doniel Silberman, Miss Regan Teles �T E MP L E B ' NA I I S R A E L MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN PROGRAM CONFIRMATION SERVICE SATIJRDAY, MAY 21, 1966 10:00 A. M. CONDUCTED BY RABBI PHILLIP ROSENBERG B. A. Th. D. AND CONFIRMANDS MR. JOEL WIENER - PRESIDENT OF THE CONGREGATION MR. EUGENE FISHER-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION �1966 Confirmands First Row Seated Left to Right: Regina Bruelbeck, Richard Steinman, Janet Friend, Susan Fisher, Lee Oppenheimer, Barbara Rosen Standing Left to Right: Jerry Ashendorf, Larry Rcetter, Marguerite Bacon Carla Rapoport, Rabbi Dr. Phillip Rosenberg, Carol Steindler, Robert Galombeck, Richard Roetter, Edward Stern �MEDITATION FOR PARENTS FOR SILENT CONTEMPLATION BEFORE SERVICE God, and gladness, Father, in this hour of family I turn to Thee in Gratitude, that Thou has brought my beloved son (daughter)to this day. I thank Thee for the blessingof parenthood, which, through the years, has so deeply enriched my life. In this moment of fulfillment I am also aware of my failings. At times I faltered in my obligations as a parent. have Yet in Thy goodness Thou hast enabled me to care for his (her) physical needs and to for his (her) spiritual nurture. provide Grant me the steadfastness to guide him (her) through the years ahead by precept and example. En- able me to develop within him (her), by what �I do and say, love of Thee and devotion to com- passion, learning and charity. Help me to show him {her) the way to seek Thee through the habit of prayer, Jewish observance and personal sacrifice. May the teachings of Thy prophets and sages inspire him {her) to a life of honour and faithfulness. May he {she) grow overcome evil, to love the good, be patient under trial, and seek peace and truth. As we are privileged to share the joy of this day with our child, so may it be granted that we see him (her) at the wedding altar. May our home be consecrated to Thee, and may we and our children always serve Thee side by side. This day strengthen us. This day give us Thy blessings. Amen �Choir: Baruch-Habah Procession of Confirmands The Ark is Opened INVOCATION BY CONFIRMAND 0 Lord, that we thank Thee for the blessings have brought us to this sacred hour, all that we have, all that we are, comes from Thee. Words alone cannot express our gratitude. May our lives then show forth our thankfulness. Help us, lege and within to Thy 0 Lord, to be worthy of the privi- challenge us of this day. Strengthen the faith that binds us to Thee and people Israel. Move us to devote our- selves to the service of our fellow men. Teach to commit Torah. us to find joy in doing Thy will and our energies and talents to Thy �In Thy grace our lives have been sweetened by the love of our dear ones, deepened by the wisdom of our teachers and ennobled by the heritage of our people. as we Lord. have May May received. the we give as generously Accept meditations our prayers, O of our hearts this day flower into deeds that merit Thy blessing. Amen Barchu et Adonai Hamvorach Praise ye the Lord to Whom all praise is due Baruch Adonai Hamvorach Leolam Vaed Praised be the Lord to Whom all praise is due for ever and ever. • �FLORAL OFFERING Confirmand We come, 0 Lord, before Thee with our floral offering. this On grimage festival our fathers came on pil- to Thy Temple. With songs of joy they approached Thy sactuary bearing Bikkurim, the first fruits of their harvest, the choice of their orchards and vineyards. We lives, bring our strength, would and by a spiritual hearts to offer consecrate holiest ideals and in worthy harvest, our young minds, our wills and these before ourselves life. of would devote ourselves We to to the would man's Thee. be We highest guided dedication. We service and Thy to the service of our fellow man. May sight. our offering find favor in Thy May we merit Thy continued blessing on us and our dear ones. Aaen �RABBI'S INVOCATION Our God before and of and 'nlee hope. our God of our fathers, we come on this holy day with gratitude We are grateful for the heritage people and we hope that our children will foster and preserve it for tlie ages . We thank with which Thee Thou for hast the many blessings enriched our lives, for the harvest of field and orchard, for the fruits and of our minds and hands, for the joys challenges grateful of home and family. We are for the sacred opportunities to en- noble the life of man. Thou hast way in life. given us freedom to choose our We open our hearts to Thy pre- sence this day. Let souls word guide us in the ways of and Thy Thy spirit illumine our �righteousness. Thou hast made Thy will known to us through Thy Torah. Thy commandments. ones and Teach our us to find joy in pursuing Help us to receive our dear fellow men with love and under- standing. Strengthen to Thee children and in us to Thy the faith that binds us people, Israel . May our accept our sacred heritage with devo- tion. May they enrich it with their own spirit. And may they bequeath it to generations yet to come. Amen Ark is closed Choir: Mah Tovu �~ SABBATH SERVICE Union Prayer Book Page 118 - 128 Union Prayer Book Page 234 - 235 Union Prayer Book Page 138 - 140 TORAH SERVICE Page 144 - 145 Union Prayer Book RABBI Generation our people Torah, ments we after stood generation, at Sinai since and first accepted the have sought to live by its command- to love God and man. We have upheld its teachings even when suffering was the price of our devotion. Thus we keep alive in the world a message that brings hope and healing, erhood and peace to all mankind. broth- "Not with you only do I make this covenant; but with him that stands with us this day before the Lord our �and God, us this Sinai, also with him that is not here with day." spoken at our forefathers received the Torah for themselves our with these words, and children, chain of for all the ages to come. Yo~, are the next generation in the Jewish tradition. Take this Torah now and make it your own. Confirmand (Holding Torah) With gratitude and pride we, the members of this confirmation class, now receive the Torah. We accept line and its guide, doctrines as our holy discip- As our fathers cherished and preserved the Torah throughout the generations, so it is our duty to study it and strive to live by its commandments, so it is our prayer that we may prove worthy of this sacred gift, �and that we shall transmit it to those who come after us. Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is One. Choir:Reading from the Torah Deutronomy 5-6 Hebrew and English Prophets - Book of Ruth Chapter 1 Opening of Ark PRAYER BY ALL CONFIRMANDS With joy, our God, firmation Class some season of we members of this Con- come before Thee in this gladthe year. remember the day of Sinai, into a At this time, we when Israel entered Covenant with Thee to become a Kingdom �of Priests and a holy nation. With has Thy gone deadly the forth foes claimed Thy ages found law in as and Israel Thy hearts, witness endeavoring name strength their in has in all Thy people and amidst flames the has earth. pro- Through been faithful to Thee. He trouble, light in darkness and hope in adversity. In come the before same spirit, 0 Lord, we Thy children Thee and renew the vow of our Fath- ers. Imbue us with true knowledge and discernment and guide us in the paths of Thy wisdom, so that we may live by Thy laws and precepts. May Thy and Mothers the truth possession spirit which rested upon our Fathers never revealed of all depart from to Israel men, and us. Grant that may become the that the time not �be distant when all the children on earth shall recognize Thee as their God and father. Amen Union Prayer Book Page 149 - 150 Rabbi Addresses Confirmands Presentation of Certificates By President Board of Education Eugene Fisher Presentation of Junior Membership Certificates By President of Congregation Mr, Joel Wiener Adoration Kaddish Shalom Aleichem Benediction v �RELIGIOUS SCHOOL STAFF Principal: - Mrs. Jerome Cherin Teachers: Miss Ellen Cahill, Mrs. Harrison Friend, Miss Lorraine Friend, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer, Mr. James Price, Mr. Alan Parker, Mrs. Douglas Rosen, Mrs. Dan Rapoport, Mrs. Martin Schankler. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shumacher. Confirmation and Bar-Mitzvah Class - Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg assisted by Mrs Harry Berman BOARD OF EDUCATION Mr. Eugene Fisher, Mrs. Ralph August, Mx:s. Jack Lipman, Mrs. Douglas Rosen, Mr. Herbert Steinman, Mr. Marvin Gudelsky, Mrs. Jerome Cherin, Mrs. Louis Aron CHOIR Mr . Arnold Bourziel, Music Director and Organist Members: Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer, Miss Lorraine Friend, Mrs. Harrison Friend, Miss Janet Friend, Miss Ilene Gudelsky, Mrs. Warner Galombeck, Mr. James Price, Mrs. James Price, Mrs. Louis Aron, Mrs. Audrey Cahill, Miss Ellen Cahill, Mr. Daniel Silberman �FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of GREATER MUSKEGON LEOS. ROSEN ·Prl'udt·nt Afuskr~on Houu of Jn·Hh Worrh,p .__________________~il �SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JE\VISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON ,,, ,,,_,,n- EIGHTH ANNUAL R,EPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 19-l'-1948 T M. KAUFMAN HARRY S. BERMAN Cb.unna11 �FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of GREATER MUSKEGON LEOS. ROSEN �Commencing with the fifth annual rl'porr, your chairman 1s inaugurating a plan when·bv the front cover of each annual report will be dedicated to a member who has performed outstandinj! ,ervice in behalf of the community, For its first selection, Leo S. Rosen was awarded this honor, because of his untiring efforts and devotion to promote the well being of Jewry. �a:cc===-===::n1c:11a:=::m=:"' cA Message fro,n Y our Chainnan I am suhmittinJ.: the Jnnual report cf your UniteJ Je" i,h Charit1e, for the li~cal year rnJinp, Au.c:u,t 31, 19i'; Tlw success of the 191 I 1'; camp a Ip, n wherein I 02 people contributed $19,360.00 i, a te,t1moni.ll to your p,rnero,11r. It indil.ltes that the Jewi,h 1x·ople of Greater ;\iu,keJ,;On ha,e in tl1t·ir hearts the de,irc to aid and encoura_ge other:., and at the ,.1me time support ih own loc.11 institution, .tnd prow.1nh to .111 e,·er inrrt·.1,inp, extent. You will note in the report tl1.1t your Trustee, .illocated $760.00 to the Mu,kep,on Board of Jew l'h Ls• .. 1: 10· .• which sum rcprc,cnh one-third of the co,t of scndin_g 62 children to Sund.I) ~hool durinp, the p.1,t rear. Thi, is one of the soundest im·estments our community t.tn m.1ke. Tlw fir,t Ji,·idend was rerci, cd when we witncs•·ed the confirnution exerci•c, b,t June. Durinp, the pa,t yc:ar the ;\fo:1a Vie" }.:wish Cemtterr A,soci,ttion purdu,cJ from the City of Muskep,on lleip,hts. Perpctu,11 cart• 1s p,11.1r.llltt·ed e,1d1 lot. Four thousand doll.1rs ,us p.1id upon the exe.·ution of the contract, .ind the halance i, papble witlun four year,. The U.J.C. lo.med the $'1,000,00 to the ,-\,rociation with the understanding that additional fund, will he nude a,ail.1blt· to me<:! tlw terms o( thl contratt .ind that ,1, loh are ,old, the s111m lo.med will hl' repaid to t;111ted Jcwl\h Charitic,. ,,-; I lots for SI 1,800.00 I hore that }OU will l,1ke time to study thi, report •o that you ma) he fully pn:parcd to ,oice your opinion ,II the next rreuing, at which time: new olfacr, and tru,t<.:cs will he cit-lied for the enrning ye.ir. Smcerely yours. PAUL M. \\'IENl R, Ch,111111,111 e:; r:::::==== ,-, = >.:if!i:lf'='"" !:.<= ===== - -======,:.,,-~=====:::... 1:i ====-====~=========::n-=-~m=====-~==~=~=~=m==:-===== �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES SUMMARY REPORT OF CASH AN D PLEDGES 1944 - 1945 Schedule A Amount pledged I 9+i• I 9..t 5.... .......... ......................... ..... .................. Cash on hand Sept. I, 19+-i.. ......................................S 1,619.-16 Collected on 19·13·1911 pledges... .... ..... ...................... 115.00 TOTAL.................. ..... ................................... S 19,360.00 1,761.46 $21,124.-16 Pledges outstanding, Schedule A2 ....................................$ 130.00 Monies allocated and paid listed on Schedule A 1........... 18Jn9A7 18,969.47 GENERAL EXPENSES Occidental dinners ... .................................................$ Printing expense ........................................................... . 159.90 113. 52 303.42 Cash on hand and in bank Aug. 31, 194 5......................... . 1,851.57 TOTAL ............................................................ . $21,124.46 Schedule A2 PLEDGES PAID ON ACCOUNT Pledged Louis Seger ...... ............. ............................ ... .. 25.00 Sam Lawson .......................................................... 25.00 Paid 10.00 10.00 Due 15.00 15.00 $50.00 $ 20.00 $ 30.00 PLEDGED AND NOT PAID Stanier Baru .......................................................$ 50.00 Jake Goldberg ..... ................................................ 50.00 $100.00 Balance due on pledges as listed ahove ...................................... . $130.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATION S 1944 - 1945 Sched ule A l American Fund for Palestinian Jnsts. .... ..... .. American Jc·wish Confer<:ncc Jewish Telegraphic Agency ........ I 00.00 50.00 100.00 Jewish Theological Seminary of America .............................. 200.00 American Jewish Congress. 25.0C Joint Defense Appeal ............. .J00.00 Belfaire Orphan Home 25.00 Levi Memorial Hospital ........... l0J.00 Local Civic Protector Work... 221.35 B'n,1i B'rith Wider Scope ?,50.00 l\lrs. Aaron Cohen, salary settle• ······s ment Council of Jewish Welfare and Federation Funds .... 1.000.00 120.00 Donations -Transients 38.00 Ex•patients Home of Den"er. 35.00 Gfts Men in Service. Hadassah Hospital 112.62 1,000.00 I kbrew Theological College of Chic1go ... .. 100.00 Hebrew University, Jerusalem 250.00 Hias 100.00 Histadrut Jvrit 37.50 Mona View Jewish Cemetery As• sociation ........ . .. .... ..... 2,000.0J Michigan Hillel Bldg. Fund .... 50.00 rs.at'! Farm School ....... .. 60.00 rs.at'! Jewish Children's Home. 50.00 Nat'I Jewish Hospital of Denver 125.00 Ra',bi Isaac Eleh,rnan Yeshivah .. 150.00 Society for Relief of Yemenite Jews ........................ 35.00 Sunthy School Fund ............... . 760 00 Sons of Israel ·Matzo Fund...... 100.00 Technological School of Haifa .... The Pro:estant ...... 75,00 100.00 Hist:1drut of Palestine 100.00 Incurable Jews 100.00 Jewish \1(/dfare Board ... 1-15.00 United Jewish Layman's Com· mittee ...................................... 75.00 Jewish Consumptive R<:lid Sn• cit:ty U.S.O., B,1ttle Creek....... 50.00 200.00 Va:id Ltumi 35.00 Jewish Braille I nstitute ....... Jewish Institute of Religion ....... United Jtwish Appeal ............... 10,000.00 35.00 250.00 TOTAL ...............................$ 18,839.,1- �- -------===----PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = Pledged Pledged I 50.00 Morris Friend .............. 200.00 Tonr Aron l'i0.00 Dr. M. L. Friedenberg 100.00 Abe Ashendorf 500.00 M. J. Goldberg (Spring Lake) 100.00 Louis Aron .. ......... . $ Samuel Ashendorf . ........... 'i00.00 50.00 Jakt 8Jum .. Harrr H. Berman... .... ....... I 00.00 Ruben Berman .. . . . ......... I 00.00 Harr,· 5 Berman . 350.00 Louts M. Berman . 200.00 Mrs. Rose Berman I 00.00 Morm Bespeloff . 2'>.00 Herm,m Braverman .. .... ... 'i0.00 Nath,m M. Broutman ........ 75.00 Sigmund Cahn .. 25.00 .. .... . Robc.:rt Cherin . 100.00 Dr. Sol Cohan. 75.00 L. Darmstadter 50.00 Andrew Epstein I 50.00 Sam Esses ... 5.00 Harrr Field .. . '.i0.00 Bcrn,1rd Fisher I 00.00 Harrr A. Fisber .. . 500.00 Jeromt Fisher ... . . 100.00 Al. Frank .... ....... ............ .. ~00.00 Hpn.m Friedman ... .... .. . 2'i.00 ........... . Al. Golden 50.00 l\i.lurice W Golden. 200.00 Phil. Granik 100.00 Grossman', Dept. Stort 500.00 Harold Grossman .. 250.00 Herman Grossman ... 325.00 ~frs. Sadie Grossman .. 400.00 Samuel Grossman ....... 25.00 David Gudclsky 150.00 Koma Gudelskr 25.00 Oscar Gudelsky 50.00 L. V. Heller (Milwaukee) .. 10.00 Mrs. Tillie Jacobs ...... 10.00 Morris Kantor 100.00 ]. M. Kaufman 600.00 Dr. Marie Keilen ..... 2 5 .on Samuel Kl,t} f 15000 Mrs. Sara Klein 150.00 Harold Kime 25 00 Ile\. Klitzner 10.00 Abe Kollenberg (Grand Rapids) 100.00 �PAID-UP CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS = 1 ! Pledged Ben Komiss 25.00 Alex. Krause 250.00 Harry Lahr 25.00 Jack Lawson 200.00 J<:sst• LeYin 10.00 R<:uh<:n Levy 50.00 H)man Lipman .... .. 500.00 Samuc:I Lipman ............. 500.00 Ch.1rles Locke .......... . . 25.00 H<:rman Mendc:lson .. 25.00 J. .. W. Metz Joe Miller (H.irt) 15.00 J0<: 25.00 Nadel Robert Rosenberg ............ 50.00 Paul J. Schlossman (non-member) ............. 1,000.00 Max Schubb .. 50.00 Abe Shmookler .... ............... 600.00 Max Shumaker .. . . . . . . ..... I 00.00 Samuel Siegel .. . . 200.00 H. A. SdYerman .. 600.00 Sol. Silverman .. 1 50.00 Ed. Simcoe ... .. I 00.00 Joe Sunon ....... . 100.00 Jacob Singer ... 15.00 Joe Singer (Hart) ............ J. 100.00 Ted Neumer 250.00 Sam. Smger .................... 50.00 S,1m Orlikoff 150.00 Ely Smith ........................ 100.00 15.00 Charles Smith . . . ... . .......... I 00.00 Pontiac Frocks, Inc. ....... . ] 50.00 Pk-dged N.1than Price 250.00 Fred W. Stein 100.00 Sam Price 250.00 Milton Steindler 250.00 hadore Rodin .. 50.00 William Stern .. 200.00 Fred Rodoff 25.00 Joe S. Stnflmg .. 750.00 Leo Rose 50.00 M. Teles ................ 20.00 H;1rold Rosen 300.00 Walters & Breecher............ 200.00 Leo S. Rosen -450.00 Josiah Wiener 500.00 Sam D. Rosenbaum ...... 125.00 Paul M. Wiener Max Rosenberg ............... . .. 350.00 Morton L Wolfe ................ 2,000.00 225.00 �---~----~-------- .... ARMED SERVICES HOSOR ROLL *** Irving Achtenberg G. B. DeJong Harry Ashendorf Frank Disken I. Ashendorf Eugene Fisher J. Ashendorf M::ix Ashendorf Norman Fleishman Ardo M. Friend Abe Berman Jack Berman Max 0. Berman Marcus Bess Phil Best Stanford Broutman Harrison (Buddy) Friend Lawrence Gluck Dave Goldberg Herman Grossman Louis H. Grossman lewis S. Grossman Seymour Cane Alfred Caplan J-:rome Cherin Ben Cohen Hilliard Gudelsky Justin Gudelsky Leon Gudelsky Eugene Hirsch George Hirsch Oscar Daniels He:1ry Darmstadter Ldie Davis Irving Hirsch Sam Jacobs Morton Jacobs �ARMED SERVICES HONOR ROLL *** Herman Kessler Dou.1-(las Rosen Lawrence Klein Seymour Rosenberg Ben Klitzner Chas. Rubinsky Arthur Kopoloff Louis Rubinsky E. H. Krause David Krupp Marvin Saffer Morris Levine Sam Schumacher Raedelle S. Levy Irving E. Sih·erman Volf Liebovitz Harry Singer Jack Lipman H y. Singer Irving Singer Phillip Miller Jay L. Singer James Mintz Marvin Skolkin Dan M. Moore N. H. Skolkin I rving Stein R. M. Orlikoff Robert Stein Al Parker I r Syd. Polly Lewis Jack Steindler Leonard Price Nathan Talbot * Jerome Stern - Killed in Action �PAUL At tx J. SCHLOSSMAN C ,/Jt. /"4 ,,J,,p,, A generous lltver to all cnuses without regard to race, creed or color. His daily acrs are an in,piration to all who work for the cause of humantty. �- in alemoriam SAMUEL ASHENDORF 1880 . 1945 MORRIS BESPALOFF 1 877. 1945 We mourn the passing of our beloved fm:nds and neighbors; theirs were truly Jewish hearts. J_______ __J �SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JE\VISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON /1//f, . /tJ/ i l - M KAUFMA.N t /,nirmuu �THE FATE OF A COMMUNITY is, in a great measure determined by the efforts of individuals willing and capable of leadership in organizational work. It has been Muskegon Jewry's good fortune to find that leadership when the need has been the jlreatest. For many years the leadership of this community has enjoyed the backing and support of self-effacing). M. Kaufman, and last year when the needs of the United Jewish Appeal reached unprecedented proportions, this goodnatured executive assumed the responsibility of surpassing the goal set for us. In effort, sacrifice and devotion, our esteemed friend knew no limits and his inability to serve further in this capacity due ro physical limirations is a source of great disappointment to him and to us. Only those who have worked intimately with Kelly can appreciate the great burden of j!ratitucle thar this rommunirv wall always owr him. _(")R MORRIS TEI FS, Srcrenrv �A MESSAGE FROM YOUR ACTING CHAIRMAN It is my pleasure on behalf of the officers and trustees of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, to present, herewith, the annual report of receipts, expenditures and allocations for the fiscal year. This affords me the opportunity to thank my officers and trustees, as well as so many of my friends who gave so generously of their time and effort through the many meetings in order that our goal may be accomplished. My sincere thanks to all of you. This report of the United Jewish Charities ends seven years of remarkable progress. The money that has been so graciously contributed by you has not been charity, but a human treatment of a people who are struggling to regain their just place as hµman beings-struggling against staggering odds, after the most ghastly and most devastating horror to which whole people have ever been subjected! Our community can be proud of the start that has been made. A start toward real solution by means of rehabilitation and resettlement. But a start alone is not enough! HELP US FINISH THE JOB - - WILL YOU? (continued on next page) �MESSAGE {continued) The cash balance on hand, as indicated by these exhibits, is being disbursed immediately. In past years your trustees have seen fit to advance as a loan, $4500. 00 to the Mona View Cemetery Association. During the fiscal year concluded, $1200. 00 nas advanced, resulting in a total of )5700.00 loaned to the Association. I sincerely trust that you »ill again extend your ~hole-hearted support and cooperation for the urgent needs that confront Muskegon's Jewry. Sincerely yours, HARRY S. BERf: AN Acting Chairman * ** * �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES CASH RE.CEIPTS AND DISBURSEEENTS FOR YEAR ENDED NOV. 26, 1947 Amounts pledged 1946-47 (Schedule A-1) Cash in Bank Oct. 14, 1946 Collected on 1945-46 pledges Refund of Expenses $64,020.00 $2,.377.20 295.00 2.22 2,674.42 Pledges outstanding (Schedule A-2) $2,6oO.OO Monies allocated (Schedule A-3) 55 1 235 1 00 57,925.00 General Expenses: Dinners & Music Printing, Stationery & Postage Telegraph Traveling Expense 485.05 225.26 41..34 23.25 774.90 Cash in Bank November 26, 1947 5,709.52 Cash on Hand November 26, 1947 2,285.00 TOTAL '66,694.42 �Schedule A-3 UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1946-1947 United Jewish Appeal • • • • • Local Relief • • • • • • • Youth Aliyah • • • • • • • American Jewish Congress• • • • B'nai B'rith Wider Scope • • • • Federated Council of Pal. Inst. • Hebrew Theological Seminary. • • Haifa Inst. of Technology • • • Jewish Telegraphic Agency • • • s.o.s. J.D.C. • • • • • • Council of Jewish Fed. & lfel. Funds z.o.A. Expansion Funds • • • • American Jewish Conference • • • Dropsie College • • • • • • Jewish Welfare Board • • • • • Joint Defense Appeal • • • • • Weizman Institute • • • • • • Jewish Theological Seminary • • • Mr. Horris Teles • • • • • • Transient Relief • • • • • • Special Relief • • • , • • • American Friend Hebrew Univ. • • Histadrut Ivrith • • • • • Hebrew Sheltering & Aid Society • Hebrew Union College • • • • • Histadrut of Palestine • • • • Jewish Institute of Religion • • Levi liemorial Hospital • • • • Medical School in Jerusalem • • • Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo. Seminary United Jewish Laymen's Comm. • • Society for Yeminite Jews • • • B'nai B1rith Hillel Building • • B'nai B'ritb Essay Contest • • • Mona View Cemetery Loan • • • • Ot t $ 45,000.00 200.00 1,000.00 50.00 350.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 250.00 100.00 500.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 800.00 100.00 200.00 250.00 50. 00 125. 00 500.00 50,00 200.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 100.00 1,800.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 500.00 600.00 1 200,00 js5:325.oo Schedule A-2 us anding Pledges••··•··•••·····•• $2,600.00 t i l �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1946-47 PLEDGES Aron, Louis • • • • • • • • • • • • j n , Sylvia • • • • • • • • • • • • n , Tony • • • • • • • • , • • • • Ashendorf, Family • • • • • • • , • , Mrs. S. • • • • • • • • • " Adler, Harold • • • • • • • • • • • .August, Dr. Ralph • • • • • • • • • Baru, Stanley • • • • • • • Berman, Harry H• • • • • • • • • • • • , Harry S. • • • • • • • • • • tt , Louis • • • • • . • • • • • • , Ruben • • • • • • • • • • • • , Mrs. Rose • • • • • • • • • Bernstein, Morris • • • • • •• Beukema, J.C • • • • • • • . • • • • Bespeloff, Mrs. M. • • • • • • • • • Braverman, Herman • • • • • • • • • Broutman, Nathan • • • • • • • • • • • , Samuel • • • • • • • • • • n , Mrs. Samuel • • • • • • • Benderoff, S. M. • • • • • • • • • .. Cane, Dr. S. H. • • • • • • • • • • Cahn, Sigmund • • • • • • • • • • • Cherin, Robert • • • • • • • • • • • Cohan, Sol M.D• • • • • • • • • • . Cohen, Bennie • • • • • • • • • • • Darmstader, L. • • • • • • • • • Epstein, Andrew • • • • • • • • • • Field, Harry • • • • • • • • • • • Fine, Francis • • • • • • • • • • • Fisher, Family • • • • • • • • • • • • , Herbert n , Mrs. Herbert • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• , Sally & Marion • • • • • • • , Mrs. Bernard ••• • • • • • , Mrs. Eugene • • • • • • • • Fogel, Wm. • • • • • .. • • • • •• • " • 500.00 100.00 500.00 500.00 50.00 50.00 1,000.00 200.00 300.00 1,500.00 400.00 300.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 10.00 200.00 150.00 200.00 25.00 1,000.00 50.00 50.00 300.00 300.00 25.00 200.00 250.00 25.00 300.00 3,000.00 50.00 10.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHLRITIES 1946-47 PLEDGES Fleishman, Dr. N• • • • • • • • • • Frank, Alfred • • • • • • • • • • • Friedenberg, Dr. ti. L. , • • Friedman, Hyman • • • • • • • • Friend, Maurice. • • • •••• Fox, Hyman • • • • • • • • • • • • Golden, Uaurice • • • • • • • • •• Grossman Dep 1t. Store • • • • • • • 11 Herman • • • • • • • • • " , Mrs. ~adie • • • • • • • Louis. " n .. . , Sam • • • • • • • • • • • Hecht, J. • • . . . n , f.i.rs. J. . ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • firs. S • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , • Hatton, Julian Hagen, F. W. • Jacobs, Meyer • Jacobson, Mr. & Kantor, Morris Kaufman, J. M. • • • • • • • • American Store F,quip. • , ••• Krupp, David • • • • • • Kaufman, Lillian • • • • • •• Kelin, Dr. Marie • • • • • • • • • Klayf, Sam • • • ••••• Kline, Harold • • • • • • • • • • • Klitzner, Rev, • • • • • • • • • • Komiss, Ben • • • • • • • • • • • • Krause, Alexander • • • • • • • • • n , Sadie • • • • • • • • Klein, Sara. • • • • • • • •• Lahr, Harry • • • • . . • . . • • • Lawson, Jack • • • • • • • • • • • Lebow, Max • • • • • • • • " , Sophia • • • • • • • • • Levin, Jess • • • • • • • • • , •• Levine, Horris • • • • 11 , Jerome ••••• .. . ... . .. 200.00 250.00 220.00 100.00 500.00 25.00 750.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 100.00 300.00 100.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 200.00 300.00 2,000.00 1,500.00 25.00 250.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 30.00 25.00 500.00 100.00 200.00 25.00 850,00 300.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 10.00 $ l �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1947-47 PLEDGES Lenhoff, Mex • • • • • • • • • • • Levy, Reuben • • • • • • • • • • • Locke, Charles • • • • • • • • • • Lipman, S. & H• • • • • • • • • • • Larson, Leo • • • • • • • • • • • • Mendelsohn, Herman • • • • • • • • Hetz, James • • • • • • • • • • • Neumer, Ted ••••••••••• Oppenheim, B • • • • • • • • • • • • Parker, Albert • • • • • • • • • • Price, Family • • • • • • • • • • • Rapaport, J.C. • • • • • • •• Roden, Israel • • • • • • • • • • • Rodoff, Fred • • • • • • • • • • • Rogers, Mr. & Mrs. L • • • • • • • • Rosen, Harold • • • • • • • • • • • Rosen, Douglas ••••••• " , Mrs. Douglas • • • • • • • • " , fJarcia • • • • • • . • • • • • n , Leo • • • • • • • • • • , Florence • • • • • • • • • • Rosenbaum, Sam • • • • • • • • • • Rosenberg, Hax • • • • • • • • • • 11 , Robert • • • • • II , Rose. 11 , Seymour • • • • • • • • Roth, r~rtin • • • • • • Rubinsky, Chas • • • • • • • • • • • " , Florence • , Ra.e • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Rabbi Satlow • • • • • • P.lrs. SatloTT • • • • • • Shmookler, Abe • • • • • 11 , Rebeccah • • • Schubb, Max • • • • • • Schumacher, Max • • • • • " , Leah • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • $ 50.00 150.00 100.00 3,000.00 20.00 50.00 50.00 1,000.00 100.00 25.00 1,500.00 100.00 200.00 200 .. 00 325.00 1,200.00 50.00 10.00 100.00 1,500.00 100.00 500.00 750.00 200.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 250.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 50.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1946·-47 PIBDGES Schumacher, Sam. • ••••• u , Lotta • • • • • • • • • Silverman, Hn·old • • • • • • • • • 1' , Sol • . • • • • . . • • Simcoe, Ed • • • • • • • • • • • • Smith, Chas. • • • •••••• 11 , Urs. Chas • • • • • • • • • • " , Ely . • • • • . • . • • 11 , Hrs. Ely • • • • • • • • • • Simon, Joe • • • • • • • • • • Singer, Joe • • • • • • • • • • • • Singer, Jacob • • • • • • • • • • • Stein, Frederick • • • • • • • • • Steindler, Milton • • • • • , • 11 , Frances •••••••• 11 , Jack • • • • • • • • • Strifling, Joe • • • • • • • • • • nu ' Syd • • • • • Hamilton Apts. • • • • • • • • • • Siegel, Samuel • • • • • • • • • • Smith, Saul • • • • • • • • • • , Teles, Dr. M. • •••• , , ••• Wiener, Josiah • , • , • • • • " , Mrs. Josiah • • • ••• Wiener, Paul • • • • • • • West Mich. Steel . .. .. . . TOTAL PLEDGES ' 25.,00 • 10~00 2,000~00 500.00 100.00 250.00 10.00 250.00 25.00 100.00 300.00 30.00 500.00 500.00 50.00 75.00 4,000.00 250.00 1,000.00 200.00 25.00 100.00 600.00 150.00 10,000.00 500.00 • • ••• $64,020.00 �JU!Ql_ �EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1947- 1948 HARRY S. BERMAN Chainna11 �The success of organized community charities and philanthropies to a great cxtc:nt depends on the sympathy, generosity and ability of its lc:aders. The Unite:d Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon faced its greate:st challenge last year when it had to raise more funds than at any time before in its history and still not interfere with the fund-raising for our Temple. This challc:nge was accepte:d by the able and energetic Harry S. Btrman. Through his able leadership and devotion to the cause, a new goal was attained. To you, Harry S. Berman, the community acknowledge:s a debt of gratitude and appreciation for an assignment well done. PAUL M. WIENER, Honorary Chairman j �A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE U. J . C. It was indeed an honor and privilege to have been singled out by this community to head the U.J.G. drive in the past year. I say it was an honor because the community by electing me for the task, showed its trust, confidence and faith in my ability to fulfill my assignment. The reason I deem it a privilege is because not everyone is privileged to live in a country such as ours where there is not only opportunity for its citizens to live in peace but where man can extend a helping hand to his fellow man, deprived of similar privileges and opportunities . Huskegon Jewry deserves credit for its generous gifts to the U. J . G. in past years. Our giving made it possible for our brethren to fight heroically and emerge victoriously. (continued on next page) �MESSAGE (continued) The fight unfortunately is still on, and so our giving must not diminish this year. As a matter of fact, we must give more generously now than ever before. For while the doors of every land are practically closed to our warafflicted brethren still languishing in concentration camps, the State of Israeli has its friendly hand stretcred out to taJce them in, and give them a home in which they can live in freedom and enjoy a sense of dignity experienced by no other Jew anywhere on the globe. Our brethren in Europe and Palestine ask for cooperation. Let us answer them generously. HARRY S. BERMAN Chairman * ** * * ** * �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEiJENTS 1948 FOR YEAR ENDED DEC. 3, Amounts pledged 1947-48 (Schedule A-1) $76,776.50 Cash in Bank & on Hand 11/26/1947 $7,994.52 Collected on 1946-47 pledges 1,850.00 Refund from B:nai B 1rith, Essay Contest 600.00 Check issued 4/30/46 to Michigan Hiilel Building Fund, not cashed and cancelled 50.00 Remittance from Mona View Jewish Cemetery Association 2,000.00 12,494e52 Total Pledges Outstanding 1947-48 Shrinkage 1946·-47 Shrinkage 1947-48 Moneys Allocated (Schedule A-2) $89,271.02 $6,693.00 200.00 75.00 77,790.05 84,758005 General Expenses: Dinners, Music, Flowers $ Printing, Stationery & Postage Secretarial, Clerical & Auditing 720.69 191.70 358,00 Cash in Bank Dec. 3, 1948 292.58 Checks on Hand Dec. 3, 1948 Total $ 2,950.00 1,270.39 3,242.58 -- $89,271002 This financial report was audited and compiled by Robert Kennedy, Tax Consultant, 216 Montgomery Building, Muskegon, :Michigan �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1947-48 SCHEDULE A-2 Special Relief • • • • • • • • • United Je~ish Appeal • • • • • • rfona View Jewish Cemetery Ass 'n. Hadassah • • • • • • • • • • Hadassah (Youth Aliyah) • Joint Defense Appeal Levi Memorial Hospital • · • Council of Jewish Fed. & Welfare Funds • • • • American Jewish Congress • • • • Haifa Institute of Technology •• Je~ish Telegraphic Agency • • • • Jewish Welfare Boord • , •• Weitzman Institute • • • • • • • Histadruth Ivrith • • • Hebrew Union & J. I. R. • • • Histadruth of Palestine • • • • • United Jewish Layman Committee • Society for Yeminite Jm-1s • • • • Hias • • • . . . . . . . • . • • Jevlish Theological Seminary of America • • • • • • • Sisterhood B'nai Israel - S. O. S. .American Friends of Hebrew University • • • • Medical School Campaign of Hebrew University and Hadassah • • • • • • National Jewish Welfare Board •• Total $ 2,005.92 63,500.00 6,074.13 500.00 500.00 1,800.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 500.00 150.00 10.00 50.00 200.00 200.00 250.00 500.00 700.00 150.00 ~77,790.05 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES YEAR 1947-48 PLEDGES SCHEDULE A-1 Adler, Harold • • • • • • • • • • • $ 100.00 Aron, Louis • • • • • • • • 200.00 100.00 Aron, Sylvia • • • • Aron, Tony. • • • ••• 500.00 Ashendorf, Isadore. • • • • 215.00 Ashendorf, Jacob • • • • • • • • 500.00 Ashendorf, Max. • • • • •• 500.00 Ashendorf, Mrs. S. • • • ••• 500.00 August, Dr. and Mrs . R. • • • • • • 2,000.00 Baru, Stanley • • • • • ••• 300.00 Baru, Rose • • . • . • • • ••• 100.00 Baru, Elaine and David. • • •• 100.00 Berman, Gene • • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Berman, Harry H. • • • . • • 300.00 Berman, Harry S• • . • • • • • • • • 2,500.00 Berman, Louis M• • • • • • • • • • • 400.00 Berman, Reuben • • • • • • • • • • • 300.00 Bernstein, f.ir. and Mrs. M• • • • • • 50.00 Bess, Marcus • • ••• 35.00 10.00 Billings, A• • • • • • • • • • • • • 10.00 Bolthouse, Anthony • • • • • • • • • 300.00 Braverman, Er. and t.rs . H• • • • • • 100.00 Broutman, Nathan • • • • • • • • • • Benderoff, f.ir . and flrs. S. M. • •• 1,500.00 101.00 Cane, Dr. S. H• • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 Cane, David M. • • • • • • •• 600.00 Cherin, Robert and Jerome • • • • • Cherin, l!rs. Robert • • • • • • • • 50.00 Cherin, Mrs. Jerome • • • • • • • • 36.50 'Cherin, Rochelle • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 300.00 Cohan, Dr. S. • . • . • . • • • • • 25.00 Cohan, Mrs. S. • • • • • • ••• Cohen, Benny • • • • • • • • • • • • 100.00 Cohen, Robert N• • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 600.00 Darmstader, L. and H. • • • • • • • Darmstadter, Elsa • • • • • • • • • 50.00 250.00 Epstein, Andrew J • • • • • • • • • • �'UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES YEAR 1947-48 PLEDGES . . .. . . ... . . . ..... . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . .... .. .. .. . . ..... ... . . ... .... . .. . . . .. .. .. . ... .. Fine, Francis • • $ 500.00 • • 50.00 Fine, Blanche 36.50 Fine, Andy . • 5,000.00 Fisher, Harry, J. and B. 100.00 . Fisher, f,irs. B. 10.00 . Fisher, James A. 50.00 Fisher, Sally and Marilyn • • . 50.00 Fleishman, Dr. N. • • . 37.00 N. Fleishman, !·:rs. 50.00 Fogel, Mr. and Mrs. M. . 100.00 Fogel, Lr. and Mrs. w. • . 73.00 Fogel, Mary . 500.00 Friedenberg, Dr. ril. L. 100.00 . Friedman, Hyman R. 300.00 . Friend, L1aurice 10.00 Galombeck, Warner . • 10.00 Galombeck, Martha • eoo.oo Golden, Maurice W. . •.• 100.00 Golden, Mrs. w. 10.00 Goldman, Bennie . 1,000.00 Grossman, Herman 1,000.00 Grossman, Sadie 250,00 Gudelsky, Oscar . 250.00 Gudelsky, David . 300.00 Hecht, J. 100.00 Hecht, 11rs. J. Hughes and Hatcher, Inc. 500.00 Jacobs, Meyer 30.00 Jacobs, Molly 5.00 • 200.00 Jacob son, ~Ir. and Urs. s. Kantor, Mor,ris 300.00 Kaplan, llaurice M. • . 10.00 Kaufman, J. K. . . 6,000.00 Kaufman, Lillian . 336.00 Kaufman, Richard 100.00 Kaufmen, Gordon 100.00 Kelin, Dr. Marie 25.00 • Klayf, Samuel G. 300.00 Kline, Harold 100.00 • Klitzner, Rabbi J. 30.00 . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .... . . .. . .. . .. . .... .... .... ... ...... ... . . .. .. . .. . . .. . . ... . . . .. . .. .. .. .. ... . . .. .. . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . . .. . . . . .... .. .... .. �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES YEAR 1947-48 PLEDGES Kositchek, 1.1ilton • • • • • • • • Kozen, Milton • • • • • • •• Komiss, Ben • • • • • • • • • • • Krause, Edward H• • • • • • Lahr , Harry • • • • • • Lebow, Max •••••• Lebow, Sophia • • • ••••• Levine, Mr. and Mrs. M. • • • • • Levine, Jerome D• • • • • • • • • Levy, Reuben •••••••••• Lipman, Hyman • • • • • • • • • • Lipman, Jack • • • • •• • . Lipman, Edith • • • • • • • • • • Lipman, Sam •••••••• Locke, Chas • • • • • • • • • • • • Larson, Leo • • • • • • • • • • • Mendelsohn, Herman • • • • • • • • MiJ ler, Al. • • • • • • • • • • Newmark, Mrs. Ben •••• NeUJDer, Ted • • • • • • • • • • • Oppenheim, Ben • • • • • • • • • • Price Family. • . • • • ••• Price, Mrs. Sam • • • • • • • • • Rapaport, J.C • • • • • • • • • • Roberts, Barney • • • • • • • • • Roden, Israel • • • • • • • • • • Rodoff, Mr. and i!rs. F. • • • • • Chase, Raleigh L• • • • • • • • • Rogers, Lyle • • • • • • • • • . Rogers, Sylvia. • • ••••• Rose, Leo • • • • •. • • • • • Rosen, Mrs. Douglas ••••• Rosen, Harold • • • ••••• ~osen, Leo S • • • • • • • • • • • Rosen, Florence ••••••• RosenbaUJD, Sam D• • • • • • • • • Rosenberg, Max ••••••••• Rosenberg, Robert • • • • • • • • Rosenberg, Rose • • • • • • • •• Rosenberg, Suzanne • • • • • • • • $ 25.00 25.00 20.00 250.00 35.00 500.00 25.00 50.00 10.00 75.00 3,000.00 75.00 36.50 .3,000.00 50.00 15.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 1,750.00 50.00 1,500.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 100.00 .300.00 10.00 500.00 25.00 100.00 10.00 1,000.00 1,500.00 100.00 200.00 1,250.00 200.00 .36.50 10.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIF.S YEAR 1947-48 PLEDGES Rosenberg, Seymour I. • •• Rubinsky, Chas • • • • • • • Rubinsky, Linda • • • • • • Rubinsky, Florence • • • • Schu2.tz, Dr. Leonard •• Schultz, Marilyn . S chubb, Max • • • • Shmookler, Abe •• Shmookler, Rebecca • • • • • • • • Shumacher, Leah ••• Shumacher, Uax • • • • • • • • • • Shumacber, tlr. and Mrs. S. .. • • • Silverman, Harold ••• Silverman, Sol •• Simcoe, Ed • • • • Simon, Joe • • Singer, Joe . Singer, Sam J. • • • Singer, Rose •• Smith, Chas • • • • • • Smith, Mrs. Chas • • • • • • • • • • Smith, Ely • • • • • • • Smith, Mrs. Ely • • • • • • • Stein, Hr. and Prs. F • • • • • • • Steindler, Uilton. • •• Steindler, Frances • • . • • S teindler-, Mr. and Mrs. J. • • • • Stern, Uilliam • • • • •••• Strifling, Joe S • • • • • • Strifling, Syd. • ••• Hamilton Apts. • •••••• Smith, Saul ••••••••• Teles, Dr. M. • • Tesslar, S. J • • • • • • • • • • • Toy, Dr. Chas. Vandervoort, Plrs. P.H• . • • . . • Weiner, Josiah . . . Weiner, :Mrs. J • • • • • Weiner, Paul • • • • • • • • • • • Whitman, T. M. • • • • • Total .. .. . ... . . .. $ 100.00 100.00 25.00 75.00 25.00 50.00 100.00 2,000.00 100.00 50.00 250.00 25.00 1,000.00 500.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 300.00 15.00 500.00 50.00 500.00 10.00 500.00 500.00 50.00 100.00 750.00 3,500.00 100.00 1,000.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 2.00 1,000.00 236.50 15,000.00 ...-....-..;;;:.2.;..;5•:..;:o=o $76,776.50 ��.ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1948 - 1949 I SAMUEL LIPMAN Cha11wa11 • �TENTH ANNUAL REPORT U NITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREAT E R MUSKEGON 1949-i950 vANNUAL ~PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREAfER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1952-1953 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman HARRY A. F ISHER Chanma11 �.ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1948 - 1949 SAMUEL LIPMAN Cha/1'111a11 • �TZEDAKAH - CHARITY \\'hoso doses hi, ei-es to tlm dut\ and harden, his heart to his needy hrother i, called a worthk" man, and is reg,1rded ,Is an idolater. But who, '"cver i, cardul in the fulfillment of this duty atte,t, him,df a, helonging to the ,ccd of Abr.,ham. whom the Lord hath ble"t•d: "For I h.1vc known him, to the tnd th,1t he may command his children and hi, hou,chold ,1fter hi,,, th II they may keep tlw "ay of the Lord. to do Tzcdabh and Justice.'' ( Genesis 18. 19.) Clurity 1s the main foundation of hraer, preemmenc<:, and the basis of the La\\ of Truth. As the prophd say, unto Zion: "By Tzedabh shalt thou he e,tahlishcd" (ha1ah H. 1-l). Its practice will alone bring ahout Israel's redemption: "Zion shall be redeemed with Justice, and they that return of her ,,·1th Tztdakah" ( Isaiah I 27). Chant) is grc.1ter than all sac ihces, ,.iys R.1hhi Ek.1zar: t·ven ·" it i, written. 'To do Tzcdabh and justice is mort acceptahk· to tht Lord than ,acrifice". \\'hoso p1ttes the poor shal I h1m,df receive compassion from the Holy One, hlc"ed he He Let I ·m further reflect that as there 1s a "hcc:1 of fortune rnol\'lng in this world, pnchancc somt' day uther he himself, or his son. or his ,nn\ son, mar he brought down to the ,Jme lowlr state 'sor kt it enter hi, mind to SJ): ''H<iw c,m I give to the poor and thus lessen my po"ession,(' For m,1n mu,t kmm that he is not the master of what he has, but onl} the guardi.in, to l"arri out the will of Him who entrusted these things to his kt·eping. \\'ho,otnr withhold, aim, from the needy thereof withdr,1ws himself from the lu,tt·r of the Shekhinah and the light of the I..iw Let man 1hcrdorc ht excn·dingli diliE:tnt chariti•, in the right hestow,11 of j.1c(}h he,1 Arha. 1269-1349. �! M&SSAGE !!lli EBQll fillliQ_~ QHAI!lJM! The Unitecl Jewish Charities of Greater l.tuskegon should not be regarded merely as a unified fund-raising instrument that swings into operation only during the day:, of its annual campaign. Throughout the year, the United Jewish Charities of Greeter Muskegon is your community servant and trustworthy agent of your humanity. It performs a multitude of services. The organizations which it helps to support encompass a large part of the globe and include significant efforts in your behalf in the United States and in our own community of Greater !!uskegon. So that you may know the sources of the funds and how they are utilized, this annual report is being sent to you by your Chairman, Samuel Lipman. The accomplishments of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon during the fiscal year 1948-49 evoked high praise among the Jewish communities of the country. fice this tude task For the outstanding leadership and sacriand devotion to the cause of humanity, community acknowledges a debt of gratiand appreciation to Samuel Lipman for a well done. PAUL M. WIENER Honorary Chairman ��! MESSAGE EBQM THE CHAIRMAN In terminating the campaign of 1948-49, I look back upon the years spent in the administration of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon. After four years as Treasurer, the past year as Chairman and a board member since the organization's inception, I have had the honor and the privilege, as well as the heartfelt satisfaction of contributing, in part, to the formation and maintenance of the new Jewish State. Not only do I feel that I have contributed to the welfare of my brethren, but in doing this, I have seen the positive results of true values; I have gained a working knowledge of religion and altruism. The success of one's undertakings brings with it a joy and spirit unsurpassed. The Jewry of Muskegon can be proud of the role it played in the fulfillment of our dreams. However, we must be mindful of the fact that our task is, as yet not completed. It is not enough to support financially; we must also give of our time and effort. I hope and pray that those men and women who are capable of leadership will assume their responsibility and that the members of our community will co-operate to insure the success of future campaigns. I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to my co-workers and to the community at large for their generous and unstinting time, money and effort. I'm sure all of us have benefitted spiritually and materially from participating in the worthiest cause in the history of mankind. SAMUEL LIPMAN, Chairman �UNITEiJ JEWISH CHARITIES Qli§!L ~CEIPTS AND DISBURS.EJIENTS FOR YEAR ENDED NOVE11BER 30. 1942 A.-..ount outstanding at the end of the 1947-48 nrive Amounts Pledged 194~49 Cash in Bank December 3, 1948 Checks on Hand December 3, 1948 $ 6,69.3.00 76 1 lf!:7.00 292.58 2.950.00 es2,sso.oo 3.242.58 ~86.122.58 Pledges Outstanding November 30, 1949 Cancellations 1947-48 11,969.50 2,575.00 Moneys Allocated 68,980.50 83,525.00 General Expenses Dinners, llusic, Printing, Stationery & Office Expense, Secretarial Services 1,131.05 Checks on Hand November JO, 1949 2,550.00 Less: Bank Overdraft November JO, 1949 1.083.47 1,466.53 886,122.58 �qNITED JE\7ISH CHARITI~ elJOCATIONS 1948-1949 Special Relief • • • • • • • • • • 82,155.50 .. . 45,000.00 •••• 18,000.00 •• • 500.00 •••••••••••• 1,000.00 Zionist Organization • • • • • • • 100.00 ... 250.00 • • • • 50.00 • • • • • 100.00 United Jewish Appeal •• • • Congregation B'nai Israel J.I.R. Hebrew Union College Hadassah Weitzmann Inst. or Science. American Jewish Cong. • • National Jewish Welfare American Fund for Palestine Jewish Telegraphic Agency Hies Hebrew Shelter ••• 50.00 • • • • 25.00 • • 100.00 Union or American Hebrew Cong. • • 200.00 Joint Defence Appeal • • • • • • • 1,400.00 Histadrut or Palestine. • • • • • 50.00 • • • • • �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1948-1CJ49 PLEDGES Ellen Aron • • • • • • • • • , • $ 36. 50 200. 00 Louis Aron • • • • • • • • • • • 200.00 Abe Ashendorf • • • • • • • • • • • 200.00 Jake Ashendorf • • • • • • • • • • • 500 .00 Max l shendorf • • • • • • • • • 500.00 Mrs. Sam Ashendorf ••••• )6. 50 flrs. Sam J.shendorf • • • • • • • • • JOO.DO Dr. Ralph A11gust • • • • • 50.00 Arthur Bell • • • • • • • • • • JOO.DO Harry H. Berman • • • • • • • • • • 400.00 Louis l.i. Berman • • • • • • • 300. 00 Ruben Berl'lan • • • • • • • • • • • • 50. 00 Horris Bernstein • • • • • • • • • • 35. 00 Marcus Bess • • • • • • • • • • • • 10.00 Sam Buckland • • • • • • • • • • • • 15.00 Sigmund Cahn • • • • • • • • 1.00 ~irs. S. Cahn • • • . • • • • • . . • 600. 00 Robert and Jerome Cherin. • • • 100.00 Bennie Cohen • • • • • • • • • • • • 300 . 00 Dr. Sol Cohen • • • • • • • • • • • J6.50 Elsa Darmstadter • • • • • • • • • • 300.00 Henry and Louis Darmstadter • • • • 75.00 Andrew Epstein • • • • • • • • • • • 36. 50 Blanche Fine • • • • • • • • • • Francis Fine and flrs. Schmookler •• 2,500.00 Harry, Jerome, Bernard, and Eugene Fisher • • • • • • • • 5,000.00 Mrs. Harry Fisher • • • • • • • • • 182.50 Jimmy Fisher (Gene) • • • • • • • • 36.50 Nancy Fisher (Bernard) • • • • • • • J6.50 Sally and Uarilyn Fisher • • • • • • 73.00 Mary Fogel • • • • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 William Fogel • • • • • • • . • 100. 00 Dr. M. L. Friedenberg • • • • • • • 500.00 Hyman Friedman • • • • • • • • • • • 100. 00 l �UNITED JEIISH CHARITIES 1948-1949 PJJSOOf,§ I "' laurice Golden. • • • • • llrs. II. Golden • • • • • • Gros8118!1 Department Store Gloria Grossman • • • • • Herman Grossman • • • • Louis Gros.an. • • • • • Louis Grossman. • • • • • Sadie Grossman. • • • • David and Oscar G\Xlelsky • Madeline Half • • • • • Hamilton Apartments • • Hughes & Hatcher. • • • • Meyer Jacobs. • • • • • • Mrs. Tillie Jacobs • • • • Saul Jacobson • • • • • Morris Kantor • • • • • • J. II. Xaut11a11 • • • • • • Lillian Kaufman • • • • Dr. llarie Keilin. • • • • Jean Klayt. • • • • • • Saa Kh7f • • • • • • • • Harold Qine. • • • • • • Sara nein • • • • • • • Edward Krause • • • • • Harriet Ann Lahr. • • • • Harry Lahr • • • • • • • Bose Lawson • • • • • • Sam Lawson • • • • • • Max Lebow • • • • • • • • ~hie Lebow • • • • • • • Maxwell Lenhoff • • • • • Jess Levin • • • • • • • • lorris Levine • • • • • • Reuben Le~ • • • • • • • H)'UJl LiJ)IIBD. • • • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . •• •• .• . • • • • • • • . . • . •. • • . . . . f· . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . . •• . . .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • 500.00 .36.50 1,000.00 .36.50 750.00 750.00 15.00 1,000.00 250.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 J5.00 5.00 . •• 200.00 • 10.00 25.00 • 10,000.00 100.00 • 25.00 • 5.00 • 405.00 • 75.00 • 250.00 • 100.00 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 35.00 36.50 50.00 750.00 36.50 50.00 10.00 50.00 25.00 2,500.00 �UNITED JEVTISH CHARITIE§ 1948-1949 PLEDGES Ellen lu'nn Lipman • • • • • • • • • $ 100.00 50.00 Jack Lipman • • • • • . • • 3,790.00 Samuel Lipman • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Benjamin tlarcus • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 Herman Mendelsohn • • • • • • 200.00 James Uetz • • • • • • • • • • 100.00 Oscar Neuman • • • • • • • • • • • Ted Neumer • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,000.00 25.00 Bertha and Sylvia Paul • • • • 50.00 Betty Price • • • • • • • • • 20.00 James Price • • • • • • • • • • • • Sam Price Family • • • • • • • • • 1,500.00 10.00 Dr. Robert Risk. • •••••• 100.00 Israel Roden • • • • • • • •• 350.00 Mr. and Brs. Fred Rodoff • • • • • 46.50 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rodoff ••• 750.00 Lyle Rogers • • • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 Mrs. Lyle Rogers • • • • • • • • • 100.00 Leo Rose • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Douglas Rosen • • • • • • • • • • • Harold Rosen • • • • • • • • • • • 750.00 100.00 Mrs. Harold Rosen • • • • • • • • • Jeffrey Rosen • • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 2,000.00 Leo Rosen • • • • • • • • • • • . • ttrs. Leo Rosen • • • • • • • 125.00 li1ax Rosenberg • • • • • • • • • • • 200.00 Mrs. Max Rosenberg • • • • • • • , 36.50 Robert and Rose Rosenberg • • • • • 200.00 Barilyn Rosenberg • • • • • • • • • 25.00 Suzanne Rosenberg • • • • • • • 25.00 Chas. Rubinsky • • • • • • • • • • 100.00 Mr. and tirs. S. I. Rosenberg • • • 125.00 Louis s. Rubinsky • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Max Schubb • • • • • • • • • • • • 100.00 E- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1948-1949 PLEDGES , Leah Schumacher • • • • • • • • • • $ 25.00 Harold Schumacher • • • • • • • • • 36.50 Max Schumacher • • • • • • • • • • 200.00 Sam Schumacher • • • • • • • • 5.00 t~rs. A. Schmookler • • • • • • • • 36.50 100.00 Sam Seigel • • • • • • • • • • • • Harold Silverman • ~ ••• 750.00 Vollie L. Silverman • • • • • • • • 36.50 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Simon • • • • • • 150.00 Sarah Simon. • •••••••• 36.50 FA Simcoe • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50.00 Jacob Singer • • • • • • • • • • • 25.00 E. Ii. Smith • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,000.00 Chas. Smith • • • • • • 1,000.00 Lillian Smith. • ••••• 36.50 Harry Spiwak • • • • • • • • • • • 20.00 Frances Steindler • • • • • • • • • 73.00 Jack Steindler (Irene) • • • • • • 100.00 Milton Steindler • • • • 700.00 Jos. S. Strifling. • • • • •• 3,500.00 J. S. Strifling. • • • • • • • 35.00 Syd F. Strifling • • • • • • • • • 146.00 Dr. M. Teles • • • • • • • • • • • 125.00 Rabbi and P!rs. Umen • • • • • • • • 125.00 Josiah Wiener • • • • • • • • • • • 2,000.00 Paul Wiener • • • • • • • • • • • • 20,000.00 Mrs. Paul Wiener • • • • • • • • • 200.00 ?.!rs. J. Wiener • • • • • • • • • • 36.50 Myrtle Tinterman • • • • • • • • • 25.00 ~76,187,00 �Cancellations of Pledges for 1947-48-49 $2,575.00 00 0000 00 Pledges of 1947-48-49 still to be paid $11,969.50 0 000 0 �November 30, 1949 Nr. Samuel r.ipman, Chairman United Jewish Charities Muskegon, Michigan Dear Mr. Lipman: Pursuant to your request, I have audited the books and records or the United Jewish Charities of Muskegon, Michigan for the year ended November JO, 1949, and submit, here~ith, my report on my findings. Included with this report are statement of receipts end disbursements, schedules of pledges for 1948-49, unpaid pledges as at November JO, 1949 and other details. The cesr on hand was checked and the bank account reconciled with a statement from the depository end found to be correct. Some pledges for 1947-48 which were not considered collectible were charged off. This report is submitted to you and your organization with my compliments, and I trust it will prove satisfactory to you. Yours very truly, WALTER A. DIXON fublic Accountant C.T.C. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Walter A. Dixon is hereby gratefully acknowledged. J �TENTH ANNUAL REPORT , UNITED JEWlSH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1949-1950 HARRY A. FISHER Chairman �OUR COVER PICTURE THE A\CIE:-..T PROVERBS said. "fo time.< of need..t m.m u ill be 101111d to h1 1h; dted". Sn it wa, in late 1949 when tht l'nited Jcw1Sh Chan tie, of Greater M usk<:gon was in sore need of an aizgressi"e chairman who could carrr the burden of persuading a wmmuniti· that there was a continu• in,: Job to do - .1 continuing burd,n to shoulder. Tu fill this need, a man who had ah· ays been of a,sistance to other leaders with both his means and his time. rose to the chall cni:e. In the face of a recession in hu,in•:ss condi. tion,. he was able to send a record number of doll.us to the C1111<d /ttn h A/>p,.,I. thus continuing the history of ad. \'anccment for wh1Ch .Muskt!(on can b, 1ustlr proud. \\'F SAU TE Harry Fisher who as Chairman, undertook and 'UCCt'sfulh· completed .1 trtmendous t.1sk in the face of sc:rious economic hindr,rnces. �! MESSAGE FROM THE HONORARY CHAIRMAN It is a source of pride to the Jewish Community of Greater Muskegon that, in spite of our own local institutional needs, a nearly record amount of money was sent for overseas relief during this past fiscal year. In this crucial period that the infant State of Israel is facing, Greater Muskegon has exhibited a consciousness of its duty to our brethren in Israel which will be remembered long after the struggle for the survival of Israel is over. Muskegon Jewry has an enviable per capita record of its generous giving, equal to, or better than any Community in the United States. Our Community acknowledges a debt of gratitude to Harry A. Fisher for his generosity and leadership du.ring the critical fiscal year of 1949-50. PAUL M. 'JIENER, Honorary Chairman �!. MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN In concluding the United Jewish Charities Campaign for the year 1949-1950, I cannot but help offer thanks to the Jewish Community of Greater Muskegon for its magnificent response to the greatest cause in the history of the Jewish people. From a personal standpoint I feel grateful for the opportunity of having been chairman of the Muskegon U. J.C. for 1949-1950, because through my work I have gained a more intimate knowledge of the tremendous good that the more than 90% of our local campaign funds sent overseas has done in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Israel. This has provided an enrichment of my life that nothing else I could have undertaken would have accomplished. Is the job done? Emphatically no l Today, we stand at the crossroads--for without our support during this stage in Israel's history, it cannot successfully become what can be the greatest example of democracy outside our own shores. It is up to each of us, my friends, to continue to shoulder the burden of our Israeli brethren .and to make additional sacrifices so that their future, and in a sense our future, shall be secure. I could not in good conscience transfer the reins of my office without publicly thanking my Fellow Officers, Board Members, and particularly the Muskegon Chapter of Hadassah for their untiring efforts which assured the success of our campaign. HARRY A. FISHER, Chairman �UNITED JETTISH CHARITIES STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS & DISBURSEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDED NOVEMBER JO, 1950 Cash on Hand December 1, 1949 Less Bank Overdraft December 1, 1949 RECEIPTS 1948-1949 Pledges 1949-1950 Pledges Misc . Income $ 2,550.00 1,083.47 1,466.53 3,350.00 68,642.50 2.02 71.994.52 $ Less Disbursements Allocations to Charity Dinners, Flowers & Music Printing, Stationery, & Office Expense Secretary Salary Traveling Expense Adding Machine Legal Fees Cash on Hand & In Bank November JO, 1950 73,461.05 $69,422.61 369.78 254.52 250.00 38.00 109.80 132.50 70,577.21 i 2,883.84 �UNITED JETTISH CHARITIES ALLOCATIONS 1949-1950 To Israel United Jewish Appeal Haddasah Ueizmann Institute Hebrew University Haifa Technical $62,400.00 2,000.00 250.00 250.00 100.00 $ Other Jewish Int. Religion & Hebrew Union College Day Care Center American Jewish Congress Joint Defense Appeal National Jewish 11elfare Board American Fund for Israel Inst. Bnai Brith Nat 11 Youth Service Brandeic University Hillel Foundation Council of Jewish Fdtns. & l1elfare Bellefair Special Relief 65,000.00 $ 700.00 25.00 100.00 700.00 .300.00 50.00 50.00 200.00 200.00 197.50 50.00 1,850.ll 4,422.61 $69,422.61 �UNITED JEITT:SH CHARITIES 19~2-1950 PLEDGES Pledge Paid Louis Aron. . 75·.00 75.00 • Ellen Aron. • • 36.50 36.50 .. . Un2aig . .. Tony Aron • • • . . • Abe Ashendorf • • Mrs. Ida Ashendorf • • Isadore Ashendorf • • Jacob Ashendorf • • 100.00 100.00 400.00 400.00 573.00 573.00 25.00 25.00 200.00 200.00 Max Ashendorf 500.00 500.00 .. • • August. . .. . • 1,000.00 1,000.00 36.50 .36.50 .36.50 36.50 .36.50 36.50 200.00 100.00 .36.50 .36.50 100.00 100.00 :1rn. Bercovitch • • • • 5.00 Ruben & Harry H. Berman 400.00 5.00 Dr. R. v. Lois August . Sandra August Irwin August • • • . . ..• .. • • • .. Stanley Baru. • • The Baru Children • • Arthur Bell . ... Gene Berman . ... . . . Louis J. Berman • • • Louis M. Berman . • Marcus Bess • • . . .. . Earl Brace • • • • • David Brace . • Sam Buckland •• • • . .. . l 100.00 400.00 .36.50 .36.50 25.00 25.00 200.00 200.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 25.00 l -0- •-: l.. 25.00 �David Buckland . • • • Sigmund Cahn . • Meyer Caplon • • J 4 .00 4 .00 25 . 00 25 . 00 Rob t . & Jerome Cherin 500. 00 500 . 00 36 . 50 36. 50 25 . 00 25 .00 10 . 00 10 . 00 200 . 00 200. 00 Sarah Cherin . Ellis Chevlin. Jack Chevlin . Dr. Sol Cohan ..• . • . . • ...• .... Ben Cohen 25 . 00 50 .00 50 .00 5. 00 5. 00 Wm. Drucker 10 . 00 10 .00 Andrew Epstein . • • • 50 .00 Harry Field • • 10. 00 • • Fr ancis Fine & Mrs. Schmookler . • • • 2, 000 .00 The Fine Children • • 36. 50 50. 00 • • • • • . . Harry A. Fisher • • • 5, 000 . 00 Jerome J . Fisher . • • 1 , 250 . 00 Bernard Fisher • • • • 1 , 250 .00 l -0- • • • • • • H & L Darmstadter • Julius Donn. • . .... i Paid -0- ... ... 1 l Pledge 15 . 00 ..• • Mrs . H. Fisher . . . • Herbert Fisher . . . . Eugene Fisher Marilyn Fisher . ..• .• .. .• Sally Ann Fisher . Wm . Fisher • 10 . 00 2, 000 .00 36. 50 5, 000.00 1,250 .00 1 , 250. 00 500 . 00 500. 00 500 . 00 500 .00 50 .00 50 .00 5. 00 5 .00 5 . 00 5. 00 100 . 00 100. 00 Un2aid 15 . 00 25. 00 �.. Tim. Fogel . • Seymour Fogel . • • • Hyman Friedman. • • M& H Friend • • • • . Sue Friend • • • Phillip Granik . .• Pledge 50 . 00 Paid 50 .00 13 .00 13 . 00 25 . 00 25 . 00 250 .00 250 . 00 36. 50 36. 50 • • 100.00 Grossman Family . • • Mrs . Louis Grossman . 1,500 .00 1, 500.00 . 36. 50 36. 50 209 . 50 209 . 50 Mrs. Isaac Grossman. 1,000. 00 1,000 . 00 David Gudelsky. • • • Mrs . David Gudelsky . Ileane Gudelsky . • • Oscar Gudelsky • • • 500 .00 150 .00 100 .00 50 .00 100 .00 -0- 100 .00 100. 00 Homer Hayden ' s 200 .00 200 . 00 40 .00 40 .00 25. 00 25.00 Saul Jacobsen . • • 200 .00 Morris Kantor . 100 .00 • • J . K. Kaufman & Assoc. 10,000 . 00 200 .00 Rosalind Grossman . Meyer Jacobs ... • . • • Mrs . Tillie Jacobs • . . Lillian Kaufman . • • G. & R. Kaufman • • • .. Sam Klayf . • • • Jean Klay.f • • • Mrs . Sarah Klein • Harold Kline • • . .. . . --0- 100 . 00 10, 000.00 1, 000 .00 1, 000 . 00 1, 300.00 1,300.00 400. 00 400 .00 5. 00 5 . 00 250 .00 250 .00 100 . 00 100. 00 UnQaid 100. 00 350. 00 50 .00 �Edward Krause • .. • Pledge 10 .00 100. 00 Harry Lahr • • • 25 . 00 10 . 00 • • • Mrs. Max Lebow. • • • Allan Lebow • • • • Max Lenhoff • • • • 10 .00 10. 00 36. 50 36. 50 15 . 00 15 . 00 50 .00 50 .00 Herbert Kline . ... ..• .. Sam La\1son Paid 10 . 00 100 .00 Michael Leventhal • • Morris Levine . • • 5. 00 5 .00 50. 00 50. 00 Reuben Levy • • 25 .00 25 .00 • • • • Jack Lipman •• • Ellen Lipman. • • 2, 500 . 00 2, 500 .00 50. 00 50 . 00 36. 50 36. 50 Sam Lipman 3 , 000.00 3 , 000 .00 Lutsker 10 . 00 10 .00 Benjamin Marcus . • • Her man Mendelson • • 35 . 00 35 .00 25 . 00 25 .00 150 .00 150 . 00 10. 00 10 . 00 • • • • • 1, 000 . 00 1 , 000. 00 . • . • Hyman Lipman Mr. & Mrs. James Metz .. .. . .. . • s. ..• • • Dr., Sidney Michelman Ted Neumer Mrs. Bertha Paul .• 25 . 00 25. 00 2, 100. 00 100. 00 • 50 .00 50. 00 • 100 . 00 • 10 . 00 10. 00 • • 150 . 00 150. 00 • • Sam Price • • • • Betty Price • Jack Rappaport • • Bar ney Roberts • • ... Fred Rodoff . .• Un2aid --0- 15 . 00 2,000 . 00 100. 00 �Pledge 36. 50 18. 00 Paid 36. 50 18. 00 500 .00 500 .00 36. 50 36. 50 50 .00 50.00 75. 00 75 . 00 50.00 50.00 2, 250 .00 2,250.00 2 , 200 . 00 2, 200.00 161. 50 161. 50 5. 00 5.00 5 .00 5 . 00 600. 00 600.00 Robert Rosenberg . • • Seymour Rosenberg • • Louis Ru0insky • • Max Schubb • • • 100. 00 100. 00 100 . 00 100.00 50.00 50 . 00 75 . 00 75 .00 Sam Siegel 100.00 50 . 00 250. 00 250 . 00 36. 50 100 . 00 36 . 50 100 . 00 50.00 100.00 50 . 00 100 . 00 36. 50 36. 50 • • • • 25 . 00 25 . 00 • • • Mrs. Sam Singer. • • 100 .00 100 .00 25 ,.00 25 . 00 .. . .Mildred Rodoff . Daniel Roetter • • • Rogers & Lebow • The Rogers Children . .. Leo Rose • • • • • • Douglas Rosen . ... . Rhoda Rosen . • • • Harold Rosen • • • • Leo Rosen • • • • Mrs. Leo Rosen • Karin Rosen . • • • Kurt Rosen • • • • . .. . . Max Rosenberg . . • . . . • • Harold Silverman . ... .. Mrs. H. Silverman . • Sol Silverman . • • • Ed Simcoe • • • • Joe Simon • • • • Sarah Simon • • . Jacob Singer Sam Singer .. . . .. .. Un12aid 50 . 00 �The Singer Children . Eli & Chas . Smith. • Mrs. Eli Smith • • • Jack Steindler • • • Milton Steindler • • Mrs. Milton Steindler & Children • • • • Herbert Steinman • • 11m. Stern • • • • • • Pledge 10. 00 • 2, 000 .00 .36. 50 100 . 00 500.00 .36. 50 100.00 500 .00 125 . 00 5.00 500 .00 -0- 2,100 . 00 125 .00 161. 50 1, 050.00 15,000. 00 ... 10. 00 10.00 Confirmation Class. 9.00 9 . 00 Melvin Van Durem s.oo 5. 00 B1nai Israel Sunday School • Perry Bacon. • ... 5. 00 Dr. Marie Keilin•• 15,00 ~ 71, 977. 50 500.00 182.50 15,000 .00 Paul TTiener • • • • UnEaid 2,000 .00 125 . 00 5 .00 182. 50 Mrs. Jos. Strifling. Jos. Strifling • • • 2,100 .00 125 . 00 Dr. Morris Teles • • 161. 50 Rabbi & Mrs . Umen • • 1, 050.00 Josiah & Mrs. 17iener ,. Paid 10 .00 -0- 5 .00 15 .00 68,642.50 3 , 335.00 �December 4, 1950 Mr. Harry A. Fisher, Chairman United Jewish Charities Muskegon, Michigan. Dear Mr. Fisher: Pursuant to your request, I have books and records of the United Jewish Muskegon, Michigan, for the year ended 1950, and submit, herewith my report on audited the Charities of November 30, my findings. Included in this report are statement of receipts and disbursements, schedule of pledges for year 1949-1950, showing unpaid balances and other supporting schedules. The cash on hand was checked and the bank account reconciled with a statement from the depository. In my opinion, according to the accepted principles of accounting the attached statements and schedules truly reflect your operations for the year ended November JO, 1950. Thanking you for this opportunity to serve you I am, Respectfully yours, WALTER A. DIXON Certified Public Accountant �OFFICERS HARRY A. FISH ER . Chairman HAROLD ROSEN . Vice-Chairman MRS. JOSEPH S. STRIPLING Vice-Chairman JOSIAH WIENER Treas11rer ROSE LAWSON Secretary HONORARY CHAIRMAN Paul M. Wiener TRUSTEES Dr. Ralph V . August Harry S. Berman Francis N. Fine Herman Grossman J. Kelly Kaufman Samuel G . Klayf Samuel Lipman Ted Neumer Samuel Price Fred L. Rodoff Lyle H. Rogers Leo S. Rosen Joseph S. Strifling �~NNUAL ~EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1952-1953 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �MESSAGE FROM TH E HONORARY CHAIRMAN We are deeply grateful to Mr. Herman Grossman for his assuming the chairmanship of the United Jewish Charities during the past year. His was a leadership that was forthright and dynamic. With Herman in the chair, there never was a dull moment at meetings. His deep- rooted interest in the cause which he championed was expressed not only in his hard-hitting words, but in his traveling many hundreds of miles to regional U.J.A. conferences where he drew inspiration to carry on in the community. For his devotion and self-sacrifice, we extend to Herman Grossman our most heartfelt thanks. PAUL M. W IENER, Honorary Chairman. �MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN As the 1952-1953 year in the United Jewish Charities program closes, I give thanks and gratitude on behalf of the officers and trustees to a splendid community which continues to take its place among the Jewish communities of Michigan. I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, hos manifested its desire to help bring to fruition man's instinct and determination to be free, on event we witnessed in Israel. I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, has asserted its faith that there is a force for freedom and for good in Israel. I say splendid because our community, through its local efforts, has declared that the experiment seen in the rebirth of the world's youngest democracy shall not fai l. I say splendid beca use our community, through its local efforts, has affirmed the strength of the Israeli soul which boasts a vast ly greater power than any material consideration, a power which has settled for nothing less than freedom, a power so great that it surpasses the vio lence of the sun itself. I say sp lendid, too, because I know that you will not re lax your efforts to help my successor. This work for the United Jewish Charities is a life-giving work for the entire community. I believe we can, I believe we must, mold and recreate the spiritual and moral leadershi p which has always uni ted our peoples. I say splendid, again, for from this power to unite has come the rare gift of providing so much more for such a greater cause. Continue to encourage this young man who has just gone into business for himself. And for your generosity, and for your overflowing hearts, God bless you. HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Yea r Ended November 3 0 , 19 53 Cash on Hand December 22, 1952 Bank Deficit December 22, 1952 $10,400.00 7,200.73 $ 3,199.27 RECEIPTS: Pledges Pledges - 1952-53 previous years $33,225.25 1,950.00 35,175.25 $38,424.52 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: Allocations to Charities Dinners and Banquets . Office Expense . Petty Cash, Transit Fund Misc. Expense, bank chg. $34,555.00 875.87 136.84 250.00 .30 35,818.01 2,606.51 Undeposited Checks, November 30, 1953 Cash in Bank, November 30, 1953 2,510.00 $ 96.51 �UN I TED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1952-53 TO ISRAEL: United Jewish Appeal Hadassah American Fund for Israel Institutions Weizman Institute . Hebrew University Haifa Technological College Federated Council of Israel Institutions $27,500.00 2,000.00 100.00 300.00 300.00 150.00 100.00 $30,450.00 OTHER: American Association for Jewish Education Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith National Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Hias Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Leo Levi Hospital . Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital Nationa l Jewish Chi ldren's Home Histadruth lrvith Bitzaron . National Jewish Hospital of Denver Special Relief, Muskegon area $ 25.00 700.00 150.00 200.00 100.00 125.00 200.00 50.00 25.00 l 00.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 50.00 1,9B0.00 4, l 05.00 $34,555.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended N ovember 30 , 19 53 MILK FUND PLEDGED Louis Aron ....... Mrs. Louis Aron.. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Aron .... Sylvia Aron ...... Abe Ashendorf.. Isadore Ashendorf .... Jacob Ashendorf Max Ashendorf.. Mrs. Ida Ashendorf .... Dr. Ralph August Grace Atkinson.. Ira Ba nk ............ Arthur E. Bel I .... Harry and Gene Berman ........ Louis M. Berman L. J. Berman .... Reuben Berman .. Herman Braverman .... N athan Broutman ...... Mrs. Nathan Broutman ...... Art Billings ...... Marcus Bell ...... Sigmund Cahn __ Dr. Seymour H. Cane ........ Jack Chevlin .... Robert Cherin ____ David and Beth Cheri n .......... Dr. Sol Cohan .. Jean Danigelis .. H. H. Chambers.. Louis Darmstadter .. Rose and Henry Darmstadter .. Mrs. Ju lius Dunn Father Dark ______ Paul and Margaret Elliott ............ $ PAID $ BALANCE 100.00 50.00 -0-0- 500.00 200.00 100.00 500.00 -0-0-0- 30.00 220.00 250.00 30.00 220.00 250.00 -0-0-0- 250.00 300.00 10.00 1.00 150.00 -0-0-0-0- 0- 100.00 450.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 450.00 50.00 100.00 -0-0-0-0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 - 0-0- 0-0- 50.00 10.00 250.00 50.00 10.00 250.00 -0-0- 0- 10.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 -0- 0-0-0- 100.00 $ 50.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 50.00 10.00 1.00 125.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 -0- 150.00 10.00 50.00 150.00 10.00 50.00 - 0-0-0- 15.00 15.00 -0- I j �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED Andy Epstein ___ _ Mike Erris ······Harry Field Nancy and Kenneth Fisher ····-···· Maurice and Harrison Friend ...... . Warner Galombeck .... Mike Goldberg __ Maurice Golden Mrs. Sadye Golden ..... Dr. Arthur Greenberg Herman Grossman, Sam Klayf and Louis Grossman ...... Louis Grossman .. Mike Grossman .. David Gudelsky Meyer Jacobs .... Ray Jasicki ····-· Saul Jacobson .. Morris and Frances Kantor .......... J. K. Kaufman Asso. and Family ......... . Lillian Kaufman __ Dr. Marie Keilin Jean Klayf ..... . Sam Klayf Harold Kline .... Harriett Kline .. Mrs. E. Klein .... Edward Krause.. Sam Lawson ... . Morris Levine .... Max Lenhoff --·· Michael Leventhal ..... . Jess Levin MILK FUND 60.00 25.00 20.00 36.50 PAID - 0- 0-0- 36.50 -0- 100.00 100.00 10.00 50.00 200.00 10.00 50.00 36.50 l 00.00 2,500.00 75.00 .25 200.00 60.00 2.00 250.00 100.00 2,400.00 100.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 100.00 10.00 36.50 200.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 36.50 10.00 BALANCE 60.00 25.00 20.00 - 0- 0-020J.OO 36.50 100.00 -0- 2,500.00 75.00 .25 -0- - 0- 60.00 2.00 250.00 -0200.00 -0-0-0- 100.00 -0- 2,400.00 100.00 25.00 20.00 l 00.00 100.00 36.50 200.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 -0- 0-0- 0- 0- 0-0-0-0- 36.50 10.00 -0-0- -0- 0- -0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED Hyman Lipman .. Jack Lipman ---Samuel Lipman.. Bee Lipman ...... Sylvia Levey -··Reuben Levy .... Benjamin Marcus Ruth Marcus ---Herman Mendelson .... J. W. Metz ....... Ted Neumer ...... Jessie Neumer .. Betty Price ........ Harold Page .... Mr. and Mrs. Sam Price ---· Mrs. Leah Richell Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rodoff .. Raleigh Rodoff .. Leo and Elizabeth Rose Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Rosen Jeff and Barbara Rosen Harold Rosen .. Leo Rosen ........ Mrs. Leo Rosen .. Mr. and Mrs. Max Rosenberg Mrs. Max Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg Robert Rosenberg Florence Rubin sky -----Chas. Rubinsky .. Louis Rubinsky .. Maxwell Ross .. Rabbi Ruderman Jacob Schreiber Dobby and Jerry Schreiber ...... MILK FUND PAID BALANCE 1,000.00 50.00 1,250.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 36.50 - 0-0-0-0-0-0- 0--0- 10.00 40.00 100.00 300.00 50.00 36.50 10.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0- 500.00 10.00 500.00 10.00 -0-0- 150.00 36.50 -0-0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 50.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 100.00 -0-0-0-0- 150.00 -0- 36.50 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 25.00 l 00.00 25.00 25.00 200.00 200.00 50.00 -025.00 25.00 -0-0-0- 10.00 10.00 -0- 1,000.00 50.00 1,250.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 36.50 40.00 100.00 300.00 50.00 36.50 150.00 36.50 50.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 100,00 150.00 36.50 75.00 50.00 50.00 200.00 200.00 50.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1953 PLEDGED Mox Schubb ...... Mox and Leah Schumacher .. Leah Schumacher Sam Schumacher Mrs. Smookler and F. Fine .... Som Siegel ...... Sol Silverman .. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Simon .... Eli Smith .......... Frances Steindler Jock Steindler .. Milton Steindler Mr. and Mrs. Joe $trifling .. Syd $trifling ...... Frederick Stein .. Mike Stein ....... . Esther Stein ...... Joseph Singer .. Bill Stern ........ Morris Teles ..... Melvin Von Duren .... Josiah Wiener .. Joel Wiener .... Mrs. Josiah Wiener ....... Poul Wiener ... . Mrs. Poul Wiener T. M. Whitman .. MILK FUND 100.00 PAID BALANCE 100.00 -0- 25.00 100.00 36.50 25.00 - 0-0-0- 700.00 125.00 100.00 700.00 125.00 100.00 -0- 100.00 1,000.00 100.00 1,000.00 125.00 125.00 375.00 -0-0-0-0-0- 750.00 365.00 250.00 5.00 50.00 50.00 125.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0100.00 -0- 15.00 1,000.00 25.00 -0-0- 50.00 10,000.00 200.00 25.00 -0-0-0-0- 100.00 36.50 125.00 125.00 375.00 750.00 365.00 250.00 5.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 125.00 15.00 1,000.00 25.00 50.00 10,000.00 200.00 25.00 $31,943.25 $ 1,868.50 $33,225.25 Previous years unpaid balances: Som Price Family ................................................................ Bill Stern ............................................................................ -0- -0- -0- $ 586.50 1,800.00 150.00 $ 2,536.50 �December 9, 1953 United Jewish Charities, Muskegon, Michigan. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your request, I hove audited the books and records of the UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of Muskegon, Michigan, for the year ended November 30, 1952 and November 30, 1953, and submit, herewith, my report on my findings. The records were accurately kept and were in balance for both years under audit. Included in this report are the following, Statements of Receipts and Disbursements. Statements of Charitable Allocations. Schedules of pledges, for charity and milk fund. Balance sheet as at November 30, 1953. Cash on hand is shown in detail and the bank account was reconciled with a statement from the depository. In my opinion, according to the accepted principles of accounting, the attached statements and schedules truly reflect your operations for the two preceding fiscal years and your financial condition as at November 30, 1953. Thanking you for this opportunity to again serve you, I om, Respectfully yours, WALTER A. DIXON. Certified Pub lie Accou ntont. �ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUS KEGON PAUL M. WIENER 1941-1942 PAUL M. WIENER 1942-1943 PAUL M. WIENER 1943-1944 PAUL M. WIENER 1944-1945 PAUL M. WIENER 1945-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949- 1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 �OFFICERS Hci<MAN GROSSMAN Chairman HAROLD ROSEN Vice-Chairman SAMUEL LIPMAN Vice-Chairman LEO S. ROSEN Treasurer ROSE LAWSON Secretary MRS. JOSEPH STRIFLING Milk Fund Chairman MRS. FRED RODOFF . ( Collections up to $500.00, Hadassah) MR. DOUGLAS ROSEN B'nai Brith Representative MR. SEYMOUR ROSENBERG Legal Advisor MR. PAUL M. WIENER Honorary Chairman HONORARY CHAIRMAN PAUL M. WIENER TRUSTEES Abe Ashendorf Edward Krause Dr. Ralph August Max LeBow Harry H. Berman Fred Rodoff Louis M. Berman Eli Smith Bernard Fisher Milton Steindler Louis Grossman Joseph Strifling J. K. Kaufman Dr. Morris Teles .,, Klayf Josiah Wiener �~NNUAL 'llfiPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 19 54- 1955 TED NEUMER Chairman �c-ANNUAL ~PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON c-ANNUAL 7(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSK IE GON 1955-1956 1956-1957 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING Chairman FREDERICK STEIN Chairman �~NNUAL ~PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1954-1 955 TED NEUMER Chairman �This program is dedicated in memory of Paul j\f. W'iener ot1r Honorary Chairman and Fo11nder of United f e1cish Charities of Greater j\,fuskego11. Paul's great leadership and generosity will alU'ays be remembered. �MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN As we approach another campaign in behalf of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, I would like to express my thanks to all who have contributed during the past year, and to the members of the Board who have given unselfishly of their substance and their efforts. We have found happiness in the realization that we are our brothers' keepers. Our brothers in many parts of the world are facing serious crises. They need our help desperately. It is only through our organized U.J.C. that we are enabled to unite with Jews everywhere in extending a helping hand. Israel, faced with isolation, surrounded by hostile states, craves our assurance that she has not been abandoned. By our gifts to U.J.C. we are giving Israel our support which will enable her to weather the present crisis as she has weathered other crises in the past. let us continue to give, work, and sacrifice, for "God loveth a willing giver." Ted Neumer Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30, 1955 Cash in Bank Nov. 30, 1954 Undeposited Checks Nov. 30, 1954 $ 1,288.00 3,261.50 $ 4,549.50 RECEIPTS: Pledges Pledges - 1954-55 previous years $27,437.50 250.00 27,687.50 $32,237.00 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: Allocations to Charities Dinners and Banquets Advance on 1955-56 dinner Secretarial Expense O ther Office Expense Transit Fund Petty Cash $27,380.00 349.64 300.00 250.00 110.20 125.00 28,514.84 3,7 22.16 Undeposited Checks Nov. 30, 19 55 Cash in Bank Nov. 30, 1955 1,700.00 $ 2,022.16 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1954-1955 TO ISRAEL: United Jewish Appeal Hadassah American Fund for Israel Institutions Weizman Institute . Hebrew University Haifa Technological College Federated Council of Israel Institutions $21,000.00 1,300.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 $22,900.00 OTHER: American Association for Jewish Education Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith National Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital National Jewish Children's Home Histadruth lvrith Bitzaron National Jewish Hospital of Denver Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hias Service . . . Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council . . . . . Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jewish Publications Society of America Specia I Relief $ 25.00 700.00 100.00 300.00 100.00 125.00 50.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 1705.00 $ 4,480.00 $27,380.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1955 PLEDGED Abe Ashendorf .. Mrs. Abe Ashendorf Gilbert & Becky Ashendorf Mrs. Ida Ashendorf Isadore Ashendorf Jacob Ashendorf Max Ashendorf.. Dr. Ralph August Mrs. Reva Bank .. Stanley Boru ...... Arthur E. Bell ____ Harry Berman -· Louis J. Berman .. Louis M. Berman Reuben Berman.. Herman Braverman .... Nathan Broutman ...... Sigmund Cahn __ Robert Cherin .... Jack Chevlin .... Henry Darmstadter Louis Darmstadter .. 200.00 Andrew Epstein .. Harry Fisher ...... Hyman Friedman BALANCE -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 5.00 5.00 -0- 50.00 250.00 -0- 30.00 240.00 250.00 300.00 50.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 250.00 25.00 -0-0-0-0-0l 00.00 -0-0-0-0-0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 25.00 20.00 200.00 25.00 25.00 20.00 200.00 25.00 -0-0-0-0- 180.00 180.00 -0- 50.00 l 0.00 5.00 50.00 -0-0-0-0- 20.00 1,125.00 l 0.00 20.00 l, l 25.00 -0-0-0- l 0.00 10.00 -0- 50.00 10.00 5.00 50.00 Mrs. Andrew Epstein .......... Harry Field ........ PAID $ 550.00 30.00 240.00 250.00 300.00 50.00 l 00.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 250.00 25.00 Lois Darmstadter William Druker . MILK FUND $ 550.00 l 0.00 I �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended N ovember 30, 1955 PLEDGED Maurice and Harrison Friend Harry Greenberg Dr. Arthur Greenberg Herman, Louis Gro~sman and Sam Klayf _ Herman Grossman . Laurie & Jeffey Grossman . Saul Jacobson Morris Kantor J. K. Kaufman Lillian Kaufman . Dr. Marie Keilin Sam Klayf Mrs. Sara Klein . Hurley longer! Sam Lawson Sophie Lebow Max Lenhoff .... Harvey Leventhal ..... Michael & Elsie Leventhal Maurice & Sylvia Levey .. Jess Levin __ Hyman Lipman . Jack Lipman Samuel Lipman .. Charles Locke Benjamin Marcus James Metz ...... Ted Neumer Jessie Neumer .. Harold Page __ _ MILK FUND BALANCE PAID l 00.00 10.00 100.00 10.00 -0- 137.50 137.50 -0- 1,500.00 1,500.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 109.50 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- 50.00 109.50 300.00 100.00 2,000.00 500.00 25.00 200.00 200.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 -0- 7.50 -0- 300.00 l 00.00 2,000.00 400.00 25.00 200.00 200.00 25.00 50.00 100.00 25.00 7.50 50.00 75.00 1,000.00 60.00 1,250.00 75.00 l 00.00 100.00 750.00 36.50 10.00 50.00 75.00 1,000.00 60.00 1,250.00 75.00 100.00 l 00.00 750.00 36.50 10.00 -0- -0- -0-0-0- -0-0- -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1955 PLEDGED Betty Price _______ _ Sam Price _________ _ Fred Rodoff _____ _ Raleigh Rodoff __ Douglas Rosen __ Jeff and Barbara Rosen Harold Rosen __ Leo Rosen _______ _ Mrs. Leo Rosen __ Max Rosenberg __ Robert Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg Maxwell Ross __ Chas. Rubinsky .. Louis Rubinsky __ Mrs. Rae & Florence Rubinsky --·----· Rabbi A. Ruderman -·---· Max Schubb --···· Jacob Schreiber Mrs. A. Shmookler ___ _ Sam Shumacher_. Sol Silverman __ Joe Simon _________ _ Harry Singer _____ _ Jay Singer _______ _ Eli Smith --·-······ Fred Stein --···--··· Jack Steindler .. Frances Steindler Milton Steindler Joseph Strifling .. Mrs. Joseph Strifling _______ _ MILK FUND 50_00 PAID BALANCE 50.00 500.00 250.00 36.50 75.00 -0-0- 200.00 100.00 750.00 1,500.00 50.00 200.00 -0-0-0-0-0- l 00.00 l 00.00 -0- l 00.00 l 00.00 25.00 25.00 l 00.00 l 00.00 25.00 25.00 -0-0-0-0- l 00.00 l 00.00 -0- 200.00 25.00 60.00 200.00 25.00 60.00 -0-0-0- 250.00 l 0 .00 l 00.00 l 00.00 5.00 -0-0-0-0-025.00 -0-0-0-0- 500.00 250.00 36.50 75.00 l 00.00 750.00 1,500.00 50.00 200.00 10.00 l 00.00 l 00.00 5.00 25.00 500.00 200.00 125.00 50.00 50.00 300.00 750.00 365.00 500.00 200.00 125.00 50.00 300.00 750.00 365.00 -0-0-0- -0-0-0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES 1955 Schedule of Ple d ges for Year Ended November 30, MILK FUND PLEDGED Dr. M. Teles Joel Wiener Mrs. Joel Wiener Josiah Wiener .. Mrs. Josiah Wiener .. .. Paul M. Wiener.. Mrs. Paul Wiener Robert Warshaw T. M. Whitman . Chas. Yaker 125.00 45.00 10.00 500.00 50.00 6,500.00 200.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 $26,097.50 $ 1,465.00 Previous Unpaid Balances Mike Goldberg David Gudelsky Sam Price Bill Stern $ 50.00 200.00 550.00 100.00 $900.00 BALANCE PAID 125.00 45.00 10.00 500.00 -0-0-0-0- 50.00 6,500.00 200.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0- $27,437.50 $ 125.00 �November 30, 1955 United Jewish Charities, Muskegon, Michigan. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your request, I have audited the books and records of the UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of Muskegon, Michigan, for the year ended November 30, 1955, and submit, herewith, my report on my findings. The books were accurately kept and were in balance at the year end. Included in the report are the following: Statement of Receipts and Disbursements. Statements of Charitable Allocations. Schedule of pledges for charity and milk fund. Balance sheet as at November 30, 1955. Cash on hand consisted of checks detailed in this report, which were in the hands of Mr. Ted Neumer and one note which was for 60 days, in the amount of $100.00. In my opinion, according to the accepted principles of accounting, the attached statements and schedules truly reflect your operations for the year ended November 30, 19 55, and your financial condition as of that date. Thanking you for this opportunity to again serve you, am, Respectfully yours, WALTER A. DIXON. Certified Public Accountant. �ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MU SKEGON PAUL M. WIENER 1941-1942 PAUL M. WIENER 1942-1943 PAUL M. WIENER 1943-1944 PAUL M. WIENER 1944-1945 PAUL M. WIENER 1945-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 �~NNUAL 'l(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUS K EGON 1955- 1956 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING Chairman �MES SAGE FROM THE CHA I RMAN On behalf of the officers and trustees of the United Jewish Charities of the year 1955-56, I wish to thank all in our community who hod a port in making this drive the success it hos been. Personally, I om grateful for having been selected chairman of the M•Jskegon United Jewish Charities for the post year. I hove gained a knowledge of service work that is priceless and hove learned how essential ore these funds to the multitude of services that the organizations perform for the cause of humanity. I hove found that when the need is present men who feel the responsibility arise to the occasion. My sincere thanks to my co-chairman, Fred Stein, and my treasurer, Leo Rosen who hove responded so magnificently and my sincere gratitude to all the board of directors. Best wishes and success for the 1956-57 drive to the chairman, the officers and the board. Joseph S. Strifling, Chairman I 955-56 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30 , 1956 Cash on Hand Nov. 30, 1955 . Undeposited Checks Nov. 30, 1955 . Refund on Allocations S 2,022.16 1,700.00 100.00 $ 3,822.16 RECEIPTS: Pledges Pledges - 1955-56 previous years $22,193.00 508.75 22,701.75 S26,523.91 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: Allocations to Charities . Dinners and Banquets . Office Expense Audit Petty Cash, Transit Fund . Secretarial Expense . S 18,625.00 260.31 1 27.75 50.00 30.00 250.00 19,343.06 7,180.85 Bonds for Israel . Undeposited Checks . late check on hand . $ 500.00 3,315.00 100.00 3,915.00 Cash in Bank Nov. 30, 1956 . $ 3,265.85 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITI ES Allocations 1955-1956 TO ISRAEL: United Jewish Appeal Hadassah S 15,000.00 l, l 00.00 $16,100.00 OTHER: American Association for Jewish Education B'nai Brith National Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital National Jewish Children's Home Histadruth lvrith Bitzaron National Jewish Hospital of Denvet Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hias Service Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council Jewish Publications Society of America $ 25.00 100.00 300.00 l 00.00 125.00 50.00 50.00 750.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 $ 2,525.00 $18,625.00 Reserve for Allocations not final . ( to include Union of American Hebrew Congregations, etc.) 1,200.00 $19,825.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARI TI ES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1956 PLEDGED MILK FUND PAID BALANCE $ 215.00 $ 215.00 500.00 500.00 -0-.'.l- 50.00 50.00 -0- 50.00 250.00 -0- Louis M. Berman 50.00 280.00 250.00 200.00 100.00 50.00 250.00 50.00 280.00 250.00 200.00 100.00 50.00 250.00 -0-0--0-0-0-0-0- Herman Bravermar, .... 25.00 25.00 -0- 25.00 15.00 100.00 15.00 25.00 15.00 100.00 15.00 -0-0-0--0- 50.00 10.00 50.00 -0- 0- 75.00 50.00 20.00 100.00 750.00 75.00 50.00 20.00 100.00 750.00 -0-0-0-0- 0- Harry Greenberg 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 -0-0- Dr. Arthur Greenberg .... 175.00 175.00 -0- Herman, Louis Grossman and Sam Klayf . ... 1,400.00 1,400.00 -0- Anonymous ... -Abe Ashendorf .. Mrs. Abe Ashendorf Mrs. Ida Ashendorf Isadore Ashendorf 200.00 Jacob Ashendorf Max Ashendorf.. Dr. Ralph August Arthur E. Bell .... Louis J. Berman .. Nathan Broutman ...... Sigmund Cahn .. Robert Cherin .... Jerome Cherin ___ David & Beth Cherin ... Dr. Sol Cohan .. Louis Darmstadter .. Andrew Epstein .. Harry Field ........ Bernard Fisher ... Harry Fisher .....• Hyman Friedman ··-· 10.00 1 l l J �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1956 PLEDGED Oscar Gudelsky David Gudelsky Soul Jacobson .. Morris Kantor .... J. K. Kaufman Richard & Gordon Kaufman Lillian Kaufman .• Sam Klayf ........ Mrs. Sara Klein .. Edward Krause .. Hurley Langert .. 200.00 400.00 300.00 200.00 25.00 25.00 Mrs. Richard Laurence .... . Sam Lawson ... . Judith Lawson & Lisa Heiman .. Harvey Leventhal .....• Hyman Lipman .. Jack Lipman .... Samuel Lipman .. Jomes Metz ..•... Dr. Phillip Miller . Ted Neumer ..... . Sylvia Paul 200.00 500.00 325.00 200.00 25.00 25.00 -0-0-0-0-0- 10.00 10.00 50.00 -0-0- 10.00 10.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 10.00 100.00 500.00 60.00 1,565.00 100.00 15.00 100.00 750.00 36.50 50.00 50.00 -0- 25.00 550.00 300.00 - 0-0-0- 100.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 500.00 60.00 1,565.00 100.00 15.00 100.00 750.00 36.50 Jessie Neumer .• 50.00 Betty Price ....... 50.00 Donald & Frances Price . 25.00 Sam Price .......... Fred Rodoff ...... 550.00 300.00 BALANCE -0-0-0-0-0- 50.00 Mrs. Jomes Metz PAID 60.00 100.00 375.00 25.00 2,500.00 50.00 Michael & Elise Leventhal ...... Jess Levin ....... . MILK FUND 60.00 100.00 375.00 25.00 2,500.00 - 0- -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- 0-0- 0- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Ple dges for Year End e d November 30, 1956 PLEDGED Raleigh Radoff .. Douglas Rosen .. Jeff, Barbara & Marc Rosen Harold Rosen .. Leo Rosen Mrs. Leo Rosen Max Rosenberg . Robert Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg Maxwell Ross .. Fred Ross . Mrs. Rae & Florence Rubinsky Rabbi A. Ruderman Max Schubb ...... Harry S. Schucart Sol Silverman .. Joe Simon Irving Singer Joseph Singer Eli Smith ..... Fred Stein .......... Jack Steindler .. Frances Steindler Milton Steindler Joseph Strifling .. Mrs. Joseph Strifling ....... Dr. M. Teles Temple B'nai Israel Youth . Josiah Wiener .. Mrs. Josiah Wiener ..... MILK FUND PAID BALANCE 36.50 36.50 100.00 -0-0- l 00.00 25.00 -0-0-0- 0- 200.00 100.00 1,525.00 1,000.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 l 00.00 -0- 100.00 l 00.00 15.00 l 00.00 100.00 15.00 -0- 0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 200.00 15.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 500.00 250.00 150.00 200.00 15.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 500.00 250.00 150.00 50.00 300.00 950.00 -0-0-0-0-0- 400.00 400.00 125.00 -0-0- 10.00 10.00 500.00 -0-0- 75.00 75.00 -0- 100.00 1,500.00 1,000.00 50.00 50.00 300.00 950.00 125.00 500.00 -0- -0- -0- -0- 0-0-0-0-0- 0- �UNITED JEWISH CHAR I TIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1956 PLEDGED Mrs. A. Smookler White Mrs. Paul Wiener T. M. Whitman .. MILK FUND 100.00 1,000.00 25.00 $21,055.00 100.00 1,000.00 25.00 $ I, 138.00 Previous Unpaid Balances Mike Goldberg PAID S 50.00 S 50.00 $22,193.00 BALANCE 0-0-0- �November 30, 1956 United Jewish Charities, Muskegon, Michigan. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your request, I hove audited the books and records of the UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES of Muskegon, Michigan, for the year ended November 30, 1956, and submit, herewith, my report on my findings. The books wNe accurately kept ond were in balance ot the year end. Included in the report ore the following: Statement of Receipts ond Disbursements. Statements of Charitable Allocations. Schedule of pledges for charity ond milk fund. Balance sheet as of November 30, 1956. Cash on hand consisted of checks detailed in this report, which were in the hands of Mr. Leo Rosen, who also hos one Israel Bond in the amount of $500.00. During the year pledges in the amount of $ I 25.00 were cancelled. In my opinion, according to the accepted principles of accounting, the attached statements ond schedules truly reflect your operations for the year ended November 30, 1956, ond your financial condition as of that dote. Thanking you for this opportunity to ogoin serve you, om, Respectfully yours, WALTER A. DIXON. Certified Public Accountant. �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M. WIEN ER 1955 1901 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER . 1941-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946- 1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948- 1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 TED NEUMER 1954- 1955 �~NNUAL 7(,EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1956-1957 FREDERICK STEIN Chairman �OFFICERS FOR 1956-57 FREDERICK STEIN . . Chairman JOSIAH WIENER . Vice-chairman LEO S. ROSEN . Treasurer MRS. SAMUEL LAWSON Secretary MRS. FRED RODOFF and MRS. ROBERT ROSENBERG ! . Milk Fund and Collections Co-chairmen SEYMOUR I. ROSENBERG . . Legal Advisor TRUSTEES Abe Ashendorf Samuel Lipman Louis M. Berman Ted Neumer Dr. Arthur Greenberg Samuel Price Herman Grossman Fred Rodoff Louis Grossman Harold Rosen J. K. Kaufman Eli Smith Richard Kaufman Milton Steindler Samuel Klayf Dr. Morris Teles Jack Lipman Joseph Strifling �~NNVAL 'R_§PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1957-1958 JOSIAH WIENER Chairman �J ,.. cANNUAL 1@PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES cANNUAL CJ(EPORT • UNITED MUSKEGON OF 1958-1959 JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1959-1960 MILTON STEINDLER LOUIS M. BERMAN Chairman Chairman I I �C TO MEMBERS OF JEWISH COMMUNITY IN MUSKEGON As I complete this year as chairman of Muskegon Uni ted Jewish Charities, I feel I owe my deepest gratitude to my coworkers: especially to Mr. Milton Steindler, co-chairman; to Mr. Leo Rosen, Treasurer; and to Mrs. Samuel Lawson, Secretary. Handicapped by unforeseeable illness, they have stood by me in facing another sorrow-laden and turbulent year of world Jewry. Though we have not been aware of the difficulties of our people abroad during this past year to the degree we have been in previous years, nevertheless the problems of the last decade are still with us and therefore our responsibilities are still enormous. The response by our total community has been good and we pray will continue to be good. However, our goal for the coming year can be even higher a s a community if we will be strengthened by those who can help even more than they have in the past. let no reason, even present adverse economic conditions, cause us to shirk our duty here and overseas. The Jewish concept of charity, if our attitudes and understanding are properly directed, is very contagious and once it enters the heart one is forever and hopelessly a greater person . And moreover CHARITY as TSEDOKOH (righteousness) calls upon all of us to give freely and generously according to the blessings God has bestowed upon us. Josiah Wiener Chairman a �J r.ANNUAL ~PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1958-1959 MILTON STEINDLER Chairman r.ANNUAL 'l(EPORT * UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1959-1960 LOUIS M. BERMAN Chairman �TO MEMBERS OF JEWISH COMMUNITY IN MUSKEGON As I complete this year as chairman of Muskegon United Jewish Charities, I feel I owe my deepest gratitude to my coworkers: especially to Mr. Milton Steindler, co-chairman; to Mr. Leo Rosen, Treasurer; and to Mrs. Samuel Lawson, Secretary. Handicapped by unforeseeable illness, they have stood by me in facing another sorrow-laden and turbulent year of world Jewry. Though we have not been aware of the difficulties of our people abroad during this past year to the degree we have been in previous years, nevertheless the problems of the last decade are still with us and therefore our responsibilities are sti 11 enormous. The response by our total community has been good and we pray will continue to be good. However, our goal for the coming year can be even higher a s a community if we will be strengthened by those who can help even more than they have in the past. Let no reason, even present adverse economic conditions, cause us to shirk our duty here and overseas. The Jewish concept of charity, if our attitudes and understanding are properly directed, is very contagious and once it enters the heart one is forever and hopelessly a greater person. And moreover CHARITY as TSEDOKOH (righteousness} calls upon all of us to give freely and generously according to the blessings God hos bestowed upon us. Josiah Wiener Chairman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30, 1958 Bonk Overdraft Nov., 1957 $2,996.57 Cash on Hand Nov., 1957 4,395.00 $ 1,398.43 Pledges Received---Cosh 1957-58 Pledges Received-Cash 1956-57 Bonds Received Interest Received-Bonds Payments Received on Note No. 1 22,656.69 2,875.00 3,890.00 88.84 58.00 30,966.96 LESS DISBURSEMENTS Allocations to Charities Campaign Expense 1958-59 U.J.A. Dinner Office Expense Secretary Audit . Petty Cash-Transient Fund Loon No. 2 25,595.50 393.59 145.00 200.00 50.00 25.00 940.00 27,349.09 3,617.87 3,231.50 Cash on Hand Nov. 30, 1958 Bonk Balance Nov. 30, 1958 $ 386.37 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1957 -5 8 TO ISRAEL United Jewish AppealCash . United Jewish AppealBonds $16,555.50 3,890.00 Hadassah Hebrew University & Technion Jewish National Fund $20,4-.5.50 875.00 300.00 100.00 $21,720.50 OTHER Union American Hebrew Cong.- 1956-57 . 600.00 Union American Hebrew Cong.- 1957-58 . B'nai Brith Nat'I Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefoire Jewish Telegraph Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N. Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital Notional Jewish Children' s Home National Jewish Hospital-Denver Histodruth lvrith Bitzaron . Hillel . Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hies Service Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council Jewish Publication Society of America 600.00 100.00 300.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 750.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 25.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 3,875.00 $25,595.50 �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 3 0 , 1958 NAME PLEDGED Anonymous S 10.00 Abe Ashendorf 300.00 Mrs. Ida Ashendorf 200.00 lsodore Ashendorf 50.00 Jacob Ashendorf ... 250.00 SPECIAL SURVIVAL MILK FUND 200.00 100.00 5.00 Arthur Ashendorf 50.00 PAID BALANCE S 10.00 -0- 500.00 -0- 300.00 -0- 55.00 -0- 250.00 -0- 50.00 -0- Max Ashendorf .. 250.00 250.00 -0- R. V. August 300.00 300.00 -0- 36.50 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 200.00 200.00 -0- Horry H. Berman .... 25.00 25.00 -0- L. J. Berman 50.00 50.00 -0- Dr. Seymour Cane •. 50.00 50.00 -0- 20.00 -0- IC0.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 10.00 100.00 -0-0-0- Reeva Bonk 36.50 Arthur Bell Louis Berman Elsie & David Cane 20.00 Robert Cherin ....... 100.00 Dr. Sol Cohan ...... .......... 25.00 Louis Dormstadter ............ 50.00 Andrew Epstein .. . ...... ... 50.00 25.00 Rebecca Epstein ................ Bernard Fisher 10.00 100.00 Horry Field 20.00 20.00 Dr. Arthur Greenberg 150.00 150.00 -0- Louis Grouman .... 200.00 90.00 110.00 Mn. Louis Grossman 100.00 100.00 500.00 Herman Grossman . 1,000.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 200.00 200.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 50.00 Mrs. Herman Grossman ..... . David Gudelsky ..... Oscor Gudelsky ................ 500.00 • ...... . 10.00 10.00 -0- ................. . 25.00 25.00 -0- 300.00 300.00 -0- Mrs. Morris Kantor 50.00 50.00 -0- Marie Keilin 35.00 35.00 -0- 75.00 75.00 -0- Ernest Honau ...... Meyer Jacobs Saul Jacobson ... .. ..... Rabbi & Mrs. Kaplan 1 I �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1958 NAME Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Kaufman & Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kaufman Gordon Kaufman PLEDGED SPECIAL SURVIVAL MILK FUND 1,500.00 1,000.00 150.00 2,650.00 50.00 50.00 -0- ................ PAID BALANCE - 0- Samuel Kloyf ...................... 300.00 100.00 200.00 Soro Klein ......................... 200.00 200.00 -0- ...................... 50.00 50.00 -0- 75.00 75.00 -0- Helen Kulka Samuel Lawson ............. Deborah Joan Hein man (Som Lawson) ················ Morris Levine ·-···-··-··-········ 10.00 25.00 36.50 Jerome, Laurie, Mimi Levine Reuben levy ...................... 25.00 10.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 36.50 -0- 25.00 -0- 500.00 50.00 550.00 -0- ........................ 100.00 10.00 110.00 -0- Som Lipman ........................ 1,000.00 Hymon Li p man Jock Lipman 1,500.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 36.50 36.50 -0- 300.00 -0- 36.50 --0- 15.00 15.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- 500.00 Rose Lipman ······················ James Metz ........................ 25.00 25.00 Mrs. Phil Miller ················ Ted Neu mer ........................ 300.00 36.50 Mrs. Ted Neumer ................ Harold Page ............. ....... Albert Parker .................... Sylvia Paul ·---·--··········-----·- 50.00 50.00 -0- Sam Price ............................ 250.00 250.00 -0- 36.50 36.50 -0- 20.00 20.00 -0- Betty Price ········•··•·············· Charles Race ...................... ................ 200.00 200.00 -0- Douglas Rosen ···················· Jeff, Barbara, More Rosen .. 125.00 125.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- ........ 1,000.00 100.00 1,600.00 -0- Marcia Rosen ···················· 500.00 500.00 -0- Max Rosenberg .................. 200.00 200.00 -0- Robert Rosenberg 100.00 100.00 -0- Seymour Rosenberg ............ 150.00 150.00 Maxwell Ross .................... 500.00 .................. 65.00 David N. Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen Mox Rothschild 500.00 -0500.00 65.00 -0- �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Ptedges for Year Ended November 30, 1958 NAME PLEDGED SPECIAL SURVIVAL MILK FUND PAID BALANCE ••••••••••••••••H 50.00 50.00 -0- Florence Rubinsky ·····•-----··· 100.00 100.00 -0- Jacob Schreiber ·················Mr. Max Schubb ................ 110.00 110.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- Joseph Simon ········-····--····· 150.00 150.00 -0- Chas. Rubinsky Sarah Simon (Bequest) ...... Sol Silverman .................... Dr. I. H. Singer . .... 177.69 100.00 25.00 Fred Stein ···----·······•··········· 550.00 Joseph Singer .................... 50.00 Jack Steindler --·· --------------- 275.00 86.50 400.00 Jos Strifling -----···--·------------- 500.00 Bill Stern ------······················ 100.00 -0- 100.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 530.00 106.50 275.00 -0- 50.00 Mrs. Jack Steindler ............ Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler 177.69 50.00 36.50 36.50 -0- 50.00 500.00 -0- 100.00 600.00 -0100.00 Or. Mourice Stromberg ........ 10.00 10.00 -0- Dr. Teles ·······-··---------·-······· 50.00 50.00 -0- Joel Wiener ...................... 500.00 500.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Josioh Wiener .. 1,000.00 4,000.00 130.00 5,130.00 -0- Mrs. Paul Wiener & Donald 1,250.00 250.00 50.00 1,550.00 -0- $1,663.19 $23,671.69 $1,216.50 15,920.00 23,671.69 $15,920.00 $7,305.00 7,305.00 $24,888.19 $24,888.19 �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M. WIENER 1955 1901 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHA RITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER . 194 1- 1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 TED NEUMER 1954-1955 JOSEPH S. $TRIFLING 1955-1956 FRED STEIN 1956-1957 �OFFICERS FOR 1957-58 . . Chairman MILTON STEINDLER Vice-chairman JOSIAH WIENER LEO S. ROSEN . Treasurer MRS. SAMUEL LAWSON Secretary MRS. ROBERT ROSENBERG SEYMOUR I. ROSENBERG . Milk Fund Chairman . legal Advisor TRUSTEES Abe Ashendorf Jack Lipman Louis M. Berman Samuel Lipman Dr. Arthur Greenberg Ted Neumer Herman Grossman Samuel Price Louis Grossman Eli Smith J. K. Kaufman Milton Steind ler Richard Kaufman Dr. Morris Teles Samuel Klayf �j r cANNUAL '!?§PORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES • MUSKEGON 1958-1959 MILTON STEINDLER Chairman . ; I �TO MEMBERS OF JEWISH COMMU N ITY IN MUSKEGON First I want to thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to be your chairman during the past year. It gave me a great deal of pleasure to have been received with kindness and gratitude in quite a number of homes because they had a chance to participate in this great work. When the younger generation of the religious school, the Junior U. J. C., gave us money to help the less fortunate people abroad, it was an indication that the future of U. J. C. will be in good hands. The adage "A child shall lead them" is still a good slogan. I owe my deepest gratitude to our treasurer, Leo Rosen, and our secretary, Rose Lawson, as without them I could not have carried on. I am proud of this community. I have known all of you thru the years and as my friends I do appreciat e your cooperation and help in putting this campaign across. When you give to those whom you do not know and may never see, but whom you still want to help, your brother Jews, so they may enjoy the good things of life, you are living the life of a gracious and good Jew. In conclusion I ask that the good Lord bless you all and keep you well. Milton Steindler Chairman U. J. C. 1958-1959 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts and Disbursements .. For Y ear Ended November 3 0 , 1959 Cash 1n Bank, Nov. 30, 1958 Cash on Hand, Nov. 30, 1958 $ 386.37 2,481.50 Pledges received, 1958-59 20,675.41 Pledges received, 1957-58 1,141.50 Loan No. 2 paid 1,115.00 $ 25,799.78 LESS DISBURSEMENTS United Jewish Appeal Other Allocations to Charities Campaign expense . Legal expense Office expense Interest $ 17,000.00 4,480.00 378.51 50.00 175.86 23.96 Transient and Service Fund 230.00 Secretarial expense 200.00 22,538.33 3,261.45 Cash, Checks and Notes on hand Cash in Bank Nov. 30, 1959 3,050.00 $ 21 l .45 �• UNI TED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1958-59 TO ISRAEL United Jewish Appeal Hadassah Hebrew University and Technion Jewish National Fund $ 17,000.00 850.00 300.00 100.00 $ 18,250.00 OTHER Jewish Institute of Religion-Hebrew Union College-Jerusalem Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith Nat'I Youth Service Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of New York Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital Nat'I Jewis 11 Children's Home Nat'I Jewish Hospital Histadruth lvrith Bitzaron Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hias Service Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council Jewish Publication Society of America American Jewish Archives American Asso. of Jewish Education United Jewish Charities Scholarship Fund 50.00 600.00 l 00.00 150.00 100.00 150.00 25.00 250.00 150.00 l 00.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 15.00 125.00 l 00.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 25.00 500.00 3,230.00 ; $ 21,480.00 r �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1959 1 N AM E Anonymous ....................... PLEDGED SPECIAL MIL K SURVIVAL FUND $ 65.00 Mrs. Ellen Aron ............... . PA ID BALAN CE $ 65.00 -0- 36.50 36.50 -0- -0- Mr. & Mrs. Abe Ashendorf .. 500.00 50.00 550.00 Ida Ashendorf ........ 300.00 100.00 400.00 --0- 60.00 -0- Isadore Ashendorf 60.00 Jacob Ashendorf 200.00 225.00 -0- Mox Ashendorl .......... 250.00 250.00 -0- Dr. R. V. August 300.00 300.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 125.00 -0- 25.00 Mrs. Revo Bonk ........... 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Bell 100.00 Louis M. Berman 240.00 240.00 -0- Horry H. Berman ............... . 50.00 50.00 -0- 25.00 L. J. Berman ................ 50.00 50.00 -0- Dr. Boyd 25.00 25.00 -0- Marcus Bess . . ................. . 25.00 25.00 -0- Robert Cherin 100.00 100.00 -0- Selma Cahn .. 25.00 25.00 -0- Louis Darmstodter 50.00 50.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Epstein 50.00 50.00 -0- 1 25.00 50.00 75.00 20.00 20.00 -0- Bernard Fisher . Harry Field .... Harrison friend 100.00 Dr. Arthur Greenberg .. ..... 1 50.00 100.00 150.00 Jeanette Greenberg ........... Mr. & Mrs. Louis Grossman 250.00 Mr. & Mrs. Hermon Grossman .......... 1,000.00 -0- 15.00 15.00 -0- 50.00 300.00 -0- 150.00 1,500.00 -0- 200.00 200.00 --0- Oscar Gudelsky .................. 25.00 25.00 --0- Komma Gudelsky ................ 20.00 20.00 --0- -0- David Gudelsky ... 350.00 Marvin Gudelsky .... ........... 50.00 50.00 Saul Jacobson .................... 300.00 300.00 -0- Dr. Kantor & Mrs. Morris .. 50.00 50.00 -0- Rabbi Kaplan .............,...... 75.00 75.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Kaufman .. 800.00 1,200.00 -0- 300.00 100.00 l �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1959 1 ) NAME PLEDGED SPECIAL SURVIVAL MILK FUND PAID BALANCE Gordon Kaufman ................ 100.00 Richard & Sylvia Kaufman .. 300.00 Samuel Klayf ...................... 300.00 300.00 -0- Sara Klein ......................... . 200.00 200.00 -0- Helen Kulka ....................... . 50.00 50.00 -0- Edward Krouse .................. 50.00 50.00 -0- Marie Keilin ..................... . 35.00 35.00 -0- Samuel Lawson .................. 75.00 75.00 -0- Jess Levin ......................... . 75.00 75.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 25.00 Marcia, Diane Levin .......... 25.00 Jerome, Lourie, Mimi Levine -0- 325.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- Robert libner ................... . 25.00 25.00 -0- Reuben levy ...................... 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Hyman Lipman .. 500.00 50.00 550.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lipman 125.00 25.00 150.00 -0- 50.00 1,550.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 300.00 -0-0- Morris Levine 25.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Som L pmon .... 1,000.00 Benjamin Marcus ................ 50.00 James Metz ....................... . 25.00 Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Miller .... 250.00 Ted Neumer ........................ 25.00 500.00 -0- 25.00 50.00 400.00 400.00 Mrs. Ted Neumer .. 25.00 25.00 -0- Allen Oppenheimer ... 25.00 25.00 -0- 1 Harold Page ...................... 20.00 20.00 -0- Albert Porker .................... 25.00 25.00 -0- I Sylvia Poul ........................ 50.00 50.00 -0- David Rosen ........................ 200.00 200.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Som Price ........ 250.00 50.00 300.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rosen .. 350.00 50.00 400.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen ........ 1,200.00 150.00 1,950.00 -0- Marcia Rosen .................... 500.00 500.00 -0- U. J. C., Jr. ........................ 36.41 36.41 -0- Mox Rosenberg .................. 200.00 100.00 100.00 Robert Rosenberg .............. 100.00 100.00 -0- Seymour Rosenberg ........... . 100.00 600.00 100.00 J I �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30 , 1959 NAME PLEDGED SPECIAL SURVIVAL MILK FUND PAID BALANCE 250.00 Maxwell Ross 250.00 ................ Rubinsky .............. 50.00 50.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- Lallo Shumocher ................ 25.00 25.00 -0- ·················· 110.00 110.00 -0- Moe Schubb ·····················• 25.00 25.00 -0- Joseph Simon .................... 150.00 150.00 -0- .................... 100.00 100.00 -0- Dr. I. H. Singer ....... . .......... 25.00 25.00 -0- 15.00 -0- Charles Rubinsky Ffore nee Jacob Schreiber Sol Silverman Mrs. Eli Smith .................... 15.00 ........... Eli Smith ................ ... ..... Mr. & Mrs. Fred Stein ........ 100.00 Joseph Singer ··············-····· 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jock Stei ndler .. 300.00 Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler 400.00 .... 250.00 Memory Mrs. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jos. Strifling 26.00 26.00 175.00 25.00 100.00 200.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 41.50 341.50 -0- 100.00 600.00 -0- 50.00 300.00 100.00 Bill Stern -0100.00 -0100.00 ...... 25.00 25.00 -0- Dr. Morris Teles .......... ... ..... 100.00 100.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. J oel Wiener ---- 600.00 600.00 -0- .... 2,000.00 4,000.00 105.00 1,500.00 4,605.00 Mrs. Poul Wiener & Donald 1,250.00 250.00 150.00 1,650.00 -0- ....... 10.00 10.00 -0- $1,588.00 $20,675.41 $5,480.00 18,467.41 20,675.41 Dr. Maurice Stromberg Estate of Josiah Wiener Sol Zoll ........ ........ ... $18,467.41 $6,100.00 6,100.00 $26,155.41 $26,155.41 �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M . WIENER 1901 1955 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER . 1941-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 TED NEUMER 1954-1955 JOSEPH S. $TRIFLING 1955-1956 FRED STEIN 1956-1957 JOSIAH WIENER 1957-1958 # r �OFFICERS MILTON STEINDLER FOR . 1958-59 . HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman Co-chairman LEO S. ROSEN Treasurer MRS. SAMUEL LAWSON Secretory MRS. HERMAN GROSSMAN SEYMOUR ROSENBERG Milk Fund Chairman Legal Advisor TRUSTEES Abe Ashendorf Jock Lipman Dr. Rolph August Samuel Lipman Louis M. Berman Ted Neumer Dr. Arthur Greenberg Douglas Rosen Louis Grossman Fred Stein J. Kelly Kaufman Jock Steindler Richard Kaufman Dr. Morris Teles Samuel Kloyf Josiah Wiener Jess Levin Mrs. Poul Wiener �~NNUAL CJ(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1959- 1960 LOUIS M. BERMAN Chairman �TO OUR CHAIRMAN , LOU BERMAN " THE ONE AND ONLY " Yes, we've known them all over the years and still say "The One and Only." And from Lou, each of us can take a lesson in the connotations of charity at its loftiest levels. For this means not only giving of one's worldly means ( as Lou has always done) but also giving of one's self to serve your fellow man, your coreligionist of less fortunate status and your brethren in Israel. To Lou the U.J.C. 1959-60 chairmanship was a personal challenge as well as an honor. His concept of responsibility was so profound that he personally assumed the task of seeing that the U.J.C. story was presented personally and properly to everyone in our entire community be they $1,000 or $5 givers. The demands of time, the expenditures of gasoline and shoe leather did not dissuade him, nor did the pains of illness deter his efforts. Our community was "blanketed" as never before. No one was overlooked or forgotten. Lou, and Lou himself, performed the main part of the task - did it painstakingly, thoroughly, and with genuine dedication. May the advent of time bring to our community and to the cause of U.J.C. more Lou Bermans. In absentia all of us salute him! Herman Grossman U.J.C. Co-chairman, 1959-60 U.J.C. Chairman, 1960-61 Leo S. Rosen U.J.C. Treasurer �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Stotement of Receipts ond Disbursements For yeor ended N ovember 30, 1960 Cash in Bank, Nov. 30, 1959 $ 211 .45 3,050.00 Cash on Hand, Nov. 30, 1959 Cash received, 1958-59 4,930.00 Cash received, 1959-60 21,451.02 Bond received, 1959-60 1,000.00 20.00 Interest on Bond $ 30,662.47 LESS DISBURSEMENTS United Jewish Appeal Other Allocations to Charities Typewriter $ 21,300.00 5,430.00 84.50 Campaign Expense 352.99 Office Expense . 192.00 Audit and Annual Report 80.00 Interest Paid 23.33 Secretary's Expense Transient Fund . 200.00 20.00 27,682.82 2,979.65 Checks on Hand . Cash in Bank, Dec. 2, 1960 . 780.50 $ 2,199.15 �UNITED J EWISH CHARITIES Allocations 1959-60 TO ISRAEL United Jewish Appeal Hadassah Hebrew University and Technion Jewish National Fund OTHER Jewish Institute of Religion - Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem Union of American Hebrew Congregations B'nai Brith, Nat'I Youth Service Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary - N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital Nat'I Jewish Children's Home Nat'I Jewish Hospital Histadruth lvrith Bitzaron Hillel . Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hias Service Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council Jewish Publication Society of America American Jewish Archives American Asso. of Jewish Education U. J. C. Scholarship Fund Chilian Relief $ 21,300.00 850.00 300.00 100.00 $ 22,550.00 50.00 900.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 300.00 150.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 15.00 125.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 4,180.00 $ 26,730.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1960 NAME Anonymous PLEDGED .................................. U.J.C. Juniors ................................ Mrs. Louis Aron .............................. Mr. & Mrs. Abe Ashendorf ............ Mrs. ldo Ashendorf ...................... lsodore Ashendorf . ....................... Jacob Ashendorf ............................ Mox Ashendorf ............................ Dr. Rolph August .......................... Mrs. Reeva Bonk ........................... . Doniel Bacon ............................... . Bernard Becker .............................. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Bell .................. Harry H. Berman ............................ Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Berman ........ Louis J. Berman ............................ Marcus Bess .................................. Rosalie Brace ............................... . Nothon Broutmon .......................... Mrs. Som Broutman ........................ Howard Bruelbock ........................ Mrs. Sigmund Cohn ........................ Robert Cherin ......... ....................... Jerome Cherin ················--------·-···· Jock Chevlin .................................. Ellis Chevlin ................................. . Erwin Chark .................................. Dr. Sol Cohan ................................ Louis Darmstodte, ......................... . Gustoav DeJong ............................ William Druker . ............................. Andrew Epstein ..................... ......... Harry Field .................................... Horry Fisher ........................ ......... . William Fisher ................. ............... Eugene Fisher ............................... . Bernard Fisher .............................. Mrs. Norman Fleishman ................ Harrison Friend .............................. Louis Goldberg .............................. Mr. & Mrs. Worner Golombeck .... Philip Gronik ...•........................•... Dr. Arthur Greenberg .................... Mr. & Mrs. Herman Grossman ........ Mr. & Mrs. Louis Grossman David Gudelsky MILK FUND $ 45.00 49.02 500.00 200.00 60.00 150.00 250.00 300.00 50.00 10.00 10.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 50.00 25.00 5.00 15.00 15.00 6.00 25.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 JO.DO 50.00 50.00 12.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 12.00 100.00 5.00 10.00 50.00 125.00 1,500.00 250.00 200.00 PAID $ 45.00 36.50 50.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 49.02 36.50 550.00 300.00 60.00 150.00 250.00 300.00 50.00 10.00 10.00 125.00 100.00 525.00 50.00 25.00 15.00 15.00 6.00 25.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 30.00 50.00 12.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 1,000.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 12.00 100.00 5.00 10.00 250.00 50.00 125.00 1,750.00 300.00 200.00 BALANCE -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-05.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0-025.00 -050.00 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-075.00 -0-0-0-050.00 -0-0-0-0- i .I �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1960 NAME PLEDGED MILK FUND O scar Gude lsky 25.00 Kommo Gudelsky .. 20.00 Marvin Gudelsky .......................... 50.00 25.00 Louis Gudelsky ························-·•··· Michael Holkin .............................. 10.00 5.00 Blanche Hoss ···················-·-············ 25.00 Meyer Jacobs ···········-···················· 300.00 Soul P. Jacobson ························-· Dr. Morton & Mrs. Morris Kantor .. 50.00 18.00 Robbi Stanley Kaplan ··-----·····--·-···· The Koufmon Family ...................... 2,000.00 Mrs. J. Kelly Kaufman .................... Samuel Kloyf ··················-··-·········· Mrs. Soroh Klein ............................ Harold Kline ...............•.................. Mrs. Helen Kulka ·····················-···· Edward Krouse .............................. Or. Morie Keilin Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Lawson ............ Jess Levi n ...................................... Morris Levine ................................ Reuben levy .................................. Robert libner ········-·········•············· Hymon Lipman ·····-························ Mr. & Mrs. Som Lipman ................ Mr. & Mrs. Jock Lipman ·- Benjamin Marcus ......................... Phillip Morgules ···················••····-•· James Metz ................................. . Dr. Sidney Michelman ···-------·--·-·-• Mr. & Mrs. Ted Neumer ............... . Alon Oppenheimer .........•.............. Harold Page ····························-····· Albert Porker -·-·····-·-····················· Sylvia Poul ······························--·•·· Samuel Price & Family ................... . Daniel Rappaport ····················-----Charles Race ............... ·-··-··· ··•·-······ David Roetter ··--······ ...................... Donold Romer ·················-Mrs. Libby Rose ··-························· Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen ··-········-········ Mrs. Harold Rosen ·-······················ Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rosen ............ David N. Rosen Max Rosenberg ··························-· 200.00 300.00 200.00 25 .00 50.00 50.00 35.00 75.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 100.00 500.00 1,500.00 175.00 50.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 400.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 50.00 250.00 25 .00 15.00 5.00 25.00 10.00 2,000.00 600.00 450.00 200.00 100.00 50.00 25.00 PAID 25.00 20.00 50.00 25.00 5.00 5 .00 25 .00 300.00 50.00 18.00 2,000.00 200.00 300.00 200.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 35.00 75.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 100.00 500.00 1,550.00 200.00 50.00 10.00 20.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 250.00 50.00 5.00 25.00 10.00 2,250.00 600.00 500.00 200.00 BALANCE -0-0-0-05.00 - 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-0- 0- 0- 0-0- 0- 0-0- 0-- 0- 0-0- 0- 0- 025.00 - 0300 .00 - 0-025.00 -0250.00 - 015.00 - 0-0-0-0- 0- -0--0100.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1960 NAME Robert Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg ..................... Maxwell Rois ............................... . Mox Rothschild .............................. Benno Rothschild .......................... Alex Rosenthal .............................. Charles Rubinsky .......................... Florence Rubinsky .......................... Mrs . Mox Schubb .......................... Jacob Schreiber ............................ Som Schumacher Doniel Si lberman Sol Sil•ermon .............................. . Dr. lr.ing Sing er ............................ Som Siegel .................................... Joseph Simon ................................ Som J . Singer ............................... Eli Smith ...................................... Horry Spivack ................................ Mr. & Mrs. Fred Ste in .................... Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler .......... Mr. & Mrs. Jock Steindler ............ William Stern Jerome Stern ························••n••·· Bernard Stern --------···············..······· Dr. Maurice Stromberg .................. Dr. Morris Teles ............................ PLEDGED 100.00 200.00 250.00 70.00 20.00 25.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 110.00 25.00 15.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 150.00 25.00 50.00 5.00 200.00 600.00 300.00 100.00 25 .00 25.00 25.00 125.00 Melvi n VonDuren .......................... Mrs. Poul Wiener ...................... . . Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wiener ............... . Mrs. Josiah Wiener -------·-········•···· Robert Warshaw .......................... Sol Zoll ................................ 1,750.00 675.00 1,000.00 20.00 30.00 $22,657.02 1,531.50 MILK FUND PAID 25.00 70.00 20.00 25.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 110.00 25.00 15.00 25.00 50.00 150.00 25.00 5 .00 225.00 650.00 340.00 25 .00 50.00 40.00 5.00 25.00 25.00 125.00 12.50 2,000.00 700.00 1,000.00 20.00 35.00 $1 ,531.50 $22,451.02 25 .00 250.00 25.00 $1,737.50 22,451.02 $24, 188.52 $24, 188.52 PREVIOUS UNPAID BALANCES - BALANCE 75.00 200.00 250.00 - 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-0- 0-0100.00 - 0- 0-0- 050.00 -0- 0- 0-0100.00 25.00 -0- 0-012.50 - 0-0- 0-0- 0- 1958-59 Seymour Rosenberg ..............$100.00 Maxwell Ross ........................ 250.00 El i Smith ..... ........... 100.00 William Ste rn ........................ 100.00 $550.00 �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M . WIENER 1901 1955 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAI RMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. W IENER . 1941-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 TED NEUMER 1954-1955 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING 1955-1956 FRED STEIN . 1956-1957 JOSIAH WIENER 1957-1958 MILTON STEINDLER 1958-1959 �OFFICERS FOR 1959-60 LOUIS M. BERMAN Chairman HERMAN GROSSMAN . Vice Chairman LEO S. ROSEN Treasurer MRS. SAMUEL LAWSON Secretary MRS. HERMAN GROSSMAN Milk Fund Chairman TRUSTEES Abe Ashendorf Dr. Ralph August Sam Lipman Jack Steindler Douglas Rosen Milton Steindler Sam Klayf Dr. Philip Miller Ted Neumer Dr. Morris Teles J. Kelly Kaufman Maxwell Ross Richard Kaufman Joel Wiener Fred Stein Mrs. Paul Wiener Dr. Arthur Greenberg Louis Grossman Jess Levin Harry H. Berman Alan Oppenheimer Seymour Rosen berg Eugene Fisher Legal Advisor �cANNUAL 1.(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1960- 1961 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1961 - 1962 RICHARD KAUFMAN, CHAIRMAN JOEL WIENER Chairman UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1963 - 1964 �~NNUAL CJ(EPORT UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON 1960- 1961 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman �HERMAN GROSSMAN ' S- U.J.C. MESS AGl: THE recent Eichmann trial is symbolic of Israel's role in the total universal mosaic, of which it is a vibrant, living, growing part. As members of a world community, in whose name Israel acts in this case, we place Eichmann on trial, not for his life, but for life itself, and in a greater compass we talk of the survival of the life of the State of Israel itself. This is of course a big part, but only a port, of United Jewish Appeal participation in world wide charity. "TZEDAKAH" embraces all forms of those in need, and loving thy neighbor encompasses a conviction that we help all brethren, wherever they may be, who are in need. Our religion should teach us that ritual is only a part of being religious; it should consist also of service and charity - and this means participation to what ever extent, however small or large, by every member of our community. For each member who is weak, the surviving must be strong. Our work in the great experiment of the instinct of the human will is the ultimate response and fulfillment of replacing weakness with strength. Here's to a great campaign for 1961-1962. HERMAN GROSSMAN, Chairman - 1960-1961. �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Statement of Receipts a nd Disbursements For year ended November 30 , 1961 Cash in Bank, Nov. 30, 1960 $ 2,199.15 780.50 Cash on Hand, Nov. 30, 1960 15,793.00 Cash Received, 1960-61 2,450.00 Bonds Rece~ed, 1960-61 Cash Received from previous year's pledges 467.50 Miscellaneous Collections 395.00 56.65 Interest on Bonds $ 22,141.80 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: United Jewish Appeal $ 13,600.00 5,555.00 Other Allocations to Charities 317.33 Campaign Dinner Expense 80.00 Audit and Annual Report Office Expense 162.15 Secretary's Expense 250.00 Interest Paid 83.62 Transient Fund 35.00 Cash on Hand Cash in Bank, Nov. 30, 1961 $ 20,083.10 1,142.90 2,058.70 915.80 $ 22,141.80 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocotions - 1960-1961 TO ISRAEL United Jewish Appeal Hodossoh Hebrew University and Technion Jewish Notional Fund OTHER Jewish Institute of Religion - Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem Union of Americon Hebrew Congregotions B'noi Brith, Not'I Youth Service Dropsie College Jewish Welfare Boord Bellefoire Jewish Telegraphic Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary - N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospitol Not'I Jewish Children's Home Not'I Jewish Hospital Histodruth lvrith Bitzoron Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress United Hios Service Synogogue Council of America The Zionist Council Jewish Publication Society of America American Jewish Archives American Asso. of Jewish Education U. J. C. Scholarship Fund Miscellaneous Contributions . S 13,600.00 650.00 200.00 l 00.00 S 14,550.00 50.00 900.00 100.00 150.00 l 00.00 100.00 25.00 300.00 150.00 l 00.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 15.00 125.00 100.00 150.00 100.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 50.00 1,000.00 500.00 4,605.00 s 19,155.00 �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges fo r Year Ended November 30, 1961 NAME PLEDGED S Anonymous U. J. C. Juniors MILK FUND 25.00 PAID S 40.00 BALANCE 25.00 -0- 40.00 -0-0- Mr. & Mrs. Abe Ashendorf 500.00 50.00 550.00 Mrs. Ida Ashendorl 200.00 100.00 300.00 - 0- Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Ashendorf 150.00 150.00 -0-0- Mr. & Mrs. Mox Ashendorf 250.00 250.00 Dr. Rolph August 300.00 300.00 -0- 10.00 20.00 Doniel, Morgueritte & Shirley Bocon 30.00 Mrs. Reeva Banks 50.00 50.00 - 0- Arthur Bell 25.00 25.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- 5 .00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Horry H. Berman I Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Berman Audrey Beskin 5.00 Isadore Brody 10.00 10.00 -0- Mrs. Sam Broutman 15.00 15.00 -0- Mrs. Sigmund Cohn 15.00 Beth Elaine & David Cherin 5 .00 5 .00 15.00 -0- 10.00 -0- -0- 50.00 50.00 Eugene Fisher 100.00 100.00 Bernard Fisher 100.00 Louis Dormstadter Lorraine and Janet Friend Mrs. Worner Galombeck Dr. & Mrs. A. Greenberg & Janet Mr. & M rs. Herman Grossman Mr. & Mrs. Louis Grossman 5.00 -0100.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 - 0- 10.00 - 0- 0- 150.00 25.00 175.00 1,500.00 150.00 1,650.00 - 0- 300.00 - 0- 300.00 50.00 Rachel, Laurie & Jeff Grossman 50.00 - 0- David Gudelsky 200.00 200.00 - 0- Oscar Gudelsky 25.00 25.00 - 0- Kommo Gudeksly 20.00 20.00 - 0- 400.00 400.00 - 0- Dr. Morton & Mrs. Morris Kantor 50.00 50.00 - 0- Robbi & Mrs. Kaplan 25.00 25.00 - 0- 20.00 -0- Lewis L. Joffe Judythe, Deborah, Avi Lee & Mory Beth Kaplan 20.00 �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year End ed November 30, ·, 96 1 i l NAME J. K. Kaufman PLEDGED 200.00 300.00 BALANCE - 0- 200.00 -0- 300.00 - 0- 50.00 - 0- 35.00 35.00 -0- Sam Klay! 300.00 300.00 -0- Sarah Klein 100.00 100.00 50.00 Greg Kaufman Dr. Morie Keilin - 0- Edward Krause 50.00 Mrs. Helen Kulka 50.00 50.00 - 0- Mrs. Samuel Lawson 75.00 75.00 -0- 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Reuben Levy 25.00 25.00 - 0- Robert Libner 50.00 50.00 - 0- Hyman Lipman 350.00 350.00 - 0- Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lipman 150.00 10.00 160.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Sam Lipman 1,500.00 50.00 1,550.00 -0- Ben Marcus Dr. and Mrs. Phillip Miller 50.00 50.00 - 0- 250.00 250.00 - 0- Lori & Joel Miller Mrs. Sarah Morgon Mr. & Mrs. Ted Neumer Mr. & Mrs. Alon Oppenheimer 25.00 25.00 - 0- 35.00 10.00 45.00 -0- 100.00 30.00 130.00 - 0- 50.00 - 0- 5.00 - 0- 0- 50.00 Neil & Lee Oppenheimer l I PAID 1,300.00 1,300.00 Mrs. J. K. Kaufman Richard Kaufman MILK FUND 5.00 Sylvia Poul 50.00 50.00 Doniel Rapoport 25.00 25.00 - 0- Benno Rothschild 20.00 20.00 -0- Mr. & Mrs. Som Price 250.00 Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen 1,500.00 250.00 250.00 1,750.00 - 0- Mrs. Harold Rosen 500.00 500.00 - 0- Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rosen 500.00 500.00 -0- Florence Rubinsky 100.00 100.00 -0- 33.00 - 0- 150.00 150.00 - 0- Dr. Irving Singer 25.00 25.00 - 0- Goldie Smi1h 25.00 25.00 - 0- Som Schumacher, Judy, Ruth & Harold Joseph Simon 30.00 3.00 �UNITED OF JEWISH GREATER CHARITIES MUSKEGON Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30, 1961 NAME PLEDGED Mr. & Mrs. Irving Slade MILK FUND 35.00 Kenneth & Jonathan Slade 5.00 Mrs. Fred Stein 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler 400.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Steindler 300.00 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Stern Dr. & Mrs. Morris Teles Mr. & Mrs. Melvin VonDuren Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wiener PAID -0- 5.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 400.00 40.00 - 0- 25.00 25.00 - 0- 125.00 125.00 - 0- 25.00 20.00 5.00 900.00 900.00 - 0- 0- 1,000.00 100.00 1,100.00 Mrs. Poul Wiener 1,750.00 250.00 2,000.00 25.00 $17,175.00 25.00 $1,493.00 $18,243.00 1,493.00 425.00 $18,668.00 $18,66B.OO PREVIOUS YEARS UNPAID BALANCES Ellis Chevlin $ 25.00 Phillip Granik 50.00 James Meti 25.00 Albert Parker Som Price Charles Race Max Rosenberg Robert Rosenberg - 0- 340.00 Mrs. Josiah Wiener Mr. Sol Zoll BALANCE 35.00 25.00 250.00 15.00 100.00 75.00 Seymou, Rosenberg 300.00 Maxwell Ross 500.00 Sol Silverman 100.00 Eli Smith 150.00 Wm. Stern 200.00 $1,815.00 - 0- 0S 425.00 �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M. WIENER 1955 1901 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. Wl!:NER . 1941 -1 9 46 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946- 1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948- 1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949- 1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950- 1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951 - 1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952- 1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953- 1954 TED NEUMER 1954- 1955 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING 1955- 1956 FRED STEIN . 1956- 1957 JOSIAH WIENER 1957-1958 MILTON STEINDLER 1958- 1959 LOUIS M. BERMAN 1959- 1960 �OFFICERS 1960 1961 HERMAN GROSSMAN Chairman LOUIS M. GROSSMAN 1st Vice Chairman JOEL WIENER 2nd Vice Chairman LEO S. ROSEN Treasurer MRS. SAMUEL LAWSON Secretary MRS. HERMAN GROSSMAN . Milk Fund Chairman TRUSTEES Jack Steindler Sam Klayf Dr. Arthur Greenberg Dr. Morris Teles Sam Lipman Dr. Morton Kantor Douglas Rosen Fred Stein Abe Ashendorf Eugene Fisher J. Kelly Kaufman Alan Oppenheimer Ted Neumer Max Rothschild Harry H. Berman Dr. Ralph August Richard Kaufman Edward Krause Dr. Philip Miller Robert Libner Milton Steindler Daniel Rapoport Mrs . Paul Wiener �ANNUAL REPORT UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREA T ER MUSKEGON 1961-1962 JOEL WIENER Chairman �MESSAGE FROM THE U.J.C. CHAIRMAN In this day and age of tremendous speed and scientific advancement, we of the Jewish faith are dealing with an archaic problem. That of helping our fellow Jews. This is not o new proble·m and with the passage of time it hos token many forms. We in the United States ore greatly blessed. We have the freedom and rights other Jews were unable to have. Israel is providing the rights we take for granted. We must help our fellow man; it is our duty and privilege. The resettlement of Jews released from Iron Curtain and other countries is costly. To accomplish this aim, UJA needs your help. As a member of UJC and our community, your participation, no matter how large or small, is necessary. Let all of us do our port to help restore the dignity of Jews all over the world. Joel Wiener, Chairman. �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Stateme nt of Re ceipts a nd Disburseme nts For ye ar e nded Jan. 21 , 1963 Cash in Bank, Nov. 30, 196 l Cash on Hand, Nov. 30, 196 l $ 915.80 1,142.90 Cash Received, 1961-62 14,859.80 Bonds Received 1961-62 2,000.00 Cash Received from previous year's pledges 185.00 $19,103.50 LESS DISBURSEMENTSUnited Jewish Appeal Other Allocations to Charities Audit and Annual Report Office Expense Notes Receivable Campaign Dinner Expense Secretary's Expense Transient Fund . $14,000.00 3,481.00 80.00 184.40 400.00 345.90 250.00 41.02 $18,782.32 $ 32 l. l 8 165.04 $ 486.22 Cash received and deposited on 1963 pledges Cash in Bank Jan. 21, 1963 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allocations for 1962 tI United Jewish Appeal Hadassah Hebrew Universi ty & Technion Jewish National Fund $14,000.00 500.00 200 00 100.00 $14,800.00 Hebrew Union College -- Jerusa lem Union of American Hebrew Cong. - J.I .R. B'nai Brith Youth ServiceDropsie College Hillel Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Telegraphic Agency American Jewish Commit tee Jewish Theological Seminary, N.Y. Hebrew Theological College American Jewish Congress United Hias Service . . Synagogue Counci l of America Jewish Publication Society of America American Assn. of Jewish Education Anti -Defamation League Miscellaneous Contributions U. J. A. Scholarship Fund . $ 50.00 900.00 150.00 50.00 100.00 25.00 150.00 150.00 50.00 150.00 l 00.00 50.00 25.00 50.00 150.00 331 .00 200.00 2,681 .00 $17,481.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON NAME PLEDGED MILK FUND PAID Anonymous ............................. $ 100.00 Mr. &. Mrs. Abe Ashendorf ..... 500.00 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ashendorf 150.00 Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Ashendorf 25.00 25.00 250.00 250.00 300.00 300.00 Mr. and Mrs. Max Ashendorf Dr. & Mrs. R. V. August ........ , ...... Mrs. Reeva Bank ..................... . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bell .. . 50.00 $ 50.00 100.00 150.00 10.00 60.00 100.00 Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Berman 50.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Berman .... 100.00 10.00 110.00 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Berman ... . . 25.00 10.00 35.00 Srs. Selma Cahn .................. . 15.00 15.00 10.00 10.00 David Cherin ......... , ................ . 10.00 10.00 Mrs, Rebecca Cwebel ......... •..• . ...• 10.00 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. Francis Fine ............. .. 200.00 200.00 Mr. ar.d Mrs. Eugene Fisher ..........• 100.00 100.00 Lorraine Friend ................... .... . 20.00 20.00 Mrs. Evelyn Galombeck ....... . 10.00 10.00 150.00 150.00 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Herman Grossman 1,350.00 Rachel, Laurie, Jeff Grossman 50.00 1,400.00 50.00 50.00 David Gudelsky ..............•....•..•. 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Jaffe ............... . 400.00 400.00 Lynn, Kim, Douglas & Carson Jaffe .... . 50.00 50.00 Rabbi & Mrs, Stanley Kaplan ... .. .... . 50.00 50.00 200.00 200.00 75.00 75.00 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Klayf .. Dr. Morton & Mrs. Morris Kantor $ 550.00 100.00 Mrs. Jerome Cherin ................... . BALANCE l �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PLEDGED NAME 1,700.00 . . .. . .. 350.00 75.00 . 50.00 50.00 . ················ 35.00 35.00 .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2S.00 25.00 .. ··················· 50.00 50.00 ' Mr. & Mrs. Edward Krause . . . . . . . . . . . or. Marie Keilen . . . . Mrs. Rose Lawson ' ' 10.00 ·········· ······ ········· 50.00 50.00 ······················ 350.00 350.00 200.00 200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack L ipman Ellen Lynn L ipman ··············· . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lipman . .... M r. and Mrs. Sanford s. . ... 100.00 ............ 35.00 Maremont Mrs. Sara Morgan 650.00 10.00 10.00 50.00 700.00 100.00 10.00 45.00 50.00 150.00 . ... .......... 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Alan Oppenhe i mer 65.00 Miss Syl via .. ········ . . . . . . . . .. . . Paul .. ······· Daniel Rapaport ........... 6S.00 75.00 75.00 50.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Ted Neumer Mr. & Mrs. 50.00 . ' . . .. . . . . . .. . . . 1,750.00 ···· · ······· Rosen . ....... . . 500.00 500.00 , 400.00 400.00 . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen Mrs. Harold Rosen ' .... Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Miss F lorence Rubinsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Schankler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. & Mrs. Sa m Shumacher ..... Harold, Judy & Ruth Shumacher Joseph Simon .. ......... Or. Irving Singer 50.00 . ·········· Mr. & Mrs. Don Romer 250.00 5.00 2,000.00 5.00 25.00 25.00 5.00 3.00 s.oo .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 150.00 ·········••·••········ 25.00 25.00 , BALANCE 10.00 ············ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Libner Hyman Lipman .. 425.00 .......... Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kaufman . . Judith Lawson PAID 1,800.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. Kelly Kaufman Mrs. Helen Kulka MILK FUND �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON NAME PLEDGED Mr. and Mrs. Joe Singer ........ . MILK FUND PAID 50.00 BALANCE 50.00 Mrs. Goldie Smith ............ .. •....... 100.00 Mr. &. Mrs. Fred Stein 164.00 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Steindler 200.00 200.00 Mr. &. Mrs. Milton Steindler 300.00 300.00 Dr. &. Mrs. Morris Teles .............. . 125.00 125.00 Mr, &. Mrs. Melvin VanDuren 25.00 100.00 36.00 200.00 10.00 35.00 Mrs. Paul Wiener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00 2,000.00 Mrs. Josiah Wiener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 1,100.00 1,100.00 Mr. and Mrs. Joel Wiener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900.00 900.00 51.80 51.80 United Jewish Charities Juniors $16,295.80 PREVIOUS UNPAID BALANCES $799.00 $16,859.80 799.00 235.00 $17,094.80 $17,094.80 $235.00 1963 PLEDGES: Ellis Chevlin ...•............. $ 25.00 Paul &. Margaret Elliott Perry Bacon 15.00 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fisher 500.00 100.00 Eugene Fisher (cash) .... 20.00 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. Jess Levin .. 100.00 500.00 Mr. and Mrs. James Price 100.00 Charles Race 15.00 Miss Florence Rubinsky .. . 100.00 Robert 75.00 Mr. and Mrs. Jake Schriber 100.00 100.00 Bernard Fisher James Metz Sam Price Rosenberg Seymour Rosenberg . . . . . . . . . . 300.00 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Singer Maxwell Ross .............•.. 500.00 U. J. C. Juniors Eli Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 William S!ern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 $1,905.00 ..... $ 40.00 45.04 �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M . WIENER 1901 1955 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER 1941-1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1949 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953-1954 TED NEUMER 1954-1955 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING 1955-1956 FRED STEIN 1956-1957 JOSIAH WIENER 1957-1958 MILTON STEINDLER 1958-1959 LOUIS M. BERMAN 1959-1960 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1960-1961 JOEL WIENER 1961-1962 �U.J.C. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joel Wiener Chairman Richard Kaufman Treasurer Mrs. Rose Lawson Secretary Abe Ashendorf Leo Rosen Milton Steindler Douglas Rosen Alan Oppenheimer Dr. Morris Teles Herman Grossman J. K. Kaufman Daniel Rapaport Dr. Morton Kantor Jack Steindler Lewis Jaffe Mrs. Paul Wiener Mox Roth sch iId Mrs. Josiah Wiener Harry H. Berman Miss Sylvia Paul Samuel Klayf Miss Florence Rubinsky Robert Libner Dr. Arthur Greenberg Arthur Bell Samuel Lipman �ANNUAL REPORT RICHARD KAUFMAN, CHAIRMAN UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1963 - 1964 �MESSAGE FROM THE U. J. C. CHAIRMAN Dear Fellow Jew and Fellow Contributor, You and I occompl ished our goal in the 1964 campaign. We con find satisfaction and toke pride in this achievement. As Jews, we helped other Jews and helped ourselves. For example, contributions of $325 each transported a Jew from North Africa to Israel and provided for him or her while in transit; a contribution of $150 bought hot nourishing lunches for four school children in North Africa for the entire year; $450 provided six speakers from the Anti-Defamation League to speak at colleges and universities to refute anti-Jewish Arab propaganda; and a $1000 subsidy permitted a young Rabbi to finish his studies at the Hebrew Union College. Our job is not done. There ore still one million Jews abroad who exist only to be delivered to Israel. There are still Arab inciters in the United States who would destroy Israel. There ore still Ku Klux Klonners and Nazis who would destroy you and me. Therefore, with the satisfaction of having accomplished our goals in 1964 and having helped fellow Jews and ourselves: let us re-set our goals to the needs of this year. Let us thank God that we ore the charitable port of World Jewry who are able to contribute to the future. Dick Kaufman �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Statement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended April 12, 1965 Cash in Bank, February 7, 1964 Pledges Received 1964 . . . . . $ 1,267.95 16,812.00 $18,079.95 Cash received on previous year's pledges . . . . . . . . . Advance received on 1964-65 pledge Refund of Scholarship Check . 1,150.00 30.00 500.00 $19,759.95 LESS DISBURSEMENTS United Jewish Appeal Other Allocations to Charities Campaign Dinner . . . . Other Campaign Expenses Audit . . . . . . .. . Secretarial E~pense Office Expense . . . . . Transient Fund . . . . . $14,785.00 2,175.00 400.00 83.20 50.00 200.00 91.04 85.00 Total Disbursements Cash on Hand . . . . Cash in Bank April 12, 1965 . $17,869.24 250.00 250.00 1,640.71 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Allocations for 1964 United Jewish Appeal . . . . . $1 4,785.00 Muskegon Chapter of Hadassah 225.00 Hebrew University & Technion . 200.00 $15,210.00 Union of American Hebrew Cong. 800.00 American Jewish Committee 100.00 American Jewish Congress 100.00 Anti-Defamation League . . 150.00 Hebrew Union College-Jerusalem H i llel 50.00 150.00 American Red Mogen David for Israel 25.00 Jewish Theological Seminary New York . . . . 150.00 Jewish Welfare Board . . . . 75.00 Synagogue Council of America 50.00 Jewish Chautauqua Society . 100.00 1,750.00 I Total Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 6 ,960 .00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON l PLEDGED Mr. & Mrs. Louis Aron . . .. . . $ MILK FUND PAID 40.00 40.00 Mr. & Mrs. Abe Ashendorf . . . 500.00 500.00 Mr. & Mrs. Max Ashendori , , , 250.00 250.00 Jerry Ashendorf . . . . . . . 3.00 3.00 Mr. & Mrs. Isadore Ashendorf . 25.00 25.00 Becky & Gilbert Ashendori . 5.00 5.00 Dr. & Mrs. Ralph August . . . . . 200.00 200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Becker . . . 200.00 200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Berman . . . . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Berman . . . 50.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Cherin . . . . 75.00 Mrs. Jerome Oherin . . . . . . 75.00 25.00 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Cohen 50.00 50.00 Mr. Louis Darmstadter . . . 50.00 50.00 Mr. Harry Field . . . . . . . 20.00 20.00 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Fisher . 150.00 150.00 Lorraine & Janet Friend . 25.00 25.00 Mrs. Warne·r Galombeck .. 10.00 10.00 Robert Galombeck . . . . 2.00 2.00 Mr. & BAL. Mrs. Robert GotJtleib . . . 25.00 25.00 Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Greenberg ... 250.00 250.00 Mr. & Mrs. Herman Grossman 1,000.00 1,000.00 Mr. & Mrs. Komm a Gudelsky 10.00 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Gudelsky . 85.00 85.00 Roger Gudelsky . . . . . 15.00 15.00 Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Hawkins . . . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Jaffe . . . . . . 450.00 450.00 Dr. & Mrs. Morton Kantor . . . . 100 00 100.00 ) �I UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PLEDGED MILK FUND Kaufman Amstore Foundation .. $2,500.00 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Krause PAID $2,500.00 75.00 75.00 Mrs. Helen Kulka . . . . 25.00 25.00 Mrs. Samuel Lawson . . . . 50.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Levin . . . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Libner . 250.00 250.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Libner . . . 225.00 225.00 Mr. & Mrs. Sam Lipman . . 700.00 700.00 Hyman Lipman . . . . . . . . . 150.00 150.00 Ben Marcus 100.00 100.00 ....... . Mr. & Mrs. Ted Neumer . . . . Mrs. Ted Neumer . . . . . . . 100.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer . Lee Oppenheimer . . . . 65.00 1.00 65.00 1.00 Mr. & Mrs. Albert Parker . 30.00 30.00 Alan Parker . . . . . . . 10.00 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jemes Price .. 40.00 40.00 Mr. & Mrs. Dan Rapoport . 100.00 100.00 1.00 1.00 Carla Rapoport . . . . Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rosen 500.00 500.00 Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen . . . 1,500.00 1,500.00 Mrs. Leo Rosen . 100.00 100.00 Mrs. Harold Rosen . . . . . 500.00 500.00 Mrs. K. Rothschild . . .. 25.00 25.00 Mr. & Mrs Max Rothschild 85.00 85.00 Miss Florence Rubinsky . . . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Schrieber . 50.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Sam Shumacher . 30.00 30.00 5.00 5.00 Harold, Judy, Ruth Shumacher BAL. �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PLEDGED Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Singer . . $ MILK FUND 50.00 PAID $ 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Sam Singer .. Mrs. Goldie Smith . . . . . . . 100.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 Mr. Joseph Simon . . . . . . . 100.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Steindler . 250.00 250.00 Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler . 300.00 Mrs. Milton Steindler . . . Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Steinman Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Stern . Dr. & Mrs. Morris Teles . Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wiener . Mrs. Josiah Wiener .. 300.00 50.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,250.00 1,250.00 Mrs. Josiah Wiener . Mrs. Paul Wiener . 2,000.00 2,000.00 U. J. C. Juniors . . . . . 44.00 44.00 36.00 36.00 $16,571.00 $241.00 $16,812.00 241.00 $16,812.00 BAL. �FOUNDER AND INSPIRAT IONAL LEADER PAUL M . WIENER 1955 1901 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER 1941 - 1946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946 - 1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947 - 1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948 - 1949 HARRY A. 1949 - 1950 FISHER FRANCIS N. FINE 1950 - 1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951 - 1952 HERMAN 1962 - 1953 GROSSMAN ABE ASHENDORF 1953 - 1954 TED NEUMER 1954 - 1955 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING 1955 - 1956 FRED STEIN 1956 - 1957 JOSIAH WIENER 1957 - 1958 MILTON STEINDLER 1958 - 1959 LOUIS M. BERMAN 1959 - 1960 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1960 - 1961 JOEL WIENER 1961 - 1962 ROBERT LIBNER 1962 - 1963 RICHARD KAUFMAN 1963 - 1964 �U. J. C. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Richard Kaufman Chairman Jack Steindler Vice-Chairman Dr. Morton Kantor Treasurer Mrs. Samuel Secretory Lawson Abe Ashendorf Alon Oppenheimer Isadore Ashendorf Daniel Rapoport Harry H. Berman Douglas Rosen Eugene Fisher Leo Rosen Dr. Arthur Greenberg Milton Steindler Herman Grossman Dr. Morris Teles Sylvia Poul Howkins Joel Wiener J. Kelly Kaufman Samuel Klayf Samuel Lipman Mrs. Josiah Wiener Mrs. Paul Wiener �ANNUAL REPORT JACK STEINDLER, CHAIRMAN UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1965 .... �- ANNUAL REPORT ARTHUR H. GREENBERG, CHAIRMAN UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1966 �ANNUAL REPORT JACK STEINDLER, CHAIRMAN UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1965 ". .. -- �MESSAGE FROM THE U.J. C. CHAIRMAN Dear Fellow Jew and Fellow Contributor Just a few days ago, as we observed Passover, we read the story of the Exodus. For those of us who are participants in a U .J .A drive, this is not just the retelling of an ancient event, for we realize that in almost every generation there is a new Exodus. But it is our generation that has been fortunate in helping to secure a land for those who must leave their "House of Bondage". I wish to thank each of you for the contributions that you have made during the past year, and will continue to make to our current campaign. Our task has not been completed, nor will it be as long as so many of our fellow Jews must wait in hostile lands for their chance to enter Israel. Jack Steindler �l UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Statement of Receipts and Disbursement s For Year Ended March 22, 1966 Cash on Hand, April 15, 1965 . . . . Pledges Received 1965 . . . . . . S l 815.71 18,311.00 $20,126.71 LESS DISBURSEMENTS United Jewish Appeal . Other Allocations to Charities Printing Expense Audit & Legal Secretarial & Bookkeeping Expense . Office Expense . . . . Total Disbursements Cash on Hand March 22, 1966. $15,700.00 2 ,595.00 80.00 57.00 175.00 47.17 18, 654.17 $1,472.54 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON Allocations for 1965 United Jewish Appeal. . . . . Muskegon Chapter of Hadassah . Hebrew University & Technion . $15,700.00 150.00 100.00 $15 ,950.00 Union of American Hebrew Congregations American Jewish Committee American Jewish Congress Anti-Defamation League . . Council of Jewish Federation Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem. Hias . . . . . Hillel . . . . . . . . . . . . . Histraduth Ivrith . . . . . . . . American Red Mogen David for Israel Jewish Braille . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Chatauqua Society . . . . . Jewish Theological Seminary New York Jewish Welfare Board . . . . Relief & Subvention Synagogue Council of America . . . . Traverse City State Hospital Services . 700.00 150.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 20 .00 25.00 25 .00 100.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 25.00 300.00 2,345.00 Total Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,295.00 �p ::JJ:J I UNITED JEWISH CHARI Tl ES OF GREATER MUSKEGON NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR AMOUNT PAID Mr. & Mrs. Abe Ashendorf . s Dr. & Mrs. Ralph August. 500.00 25.00 250.00 200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Harry Berman. 125.00 Mr. & Mrs. Louis Berman 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Isadore Ashendorf. Mr. & Mrs. Max Ashendorf Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Cherin 5.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Cohen 10.00 Mr. Louis Darmstadter. 50.00 50.00 20.00 Mr. & Mrs. Earl Brace. Mrs. Nathan Broutman. Mrs. Selma Cahn . Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Ennis Mr. Harry Field. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Fisher . 100.00 * 500.00 Mr. & Mrs. Leo Fonstein. 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Fisher Mrs. Warner Galombeck Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Herman Grossman . Mr. David Gudelsky . Mr. & Mrs. Komma Gudelsky Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Gudelsky Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Hawkins . Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Jaffe Mrs. Frances Kantor l J 10.00 250.00 750.00 200.00 10.00 100.00 100.00 450.00 25.00 'I �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR AMOUNT PAID Dr. & Mrs. Morton Kantor $ Kaufman Amstore Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward Krause . 1 Mrs. He !en Kulka Mrs. Samuel Lawson J Mr. & Mrs. Jess Levin. Mr. & Mrs. Reuben Levy. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Libner Mr. Hyman Lipman Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lipman . Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Lipman . Mr. Ben Marcus. Mr. & Mrs. Ted Neumer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Oppenheimer. Lee Oppenheimer . Mr. & Mrs . Albert Parker. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Price . Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rapoport Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rosen . Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen . Mrs. Harold Rosen Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg. Mrs. Benno Rothschild '! Mr. & Mrs. Max Rothschild. Miss Florence Rubinsky. 125.00 3,000.00 75.00 35.00 50.00 75.00 15.00 250.00 50.00 225.00 750.00 100.00 125.00 65.00 2.00 30.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 1,850.00 600.00 25.00 25.00 90.00 125.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Schrieber. SO.OD Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Shumacher. 30.00 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR Mr. Joseph Simon . . . . AMOUNT PAID $ 120.00 Mr . & Mrs. Joseph Singer 25.00 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Singer 50.00 Mrs. Alexander Smith . . 200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Steindler 300.00 Dr. Irving Singer . . . . Michael Steindler . 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Milton Steindler. . Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Stern . . . 500 .00 25.00 Dr. & Mrs. Maurice Stromberg. 25.00 100.00 Dr. & Mrs. Morris Teles . Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wiener 1,000.00 Mrs. Josiah Wiener 1,250.00 Mrs. Paul Wiener . 2,200.00 44.00 U. J C. Juniors 40.00 Anonymous . . $ 18,341.00 * *$30.00 of this amount pre-paid during previous year Pledges Unpaid as of March 21, 1966. . . . . . . . $365.00 . �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M. WIENER 1955 1901 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF United Jewish Charities Of Greater Muskegon PAUL M. WIENER . . J . KELLY KAUFMAN. HARRY S. BERMAN SAMUEL LIPMAN . HARRY A. FISHER. FRANCIS N. FINE . PAUL M. WIENER . HERMAN GROSSMAN . ABE ASHENDORF . . TED NEUMER . . . . JOSEPH S. STRIFLING . FRED STEIN . . . . JOSIAH WIE NER . . . MIL TON STEINDLER . LOUIS M. BERMAN . . HERMAN GROSSMAN . JOEL WIENER . . . . ROBERT LIBNER . . RICHARD KAUFMAN . JACK STEINDLER . . 1941 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 ~ 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 �U. J.C. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jack Steindler . . . Chairman Dr. Arthur Greenberg Vice-Chairman Dr. Morton Kantor. . Treasurer Mrs. Samuel Lawson Secretary Abe Ashendorf Alan Oppenheimer Isadore Ashendorf Daniel Rapoport Harry Berman Douglas Rosen Eugene Fisher Leo Rosen Dr. Arthur Greenberg Milton Steindler Herman Grossman Dr. Morris Teles Sylvia Paul Hawkins Joel Wiener J. Kelly Kaufman Mrs. Josiah Wiener Samuel Klay£ Mrs. Paul Wiener Samuel Lipman ., �-ANNUAL REPORT ARTHUR H. GREENBERG, CHAIRMAN UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1966 �MESSAGE FROM THE U.J.C. CHAIRMAN Dear United Jewish Charities Supporters: We, the Jewish people of Muskegon, have joined in the past with the great Anurican Jewish Com!llunit:, in cOIIl1litting our name, and our strength to the leadership of Jewish causes . this comru.t.niant is as crucial today as it was in tho past. The tasks we face as Jews and the dangers that surround us must al.Nays be met with exceptional courage and sacrifice. Once more, this :,ear, as always before, we have fulfilled the obligations which we !reel:, sought and willingly took upon ourselves, We ma:, never see those 'Whom we have benefited, but our lives will be hawier tor having made theirs ~ppior , Let us lend our continuing support to the new drive. lie Jews have a conaion glory 1n the past. Let us have a co!llll\on will in the future , Dr. Arthur H, Greenberg �UNITED JE".,ISH CHARITIF.S OF GRE&TER MUSKEGON Statemnt of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended February 15, 1967 Cash on Hand April l, 1966 • .$ 1,472.54 1966 Pledges Received , 16,026.66 1965 Pledges Received 50,00 ~.... tery Association 1 1400,00 Total Receipts $18,91,9,40 LESS DISBURSEMENTS United Jewish Appeal Other Al.locations to Charities , Printing Expense • Audit & Legal , , Sacre tarial & Bookkeeping Expense ,$15 ,800.00 2,395. 00 105,00 65.00 200,00 Office & Postage Expense 46, 94 Transient • • • , • • • J.50 Victory Dinner & Invitations Total Disbursemnts Bank Balance February 15, 1967 Checks on hand 2/15/67 265.45 $18,!180,89 68,51 l 400, 00 t1,l6a. s1 �UtlI'l'ED J£',, ISII CH.JUTI!:S OF ORUTER MUSKEGO! illoca tions for 1966 United Jewish Appeal • • • • Muskegon Chapter of Hadassah . .sis,600.oo 1$0.00 Hebrev University & Technion 100.00 Union of American Hebrew Congrecat1ons 100.00 Aa:lrtcan Jewish Ccoaittoe 150,00 imorican Je,isb Conft"ss 100.00 Anti-Defamation Lea~ • . .. . . . . . . Federated Council ot Jewish Institutions Hebrew Union College - Jeru.sale• 150.00 so.oo 100,00 Hias , iso.oo 11.illel 150,00 Histraduth Ivrith 20. 00 Amarican Red Xogen David for Israel 25.00 Jewish Braille • • • • • 2$.00 Jewish Chatauqua Society 100.00 Jewish 'lheological Se:ninary Now York 100.0~ , .._ _...:.~t: '11elfare ]$0,00 Boarci Rabbical Subvention so.oo Synagogue Council ot America 25.00 l'.ebrew Cnion College - Cincir.nati '16,0SO.oo 100.00 ; 2,us.00 Total Allocations • • • • • , , , , , •• , , , • , , , , $111,195,00 �UNireD J&IISH CHARines OF OREA'!ER KUSKEG<ll AY.OONT PLEDG&D NA.'IE OF CON'lRIBUTllR $ Mr. and r.rs. Abe &shendor! l'.r. and Hrs . Isadore Ashendorf 500.00 30.00 Mr. Ind !',rs. l'.ax Asbandor! • 250.00 Dr. & Hrs. Ralph August • 200. 00 Mr . and Mrs. Harry Ben,an 125.00 50. 00 Mr. and Mrs . Louis Berman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Br~ & Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Br~ 35 .00 l'.r. and Mrs. Howard Bruelbeck • • • • 12.00 llrs. Audrey Cahill 10. 00 !'.rs. Selaa Calm 10.00 l'.r. and l'.r~. Jerome Cherin 25 . 00 !'.r. & Mrs. Jack Chevlin 10.00 l'r . Louis Darlt:ltadter ,50.00 50. 00 Kr. and Mrs . H~rbert Ennis 20.00 l'.r. Harry Field •• 100. 00 and >;rs . Eupene Fisher 2.s.00 Mr. and !'.rs. Leo t'onstein • 21.s.oo Dr. and Mrs . Arthur Greenberg Mr. and Mr•. Hennan Grosaan , • • .soo.oo l·'.r. David Gudelslcy 200.00 Mrs. Koma Gudelsky 20. 00 l'.r. and Mrs. •:arv1.n Gudelslcy Mr. and Mrs. Ralph HavldmJ •:r. \ 100.00 Mrs. Nathan Broutun • • • • • • • • • •'.r . ) 100. 00 50.00 and !·'.rs. Levis Ja!te 450.00 Mrs . Morris Kantor • • • 25 . 00 Dr. and Mrs . l'.orton Kantor 12.s.oo ) ) �UNimD JE',,ISH CHARITES CF <ru:.T:::R rn;:c:;;01 .l.'la.l!IT f'LEIX)i:l) !Cau!n,an FoUDdation • Y.r, and Mrs. Sa,.,-1 llayf Mr. and Y.rs. Ed>1ard Krause Mrs. Samuel La>1aon • • •• Yr . and >:rs. Jeu Lenn • Hr. and >:rs. Reuben Levy • !ir. and Mrs. Robert Libne r Mr. and 1-'.rs. Jack "1paan • Hr. and Mrs. S8111uel Lipman Mr-. Ben Marcua • • • • • • !'.r. and !'.rs. Ted lie..er • • • Mr. and Mrs • .llan Oppenheimer !'.r. and l·:rs • .llbert Parker • • Y.r. and Mrs . Sa:,uel frice •• >:r. &nd Yrs. Daniel Rapoport Mr. and l'.rs. Douglas Rosen Mr. and Y.rs. Leo Rosen • • 50.00 85.00 50, 00 75.00 2$.00 2$0. 00 22$. 00 750. 00 150.00 • 150.00 6$.00 J0.00 100.00 125.00 500.00 1800 .oo !'.rs. Harold Rosen • • , 600.00 Rabbi Phillip Rosenberg 2$.00 l'.rs. Benno Rothschild • Hr. and Hrs. Max Rothschild Xiss Florence .,ubinall:7 • • • '\ .$J,ooo.oo 2$.00 100.00 100.00 Hr. and Mrs. Jacob Schrieber so.oo Mr. Joseph Saon •• 120.00 Dr. Irrinv Sin€9r • 2$.00 Mr. ar,cl Mrs, Joseph ~~er so.oo �UNiml JEWISH CH.lRITlES CF GRZA.'!ER Y.USKEOON N.&.ME OF Cet; '!RIEU TCR &!-'CUNT FLEDGED Mr. and t:rs. Sal!luel Singer $ 50.00 !'.rs. Alexander Smith • • • 200. 00 r:r. and >:rs. Jack Steindler 325. 00 l'r. and l'rs . l!ilton Steindler 500. 00 . . .. . l'r, and Mrs. Herbert Steinr>an 1".r, and "'rs. Bernard Stern :'r, and l'rs . 50.00 50.00 illi8JII Stern 100.00 so.oo Dr. and t!rs . l'.aur1ce Stror,berg Dr. and 1-'.rs. >:orris Teles • • 100.00 t:r. David Wiener • • • • 10.00 t:r. and Mrs. Joel Wiener 1,000. 00 rrs. Josiah ,:1ener l,250, XJ t:rs. Paul "iener 2,200 . 00 U. J. C. Juniors 34, 86 Anonymous • • • • 40.00 Pled~ s Unpaid as of rebruary 15, 1967 Total Dues Collected •••••• Less Checks on Rand • • • • • • Receipts frM Dues Collected and lleposi ted Unpaid l:ote Receivable • • • Previous Years I Unpaid Dues .$1sOO,OO 1965 Dues Paid During 1966: • 27S.oo 50. 00 $17,831.86 405 , 00 $17,426.86 1,400.00 $16,02{;.86 ... �FCl'NDER .&ND DiSFIRATIC!W. WllER PAUL M, WIENER 1901 1955 ROS'IER CF 1-xt."\'lCUS CHURY.E!i CF UNITED JEWISH CIWllTIES OP G.U'!ER !:USKEGCN PAUL M, •IDIER • , J. KKLLY UUFl'.AJI • , 1941 - 191'6 • 1946- 191'7 1WU!Y S. oifYAll • 1947- 191'8 SA>:UiJ. Lll'l'.J.N , , 1948 - 19119 HARRI A. FISHER • 1949 - 1950 f'RlliCIS II . FM • 1950 - 1951 PA!,1. M, ;.'IE!,'ER , 1951 - 1952 HERl".All GROSSMAII • 1952 - 1953 .lBE &SP.E?IDORF , • 1953 - 1951' n;o !IEUMER , • JOSZPH S. STRil'LING • 195h - 19$5 • 1955 - 1956 FRED STEIN •• • 1956 - 1957 JOSWI wIEN::R • 1957 - 1958 ~IL TOIi S'IEI!IILER • • 1958 - 1959 LOUIS M. BERl'.All , , , 1959 - 1960 HKRIWi GliOSSl-:&N . • 1960 - 1961 ·•m'ER • • • 1961 - 1962 ROBERT LIENER , , 1962 - 1963 RICHARD uunwi • • • 1963 - 1964 JotL JI.Cl S1!:I!IILER • • 1965 ARTHUR C2UEIIBERG • 1966 �U. J. C. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dr. Art.bur Greenberg Chairman Dr. Morton Kantor Vice-Chain>an Mr . Lewis Ja!fe • Treasurer Y.rs. Samuel Lawson • • Secretary Abe Ashendorf ilan Oppenhelll9r Isadore Ashendorf Max Rothschild Hannan GrossJIWI Douglas Rosen Marvin Gmelslcy Leo Rosen Richard Ka.uflnan Jack Steindler Jacob l'l. Kaufman Milton Steindler Jess Levin Joel Wiener Robe rt Libner Mrs. Josiah Wiener Jack Lipman Mrs. Paul Wiener Samuel Lipman • ��.. SUGGESTION .. THE PAGES IN THIS CARSON SCRAP BOOK ARE MADE OF HEAVY WEIGHT PAPER, NOT ONLY FOR GREATER STRENGTH BUT TO AVOID WRINKLING AND CURLING AS MUCH AS ~OSSIBLE WHEN CLIPPINGS ARE MOUNTED WITH LIBRARY PASTE. IF YOU WISH TO BE SURE THAT THE PAGES REMAIN PERFECTLY FLAT, WE SUGGEST MOUNTING WITH RUBBER CEMENT WHICH YOU CAN BUY FROM ANY STATIONER. ADDITIONAL CARSON SCRAP BOOKS, IDENTICAL WITH THIS ONE, SHOULD BE ORDERED FROM 0. 8. CARSON 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YOIIK. N. Y. ��MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN CONGRATULATIONS, MUSKEGON JEWRY! Your generosity has saved over 25 lives this past year. Yes, 1957 was a refugee year - with more than 100,000 Jewish men, women and children facing disaster and death. To save a single refugee costs $1000.00. This is the average amount needed to see him through his first year - to resettle him, house him, and start him on the road to self-support in Israel or any free land. Through your unselfish contributions, you have shown your true way of life. As my administration comes to an end, all of our funds collected, ( except for a small customary working balance,) have either been expended or ear-marked. Thus we are financially depleted, but spiritually enriched by having expended and allocated generously to the support of the United Jewish Appeal and the other charities as detailed in this report. Now my successor finds himself with no carry over of funds, and therefore, he too must have the same financial support you so generously gave to save lives during my campaign. In all humbleness, I give thanks to my Co-Chairman, Secretary, and Trustees for their untiring efforts in wholly supporting this campaign throughout the year. Special thanks to Mr. U. J. C. himself, Mr. Leo Rosen, our dedicated treasurer. Thanks, Mrs. Robert Rosenberg and your committee, for a job well done. I should like to close this message with this thought: Only if Muskegon and American Jewry will it, can inhumanity be answered with humanity. Only if YOU will it, can lives be saved, not lost. May God bless you. Frederick W. Stein, Chairman 1956-57 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Stalement of Receipts and Disbursements For Year Ended November 30, 1957 J $ 3,265.85 Cash on Hand Nov. 30, 1956 Undeposited Checks and Bonds, Nov. 30, 1956 Payments Received 1956-57 Pledges: Bonds $ 1,672.50 Checks 29,970.50 3,915.00 31,643.00 $38,823.85 LESS DISBURSEMENTS: Allocations to Charities $34,325.00 Dinners and Banquets 509.92 Office Expense . 137.00 50.00 Audit Petty Cash, Transit Fund . 40.00 35.00 250.00 Addressograph Secretarial Expense 403.50 Loan #1 Loan :ii: 2 175.00 35,925.42 2,898.43 Bonds for Israel on Hand $ 1,500.00 Undeposited Checks . 4,320.00 75.00 Undeposited Cash 5,895.00 Bank Overdraft Nov. 30, 1957 . $ 2,996.57 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Allo cations 1956-1957 TO ISRAEL: United Jewish Appeal Hadassah • Hebrew University & Technion 1955-56 . Hebrew University & Technion 1956-57 . Jewish National Fund $29,000.00 1,000.00 400.00 400.00 100.00 $30,900.00 OTHER: *Union American Hebrew Cong. 1955-56. American Assoc. for Jewish Education B'nai Brith Nat'I Youth Service Brandeis University Dropsie College . Jewish Welfare Board Bellefaire Jewish Telegraph Agency Joint Defense Appeal Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y. Hebrew Theological College Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital National Jewish Children's Home Histcdruth lvrith Bitzaron National Jewish Hospital of Denver Hillel Yeshiva College American Jewish Congress . United Hias Service . Synagogue Council of America The Zionist Council . Jewish Publication Society of America $ 600.00 25.00 100.00 400.00 100.00 125.00 100.00 50.00 750.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 150.00 25.00 25.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 $ 3,425.00 ,;,p"'' of SI ,200.00 earmarked but 110/ $34,325.00 disbursed from 1955-56 cnmpaign. �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November 30 , 1957 PLEDGED NAME Anonymous ······················ $ ························ Mrs. Tony Aron Jocob Ashendorf ·············· Abe Ashendorf 500.00 Mrs. Abe Ashendorf 300.00 Mrs. Ida Ashendorf ••••••••n•• 50.00 Max Ashendorf -··············· 250.00 Or. Ralph August ············ 200.00 lsodore Ashendorl -0-0- 100.00 -0- 50.00 50.00 -0- 20.00 300.00 -0- 500.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 50.00 350.00 -0- 5.00 50.00 150.00 25.00 Mrs. Reva Bank ................ 210.00 BALANCE 36.50 100.00 280.00 PAID $ 36.50 ················ ················ SPECIAL SURVIVAL 21 o.oo Mrs. Louis Aron ················ Tony Aron MILK FUND 25.00 55.00 -0- 250.00 -0- 400.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 125.00 -0- Arthur Bell ······················ 100.00 Louis. M. Berman ············ 250.00 250.00 -0- ·········-········ 25.00 25.00 -0- ·················· 25.00 Noth an Broutmon ············ 25.00 25.00 -0- ··········--···-······ 10.00 10.00 -0- Or. Seymour Cane . ........... 25.00 25.00 -0- 10.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- 300.00 300.00 -0- Jack Chevlin 50.00 50.00 -0- Louis Oarmstadter 75.00 75.00 -0- Andrew 50.00 50.00 -0- 10.00 -0- Horry Berman Hy Braverman Selma Cohn 10.00 David & Elsie Cane -······· Ellis Chevlin Robert Cherin ················--·· ·················· ···················· ----········ Epstein ················ 10.00 Rebecca Epstein ······•········· Harry Field Harry fisher ······················ ···················· 20.00 Hyman Friedman ············ 1,500.00 750.00 250.00 Mrs. Harry Fisher ············ Hernord Fisher ·········•······ 25.00 100.00 15.00 10.00 20.00 -0- 750.00 1,500.00 250.00 -0- 100.00 -0- 25.00 -0-0- Or. Arthur Greenberg ······ 175.00 25.00 200.00 Hermon Grossman •··········· 1,000.00 1,200.00 2,200.00 -0- Louis Grossman ············--·· 500.00 1,000.00 200.00 1,300.00 100.00 -0- Mrs. Hermon Grossman 100.00 Jeff, Lourie & Rochel Grossman 100.00 ········ 100.00 1 �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Year Ended November JO, 19 57 NAME r I PLEDGED MILK FUND PAID BALANCE Mr. & Mn. M. S. Gudelsky 40.00 20.00 20.00 Oscar Gudelsky .. 100.00 50.00 50.00 Kamma Gudelsky David Gudelsky Meyer Jacobs Soul Jacobson ... 10.00 10.00 -0- 200.00 200.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- 375.00 375.00 -0- 60.00 -0- 3,500.00 -0- 60.00 Dr. Marie Keilin 1,500.00 J. K. Kaufman Mrs. J. K. Kaufman .......... .... Samuel Klay! 2,000.00 100.00 300.00 1,000.00 100.00 -0- 600.00 700.00 Mrs. Saro Klein 200.00 200.00 -0- Sigmund Kulka 200.00 200.00 -0- 50.00 -0- Mrs. Sigmund Kulka ........ ............... 50.00 50.00 25.00 75.00 - 0- Samuel Lawson 60.00 15.00 75.00 -0- Jess Levin ...... 100.00 20.00 120.00 - 0- 36.50 -0- Edward Krouse Lourie, Mimi & Jereme Levine 36.50 Reuben levy .... Jack Lipman 500.00 ..... 100.00 .. Mrs. Sam Lipman 1,500.00 ............ Mr. & Mrs. Jame, Metz .... Herman Mendel.an 20.00 Som Price Betty Price ....... .. -0- 2,500.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 50.00 150.00 25.00 5.00 -0- 425.00 -0- 50.00 -0- 25.00 -0- 50.00 100.00 350.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 -0100.00 500.00 Elizabeth Rose .................. Mr. & Mrs. lea Rosen ··-· Harold Rosen .. -0- 10.00 425.00 .......... ·······••·· Fred Radell .... 150.00 50.00 ....... Howard Pearlman 50.00 5.00 Mrs. Ted Neu mer Albert Park er ... -0- 1,000.00 Ted Neu mer .... Sylvia Poul 1,000.00 50.00 130.00 - 0- 500.00 10.00 Ellen Lynn Lipman ............ Sam Lipman 25.00 25.00 Hyman Lipman j SPECIAL SURVIVAL 500.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- 100.00 450.00 -0- 15.00 15.00 -0- 50.00 1,500.00 2,550.00 -0- 1,500.00 2,000.00 500.00 ---- - ----- �UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES Schedule of Pledges for Yea r Ended November 30 , 19S7 NAME PLEDGED Oouglos Rosen •............... MILK FUND SPECIAL SURVIVAL 125.00 Jeff, 80rb0r0 & More Rosen ................. 100.00 200.00 Mox Rosenberg PAID BALANCE 125.00 -0- 100.00 -0- 200.00 -0- 100.00 -0- Robert Rosenberg 100.00 Maxwell Rou ~00.00 50.00 250.00 -0- 50.00 25.00 75.00 -0- Mox Rothschi ld Arthur, Steven & Lindo Rothschi ld 10.00 -0- 25.00 25.00 -0- 100.00 100.00 -0- Mox Shumocher 75.00 75.00 -0- Som Shumocher .. 10.00 10.00 -0- 110.00 110.00 -0- 10.00 Cho,. Rubinsky Florence Rubinsky Jacob Schreiber Mrs. Mox Schubb 25.00 35.00 -0- Sol Silverman ..... 100.00 100.00 -0- Joseph Simon ... 150.00 150.00 -0- Dr. Irving Singer 25.00 30.00 -0- Eli Smith ........ 750.00 750.00 -0- Wm. Stern .....••.•............• 100.00 100.00 -0- Fred Stein 250.00 500.00 -0- ··············· 5.00 100.00 150.00 50.00 Frances Steindler ..•.......... 50.00 -0- 450.00 -0- ........ Steindler ... 300.00 ,so.oo 250.00 -0- ...... 500.00 500.00 -0- 250.00 -0- 125.00 -0-0- Milton Steindler ·Jock & Irene 10.00 Mr. Joseph Strifling . Mrs. Joseph Strifling ... Dr. Morris Teles .......... .. .... 150.00 250.00 125.00 ··········· 10.00 5.00 15.00 ... ······• ... Mrs. Josiah Wiener . ...... 1,000.00 1,500.00 2,500.00 -0- 80.00 -0-0- Melvin VonDuren Josiah Wiener Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wiener .... Mrs. Poul Wiener . ....... 80.00 50.00 25.00 75.00 1,250.00 250.00 1,500.00 10.00 Temple B'noi lsroel Youth .. Chos. Yoker .................... 40.00 $19,720.00 $1,983.00 $ 14,260.00 - 0- 10.00 -0- 40.00 -0- $31,64 3.00 $ 4,320.00 ! �\ December 3, 1957 United Jewish Charities, Muskegon, Michigan. Gentlemen: Pursuant to your request, I have audited the books and records of the UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES, of Muskegon, Michigan, for the year ended November 30, 1957, and submit, herewith, my report on my findings. The books were accurately kept and were in balance at the year end. Included in the report are the following: Statement of Receipts and Disbursements. Statements of Charitable Allocations. Schedule of pledges for various funds. Balance sheet as at November 30, 1957. Cash on hand consisted of checks collected subsequent to the last deposit, some of which are post dated, and ore to be deposited within the next few days. Bonds in the amount of S1500 were received on account of pledges and are being held for disposition. During the year the prior pledge of Mike Goldberg in the amount of $50.00 was cancelled. In my opinion, according to the accepted principles of accounting, the attached statements and schedules truly reflect your operations for the year ended November 30, 1957, and your financial condition as of that date. Thanking you for this opportunity to again serve you, am, Respectfu I ly yours, WALTER A. DIXON. Certified Public Accountant. �FOUNDER AND INSPIRATIONAL LEADER PAUL M. WIENER 1901 1955 ROSTER OF PREVIOUS CHAIRMEN OF UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON PAUL M. WIENER . 1941 -1 946 J. KELLY KAUFMAN 1946-1947 HARRY S. BERMAN 1947-1948 SAMUEL LIPMAN 1948-1949 HARRY A. FISHER 1949-1950 FRANCIS N. FINE 1950-1951 PAUL M. WIENER 1951-1952 HERMAN GROSSMAN 1952-1953 ABE ASHENDORF 1953- 1954 TED NEUMER 1954-1955 JOSEPH S. STRIFLING 1955-1956 �mhr fflullrtin of <!Longregalion ID'nai ~srnel MUSKEGON. MICHIGAN 5710 I • SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1949 he Rabbi, Officers and Board of Trustees of Temple B'nai Israel extend New Year greetings to the entire congregation. May God gi·ant that in the New Year we and a.11 mankind may be fret! from worry, sickness and mishap. �SCHEDULE OF SERVICE FOR SUCCOTH October 8 and 9th. Saturday and Sunday, first two day~ of Succoth. Friday, October 7th Traditional Evening Service 7 ::JO P.M COMMUNITY SERVICE 8:15 P.M Saturday, October 8th Traditional 1\1orning Service 8::11) A.l\L Traditional Evening Service 6:30 P.M. Sunday, October 9th Traditional Morning Service 8:30 A.1\1. The Bulletin of C-Ongregalloo U-nal Israel Is published monthly from Septmnb<!r \<l July. Tem1>le Telephone 2-2702 Samuel Umen Rabbi 1949-0FFICERS-1949 Paul M. Wiener President 1st Vice President Sam Lipman 2nd Vice President Harry S. Berman Treasurer Reuben Berman Financial Secretary Han-y H. Berman Secretary Rose Lawson SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS 1949-1950 - 5710 Rosh Hashonnah-Saturday and Sunday, September 24th and 25th. Friday Evc.ning, September 236 :00 P.1\1. Traditional Maariv Service (In small Chapel.) Formal Community Service 8 :00 P.M. (In large Chapel.) Saturday, September 24th-1st day of Rosh Hashonnah Traditional morning service 8 ::30 A.1\1. (Seba charis) 10:00 A.M. Reading of the Scroll 11:00 A.M. Formal Community Service Sermon End of Service 12 :45 P.M. Saturday Afternoon-September 24th Traditional Mincho Service 5 :15 P.M. Traditional Maariv Service 6 :01) P.M. Sunday, September 25th~2nd day of Rosh Hashonnah. Traditional morning service (Seba charis) 8 :30 A.M. Reading of the Scroll 10 :00 A.1\-1. Se1·mon Sounding of the Shofar (ram's horn) 11 :20 A.~[. Traditional Musaf Service 11 :30 A.M. End of Service 12 :45 P.M. Sunday Afternoon-September 25th Traditional Mine ho Service 5 :15 P.M. Traditional Maariv Service 6 :00 P.M. YOM KIPPUR Yorn Kippur-Monday, October 3, 1949 Sunday Evening, October 2nd. Traditional Kol Nidrei Service _ .. 6 :00 P.M. (In small Chapel) Formal Community Kol Nidrei 8:00 P.l\I. Service -Sermon:\Tonday Morning, October 3rd Traditional morning service 8:00 A.M. (Seba charis) Reading of the Scroll 10:00 A.M. Traditional Yizkor Service 10:45 A.M. Formal Community Service 11 :15 A.1\1. -Sermon1:15 P.M. Recess Traditional Musaf Service 1 :30 P.M. Junior Service 3 :lfi P.M. Traditional Afternoon (l\Iincho) Service 3:45 P.M. Community Memorial Service 4:30 P.1\-1. Neilah (Closing Service) 5:00 P.M End of Service 6:00 P.M. HASHONNAH RABAH - OCTOBER 14 Friday, October 14th Traditional Morning Sl.'rvicc 8 :30 A.M. SHMINI A TZERES (8th DAY SUCCOTH) OCTOBER 15th Friday Evening, October 14 Traditional Service 7 :31) P.M. COMMUNITY MEMORIAL SERVICE 8:15 P.M. Saturday, October 15th Traditional Morning Service 8 ::30 A.M. YIZKOR 10:00 A.M. Saturday, October 15th CHILDREN'S SIMCHATH TORAH PARTY 4:00 P.M. Traditional Simchath Torah Service 6:30 P.M. SIMCHATH TORAH Sunday, October 16th Traditional Morning Service 8:30 A.1\1. ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 1949 - 1950. (5710) OPENING SESSIONS ;;;unday School, Sunday, September 18. 10:00 Hebrew School, l\Ionday, October 24, -1 :O(J Adult Hebrew, i\fondav, October 24 1 :00 Bible Study, Wednesday, October 26, 8: L5 a.m p.m. p.m. p.m. SIMCHATH TORAH PARTY On Saturday afternoon, October 15, 4 :30 p.m., t'. ere will be a Simchath Torah party for the children of our Religious School. 'l he !{.abbi will explain the nature of the celebration, the children will march in the Torah parade and then receive a special treat from Sisterhood. OUR FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS The Jewish festivals in their traditional forms, take the Jew year by year, through all the im~ortant period$ of J•e~vish hisory. At Passover he lives through the Exodus "as if he himself went out of ,Egypt";_ at Succoth he makes the juurney throug.1 the wilderness, at Shevuoth he receives the Law. on the various fast days, culminating on Tisha Be' Av, he passes through alI the peop!e's wars down to the Destruction of the 8cconrl Temple, at Hanuccah he wins again the victorv of the people against its attackers and of Judaism over Hellenism. And he who sees all this again year after ye~,. ca"n'>• bnt root himself deeply in his people and strengthen his dete1·mination to bring the renewed State of Israel to fruition, and to continue all the bright trends of our original culture. Even the Jew who is far from Jewish tradition will admit that we would have been lost had we not held to these tracliions through the thousands of years of exile. -2- �THE NEW YEAR The New Year festival is far other than the mere opening day, according to the olden ,Tewish reckoning, of another ye,ar in the flight of time. Unlike the New Year celebrations of many ancient and modern nations, the Jewish New Year is not a time of revelry. It is a solemn season of self-examination and self judgment in th<> life of the Jew. Scripture prescribes a special symbolic rite for this day, the sounding of the ram's horn, the SHOF AR. Whoever has once heard during the New Year service the shrill notes 01 this oldest of wind instruments will never forget them. And the meaninia- of this ceremony to the worshippers who listen to these notes in solemn awe is as stirring as the sounds them-• selves. Since days immemorial , the sounding of the ram's h0l'n on the New Year has been interpretod in Israel as the clarion call to repentance and spiritual renewal, saying: "Awake, ye sleepers! Be not of those who miss realities in their hunt after shadows. Consider your deeds: purify your hearts. There is an Eye that seeth all things: the,re is an Ear that heareth all things. There is a heavenly Judge with whom is no unrighteousness, nor forgetfulness, nor respect of persons." And on the High Festivals the Jew thinks not only of himself, but of peace and blessedness for all mankind. In the most ancient and solemn part of the services, both of the New Year and of the Day of Atonement, he prays God to hasten the time when the mighty shall be just and the just mighty; when al) the children of men shall form one hand of brotherhood; when national arrogance and oppression shalJ have passed away, like so much smoke from the earth. -JOSEPH H. HERTZ -Chief Rabbi of British Empire ( 1872-1946) A MESSAGE FROM OUR RABBI The year just t~ded was a test year. Through the will and determination of the Jewish people everywhere, the D. P. camps have well nigh be-1en evaeuated. Thousands of our brethren have been given a new Je.ise on life in their new home, Palestine. The Israelis have proved to the worlJ by their ability and wisdom that they can carry on as a free and indeptvtdent nation. While there are still many pressing problem~ facing the Israeli government and the Israeli peopTei as a whole, we are confident nevertheless, that given time, they will go from strength to strength. For our own local community, the year past was also a challenge. Our program called for vision, courage, effort and a stronia- will for execution of same. The year being over, we can say with a smile the work was done and donE' well. Now we stand at the threshold of the New Year. More, much more is expected of us in the New Year. Only by doing better in the days ahead, shall we know that we are progres~ing. We have met the challenge before, with God's help and a combined effort we can can do it again. Rabbi Samuel Umen BEGINNERS' CLASSES IN HEBREW Parents who are planning to register their children in the Heb1'0W School are asked to do so at the Temple Office. before October 24. A beginner's class in Hebrew for Adults will be giw.n on Thursday evenings from 8 :00 p.m. to 9 :00 p.m. beginning Oetober 27. All those who are interested in this course, are urgE'd to notify the Temple Office. A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Somehow around this time of the year, a new spirit takes hold of us. We look forward to the New Year. We feel that the New Yeal' will be better and will have nicer things for us than that offe1'c,d by the past. All this is natural. We can't do anything with the past. The past is gone, dead. It is the future that can be lived and translated by our life into things great and memorable. Hence. standing before the New Year in which we are about to begin to Ji\'e, let u1: resolve to live every day granted to us to the. fullest of our ability. Onlv by remembering our duty to ourselves, our fellow-man, our community, our people and our country, not only in thought but also in act, shall we fully E'njoy the days that are ours in the future. May God grant that the New Year be for us and a!J mankind one of happiness and rich in achievement. -PAUL M. WIENER A MESSAGE FROM THE RITUAL CHAIRMAN I am happy to report to the community that the year now ending was one that gave me and my committee untold joy. It was good to see the large attendance at our Friday night service, the many Congregants join and participate in the Oneg S'habat programs after the service, and following through the Ritual Program as planned by the Committee throughout the year. Recently the committee met again and mapped ou a program for the coming year, which I am sure will indicate, as this program evolves, that we are makinia- progress. that we are heading- for a strong united community. All of us are responsible for the progress we made last year. I know that the entire Congregation will continue to coperate in the future as in the past to the end that we shall all enjoy the fruits of our labor. May our 'heavenly Father bless us, all Israel, and all mankind with a New Year of peace anri prosperity. -SAMUEL G. KLAYF A MESSAGE FROM OUR SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT We of Sisterhood are happy to wish the members of our community a year of peace, happiness. joy and contentment. With our transitional year in the past, a difficult but happy one, we forge ahead to serve as an auxiliary to our fine congregation to the fullest of our capacity. May we be ever mindful of our duties and obligations to our people and community so that every year produces greater and more constructive achievements. The beautiful and familiar words always sounded at the New Year--"L'Shono Tova Tikosevu" serve as a stimulus to fulfill our duties to bring the ultimate of peace, happiness, joy and contentment to all of us and our fellowmen. -FRANCES AUGUST GREETINGS FROM B 'NAI BRITH PRESIDENT Through the medium of this Bulletin I wish to extend my sincerest wishes to all the Temple members and to all the members of the Abraham Rosen Lodge. Judging from the enthusiasm expressed by most of our members with regard to the B'nai Brith program for the coming year. I feel that we can look forward to a very fruitful year. -HAROLD SILVERMAN -3- �A MESSAGE FROM OUR U. J . C. CHA IRMAN I recall at this writing, a thought from one of the sermons delivered by our Rabbi during the High Holy Day Services of last year. "We can become better if we only will it to be. We can make our community better if we so desire. It is all within our will." I fully agree with the Rabbi that the key to success lies within the will. When a person sets his whole heart and mind upon a certain goal, he can in due time achieve his aim. Obstacles vanish before the strong-willed. In December 1948, a large portion of the Temple membership, met at a dinner at the Occidental Hotel. Then and there we took counsel together and decided how much help our needy brethren were to receive from us. We pledged our help individually and as a group._ vye reported our decision to those that were waiting fot· our answer and who were counting on us. Thus far on the whole, our pledge 1emains nothing but a gesture. I feel that in any and every language there is nothing more sacred than a pledge. Let nothing stand in our way between now and the New Year in keeping our word with God and our fellow man. Before we ask God for a New Year of life, let us make sure that we through our promises have not deprived others of the same. -SAM L I PMAN NEW YEAR GREETINGS FROM OUR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL With God's blessings of a New Year of health and happine,ss for ourselves and our children, we look forward to a year of great achieyements. in our Religious &hool. Many outstandmg Jewish leaders and educators whose talents were given in the last decad o to the pressing problems of Jewish homelessness, are now directing their attention to the much neglected problem of Jewish education at hom&--here in the United States. There is no doubt in my mind that a new attitude and new spirit toward Jewish study will seize the entire Jewish Community of America. It is in the light of this happening, together with what we ourselves are planning for our School in the way of a program, that I feel confident that the coming year will be one of outstanding accomplishments in our School. -Gene Berman, Principal A TEMPLE NEEDS A SOUL A Temple is in a way like a human being. The bones, the flesh, the sinews, the entire . body structure is nothing but lifeless matter without the breath of life-the soul. A house of worship, no matter how beautiful it may b~, wi~ho~t the life that the Congregants pour mto 1t, 1s nothing but a dead body. A -r:emple like a human being needs a soul. It needs hfe. There are many ways by which the membership can make their Temple a living institution. . A~ this time we 3hould like to suggest the bmldmg and developing of our choir. The Choir is a necessary adjunct of the Temple. Therf• are a number of men and women in our Cong1egation who can help develop our Choir. By helping the Choir, W'e shall be giving life and enrich the soul of our Temple. Join the Choir. Call Rose Rosenberg, chairman, and tell her that you want to lend your voice. "LET US COME AND SING UNTO THE LORD." A MESSAGE FROM THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE CHAIRMAN It was a wonderful experience to work together with the younger member!> of the Congregation. Since we got organized late in the year, thn·e was little time bad for planning a full program of activity. The few affairs conducted by the Young People's League during the year, however, proved to be very successful. More careful planning and a better organized group, I believe, can do itself proud during the coming year. I have faith in the Young People's League. I want to take this opportunity of expressing my deepest gratitude to the Congregation and Sisterhood for the co-operation the Young People's League received from them on every occasion. May our Lord grant us all health and happiness in the New Year, so that we can go on in our work from strength to strength. -HERBERT F I SHER A MESSAGE FROM THE HADASSAH PRESIDENT I am very grateful to the Congregation for invitin~ me to extend Hadassah's New Year greetings to our community through this Bulletin. Once again, I wish to say that the past year has bel'n one of success for Hadassah generally and for our Chapter particularly. Two things governed our action and stimulated our interest and wo1 k. First, the cause itself and secon,Uy the knowledge that we were working for the enh:rncement of the State of Israeli. The New Year, will I am certain make greater dr-m1nds upon us. I am also certain that the untold satisfaction which we derive from our work, will not permit us to slacken. Hadassah's healing hand is needed now more than ever. I know that Hadassah here as everywhere else, will not deprivo her brethren the care and comfort that is due them. During the High Holy Day Service, we ask for life, let us also remember to help those in need to life and liberty. May we all be privileged to enjoy the New Year in peace, health and prosperity to the end that we may s:e,rve God and man. -Jessie Neumer A PRAYER AND A DEAL Once there was a poor man, a "schlemihl". He was so unhappy that he took pleasure in daydreaming. One day he uttered the following prayer: "Dear God---,give me ten thousand dollars for the New Year. I'll tell you what--1'11 make a deal with you. I swear to give five thousand dollars of this amount for charity, the other half let me keep. You say you have doubts about my honorable intentions?-then give me the five thousand dollars I ask for myself and the other five thousand dollars You give to charity yourself." BIRTHDAYS FOR SEPTEMBER Rochelle Louise Cherin September ANNIVERSARIES FOR SEPTEMBER Alexander Samuel Krause September Mr. and Mrs. Milton Steindler September 2 William Dean Rosenberg September Mr. and Mrs. Max Shumacher September 3 Jack Stanley Roberts September Mr. and Mrs. Anton Aron September 7 Burt Hess Roberts September -4- 12· 13 15 20 24 ) 1 J �l P URPOSE OF LIF E What is the meaning of life? This probably is the most speculative question with which the philosophers have wrestled in every generation. Two things are certain. We ar·e born and we die. What of the years between these two events? The average person uses about the first twenty or twenty-five years of life to prepare for his life's work. This last about forty years and then he either dies or retires. It is with these forty years that the average man is most concerned. What is the purpose of them. For what purpose should he prepare himself, only to know that at best he has forty or less years to be alive. What should be the goal of purpose. To what designation should we set our ambition to achieve. It seems to me that joy is the answer. Not pleasure. Pleasure is only an artifice of nature to guarantee that he living will continue to live; it in no way indicates the direction of life. But joy always announces he fact that life has succeeded, that it has gained ground, has won a victory; great joy has a note of triumph in it. Wherever there is joy there is creation: the richer the creation the more profound the joy. The mother looking at her child has joy because she knows that she "created" him, physically and morally. Take the exceptional joys of life: those of the artist 1·ealizing his concepts of beauty, the scholar discovering truth. You may have thought that these men work for the glory of it all, that they take great pleasure in the admiration of others. This is a profound error. Men depend on fame and honor to the exact extent that they are no sure of havinJI: succeeded. One who is absoluely sure of having done a good work has no need of praise; he feels himself above glory, for the simple reason that he is a creator; he knows he is a creator and the joy he has in knowing it is a divine joy. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Before you flare up at anyone's faults. take time to count ten-ten of your own. 13) Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. 14) A fqw people get up bright and eady, but most of us get up early. ----o----- 15) Sewing Circle: a group that darns more husbands than socks. "The best things in life are free"-but the rub it, that we can't live exclusiveJy on the best things of life. 1 ) FIRST FRIDA Y NIGHT SERVICE OCTOBER 2 1, 8: 15 P.M. As we are about to resume the Friday night scrvic()S, we cannot help but think of Sisterhood and the hostesses tha.t Sisterhood furnished throughout the past season. There is nothing that hits the spot better than a hot cup of tea or coffeo after the Service. Sisterhood with its hostesses made this possible last year. We look forward to the continuance of this lovely gesture. TWO DEDICATIONS TO TAKE PLACE SOON The Golden Book will be dedicated at the first Friday night service on October 21st. After the Service, congregants will have a chance to feast their eyes on the magnificent art work. found within the covers of the Book. Later in the season, perhaps during the Thanksgiving week~end, we shall have the pleasure of dedicating the I sraeli Room now being made ready for the occasion. 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) -5- THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE HIGH HOLY DAYS Rosh-means head Shonnoh-means ye.ar Ha-means the Rosh Hasonnoh-means the head of the year or the beginning of the year. Rosh Hashonnoh is celebrated 1n the month of TISHREI. TISHREI is the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar. The first month on the Hebrew calendar is NISON. Rosh Hashonnoh i~ obse)·ved two days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews and one day by Liberal or Reform Jew~. Rosh Hashonnoh marks the anniversary of the world. Our Rabbis believe that the world was c1•e.-ated in the fall durin2: the month of TISHREI. Rosh Hasonnoh is known by several names: a. YOM RADIN-Judgment Uay. b. YOM HAZIKORON-Day of Remembrance. c. YOM TRUOH-Day of sounding the Trumpet. Rosh Hashonnoh is known as ,Judgment Day because our Rabbis claim that God sits in judg-ement on this day, reviews our deeds of the year gone by and judges according to our dessert. Some are marked for death, some for life, some for health and some for illness, somei for riches and E-:>me for poverty etc. The reason why Rosh Hashonnoh is known as YOl\I HAZIKORON is because God remembers the great sacrifices many of our leaders have m:ide on behalf of their reli11;ion and their love for God. Rosh Hashonnoh is known as YOM TRUOH because on this day the SHOFAR (or trumpet) is sounded during the Service. Special prayers are re..cited on Rosh Hashonnoh. We appeal to God for a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity. Many of the prayers for the New Year or Rosh Hashonnoh Service were written by Rabbis aind poets of the middle ag-es. A few of these men are: J ehudah Halevi Ibn Ezra Eleazer Kalir Solomon lbn Gabirol Rosh Hashonnoh is a major holiday. A major holiday is one which is mentioned in the Bible. Rosh Hashonnoh falls on the first day of the seventh month of Tishrei. All holidays that are observed two days outside of Palestine, are observed only one day in Palestine. Rosh Hashonnoh is observed two days in Palestine (both days are regarded as 'one). According to Or·hodox law, no work, except cooking is permitted on Rosh H~shonnoh. The SHOFAR (trumpet) which is sounded during the Service on Rosh Hashonnoh, is fashioned out of a Ram's horn. It brings to mind the ram which God sent to Abraham as a substitute for the sacrifice of his son, Isaac. It is customary to dip bread in honey at the supper hour on th.a eve of Rosh Hashonnoh. This is to symboliie the swee.tness we hope the New Year will bring us. �TEMPLE PROSPECTUS THE MEMBERSHI P of Congregation B'nai [sracl consists of men and women who desire to practice the teachings and perpetuate the life of Israel. SERVICES are conducted regularly at the Temple, Friday evenings at 8 :15 P.M., Sabbaths and Holiday mornings at 8 :30 A.M. THE CHOIR composed of volunteers from the Congregation assists in the Sabbath and Holiday Services. ADULT EDUCATION- courses in Hebrew, Jewish history and literature are given during the fall and winter seasons by the Rabbi and are freo to the entire community. OUR HEBREW SCHOOL, free of tuition fees, is open two days a week, Monday and Wednesday. Tha hours of instruction are 4 :15 to 5 :15 P .M. Classes meet for one hour sessions. OUR PROGRESSIVE SUNDAY SCHOOL, free cf tuition fees, aims to acquaint the child with the life and history of his people, and to deepen his loyalty to the brotherhood of Israel and establish high standards of conduct. THE SISTERHOOD is an auxiliary body of the Temple. Through its social program and fund raising activities, it helps support our Hebrew and Sunday Schools. Dues are $10.00 per annum. LIBRARY-The Congregation B'nai Israel Co~munity Library established in memory of Rabbi Aaron Cohen, is open to the public for reading, reference and research. YOUTH-special programs of a cultural and social nature are al"l'anged during the year by our Youth Committee, for the different age groups of the Temple. A FORUM free to the entire community is held once a month at our Temple. BULLETIN-A Monthly Bulletin keeps the membership informed of alJ Temple activities from September to July. THE TEMPLE is supported by membership contributions. The minimum contribution is $36.00 per annum. By affiliating himself with the Synagogue the Jew manifests his loyalty to God and his identity with the life, history and religion of the Jewish people. REPRINT FROM LIBERAL JUDAISM TO LIVE AGAIN BY OBSERVER In every service in the Jewish prayer book, there is r. po1•tion called the Kaddish. It is redted by the living in honor of the. dead. We memorialize the dead, not because our words benefit those who· have passed away but because we desire to benefit by their qxample as we benefit by theit· works. OURDEBTTOTHEDEAD Only when we pause to think of it, do we realize the vastness of our debt to those who pre<'eded us. The cities we. inhabit, sometimes even the very dw_ellings in which we live, the instruments we use, the ideas we cherish, the knowledge whereon we build, the laws that govern us, the inRtitutions that maintain our civilization-how few of them are the works of the living an<l how many of them a1\e the contributions of the dead. Without any r~fer~nce, at the ~~ment, to perJonal i~mortality, as this was pictured by our forebears, the d'<\"ld hve 111 a very definite sense 3:nd ~enef1t us by the acts they performed. \Ve find in this reflection a potent argument for conduct which 1s far from subtle. What are we planning to do for the generation~ that will folJow? A1•c, we Jiving for ourselves alone or shall we. too, help to perpetuate in an organized fashion what the wisdom of many generations has labelled as good and beneficial? At the moment we arc thinking of the institutions of religion. We are passing through a period of brazen materialism. Electric lights, dance music and the spirit of Coney Island are too much with us. To be, sure. this wilJ pass away as similar materialistic periods of the l)ast. At the swift pace of modern life we might welJ ask ourselws whether the dawn of a new day may ·not find our children impoverished because we did not remember to perpetuate these great truths that can hold a reeling world from destruction. Frankly, we might apply this truth to ourselves. Are we devoting. a_ny of the wealth that the gifts :>f the past enabled us to accumulate to keep aglow the flame of rehg1on? We all make wills. Are ~ by our testamentary gifts helping to pave the way to a noble Jewish life for our children? Why not gratify the desire to live again? · When the 1·abbi reads the Kaddish prayer and even when he mentions the names of the deceased it is not he who makes them live again. It is we who remember what they did for us and who resolve \~ their name, to do our share for thoRe who are to follow. ' Tho Kaddish service is more than a prayer of memorial. It is a service of consecration, wherein the dead salute the living and the living salute the unborn. -6- �EVENTS OF INTEREST A 95-YEAR-OLD Maryland law requiring public officials to swear to belief in the Christian religion was declared invalid Ly Judge Chark,Marbury, who upheld the right of a councilman-elect to take offi~Q without taking th2 customary oath on the grounds that he is a member of the pantheist religion. THE MASSACH USETTS Hou~c of Representatives has approv'E)d the Fair F.clucational Practices Bill banning discrimi"lalion a!;'ainst students because of race, religion or national origin. THE REMAINS of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism, were formally transferred to the Israe;l Government in a ceremony held in Vienna's largest hall, following a relia-ious service conducted in a synagogue. Thousand~ of Jews formed lor_g lines outside the synagogue to pay their last resp<?cts to th<' founder of the Zionist movement. The reburial ceremonies of Dr. Herzl's remains were attend(<l in Jerusalem by David Ben Curion and other major Israel leaders. Dr. W eizman, ill in Switzerland. sent a message. Thousands of Israelis attended the services. ISRAEL has signed a trade agreement with Finland, making this the fourth such agreement with a foreign state. Poland, Hungarv and the Netherlands previously signed agreements with Israel. ALL BUT THREE JEWS of th<-' Jewish community in French Somaliland have emi1n-atecl to Israel, and the1·" are no ,Jews left in Italian and British Somaliland, according to information received in New York bv the World Jewish Congress. · THE ISRAEL FILM "A State Is Born," has won the "Prize of Honor" at the Interr.ational Film Festival at Marienbad. A BLUEPRINT of Israel's compu1sory military service bill was sketched for the Knesset by David Ben Gurion who also announced that Israel Army, Navy and Air Force officers w;JJ be sent abroad to receive training in the military academies of various Eastern and \Vestern r.ations. The basic characteristics of the military servi"e bill are: a permanent land, sea and air forco of limited proportions; a body of recruits, who will be enlisted at the age of 18, if they are Israel resident, and at 26 if they are new immigrants: a reserve force composed of veterans; specifically fortified frontier settlements whose residents will b-.? soldier-farmers. A REQUEST In order to ersure perfect deC'orum during the High Holy Day Services as well as on Frida~· evenings, every congregant is urged to co-op<'rate with the T emple ushers. Let our ushers always be but a mere symbol of om· n·verence and respect and our sincere wish for the most perfect decorum during services. THE TEMPLE LIBRARY The Temple libran• is slowly but surely expanding. Several excellent yolumes ha\"e been added to our library shelves this summn· and a ~ood ly number of other vol;,imes have recently been ordered. Much c1·edit for the growth of our library is du(;l to Fred Rodoff, who as chairman of this project is doing an excellent job. On birthdays, anniversaries, or on the day of commemorating dtar ones, Jet u~ remember the Temple Library. A CLEAR CONSCIENCE One of the most pleasant expPriences a person can have is through the knowledge of a free and clear conscience. How wonderful it is for one to feel that he has done his duty toward his God and fellowman! With the New Year approaching, you will want to start with a clean rct:ord. By paying your dues now. you will be straightening out with your God and your fellow man. Pe,rhaps by paying your dues, you will experience the joy tr.at comes from a clear con~cil•nce. Send your check to the Temple office today. THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE Our Youn_g People's League met a few weeks ago, elected officers and mapped out a cultural program which will be without a doubt a great contribution to our entire Jewish community. We can all look forward to many an enjoyable evening of entertainment and culture to be provided by the League,.. The old saying with regar<ls to age is "it is not how old you are, but how old you feel you are". The Young People's League has no age limits set for its group. If you feel young, if you feel like participating in the Young People's League program, then do not wait for special invitations, JOI N AND BE ACTI VE. BIBLE STUDY TO BE RESUMED The course in Judaism started last year, and which began with primitive religion and covered ·'The Five Books of Moses" will be continued beginning Wednesday, October 26, at 8:15 P.M. The first hour of the two hour session, the book of Ecclesiastes will be studied and discussed. The second hour will be devoted to prophecy and the Religion of the Prophets. This course touches upon biblical literature, poetry and philosophy. It is a must for those who would not let their intelk,cts rusticate. "There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it." THE SERVICE SCHEDULE Congregants are urged to aC'quaint themselves with the Service Schedule given in this bulletin. Service3 begin and end as p er schedule. -7- �Q[hc i!llullctin of <lLongregation ill'nai israd MUSKEGON. MICHIGAN Ill NOVEMBER - DECEMBER I 1949 what a man lrns-knowledge, skill, or goods o{ life-determin<>s his cLdture, but what a man is: culture is not so much m astery o/ of things as mastery of self. And only that nalion can be called cultured which adds to or, at least, broaden s cmd deepens th"" spiritual assets of mankind; which introduces some -dislinctive note into the soul- life of the world; which teaches human ity a new angle of vision lowards the ln{inite; and by its living and, i{ need lJe, hy its dying, vindicates the eternal values of life -conscience, honor, liherly. ,-,JOSEP H H. HERTZ �.-------- - - -----------·- W E HAV E NOT FORGOTTEN OUR CHILDREN Tho Bull.,tin of Coowegatlon B'nal lsrnel Is published monthly from Septmnber t,o July. Temple Tele11hone 2- 2702 While September and October were busy months for those connected with the Temple, yet our children were not forgotten. A lovely service was arranged for the children on Y om Kippur Day. This was followed by a beautiful party on Simchath Torah for the entire Sunday School, and another party a few days later for the little tots, sponsored by the Cradle Roll committee. Were it not for our beautiful Temple with its fine facilities, all these affairs would be impossible. Thanks to our Lord for our fine Temple. Rabbi Samuel Umen . ---o--1949- 0FFICERS-1949 President Paul M. Wiener 1st Vice President Sam Lipman 2nd Vice President Harry S. Berman Treasurer Reuben Berman Finaneial Secretary Harry H. Berman Rose Lawson ..... .. . . ... Secretary SCHEDULE OF S ERVICES Friday Evenings: . 1\1 Traditional SerV1ce 7 :30 P. · · COMMUNITY SERVICE 8:30 P.M. Sabbath Morning: . T raditional SerV1ce 8 :30 A.M. Time for lighting candles on Friday evenings, at sundown. CALENDAR OF STUDIES Sunday Mornings: 10 :00 to 12 :00 A.M. S cl~oao1 8 Monday Afternoon: 1 :00 to 2 :00 P.M. Intermediate Hebrew for Adults. Monday Afternoon: 4 :15 to 5 :15 P.M. Heb~·ew School Session. Monday Evening: 7 :00 to 9 :00 P.M._ Beginners Hebrew at Muskegon Junior College. Tuesday Afternoon: 4 :15 to 5 :15 P.M. Heb~·ew School Session. Every Other Wednesday Evening 8 :00 to 10 :00 P .M. Bible Study MEETINGS HADASSAH : B'nai Brith: SISTERHOOD : November 21, 1949. December 19, 1949 November November December December 14, 1949 28, 1949 12, 1949 26, 1949 THANKS FOR THE SUCCOH DECORATIONS I t was thl'illing both to the Rabbi and Congre·· gation to enter our beautifully decorated Succoh on S'uccoth eve and recite therein, the Kiddush and the traditional Succoth blessing. Fo1· our children too, the lesson of Succoth was made more meaningful and more vivid when their Sunday School teachers showed them the S'uccoh, and the Rabbi explained its meaning and history. Our deepest thanks go to the good Sisterhood members who in a pouring rain came to the Temple and spent several hours making the Succoh beautiful. May God reward these good women with many beautiful blessings throughout the year. FRID AY EVEN ING S ERVICE This year as last, we look forward from week to week to the lovely gatherings of our members at the Friday evening service. From time to time, some event will crop up either in the form of a dinner, a movie a ball game etc. which will test a Congregants loyalty and devotion to his Temple. Let us therefore from the very start resolve that t<'riday night is dedicated to Temple and prayer. Let us give at least one night of tht seven to our soul, to things spiritual. AN INNOVATION November 1, 1949 December 6, 1949 THE HOLIDAY SERVICE IN RETROSPECT Everyone who attende~ the Holiday S~rvi~es at the Temple this year Wlll agree that begmnm~ with the New Yar Service and ending with the Simchath Torah Service, there was little that was lacking to have made the Se_rvices. i:nore beautiful. There was beauty, a genume sp1nt of holiness and a feeling of oneness in the Congregati~n, from beginning to end. A vote of thanks for the magnificent manner in which everything was done ot make our ~ervice as beautiful as it was, goes to our Rabbi, the choir the choir leader--,Mr. Paul Shultz, the Organist-Mr. Hube1t Baker, the ritual committee, and Jack S'teindler, head of the Ushers Committee. Let us hope that from year to year, we shall continue to grow and improve. According to the finest educatoi·s and best principles of education, a child will learn a lesson quicker through pictures, illustrations and objects than by stories which taxes at time his imagination. In Sunday School, for example. as part of a lesson, a description will be given of a Synagogue Service. If, however, the child were to witness and participate in such a service, the lesson would be made much more understandable. In view of this, the Sunday School staff has decided, that once a month the children of our Sunday School be asked to attend a regular Sabbath morning Service. This will give our children a chance to see and experience theory in practice. We trust that all the parents concerned will co-ope1·ate with our School and help carry out a project of invaluable worth to the child and of great importance to the School. THE FIRST SAB BATH MORNING FOR OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL W I LL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, AT 9 :45 A.M. -2- I I I I I I I �SUNDAY SCHOOL Our Sunday School is already in full swing with an enrollment of fifty five at this writing. By the first week in November, we hope to have i-. few more children who, due to the holidays and sickness were delayed in registering. A very fine curriculum has been prepared by the Rabbi. and with the proper care and supervision we hope to accomplish a great deal for our school. Our aim is to make our Sunday School second to none in every respect. All we ask of the parents is to make sure that the children arc in school at the exact hour-10 :00 A.M. sharp. With our able staff of teachers, Gene Berman Principal, our Rabbi, and the parents cooperating, and with God's help we shall not fail (lur children. The motto for our school is taken from scripture: "AKO THOU SHALT TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY UNTO THY CHILDREN." HEBREW SCHOOL This is the beginning of the second year for our Hebrew School. Hebrew School opened on Monday, October 24th at 4:00 P.M. All the children who started last year, returned to resume their studies. Smilingly they are at their lesson!' again. No, the children are not preparing for Bar Mitzah in these classes. They are studying the Hebrew language as one studies French, Spanish. Latin 01· some other language. Hebrew is a living language again. It is taught in many high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States. Not only are more Jews studying Hebrew than ever before, but a great many non-Jews have taken to the study of Hebrew in lieu of another language. TWO ADULT COURSES IN HEBREW The adult Hebrew class introduced last year at our Temple, and not without success, met again for this year on Monday, October 24th at 1 :00 P.M. to continue furthe1-ing its knowledge of the Hebrew language and literature. Since the adult Hebrew class meets in the afternoon. several individuals who would have liked to join the class could not do so last year on account of the hour. So that no one may be deprived of the opportunity to study Hebrew, another Hebrew class has been added this year. This beginner's class meets on Monday evenings from 7 :00 to 9 :00 P.M. at the Muskegon J unior College under the direction of Rabbi Umen. While this class is already in progress, it is not too late to regi!,ter now. "Studies serve for pastimes for ornaments, fo1· abilities. Their chief use for pastimes is in privateness and retiring; for ornaments in discourse; and fo1· ability in judgment." THE BIBLE STUDY GROUP RESUMES STUDIES "If you have acquired knowledge" asks a great teacher,, "what are you lacking?" "If you lack knowledge what have you got?" The chance to study and to widen your knowledge on the Jewish religion, its origin and growth, its philosophy and literature is at your door. Do not let this wonderful opportunity pass you by. The Bible Study Group meeting every other Wednesday is studying this year (as a continuation of last year's course) the book of Ecclesiastcs-(Solmon's philosophy of life) for the first hour, and the religion of the Prophets, the second hour of the session. The next mee ting of the Bible Study Group will be on Wedne•day evening, November 9 at 8: 15 P.M. in the recreation room of the Temple. SENIOR AND JUNIOR SUNDAY SCHOOL STAFF The following are the teachers in our Sunday School for the var 1949-50: Rabbi Umen, Samuel ~hvmacher, Lo.uis Grossman, Reva Levy. Shirley Berkowitz and Gene Be1•man acting as principal. In addition, there is a Junior Staff. The .Junior Staff members are from the 1949 Confirmation Class. They are: Jean Klayf Elaine Page, and Dianne Fox. The Junior Staff members serve as substitutes, and are being trained a:; full fledged teach<'rs for our Sunday School. SISTERHOOD The first meeting of Sisterhood for the New Year, was held on Tuesday evening, October 4th. A sizeable group attended the meeting and enjoyed an excellent review of Dr. Sirokin's book "The Reconstruction of H umar.ity" which was g-iven by Miss Frazelle Boucher. The next Sisterhood meeting will be held on Tuesday November 1st promptly at 8 :30 P.i\f. At this meeting, Sisterhood will hear Dr. Norman Fleischman discuss the "Disadvantages of Socialized i\Iedicine". Come and enjoy a thought provoking discusssion at the next Sisterhood meeting. For the December meeting of Sisterhood, there will be an eveni.ng of Chanukoh games, a quiz contest, prizes, and a program chuck full of fun. The December meeting is scheduled for Tuesday evcn:ng;, December 6th at 8 :30 P.l\I. YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE While there are only a few weeks since the beginning of our New Year, the YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE already met several times, reorganized itself, elected officers, arranged two affairsone a Hallowee'n Dance for the 29th of October, and tr.e other a New Year's Eve Party for Saturday night December 31. 1949. At the same time too, the YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE Forum Committee a1Tanged a cultural program including professional entertainment which will be the talk of the town. The first program of entertainment will be given dU1·ing the month of January. Details of the complete YOl'NG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE cultural program will be sent to our members shortly. ---0--POST CONFIRMATION CLASSES ORGANIZE A meeting of the Post Confirmation Class was held at the Temple on Wednesday evening, October 19, 7 :30 P.M. Besides the Post Confirmation group, there were present Jack Steindler, B'nai Brith representative in charge of Youth Activities; Herbert Fisher, President of the Young People's League, and Rabbi Umen An interesting program of activities '.Vas formulated at this meeting, and a regular meeting night set for the young group to hold their meetings. At the rate we are going, every man, woman and child will have a place in our Temple and contl"ibute through their respective organizations to the enhancement of our community's welfare. ---o--- BIRTHDA YS FOR NOVEMBER Julia Ann Fdedenberg November 1 Harry S. Rogers November 1 Howard David Baru November 7 Laurie Anne Levine November 16 Lois Esther August November 25 Terry Wayne Braverman November 25 -3- �THE GOLDEN BOOK DEDICAT ION AND TESTIMONIAL DINNER Sunday November 6 is an important day for our Congregation. A fine program has been arranged for the dedication of the Golden Book. In connection with this dedication, there will also be a Testimonial Dinner in honor of several of our members who throughout the yea1·s have served their Congregation and the community with their time, energy and means. Those to be honored at this dinner and dedication are: Reuben Berman Rebecca Shmookler Sadie Grossman Joseph S. Strifling Sarah Klein Josiah Wiener Hyman Lipman Eli M. Smith Max Rosenberg Harry A. Fisher J . Kelly Kaufman Ida Ashendorf Harold Rosen Robert Cherin Herman Mendelson JEWISH BOOK MONTH NOVEMBER 11- DECEMBER 11 WHY JEWISH BOOK MONTH ? The Jewish Book Council of America is a broad representative organization "bringing toge~her Jews of varying religious and cultural groupings on a common platform of interest in .Jewish literature" and covering the field of Jewish literary a~tivity in the Un\te~ States in i~s trilingual form of Hebrew, Y1dd1sh and Enghsh. One of the methods used to achieve this objective is the campaign for the observance of Jewish Book Month conducted annually by the Council as a means of stimulating interest in the Jewish book and sustaining the interest aroused throughout the year. At no other time were there more cogent reasons for such an observance. The time has come when American Jewry must play a positive part in assuring the survival of the Je"'.ish cultural heritage. The great European Jewish centers of learning and literature are in ruin~, the majority of the Jews of Europe have penshed, the potential talent and creative energies of the Jewish populations in E_u~o_pe are destr?yed. It is clear that the respons1b1hty for restormg these ruins falls upon the Jews of America. The Jewish Book Council of America is one of the agencies of Jewish life in America which is assuming a share in this responsibility and is seeking ways of creating conditions favorable for the development of an American Jewish culture, and of preserving the age-old Jewish heritage. A deep consciousness of this need must be awakened and it is hoped that Jewish Book Month will provide the impetus. WHAT HAVE PUBLIC LIBRARIES DONE TO OBSERVE JEWISH BOOK MONTH? Originated in 1926 as Jewish Book Week by a librarian (Miss Fanny Goldstein, Librarian of th West End Branch of the Boston Public Library), Jewish Book Month has been steadily gaining in importance as an annual observance in public libraries. Libraries in 1both large and sma!J communities have arranged many attractive programs and exhibitions in the past. Public libraries have also participated in community-wide celebrations and a number have prepared special lists of books of Jewish interest for distribution. BIRTHDAYS FOR DECEMBER Donald Michael Wiener December 7 Harold Victor Shumacher December 15 December 18 Stanley Brooke Kantor Gale Patricia Price December 20 Nancy Kay Ashendorf December 24 OUR LIBRARY This month being Book Month, our minds naturally tu11n to books and libraries in general, anci to our own library and books in particular. Due to the kindness of many of our members as well <is the commendable work of our library chairman, our library is growing from day to day. Slowly but sm·e°Iy some of the finest books are finding their way into our Temple Library. During the summer. thirty new volumes have been added to our lovely collection. May we suggest, that this month above all, is a very appropriate time to give a gift either in money or a book to the Temple Library. Both the donor's name and the name in whose honor or memory the book is given are attached to the covers of the book. "Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn." ISRAELI ROOM TO BE DEDICATED NOV. 20 On November 2•1 of last year, during the dinner given in honor of Leo S. Rosen, and also at the time when our Temple was dedicated, about $4,000.00 dollars were pledged by the dinner guests and paid for a room in our Temple, to be known qs the "Israeli Room". Between last year and now, a mural has been set up in one of the Temple classrooms, confirming the pledge and promise made by this Congregation last November. Th,s mural which was carefully and tastefully designed, will be on a long time and serve as a symbol of the heroic deeds performed by our brethren in the establishment of a democratic Jewish i,tatP, for which they hoped and waited for two Ghousand years. THIS ISRAELI ROOM, WILL BE FORMALLY DEDICATED ON SUNDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, AT 8:00 P. M. OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES, INCLUDING GOVERNOR WILLIAMS WILL ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN THE DEDICATORY SERVICE. ---0--UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES The time has come when we must take counsel together once again and decide how much we are going to do this year for our unfortunate brethren who wait for our help. Before doing so, however, we must first consider the meaning of a pledge to ourselves and the person to whom it is made. Last year too we met and pledged. Had our brethren depended on some of us entirely, there would be nc;ne of them left today to call upon us again. B etween now and December let us determine to clean up last year's appeal, and decide what our gift should be this year. It is wrong to play around with other people's lives. It is well to remember that eve1·:v person in need is our brother and we, more fortunate are his keeper. VIEWPOINT The man got his ailing friend as far as the doctor's door, but there the patient balked. Patient: "I'm a little leery about going in there." Friend: "Nonsense, this is one of the best doctors in the country." Patient: "Maybe so, but I don't like the odds he offers. Look on his door there-10 to I." -4- �B'NAI BRIT H EVENTS OF INTEREST Under the inspired leadership of its new president, Eugene Fisher, our B'nai Brith is making rapid strides in its expansion program. With a membership at an all-time high of more than 100, the organization is looking torlay toward its most active year as a community service group. The dedication in conjunction with National B'nai Brith Week on Friday, Octcber 14th, started the new ball a-rolling. Rabbi Samuel Umen spoke on "Looking Backward and Fonvard", and deceased presidents of the lodge and the national organization were commemorated. This event was followed by a highly successful Polio Fund Benefit at the Temple on Sunday, October 16th, where an impressive turnout danced to Buddy Friend's music. Presentation of our check for $355.00 to a representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis highlighted the intermission program. Our B'nai Brith rates a low bow for this very worthwhile affair, which was one of the community's most successful Polio benefits. Strict!v on the sccial side was the B'nai Brith me!!ting Monday, Oct. 24th. At least 60 members spent a thoroughly enjoyable eveninj!,', thanks to an entertaining and enlightening program. Three films were shown, the first dealth with the popular sport of fishing, the second was a "March of Time" tribute to I.he F.B.I., and the third was a timely documentary on Palestine narrated by Frederic March. On Sunday morning October 30th, fall and winter bowling begins. All members are urged to come down to Demos Bowling Alleys and participate. This year we have something special to work for; and that something is our entry into the Michigan B'nai Bt·ith Bowling League which will be held in Grand Rapids in 1950. And finally, on the academic side of t.he ledger, in the near future we are going to have an opportunity to hear Mr. Haskell Lazere of the Anti-Defamation League, the exact date of Mr. Lazere's talk will be announced later. THE JEWISH population of Smyrna, Turkey, has been reduced from 16,000 to 4,400 as a result of large-scale migration to Israel during the last few months. In August alone, 2,000 Turkish Jews left the country for Israel, which brought the total number of Jewish emigrants from Turkey to Israel to above 25,000 in one year. A SYNAGOGUE in Frankfurt was attacked by three Nazis during Yorn Kippur eve services. Two of the vandals were arrested; the third escaped. THE SECOND Rosh Hashanah since the state of Israel was established was observed in packed synagogues throughout the country. J>rime .Minister David Ben Gurion and Cabinet ministers and other Government officials offered their prayers in the new temple in Northern Tai Aviv. 200 Ford trucks, paid for from funds which Israel received m the Export-Import Bank loan, have been shipped to Israel. THE ESTABLISHMENT of a Department of Culture and Education to work in cooparation with local Jewish educational and cultural groups outside of Israel, has been announced by the Jewish Agency. The department will be headed by Dr. Hayim Greenberg, member of the Amarican section of the Agency executive. DISCRIMINATION against qualifid Jewish students seeking admission to colleges is wide~pread in p1ivate colleges in the Northeastern section of the country, according to Elmo Roper, public opinion analyst. CHANUKAH Decem b e r 15-23 Things T o Know About Chanukah 1. Chanukah falls on the 25th day of the Jew- THANKSGIVING DAY We give Thee thanks, 0 Lord! Not for armed legions. marching in their might, Not for the glory of the well-earned fight Where brave men slay their brothers also bn ve; But for the millions of Thy sons who workAnd do Thy task with joy-and never shirk, And deem the idle man a burdened slave; For these, 0 Lord, our thanks! We give Thee thanks, 0 Lord! Not for the palaces that wealth has grown, Where ease is worshipped-duty dimly known, And pleasure leads her dance the flowery way; But for the quiet homes where love is queen And. life is more than baubles, touched and seen, And old folks bless us, and dear children play; For these, 0 Lord, our than ks! ---0--Mr. Mr. l\fr. Dr. Mr. ANNIVERSARIES FOR NOVEMBER and Mrs. Warner Galombeck November 7 and ;\:[rs. Hyman Fox November 10 and Mrs. Leo Rosen November 20 and Mrs. Morris Teles November 21 and Mrs. Eugene Fisher November 22 ANNIV ERSARIES FOR DECEMBER Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Rogers December 4 Mr. and Mrs. Max Lebow December 25 Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Ashendorf December :lO -5- ish month Kislev. 2. Kislev is the 9th month on the Jewish calendar. 3. Chanukah means dedication. 4. Chanukah is known as the feast of lights. 5. Chanukah is observed eight days. 6. Chanukah is a minor festival. 7. In the home, Chanuka)l is celebrated by lightinj!,' a candle • first night of the festival, two the second, three the third etc. 8. Gifts are exchanged during the feast of lights. 9. It is customary to play games during the eight nights of Chanukah. 10. "Hallel"-Hymns of praise are included in the Chanukah service. 11. Chanukah is observed in commemoration of the victory Judas ;\laccabbee had over the Syrians. 12. The war between Judas Maccabbee and the Syrians was fought in the year 168 B.C. and ended in the year 165 B. C. 13. The Chanukah Lamp has eight regular holders and one special one used for the special candle with which the other candles are lighted. 14. The candle used for lighting- the other candles in the Chanukah lamp is known as the "Shamosh." 15. Shamosh means servant. �Commemoraling ... A DECADE OF GREATER MUSKEGON'S JEWISH PHILANTHROPY PAUL WIENER CHAIRMAN 1943-44-45-46-52 UNITED JEWISH CHARITIES OF GREATER MUSKEGON 1953 CAMPAIGN DINNER Temple B'nai Israel .____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ December 28, 1952 _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ �LEO S. ROSEN J. M. KAUFMAN HARRY S. BERMAN CO-CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN 1943-44 1947 1948 THE WILLI::--.;G GIVER He did the little that he could Choosing to do it now Not waiting for the larger good The future might allow. No one had ever heard him say When he was asked to share "Come back again some distant day When I have more to spare". He never asked to see the list Of gifts by others made But gave his little, lest he missed His chance the cause to aid. Edgar A. Guest SAMUEL LIPMAN HARRY A. FISHER FRANCIS N. FINE CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN 1949 1950 1951 �Dear friends : Bet,, een the c.O\ ers of this book is inscribed in cold figure,, but from warm hearts, a record of gencro-,ity and philanthropy e-,tahli~lwcl b) ~luskegon Jc\\ r) in a decade just closed. Ten year,, ha, e pas.,ed since a group of local leaders met at tn) home and decided to organize the LTnited Jewish Charities of Greater ~lu-,kegon. Since that noble and modest bcginnirg ten years ago, a total of $480,300.00 ha<, bet•n raised $374,400.00 was allocated to l nitcd Je\\ish Appeal and other overseas agencies. $83,000.00 wa, allocated to National and local re.lief. The launching of the l·nit< d Je\\ ish Charities \\"a'- a re, olutionar) and cnhghtcnmg landmark in our commtmit,. It afforded all of us an opportunit) to help sa, e a people, and help build a nation. A-; we undcrtakc our 1953 campaign for t·nitul Je\\ ish Chari tie-, on December 28th, under the lcaclcrship c,f ~krman Grossman, Samuel Lipman and Harold Ro:,en, we cannot rest on our past performance, but must give them our utmost support. I should like to congratulate the leaders and all othci:- men and \\ omen listed in this uook <,n their achie, ements in a decade of fruitful philanthropic effort. The generosity and high sen"-e of communal rc.sponsih1lity that ha, c characterized thec.e endeavors ha, e contributed immeasurably to the sun I\ al and ,, ell-being- of countle-,s thousancb of men, women and children all o, er the world. and to the establishment of l ,;racl as a strong hold of dcmocrary in the :\I iddlc East. It is therefore. mv hope and expectation that our enlightened communit, "ill meet the challcnge on Dt·ccmber 2gth "1th commetbttrate understanding and generosity. The story in this book is of -;acrificec; made b) our men and ,,omen in order to help build a brighter future for our brethren o, C'r,ea-,. But, at the same time. we did not neglect our home front. \\'<' built a $250,000.00 Temple, and maintained a high le, el of n•hg ion::- and cultural t.rth itie:, for onr-.;eh e--. At the ;,ame time, the Jc\\ i,-h l'ommtmit) leaders participated in and supported Thc Hackley Hospital, l\tercy Hospital, and Y\\'CA building campaigns. \Yl support annually the Community Chest, Red Cro-,s, Polio, Cancer, Y l\1CA, Boy Scouts. an<l all other commumty \\"ide projects and undertakings. ( >ur heart-; and pocketbooks have and alway,- will support de,-cn·ing causes. regardless whether they are Jc,, ish or Christian To Ill) associates-Francis Fine. Harr) A. Fi,-her, Kelly Kaufman. Sam Lipman, Harold Rosen, Leo Hosen, ~lrs. S) d Striiling-, and others too numerous to mention-may I ,-ay that you ha, e been a source of inspiration, nut onl) to me hut to thc entire community I extend to you my sincerest heartfelt thanks and be:-;t wishes in the years to come for a full measun· of good health. happiness;, and prosperity as ju,-tly befits those who ha, e established so brilliant a record of charity and sen ice o,·er the decade JU><t ended. Faithfull) Yours, �_About Our Chairmen PA UL M. WIENER The historic year of 1930 is remembered a-- a turning point in American history. For the Jewish community of ;\1uskegon it marked the emergence of a young man into a role of leadership which he has held for almost a quarter of a century. At a time when people eYery\\"here were holding on to whateYer they could salYage from the stock market crash, responding to the call of the late Issac Grossman, Paul l\I. \Viener undertook to organize the Finances of the S.) nagogue to carry it thn1 the depression years. In 1941 he organized the Gnited Jewish Charities whose tenth anni,ersary we are celebrating this year. At times as the official leader and more often as the unofficial leader. his guidance and moral support were indispemable. Gifted with a dynamic personality he always directed his energies where they achie\'ed the greatest good. First for the Jewish community, and then for the larger community, his ability for leadership was felt keenly. No cause of any worth escaped his attention. Ile was citizen par excellence. He contributed incessantly of his time and money to the common good. In his liberal distribution of his gifts we find personified the familiar prayer in the Union Prayer Book: ''Let us be. 0 Lord, just and great-hearted in our dealings with our fellow men, sharing with them the fruits of our common labor, •acknowledging before Thee that we are but stewards of whate\'er we possess." l\luskegon Jewry is fortunate in being able to boast of Paul \Yiener as one of it,- most honon:d citizens. \\' e consider him the embot'iment of the truly pious man. not in the sense of isolating himself from his fellow man in prayer and meditation. but in a larger and more real sense. He serves family. friend, community, and nation. The:se have become for him thoroughfares to God. By his deeds he has made God's will his own. :rnd for all his benefaction:s he lays no claim to reward. He abhors slander. and chicanery, and disdains the shahbines!', of human selfo,hness. By these signs and many more we recognize Paul \Viener as a sincere man. ~fay God grant him a long life of happiness together with his dear ones, and the realization of all his hopes and dreams. LEOS. ROSEN It can be said that he is one of the stronge"t pillars of the community. Kot only is the Jewish community blessed h) his presence, but he is a blessing to the entire community as \\'ell. for he participates in every worthwhile civic enterprise in ).!uskegon. Before the organization of the United Jewish Charities Leo Ro!>en raised funds for the Joint Distribution Committee singlehandedly. The Congregation B'nai Israel will be forever grateful to him for his leadership and untiring efforts in organizing and completing our new Temple. ::\lay he ever remain among us. an ideal worthy of our emulation J. M. "KELLY" KAUFMAN A former chairman of the United Jewish Charities and one of its highest contributors, is a firm believer in the Rabbinic dictum: "Separate not thyself from the congregation." By his example he has helped to loosen the purse strings of many a donor for in the field of charity, ''actions speak louder than words." ::\' e\'ertheless. Kelly Kaufman does not stop here. He is also one of the most diligent workers in the campaign. He shall always have our undying thanks. �HARRY S. BERMAN Congratulation<: on a successful 1948 campaign, the year of your chairmanship. SAMUEL LIPMAN Ile wa<: the chairman of the United Jewish ( harities 11' 1948. the )Car \\hich witnessed the largest collection m its history. Thoroughly grounded in Jewish history and literature he can di,.,cu..,s Jewish current events with ease and fluem·). Xot sati,-fied with hearsay reports about brae], only a personal trip could satisfy his curro--ity about the new Jewish State. l Iowe, er, a good mind is not his only asset. He po-.ses,-cs a warm and generous heart ,, hich finds expression in meritorious acts of charity wherever they are needed. Blessed with an abun<la11t capacit) for friendship, he Pot only gi\Cs of his substance but he gives o' him,-elf. He 1s the kind of a person one in~tincth cly ,, ishe,-, to count as a friend. To kno,, Sam is to IO\ e him. \Ye pray that he will n•main in our 1111(1-.t for many morc : c.ars, a blessing to all who know him HARRY A. FISHER A former chairman of the l;nited Jewish Charitie,. he h a man \\ho has earned the rc-,pect of all of his contemporaries. Having once had to shoulder the full responsibility of thi~ campaign he 1s fully appreciative of the enormity of the task facing the present chairman. \\'e are prou<l oi Harry Fisher for his generosity and his many kind deerls which ha, e endeared him not only to the members of his fan11ly but to the entire community. l\lay (;od g-rant 111111 many more ) ears oi fruittul ,ervicc among- us. FRANCIS FINE The Jc,\ish Community of Greater .:\lu:-skegon ha, long bc<·n hle•---t·d b) the dt•,otion and genero,.,1t) of it,, older and long-ti111e resident, Tlw,.,e men a11cl ,, u111c11 ha, c contributed cnorr wusly in time and mone), in energy and le:.cler-.hip, tim ard the e,tahli,hment of :-,trong and unitt-cl J<'\\'i:--h in:-titut,om,. Ah, ays anxiou-. to hr reht•\ <'d of the clen1anding duties of adn mbtration, the elder:- oi local I e\H) ha, e been con,-,tantly alert to recug-nize \ outhfnl t .. lent in thrir .,t·ard1 for e, entual ,-uccessor-.. Foremo--t among- the young men \\'ho ha, e made a name in our communit) in recent year, has been Francis Fine. Francis h;,-. .... ho\\'n a talent for organi/.ation and leadership which .:\luskegon quick!) recogmzecl, and he \\'a,- gi,en the opportunity l•i dem1111-;trat111g the,e q11ahtic,., to the great achantage l)f om entire group B) "Cr\'ing as Chamnan oi L'11itecl Je,, ish Charities for the fiscal year 1950 51. Fram i,-, ha,- h11nsclf grown in ,.,tature. In .:\luskeg-011 he ha~ become deeply iml,11ecl \\ ith a Jcwi-;h conscience, a deep feeling of iclentiiication \\ ith and re'-pon-.1bilit) tu hi,, people, lts fate, and its institnti,m,-,. \\'c extend our most cordial thanks to Franci:; Fine [or his ,;en ice::-. ancl co111111e11<l h1111 fur h1:-, <·xample to other young Jc\\ ish men and ,,omen of the commu111ty. �MRS. FRED RODOFF MRS. JOSEPH STRIFLING :\Irs. Fred Rodoff, Hadassah's representative in the United Jewish Charities. is one of the principal mainstays of this drive. She is a firm helienr in the traditional Jewish teaching that giving does more good for the donor than for the recipient. That is why her chief concern is with the collections from donors of $200 and less, and is the chairman of that committee. \Yhen we realize that about 701/c of all donors are in this category, we are made mindful of the immensity of the task facing l\lillie Rodoff. :\lrs. Joseph $trifling has served as a mt·mber of the Board of the United Je-wish Charities since its inception. and during the past two years has occupied the office of Vice-Chairman. \Vhen the general fund was implemented by the milk fund Mrs. $trifling became immediately identified with the latter. As an ardent member of Hadassah and blessed with a warm and generous heart, she not only responded herself to this human appeal for the tinder-nourished children of Israel, but she succeeded in firing the imagination of countless others in this worthwhile and touching project. HAROLD ROSEN MRS. R. SHMOOKLER Harold Rosen has served as the Vice-Chairman of the United Jewish Charities during the past several years and has participated actively in the annual drive for a much longer time. Because of his warm and genial personality he has come to be known as the conciliator of Muskegon. His greatest passion is peace and harmony among all the members of the community. It can be said about him that he fulfills religiously the Rabbinic dictum: "Be of the disciples of Aaron. loYing peace, pursuing peace, and drawing all thy fellow men to the spirit of the Torah." The gifts of Mrs. R. Shmookler to the United Jewish Charities during the past several years have been given with a generous heart and an open hand. Devoted to her family, and adored by her children and grandchildren, she is sincerely religious in every sense. The standard which she ha,., set for giving, merits our emulation. \Ve pray for her continued health and happiness together with the members of her family. SAM KLAYF MRS. GROSSMAN Sam Klayf has served as a member of the Board of the United Jewish Charities since its inception. Thoroughly versed in Jewish tradition and lore, he finds his greatest inspiration to achieve the good life from this source. He is rarely absent from the traditional Sabbath services and deri,·es a genuine satisfaction from them. ~I uskegon is proud of this man of integrity and devotion to duty in whom we find the following Scriptural verse personified: "Thou shalt find grace and favor in the eyes of Goel and man.'" ~lrs. Sadie Grossman, prominent resident of l\Iuskegon for 65 years, was one of those rare persons who always ha,·e plenty of time to help somebody else. The time many people spend in rushing from one meeting to another, or indulging in purely personal affairs, she spent as busily, though far more quietly, in visiting at our hospitals or otherwise seeking to smooth the path of some other person's illness or distress. She was a woman with an understanding- heart, who was always thinkmg of one more way to help people to fuller and happier li\"es. ELI SMITH "The rest. of us," remarked one friend, "are always "ishing we had more time to do the nice things we'd like to do. She had the time. How often do you know people like that? Not too often." Eli Smith exemplifies a true devotion to God which is expressed in a genuine love of his fellow men. He is not only reliable as the tenth man in a ''minyan" but he can always be counted upon for a generous contribution to the United Jewish Charities and to other worthwhile endeavors. ~lay his kind multiply in our community. :\frs. Grossman was one of l\Iuskegon·s most loyal residents, who lived to see her community grow steadily, just as she always knew it would. Hers was an eminently satisfying life, with deep roots in her church, her family, in friendship and ser\"ice to others. Reprinl of on editorial in the Muske9on Chronicl..,_Novtmt>.r 25, 1952 - -- - -- �I am grateiul to the United Jewish Charities for this opportunity to extend greetings to the Je" ish community of :\luskegon on the occasion of their annual driYe. The story is told of a desert traYeler who was lost for many days in the hot, dry sands and was about to expire from thirst. Suddenly he chanced upon a green, fertile oasis fed by a clear, cool spring of \\'ater. After slaking his thirst on this precious, life-giYing water, he satisfied his hunger on the luscious dates which abounded there. Then he lay down to rest under the cool shade of the palm trees. His heart overflowing with gratitude, he turned to the oasis and said: "Gracious oasis, for your lavi:--h and life-restoring gifts I would like to bless you. Shall I pray that you haYe cool and refreshing water, you already ha\'e it. Should I bless you with sweet and abundant fruit, you already possess more than you require. \\' ere I to pray that your trees provide a cool refuge against the hot desert sun, the shade of your trees is already a refreshment to the soul. I shall therefore pray that your spring of water neYer run dry, that your trees continue to bear abundant fruit, and proYide ample shade against the hot sun. :\luskegon may be compared to an oasis that is blessed with water, fruit and shade. Its water is its substance and goods: its fruit is its people and their offspring; its shade is its Temple and sen·ice organizations. Like the desert traveler I shall bless you as follows: :\lay you e\'er be in a position to give of your substance to the less fortunate than you. :\lay Goel bless you with many children who will be like you in generosity and kindness. '.\lay your Temple eyer inspire you with a love of God which will enable you to find comfort in sorrow, strength in trial. and the courage to do justly and to love mercy. �STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS For period of Dec. 1, 1951 to Dec. 22, 1952 R ' $ Cash on }land December I, 1951 Cash in Bank Dt·t·emher I. 1951 Z.350.00 757.04 $ 3,107.04 PLUS RECEIPTS: 450.00 Pledge,-prcvious years ...... . . . . Total pledges for year 1952 .. Less uncollected balance ..... ..... $ 61,694.50 3,900.00 57,794.50 • Payments on pledges for 1952 58.244.50 61.351.54 Total Receipts LESS DISBURSEMENTS: 57,061.12 688.94 350.48 51.73 Allocations to Charities .... . ..... Campaign and Banquet expenses . Office and Secretary expense ........ . ..... ...... . Legal and :\I isccllaneous expense .. ..... ...• .. . ............ 58.J 52.27 $ Balance: 3,199.27 •This incllldes 1111depositecl rhecks and notes held totaling $10,400.00. ALLOCATIONS 1952 TO ISRAEL L1mkd Jewish Appeal Haclassah American Fund for I sracl. I nstituttons \\'c1zman Institute Ht•hrcw l"niversitr ... Haifa Technological College Fcderakd Cuuncil of Israel Institutions .. $ 47,500.00 2.000.00 100.00 600.00 600.00 300.00 250.00 $ 51,350.00 OTHER Union of \merican Hebrew Congrt'gations ............... ~luskcgon Hchrcw School Special Relief :\1 uskcgon Area Hillel Foundation .. B'nai B'rith National Ym1th Service ................................ 1.000.00 500.00 2.01 l.lZ 150.00 200.00 \mnican Association for Jewish Education Brandeis l'ninrsity Dro1hic College . Jewish \\'elfan: Board Jewish Tt>lcgraphic Agency !Iias (Hchn:w Immigrant Sheltering Society) .. Leo Levi :\!cmorial Hospital . ~ational Jewish Hospital, Denver Jewish Consumptive Hospital of Los Angeles ......... . :,.;ational Jewish Home for Children .... Bcllefairc . .... .. American Jewish Congress Joint Defense Appeal ... Jewish Theological Seminary of Xcw York H istradruth I vrith TOTAL 25.00 200.00 100.00 250.00 25.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 500.00 200.00 100.00 5,711.12 $ 57,061.12 �_Affocalionj -- name o/ Recipient and _Amounlj Paid lo Cach IQ43 ............ American Ass'n for Jewis h Education A1m•rica n Friends Hebrew U niversity • · h ,\merica n Fund for Israel Institutions American Jewish Conference . .............. ·••· •• n • •• o • ····•······· Amer ican Fund for Pale~tinian Institutions ......................$ Aml'rican J ewish Congress ,..... 1944 0 0 0 • ",.""r"O • 50.00 $ ............ 25.00 ··········- ••-• 100.00 $ 25.00 ............ 500.00 $ 500.00 ········ ... ............. 150.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 .$ ............ 25.00 50.00 ··••········ 800.00 -~ ............. ..... - .. . .,., ...... 600.00 .... ····· .... .... ...... ........ ..... ............ ··•· ·• ............ .......... ·····••··••·· ............ •·••·······......... 111.00 .. ..... - .. , ,. .. , ~ .a,, ....., ••· ·····••·••·· 60.00 200.00 350.00 350.00 ....••...... ............ ··········· ....... -~- . -·· ).!rs. Aaron Cohen (Departure Gift) .... .... ,...... ............ 1,000.00 Co ngregation B'nai Israel ........................ ............ ···········• ............. ............. Congregation Sons of Israel .................... ............ ............ ··········· 2,000.00 Council of Jewish Fed. & Welfare Fds... ............ 75.00 120.00 250.00 100.00 ... ··•···•-······••. ······............. ··········••·· ·· ............. ............ ··········· ····••·•··•· .......... ···••-•···· ·····--···· ·····-····-·· 38.00 50.00 .., - ......, . ..... ····••··•··· ............ ·········•-• 100.00 ----••··- 25.00 75.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 ··········· 15.00 25.00 35.00 35.00 ........... F ederal Council of Israel Institutions .... ·•····· ·-··-···...... ······•····· Gifts -:\len in Service ....". """ """ ..•. .. -· ...... . ....., Donations- Transients Dropsic Co llege ... ...... Rahbi baac Elchanan Theological Seminary Ex-Patients Home of Denver . . ...... ·--~.. .... ............ 50.00 Brandeis U niversity ............................... , 50.00 ............ B'nai Jrrith \Vider Scope ................. ,... Day Care Center ... ............ ......,..... $ 50.00 350.00 1951 1950 ······-···· $ .... ···• 50.00 25.00 ····•-•··•··· ....... 100.00 •• o • oooo • H O ···•··· 600.00 200.00 450.00 ··········· ............ . ... , ....... 111.00 .... ...... •....., ..... l,JI0,00 --~······ ,, , ... . ,o,n -~---••···. ····•·•••··· , .............. 18,000.00 .............. ···-········ 6,672.21 ~- .... ... 100.00 .. ·----- 197.50 .... -· .. .... · ··••- 25.00 • •· , ~ ... ...... ·······-~ ······....... n•••• . -······ .. 25.00 .......__ ......... •······••·••· ..... ....... ......... ····•········ ········-·· ·····•••·•·• ·-···· .... .... .... ., 25.00 88.00 100.00 225.00 550.00 250.00 500.00 ······· .... 112.62 ··········· ·••·••·· ····•········ Hebrew College of Theology of Chicago 25.00 75.00 100.00 100.00 ······••···- ·····•··~... ....... _....• .......... ······••· .. 150.00 200.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 100.00 .......... ..... 100.00 ············ ···••······· ··········- 100.00 100.00 450.00 450.00 300.00 250.00 842.50 ., ............, . ·····••·••·· . •oaoo .......... 250.00 ········••-- •••••· 2,000.00 110.00 ··········-- Hias ( H ebrew Immigrant S heltering Soci<:ty) .... -•--·••·- -•--·· ·Hebrew Theological Seminary .... -·········· Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, and Union of American Hebrew Congregations ,_., • - •--o•••• , Hl'l, rew University ................................ . 24,672.21 -~·.......... 250.00 ...... 600.00 1,000.00 ........• •·- . ·•-·- 100.00 - •· ..________ ..... •••·· ............ - ·•··••·-• 200.00 , ····••·-·•·· · • · -• ·· •· , ..... 75.00 ....... ._ 800.00 0 •n••••ono• 50.00 Haifa In~titute of Technology 1,500.00 0 0 0 0• 200.00 ........... ········--·· H adassah H o,pital ............................. ,. ' "O • F ............ , 1,000.00 O HOUOO 175.00 425.00 50,00 . ----· ... - ... 50.00 ..... ··•·· 1,000.00 .... --- • ..... u , , ,• ......... -----~----- 475.00 375.00 ...... ..._ H adassah .. ....... .............. , -···· ············ ... ··- ..... ..... ..... ...... 112.62 250.00 100.00 200.00 , . .., 100.00 150.00 ........... , 50.00 1,000.00 50.00 200.00 · 0 ..... 50.00 ••· ., ....... • o , 0 0 0• H 25.00 $ $ 100.00 ·········..--------- T nbk 1952 ...,.,~-- -••····-• , ,ooooooOhO ••••••••u•• .......... $ 25.00 ..... ....... Oh•Oooooooo ............ O ....... ..... 25.00 ll'nai B'rith \Var Ser\'ice Funds . ,. .... .. ••• 1949 ....... •· 25.00 B'nai B'rith Xat'l Youth Services ....... o 1948 ..........- 50.00 25.00 ,, U ...... ....... Hclfain: Orphan Home .... ..... .. ............... B'nai B'rith Essay Conte~! .... 1947 1946 -······ .... ~·- " 25.00 $ ...... A merican Zionist Emergency Council .... 1945 .... ~--··. ............ 2,800.00 1,700.00 I,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 13,000.00 ... -~--.. ........ ............ ..... ..... .... -······ ·····••··--· 2,000.00 100.00 ............ 100.00 500.00 300.00 1,325.00 500.00 600.00 1,350.00 . ...... 100.00 ••· ,.,., - 100.00 - ·- 500.00 700.00 700.00 700.00 1,000.00 300.00 1,350.00 100.00 5,150.00 �1944 1943 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 Totalio Hillel Foundations .................................... 125.00 100.00 50.00 Hi5tadruth I vrith ................. .................... ••••••••••u 25.00 37.50 50.00 50.00 50.00 ............ .. ..... .. 150.00 150.00 50.00 ···•· ............ ...... .... .... . ........... 100.00 ··-· ...... ---· ............ ········-··· ........... . , ....... 500.00 . ............. 450.00 Histadruth of Palestine ··········•· ·····•· ..... 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 Home for Incurable Jews ...................... ············ ···•········ 100.00 ···••-·•···· Institute of Religion .................................... ·····-····· ···-········ 250.00 250.00 Jewish Braille Institute ............................ 25.00 25.00 35.00 75.00 Jewish Consumptive Relief Hospital ...... 60.00 60.00 200.00 60.00 Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y..... 50.00 75.00 200.00 200.00 500.00 •·········· ..... , 200.00 . , , 100.00 ........ .._ 150.00 1,675.00 . ......... 100.00 312.50 ·········-·· ........... 750.00 160.00 ---······•· - ···-···••·. ··•········· 50.00 •···•····· . 430.00 ••• ••••••n .... •···· 200.00 ···········- ····•······· ............. 200.00 .. ····•···· 200.00 1,125.00 25.00 ............ 25.00 25.00 525.00 ······-·· ........... . . . . . .u , u , Jewish Telegraph Agency ........................ 25.00 25.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 J cwish \Velfare Board ........................... .. 25.00 100.00 145.00 250.00 150.00 300.00 100.00 300.00 250.00 250.00 1.870.00 700.00 700.00 500.00 7,800.00 50.00 600.00 ....... 125.00 Joint Defense Appeal ........... ....... . ......... 500.00 400.00 400.00 600.00 800.00 1,800.00 1,400.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 .. •······•···· ......... 125.00 ····-•······· ............ ........... .... 2,000.00 2,000.00 500.00 1,200.00 6,074.13 ············ ......... ··••· ·•···· ............ ---········· ......... ···••· Levi )1emorial Hospital ............. Los Angeles Sanitorium ..................... ·······•- :\Iona View Jewish Cemetery Ass'n ...... ... , . )1uskegon Hebrew School .......................... ••••••••oUo ·-·········· ············ ............ National Farm School ................................ 25.00 40.00 60.00 75.00 ....... National Jewish Children's Home .......... 40.00 40.00 50.00 40.00 ········•··• ···-··· National Jewish Hospital of Denver ...... 75.00 75.00 125.00 125.00 ............ ............ National Jewish Hospital of L. A. .. .. .... Rabbi Satlow (Confidential Fund for Needy) ............................... ...... Society of Relief of Yemenite Jews Sons of Israel-)latzo Fund ........"""....... S. 0. S.-J. D. C .............,.......................... Special Relief (Local Needy Families) .. 75.00 75.00 ··-· ······-·· .. --··••·~• . ......... , 200.00 ............ .... ............ ____ ' ............ ............ ········•··· -··········· 11,774.13 500.00 ············ ············ ............ 500.00 •·····•••··• 200.00 ..... ..... 50.00 50.00 270.00 . ··•••····· 50.00 50.00 500.00 ···•········ 50.00 200.00 ···•····· ............ 200.00 . ........... 210.00 , ......... ·····-·-· ··········••· 50.00 ..... oH0••••0000 . ........... - '"•········· ·····•· .... 25.00 35.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 ....... .... ............ ·····•··•·· 15.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 ............ ............ ············ .......... --········· 315.00 ············ ····•······· ............ .... ... .. 500.00 2,155.50 1.850.11 1.975.45 2,011.12 10,884.45 760.00 .... ······· 150.00 ............ ..........., ···••· ••···· •···••······ 250.00 ············ 250.00 321.35 40.00 375.00 2,005.92 Sunday School Fund ................................ ········ ... ····••······ 760.00 ............ ............ ............ ............ ..... ... ------••··•·· ............ United Jewish Appeal ........................... J,000.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 15.000.00 45,000.00 63,500.00 45.000.00 62,400.00 54.000.00 47.500.00 350.400.00 United Jewish Laymen's Committee ...... 35.00 75.00 75.00 100.00 50.00 10.00 ··•· ····•• -···· ..... 345.00 U.S.0.-Fort Custer .................... 55.00 360.00 50.00 ····•·••···- ........... ·········-·· ............ • • ••••n•••• --•o••••• H• ............ ............ 100.00 .......... 100 00 69.422.61 $ 69,322.66 ............ ... ........ 100.00 ............ ............ 500.00 ............ TOTAL ALLOCATIONS* ................ $ 4,905.00 $ 11.636.00 $ 18,859.47 $ 24,335.00 $ 55,075.00 Z. 0. A. Expansion Funds ........................ ....... ······••·••· . ........... Zionist Organization ................................. .......... ............ . ........... ····•• , ---- ............ .......... •·•········· 50.00 $ 77,790.05 $ 68,980.50 $ 465.00 ••·· 250.00 .... ....... .... ... 250.00 35.00 \Veizman In,titutc ..................................... .... ........ 35.00 25.00 ••·· ........... 25.00 Vaad Leumi ............................................. ······ 500.00 ......... 120.00 600.00 1,750.00 ........ 500.00 ---- ?Ofl 00 _ - $ 57,061.12 GR.\~D TOTAL* *This compi/cition does not detail an amount of approximately $14,000.00, representing total adjustments made 011 pledges above listed, plus campaign expenses incurred and previously reported over this ten year period. $457,387.41 �Subjcriberj' 11/ame6J -..Amounfj Pfed9ed and Paid, and Unpaid /Ja/ance6 1944 1943 Harol<l Adler ;,Ir & ;1\r~. l.0111,- ,\ron ;1lr & ;1lrs. Tony ,\ron ;1\ r. & ;11 rs. Ahc A ,hendorf ;1lr. & :\lr,. Harn· Ashuulorf ;1lr. & :\!rs. lsad,>rc .\,hendorf Jacob .,\shtndorf . \Ir. &: \I rs. ;1! ax Ash,:ndorf \Ir. &: ;11 r,. Samuel ,\shcnclorf Dr. 8,: ;1lrs. Ralph .\ugust .\ Ir. & \I rs. Stanky Baru Jacob and Eugl'11•· Thum ,\rthur B,·11 \ \' 111. ll t·rco\'itch :\Ir. & ;1lr,. Harn· 1-1. Berman ;,Ir. S.: ;1! rs. Ilarr·y S. Berman .\ Ir. & ;1lr,. Louis J. Berman \Ir. & \lrs. Louis ;1!. Herman \I rs. Rose BerPrnn . \Ir. & ;1I rs. Hl'll '>cn Berman :\Ir. & ;1! rs..\! orn, Brrnsll"i11 :\! orris He~palo,· :\larC'lis Bess .. J. C. Beukema ;,Ir. & ;1lrs. Herman Bra\'crman :\Ir. & \I rs. 1'-athan Broutman :\Ir. & \I rs. Samuel Broutman :\Ir & \!rs. \'ictor S Bcrnstri11 \Ir. ,<:.: \I rs. Sigmund Calm Dr. & :\I rs. Scynwur Cane Rohcrt & J cro111c Cherin Familit s • ;11 r & \I rs Elli, Cht·din :\Ir. & \!rs. Jack Chevlin Dr. & :-SI rs So' Cohan lh~n Cohen ,J can Danigclis __ _ \Ir. & :-.1 rs l!t-nn· Darmstadtcr \Ir. & :-.1 rs. I.. I >armstadtcr & HenrJ l'aul Elliott . .. \Ir. & l\lrs. .\nclrcw Epstein :\I ikc Fems . . llarn Fi,·ld .. :-.tr. & .\Ir,. Framis Fme Harry Fine . .. . ...... llarry. Bernard. Eugene, and Jerome Fisher Familtcs . .. :\Ir. & \I rs. Hcrht•rt Fisher :\Ir. & :\I rs. \\'illiam rishn _ Dr ~ornun Fleishman Fogel Famih• Al. Frank, and J. H,·cht Dr. & \!rs. \lartin Friedcnherg II vrnan Friedman :\lauricc & Harrison Friend Families ;1laurin~ Fri<'nd .\I ikl' Goldhcrg ;1I. J. Goldberg Sidney Goldherg ,\I Gol<kn :\Ir. & .\I rs. :\laurice Gold.:-n ).Ir. & Mrs. Phillip Granik 1945 1946 1947 $ $ I 50.00 $ 150.00 .l00.00 200.00 500.00 300.00 25.00 .ifl.00 50.00 75,00 250.00 !... ,.,"" -~ -:; "0 ...0 ·-"' 0. ...... etJ bO .,_. h ... 150.00 150.00 500.00 100.00 350.00 "0 - ~ c g i: ·- re 5~ 72 no 550.00 1,000.00 200.00 215.00 500.00 500.00 500.00 2,000.00 500.00 1·25.00 .=:oo.oo 300.00 236.50 400.00 4'>0.0() 25.00 200.00 100.00 25.00 215.00 ZS 00 22500 l,440.00 300.00 50.00 300.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 350.00 1,625.00 35.00 JS.00 1000 50.00 50.00 300.00 IOI 00 300.00 25 00 75.00 - ISO.OD 16.00 4.00 14.00 711 50 600.00 250.00 325.00 100.00 .mo.on 536.50 25.00 10.00 200.00 25 00 :on.no 65.00 200 00 650.00 3.16 50 50.0'l ., 125 00 150 00 175.00 250.00 250.00 75.00 50 00 .: .?5.00 .i(l.00 125.00 25.00 J00.00 586.50 .36.50 10.00 36.50 .uso.oo 60.00 5.160.00 s.J2s.;o 87.00 223.00 136.50 500.00 100.00 500.00 100.00 .300.00 0 25.00 60.00 50.00 ...u c,: 25.00 15.00 30.00 2 3 10.00 20000 5000 I0.00 255.0() 25,00 10.00 100.00 25 00 25.00 2.5 00 60.00 100.00 60.00 40.00 60.00 50.00 10.00 50.00 ,on oo 700_(1() 87500 100.00 300.00 100.00 25.00 110.00 30.00 200.00 100.00 250.00 220.00 100.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 20000 500.00 10000 :25.oo 5000 l00.00 50.00 50.00 200.00 100.00 300.00 25.00 I 50.00 R 510.00 50.00 100.00 63.00 25.00 250.00 36.50 8,500.00 SO.OU 200.00 50.00 10.00 5,350.00 100.00 100.00 200.00 11 .00 10.00 250.00 100.00 750.00 so.on 340.00 1,550.00 2,575.00 3,596.00 6,209.50 l,l95.00 150.00 450.00 15.00 1.909.50 1,200.00 75.00 286.50 300.00 100.00 400.00 20000 ,2500 336.50 1.000.00 25.00 200.00 250.00 150.00 500.00 261.50 236.50 85.00 100.00 l.?5.00 .l00.00 25 00 900.00 Balances Not Due or Not Paid 150.00 1,721.00 2,200.00 2,1150.00 300.00 350.00 50 00 200.00 150.00 225.00 25.00 25.00 200.00 .500.00 573.00 1,109 ;o $ I I I.SO JOO.OU 500.00 150.00 10.00 136..50 5.00 oo I I I.SO $ . I I I 50 $ 100.00 150.00 500.0() 400.00 1952 150.00 25.00 25 200.00 500.00 5.16.50 .300.00 $ 1951 100.00 5.00 !i0.00 100( 25.00 15 (10 300.00 IS 00 15 00 100.00 236.50 1950 50.00 400.00 100.00 300.00 50.00 10.00 50.00 75 00 $ 200.00 200.00 ~0.00 250.00 50.00 50.00 1949 50.00 ..:.:,. 0 g-£ 100.00 200.00 600.00 200.00 ! (IIJ.00 100.00 ";..c., ·- c:: 150.00 150.00 250.00 50.00 SO.OU 250.00 300.00 25000 1948 $ 200.00 100.00 75 00 "0 "0 :., 1 ·o $ 50.00 500.00 600.00 Total Pledges 536.50 20000 100.00 23000 90.00 140.00 50.00 700.00 5.35.00 .150.00 50.00 169.00 166.00 3,653.00 65.00 45 00 1.600.00 2.50.00 50.00 100.00 1.441.50 65.00 1,195.00 50.00 ll0.00 1,084.50 50.00 38,073.50 160.00 500.00 448.00 552.50 1,000.00 1,455.00 380.00 450.00 1,436.50 100.00 325.00 l0.00 100.00 3,166.50 350.00 $ 3.250.00 �1943 Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Greenberg (irossman Dept. Store . . .. .\1 rs. Isaac Grossman & Family . ..... .\! r. & .\[rs. Harold Grossman :-.Ir. & .\!rs. Samuel Grossman .\Ir. & .\!rs. David Gudcbky. .\fr. & .\!rs. Komma Gudebky .. . .... Mr. & .\irs . .\farvin Gudebky Mr. & .\lrs. Oscar Gudcbky Hamilton ,\pts. · ..... .. Homer Hayden .... .... ............... .\Ir. & .\!rs. Joseph Hecht ....... Cy W. Hirt ......... H ughcs & Hatcher . ... ..... .\Ir. & .\1 r, . .\!eyer Jacobs .\lrs. Tillie Jacobs .. .\Ir. & .\I rs. Sol J acohson ........ .\Ir. & .\1 rs . .\lorris Kantor ......., J . .\I. Kaufman Family & Associates Dr. .\1arie Keihn .... ........... . .\ir. & .\lrs. Samuel Klayf .\!rs. Sarah Klein . . .. .\Ir. & .\!rs. Harold Kline Rev. & .\!rs. Jacoh Klitnwr Abe Kollcnberg Ben Komiss . .. .. . . ........... .. .\fr. & .\!rs. ,\lex Krause .\Ir. & .\!rs. Edward H. Krause David J. Krupp .... ..... .\fr. & .\I rs. Harry Lahr .. .\Ir. & .\!rs. Jack Lawson .\Ir. & .\Ir:;. Samuel Lawson .\Ir. & :\I rs. '.\fax Le how . :0.fax Lenhoff ..... :\Ir. & .\Ir:;. Jess Levin .... ~Ir. & .\!rs. :O.lorris Le"in,· :0-f r. & .\I rs. Reuhl·n Len :O.l r. & ..\1 rs. II yman Lip.man . :0.1 r. & :\I rs. J al·k Lipman :0.lr. & :0-lrs. Samuel Lipman \Ir. & '.\I rs. Chas. Locke .. Don :O.lann ..... . Benjamin .\!arms .. H crman .\1 cndelson James .\lctz .\liss Eva .\[illcr Dr. Phillip :0-liller :0-[isccllaneous Contributions Joe Nadel .\I ax ~ (..·\Jinan .. . ... Oscar :S:cuman ......... . .\Ir. & :\!rs. Ted Xl'Ullll'r .. '.\Ir. & :0.1 rs. B.,n Oi>pcnheim . S,im Orlikoff .\Ir. & :0-1 r:-. Harold Page . .\Ir. & :\I rs. ,\lhcrt Parker ... .\I rs. Bertha & Sylvia l'aul ... .\Ir. & :0.1 r,. Nathan Price '.\! r. & ,\( rs. Samuel Price .\Ir. & 1\lr,. J.C. Rapaport Leah Richel ..... . .\Ir. & '.\Ir,;. Barne,· Rola•rt, '.\Ir. & :0-frs, !,ral'l'Rodin .\1 r. & .\1 rs. Fred Rodoff 11 r, & .\I rs. Lyle Roger~ . 1944 1945 500.00 550.00 250.00 10.00 150.00 25.00 500.00 725.00 250.00 25.00 150.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 1946 500.00 725.00 275.00 25.00 235.00 25.00 25.00 60.00 1947 2,000.00 5,000.00 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 55.00 75.00 3 109.50 2,182.50 2,000.00 1,000.00 2,551.50 2,746.00 250.00 12.'i.OO 650.00 350.00 125.00 1,000.00 100.00 40.00 50.00 1,000.00 250.00 1,000.00 400.00 400.00 25.00 500.00 35.00 100.00 200.00 150.00 25.00 l,., "';.-, :.c"' - -0 ...0 ·-"'0. .... ,.,r.r. '-'"· 10.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 75.00 600.00 100.00 600.00 25.00 15000 150.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 25.00 250.00 125.00 1,000.00 25.00 300.00 150.00 50.00 20.00 250.00 25.00 300.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 10.00 25.00 250.00 200.00 300.00 4,750.00 25.00 1,000.00 200.00 100.00 30.00 200.00 300.00 8,036.00 25.00 300.00 25.00 600.00 20.00 ., C.c. 250.00 - .... ~=g .:: 25.00 150.00 25.00 200.00 "' ::, 0 ~ :::: .;:: g~ .::: 0 :r. ~ 0 =C: 0 10.00 ;; 0 50.00 300,00 50.00 500.00 J00.00 25.00 500.00 25.00 25.00 10.00 325.00 25.00 110.00 20.00 85.00 600.00 50.00 550.00 30.00 25.00 410.00 250.00 75.00 4000 25.00 200.00 100.00 12,300.00 15.00 405 00 250.00 110.00 25.00 25.00 850.00 325.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 150.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 " 50.00 25.00 250.00 100.00 10,350.00 25.00 300.00 273.00 161.50 275.00 100.00 100.00 35.00 525.00 50.00 75.00 3,000.00 111.50 3,000.00 50.00 45.00 25.00 86.50 786.50 50.00 10.00 50.00 25.00 2,500.00 150.00 3.790.00 1(),00 51.50 50.00 50.00 25.00 2,500.00 50.00 3.036.50 50.00 25.00 2,500.00 50.00 J,050.00 75.00 50.00 1,000.00 90.00 2.050.00 35.00 25.00 ISO.no 250.00 100.00 50.00 I ,0.00 100.00 50.00 1S000 so 9.l.50 1.010.00 200 00 30.00 61.50 50.00 J0.00 36.50 50.00 25.00 -0 -0... 0 ,.,CJ 50.00 25.00 250.00 100.00 12,450.00 15.00 325.00 200.00 161 50 500.00 bl) bl) -0 -0 '-' 100.00 30.00 100.00 35.00 5.00 200.00 25.00 10,100.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 25.00 .~0.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 200.00 190.00 45.00 25.00 50.00 231.00 25.00 165.00 322.00 90.00 167.00 250.00 275.00 1,000.00 100.00 1,750.00 50.00 100.00 1.000.00 1,000.00 125.00 25.00 600.00 J00.00 750.00 750.00 100.00 7.50.00 850.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 325 00 25.00 100.00 300.00 525.00 7.l 50.00 200.00 25.00 IO(l.00 150.00 10.00 150.00 150.00 250.00 25000 25.00 2500 1,570.00 2.150.00 100.00 25.00 25.00 500.00 10.00 50 ()() 50..00 25.00 75.00 60.00 25.00 10.00 100.00 396.50 786.50 186.50 J6.50 250.00 141.50 .\6 so 150.00 136.50 36.50 Total Pledges 130.00 4,500.00 19,589.50 775.00 160.00 1,910.00 75.00 65.00 685.00 3,000.00 200.00 950.00 25.00 600.00 240.00 110.00 1,J00.00 1,225.00 60,1S6.00 180.00 3,290.00 1,573.00 833.00 100.00 850.00 120.00 1,400.00 825.00 150.00 190.00 1,525.00 181.50 1,896.00 250.00 115.00 300.00 535.00 14,400.00 501.50 17,776.50 230.00 250.00 285.00 325.00 850.00 25.00 50.00 1,377.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 6,685.00 175.00 250.00 10.00 150.00 100.00 2,500.00 6,520.00 300.00 1().00 .lS.00 975.00 1,446.00 1.77100 Balances Not Due or Not Paid 150.00 1,800.00 �1943 Rogus & Lebow ....... ... .... ... .. !I.tr. & l\lrs Leo Rnse ...._. _ .. ... i\lr. & !\!rs. Douglas Rosen ..... !I.Ir. & !1.1 rs. llarold Rosen !I.Ir. & .\!rs. Leu S. Rosen .... . .... ..... !I.Ir. & !l.lrs. !,am Rosenbaum....... !I.tr. & !l.lrs..\lax Rosenberg !I.Ir. & Mr<. Robert Ro•cnlwrg !I.tr. I\: .\!rs. Seymour Rosenberg . . !l.lartill Roth !I.tr. & !l.frs Chas. Ruhmsky .. ... !I.I iss Florl'IIC<' Rulimsky Louis Rnhinsky ...... !l.lrs. Rat' Rnbm~ky . .. . Elizaheth I• Hyan . ...... I Jack Sa ppcr ... . .. '" Rahhi & !I.Ir~. Satlow ..., . ... ? l'aul J. Sd1lossman .,., Ja<:oh Schocrhcr . .. .. :.E !I.Ir. & i\l rs. !I.I ax Schuhb . - -o Dr. Leonard Schultz 5 ;. ill r & :,\fr~ .\ be Shmooklcr ... c.. !l.lrs. ,\he Shmooklr.r & !I.tr. & ~ [; Mrs. Francis Fine ~~ Leah Shumaker . .... - .... ...... ..... ~ ~ Mr. & .\!rs. !I.lax Shumaker . ... ...... . ::,.. "!I.Ir. & :\lr5. Sam Shumaker.. iii O !I.Ir. & !l.lrs. Sam Siegl'I -5 Mr. & !I.I rs. Harold Silverman :~ § !I.Ir. & !l.lrs, Sol Silverman ] g Ed Simcoe .. . . ·- ;;; !I.Ir. S.: !l.lrs Joseph Simon :!: Jacoh Singer _g ~ !I.Ir. & ~!rs. Joseph ';inger '· !I.Ir. & :\!rs Sam $ingcr .. .... o~ .!I.Ir. & Mrs. C~arlC', Smith ~ § !I.Ir. & .!l.lrs. Eh Smith .. ... -o Saul .Smith ... .... ...... ..... .... .,, R. Stotz . ... . ... _ ... "2 Mr. & !-.!rs. Fred Stein 8 !I.Ir. & !l.lrs. Carl Ste!n<ller ~ Mr. & !I.Ir~. Jack Stcmdlcr .. .. !I.Ir. & \I rs. .!I.I ilton Stcindlcr .. .. \Ir. & \lrs. \\'illiam Stern ... ..... ... !I.fr & .!1.lrs. Joseph Strifling ...... II arrirt falbot . .. . . ..... .... .!I.Ir & \!rs . .!I.form Teles .. . ... .... Rahhi & :\!rs. Samuel l1men . ..... .... E. \'alentinc . .. !l.iclvin Dan Duren ... .... \\'alter~ & 8reccher \\'est ~lich1gan Steel T ~f. \\'hit1nan .. .... ;1f r. & ~Ir~. Tosial• Wiener . !I.Ir & !I.I rs. Paul \l. Wiener . !I.I orton Wolfe ... .. .... . ,.... Total Amount for 1943 ................ _ 5.360.00 $ S,360.00 1944 25.00 U5 00 .225.00 100.00 250.00 50.00 1945 1946 50.00 5000 25.00 500.00 750.00 175.00 500.00 50.00 25.00 300.00 450.00 125.00 350.00 50.00 5.00 25.00 60.00 1,300.00 1,600.00 500.00 750.00 225.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 10 00 25.00 .... ... . .. 1947 400.00 1,00(100 !5.00 118.00 1,000.00 25.00 50.00 60.00 100.00 300.00 600.00 800.00 I.I 00.00 50.00 100.00 125.00 100.00 425.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 1110.00 100.00 200.00 600.00 150.00 100.00 100.00 I too 100.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 850.00 300.00 110.00 100.00 10000 100.00 I 00.00 300.00 ,oo.oo 1000 ..... .. ... 250.00 200.00 7SO.OO 20.00 ..... .. 275.oO 50.00 200.00 35.00 200.00 2.000 00 50000 100 00 100.00 30.00 J00.00 1948 1949 100.00 10.00 1.000.00 1,600.00 200.00 1.250.00 246.50 100.00 125.00 75.00 . ..... .. ..... 100.00 1951 750 00 50.00 136.50 2,536.50 2.353.50 1952 750.00 50.00 86.50 2,500.00 1,50000 236..,o 250.00 125 00 600.00 100.00 100.00 136.50 150 00 150.00 100.00 .... ····-···· ... .... .. . . .... .... .... 100.00 75.00 2,100.00 50.00 250.00 25.00 260.00 275.00 25.00 1.000.00 500.00 50.00 100.00 15.00 50.00 300.00 550.00 510.00 25.00 175.00 SU0.00 500.00 .. 200.00 270.00 1,000.00 50.00 25.00 .. ....... . ..... 75.00 350 00 4,250.00 100.00 550 00 750.00 3,600.00 100.00 .. .... 100.00 ..... 118.00 90.00 175.00 170.00 ..... - 100.00 86.50 850.00 2,125.00 1950 500.00 50.00 125.00 2,250.01) 2,371.50 200.00 .5000 50.00 ... .. 50.00 ..... .. ... 100.00 7, 00 2,536.50 ~5.00 200.00 41.50 100.00 786.50 2.000.00 ~00 00 2.000.00 225.00 .... ~---- · -- ---·-- 750.00 10,000 00 60.00 150.00 2,373 00 2,373.00 100.00 10.00 136.50 10.00 175.00 250.00 100.00 50.00 H!6.50 25.00 200.00 S0.00 161.50 1,000.00 1.036.50 135.00 500.00 1,536.50 110.00 500.00 1,500.00 .... 11000 500.00 2.036.50 llOJ>O 100.00 160.00 100.00 77lOO 3,681 00 100 00 625 00 500.00 2,282.50 2,755.':o 125.00 125.00 125.00 161 50 125.00 100.00 5.00 15.00 .. 650.00 2,750.00 250.00 25 00 100.llO 286. :;o 100.00 50 00 l.!6.50 25 00 136.50 100 00 625.00 100.00 625.00 300.00 2,800.00 125.00 100.00 20.00 15 00 ... 500.00 315.00 1.000.00 I 50.00 ... .. 75 00 50.00 ..... 25.00 1,236.50 15,000.00 - - 2,036.50 20,200.00 1.050.00 15,000.00 .... .... 25.00 I 050.00 1.250.00 15200.00 15,300.00 .... -~-- -- -$76,187.00 - ------- -----~-$7!,977 50 $69.695..'i'l $14.055.00 $19 210.00 $25 329.00 $62, S20 00 $74,276.50 Balances Total Not Due or Pledges Not Paid 2,000.00 350.00 475.00 529.50 11,461.50 12,975.00 1,100.00 4,223.00 1.221.SO 400.00 50.00 280.00 275.00 100.00 35.00 50.00 .15.00 393.00 2,400.00 85.00 660.00 75.00 4,900.00 9,282.50 125.00 1.161.50 121.50 975.00 6, I 98.00 2.000.00 610.00 1,121.00 135.00 618.00 845.00 3,685.00 7,264.50 50.00 100.00 1,545.00 100.00 575.00 4,298.00 2,320.00 21.619.00 50.00 755.00 486.50 20.00 35.00 200.00 500.00 50.00 8.838.00 96,450.00 ..625.00 ~.360.00 15000 ~ $61.694.50 $480.305.00 $ 5,70C.OO GRA:---D TOTALS*..... ,.. •This compilati011 does not detail an amount of approximately $14,000.00, representing total adjustments mC1de on pledges above li8ted, plus campaign expenses incurred and previously reported nvcr this ten year period. $480,30500 $ 5,700.01) �O/ficer6 and Board o/ Jru6lee6 o/ United Jewi6h Charilie6 o/ (f,.ealer rl!/u6ke1on 1952 OFFICERS Chairman . ........ .... ..... . .. . . .. .... . ...... Paul M. \\"iener Vice-Chairman ................................................. Mrs. Jos. Strifling Vice-Chairman ..............................................................Jerome Fisher Treasurer ........................................................................ Leo S. Rosen Secretary ........................................................................ Rose Lawson B OARD OF TRUSTEES J. '.\L Kaufman Francis Fine Samuel Lipman Harold Rosen Harry Fisher Herman Grossman Samuel Klayf J us. Strifling '.\Tilton Steindler Dr. l\iorris Teles Josiah \Viener Dr. Ralph August Eli Smith Ted Neumer Fred Rodoff l\Iax Lebow Harold Silverman Abe Ashendorf l\Iildred Rodoff Seymour Rosen berg Jhi6 book i6 made po66ibl throu1h the cooperation o/ the /offowin(j- per6on6 .... '.\Ir. and '.\Trs. Sam Lipman '.\Ir. and '.\frs. Abe Ashendorf '.\Ir. and '.\!rs. Ted :Neumer Dr. and '.\frs. Ralph V. August '.\Ir. and '.\I rs. Harold Rosen '.\Jr. and '.\frs. Francis Fine '.\Ir. and '.\[rs. Leo S. Rosen '.\Ir. and '.\!rs. Bernard Fisher ;\I rs. Rebecca Shmookler '.\Ir. and .\!rs. Harry A. Fisher '.\Ir. and '.\[rs. H. A. Sih·erman '.\Ir. and '.\lrs. Herman Grossman '.\Ir. and :\!rs. Louis Gros,;man '.\Ir. and '.\Irs. Eli :'.\I. Smith '.\Ir. and '.\!rs. J. .'.\T. l,aufrnan i\lr. and '.\!rs. Joseph Strifling '.\fr. and '.\!rs. Sam Klayf '.\Ir. and '.\!rs. Josiah \\"iener '.\Ir. and l\lrs. Paul ?II. \\"iener DANA PRINTING COMPANY � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI_ScrapBook Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948/1957 Title A name given to the resource Congregation Scrap Book Description An account of the resource Large scrap book with photographs of temple construction, programs, annual reports, and other documents dating from around 1948 to 1957. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/944dd7bdccef328c25a538468812ce56.pdf ea2c611c2f3d3b020b42e2475c5308e0 PDF Text Text CHARTS AND RECORDS FOR PLUMBING, WIRING, KEYS, ETC. CONGREGATION B'NAI �JEWISH CElll'ER & IDUSE OF \.~RSHIP LIGHrDlG CABINET #1 Boller Room IJall~ 1. Recreation Room 7. Cir. Pump & Plug Boiler Roon Boiler Room Lights 2. Plug Recreation Room R Foyer s. 3. Recreation Room 9. 4. TCtilat Ws.rdrooo and Fan. 10. ;. n. Kitchen Light 6. Foyer Kitchen Plugs 12. LIC-HTING CABINET #2 ?-bin Entrance 1. I-bin Cbapal- West 10. Corridol'-Toilet 2nd 1'1oor 2. 1-nin Chapel-Center 11. Balooiv Lights 3. Lobby 12. Plugs-2nd Floor 4. Vestibule-Entrance 13. l-hin Chapel-East 5. Sr.nil Chapel 14. l-bin Clnpal-Ccnter Lto. 6. Lights Under Bal.co~ 15. Kindergarten Class Room Pl:ugs Main Cmpel 7. Lounge 16. s. Class Room-East 17. Projection Booth 9. Projection l-hcld.ne �41tJ V FOWER No-C-440 V Boller Room 1. si:nre 8. Ix.. Fan 2. Spare 9. Cir. Pump ~ 10. Cir Pump 4. Intake Fan u. Air Co:mpreaaor 5. Intake Fan 12. Spare 6. 13. sinre 3. OU Burner SUmp fump 14. 7. Ex. Fan SJ:ere KrtCUEtr IOWER Boiler Room Hallt,ey · l. Ice Crea:n 4. 2. nm 5. Spare 3. Ice Box 6. Dismasher Spll"e LIGHl'ING CADillE'l' #3 Basement North Sta1nlell . 1. Raoreation,.North End 8. Secretar.r•s Office 2. Platform 9. Cow Lights 3. Clocks & Plugs Recreation lbcm 10. Organ ~ n. Stage Foot Lights 5. Stainny o.nd P.l.nttorm Plugs 12. Stage .Foot Lights 6. Ante Room am Ark Plugs lJ • Stage Foot Lights Ante Room and Fassage 7. Iabbi'e Study and Urxler Lights sio.r 14. Bulletin Board �OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS HEATING AND VENTILATING SYSTEM HOUSE OF JE\ ISH iORSHIP MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN The o~!"'burner is fully automat1o 1n operation and will operate as often and as long as necea ary to deliver water at the temper ture called tor by the aquastat. In starting up the heating system, therefore, 1t is necessary only to close all electric aw1tchea that supply energy to the oil burner, light th gas pilot an~ let the oil bnrner controls govern the operation. Close the switch starting the hot water o1rculat1ng pump and let the pump run as long aa there 1a demand tor heating. The direct radiation and conTectors are connected to a piping system having a circulating pump and thermostatically controlled mixing valve. The mixing valve 1a arramged to vary the temperature of the water supplied to the oonveotore and radiators inversely with outdoor temperatures. The aquastat in the boil r water should be set tor about 200 Fin mild weather and 240 F in extremely cold weather. The heating ot the b sement recreation room and the heating of the Main Ohapel is accomplished with the respective air supply and exhaust systems. Each room has finned convectors below the windows , which can furnish part of the heating, but operation ot the fan systems ia essential tor full heating and tor ventilating of the rooms. 'l'he blast conveotors of the air suppl y systems are supplied with water at boiler temperature, through a separate piping system having its own circulating pump. This pump likewise must be turned on whenever it is necessary to supply heating or ventilating to these rooms. Prior to occupancy or use of either room, start the re peot1ve supply and exhaust tan and set the pneumatic positioning dial tor 100 per cent recirculation. This will close the outside e.ir intake damper and set the dampers in the exhaust fan discharge duct to re_turn al.l the -ih t :r-.1:r _,. t t11 u ly y tem. The roo • quiokly may be warmed when all the air thus is recircul ated. When the room is ready tor occupancy, s t the pneumatic positioning dial tor about 50 per cent outside air 1n m1ld weather, or for not more than 2S per cent in extremely cold weather. -1- �!l'he ventilating systems may be used w1th 100 per cent outside air during weather requiring no heating or very little heating, as during spring and tall. After comuleting use ot the room, shut off the supply and exhaust tans serving the room. De-energizing the tan...motors automatically causes the pneumatic damper 1n the air intake to close end to set the reciroulating damper 1n 100 per oent recirculating position, regardless ot the setting on the pneumatic pos1t1on1ng dial. Whenever outdoor temperatures are below freezing, the circulating pump tor the ventilating systems should be run, whether or not the fans shall be used, as cold air leakage at the outside air intake drunpers may be euttic1ent to endsnger the conveotors. Replace the air tilter cells at periodic intervals, depending on frequency ot use and accumulation ot duet. Never replace all the cells at one time, as the reduced resistance or all clean cells will cause greatly increased a1r tlow. By staggering replacement of the tilter cells, the air quantity may be maintained fairly uniform. Keeping record of dates ot replacing filter cells, therefore, 1a essential to proper care of the ventilating system. 011 all motors, bearings and moving part at onthly 1nterVale, or as much oftener as required to~ proper lubrication. Use proper grade of oil tor each service. Blow out condensation trom bottom of air compressor receiver periodice:lly. 'l'he expansion tank of the heating system must never be permitted to become waterlogged. The water line must be visible in the gauge glass at all times. In ata'rting up from a cold system, the water should be Just visible in the bottom of the gauge glass. As the water expa.nda under heating, it will rise in the tank, compressing the air. The oil burner should be serviced once a year by the manufacturers representative. This should be a periodio check up prior to start or the heating aeason. Adjustment of valves, dampers, etc. of the oil burner must not be changed from the settings made by the oil burner ae.rv1.o.e r~preaentative. The pneumatic control system sh u.ld be checked once a year by aerv1oe representative of the manufacturer, to insure its efficient operation. Samuel R. Lewie and Associates August 14, 1948 �HardYrare Schedule Jewish Center & Hous of Worship Strom & Strom Builde / �p I :rch1t ti 1. or o. 1 - boilo.r ro to out i o - 6'0"x7•0"xl-3/4" - typ 2 or 'fio tal - l-3/ oar x • if R 1420 x pc • • I/ 0 r • .. chor 8n. s. '011x'7t O 'x.1.•3/ ' ~ x 1/Dl 00 - x J./Bll I �0.1 - t 'o. l. 9 f1n1oh o. l - typo o.1 ooi, x • x lmobo t: ros o ypo l o .l .fin1oh on 'h1. J / 3 door roo 10.t,m,,t~ to .foyer - 2 1 9"x'71 0 xl-s/,n • typ o.1 �/ n. • X 1:nob door.- oor,: 1:"0Se . " V 14. .u "' 0 11 - 1-S/ 1 • '0"~/4u - typo or x knob r s (n o. l cio.1 �- '0 .... '0 door x :-.1- x l:nobs ro ea - cyp T..7'0 r.J.-S/4 (s t t o. l !en( cinl - /4" O"x7'0"xl-3/ - t'Yl)O 1 :m 1, in --:s: - 2, s :r--7' o xi- dy - 21 G"X'l' 0 1n ( p ci l. b • 1 I ' l-3/ ' .. ;1 ) • o.S - "'6 x'l'O'xl~/4" tot 11 t ro ro ( C l 0 • o . l - '"''0"r;?'O"·tl.-"'/~ 0 cloor x ci l ( I 1gn) J Oel �oor x 1?9 • X 9 1n. 1~ ( ci l. �- • ol 0 - ild nrl:l ) ic;n) -3/. x knob • t ro ( c1 l ~~;,t.,L.,,oli,<- p l. • 3 1 0 ,r:,t O"xl- {4" t or .r. lmobn ro ( o.1. 1 l - - .. - typ ~• 0 ' :1-S/ ( c1 l o. l �( - -/ •o o. l - 7' ( 11 - t -4 &,--.,d • ; ' LJ, l t-,1 • - • • • - ' ' - t;., • • ( n•t) ,,,-:--- /->--' --./. o. l �o.l 1 .1 io.l ( • oil t o,.G - -✓ t sn-7, in. 0 o. - '0 •O' 1 .. ( - t e - t o o.1 o. 1 9 fin. - 5,0 x"l•O xl- (4 ll 67,. 0 !lo ('-( 1 t o. - 2, ]/: 110 E c. re •o xl.-3/ l/ 14 . v o - ,,, "l!7' 0 xl-, f " - .. x lmobo ( o. l cio.l �- -1 •o ,er•o 'J".JrS/ - .1 Fin. • • - .. I '0' o. 1 ro • 7' rr. - - 181 • • 0~ .. oor 1-5/ 1 "'✓ ( • •o / - /i nrb1o • • 1f tan • spl 1t t a.rd w:, �• •n • �J 0 H N S 0 s N E 4 4 6 R 0 V l- ov . t GRA"' T M RAP p A MICH N V 49507 , C e s or l a mixed air ec n mizer cor.tr 1 to mod 1 ~e the outxlaust a~r dampers to maintain t O mixed air tem1 r 1re. th this typo of control , the amount of o td or air admitted decreases as the oitdoor air temperature decreases;at -100 outdoor air temer ture, you are introducing approximately 2o,t outdoor r. �e JOHNSON SERVICE COMPANY b r w ir ne t. ✓ j In al pum whene erar 1r cor inu~u ly. a r ever the t ures be our rice~ r t is . . . . . . . . . . . .. s. . . . . . ., ,695.00) r NE a ria reo ired pressure switc~es or painting which This price incl for a coM l te and fre .. stats rna.y be necessit We w sh to thank you and tf we can e off us. 1, to ouote on hese changes do l"'O resit re to crmtact Very truly yours, JOHNSON SERV1CE COMPANY 1tt~.:!:n~ Service Sales~an WRH s �.. 8PSCIALIZ1Ntl NKCMIAIU~ llOUIPMIINT l"Olt •un..o,.... "HONE G L - 4898 1 MAX A. LETT. ME C HANICAL ENGINEER 801 MICHIGAN TRU8T BUIL OINO GRAND RAPIDS 2, MICHIGAN October 2, 1957 egat1on B 1 nat _..;-Eavl 'D:)<..• _.h & W$bst r t••• kegon:, 1'.J.ch1gan 1ttent1ons- • Sts.?uey s~ongregation B~na1 Israel :ait.1d1ng C-Plan. Rabbi -1/7 -?W,/ I' Iv -:r / Dear Rabb!. IQiplans --;,~¥)~~ field check was made on__the heat.1 s-- s1s"tem oft.he su )ect ~•-~-·..~ iber 30, 1957 and t.t a ver noted f ~ / ._,, the~?~~/28 .,_ 1. Oh1et a-ompla1lnt, vaa that office seotiore at nort end :!:, ot o°llm'oh did not heat properly. 2~ Wall convector radiators under basement assembly windows not heating properly 3~ Ind1cat1ons of overheating in south second story portion ~ building~ 4~ Otttdoor-'1.nd.oor reset not t't.llrot1oning properly'~ The heating plans for the building were as install was xamined. The ayst appeared to b a well installed vystem w1t'h all required ace asorie to tac111:t balancing & adj\lsting. By balancing is meant the prooeee of regulating the system 1:n a mamer to put the heat where requ1rec!. g; examined and then tbs e7at • The tollow1ng corrective measures w re t k ent lA. Thee~ ion tank was emptied of water and was l e ft w1th about 3" or water on the gaga. 21.. The system was tilled to 25 - --uhat.. t ""t..• ~ .t ,. :runt.ion to in 1c t hen the wat81! • vents ehould be r plac , otherwise, frequent band ven ing r quired. The anunl vent cooks at the auto vent looat1on indicated the water pr seur ample to fill tho eyat • :;&.. The hea tin t d el ents ent1oned 1n I:t l. a ov checked tor heating and found to be he t1n pro r r �2 o't 2 5&. With regard to Item~ l! will oontaot the J'obnson ce Company to recheck th ou:tdoor-indoor reset the next they have a man 1n t v1c1n1ty~ I beltsve I can got th• chec th item without cost to the OWner. 6A.. As noted 1n I-t 5A the system pi, ssure wa lett at 25 lbs. gage(boiler). Would like to have the Oustod1an drop the pr asur to 20 lbs. gage(bo1ler) by opening the valve slightly- at top ot compreee1on tank until system pressure has dropped to the desired figur. rn the event the above l av a any quent1o or prob a unanswered th n drop ea line giving telephon number of Custodian so the next time I in Muskegon I will atop by and see him. It is believed that the above will solve the problem of heating of the office section. It it does not then there are tJro t.e!"?lat1v. ... cpor. _.on --ao1ut11n ""OUld----be to .1 a-tall a rre1)81:' t pump forte off1oe eeot1on with supply & r turn runout from t boiler room to the section concerned. The other solution would be to in tall electric baseboard heating units 1n the rooms concerned. The alternatives should not be used if they can b avoided • • , �(\.~ • .J S~IICIALIZINO M f r N I C A ... 11:QUIPMENT l'"OR BUILDINGS PHONE C MAX A. LETT, MEC 601 M I CHIGAN ' GRAND RAPID. Congregation B 1 nai Israel Fourth & Webster Ste.~ Muskegon, Michigan REs-Congr~gation B'nai Israel Building -. -, .lttention:- Mr. Stanley Kaplan, Rabbi ./- :~ ~ '.,,,,-2_ Dear Rabbi Kaplan: ' ~ z:~~~ A fi eld c heck was made on the of the subject building on September 30, 1957 and the~owing i tams were noted a ~,(_', $ ~-------~- ~= . l. Chief complaint was that office section at nort end , of church did not heat properly~ 2. Wall convector radiators under basement Jnsembly windows 7 not heating properly~ 3-.· Indications of overheating in · sou" second story port1~ of building. I 4. Outdoor-indoor reset not f'unctic r properly-~ : • The heating ·r · 'll~ "11nc; wero I examined and t hen the system as syst em a ppeared to be a well in acce s sories to facili t e balanci is meant the proces s of regulat put the heat where r e1uired. I' 'trn follow1r u-. ., ... a.1.res we. The expansion tank was empw.Led of water and was left with about 3" of water on the gage-. a. The s ys t e • was f i l led to 25 ~•t ga~(boiler)-. It was noted t h.at the auto vents a t top of heating risers in roof ape.ca did not funtion to i ndica te ,:hen the wat~ had reached the vents-. The vents should be replaced, otherwise, fre quent band ventillg may be re~uired-. The manual vent cocks at the auto vent locations indicated t he wa ter pressure ample to fill the system. :;A. The heat ine elements mentioned 1n Item l above were then vented & checked tor heating and found to be heating properlyt. 4.l. The hand valves serv:1.ng the wall convector heating elements below the main assembly windows were turned off and then the similar heating ele~ents under ba sement assembly windows were examined and found to be receivin5 hea t. This indicated that by !'?'oper adjustment of' the balancing valves in the heatin g el ements the ~1eat could be distributed between the heating elements concerned. The Custodian wae. instructed concernine adjustment of the balancing valves~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08_BI-1950-BuildingEngineeringFacilities Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Congregation B'nai Israel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950-04 Title A name given to the resource Building Engineering Facilities Description An account of the resource Binder of charts and records for plumbing, wiring, keys, heating and ventilation system, hardware schedule for the Muskegon Jewish Center and House of Worship. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Synagogues Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/513b125de9068a57906608ced43e65f6.mp4 fd0ac6c1ca359f237650f60605038ed4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/547351852c772a8e1b4a999f9263f1d3.pdf 3ae33c6c6d695c60913605f65f302ee0 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Vietnam War Joseph Connelly Length of interview (1:38:19) (0:00:17) Background Born in East St. Louis, Illinois January 11, 1949 (0:35) Lived here until he was drafted in to the military (0:50) Father worked as a meat cutter and mother was a housewife (1:05) Has a twin sister and an older brother and sister (1:15) Older brother was in army in 1952; didn’t go to Korea though (7:19) Senior year of high school worked part-time at local drug store (1:43) Every night at six news of Vietnam would be on television (2:00) Graduated in 1967; worked at drug store, then at Granite City Steel Company (2:41) Received draft notice in spring of 1969 and took physical; passed (3:17) Went to Belleville, Illinois for induction ceremony (4:45) (0:05:00) Training Took bus to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for training (5:04) First impression was that it was worst location to build a fort; difficult terrain (5:41) Started being yelled at as soon as he got off the bus (6:38) Issued uniform at supply area; then bussed to company location (8:00) Training consisted of running, shooting, first aid, and other basic skills (8:30) Military Occupations Specialty (MOS) was 11 Bravo (light weapons infantry) (9:45) Goal of training was to prepare soldier for vigors of combat/build self-confidence (10:20) Large perfect of training group were reservists/ National Guard (11:05) Adjusted pretty easily to military life; was in good physical shape (12:30) All training instructors were Vietnam veterans; trained to survive (13:45) Six weeks of basic training before receiving military occupations specialty (15:30) (0:16:10) Training Continued Shipped to Fort Ord, California for Advanced Individual Training (AIT) (16:25) Thought this training was more interesting because got to handle more firearms (17:28) Training company had about 130 men from all across United States (17:50) Trained on different weapons: use of weapons, how they functioned (18:35) Learned how to survive in the field: reading maps, terrain, escaping the enemy (19:15) Believed that skills he learned prepared him well for Vietnam (20:30) Not a lot of free time during training, when not training, he was usually sleeping (21:32) Advanced Individual training lasted about six weeks (22:00) Spent 14 days in hospital during training because of pneumonia; was recycled (22:10) Left for Vietnam on January 11, 1970 (24:00) Flew from St. Louis, Missouri to Seattle, Washington to Alaska to Japan (26:26) Flew from Japan and arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam (28:03) �(0:25:00) Active Duty First impression of Vietnam was that it was hot and it had a distinct stench (28:15) Given orders at Cam Ranh Bay before heading north to 101st Airborne Division (29:17) Trained in a mock village to prepare for actual missions (30:00) Drove north to Camp Evans put in Company D, 1st Battalion, [506th Regiment] 3rd Platoon (31:30) Had to carry minimum of 21 loaded magazines, better to have and not need (33:09) Split into five man recon teams to search for enemy: 1 sergeant and 4 privates (34:24) Towards the end of January patrolled lowlands; it was rainy and foggy (35:25) Slept whenever he could, took turns keeping watch for enemy (36:59) Infantry unit was close family and new guys seen as a liability (38:50) Individual squads met every couple of weeks to resupply and get new mission (42:45) Monsoons stopped in May, started heading into the mountains, went to LZ Maureen (45:00) (0:46:00) Combat Experiences Arrived in the landing zone that as under fire and had to set up machine gun (46:41) During this fire fight had first taste of CS Gas, but didn’t have gas mask (48:29) Artillery fired illumination rounds that exposed the North Vietnamese positions (52:26) Hiked to the top of a mountain and found a 200 bed hospital underground (55:25) Part of the company was attacked at night on top of hill his unit had just left; couldn’t do anything to help (57:47) While patrolling an open area started taking ambush fire, but enemy retreated (1:01:09) Arrived at abandoned firebase,Kathryn; tried to re-establish it (1:02:00) Back to Camp Evans before getting dropped at hot area, Hill 805 [near Firebase Ripcord during siege there in July] (1:05:10) Sent to retrieve some bodies and they almost walked right into ambush (1:07:50) Mid July they were near Ripcord and they started taking mortar fire (1:11:20) Hit with shrapnel in the side, shoulder, back and didn’t even know it (1:14:14) While in the medical evacuation, told to take care of neighbor to prevent shock (1:15:20) (1:17:00) After Injury Taken back to Camp Evans; then 18th surgical hospital in Quang Tri Province (1:19:33) 95th evacuation hospital in Da Nang --> Yashoda 248th general hospital in Japan (1:22:0) Flown from Japan to Fort Leonard Wood military hospital in Missouri (1:24:00) Given a steak dinner and all he could eat while in the military hospital (1:26:00) Given 30 days of leave after his stitches were taken out (1:29:10) Offered a job as a basic combat instructor at the motor vehicle depot (1:31:27) Became an ammunition truck driver on base for remainder of duty (1:33:00) Felt that there wasn’t as much respect in the ranks as there used to be (1:37:20) When returned home from Vietnam faced with resentment from civilians (1:37:50) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Connelly, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Connelly, Joseph Description An account of the resource Joe Connelly was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1949, and was drafted into the Army in 1969. After basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and infantry training at Fort Ord, California, he was sent to Vietnam in January, 1970, and assigned to D Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based at Camp Evans. His unit did routine patrols near the coast until the monsoon lifted, and in May they started operating in the mountains, and his company took heavy losses at LZ Maureen. After taking replacements, they returned to the field and participated in fighting near Firebase Ripcord in July, and helped to re-establish Firebase Kathryn. Connelly was wounded in action and sent first to Japan and then back to the US to recover, and completed his enlistment as a truck driver. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource McGregor, Michael (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e39f44916cb267a4b197696c6996dcd5.pdf 21e356d985b46dc53b436cea0d00ae82 PDF Text Text Speaking Out Western Michigan’s Civil Rights Histories Grand Valley State University Special Collections Interviewee: Mark Connorton Interviewers: Brandon Gummere, Tyler Helinski, Joseph Rocco and Julio Ortega Vasquez Supervising Faculty: Melanie Shell-Weiss Location: Grand Valley State University Special Collections Date: 2/24/2012 Biography and Description Mark Connorton is a mathematics major at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He discusses his alcohol and drug addiction issue and how it affected his relationship with his parents. Transcript GUMMERE: My name is Brandon, and I am here today, February 24th, 2012, with Mark at Grand Rapids Michigan. We are here today to talk about your experiences with civil rights in Western Michigan. Could you please some basic information about yourself? Your full name, date, and place of birth? CONNORTON: Okay, my name is Mark Connerton the date today, is that what’s part of it?, It’s the 24th right? GUMMERE: Yes. CONNORTON: And 24th of February, 2011, 2012 actually, and I was born in Ham Lake Minnesota. And I live here now at 16 Jefferson, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. GUMMERE: Okay, and how old are you? CONNORTON: I’m 22 GUMMERE: Alright do you, what are your parents names, and do you have siblings? CONNORTON: Yeah my parent’s names are John and Mary Connerton, respectively, and I have an older sister. She’s the oldest of the four of us she’s 27. I have an older brother, he’s 25. And I have a younger brother, he is, he’s now 20. So my little brother’s name is Pat, my older brother’s name is Tim, and my older sister’s name is Amber. GUMMERE: Okay, and do you have a girlfriend slash wife? CONNORTON: I have a girlfriend, her name’s Sarah Allen and she lives here in Grand Rapids GUMMERE: Alright do you attend college? Page 1 �CONNORTON: Yeah, I go to Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. That’s where I met my girlfriend Sarah. GUMMERE: Okay, do you have any religious affiliation? CONNORTON: I grew up, my parents, they’re Pentecostal, Protestant Christians. I guess I’d affiliate myself with the Episcopalian Church ‘cause that’s where my girlfriend and I go to church here in Grand Rapids. She’s Catholic, I’m not, but we both find kind of what we about religion in in the Episcopal Church. GUMMERE: Okay. when did you come to western Michigan? CONNORTON: Let’s see, I came here it was the fall of 2007 after I graduated from high school. I came here from from Pittsburg, where I spent the summer with my sister after graduation. so I came to Aquinas in the fall of ’07 to start college. GUMMERE: Okay, how would you describe your own identity? CONNORTON: My own identity. Okay so my name is Mark. I guess my identity would be how other people, see me. What I do, I’m a student. I’m average performance academically. I do really try to get the most out of my classes. I guess I’m pretty open minded, if you ask me to talk about something I care about what you think too. I try to keep that in daily conversations, even. I’m a musician, I love music. I have faith in God. I think that I am alive and that and because of his work in my life. And, I also I love my family. I consider them seriously , a part of my identity, and. I’m dedicated to my girlfriend too. So that’s basically my life. And I have a good work ethic, wherever I’m working, I try to work as hard as I can. GUMMERE: Okay. What are your, career aspirations, and, I guess what is your, what is your major now, what course study are you taking? CONNORTON: I’m a mathematics major at Aquinas. I’m gonna be graduating at the end of this semester, hopefully. (Chuckle) And, I, previously declared a math major just ‘cause I love the subject. I feel academically, it’s it’s really the most important thing to know just because it’s a basic form of knowledge that hasn’t changed throughout the years. When when there’s new math introduced, it doesn’t change the old stuff, it just adds onto it, and even in the hard sciences that’s not the case. Sometimes, they have to make modifications, but that’s still useful, so even though it’s academically right, I feel just because it’s been around, and it’s just solid knowledge. as far as marketability, it’s not there’s only so much you can do with just math. But you can teach it, and if you’re really good at math you can be an actuary, which I’ve looked into. And, I really, I really don’t think I for the amount of time I’d have to put into it, I wouldn’t enjoy it very much because I’m not naturally good at, math that involves heavy calculation. I’m more of a theoretical mathematician, I to work with theorems and proofs. GUMMERE: Okay CONNORTON: And so even with that, there’s kind of a limited there’s a limited market for that. So last semester I declared a, a computer networking minor. And, that’s what I plan to go into. and my background in math is gonna help me with, a lot of the the programming aspect of what goes into networking and developing and programming software for servers and stuff. but I think that’s what’s Page 2 �gonna make me marketable is my math major, not just my my knowledge of the of the field of computers and stuff. So I’m excited to go into that. GUMMERE: Okay to kind of switch gears a little bit, I know you personally, obviously. I met Mark through alcoholics anonymous slash our therapist. So we have some things in common there. But basically how would you, how would you describe your experiences with drugs and alcohol? CONNORTON: That’s it? GUMMERE: That’s the question. CONNORTON: Okay so, it’s a lot. I’ve had a lot of experiences with drugs and alcohol. But would you to me to historically, start from the beginning or just in general? GUMMERE: So I guess we’ll start out, when was your, when was your first experience with drugs and alcohol? CONNORTON: Okay so my first experience with drugs, is kind of typical American kid what their experience with drugs would be. now a days. I guess not so typical because I never I never wanted to do drugs to be cool the first time I did drugs was, I think I had smoked cigarettes once. You know? And that was with my friends just the kind of be cool and hang out. But, I didn’t really care for it, but the first time I actually did drugs, to feel good, was by myself, I remember I was mad at my parents, and my parents were kind of strict growing up. But, they wouldn’t let me go and do stuff sometimes, my friends, the wouldn’t let me hang out, it pissed me off, but. Sorry, I have to try to watch my language. (Laughs) GUMMERE: You’re fine. (Laughs) CONNORTON: But I remember one time, I I was hanging out with my friends, after school, and my parents called me and told me, that “you gotta come home now and you have to come home now!”, and I didn’t want to, I was hanging out with these girls, I was having a good time, and I wasn’t doing drugs or anything, so I didn’t want to but they made me come home, and it irritated me, really badly, ‘cause I didn’t have much, many friends in high school, but I wanted to. But, so it’s what I did, that was my way to kind of vent, I decided I’m gonna go find some pot, I’m gonna go smoke pot, and I didn’t know anything about drugs I didn’t have any close friends, who smoked pot, I didn’t have people who were all into it. So I just went to the kid in my neighborhood who I knew was the pot guy he was, he sold drugs, I just knew it. And very innocently I just walked up to his house and I was “hey man I wanna buy some pot”, and he was obviously very kind of intimidated a little bit taken back, because he knows I’m a good kid, and obviously he’s suspicious, so. But, he ended up telling me come back the next day or whatever, and, he started selling me pot, and I didn’t know this at the time but, I was actually getting a pretty good deal with these guys they were, they were pretty rich kids and they had a very good connection. And they had a house in Costa Rica, and the found a way to smuggle this pot back and they were making really good money. And because I was their neighbor, and I was kind of innocent, they gave me very good deals but they didn’t they never told me I would get, a quarter ounce, of really good pot, for 25 bucks. And, at the time this was in Minnesota where, what, where good marijuana was difficult to find, but I didn’t know that either. But when I first started using drugs, it was I was way into it Page 3 �because I didn’t have any friends who used drugs, I didn’t know what was moderate so, I basically, and this was just during the summer too, so I basically smoked pot, all day, and I, and it was mostly by myself and sometimes with my friends, because, it took a little while to be able to do it with my friends because none of my friends smoked. So I got them to do it, it would be “oh well Mark’s buying pot, if, I mean he’s pretty straight laced, so it must be okay”. So then I would start smoking it with my friends and stuff, but that how I was introduced to it, and I didn’t really realize until college. how, how drastic that change was from nothing, to a quarter ounce of pot, every day and a half, every two days. It was a lot, for personal consumption. But that’s, that’s, basically how it started, and then from, and, and, from using marijuana as almost a coping mechanism, not really for, for fun, just to kind of escape from reality, just “oh I don’t my parents” rather than talking to them about it, and telling them this is what I want to be doing. You know? I just “why don’t I just get high?” I’ll feel good, and that’s, that’s how it started, was with, with, mostly with just pot, and it eventually developed into other things. GUMMERE: Okay, and you would, you would consider yourself, an addict? CONNORTON: Yeah, yeah, in a sense that , right now, I’m not addicted to drugs. I have responsibilities I’m a college student, I have a girlfriend, my family cares about me. I can’t, I can’t be addicted to drugs right now, but I am an addict in a sense that, if I can’t control the extent to which I use substances. I can’t, it’s either that I don’t use anything at all, including alcohol, cigarettes, or, anything really, or I am extremely addicted. not that addicted, but I’ll just keep doing it until I die basically, that’s how it is with me. I can’t, I can’t just have one drink of alcohol. and this was a problem in college too, and that, and it was easy to kind of blow it off, but everybody drinks in college, come on I mean, it’s just it’s, it’s just accepted, it’s, it’s funny, and in our, in our culture that’s just, that’s just what happens. And so for me to be drinking with my friends, and and not stop until I pass out, it’s just normal, it would ne normally accepted, but if I’m 40 years old doing that. what I mean? Which would have probably happened had I not realized, that I have a problem. you’re an alcoholic when you’re doing that. You’re not you’re not having a party, you’re not having fun, you’re sitting there, you’re at home, you might be alone, you might have a family, you’re drinking, and you can’t stop, until until you pass out. And I, granted that not everybody’s that. some people, some people can have a couple beers, and be good, but the way that my body chemistry is, and this might be a result of my previous drug use, is that, I can’t, I can’t just have one drink, if I have one, it’s just “okay now let’s do some shots”. You know? And it, and then it turns into “let’s go get a fifth” and then it turns “okay, I need some smokes” and then it, and then it turns into “let’s get another fifth” and then it turns into “okay what else can we, let’s go find some blow, let’s go find some smoke.” You know? “Let’s go get some pills” whatever, that’s how, that’s hoe, that’s what happens in my nights, if I were to go, and that happened a lot in college, and it’s dangerous and it’s why I consider myself lucky to be alive. And that my life is kind of grace from God, and I’m still alive, and then able to not get back into that. And then, it will kind of build up, my resistance to drugs and alcohol. But, yeah I’m an addict in that sense, that I can’t control myself. GUMMERE: I’m right there with you, you don’t see a whole lot of 70 year old alcoholics, they pretty much die off earlier then that. (Chuckles) CONNORTON: Yeah, you basically die. (Laughs) So you have to make the choice. (Chuckles) Page 4 �GUMMERE: So I guess, in the regard, when did you first realize that you were, that you were and addict? CONNORTON: well I guess, I in a sense, I kind of, I kind of knew it, while I was going on. I guess my, junior year of college. I got to the point where I I decided that maybe, I should really focus on my academics, and my career, and my career goals, and stuff. And I could, I could control it, for a certain amount, it used to be, when I was, and I think I told you this, but when I was first starting doing drugs, it wasn’t “oh okay, when do I get to do drugs next,” what am I gonna, what am I gonna what do I, what am I gonna do “what do I have to get done first”? ? at the end of the day, when am I gonna be able to look forward to getting high. It was what do I have to do, what, what is there that, does not involve, getting high? I wanted to be high all the time, and I wanted to do the very minimal amount of things possible, to stay alive, and be a functional human being. So it eventually got to the point, where it was okay you need to get some of this stuff done, you don’t wanna end up in debt, from college, and flunk out, and be nowhere, and only do worrying about when you’re gonna get your next hit or whatever. ? So I eventually started focusing a little bit on my school work, that was when, going into my sophomore year. Then my junior year, I kind of picked it up a little, but, I, when I, when I was you kind of come to terms with it. when you really it, when you’re when you’re pleased by the lifestyle. you’re an addict, but you won’t realize it, you won’t tell yourself that. I guess when that happened, would have to have been ‘cause you know it in the back of your mind but you accept it. But I, eventually got a prescription for Adderall, because I do have A-D-D, but before I got this script, I abused Adderall too, I knew the addictive properties of it, but, I wanted the prescription just for that, purpose. So, I got the prescription for it, and I started taking, it as prescribed, but it was fun. But, I would still get stuff done, and I don’t know. I kind of realized, that, as in and out of the times where I would stop taking it, I would stop taking it over the weekend. Or when it, when it started to not get fun, that’s when I realized I was an addict. When it wasn’t fun anymore, when it wasn’t when it didn’t feel good. When it felt, (Sigh), I don’t know. It’s, it’s hard to explain. when it really felt crappy, when I was sober, and it really felt, I was just, miserable, that when I knew I was an addict. I knew that I needed drugs, at that point. I was ‘cause I remember, you’re supposed go off Adderall, you’re not supposed to supposedly you’re not supposed to take it all the time, every day, no matter what, it’s good to give yourself, I think they call them vacations, a vacation from Adderall, so that so you can think about it, not think about it, but just give your brain a break. GUMMERE: So your body can readjust to… CONNORTON: Yeah. And I remember, I remember, there’s periods of my life that are just entire years have gone by and I can’t, I can pick out individual events, but I can’t tell you when they happened, there’s a lot of my past, is just kind of blurred. But , I remember being on the Adderall and it would cause my, addictive tendencies to just flare up really bad, and sometimes, the doctors don’t tell you that which I think they really should “hey look if you have addictive tendencies at all, if you have alcoholism in your family, you shouldn’t be taking this,” because I would literally smoke a pack of Newport’s in a shift at work when I used to work at, Olga’s Kitchen, I was a cook there. and I would literally smoke, I would bust my butt I would get a lot done. In a day at work and and I was a really crappy cook before I got the adderall and then know I was much quicker the servers d me and stuff. But I smoked a pack of Newport’s and not in a day but in a shift a six hour shift so every chance I got I would be in and out but I Page 5 �wouldn’t do that if I wasn’t on the Adderall. So I would take these little vacations from Adderall and it would be it would be I was waking up from hibernation. I would try to try and remember everything that happened in the past month and I would be dough that was a month all of that all of that stuff had happened in a month that felt that was a week. everything was just whizzed just whizzing by and I remember I would just not take it for five days and I would just go back to it. It ok and when I was taking the adderall it also increases your tolerance ¬for alcohol and other certain, certain other drugs. a lotta, a lotta, a lot of college kids abuse it for that property. if you want to go out clubbing or if if you want to go out to bars whatever it it allows you to drink a lot and not actually feel intoxicated. So I guess even though I had a prescription for it and even though I did have ADD I remember, I shouldn’t have been taking it, but furthermore I new that I really shouldn’t have been. Because I used it before but I really new I was an addict during that period of my life. With the adderall coming off adderall every once and a while and thinking about dude your life is going by so fast. you can’t even remember everything that happened and granted yeah I might have been being really productive which is what you do when your, normal people what they do when their on adderall. But I didn’t I was a robot and I remember my girlfriend telling me . She thought it was a good idea originally for me to get on it because I had a hard time focusing. But she would tell me your a zombie I don’t, I don’t, you have no personality and I was okay with that I get all my stuff done all my homework done and work and I still get to party at night. it’s it works its fine but really if that’s if your not you what’s the point of you being a live. if you don’t have your own identity if if the substance makes up your identity and that’s how you get everything done you have to depend on it. that’s that’s called being an addict and that’s what I realized. GUMMERE: When did you say describe your kind of the beginning of your use when would you say your use picked up to the point where started to know you needed to make a change? CONNORTON: Oh yeah GUMMERE: When did your use really start to escalade was there a point where you kind of you know? CONNORTON: Yeah. Well I think there was a lot of low points in my life that I should have realized it but I didn’t none of them was strong enough so well one of them was but none of them were strong enough to get me to really say alright your not nothing you really can’t, you really can’t do this anymore. it’s not you’ll die you shouldn’t I’ve been arrested I used to steal stuff to get money for drugs and I was, I was I was charged, I was charged for that I’ve been I almost died a couple times. just from drugs but I mean I wouldn’t say almost died but I’ve been in very dangerous situations and I put my body in very in extreme conditions with substances. but really the main thing that, that made me stop with everything it happened a year ago last September so it happened about about a year and a half ago. GUMMERE: This would be considered your rock bottom, I guess? CONNORTON: Yeah. This I guess so I mean I guess so yeah I mean at this point in my life as far as as far as my drug use it really wasn’t the rock bottom. But but but just what happened to me and my, my lack of respect for the fact that I don’t have self control with chemicals lead to this and I’ve been, I’ve been, I had been at that time I had been worse with drugs I had been using marijuana every, every day all day, not every day, all day every day. that was the worse incentive sleeping and eating that was all I did. Page 6 �there have been times where that was my life. Or if that was pot or what ever at at night then you start drinking and then once I started drinking it was that opens it up to anything and when people ask how many drugs have you done. And I’m dude how why that’s the incorrect question ask me how many drugs I haven’t done. What types of drugs have I not done then I can actually count it. what I mean? But at this time in life this was this was Sept…September 2010. Right, yeah September 2010, I still have the police report here I can show it to you if you want it’s kind of embarrassing. But this was when I was on the adderall and I was really really allowed me to get a lot of stuff done with my studies. But my personal life was not there. I had no friends my relationship with my girlfriend was just that of I don’t know just daily productivity. what are doing today how can I help you get your things done? The weekends it was lets study I didn’t, or I’m going to go drink with my friends it’s either I wanted to do drugs or I wanted to I don’t be as productive as possible. It was weird it was extremes, but it was a Friday night and I hadn’t been taking the adderall and my girlfriend she said that her plans were to one of our friends she knows her through work. They were going to go over to my girlfriend’s house and hang out. with her parents or something that they had plans to do this and it was this girl thing. And I asked you want me to come over I can watch a movie later. Or whatever and then I think her parents ended up saying something about I don’t know it was a girl thing or something that. So I decided okay well I decide to go get fucked up what I mean. So I decided I was going to take some more adderall I went to go see her, I went to go see her at the on campus at the coffee shop first. And we talked for a little bit and she decided yeah go ahead do your thing, we’re gonna, we’re gonna hang out tonight so I’ll see you tomorrow or whatever. So I’m cool I’m I can do whatever I want I’m not gonna study tonight, so I decided I was gonna take another adderall which I had already taken one that day and this is a routine thing for me. sometimes I would take three or four of them and they were I forget how many milligrams they were that’s not important. Anyways so I took another one and I’m feeling freaking just, (deviated from interview) my cat you just gotta be rough with him. He’s used to that otherwise he’ll just do whatever he wants and stuff. You can hit him or whatever, he’s ridiculous. Ok anyways I decided I was gonna take another adderall because that would allow me to drink more and I called up my buddy I did have some friends whose existents in my life was solely for drug use not not some for the purchase of and some for the consumption with I would want to get intoxicated with them. And so I came over there at this point I was buzzed and it was a little at this point it was little bit difficult for me to get stoned from adderall just because my tolerance was so high. It was I had to take it no matter what right after I left campus and I was going to go and see what was, and I hadn’t this in a long time I was actually Pretty studious and with the quantities that I took. But so I went to go hang out with them any way’s this is taking to long. So I we went out we gotta liquor first we got a fifth of Jameson and I drank it with him in probably half and hour. just back to back and we took shots and then I decided I’m smoking habitually heavily at this time even though I had quit at that point I had quit for a long time I hadn’t smoked in three months, but I started smoking on this night. And then I decided I was going to find some drugs, I’m gonna find something. So I’m asking people around and somebody came over to his house and he had mushrooms, so I’m sweet yeah lets do some mushrooms and everyone’s all they didn’t really even want to do them. I was yeah I want to do some mushrooms so I bought a quarter from him. And a quarter ounce and I just, I just started eating them and the guy was dude you shouldn’t eat the whole thing that’s a lot and I actually I hadn’t had mushrooms probably since high school. I did them once in high school, I think I ate a whole bunch of them went to school and I we watched some video in class and I Page 7 �just had to leave. I left school I was just gone and that’s all I remember of mushrooms and I don’t really remember my trip or anything. So I decided I just kept eating them and I ate a whole bag of them. And I couldn’t I’m not gonna feel them right away they they take a while to kick in and I was drunk so I didn’t really care anyways it had to have been cocaine or something I would have used some self restraint. Because you feel that immediately but with mushrooms it’s whatever I’m just eating it’s eating pizza or whatever. you don’t really care so yeah I ate the mushrooms and then we we decided to go to this party I got another fifth and the other fifth that was for me nobody was and it was another fifth of Jameson. And I was just pulling the, pulling on the bottle and was swigging it. And I was I mean straight out of the bottle. So are we good is it. GUMMERE: I’m just making sure it’s recording your good CONNORTON: So then we’re at this party and after drinking almost finished the fifth, I started to feel the mushrooms and stuff. And I was I was wow I felt this was probably, this might have been one of the most one of the times I have been most intoxicated. Because it was pretty those of some weird, that’s a weird kind of combination. adderall, mushrooms, alcohol, nicotine and then at the party I had pot too. when we go there we started smoking a lot of pot. And, and I kind of remember kind of feeling really disorientated and feeling there was something else I should have been doing, I was walking around outside, these are the last, eventually I blacked out, but I’m trying to tell you the last things that I remember. And so I was walking around outside and their were people on the porch and we’re people were we were having a good time at this point. And I just felt I don’t know I felt I was having an out of body experience. I needed something to bring me back. So I decided I’m going to smoke a cigarette now. And that’s the last thing I remember that, that I did. I smoked a cigarette actually I took a couple drags, I took a couple drags and I was and blew it out and I don’t remember anything. I remember felling really weird the nicotine and then wow, it was just black. I passed out, but apparently what happened, what people tell me is that I just took off I took off running. I started running as fast as I could and I don’t know I don’t know where I could have been running to but I was, I was running really fast and I was freaking out. And I mean I have the police report you can look at it if you want it’s pretty embarrassing but that’s what happened I totaled lost it and I just, and instead of just passing out I went into excited delirium I just was screaming I was running all over the place running through people’s yards, hopped the fence and was running around in this outside in this retirement facility or something that. I was going through people’s yards and stuff and eventually somebody called the cops, the cops came and they they commanded me to stop, I wasn’t doing anything illegal I was just extremely intoxicated and I was running around and screaming a freaking crazy person. So and I don’t remember any of this by the way this I’m going off of what was on the police report. And the last thing I remember was the cigarette. And so there are some accounts in the police report about what people saw apparently I picked up a dumpster, a garbage dumpster and threw it on somebody’s car. I don’t remember any of this but so the cops came and so when the cops were trying to detain me you have to stop you can’t move and I wasn’t showing any sign of submissive behavior at all I was screaming I didn’t want to and I talked to the cop afterwards and he said this was days afterwards, but he said that I wasn’t trying to attack them but I would not go into custody. I wouldn’t, they had to use tasers he said that well actually he didn’t tell me this but this is in the report, they had to use tasers three times, they had to tase me three times to get me to actually be contained. have my hands around my back and everything. And they said that well Page 8 �this is what happened, but they, they were, there was three guys and they were struggling to get me into into custody. And when they finally got me in handcuffs I was trying to get out so hard, so badly I wanted to get out I dislocated my own shoulder. I popped it out while it was behind my back and they didn’t know this at the time, I guess. But and I think at that time, I passed out and that’s in the police report. Yeah I passed out loss conscious I was still breathing still had a pulse, but I was unconscious. And the cops said that they thought I was suffering from excited delirium which is were your body pressure keeps heating up and heating up and heating up until you die. Which I don’t know if that was happening, I don’t know if it was that, the drugs might of induced that. I don’t know probably maybe it wasn’t happening maybe I was just having a violent reaction to the mushrooms and all the other stuff in my body. But they took me to the hospital instead of taking me to jail because of that. So they took me to the hospital at the hospital, I was recovering, I don’t remember any of this either. Actually apparently, apparently one of, this is what some of the nursing staff said that when I came into the hospital, by the time I had came I had come to, I had regained consciousness. And I was violently trying to get out of this stretcher they had to put restraints on me and stuff and and I was being very violent and using obscenity’s and just being nuts psycho. And I don’t remember any of it, I don’t remember any of this. So and also my shoulder was dislocated which extremely painful and I was still going nuts. I couldn’t feel it and I can’t remember it. But when I was in the hospital I remember finally coming to and okay I’m in a hospital. Everything’s fine I was I thought was I’m alive and that’s okay. Because the vague memories that I do have of freaking out are utter hell it felt, if I were to imagine what hell would be that’s what that’s what it would be. it was, it was really bad. Was that a phone or was that the recorder. So I was just for it to be done. Basically and I came to and remember being in extreme pain they were giving me morphine and stuff. So I was feeling but when I wasn’t on the morphine I was just ahh, just ugh. whining and what I mean ugh and grunting and stuff. so they, they eventually realized that my shoulder was dislocated and put it back into place and everything. And then I guess after that event I realized that I should have been dead. I really should have been dead that day. And I realized I should probably, I should probably do something with my life. I shouldn't first of all I should not use drugs anymore first of all I won't take the adderall anymore and I won't ... ....when I tried; up to that point I tried to stop smoking pot it would be it would a.... a. It always every other day type of thing when I was in college at least that that much or if not every day or ..... in the beginning of college it was just as bad as it was in high school all day every day, but when I tried to quit smoking pot it was it was always I always wanted the last time smoking pot to be memorable or the last time the last time doing blow or whatever the last time on pills I always wanted to be memorable so that would be ohhh yeah have a positive memory or something or at least something to send me off do what I mean. But I never did it was always crappy the last time it was. I wanted to be and I always ended up come down and be ohhh man that wasn't enough I need to do it again that that was my thought was .... but after this event I just realized that....that I should of been died and that was enough I needed to do some my life I have been granted to me because I really really should of been died and another thing involve this even was that the same night not even kidding I got tased three times and I was I still having a violent reaction still violently aggressively not wanted to be detained and ahhh the same night in Indianapolis which is my home city a kid died he got tased and he died he was he was shot with a taser and he died the same night so it's kind of. Just a creepy thing for me and a realization that ...that that my way of living and my way of resp.... not respecting my limitations substances it's just just silly just not ahhh I don't know it was gonna lead to Page 9 �my death. I kind of realized that I was gonna die that's what it took that's what it took me avoiding death that was wakeup call and then I realized that it has to be a god up there somebody had, something or someone had been looking out for me, because there are so many things I could of been doing I remember car lights I could of. I don't know I could of been in a high way or something I don't know man but that was what it took mm it was a near death experience for me to realized that I needed I needed to turn it around if I didn't want to die. GUMMERE: Describe that feeling I mean I don't think a lot of people ever experience the feeling that, I could of realistically kill myself right there. Describe the feeling you get knowing that kind how push you to get sober I guess ...is that? CONNORTON: I don't know I guess I'm motivated by the people around me and the the the goals that I have in life because once you ....I haven't really talked about this before but once you have that experiences were you you could have died and really you should be died there is not much that can happen to you that you are not gonna be prepare for; what I mean, I I know what death feels when I was trippin and the stuff that I don't remember if I can try to explain it to you it would be everything. Not just my vision but everything was black everything and in my head everywhere was black and then and then there would be a tiny little spec of light a white dot that I would try with everything with every ounce with every measurable of whatever energy that I had in my body try of seek out that light and just just really try to get to it and then getting closer and closer and this is funny I was probably running my ass off (Laughs); trying to get to the light of whatever its sounds totally abstract and stupid but then I would finally get it and then get bigger and bigger and bigger and then everything would go white everything is white now but I still feel so lost and need to get back to where a a normal place is and then it would be a little black dot and then it would be the same thing over and over again just agonizing and it wasn't I need to the black dot it was . Not only would I be died but everything would just see to exists if I don't seek this thing out with everything I have and finally get to it and have everything normal again; but then once you finally get there it just something is also completely abstract and abnormal but the near dead experience is . Once you are alive after it, you just appreciate being alive more for the good things in life ... you really think about all the consequences of what you do and the benefits of what you do, you know why, you try to look back and think what I my motives for everything I do, why am I alive you think about live little more and I kind of look at it as a positive experience because first of all if it wouldn't happened in that way I'm sure down the road if some other crazy things would of happened and odds are that I would of died from a serious drug overdose. Because by the way my ahh my my drug alcohol level is it was point .22 something so, it was pass .25 so if I would gotten to. If I would being in the hospital, I probably would of died because I was running around randomly. I might not died from the alcohol poisoning but I mean it would of done some serious liver damage but I probably would of passed out somewhere in a ditch and I would of die ...... or any other things could of happened; hit by a car whatever start a fight with somebody or whatever, but I forgot where I was going with that. But but I don't know once you realized that your life is been spare you really start to look at all the aspects of your everyday life who are you helping. You know? what good are u doing for for greater human population or even just your family; who you have around you that that that cares about you that you would to see. ? prosper and then you want to take care of or something that just you need to look at your goals more. You know what I mean? it's not just I should of do this I better go to college I better get Page 10 �a job it's . Why? why am I here why. There has to be a purpose for my life now because I really should be died why am I not just died instead of being alive right now. I have to be doing something and you think about what it is that you should be doing and for me I found guidance through prayer and a read the bible I find a lot of wisdom in there specially in the words that Jesus actually said but that's that's just for me that's my thing I still respect other religions and what not but but I just kind of a desired to just be a good person to be good because otherwise you only serving yourself and that is just pointless I may as well be dead (Laughs) what I mean what what. If you are not helping people who are really in need or who are really suffering or want to live they are on such at risk of dying what's the point of what's the point of you being alive in access what I mean? So you tend to a ....think to think about that stuff a lot more and you. Also we were saying it prepared you for anything really. my girlfriend always tells me when bad things happened to us I'm always okay what do we do now; instead of ohh I can't believe this!! are you serious? this has just happened (Laughs). I'm always ohh that is terrible that is just bad okay. Now what is the course of action that we must take. Because, okay I'm not getting torture and I'm not dying so now just solve the problem (Laughs) that's . So it gives you a different perspective I'm not saying that it's necessary to I mean everybody is different what I mean everyone finds their purpose of life . for me it might be that. I'm not stupid that I really had to used this drugs for that long for me to realized that I need to respect my limitations with that and there is more to life just than self indulgence in control substances you know what I mean? So I guess that what it meant for me the near death experience. GUMMERE: Okay. Being 22 years old and been in recovery drug addict/ alcoholic. you don't see that too often unless you go to places AA what I guess specific challenges do you young addicts face; would you say somebody who older doesn't necessarily have to deal with certain specific challenges that you say? CONNORTON: Can you say the first part of the question again? GUMMERE: Basically just what unique parts are there to be young and being addicted than to be old and being addicted. Is there anything different that in it that makes it harder. I mean for me instance it's just the fact that people our age you said they party it's what they do so it's hard to kind isolate yourself from that. CONNORTON: Okay I just have to use the bathroom really quick and then I can answer that. GUMMERE: How do you pause this thing? CONNORTON: You don't have to pause it don't risk deleting it. (BATHROOM BREAK) GUMMERE: Dude, I'm sorry but when you were on the roughest part of it and your cat turn the sink on and off; I was amazed by that so I was smiling (Laughs). It wasn't the fact that you almost died (Laughs). CONNORTON: He wasn't turn in it on he drinks little bit out when he licks the area it pisses me off so bad; I hate him for it and every time he does it I make this psst don't do whatever you doing or else you gonna get hit and the he keeps doing it that's the one thing that he just keep doing its just worth it for him. Page 11 �GUMMERE: Alright, actually we will. We are gonna change the question. CONNORTON: Still recording it? GUMMERE: Yeah CONNORTON: Okay GUMMERE: Just regardless. Next question would be. Did you drug use cause your friends and family or people in general for that matter to treat you differently? CONNORTON: Yeah somewhat, I guess at first not; not at all because they didn't know because I was really really good at hiding it, there is precautions that you take. Specially if you smoke a lot pot. you heard at lot of teenagers talking about this, you need to get your visine, you got your gum, mouth mints, you got body spray, nobody would not known you are stone man; you are good, or you can still act high; you can. I can be looking someone and be yeah you are stone unless you are me when I was starting smoking I actually got developed to the point where ; my little brother he knew he knew I smoke. He was the only kid in my family that caught me couple times he knew I smoked pot he would. Honestly, he could not tell whether I was stone or high because I was stoned so much more often than I was sober. ridiculous somehow. So that was normal when I was stone that became my personality that was me. So at first it was a long time it was 2 years probably that this. Well maybe not that long maybe a year and half because I started smoking ahhh . This was late I started smoking my junior year, which is actually pretty late for Americans but my parents didn't really catch on to it until after I starting abusing alcohol and pills and stuff too. So once they figured it out they immediate attitude towards it was extremely ahhhhh; they were aggressively towards solving it they wanted it to not be happening to me anymore and any degree what so ever. Ohh and they were really strict about it because my cousin had ahhh fallen into drugs abuse patterns and die he was he would be I think he would be my older brother's age right now but he died when he was 20 years old so they it's in the family to be really protective about that kind of stuff, and their reaction to that to that forced me into more drug use because I was get off me I just want to be in my own world . My friends didn't act different towards me because they were the ones I was doing drugs with and they think they acted better around me if I was the one who came through you I was the best the coolest guy . Yeah actually I remember the time this is how pathetic drugs serious being drug addicted to drugs is, my friend and I had this falling out and ahh and I think it was over a it was either a quarter pound or just quarter ounce of pot that we end up adding up together and it was just gone we lost it we thought somebody stole it and we thought it was one of us. So we had this falling out and we didn't each other at all and then the other two of them two two of my friends they started hanging out again and it was ohh we just hate those guys we don't each other anymore we suppose to hate them or whatever but then one time I got hooked up really good with some ecstasy and I have ten of them and I got really good prices of them and I was yes! and . At first it was I'm going to be the one who consumes this, this are mine but my friends found out from somebody else that I have them and it was Mark is awesome now he is so cool we love him and it got reunited our friendship (Laughs). after that we started doing drugs together all the time and just hanging out that's what we did we didn't hangout we got together and got fucked up that was our life but my family got really concerned after awhile yeah they didn't act different towards me they didn't they didn't it Page 12 �completely changed their interaction with me it was a totally different setting. It was what are we gonna do to get you to come back to reality, and stop avoiding everybody and being so reclusive, and not caring about anything, ya know, there was no, they didn’t act differently to me it was completely changed. It just changed the whole game ya I guess so yes they did, but it was just, it wasn’t normal interaction it was they weren’t my family anymore they were just these people who were trying to get me to stop using drugs they weren’t my brothers they weren’t my brothers they were they were just people who were really concerned about me, we never just hung out for fun. It was what are you doing tonight, what are you gonna go do, are you gonna sneak out? Ya know so ya they were my family in that they cared a lot about me, but it, our interactions were not normal interactions anymore. Once they finally realized I had a serious problem which was a year and a half after I started using drugs. But if you want I can quickly answer that question that you had before. GUMMERE: Sure CONNORTON: I can’t really say how versus being an older person addicted because I’m not I don’t, I haven’t been there and I’m, I think younger people in a sense, if they are younger people who realize they have a problem and admit to it which is AA would tell you that that’s the first step towards defeating addiction is admitting you have a problem and really they view it as admitting defeat saying that you are helpless to help yourself you can’t do it, you need assistance, you know what I mean if you’re at that stage in your life and you’re a younger person that’s awesome, you are way advantaged compared to older people and we’ve seen this at AA going it’s look at all these guys the AA meeting does not become I’m sure they talk about a lot what’s going on in their lives and how they want to, what they want to pursue to avoid circumstances where they’re not drinking what do they want to do, but when younger guys are there, it’s about them. It’s what are you gonna do and it’s it’s a lot of the conversation is directed around the younger people because even when the older guys are talking about themselves it’s that’s knowledge that you can use to not make that mistake you know it’s not that I’m a better person because I realized when I was so younger that I am addicted, No. It’s that you’re lucky enough to have your life spared you should be dead and now you are also lucky enough to go and hear what these people have to say about their own problems and what their own addictions have led to ya know as a younger person yes you should be participating in that but also, and I would guess if your addicted to drugs and you’re an older person you have many more responsibilities it’s probably very agonizing to see your family, it’s not just your brothers and sisters, it could be your wife, and your kids and not only are they agonized to see you in the condition that you’re in a lot of the times but your agonized because they have to see that I can’t imagine, I can talk about it but I really probably should be because I haven’t experienced it but also I can say as far as being a younger person that’s addicted is that ya it’s so normalized in our culture and it’s almost shunned if you want to get help ya know because in the college culture drinking, partying it’s a normal thing and I’m not saying that it shouldn’t be but for some people me, and I think if this is hereditary thing, substance abuse, alcohol abuse is hereditary, but it’s not okay because when I start drinking ya binge drinking is accepted on college campuses because it’s the cool thing to do, but for me binge drinking is regular drinking every time, that’s just how I am, I can’t it’s not because everyone else is doing it and I want to be cool, it’s not because it’s fun. It’s because I started drinking. Binge drinking is because I had one shot, that’s just what happens next I am going to keep drinking until I pass out or until I feel so good that I can whatever I don’t even a lot of kids Page 13 �have their minds on getting laid I don’t even care I just want to keep getting intoxicated if it just so happens some girl wants to get high or something and then we end up having sex whatever that’s cool but I’m not going to go out of my way to go and find a girl, I just want to get intoxicated that’s what happens in the life of an addict ya know what I mean so but, but that’s a normal thing, you wouldn’t be able to tell somebody who’s addicted to drugs from someone who is just partying, you can’t there’s still just selling drugs, using drugs, drinking, whatever its normalized so you really, it’s difficult to get anywhere until your realized you have a problem, but also for younger people in my situation vie been in a lot of places where its accepted, it’s almost culturally normal you should be drinking right now its new year’s eve someone’s making a toast, but I don’t drink, I’m sober I haven’t had any alcohol for coming on two years so but I’m cool around my family but with people I don’t know it’s ya cheers with my water glass ya know and its weird. I’ve gotten over that and trust me it’s not, it’s not bad that is anything compared to being addicted to drugs that’s nothing, those awkward situations and then people might question you oh really, so you can’t control yourself? Ya know you can’t you don’t trust yourself, what kind of person are you well I’m an addict, that’s how it is, that’s in my genetics ya know you get to the point where if you have a problem with that I really don’t care because I know that I should be dead and I’m not gonna it’s not the person is trying to get you to use drugs, there just trying to, I don’t know some people just don’t understand ya know they just say lighten up, just have a drink, but you don’t understand if I have a drink either you or me is gonna be in the hospital tomorrow and were gonna wake up, ya know it’s not gonna be fun. It’ll be fun at first but at the end of the night it’s going to be ya so that’s what’s difficult about being young and being an addict. GUMMERE: We’ll prolly wrap up after this, but basically what would you tell a person that has this problem, and hasn’t sought help yet? CONNORTON: I guess I would say keep doing what you feel is right but I guess you’re not concerned with that but don’t wait, don’t wait for something terrible to happen because it’s bound to happen it will happen, it’s going to happen. Continue using drugs and watch all the bad shit happen to you your life will, it’s gonna suck, you’ll feel great, you’ll feel awesome all the time but in reality everything is terrible around you, everything is terrible because you’re not paying attention to anything you don’t care about anything but the way that your body feels, and the way that you perceive your body to be feeling the chemicals in your head, that’s all it is, when your high, when your stoned and everything is alright, it’s just a chemical in your head ya know your family could be dying and you wouldn’t care as long as you have your drugs eventually you will get there, eventually you will get there and I’ll say that addiction doesn’t always happen right away, it doesn’t always happen right away, sometimes addiction starts with self-control when I started smoking, when I started smoking pot no it was immediate it was right away, it was now this is what I’m gonna do for the whole summer this is my life now, this is awesome but with cigarettes I knew it was bad for you, cigarettes are bad I shouldn’t be smoking cigarettes but I would only smoke once every weekend or whatever, and I could control myself, for a year I only smoked on the weekends ya know it was a long time, but eventually you will get to the point where your tolerance will go up your desire to use it is gonna go up, it will you will want to use it and you will give in, youre a human being your just chemicals in skin. the laws of physics say that you are gonna want more of what you have that your body s, you’ll get addicted to it, (laughs) it eventually happens, and my little brother started smoking a little while ago, and he was the same thing, I basically just beat the crap out of him, Page 14 �(laughs) you can’t just don’t, I only smoke this, I only smoke this time. No. You’re gonna get addicted to it, and that’s the case with other drugs. if you start using any other type of harder drugs, and its fun, and you it. What do you think is going to happen? are you going to be using those drugs for the rest of your life is that what you want eventually you will have to stop using it. do you wanna, do you wanna be the person who has to quit pills when you’re thirty years old? And you have a family, or you’re thinking about starting a family. Can you imagine how addicted you will be at that point? And also this is especially important but what, name one benefit. What are the benefits to using drugs? Other than it feels really good. it feels really good. I’m not gonna lie, it feels really fucken good, drugs they feel really good, they will make you feel great, but that’s the one thing. Name one other benefit, anybody. Okay so it costs money, you will deplete your funds. If you’re really addicted, that’s all you will spend your money on, and eventually you’re gonna go broke. Okay, and number three, or wait this is only two things (laughs) See what it does to your brain, man? (laughs) Okay, so number two, ya it has physical effects on your body, you’re gonna, you’re gonna deplete, your body’s ability to sustain itself. It depends on what drug, but that’s widely accepted you’re gonna hurt your body. the people you surround yourself with, not just the dangers that substances does to your body, but the people who are surrounded with drugs, they’re bad people, people who make a living, not all people, but in general people who make a living surrounded on other peoples addictions are ad people, and you’re gonna put yourself in dangerous situations. And then number four is is this number three or number four? Okay, it doesn’t matter what number it is, but this is another thing. You’re addicted to drugs so you are subjecting yourself to your own desires. you don’t realize what you will do to get that substance. once you start using it recreationally. It’s fun, and you got money, you can go get it, it’s fun, I can go do it with my friends, but what are you gonna do five years from now when you’re broke because you spent all your money on drugs, and you need it, you will need it, your body will want it so bad. that’s your life; you’ll want it so bad. It’s the only things that is important. so what are you gonna do? What crime are you gonna commit? Who are you gonna hurt? Ya know? not just the effects on yourself. when you say who am I hurting by doing drugs? Okay well you’re hurting yourself, but that person might say “Okay fine let me do that to myself” who might you hurt though, who might you surround yourself with that has what you want? Ya know what I mean? Or is there other people around you who care about you? that would be invading someone else’s personal life. you’re hurting someone else by not giving a crap about them. if you have people in your life that are dependent on you, or people in your life that care about you, and you’re using drugs your putting your drugs, you love you love. if you’re addicted to drugs, you love drugs, you love them; you love them because you spend time with them. You would do anything for them, anything to get them, ya know? You love them more than you love people so if there are people that you love, you love drugs more I guarantee that you do, and then also if you’re addicted you’re putting other people at risk people you don’t even know because you don’t know what you’re gonna do when you’re on a bender. You don’t know what you’re gonna do when you’re coming down, and you really want something ya know? So you’re a danger to society ya know, I don’t know. Also I would say that other disadvantages there is a plan for your life there is things for you to accomplish. There are people who need your help. There are people dying right now, because they don’t have food, and you’re sitting there smoking a joint by yourself, or you’re hanging out with your friends and you’re rolling on ecstasy, or your sitting in an alley, and you’re shooting up heroin. there is people dying, and you’re killing yourself? how I don’t know man. how arrogant is that, ya know its selfish, it’s so selfish. Page 15 �don’t be, if you’re gonna kill yourself at least I don’t know join the army or something and go and run out and try to kill the enemy, and go on a suicide mission. if you’re gonna kill yourself, help people first, ya know? There are people that’s I don’t know there are people dying, there is good to be done ya know. when everything is great, when world hunger is over and, and there is world peace, there’s no poverty, I really can’t say anything to you, go ahead do drugs whatever (laughs) but still there are all the other disadvantages, you would be hurting the other people around you, you would be endangering society, you’d be killing yourself, ya know, but those are some serious reasons why you should just first of all you should not start doing drugs, I mean because it just leads to bad things, you will become addicted to it. If you think you’re not addicted to drugs, and you are using drugs, you will become addicted to drugs because you don’t respect drugs. You love them, but you don’t respect them so you need to do that. you need to stop using drugs, or at least realize it’s a dependency issue, and you can’t but, I don’t know as far as drinking and stuff, I guess some people can do it, some people can’t, some people can’t control themselves, if your one of those people who can’t control yourself, there is help out there, there is people out there that you can be accountable with, so that you don’t end up hurting yourself, or hurting other people around you, but ya that’s all the advice I got. GUMMERE: Do you guys have any other questions? It was good. CONNORTON: That’s a lot, sorry. END OF INTERVIEW Page 16 � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9abdc62b7f13b673e54440b03a8e6937.mp3 e70b17660969a2de92b385e8a546d9ac Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral Histories Subject The topic of the resource Civil rights--Michigan--History Personal narratives Oral histories African Americans--Personal narratives Gays--Personal narratives Lesbians--Personal narratives Bisexual people--Personal narratives Transgender people--Personal narratives Veterans--Personal narratives Women--Personal narratives People with disabilities--Personal narratives Muslims--United States--Personal narratives Hispanic Americans--Personal narratives Homophobia Discrimination Islamophobia Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Upper Penninsula (Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of oral history recordings documenting the history of civil rights and social justice advocacy in Western Michigan. The collection was created by faculty and students as a project of the LIB 201 (formerly US 201): "Diversity in the U.S." course from 2011-2012. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/aced767452219e60a96ff9b26d0c35b7.mp4 65ce720640412e0b26c36c2428fbad52 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/35ce9954bb4a5416dc19d44cfa23b79c.pdf 74aab1f9214a3d9e345603bf75430d45 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Daniel Conover (01:13:30) Introduction (00:28) • Father was in the army, grew up all over the place. Enlistment (00:55) • Conover enlisted in the Marine Corps out of high school knowing that he wasn’t ready for college. He was excited about the opportunity to “be paid to go around the world and blow up things.” • Joined the Marine Corps because of the mystique and challenge. Originally wanted to join the Navy, but those recruiters went on lunch, and the Marine Corps recruiters signed him up. (1:35) Training (2:30) • Conover describe show boot camp breaks a person down and rebuilds them. • Conover was an infantry machine gunner (MOS 0331) Conover was assigned to the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marines. Deployed on ships for 6 month “floats,” and did training the other 6 months. Since the Marine Corps is small, much of the training is done with other services. (3:41) Service (4:33) • As a young man without a lot of experience, much of the time was memorable, from physical activities such as rappelling from a helicopter or jumping from an airplane, to exploring foreign countries and peoples. • Being assigned to a reconnaissance unit, most of their time was spent training or studying potential adversaries. When they had off-time they deep-sea fished and “did things young men do” If close enough go get home for a holiday, they could do so. Conover remarks that the Navy does a good job of keeping its sailors and marines fed for holidays. (5:35) *Conover was reluctant to describe some activities due to the interviewer being a highschool student* �After service (7:59) • Conover believes that his service helped him grow up and gave him focus and discipline that was useful for college. Seeing other parts of the world that most tourists don’t see changed his perspective on culture and politics. • Conover formed close friendships while in the Marine Corps, but didn’t keep in contact with them after he left. (10:06) • Is now CEO of a company that does laundry for hospitals. (10:44) • Conover would like his kids to go into the service as a way for them to grow up and learn about others (12:11) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Title A name given to the resource Conover, Daniel (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Conover, Daniel Description An account of the resource Daniel Conover enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from high school. Conover served in the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marines from 1981-1985. In the interview he talks about life in the Marine Corps, some memorable training including rappelling from a helicopter, and recreational activities while in the service. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stern, Glen (Interviewer) Zuhl, Alex (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military United States. 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MARIE, Ml FINLAYSON SCHOOL MARQUETTE AVE. Schedule of Events FlbJ\1 FESTIV4tb 12 NOON Movie "MORE THAN BOWS AND ARROWS", presentation by Teofilo Lucero, Detroit Indian Center • Movie "I WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER" [Chief Joseph] • Cartoons for the youth PEJW-WEJW 2:30 - 4:30 PM Pow-Wow Sault Ste. Marie Drum • Butch Elliot - Lead Drummer EINNER 4:30 - 6:30 PM Turkey or ham with all the trimmings. Potluck dishes needed. Elc1I0W'8 ettEJIRS FREJM EiflREEN RIVER EJNT. 6:30 PM Group singing with Distribution of Gifts to Youth and Senior Citizens. WlbblE EllNN eaNeERT 7:00 PM A Canadian Indian Folk Artist • He has cut several LP's and is best known for the song "BALLAD OF CROWFOOT" CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY PARENT OR GUARDIAN Sponsored by Consolidated Bahweting Ojibwa and Mackinac Tribe � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Consolidated Bahweting Ojibwa and Mackinac Tribe Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1be3b90116069a3c3b0f05e5dae1cd8f.pdf 258f41f5c54f931a45e485466ad103af PDF Text Text INTERNATIONAL BAHWETING OJIBWAY ANISHINABEG FESTIVAL AND POW-WOW June 16, 17, 1979 Sault Ste. Marie, Ml SCHEDULE OF EVENTS INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFT CONTEST ST. MARYS SCHOOL SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1979 9 AM - 4 PM PRIZES IN 3 CATAGORIES PREVIOUS ARRANGEMENT NECESSARY (906) 635-9521 FLOYD WESTERMAN NOTED SIOUX FOLK SINGER IN CONCERT OPEN DRUM FREE CAMPING TEEPEE'S WELCOME INDIAN AMATURE TALENT ST. MARYS SCHOOL SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1979 10 AM - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd PRIZES PREVIOUS ARRANGEMENT NECESSARY (906) 635-9521 POW-WOW ROTARY ISLAND PARK SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1979 GRAND ENTRY 2 PM and 7 PM FREE ADMISSION ROTARY ISLAND PARK SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1979 GRAND ENTRY 2 PM FREE ADMISSION $1,600.00 IN MERCHANDISE AS PRIZES ALL CATAGORIES EXCEPT TRADITIONAL YOU MUST BE REGISTERED BY 2 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 16, PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO CASH PRIZES LJMITED ELECTRICITY INDIAN TRADERS WELCOME FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CON TA CT MIKE WRIGHT AREA CODE 906-635-9521 OPEN TO TBE PUBLIC DINNER - DANCE - CONCERT ST. MARYS SCHOOL SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1979 DINNER - 4:30 - 6:30 PM CONCERT - 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM FLOYD WESTERMAN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SIOUX SINGER DANCE - LIVE BAND - 9:00 PM - 2:00 AM TICKETS AVAILABLE COUPLE $6.50 SINGLE $4.00 TOURISTS WELCOME SPONSORED BY CONSOLlDATED BAHWETING OJIBWAY, INC. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. Gillis Native American publication collection dealing with different aspects of human culture and anthropology, with an emphasis on Native American people, events, organizations, and activities in Michigan. Includes newsletters, event programs, flyers, posters and other printed materials. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillis, Edward V. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/446">Edward V. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-14_international-bahweting-ojibway-pow-wow_1979-06 Title A name given to the resource International Bahweting Ojibway Anishinabeg Festival and Pow-Wow, June 1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-06 Description An account of the resource International Bahweting Ojibway Anishinabeg Festival and Pow-Wow flyer, Sault Ste. Marie MI, July 16-17, 1979, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Consolidated Bahweting Ojibway Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c06c8ce94e4eb6efae8934af8ca00afa.mp4 26147b7326ea404e7281dd82aaeae574 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/19bdabf6caa0470a9272ac9f450eb7f4.pdf 520195aee97472c483e9b6466582af34 PDF Text Text ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW DORIS COOK Born: Muskegon, Michigan June 23, 1931 Resides: Muskegon Interviewed by: Frank Boring, GVSU Veterans History Project, Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, April 18, 2013 Interviewer: Could we start with your name, and where and when were you born? My name is Doris Cook and I was born in Muskegon, Michigan on June 23rd, 1931. Interviewer: What were your early days like? You were born in Muskegon and what was your family? Tell us about your family and where you were living. Well, I’m a member of a twelve children family and we lived in the suburbs and we played sports all our life. My dad was into baseball, so the rest of us just got into sports naturally. Interviewer: What did your father do for a living? He was a pattern maker. Interviewer: So, he was the bread winner, so to speak, and your mother was a home maker? 1:03 Yes Interviewer: Where were you in the chain of twelve children? I was fourth from the oldest. Interviewer: What was your early schooling like? Well, we went to like country schools and the school went through eighth grade and then we went on to junior high and high school. 1 �Interviewer: In your early days of schooling though, did you have to walk to the school, and what did the school look like? Well, it was kind of modern like, but we did walk most of the time. There was a bus, but we lived about four blocks from the school, so they preferred we walked. Interviewer: You had a sister that was a couple of years older than you? Yes Interviewer: Did you go to school together? Yes Interviewer: In the early days I know—I‟m an only brat myself, but how did you get along with your brothers and your sisters? Oh, just fine, we played together all the time. 2:01 Interviewer: Okay, so your older sister though, what was your relationship with her? Well, it was good and we played on teams together. Interviewer: Well let‟s, before we get into that, where did you first get introduced to baseball? I guess I was such a young age, it was sand lot ball back then with all my brothers and all the neighbors. We played mostly with boys. At that time girls sports weren’t really popular, so we were playing with the boys most of the time. Interviewer: Okay, this is—you say it‟s a sand lot, so did you set up your own bases, or were they already there? No, we had to make our own in a field out behind the house, we did our own. 2 �Interviewer: This may sound like a stupid question, but how did you even know how to play baseball? Well, I guess maybe, my dad taught us. 3:00 Then it comes naturally, we didn’t seem to have a problem with it. I had two brothers older than myself and we all just—I guess we learned from my dad probably. Interviewer: Was there any adult supervision, like umpires or anything like that, while you were playing? No Interviewer: So you guys were just playing together and divided up into teams and just played? Yeah Interviewer: When you were in school learning English and math and all that, did you have any idea what you wanted to do with yourself? No, I didn’t have that in mind. Interviewer: Okay, what would be the normal route for a girl of your age at that time? For you to go—where would you go after you got out of school for example? Well, back then there weren’t a lot of careers for women, so you didn’t talk about careers. Maybe you thought you’d become a wife and a mother and you just didn’t get into where your life was leading. 4:06 Interviewer: But, you brothers, of course, were thinking in terms of what they were going to do, have jobs or things like that, but in your mind it was just a matter of getting through school and then what are you going to do at the end of school, maybe get married? 3 �Right, we didn’t think about that. Interviewer: Where did the idea of playing baseball in a more organized way come about in your life? Well, I was probably about twelve years old and my sister, of course, was a couple years older and we had city softball for women. There was nothing in the high schools, they had local city [league], and most of those women were older, of course. School teachers, physical education teachers, and I think I was twelve when I started. 5:00 Donna played ahead of me like that before she turned to pro. Interviewer: Well, let‟s not jump ahead too quickly here. How did Donna get involved with—since she was ahead of you, how did she get involved in this league? Well, because of playing locally and all your local advertisements and publicity and it was a known fact that she was a good ball player, so then they started scouting that, you know. Interviewer: So, they actually had scouts going out to these lots and watching? Well, I can’t say that, I think they got it from the newspaper and word of mouth in town where you’re popular, you know. Interviewer: So, you‟re two years behind and here she is going to play, how did that make you feel? Did that motivate you or did you get jealous? What was your reaction? I think I thought, “Well, I’ll do the same thing”, but her time came along first and that didn’t bother me. 6:04 I was still in high school; she started playing, and my dad and my mother, the family, supported it, so I just kind of followed along with that. 4 �Interviewer: Did you talk about that at the family dinners and things like that, that she was playing and that you wanted to play next? Did they have any idea that you were going to follow in her footsteps? I don’t know that we discussed it. I think it just came naturally. I was doing the same thing she had done, playing with the city softball, local and it just was like I just followed her. Interviewer: This is going to sound like a stupid question, but why baseball? Girls didn‟t play baseball that much and certainly not in the professional leagues, but why were you interested in baseball? Well, we really played a lot of sports, and I played a lot of basketball and that was also city. When I say city, we came to Grand Rapids, Holland, Zeeland and played teams from those cities, so we were really into all sports. 7:08 At that time I didn’t start bowling yet. I was busy with baseball, basketball and volleyball, but you didn’t have that stuff in high school, there wasn’t enough of that going on for girls, so you had to go and look outside of school. Interviewer: You say your parents were supportive. Did your dad talk to you and give you hints on how to play, or at that time were you playing pretty well? Oh, he gave us a lot of hints. In fact one thing he did, he’d take a new glove and take the strings out of it and remove some of the padding, because they were too thick and stiff, and he’d loosen that up for you and put it back together, so you could catch better with it. Interviewer: You know, I‟ve talked to some of the women who had difficulty getting equipment and things like that, because their parents didn‟t have the money. 8:00 5 �Your father did pretty well, I mean, he was able to buy you the equipment you needed? I think so, and between all the kids somebody had a ball and a bat. It might not be something like a bat for yourself, it’s one that everybody uses. We had our own, but other kids brought bats and balls and gloves and stuff too. Interviewer: Okay, this is a period of time in America where things economically were pretty bad. This is the depression era and how did you and your family survive through that? How did you fare? We did very well, and at that time there was probably eight of us, because some came along later, but we never had to go for help, my dad worked a lot of hours, worked every day, never took a vacation and we were well enough off. 9:00 Interviewer: First of all, Doris was always ahead right? She was always the kind of person that got involved in something and then you kind of followed in her tracks. When did you first, or your family first hear about this professional—women playing baseball, what‟s that all about? We were lucky--they came to Muskegon with a team, and in 1946 one of the teams came into Muskegon, so we just fell into it. They started playing in Muskegon at Marsh Field and my family started going to the ball games. Donna was still in high school, then graduated and went right into baseball. Interviewer: What was the process, maybe you don‟t know the detail, but I want to know the details of how you got in, but how did Donna get in? You went to the ball games, saw that there was this professional league and did you see it in the papers too, was it on the radio, how else did you know about this league? 10:00 6 �Well, I guess we saw the sports page and the ball games, and our whole family went to the games. Then Donna tried out, of course, you didn’t have to go anywhere else to try out, you know, they watched her play right there in Muskegon, so it was easy. Interviewer: So, she gets in and what about you? Well, I’m still in school, of course, I’m a couple years behind her, and while I’m a senior in high school they were going to have tryouts in Chicago. So, I got out of school and went to Chicago for a week. Interviewer: How did you get there? On the bus Interviewer: So, your dad is very supportive of this, because somebody had to have some money to get on the bus. Right, and he was all for it. Interviewer: There were no worries, at this point, about you going off by yourself to Chicago? Had you been to Chicago before? No, I don’t know if I’d ever been to Grand Rapids, and you just didn’t travel back then like that. 11:05 We had a car, but you just didn’t travel, and I don’t think they were afraid for me. I think they thought it was well supervised. Interviewer: How old were you at that point? Seventeen Interviewer: I know that was a long time ago, but what were your feelings as you got on that bus to go to Chicago? You know, I had mixed feelings about it. I didn’t know if I wanted to be away from home or get on a bus and to all these strange towns, even just getting to Chicago. But I 7 �think that once I got there they kept you so busy with the training, and all the girls, you just didn’t think about it after that. Interviewer: you had to go through a tryout though didn‟t you? Yes Interviewer: Where was that? In Chicago Interviewer: You get on the bus, you don‟t know if you‟re going to make the team, right? No Interviewer: But Donna already has? 12:02 Donna is already in the league. Interviewer: I‟m just trying to think, younger sister getting on the bus, going to tryout, sister‟s already in there, you had to have some feelings about worrying about it, are you going to miss her now? I think you do, but I think I had enough confidence that I knew I could play as well as the next one, and I didn’t have a problem with that. So, we trained and after the week was over I knew I’d made it, but I had to go back to school and graduate. Interviewer: Before we jump into that, you say it was a whole week? Yes Interviewer: Walk us through, basically, the whole week. You arrive in Chicago. Okay, is there somebody there to meet you? Yes Interviewer: So, tell us about that. 8 �The hotel arrangements are all made and all the girls are staying at the same place. then you just start right out early in the morning training all day long. Interviewer: You met these girls, where were they from? 13:02 They were from all over. Interviewer: Well, that had to be new. You grew up in a small town and had not even been to Chicago and suddenly there are all these girls. Ah huh, and they were from all over. I knew nobody, but it’s easy, you’re busy playing ball and it doesn’t seem like it was a problem. Interviewer: In the movie, A League of Their Own, they really made it a point to show that there were New York girls and they kind of had an attitude and there were other girls that were more Midwest and they were—was it anything like that to you in terms of different parts of the country? Well, it was different-- the fact that we were in Chicago and the manager was from Chicago and coached their other teams, and he had a lot of his own girls there, so they were like they had their foot in the door. They knew him and they had played together, some of them, so it wasn’t a problem for them. 14:04 Interviewer: So, your first day there, you arrive in Chicago. I take it you didn‟t train that day; you probably had a day off before you started? Probably, depending on what time I got there. Interviewer: So, first day of training what am I seeing? There‟s a—you see a baseball diamond, right? What am I seeing when you walk onto the field? Lots of girls out there, running, throwing, batting. A lot of it was running, throwing and catching; a lot of practice and training in catching. 9 �Interviewer: And there were a lot of individual—I take it there were men standing around watching every step to see how you threw, how you hit the ball and that sort of thing. Right Interviewer: There‟s a scene in the movie where Geena Davis walks out and she sees all those girls out there. That‟s pretty much the way it looked right? Is that right? Yes, ah huh, that’s pretty true. Interviewer: What were you thinking during that week? You said you had confidence going in, but you saw all these other girls, and you probably saw some of them were pretty good and maybe others you were thinking, “Well, you‟re not as good as you think you are”. What was going through your mind that week? 15:14 Well, I don’t think I ever thought I wasn’t going to make it. I just think I had enough confidence, and thought I knew how to play ball well enough that I didn’t know there was any way they wouldn’t pick me. I guess it must have been confidence. Interviewer: At the end of the week, how did they let you know, or let the other girls know, that you made a team? How did you find out? Well, I don’t recall that, I just don’t remember. I do know that I had to leave to come back to Muskegon, so they told me before I left. Interviewer: Did you know what team you were going to be playing for? Yes Interviewer: What team was that? The “Springfield Sallies” 16:00 10 �Interviewer: Now, Springfield is quite a distance away from Muskegon, in fact it‟s not even in Michigan. What was your reaction to that? Well, I wasn’t familiar with the Chicago team either, so as far as the names of the teams, or the states, I guess it didn’t mean a whole lot to me, I just knew I was on that team. Interviewer: Now, you go back home by bus and what was the reaction of your family when you told them you made the team? They were happy, and it’s like they knew I would. I don’t know that anyone thought I wouldn’t make it. Interviewer: That‟s wonderful—do you think part of it is because your sister came ahead of you and she was making it and you had shown that you—your father was confident that you were a good ball player? Yes, and we had a lot of write-ups in the paper, publicity, where they made it known we were good ball players. 17:00 Interviewer: I know that the media does things like that. Were there any items regarding the fact there are two sisters who had made it into the ball team? Well, with the league I don’t know that it did. Locally, with the city it did, because they were aware of it, so that made a lot difference in Muskegon. Interviewer: You graduate, now what happens? Like the next day, I had to get on a bus and go down to Evanston, Illinois. The teams left Chicago and started on the road and I met them down in Evanston. Interviewer: Let me get an idea—now you lived this and I have read about this, but I want to get to the details of how you were actually told where you‟re going, or did 11 �you just not know where you were going? You arrive now in Evanston and you‟re going to play for a season, right? Yes 18:03 Interviewer: Did they sit down with you and the whole team and say, “Okay, Tuesday you‟re going to be here and Wednesday you‟re going to be there playing this”. Did you have any idea where you were going and who you were playing? Not really, you had a business manager, a coach, and two chaperones for each team. The business manager went out ahead and scheduled the games. We’d play a game, get on the bus, and go to the next town. We might know where we’re going, but it didn’t mean anything to us, we didn’t know these towns, we just went wherever they said, “We’re leaving now and going to the next town”. Interviewer: Now, this is 19---you said 1945 was when you first— No, mine was 1949 Interviewer: 1949 was when you got in the professional league? Yes Interviewer: Okay, the war is already over with, the league has actually been going on through the war, so it‟s already established, it‟s not like it‟s a brand new thing, and it‟s been around a few years. 19:06 Yes Interviewer: Now, you joined a team that had experienced girls already playing and then some rookies like you. Tell me about being a rookie. Well, there were enough rookies that you know, but they made you know you were a rookie. But we didn’t have a lot of the girls that had been in the league too long. It might 12 �have been half and half. There were girls they sent on down to the tour team then from the teams they were playing with. See, Springfield was a team that was in the league and then they dropped the franchise in that city, that’s how it became Springfield, because there was a team there at one time and they had the uniforms and the whole bit.[The Sallies and another team were barnstorming teams made up mostly of new and younger players that traveled together and played each other as a sort of minor league for the AAGPBL] Interviewer: So, you‟re joined up with this team, you‟re one of the rookies, and tell us about your first game. 20:06 Oh boy, I don’t know if I can remember that. I played left field, I was the left fielder, and nothing stands out as far as-Interviewer: Were you first string? Yes Interviewer: Wow, so even though you‟re a rookie, they had you starting? Oh yeah Interviewer: Wow, so what‟s the first game you remember? Boy, I can’t tell you that, nothing stands out. Interviewer: When you‟re traveling like that it must be almost like a blur. You‟re playing a game, and you‟re playing another game. Let‟s talk about how that works, alright? You get on a bus, and it‟s a bus with all the girls and you‟ve got your chaperone on there. When did you first meet the chaperone? When you first started out, when you first came in there? Probably when the tour started 13 �Interviewer: What was her responsibility? She had to make sure we were all in our rooms at night and everybody was safe. 21:06 didn’t get in any trouble, and if there were injuries she also served like a nurse, giving rubdowns for “Charlie horses”, and she really had a big responsibility. See, both teams traveled together on the same bus. Interviewer: Two opposing teams? Yes, there were like thirty-five of us. There was the manager and two chaperones, and then girls from both teams, and the business manager. Interviewer: In the early days, as you well know, there was a chaperone and also, the chaperone was making sure you looked right and you didn‟t do this and that. But, you didn‟t have to go through any kind of charm school did you? No, they did earlier, but at that point they did not have a charm school. Interviewer: But, did they still—in particular the chaperone, did she make sure that when you were out in public you had to sit a certain way? 22:06 We had to be sure we were in skirts at all times. Never shorts, jeans, or slacks, those were not allowed, even riding on the bus. When you were on the bus you could put shorts on, but if you got off the bus you had to put your skirt back on. Interviewer: What about things like make-up and things like that? Well, they didn’t talk about make-up a lot. They worried about the hair, having the hair a certain length, and making sure everybody was clean and neat. Interviewer: And that was the chaperones‟ responsibility, so if you got out of bed one early morning and came out and your hair was disheveled, she could actually walkup to you and say, “Comb your hair”, or something like that? 14 �That’s right, yes Interviewer: Now, the manager, of course, was in charge of what goes on, on the field. Your first manager, how was your relationship with your first manager? 23:01 It was very good, a very nice man, and then he coached that team the first year. I went on tour two years, but then later he went into the league and I played for him in Kalamazoo. Interviewer: Managers, of course, are different because they have different personalities, they have skills and what not. There are some managers, for example in the movie; Tom Hanks was kind of angry and yelling at the people. What was your manager like in terms of how he reacted to you and to the team? He was very mild mannered, and a very nice guy. He liked to laugh and have fun. He kept everything under control and I won’t say he wasn’t stern, but he was not mean or-he wasn’t good at yelling at the girls. He could make them understand without getting irate. Interviewer: What was his background? 24:01 I think all he did was coach in Chicago. He coached girl’s teams in Chicago. Interviewer: Some of those guys were pro baseball players. Right, and he didn’t happen to be one of those. Most of those guys were former major league ball players. Interviewer: So, I want to get an idea of the traveling time. You have to go from city to city to play and you have both teams in the bus. What was it like to be on the bus? 15 �Well, we had a lot of fun, and when the season goes along, sometimes you get kind of irritated. There’s a lot of people around all the time, but for me it was easier because I came from a big family. It’s like I just fell into it, where some girls were the only child in their family and it was harder for them, but we got along good, even with our opposing team, we were all friends. 25:01 Interviewer: In the early days, did you have any idea of the impact that you were making on baseball, and on young girls who—as you know, later on baseball became part of high schools and girls had a lot more opportunities than they had before and when you were a kid. Did you have any idea, in the early days, that something like that would happen? Never, never in a million years Interviewer: You‟re playing baseball and you‟re enjoying baseball. We’re doing something we love. Interviewer: Now, you were paid pretty well too, by the standards of the time. Yes Interviewer: Do you remember what you were getting in the early days? When I was on tour, we made twenty-five dollars a week, but they paid all our expenses, and we got three dollars a day for meals, which back then, you could eat on that, those years back. So, actually I saved a lot of money, because we were always on the road, we weren’t spending a lot of money, so most of my money I just sent back home. 26:07 Interviewer: And your dad just put it in the bank, or whatever? Yes 16 �Interviewer: So, you had a little nest egg that you were building as you were moving along? Right Interviewer: And your father, you said, was doing well enough that he didn‟t have to tap into your money. Oh, no Interviewer: Because as you know, some of the girls were very poor and had to actually help support their families. So, in your case, you were actually building your own little nest egg, that‟s pretty good. He was all for that, that’s what he preached, “Get an account and save your money”. Interviewer: Now, in the early days you were playing on the Springfield team, where was your sister? She was in Muskegon to start with, and I think she went to Grand Rapids from there. To the Grand Rapids Chicks, and she played on several teams Interviewer: Now, did you know what she was up to and did she know what you were up to, in other words, was there a way of finding out if she hit a homerun in a game or not, or were you completely isolated because you were on the bus and doing your own? 27:06 No, we had no idea what was going on in the league and they had no idea what we were doing either. Interviewer: How did you get your news of what‟s going on in the world? Did you—were you so insulated in that bus, and then playing a game, and then back on 17 �the bus and then into the hotel, did you have any idea of what was going on around you? Yeah, we’d get the paper when we would stop at the hotels, you know, and check in. We’d usually travel all night after the ball game and check into a hotel, but we usually got the newspaper to know what was going on. Of course it didn’t have anything to do with the league; we didn’t know what they were doing. Interviewer: Right, because it wasn‟t like the New York Yankees or something like that. Right Interviewer: The local papers, though, would carry stories about, not the league necessarily, but about the individual teams in the town. Is that right? 28:00 Yes, and our business manager went out ahead and got the publicity out, and that’s how the crowds came to the ball games, they knew we were coming to town. Interviewer: In the early days, and we‟ll get into more details about your particular games that you played and your career, but in the early days, what were the crowds like? Well, we’d hit a lot of small towns, but we would get seven and eight thousand people, which was really great, because we’d be in some towns where it was almost like you were playing out in a field, in a pasture, but those are the towns that drew the fans from all over. Interviewer: Ball parks were different town to town obviously, but in terms of—a baseball diamond is a baseball diamond and you‟ve got bleachers for people to sit 18 �on, but you‟re saying that in some of the smaller towns it was out in the middle of nowhere, so to speak? Yes Interviewer: Okay, were some ball parks better than others to play on, just in terms of dirt and the way it was set up? 29:05 Yes, and we did play in some big parks, in big cities you know, a lot of big cities. Interviewer: Walk me through the process—you get up in the morning, you‟re in a hotel, you all get together and you‟re showering and you‟re getting your teeth clean and all that kind of stuff, and you‟re all kind of mingling around, and you get on the bus, right? Then the bus takes you to the ball park, and u go out and do your warm ups and your practice and what not. The crowd shows up, you play the game, get back on the bus, and then back to the hotel? No, normally we had to shower right at the ball park and get on the bus and travel. Sometimes we played a couple of nights in one town, but mostly it was just one night. After the game, we’d shower, get back on the bus, and travel all night again. 30:00 Interviewer: When did you sleep? Well, mostly on the bus. Interviewer: I‟ve been on buses, you can‟t sleep on buses. I know, I didn’t do good sleeping, but I’ve never needed much rest either, so I, really, didn’t worry about that. But when we got into a town early in the morning, most girls went to bed and got their rest before we had to get ready again. Interviewer: What time were the games, usually? Probably seven o’clock 19 �Interviewer: You had the whole day, basically. Yes Interviewer: What did you do? We did a lot of things we shouldn’t do, like go swimming. It was hot, and something we liked. A lot of us would go to the swimming pool, a lot of girls went to the movies where it was air conditioned, to keep cool, but basically, that’s about what I remember. Interviewer: How come you said it was things you were not supposed to do? What‟s wrong with swimming and going to a movie? Well, you take all your energy Interviewer: Ah, okay 31:04 They didn’t want you to be all tired by the time it came time for a ball game. Interviewer: Well, if that‟s the case, how did you get by the chaperone to go swimming? We had our skirts on, and she didn’t know that we were doing that. Interviewer: So, there was a little bit of talking amongst you, “Today we‟re going to go to the swimming pool, and how are we going to get out?” You were pretty much free to do what you wanted in terms of, “you got your skirt on, so you‟re allowed to go out into the town”, right? Go shopping or whatever? So, they didn‟t have someone with you all the time? No, so several of us would be together, and we’d have to get a cab to go to a pool, and we were just busied for the day, and we really stayed out of trouble. Interviewer: Were there any of you that got in trouble? Not really 20 �Interviewer: Okay I think maybe one or two girls were sent home. 32:02 Interviewer: Why were they sent home? Maybe even smoking, and we were young enough there was very little drinking. There might have been one girl that had been drinking and they sent her home, but normally, we were too young for any of that. But, if they didn’t do what they were told, that’s why they were sent home. They didn’t follow the rules. Interviewer: The rules were made very clear to you I take it in the very beginning? Yes Interviewer: No smoking, no drinking, always wear the dress, behavior had to be within certain guidelines and what not? Yes Interviewer: Where do you recall is the first real game that you played that you can remember as this is the game that you played and did something that was out of the ordinary? Was there a game you can remember? No not—what happened, I was the left fielder and I started getting Charlie horses, so then I wasn’t able to run. 33:10 So, when I was on the injured list then he started changing me over to pitching, so then I started becoming a pitcher. Interviewer: Had you pitched before when you were in softball or early on? No, never and I still, today, couldn’t pitch softball, I don’t think, underhand. Interviewer: By 1949 I‟m trying to remember now, what size was the ball? Had already gone from a larger size to a smaller size? 21 �Yeah, it was just under a softball, and then as the years went along they reduced it. Interviewer: Now, were you pitching side arm or overhand? Overhand, and there were sidearm pitchers though/ Interviewer: So, basically, the coach got you to be a pitcher because your leg was bothering you, you couldn‟t run out in the outfield to catch, you would hurt your leg. 34:04 Whereas a pitcher, basically, stands up there and throws the ball and doesn‟t run around a whole lot. Yeah Interviewer: What happened to the pitcher that was before you? Did you just become like a substitute pitcher? Well, we had several pitchers; we had three or four pitchers, so nobody had to pitch every night. Interviewer: From my recollection of baseball, you had first string and second string. Did that apply to your group, or you just had pitchers that pitched different games? Yeah, just different pitchers Interviewer: So, it wasn‟t as if you had one pitcher that played most of the games and when that person got tired you replaced them? No, it’s like the majors today where they put in a pitcher. Interviewer: Okay, your first game as a pitcher, if I remember correctly, was it Yankee Stadium? Is that accurate? 35:00 Well, we played there, but that was not our first game. Interviewer: But, your first game as a pitcher? 22 �I’ll tell you, nothing rings a bell as far as anything outstanding. Interviewer: Okay, because I have a note here that when you played at Yankee Stadium there were some Yankees there and you exchanged a signed ball with Tommy Henrich, is that right? Tommy Henrich, yes Interviewer: Tell us about that and what happened there? Well, we were there to play some exhibition before their game, so we were out in the field with them while they were having warm-ups, and so we got to talk to the fellows and I changed balls with Tommy Henrich. They would take our ball and bat it, and we were all just inner mingling. Interviewer: What‟s the difference between an exhibition game and just a regular game that you usually played? 36:00 Well, being on the tour it was, really, mostly all exhibitions, but going into the Yankee Stadium was strictly an exhibition of a couple of innings. Interviewer: Oh, I see, you just played a couple of innings. Yeah, just before their game. They were playing the Washington Senators, and we were just out on the field ahead of that in a couple of innings. Interviewer: Okay, I got it. Now, when you‟re in a city like that or a town like that, doing exhibition, did you also have to play a regular game? Well, we didn’t that night. Interviewer: So, you had a chance to go out in spectator seats and watch the game? Yes, and we did that at Washington’s Griffith Stadium also. In Washington, we went there and did that too. 23 �Interviewer: You must have seen some amazing ball players. We did Interviewer: Who were some of the ones that were playing around that time? Do you recall any names? Well, I think Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, some of the big guys. Interviewer: Wow, these are legends. 37:05 Now, this is an unfair question and I‟m giving you this in advance, okay? You‟re a good ball player, you know you‟re a good ball player, and you‟re watching Mickey Mantle, or Whitey Ford, was there ever any comparisons in your own mind about, “I can hit better than that”, or anything like that going on? I never thought that. Interviewer: Okay I never compared myself to the men. A lot of women think they could have played with the men, and maybe they could have, but as a rule, generally women are just like a step behind men, I think. Interviewer: Well, in terms of that league, you had—your actual diamond was a little bit different, right? A little smaller Interviewer: Smaller, and of course, the ball was bigger as well. Yes Interviewer: Okay, the trips that you took on the buses and the times that you spent in the hotel rooms, having dinner, lunch, or whatever, what was the mood of the 24 �team? 38:06 Did you have some friends that you made or was it kind of like you were all ball players? Did you make some good friends out of that group? Yes, lots of friends, and they’re still friends today. We still see each other at reunions or talk on the phone or correspond. Interviewer: What about the fact that they came from all over? The part, I guess that I‟m trying to get to is — I‟ve been fortunate enough that I‟ve been in an international environment. I met people from all over the world and I met people from different parts of the country, but you‟re coming from a small town, going into some of these bigger cities that you‟ve never been to before and you‟re meeting other girls that play as good as you, and are on your team, and opposing teams, but one‟s from South Carolina, maybe, and another one from New York. Was there any kind of curiosity, on your part, of how they lived their lives? Did they ask you questions about what it was like when you were growing up? Was there any of that kind of talk? 39:06 Yes, because quite a few of the girls were from Chicago and they live a different lifestyle, that’s all there is to it. When they understand how we lived they just said, “I couldn’t live like that”, and I’m saying, “I can’t live like you live either”. Some girls were from like Arkansas where they came right from the hills, and they lived a different lifestyle, but we all intermixed, you know. Interviewer: But there was a noticeable difference though, you could really tell there was—the way they talked for example, and I imagine they thought you talked funny, and you probably thought they talked funny? 25 �Yes, that’s right, and there were places where we went and people would say, “You’re from the Midwest states; we can tell by the way you talk”. We don’t think we have any kind of an accent, and when you get out east too, you know, it’s another ball game out east, the way those people live. 40:05 We were in around New York, New Jersey, Newark, and all those cities around in there. We played those when we’d wrap up the season, we’d be up in that way and you can tell immediately the difference in the attitude of the people just getting on an elevator, being in a hotel and being with different classes of people from different areas of the whole country. Interviewer: But you had a pretty solid family background. You had a solid ground, so you knew pretty much who you were, so even though you were dealing with people who had different ways of doing things, you still pretty much stuck to your own way of doing things. Yes, I think I always had a mind of my own. Nobody could convince me of, like doing the wrong thing. I knew what was right or wrong and I just wasn’t made that way. 41:02 Interviewer: Now, 1950 you leave the Springfield Sallies, and you‟re now moving on to Kalamazoo, is that right? Yes Interviewer: Why did that happen and how? Tell us about how that occurred. They didn’t have the tour after that. The two teams did not tour again and my manager from the tour was doing the Kalamazoo team and they asked me to play there. Interviewer: So, you‟re going from being a touring team, now to having a home team? Yes 26 �Interviewer: Okay, so what does that do in terms of where you‟re living, because you‟ve been living on the road, basically, all through the season? By the way, what happens after the season is over, did you just go back home? Yes Interviewer: And what did you do in the off season? The first year, we‟re talking about 1949-1950. We ran a soda bar. My dad had a soda bar, and us girls ran it, and it was just strictly in the family. 42:05 Interviewer: So, he went from his job—he was able to invest in a business and sold malts and root beer floats and things like that? Yes, sandwiches and we had a really good business, but the problem was my sister and I going away, and during the summer months when it’s the most busy, so after a couple years we stopped doing that, because he couldn’t handle it with us gone. My other sisters came and helped us, but they were all still in school. Interviewer: Now, when you got back home, both you and your sister, did you talk about—brag to each other or try to one up each other, what was that like? Oh, I don’t think we did, I don’t remember doing that. You talk about things, but we weren’t trying to outdo each other. 43:01 Interviewer: Did you talk about particular plays that you did that you thought she would be interested in, like you hit a home run, or something like that? No Interviewer: Okay, there‟s no real competition between the two of you? No, not really 27 �Interviewer: Okay, because sometimes those siblings, they got that competition going on. I didn’t feel that way, but I’m not sure how she felt. I can’t speak for her, you know. Interviewer: So, the touring team ends, and now because the manager already knew your talents, he decided he wanted you to become part of the Kalamazoo Lassies now? Yes Interviewer: What was that transition like? You went from being on the bus all the time, hotels, play, busses, what was the difference? Did you have to move to Kalamazoo? Yes, and I lived with a family. I just had a room with a couple other girls, and girls that were on the tour that I knew. In fact, neither one of them were on the team I was on, on tour, but we were friends and we lived with this family in Kalamazoo. 44:06 We just rented a room. Interviewer: So, what was your daily routine? I know what it was like when you were on the touring bus, but what is it like now that you‟re in Kalamazoo? Well, a lot of times we had to go and practice, but otherwise we found things to do. Like I said, go swimming, or other things, going to movies. Interviewer: Do you remember the first day playing at the Kalamazoo, playing for the Kalamazoo Lassies? No, not really Interviewer: Okay, what was the difference though, in terms of playing, was it just, basically, the same kind of thing, you‟re just playing the game? 28 �I think it was the same, except now I’m a real rookie with lots of veterans, and that’s the point where they made us know we were rookies and they were veterans, but there were enough of us that we stuck together, so that didn’t bother us. 45:04 I can’t say they were mean to us, they were just like, “We’re a little better than you are”, but that doesn’t last either. Interviewer: Oh, okay, because you start to prove yourself and once you start hitting that ball or catching that ball, they— And they get to know you, you know. Interviewer: Are there any notable games you can remember while you‟re in Kalamazoo? No Interviewer: How was your hitting? Not good Interviewer: Neither was mine, I was a pitcher too. I have to admit, I was not a batter. Interviewer: How was your pitching? I was fairly good. Interviewer: Any specialalities? No Interviewer: Okay, I actually learned how to throw a knuckle ball, and that was pretty impressive in little league, somebody throwing a knuckle ball. Yeah, because back then you didn’t talk about all the pitches they talk about today. 46:00 29 �Interviewer: Sure, sure, was it during this period of time that the transition went from the larger ball to a smaller ball? Yes, as the years went along it reduced two or three times. Interviewer: Right, how did you adapt to that? Was there any problem in adapting to it? I mean, it‟s a different weight though isn‟t it? Yeah, and it was a good change. It would have been worse if it was the other way around, to a bigger ball. Interviewer: So, you played with the Kalamazoo lassies from 1951 to 1953. During this period of time you were making good money and money was still going back home to be saved up in the bank. What was happening during the off seasons? You said that after a while you were no longer working in the soda fountain. 47:00 No, when I started playing in Kalamazoo I decided to stay there, because several of us stayed there then, lots of the girls stayed. Interviewer: You‟re now like nineteen, almost twenty years old by this time right? Yes Interviewer: So, you‟re actually going from being a girl to, now you‟re more of an independent woman? Yes Interviewer: You‟re making your own money, you‟re not beholding to anybody per say, okay, so you decided to stay in Kalamazoo. Just renting the room? Yes, living with, like, the same girls most of the time, and then we all played basketball together, we had the Lassie basketball team. Interviewer: This was a city team? 30 �Yes, and I started working at a bank then. Well, I started working at First National Bank in Kalamazoo. And, of course, I left there to play ball again in 1952. 48:02 They said, “Now, when you leave, we’re not going to hire you back, you won’t have your job”, and I said, “that’s okay, I’m going anyway”. So, the next year, after I played ball and was looking for a job, I was hired at Comerica Bank right across the street, and then they hired me back each time. Interviewer: This leads me to another question then. You‟re playing baseball professionally, making good money; you‟re working at a bank now okay? In your own mind now, at that time, what were you thinking in terms of your career? Were you thinking you were going to be a professional baseball player for the rest of your life, or at least for the rest of your physical ability to play, or were you already thinking, “Wait a minute, this is not going to last very long, I‟m going to be a banker or whatever”. Was any of that going through your head? Well, not in the early days. 49:00 In 1953 then, when I was loaned to South Bend, and came back to Kalamazoo, because I was still living there, that’s when I decided, “I’m just going back to the bank, I got a job at the bank, I’ll just give up baseball”. Interviewer: Jumping back a little bit, did you ever think of baseball as being a career? Not for my whole life, no. Interviewer: Why, why would you not think that you could continue playing, at least until you were physically unable to? 31 �I think that’s what you think about, “I won’t always be able to do this”. Of course, we had no idea the league was going to fold either, that was a surprise because there were girls that intended to keep playing. Interviewer: That‟s why I‟m asking you this, because I‟ve interviewed girls that thought that they were going to continue to play baseball, but you already figured out that wasn‟t going to be your path. 50:04 Right, when they loaned me to South Bend I thought, “Oh, I’m not going to go through this and have them start shifting me around”. I thought, “I got a job, I’m just going to go to work”. Of course, then I went back into local softball and basketball. I still had my sports, just not on the professional level. Interviewer: 1953, you„re playing with the Kalamazoo lassies and you were saying, just now, that they loaned you out, what does that mean? South Bend was short players, so they sent me there to help out, which they did a lot of girls. In fact, that’s the only time my sister and I played on the same team; she was loaned to South Bend also, so then we got to live together for those couple of months and play on the same team, which was the first time. 51:01 Interviewer: We‟re going to start winding it down, were about down to about five minutes more of tape, so we‟re going to wind it down and when they change the tape we‟ll get back into more of this. I wanted you to know in advance that we‟re going to stop here just briefly and switch the tapes. Okay Interviewer: I want to get into, not right now, but I obviously want to get into you being in South Bend with your sister. I think that‟s interesting and hopefully there 32 �are little stories there. You haven‟t really talked a lot about your own playing and the games. I don‟t know if it‟s just a matter of not remembering specific games, but I‟d like to talk more about some of the games that you played, and the other thing is more of the details of things like uniforms and equipment, because when you were playing on the sand lots you were saying somebody had a glove and somebody had a ball and somebody had a bat you always used and it was different when you became professional, so I want to get into those kinds of details as well. Yes, okay 52:02 Interviewer: Not being able to hit a home run—my entire time in the little league, as a pitcher, I only had one home run. Are you ready for this one? It was a bunt and they made so many mistakes, they overthrew this one and overthrew that one, so that was my claim to fame. My only homerun was on a bunt. Isn’t that funny? Interviewer: Now, we‟re into some of the details of the league, how the league was run, how you perform within the league, and let‟s start with the uniform. 53:03 When you were playing in the back sand lots it was what? Basically blue jeans and what not, whatever you could wear. When did you first, if you can recall, first see the uniform, the girl‟s uniform? Well, I was fortunate to see the Lassies in Muskegon when they came there in 1946, so I knew what they were wearing before I ever joined the league. Interviewer: What was your reaction? You‟re a young girl and you‟re supposed to dress in certain ways. Certainly you couldn‟t walk out in the street, at fourteen 33 �years old, wearing a skirt like that. Was there any reaction at all of the uniforms from you? I don’t think so, I think a rule is a rule and that was the uniform to wear, and if you didn’t like it you wouldn’t play. There was no question, it’s like all the rules, and you just had to abide by the rules. 54:01 Interviewer: What was the uniform that you wore, the first one--with the Springfield Sallies? What were the colors and what did it look like? Well, I had been fortunate, I had a white uniform with green trim, and, basically, that’s what I had in Kalamazoo, except on the road, then we wore gold, but our home uniforms were white with green, just like I was accustom to. Interviewer: Hat, baseball hat? Hat and those were like wool hats, socks, knee socks that were wool. Interviewer: Did you wear cleats? Yes Interviewer: So, they were just like professional baseball. Yes, and those were not furnished. Interviewer: Oh, really? No, you bought your own cleats and your own glove. The bats and balls were furnished, and the uniform, but we provided our own mitt. 55:02 Interviewer: Why? 56:08 You said you had to furnish your own shoes, the cleats, and your own glove, out of your own pocket. Why was that, the balls and the bats and the uniform, all that was taken care of? I don’t know why either, you know. 34 �Interviewer: The skirt itself also had shorts underneath, but the skirt did not protect your knees sliding in or anything. Did you ever have an incident where you had to slide into a base that you can remember? No Interviewer: But you saw other do that? Yes, and in the earlier years those skirts were a little longer and they were fuller. 57:02 But, they learned to make those more chic like and shorter, where it was easier when throwing and sliding and running, otherwise you had too much of a skirt. Interviewer: Right, did you ever see anyone slide in? What happens when they slide onto a base? Well, a lot of the girls had strawberries, raw hips, and some had it all year long, because they were used to that. I think my sister was one of the first people back then that slid head first. You know, they all do it today, but years ago they didn’t do that and I think she was the first one that I can recall seeing slide head first. Interviewer: From a civilian perspective, a male civilian perspective, I find it really difficult to grasp that you would slide into a base. 58:02 Literally, you call it a strawberry and we‟re talking about scraping the skin in the dirt and the stones and all that. That’s right Interviewer: Well, did they put anything on it? Did you put a band aid on it? Oh yeah, they got treated afterwards by the chaperone, 35 �Interviewer: But this was common. This is something that went on game after game and women were always getting these scrapes and what not, but that didn‟t strike you as strange? No, it’s like that was the rule and you just abided by it. Interviewer: so, the uniform, each team had their own uniforms so you could tell the difference between the teams, obviously, but you said you had, I missed the wording, but you said you had one kind of uniform and then you had a second kind of uniform? Yeah, we wore white uniforms at home and colored on the road, which the major leagues do now too. 59:00 But, we did that way back then. Interviewer: I get you now, okay—tell us about the fans. You got good crowds? Very good, very good Interviewer: These were people who were e supporting one team or the other, the home team or the other team, but were there any, in particular, that you can recall, particular fans? Well, I had a lot of friends in Kalamazoo, being I worked there during the winter months, and I would become acquainted with people, but we had regular followings though. Back in Muskegon we had a “knothole gang”, kids that stood outside the fence and they had little holes in the fence to look through and they called them the “knothole gang”. Back in Muskegon, one year, they had a hundred and forty thousand fans, which was a record, and at one game they had seven thousand. 00:01 Interviewer: Now, the “knotholes” is because they couldn‟t afford the ticket to get in, right? So, they just looked through the holes in the wood. 36 �Yes, and I see people today, kids, guys in Muskegon who were part of that. They come up and say, “I used to go to the games and I was part of the “knothole gang””. Interviewer: We got to talk to those guys--that‟s wonderful. Now, I know that professional baseball, whether it‟s women‟s baseball or male baseball, there are certain—there are fans that like one particular player or a couple of players. Did you ever have a fan club? Kind of, yes, I—it’s easy for me because I like people and I didn’t have a problem. Interviewer: Tell us about this, how did you know that these people were watching? These were young boys? Yes, and off the field I was friends with them, and we became friends because they came to the ball games. 1:03 And after the game we’d go out and eat and during the day, or on weekends, we’d go to a movie, and these fellows would follow us wherever we went. When they could do that, their work would allow them to do that, and they would come to Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne, and South Bend. We were centrally located in Kalamazoo, so these fellas could move around, and they did not miss a game. There must have been six or eight of them. Interviewer: Were they around your age? Yes Interviewer: Okay, what was their motivation for following you guys around? Well, I’m not sure, and they became friends with the other girls too and some of them might have their eye on one of them and be interested. I mean, there was always that chance. 2:01 37 �Interviewer: These are baseball fans who just happen to be enamored by you and your teammates since they would travel around to different places. I imagine that was also true of other teams. I don‟t know if you know that or not, but do you think that‟s true of other teams? I think so, I think so, I’m sure that’s how some of the girls met their husbands, by going to ball games. Interviewer: You were a pitcher through most of your career? Yes Interviewer: You started off, as I recall that, you played in left field and because of your Charlie horses you were made into a pitcher. Did you feel that you got better as a pitcher as time goes on, simply because you were practicing, obviously, more and more, but did you feel like you got better, or did you just kind of take to being a pitcher? I don’t know if I got better. I felt, myself, that I was kind of wild, but, you know, I’m left handed and that’s what they say, that left handers are wild. 3:05 Interviewer: Did you ever “bean” anybody? No, but close, and one incident, we were in New York and the leadoff batter was a small girl and the first pitch I threw went behind her instead of in front of her, and she yelled so loud you could have heard her for a mile. She was just like, you know, petrified. Well, that made me laugh and everybody there was laughing and I could not keep a straight face after that, the way she yelled. I couldn’t believe I did it to start with, but it was just an incident I’ll never forget. 38 �Interviewer: There had to be individual batters that everybody knew was a really good batter. 4:03 When I was in little league there was a guy that was taller than all the rest of us and everybody knew that this guy was a major hitter. So, the first time he ever came up to me, as a pitcher, I remember that distinctly. Now, this interview is not about me, so I‟m not going to go into details, but I want to know, did something like that happen to you? There was somebody who already had a reputation for being a hitter and you‟re the pitcher, and your job is to strike that person out, or at the very least, have them hit the ball in such a way that your teammates can get them out. Now, can you recall running up against somebody who was—had a reputation for being a good hitter? Well, we had several in the league; in fact, one of them was on our own team, Doris Sams, who was one of the league’s best hitters, but there were several on other teams that you had to watch out for. Interviewer: Do you recall any incident where you had real trouble striking a person out? 5:02 No, not to my knowledge Interviewer: Did anyone hit a home run off of you? I don’t think so, I don’t remember any. Interviewer: What was the biggest fear, as a pitcher, what was the biggest fear you had of the batter? In terms of, are they going to hit it into right field, left field, are they going to hit a line drive, what were the ones that you were concerned the if you threw the ball a certain way, it was going to get hit in a certain way and then you guys were in trouble, do you remember? Because I can remember when I was a 39 �pitcher, one of the things I was concerned about was when they would hit over my head right down the line and, of course, the short stop and they would all try—and then you would have bases running. Did any of that kind of strategy go through your head when you were pitching? Nope, nope, I think I was so busy trying to get the ball over the plate that I didn’t worry about where they were going to hit it. 6:02 Interviewer: Okay, did you have a special? Was your fast ball really good? Did you have a curve ball? Mostly fast ball, but being a left hander you had a natural curve, so that’s one thing the catcher was worried about, you know, a left hander throwing it. Interviewer: What was your actual pitching style? I raised my leg and threw that way. How did you pitch? Straight overhand Interviewer: But you had to wind up? Oh, yeah Interviewer: And then what? You brought the ball here, right, and then what? Then I kicked my leg too. Interviewer: You did kick your leg? Yeah Interviewer: That gave you the traction to do the overhand? Right, to throw straight down, you know. Interviewer: Any times when the ball came straight at you, when they hit the ball? 7:01 40 �A couple of times Interviewer: Can you talk about that? Do you remember that? No, I was fast enough to reach out, you know. I didn’t get hit with it anyway. I was either fast enough to get out of the way or catch it. Interviewer: Do you remember any close games? I mean ones where you really didn‟t know if you were going to win or not? Not right off hand, no. I guess we’re talking about too many years ago that nothing sticks in my mind. Interviewer: Sure, sure, you were talking about this “knothole gang” and these young gentlemen who used to follow you around. What about girls, did girls come to the games? I mean, eleven, twelve, thirteen, you know, a little younger than you, but were there girls at these games? I’m sure there were, because we had bat girls, too. There were young girls that hung around the ball park and then they became a bat girl, but most of them were not real young kids. 8:05 There were lots of ladies there, lots of women that enjoyed the sport. Interviewer: I was thinking that here you had these male admirers that were following you around, and I‟m just wondering why there were no younger girls that were fascinated by the baseball and would want to meet with you and talk to you. I don’t know, I think that it wasn’t that popular yet in the schools like todays time. They didn’t do that in school like they do today. Interviewer: Did you have to sign autographs? Yes Interviewer: Like balls and things like that? 41 �Yes, we did a lot of that. Interviewer: Was that done just after the game? People would come up and ask you for an autograph? Sure Interviewer: What was your reaction to that? You‟d seen Yankee‟s baseball gets those sorts of things and did you just take that in stride that somebody wanted your autograph? Yeah, I didn’t think about it like I’m really something, and it seemed like that was the thing to do. 9:05 You liked that they wanted your autograph and I liked it when the people liked me. Interviewer: Did you ever get interviewed for a newspaper or radio during those days, do you remember? No, I’m trying to think Interviewer: In terms of—I want to get, once again, down to the “South Bend Blue Sox” when you were loaned out. You were part of a major team, the “Kalamazoo Lassies”, you were part of a touring team, the “Springfield Sallies”, was that a different experience for you to be just loaned out to a team? Yes Interviewer: In what way? I don’t know, but I didn’t like it, and I know a lot of girls were loaned. My sister played on about eight different teams and I guess that comes with the territory, but I didn’t like it when I was loaned out. 10:07 Interviewer: Why? 42 �I don’t know, I guess I thought, I didn’t know if Kalamazoo didn’t need me, and maybe it hurt my feelings, and maybe that’s why I quit at the end of the year. Interviewer: I guess that‟s what I was getting at, maybe that was part of the motivation. It was like; “I’m not going back”, but they still had my contract in Kalamazoo. I’m like, “I’m not going to go back and have them start shifting me around”. Interviewer: When you‟re playing with the “Lassies”, and when you played with the “Sally‟s”, you had mentioned that there‟s a sense of--you have a team, there‟s a camaraderie, you know the people, you‟re going through the same kinds of trials and tribulations, but with the South Bend team did you feel that, it was—did you feel like you were part of that team? 11:00 Yeah, it was alright Interviewer: A different uniform? Oh yeah—well, the same short skirt, different colors is all. Interviewer: Right, how did you get fitted for those? Did they have a tailor there, or something? Yeah, they had places they would take them and have them dry cleaned and stuff. They had places to take them, because we didn’t wash our own uniforms. Those were left at the clubhouse and I believe the chaperone, that was her job to make sure the uniforms got cleaned, so they were dry cleaned, you know. Interviewer: What did you do for—you mentioned before that on the off days, or the days before you played a game, you would either go swimming, or you would go 43 �to the movies, but what was some of the other recreation? What were some of the other things you used to do? Right off hand I can’t tell you. Interviewer: Were you a reader, did you like to read? Sure, but then you didn’t have TV like today. 12:02 You didn’t sit home and watch TV, and it’s like we had something going on all the time, maybe with several of us going shopping. Interviewer: Were you very fashion conscious? No, not really, of course I worked in the bank, so you had to wear skirts again, you always wore a dress, so that part of it, you weren’t in slacks like you are today. That wasn’t the style. Interviewer: Right, now during this period of time, you‟re starting out at seventeen and you‟re into your twenties, and if this is too personal you just don‟t have to say anything, but it was at this time—usually, when a young girl starts to think about boys and boys start thinking about girls. Was there anybody in the wings there? 13:00 Yup, I had boy friends in Kalamazoo, and I had them in Muskegon while I was in high school, but nothing serious on my part, but I had several boyfriends. Interviewer: Now, these boyfriends--were they people you attracted because you were a ball player, or they met you when you were not playing ball? Well, both 44 �Interviewer: Because that‟s got to be flattering, to be playing baseball and some guy comes up and he‟s obviously interested in talking to you and maybe wants to go out to a movie, or something like that? Yes, and I did that a lot, or we went swimming. After the game they took you out for dinner. We had a couple of hours until we had to be back, but we went out for dinner a lots of times after the ball game, but I did go places with them, or go to movies—a lot of activities. Interviewer: Did you travel in groups when you went on these dates, and whatnot? Was there like two of you, or three of you, a group of you? 14:05 Yes, maybe a couple of the girls and two or three of the boys. Interviewer: Were you a dancer? No, back then I wasn’t. I just wasn’t interested then. Interviewer: We had talked earlier about the fact that you didn‟t see baseball as a career for you, and you could see that there was something else you wanted to do, what did you want to do besides baseball, or did you know at that time? I know you worked in a bank, but that was basically because it was a job, but what did you want to do? Well, I think at that point in my life, I thought I’d be in banking all my life. I wasn’t scouting around looking for something new. I wished I had gone on to college, and living in Kalamazoo, that would have been ideal. Interviewer: That was available to women, at that time, to be able to go to college? 15:02 45 �Yes, and some of our girls did that, some of the girls that I roomed with. I wish I had, because I would be a physical education teacher. Interviewer: Okay, that makes sense. That’s the regret I have, of not getting into PE. Interviewer: Right, but you, after you—let‟s talk about that. The south Bend Blue Sox, you still have a contract with Kalamazoo though, right? Yes Interviewer: What made you decide to quit baseball? The league didn‟t fold until 1954. Right Interviewer: That wasn‟t the reason. No, I got my contract in 1954, but I was working at the bank, and I just decided I wasn’t going to do that, and then have them shift me around, which I had no idea they would, but I just thought, “I’ll just keep my job”, and it’s funny how that happened, because the league stopped then that year. 16:08 In 1954 it was all done. Interviewer: Was your sister still playing? Yes Interviewer: So, what was her reaction to your quitting, do you remember? No Interviewer: There was no conversation about, “What are you doing?” “Are you crazy?” “What are you doing?” There was nothing like that? No Interviewer: What about your dad? 46 �I think he didn’t like it, because he really enjoyed the fact that we played, and that was really his life, you know, but he didn’t try to stop me. Interviewer: Well, it was a responsible job, and working at a bank, at that time, was a very prestigious thing. Right Interviewer: But what about—and maybe it‟s too much detail, but what about the money, was the bank paying better than baseball, or was baseball paying better than the bank? No, I think I was making more playing baseball. Maybe not a lot more, but I was making more than on the job. 17:03 Interviewer: But, you didn‟t have to travel, didn‟t have to get on the bus, didn‟t have to do a lot of that sort of thing. Right Interviewer: Did you—forgive me because my dates are not where they should be, but did you go to Cuba? No, I was not in the league at that time. Interviewer: Okay, was there any unusual place that you went beside just to South Bend and Kalamazoo. Was there any particular place that really sticks out, maybe New York City or someplace like that? When I played on tour there were a lot of places, and Washington was one of them, and New York. Interviewer: Washington D.C.? Yes 47 �Interviewer: What was your impression of Washington? This is has got to be—I remember when I first went to Washington D.C., it‟s amazing with all those monuments and all that, and you were a young kid. I know, and you know, they kept us so busy playing one game here and moving into one game there, that I wasn’t really impressed too much with a lot of cities. I liked the fact that I had been there, and we did see a lot of the country. 18:05 When we were on tour we went over a hundred thousand miles each summer, and played games, usually one night stands. It took us all the way from the Midwest, down south, back up to the east coast, and then we went up into Canada. So, we went across the border into Canada, and those are things that never would have happened in my lifetime. Interviewer: If you were a banker. That’s right, yeah Interviewer: What was it like down south? Different than the way we live, but nothing sticks out in my mind that—where the people were so—I think the people down south are really nice people, where I can’t always say that when you get to big cities. 19:04 You know, you get to New York and Newark and some of those big cities and everybody’s-- it’s a busy life, it’s a different life style. Interviewer: Did you have hecklers? Yes Interviewer: Like what? Do you remember? Probably in New York Yeah well, I just—I can’t tell you what I---anything that sticks out in my mind. Interviewer: But, you did get heckled, and there were people that would yell out. 48 �“White girls can’t play ball”, you know, and stuff like that. Of course I think they change their mind once they see us play, and that’s when it comes about, you know. They can talk and holler all they want, but once they see the game they know better. 20:00 Interviewer: What was the process of getting out of your contract with Kalamazoo, or did it just end and then you just decided not to renew, what happened? They sent me a contract and I just returned it and said I wasn’t interested. Interviewer: Your coach didn‟t contact you or say, “Why aren‟t you going to do this?” No, it went back to the business manager and they probably had enough players that they didn’t worry about it. Interviewer: How did you find out that the league folded? Well, living in Kalamazoo I was able to be up on the latest news with that, and I was rooming with one of the girls that was playing. We roomed together and then when I stopped playing ball we still roomed together. I went to work and she went to play ball, so I knew, because I was still friends with all the girls. 21:02 Interviewer: What was your reaction? Well, I just couldn’t believe it, but I’m sure the ones still playing ball couldn’t believe it more than me, and I was stunned. I thought they’d still be playing. Interviewer: Did you have any emotional reaction? Were you angry or sad or anything like that? No, because I wasn’t part of it anymore. Interviewer: Did you miss it? 49 �Yes, but I did go back into softball, local softball in Kalamazoo, so I was still playing, and then we started playing basketball, so I was still active. Then I got into bowling and some of the other sports. Interviewer: So, sports have been a major part of your life. Yes Interviewer: Let‟s talk about the aftermath of playing baseball. 22:02 You‟re working at the bank now, and what was the next major thing that happened in your life? Well, I still would have been in Kalamazoo, but my mom got sick, back in Muskegon and my three sisters that were still home got married and they went away with their husbands to the war. So, they all left town and my mom wasn’t well, and that’s when I decided I better quit my job at Comerica and go back home and see if I could help. Interviewer: So, what did you do? What work were you doing back home? Well, I worked in a bank. Interviewer: I see, so you just found another job in a bank. The vice-president there got be a job back in Muskegon, so I knew when I went home that I already had a job, and then I lived at home with my folks, and there were still some of the kids’ home, the younger ones. Interviewer: What happened to your older sister that was playing baseball? When baseball was over with what did she do? 23:01 She stayed in Rockford the first year. Interviewer: Rockford, Illinois? 50 �Yeah, that’s where she ended up playing ball, so she got a job over there and things weren’t working out right, so she came back home and I got her a job in the bank, so then she worked at the bank for twenty-five years after that, so that was good for her and then she got settled down. Interviewer: Did you start a family? No, I never did. I don’t know, I guess because I came from a big family I never felt like I missed anything. We always had little kids around, you know, and by then we had nieces and nephews and my life was already full. Interviewer: Looking back, now we had talked earlier about when you played baseball you really had no idea of the effect that your actions, and the actions of your fellow ball players, as women, were having on this culture and on the way women play sports. 24:10 Now, go to any high school in America and you‟ve got a girls baseball team, a girls basketball team and whatever. When you were growing up that didn‟t happen, that didn‟t exist at all. No Interviewer: So, here you are working in the bank now, the league is over with, you‟re going on with your life, there‟s your family, there‟s families around you, when did you start thinking—when did you start becoming aware of the effect that professional women‟s baseball had? Was there any, even in the fifties and into the sixties, was there any idea that there was some affect that you had? No not really, it took about twenty years after our league folded and then we started having reunions and then things started happening where then we got inducted into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame. 25:10 51 �Interviewer: When was the first reunion that you can remember, do you remember that? I believe it was 1980. Interviewer: So, how did you find out there was going to be a reunion? They had one of our girls out of Kalamazoo, and she started it. Interviewer: Do you remember who it was? June Peppas, she had a print shop, in fact, she really lived in Allegan at that time, but she go everybody’s names and addresses and people that she didn’t have, somebody else would help her find them. They’d say, “Oh, I know so and so and I know where they live, or I have their address”, and she formed the first reunion, and we went to Chicago. Interviewer: How did you find out, did you get an invitation in the mail? How did you find out? She sent out invitations and planned the whole thing, with help. 26:04 Interviewer: I want you to think about this now. What was your reaction when you opened up that piece of paper and this has been twenty years? You haven‟ played baseball professionally, you left early and you open this thing up and they‟re saying, “We want you to come”. I thought, “Great, I get to see all the girls again”, and I had friends still in Kalamazoo, so we talked to each other and I went down to Kalamazoo and we rode together to Chicago to the reunion. I rode with other girls who had roomed with us before, and it was just great seeing everybody after all those years. Interviewer: Can you recall any of the conversation in the car going up? You must have had—the anticipation alone of seeing all these people you really cared for and 52 �had a major impact in your life, what was that like being in a car driving to Chicago? 27:00 Well, it was, “I wonder about her and I wonder about her. Will she be there, or is she still around, or what does she look like?” Interviewer: So, you arrive by car and there‟s what, three or four of you? Yes Interviewer: You‟re at the hotel where you‟re going to have the reunion. Do you recall walking into the lobby? Tell us about that. Oh, it was great, and there were people all over that had already gotten there, it was wonderful, you could not believe it. Interviewer: Did you recognize people? Yes, most everybody Interviewer: But you were a little bit older at that time, but not that much really, but you recognized people huh? Yeah, and there was one girl everybody was looking for who was famous, Dotty Schroeder, she was on the cover of a men’s sports magazine back in those years when we played ball, and she was beautiful. She was one that I had roomed with in Kalamazoo, but when she walked into the hotel—everybody was waiting to see when Dotty would come. 28:08 she walked in and everybody just stopped talking and were just looking. She wasn’t anybody that was forward, and she just stood there and was starting to get embarrassed. It was only for a few seconds, but it seemed like a long time. I said, “You’re just as ugly as you always were”, and that cracked everybody up, you know, it was like break the silence, you know, but that started everybody. 53 �Interviewer: Why was she kind of—because I remember from what I‟ve read and the research I‟ve done, always the focus was on the team, it was never about individuals. Not like Mickey Mantle or any of the baseball players that you—the male baseball players. How come she stood out? 29:01 Well, she was always one of the best, and there were others like that, Doris Sams, played with Kalamazoo, and she was another one, a great hitter, a great fielder, and a pitcher, she could pitch too, and she was one of the famous ones, and we had quite a few of those. Interviewer: But for some reason Dotty Schroeder, for you, for all of you, seemed to be the one everyone wanted to see there. Yeah, I think everybody thought, “I wonder what she looks like now?” I don’t know if you ever said it, but you could tell that’s what people were thinking, and she looked the same, she looked the same. Interviewer: I mentioned to you earlier, before the interview, that I‟d been to Flying Tigers reunions, and I‟ve been to reunions where there are these very close knit people from the WWII era. You were there for three days? Yeah 30:01 Interviewer: And you had dinners and what not, and was there talk about liking it so much you want to do this again? Yes, that’s when we decided we would do it every five years, and we did do it every five years for a little while, but then we stopped and we went to two years. Well then it wasn’t too long and now we do it every year. It depends on the location of the reunion, how many girls we get to come. If it’s centrally located we get them from the east and 54 �the west, where if you have to go clear to California, sometimes you don’t get the girls from out east. You know, not everybody can afford to do this. Interviewer: After the first reunion, which was just kind of thrown together because this one woman went through all the hassle, and I know what it‟s like to have to put on one of these things, you made it more formal and you have a board of directors, and you ended up as an association. 31:04 Yes, after that Interviewer: So, then individuals were elected to the board and they would decide, “Okay, we‟re going to have a reunion in Milwaukee”, or we‟re going to have a reunion here or wherever it is. Did you vote on that? A lot of it depended on if somebody volunteered to do it, and you’re talking about a lot of work. You’ve got to be in a place where you have help, and you can’t go to some far out place where you’re the only one. You can’t do it by yourself. Where like going to California there must have been ten or twelve girls out that way, close by, that could help and put on the reunion. We went to Fort Wayne for quite a while and we had many reunions there. You’ve heard of “Run Jane Run”? Interviewer: Yeah, sure When that was coming into town, in Fort Wayne, we’d be part of that, because our girls would get into the golf tournaments and stuff. 32:02 That worked for a lot of years, going to Fort Wayne, but we had people there to do that. Interviewer: After the first reunion, when did it start to become more of a public— when did you start becoming more into the public? When you were in baseball, obviously, you were part of the public, because the public came out to see you and 55 �they wanted your autograph and all that, but then you had this twenty years where you‟re working in the bank and your sister‟s working in the bank, people are married and they‟re having kids and all that, and now you have this reunion, and people have reunions because they want to get together and share the experiences they went through, so that‟s something special. When did you start to realize that the public was starting to, then or even earlier, know that this was something special? I think the public didn’t get involved until we went to Cooperstown. 33:03 We were admitted into Cooperstown, and of course, that became public all over the country, and then that’s when Penny Marshall got a hold of it and said, “Let’s make a movie”. Interviewer: Let‟s back up just a little bit. Did you ever have—I can tell just by talking to you in this interview that you didn‟t exactly toot your own horn and say, “I‟m this and I‟m that”, it‟s just not you, but did people know that you played baseball when you were in the bank, for example? Where there people that come up to you and asked for your autograph? Back then they weren’t asking for autographs. People knew and it wasn’t something you talked about every day, and of course, for a lot of years I was still involved in softball, so I was going to tournaments and going out of town to play ball, but being from Muskegon and living there and having a team there at one time, those people always knew that we played ball with the girls. 34:04 So, that was always a known fact, because we were local. Interviewer: But the change really happened when you got inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. How did that happen? 56 �I think one of our women started working on that and then when it became known, there were several players that wanted to be inducted all by themselves. They thought they should be the only ones that should be in it, not the rest, well people that were running it didn’t agree with that. They said, “We’ll all go or forget it, we’re not going to work on it”, so it had to be all of us, which was only fair, because whose going to go around and say this one deserves to be there, but not that one. Interviewer: So, they set a date for the formal induction. 35:00 It was going to be at the Baseball Hall of Fame and were you invited, or was it open to anyone that wanted to go, or how did that work out? Well, we were invited by the hall of fame, but that’s still—you had to go there and pay your own expenses, and somebody had to set up all this stuff to have our big banquet there, and of course, we had to start working on places to stay. You’ve been to Cooperstown probably? Interviewer: I have not, but— It’s very small, just a one horse town and they had not one third enough places. Well, we ended up having like seven hundred people, and they couldn’t believe it. They just were amazed, which they have been ever since, because of how popular the whole this is since we’ve been there. 36:01 They get more inquiries about our league than anything and they tell us that themselves. Interviewer: So, you get the invitation that you can go to the induction and you went, right? How did you get there? I flew and I stayed—we didn’t have a place in Cooperstown, we stayed about twenty miles north, and I stayed with three other girls. 57 �Interviewer: What about your sister? She wasn’t able to go at that time. She did not go, but I went there and stayed with friends and then we had to drive back and forth to Cooperstown, but we had to do that anyway. We’ve been invited back since then and we’ve stayed at Syracuse, and drive in to Cooperstown. Interviewer: Okay, tell me about that first day of walking into the Hall of Fame. What was—I saw the movie and I know in the actual movie they used a different room, it wasn‟t the actual place. 37:04 But, give me a visual, show me what you were seeing. Was there an actual ribbon cut and all that kind of thing? Well, tell us about that. To tell you the truth, it was so crowded, there were so many people, you just couldn’t even get up close to see the exhibit and everything. You had to go there another time in order to appreciate what was there, but it was fantastic. The people just were just all over the place and Cooperstown could not believe it. It was like we took them by storm, you know, and they still tell us that. I’ve gone back a couple of times with different groups, eight of us one time and four of us another time, and they always tell us how wonderful it is. That we’re there and that the people just love it and everybody that works in town says the same thing. 38:03 Interviewer: I know it‟s going back a ways, but I‟m trying to get inside of you for a moment. You‟re very modest, and that‟s very obvious from this interview and from the times that we‟ve talked on the phone and what not, but please, just for the sake of this moment—you‟re there, you‟re being inducted as a team, not you alright? What did you feel like? 58 �Oh, I thought it was fantastic, and it’s beyond your imagination. Nothing you would have ever dreamed of. All the years you played ball you didn’t dream of that. Interviewer: Let me ask you what might seem like a stupid question. Why do you think you were inducted, not you, but the team, why were you inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Well, I think it got to the point where they had to do something about women in sports, plus the Negro leagues. 39:03 That stuff had been put on hold too long, because the Negro league could say the same thing. We’re, like, in the same boat they’re in and I think that they thought it was time. And I know they’re not sorry at all that they did it, at Cooperstown, because it has really made their place a lot more popular. Interviewer: Did you get a chance to talk to some of the other ball players, the women ball players, about their feelings being inducted into the Hall of Fame? Oh yeah, everybody just was amazed, you just can’t believe it. Interviewer: You keep saying that part and it‟s interesting that you do, because you played the game because you loved the game, and you never thought in your wildest dreams that it would go anywhere beyond that. 40-:02 Never Interviewer: But, now you‟re in the Baseball Hall of Fame, which somebody‟s telling you, whether you want to know it or not, they‟re saying, “This is something really special”. Did it finally dawn on you that you were actually part of something that‟s part of American history? Well, that started the ball rolling and then the movie came along, right from that point on, and once the movie came out that just broke it all and it’s just been wild ever since. 59 �Interviewer: Then the world knew about it, and the world recognized something that you didn‟t even recognize, that you did something extra ordinary with your teammates. Yes, and we hear about it every day now, and we go out and tell the history of our league to different groups, talk to young kids, third graders, little girls that play ball, give autographs, you know, give them—and of course we have our own baseball cards, and we pass out baseball cards. 41:08 Anybody, any age group that we go to, just can’t stop thanking us enough for what we have done for women’s sports. Interviewer: Going back to baseball cards, and I want to get back to this, but did you have baseball cards when you were playing? No, that came about after all this. I can’t tell you what year, but it hasn’t been all that many years, maybe ten or fifteen at the most. Interviewer: What do you think was the overall effect of this league , looking back now, and now you‟ve gone through this period where you‟d played ball and didn‟t realize you were doing something extra ordinary, and now the world is telling you that you did something extra ordinary and it hasn‟t gone to your head I noticed, but let‟s really take this moment. 42:08 What does it mean to you, personally, what does it mean to you, this experience you went through and now you‟ve seen the reaction of the entire world? They made a movie about it. When you were seventeen and going to the movies, the movies were up there, you weren‟t a movie, you were just a seventeen year old. What does it mean to you to look back now? What does it mean to you, this whole experience you went through? 60 �Well, I don’t know if it means a lot in my life. I mean I don’t have any gains by it or anything. I enjoy being popular and that everybody else enjoys it. I like to talk about it and give them all the history that I can give them; I enjoy that part of it. I never sit back and think, “Look at me, I’m something”. 43:04 I’m just glad I’m part of it and can do what I can do for girls in sports today. Interviewer: On a final note, I always ask this of every veteran, if they‟re in battle or not in battle or from that period of time. Looking back, I know that you said thought this interview that you really didn‟t know that it would ever turn out like this, that this would have that kind of positive—and that‟s what it comes down to, a very positive effect on women and little girls and what not, and in your wildest dreams you said you never knew this was going to happen. Can you, somewhere inside of you, can you—is there any glimmer that somewhere back then you knew you were doing something that might turn into something like this? Was there any glimmer at all back then? No, no Interviewer: But, were you that surprised when it happened? 44:04 Yes, I worked many years after all of this and never talked about it with people. But, being local, people knew about it, but it was not something you discussed. You never said, “Look at me, I played ball, I played pro ball”. It was just a part of your life and it was in the past. If they didn’t know about it, no problem, but in Muskegon lots of people knew about it, so it was hard to get away from it, because people who had gone to the ball games still were living. You would, like, go to the store and you’d see fellows that had been going to the ball games, and they’d yell at ya, “Hey”, and they remembered that 61 �you were one of the ones that played ball and that’s before any of this stuff ever came out, and I really enjoyed that with people, or even today with people that are older, but they were young kids then. 45:08 They would say, “I remember, I used to be part of the gang that went there”, so it’s fun. Interviewer: One final question and it‟s going to be a tough one, because I‟m pretty sure you don‟t think in these terms, but can you try on this one? What do you think the legacy of the women‟s baseball is, what‟s it left behind, what‟s the legacy of what you all did? I hope we opened up sports for girls. I hope we helped with the Title IX. I feel like we did, the way sports has taken hold in all the high schools and college, for women, and I think we opened the door, and I think they’ll tell you that, a lot of the other ones that are in pro sports will tell you that. 46:10 I was in Cooperstown on a visit when a lady was there with her grandchildren, and she was part of Title IX from the very beginning. She said, “I’m just amazed to meet you girls. To think that I met you and you were part of that league”. She said, “I don’t believe it”, and here she’s worked on Title Nine all her life and she was just dumb founded that she was introduced to us. I think that’s a great feeling. Interviewer: Well, it‟s been an honor talking with you. Well, thank you Interviewer: Thank you so much. I appreciate it 47:00 62 �63 �64 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Interviews Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was started by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, during World War II to fill the void left by the departure of most of the best male baseball players for military service. Players were recruited from across the country, and the league was successful enough to be able to continue on after the war. The league had teams based in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and operated between 1943 and 1954. The 1954 season ended with only the Fort Wayne, South Bend, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Rockford teams remaining. The League gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball. Many of the players went on to successful careers, and the league itself provided an important precedent for later efforts to promote women's sports. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-58)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Sports for women World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Oral history Baseball players--Minnesota Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Wisconsin Baseball players--Michigan Baseball players--Illinois Baseball for women--United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-58 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-58_DCook0176BB Title A name given to the resource Cook, Doris (Interview outline and video), 2010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cook, Doris Description An account of the resource Doris Cook was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1931. She grew up in a large family and played baseball and other sports. When a women's professional baseball team moved to Muskegon in 1946, her older sister tried out and joined the team. Doris then joined the league after finishing high school in 1949, and played first for the Springfield Sallies, a barnstorming team, and then for the Kalamazoo Lassies and the South Bend Blue Sox, and played through the 1953 season. She initially expected to be an outfielder, but when she had some problems running, she was converted to a pitcher, and was a pitcher throughout her professional career. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Boring, Frank (Interviewer) WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives Baseball for women--United States Baseball Sports for women Baseball players--Illinois Baseball players--Indiana Baseball players--Michigan Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-08-04 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/484">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/486c17b6a6d180bde74f95b651c99ed5.mp4 279e2336a2f626ed13aa05fcf6fd282d https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/efcaedc379d115b3857813192421e2fc.pdf b79ff69161726942fbe90bce9e746bfe PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Jack and Eileen Cooley (00:59:09) (00:03) Pre-Enlistment • Interviewer is Charlie Collins. (00:03) • Jack’s full name is Jack William Cooley. He was born October 19th, 1924 in Rockwood, MI. (00:25) • Eileen Cooley was born in Interlochen, MI, May 15th, 1924. Her maiden name was Korby, which is a Finnish name. Her father was a Finnish immigrant. • (01:55) Jack went to school for K-8 in Rockwood. Rockwood is about eleven miles north of Monroe, Michigan. At the time, they were called the “downriver rats.” His house was on the Huron River. His father worked for ford in Flatrock, working on R-28 engines. (00:42) • Eileen’s mother died of anemia when she was six. Anemia is now a curable disease. When her mother died, Eileen went to live with her aunt and uncle in Trenton until her father adjusted. Her father was a section manager for the MNE (Manistee North East) railroad. Later on he worked Nikkema, and then Norwalk. (03:00) • Her brother went to her grandparents, and went to High School in Mesick, MI. (04:52) • Jack doesn’t remember much of his childhood school. It was a small school. They moved to Trenton when he was in the 8th grade. He and Eileen went to the same high school starting in 1938, and they graduated in 1941. (06:05) • Jack worked at Lincoln Park Tool and Gauge when the Pearl Harbor attacks occurred. He was sixteen and worked seventy hours a week. (06:32) • Eileen was in a movie theatre at the time. The theatre manager came out during the show and advised everyone that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. He also advised all navy personnel to return to base. (05:52) • Jack graduated High School at the age of sixteen. He started school a year early. (07:33) • Jack and Eileen knew each other at school, but weren’t dating at the time. They were in the same group of friends and often went out as a group. Eileen went to prom with Malcom Elias, and Jack went with Elma. Jack was in the hospital recovering from an accident, and thinks he disappointed his date. He still feels somewhat bad about it. (07:52) • During his senior year, Jack had been at a dinner for the sports team. On the way home he went through a side street and another driver hit him. He woke up in the hospital with a police officer at the end of his bed. The officer informed him that the other man had died in the accident. Jack does not remember the accident, but he does remember the ambulance ride because one of his classmates was the driver. His classmate did not recognize him, but he was covered in blood. (09:08) �• Jack worked at the factory as a “precision gauge finisher.” His job was to bring gauges down to the exact size after they had been lathed and worked. He used a johansen block to make the measurements. It was a good job. (10:43) (12:36) Enlistment and Training • Jack tried to be a pilot for the Air Force because he wanted to be a “big shot.” He failed the physical because of his bad depth perception. Later, he was drafted in 1943, after finishing his first year of school at the University of Michigan. He was an Aeronautical Engineering major. (12:36) • He had his physical in Detroit a month after being drafted. He was then sent to Fort Custer for a week. Next, he was sent on a train to Grenada, MS. He was not informed it was going to Grenada, and had hoped it would stop somewhere else. He was assigned to the 167th Combat Engineering Battalion. (13:37) • The men built their own base at Camp McCain. The area was very dry and barren. It did not rain often, but when it rained it rained hard. One day it rained and the six feet deep drainage ditches overflowed. He learned to march with muddy boots and dust in his eyes. The blue clay in the area made digging a foxhole hard work. Aside from the weather conditions it was not too bad. (14:48) • During his early training he was taught how to build a bridge over water, or over a canyon. They had high quality equipment; most of it was kept on a truck. They had band saws, circular saws, drills, and other items. They would pull into the woods and use the tools to cut down trees and make them into bridges. They built a bridge on the Yazoo River. (16:11) • He finished Basic with that outfit. He was then given three choices. He could go out as a first sergeant for a new Battalion, or he could go to OCS or ASTP. He choice to go to ASTP (Army Specialized Technical Program) as it was training for engineers, which was what he wanted to do anyway. The patch for the group was the “lamp of knowledge.” (17:25) • The engineering school was in St.Louis, Missouri. He was in the program for three months, and then it was shut down due to an infantry shortage. When he enrolled in ASTP he had to give up his rank of corporal, so he was back in the infantry as a private. (18:14) • His group was shipped to Camp Hope in Louisiana. He was sent to practice maneuvers in his new shoes, which were not suited to it. They built foxholes as well. His group spent three days without food because of a supply problem; it was the most miserable part of his service experience. (18:58) • At the end of the three days, they were given C rations. At the time, they tasted very good. Some of the men put their rations in the fire to warm them and they exploded. They learned to poke holes in them to let expanding air escape. He frequently had SPAM in the service, but has not had it since. (20:06) (21:22) Eileen’s Education • Eileen had wanted to be a nurse, but couldn’t enroll in the program because she was only seventeen. She worked at Owen’s Drug Store and earned three dollars a week. Of that, she saved about two dollars and put it into the bank. Her bank was the “People’s Bank.” She was later accepted into the Early Hospital in Flint, �• Michigan. In the meantime, the US Nurse Corps started up, and she signed up. She was then sent to Wayne State with other nurses who represented other hospitals in the area. They studied Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry and Biology. Her education was paid for by the government, as were her uncomfortable white shoes. When she graduated she bought new shoes. (21:22) After graduating, she had to have her toe operated on, probably because of the bad shoes. She was not sent to active duty in the Nurse Corps because the war ended shortly after she graduated. She basically had a free education, except for her cape and uniform—which was why she had worked at the drugstore. She graduated in 1945. Jack was on leave from the Army and came to visit her. Francis Rosthorn, Eileen’s friend, had told Jack to call her. They went dancing, despite her bad foot, and Jack’s combat boots. (24:50) (27:10) Active Duty • Jack was shipped to a temporary base at Camp Hope. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 114th Infantry, 44th Division. He was at Camp Hope for about three months ,and then shipped to Camp Phillips in Kansas. He was trained to be a mortar gunner at Smokey Hill Air Base. Army planes flew through the firing field, but they weren’t hit. (27:10) • His group was sent out about two or three months after D-Day. They were sent to Boston to be transported by ship. The ships still experienced problems from time to time with German Uboats. He remembers feeling the sides of the boat vibrate when they dropped depth charges. He was in D-Deck, very far down. It tool seven days for them to cross. He thinks the boat was a General class, but doesn’t recall. (28:54) • They went to St. Germain Tunibert [?] and stayed about a month. They were sent to join up with the 7th Army in Southern France. They spent most of the time there, and were attacked twice. Once on Thanksgiving, by a force of 22 Panther Tanks, and two infantry regiments [this seems to have been the fight at Schalbach—ed.]. The anti-tank outfit used 90mm guns to take out the tanks, and destroyed seven of them. The German infantry also took heavy losses, and they retreated. The Sherman tanks 75mm guns could not take out the Panthers. The siege lasted about a day, early morning to late afternoon. (30:35) • After the battle, they stayed in the same general area. They were sent to [?], which was a “hairy situation.” Roosevelt did not want the troops there, but De Gaulle was convinced if they pulled out the Germans would annihilate them. Jack agrees with De Gaulle. They were housed in an insane asylum, which wasn’t all that bad because it was dry. (32:56) • He ran into members from his old outfit who had had a rough time. They had been repairing the Moselle railroad for Patton. One of the squad leaders had died after being hit in the head with shrapnel from a mortar. (33:49) • When the Battle of the Bulge began, Patton pulled everyone North. His outfit was sent to cover Patton’s flank. The Germans attempted to use Operation North Wind against Patton, and then tried attacking the flank. Jack once fired 2400 shells out of his 80mm mortar, and became very hot. He also burned out a BAR. The flank was not hit as hard as the main assault. (35:07) �(37:20) Camps • Next he was sent throughout France, and then Germany. He remembers Ulm, Germany in particular. His group came across a BMW factory with a fleet of motorcycles in a square of about thirty feet by one hundred feet. They had to burn them so the Germans couldn’t use them. He feels somewhat bad about burning them. Then they were sent to smaller towns in Germany. He was sent to Nuremburg, and they helped liberate Dachau. (37:20) • He entered Dachau, and he often wishes he had not. There were still some prisoners in the camp; they were all in very bad condition. German civilians in the area pleaded ignorance when questioned about the camps. An American general, possibly Gen. Patch, made them dig mass graves. Some of the civilians killed themselves after digging the graves. Jack remembers that the camp gave him nightmares, and the evils of the camp made him angry. (38:50) • Later on they found a POW camp at Bad Orb, Germany. The prisoners in that camp were half-starved or worse. The men from his unit gave them all their Crations, which they ate gladly. The camp was for enlisted men only, and was mixed amongst Americans, French, Americans and other nationalities. (40:49) • Earlier the men in the 106th Division in the POW camp had been made to march in snow with no boots. (41:39) (42:10) More Active Duty in Europe • Next, Jack went South to the Black Forest and then to Reutte, Austria. They were chasing a small force of retreating Germans. They made it all the way to Bretter Pass in Italy, and then the war ended. Para-troopers took Berchtesgaden. (42:10) • Austria was also a “hairy situation.” The Germans had artillery, and it was a continuous battle for about two weeks. (43:05) (43:31) Post-War • After serving in Europe he was sent home on the Queen Elizabeth. They landed in New Jersey, and were sent to Fort Dix. They were going to be trained to serve in Japan. The men were fattened up on good food, and could have all the milk they wanted. German POWs were made to wait on them, and clean up after them. (43:31) • Jack was initially on R&R (Rest and Relaxation) and was home about three weeks. He received a telegram calling him back to Fort Smith, Arkansas. (44:40) • He was nearly sent to Japan as a recoil-less rifleman, but instead he was discharged. He was discharged on November 17th, 1945 at Camp Gruber in Oklahoma. He was still serving when the Atom Bombs were dropped in Japan. (45:28) • When he got home he called Eileen. At the time, Eileen was working afternoons and they began going out after finished her shift. (46:48) • They married 1947. Jack went back to school in 1946 to Lawrence Technology with the help of the GI Bill. Eileen worked at Chrysler. (47:24) • Jack graduated in June 1950. They had their first daughter Christine that August. She was born while they lived in a flat at Highland Park. They lived in the upperstory flat. They bought a house on 14% interest—another benefit of the GI Bill. �• • • • • • • • • They lived in that house for fourteen years. Six years after Christine was born they had a second daughter named Suzette Cherry. Jack named the second daughter. (48:25) Next they moved to South Rockwood. Jack’s parents gave them some land and they had a house built. Jack worked for J.N. Farmer Company installing lubrication machines. He had taken the job because they gave him the impression that a management job would become available later on. After about four months he realized there was no management job and quit. Eileen remembers the grease he was covered in everyday. (49:59) Next Jack worked for Holly Carburetors. He worked in the Air Force division and trained men in the Air Force how to maintain the engines in their planes. He worked there for three and a half years and then went to Ford Motors. (51:18) Jack worked in Ford’s Mercury Aircraft Division in Romulus, MI. He worked as a liaison with the military for about a year. The military, either the Army or the Air Force, cancelled the contract later on because they no longer wanted J-40 engines. After that, Jack was sent to the Steel Division. He worked in on cost analysis and helped design the passageway for visitors. (52:06) Jack went back to Holly for a year, and then came back to Ford to work in the Truck Division. This time he stayed there for twenty-five and a half years. (53:17) Eileen stayed home with their daughters, and did not pursue a career in nursing. It was a necessity at the time because Jack was often out of town for work. (53:37) Jack joined the Masons in 1946, and has been one for sixty two years. In 1950 his grandmother gave him money to join the Shriners, which he joined with his father. He played in the band for thirty-four years. (54:47) Eileen joined the Stars. Both of their mothers were matrons with the Stars. (55:50) Jack went back to school later to learn more about production. He went to night school for six years and graduated with a second degree in engineering. (56:48) Jack usually left home for work at around 5:30 AM and went to the East Side of Detroit for work. He got out of work around 5:00 PM and then went to school until 11:00 AM. He still made time for all the organizations. (56:43) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cooley, Jack and Eileen (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooley, Jack and Eileen Description An account of the resource Jack Cooley served in the US Army between 1943 and 1946. He initially trained as an engineer, and then went into the ASTP engineer training program, and then was switched to the infantry when the program was shut down. He served as a mortarman with the 44th Infantry Division in France, Germany and Austria in late 1944 and 1945 and recounts several battles with German armor, infantry and artillery in the later stages of the war. Eileen relates her experiences on the home front during the same period. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer) Collins, Carol (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Video recordings Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CooleyJE Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/126138f799fba9e10ede9632c53b83c5.mp4 498dfa695f71c3b5806c93c0c3f2c4d3 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/de00fc575d3f16f166477424107b23c0.pdf cd04d5bb24a751fd0ce695f808b35df1 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview James Cooley Iraq War Total Time: 25:30 Childhood and Pre-Enlistment (00:25) • • • • • Born in Wyoming, MI Joined the Army in March, 2003 at age 17 He joined the day after the United States invaded Iraq Joined because he wanted to serve the country and that they would help pay for school. Joined the National Guard because he was not old enough to be in the Regular Army, Training (02:13) • Basic Training was 13 weeks long during the summer between his Junior and Senior years of High School at Fort Benning, GA. Active Duty (03:55) • • • • • • • • • In Iraq, worked in a transportation unit. He operated a 50 caliber machine gun on a truck with guarded the convoys. Arrived in Kuwait at an airstrip and then boarded a bus which convoyed up to Camp Taji in Central Iraq. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. He was able to stay in touch with his family by letters, by phone, and email. His duty was to keep the trucks up to standard and keep their weapons in working order. They would run their missions at night, and during the day he would watch movies and eat junk food. Spent most of his time traveling around Kuwait and Iraq. Didn’t really interact with the local population while he was there. He was in the same company as his brother, and he trained the Iraqi Army. Return Home (0:20:50) • • • He flew from Iraq to Fort Riley, KS and then to Grand Rapids when he came home. Got a job upon returning home, and then began attending Grand Rapids Community College a month later. Due for another year long deployment. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cooley, James (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooley, James Description An account of the resource James Cooley joined the Army National Guard in 2003 at age 17, and served in the Iraq War. He worked in transportation while he was there, specifically he operated the .50 caliber machine gun on a truck that guarded convoys. He served a yearlong deployment, and at the time of the interview is scheduled for another year tour of duty. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lenartz, Michelle (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-29 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CooleyJ Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0d3bc190fb0364a98e34d7ae969e5cfb.mp4 e6a74ffc2c530a3eee53105a6234c111 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1a6371fb060feedf3303f42573d1f3b3.pdf 0ae773cdcdd2f24232d685b7d31f2a1a PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project James Cooley Iraq War 43 minutes 39 seconds (00:00:24) Early Life -Born on March 6, 1986 -Grew up in Caledonia, Michigan -Involved in sports in high school (00:00:44) Enlisting in the Army Pt. 1 -Shortly after he turned 17 years old an Army recruiter called him about enlisting -This was in 2003 -Sister had joined the Army six months prior to him turning to 17 -Father served in the Air Force, grandfather in the Marines, and cousins also served in the Army -Patriotic duty, family history of service, and paid-for college encouraged him to enlist (00:01:44) Training -Took basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia in the summer before senior year of high school -Came back home and completed high school after taking basic training -Received Advanced Individual Training after graduating from high school -Completed his AIT and received a month of leave before deploying to Iraq -Basic training was a different experience, but a great experience -Learned how to shoot a rifle, throw grenades, and rappel down walls in basic training -Highly competitive atmosphere during basic training -Didn't know what to expect when he started basic training (00:03:15) First Deployment to Iraq Pt. 1 -On his first deployment to Iraq he worked in transportation -Drove trucks between bases delivering food, supplies, ammunition, and vehicles -Average daytime temperature was around 130o -Body armor and fatigues made it feel like 145o -Hard to breathe outside -A lot of the missions took place at night when the temperature was between 100o and 110o -Had to contend with dust storms and the rainy season -Found that the majority of Iraqis lived in mud huts with tin roofs -There was trash everywhere and civilians formed little villages in the garbage dumps -Made him more grateful to live in the United States -Civilians weren't hostile -Most appreciated the American presence -Insurgents coerced civilians into fighting the Americans -Threatened with their family being executed -Initial mission in Iraq was to depose Saddam Hussein and secure the Iraq/Afghanistan border -Didn't think about the politics of the mission -Just tried to do his job and do the most good as possible -Helped vaccinate Iraqis and provide them with better healthcare and better schools -At the time he was still angry about 9/11 and it was a huge motivator for him as an 18 year old -There was a lot of ambiguity when it came to combat in Iraq -In a convoy they had limited defenses if attacked by Insurgents -Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were a common threat to convoys �-Insurgents used hit-and-run style attacks with rifles and rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) -There were a lot of situations where they had to engage in combat despite not being infantry -Felt nervous on his first convoys, but he grew more confident -Trucks did not have armor on his first deployment -Lined the bottoms of the trucks with sandbags to give them protection against IEDs -If you were running 15 minutes early or 15 minutes late you might avoid an ambush -In that case the Insurgents hit the convoy before his or the one that came after his -Created a sense of invincibility at cheating death -Learned to accept the randomness of death -Easier to accept the prospect of your own death than the death of comrades -Made close friends and they became like brothers -Still friends with them -Has stood at their weddings, spends time with them, and closer than his civilian friends -Found a lot of his stress on his first deployment came from leadership problems -Being ordered to do something you wouldn't have to do if not given an order to do it (00:14:37) Coming Home Pt. 1 -Struggled more with coming home than the actual deployment -Brother was in the same unit as him which made the deployment easier (00:15:11) Deployments -First deployment lasted almost a year -Second deployment lasted nine months -Two years between deployments -On both deployments he went with his brother (00:15:45) Combat in Iraq -Didn't know who the enemy was in Iraq -Combat was similar to the Vietnam War -Had to abide by the Rules of Engagement -Not allowed to fire unless shot at by a combatant holding a weapon and shooting at them -Hesitated to shoot at the enemy -Afraid of accidentally killing a civilian and being sent to jail -Just wanted to defend his convoy and go home alive -Insurgents hid among civilians (00:18:20) Coming Home Pt. 2 -Spent a total of 18 months in Iraq for both deployments -Friends from high school had gone to college, so he had no friends around when he came home -Veteran friends lived all over the country, so it was difficult to connect with them -When in Iraq someone was always ready to do something no matter the time -Civilian friends were busy with their own lives and couldn't meet up at any time (00:19:45) Enlisting in the Army Pt. 2 -Parents were scared, but supported him -Mother signed the paperwork allowing him to enlist as a 17 year old (00:20:10) Second Deployment to Iraq -On his second deployment he was a Detainee Payroll Manager -Gave him experience with computers and he had an associate's degree -Allowed him to get practical job experience for a civilian job -Some men were able to bring skills home while others were not so fortunate (00:22:24) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Pt. 1 -Had mild post traumatic stress disorder -Optimistic personality helped him cope with the PTSD �-Had trouble with heavy drinking every night when he came home -Unhealthy part of his life -Counts himself lucky for overcoming his PTSD -On average, 22 veterans commit suicide every day -Has met veterans struggling with more PTSD (00:23:40) Reenlisting -As of 2015 he is trying to reenlist as an officer -Service related injuries might prohibit from reenlisting though (00:24:00) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Pt. 2 -Moved in with a friend and they had deep conversations about the war and his service -Helped him cope with his PTSD by having those conversations -Speaks at colleges about his time in the Army and in Iraq -Also helps him by talking about his experiences (00:24:53) Changes in the 2000s -Had Myspace, AOL Instant Messenger, email, and letters to communicate with home -Now, soldiers have a wider variety of ways of keeping in touch with family and friends -Realizes that a lot of younger people don't remember the September 11th Attacks (00:25:47) Reflections on Service Pt. 1 -Learned to take a situation and make it positive -You chose to make the situation positive or negative -A lot of learning opportunities in Iraq -Learning how to control emotions -Learning to make important decisions as a young man -Grew up quickly (00:27:10) First Deployment to Iraq Pt. 2 -Iraq is roughly the size of California -Moved supplies from base to base all over the country -Longest mission was 17 hours of travel without any breaks -Southern Iraq is mostly desert while northern Iraq is more mountainous -Rainy season caused more problems in the north than in the south -Water and oil on the roads made travel hazardous -Difficult driving at night because of sleep deprivation -Caused accidents -Given free Red Bull to help the soldiers stay awake -Had only a few engagements with enemy forces -Convoys were intimidating which kept away enemy forces -Had .50 caliber machine guns and Mark 19 automatic grenade launchers -Truck itself was imposing -At the time they were trying to help look for the sniper al-Zarqawi -Pulled some guard tower duty at bases -Insurgents tried to use drive-by attacks to hit bases -Guard towers lined the roads and each guard tower had a radio in it -Allowed guards to report an enemy vehicle and intercept it down the line -Insurgents were unorganized thugs and untrained civilian conscripts -At first, he feared Iraqi children coming up to him -Learned they weren't a threat and usually just wanted candy from a soldier -Had to be cautious though -Insurgents used women, disabled people, and children as suicide bombers �(00:32:40) Opinion of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -Feels that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is an abomination -Funded by the sex slave trade -Carries out brutal executions -Could have been snubbed quickly had the U.S. stayed in Iraq -Iraqi government wasn't stable enough to hold off ISIS -U.S. leaving created a power vacuum for ISIS to occupy -Will probably have to send in ground troops to Iraq, again -ISIS will probably not just go away and the longer they exist, the more resilient they'll become (00:34:16) Advice to Future Soldiers -Before you join, pick a job that will give you experience in the civilian workplace -Try to do something that you'll enjoy in the Army, and enjoy as a civilian - Stay positive -In the Army you can gain rank relatively quickly -If you want to go to college first, join the Reserve Officers' Training Corps -Will allow you to enter the Army with the rank of 2nd lieutenant -Have more leadership responsibilities and have more influence -Army needs more officers with experience and good leadership abilities -As experienced officers leave they're being replaced with incompetent officers (00:36:43) Iraqi Civilians -Civilians wanted to help, but were afraid of retaliation from Insurgents -Tried to give soldiers tips whenever possible -A lot of civilians just wanted to live their lives (00:38:15) First Deployment to Iraq Pt. 3 -During the first couple weeks he had trouble staying calm -There were still unsecured cities in 2004/2005 -When he returned to Iraq in 2008/2009 those cities had been secured -At least once a week Insurgents tried to attack bases -Infiltrators, mortar attacks, rocket attacks, or drive-by attacks -Got desensitized to it -Remembers one soldier watching a war movie on his laptop in the middle of the night in the barracks -Quickly instituted a headphone rule at night after that -Slept outside when they were at other bases -No light pollution allowed him to see every star in the sky -Better than sleeping in dirty transit barracks -Slept on the top of the engine compartment to keep warm -Days started with checking the trucks -Made sure the tires and engines were in working order and if they needed any maintenance -Kept the trucks ready to go at a moment's notice -If he had no other duties or no mission to go on then the rest of the day was his (00:42:23) Reflections on Service Pt. 2 -Doesn't regret joining the Army -Great for him at that point in his life � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CooleyJ1820V Title A name given to the resource Cooley, James Peter (Interview outline and video), 2015 Description An account of the resource James Cooley was born on March 6, 1986 and grew up in Caledonia, Michigan. In 2003 he enlisted in the Army. He received basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and after that Advanced Individual Training. He deployed to Iraq and served with a transportation unit, moving food, ammunition, supplies, and vehicles to bases around the country. He also helped with the distribution of humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians. After nearly a year he returned to the United States and spent two years in the United States. He redeployed to Iraq and worked as a Detainee Payroll Manager. His first tour was in 2004-2005 and his second tour was in 2008-2009. His enlistment ended after his second tour, but as of 2015 he is trying to reenlist as an officer. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooley, James Peter Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Vansuilichem, Michael (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Veterans Video recordings Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a4c8094a15c501bd9eb73b7c9b26f17f.mp4 0e4efa9fad395faa196c284a08bc2c22 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e8cc5601f5f62e794e13e762253cf770.pdf c0389d24038f070c83471e973f3ec7ca PDF Text Text ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW Veterans History Project Robert Cooley Born: Detroit, Michigan, 1922 Resides: Interviewed by: James Smither PhD, Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project.. Transcribed by: Joan Raymer, July 17 2011 Interviewer: Mr. Cooley, can you start by giving us a little bit of background on yourself? Where were you born? I was born in Detroit, Michigan. Interviewer: What year? 1922 Interviewer: And what did your family do? My father was a carpenter and my mother was a housewife, and that was pretty basic Interviewer: Now, did you live in the city of Detroit or in the suburbs? Well, we moved around a lot because construction worked moved him different places and we kind of moved where he was working and followed up from there. :47 Interviewer: Did you finish high school? No Interviewer: When did you leave school? In 1939 Interviewer: Why did you leave school at that point before finishing? I thought I was a lot smarter than what I was, but at that time things were a little bit tight and I didn’t have to work or anything, but I did. I went out and found what I could in the way of a job. 1:21 1 �Interviewer: What kind of work did you do? A little bit of everything generally. In the wintertime you shoveled snow and in the summer you did lawns for customers and stuff like that. It was all manual labor. Interviewer: Did you give some of that money to your parents to help support the family or did you just support yourself with it? I just supported myself with it for the most part. Interviewer: At what point did you decide to join the army? Well, the work dried up and there wasn’t anything. We had a slight recession in the country at that particular time and it seems like we’re still living with it, but I mean at that time there was no work and rather than go back home again I decided that I would go in the army. 2:18 Interviewer: So, had you been living away from home while you were working? Yes Interviewer: So, you joined the army and about when was that? January of 1940 Interviewer: At that point were you aware there was a war going on in Europe and it might get us involved in it some day? Not really, I didn’t give it much thought at all. I don’t think it would have made any difference at that point in my life anyhow as far as---when you’re seventeen you can lick the world. 2:50 Interviewer: Did you need your parents' permission to enlist at that age? Yes, I had to have a signature from my mother to enlist. My father had passed on at that time. 2 �Interviewer: What did your mother think of the idea? She was all for it really. She could see that I needed a little more toughening up in order to get along in this world and I think that’s what really brought it down to that point when she figured the three years, which was the term of enlistment at that time, that it would help me, so she was for it. 3:29 Interviewer: Where did they send you once you enlisted? I went to Fort Wayne, which was in Detroit on Livernois Ave. a supply depot or something and I think it’s still there today. I was down there for most of the year. Interviewer: What did you do there? Basically drilling and studying tactics work, tactics schooling and stuff like that. It was a normal way that you would go in the army, the tac formations and stuff like that. Interviewer: So, you’re practicing sort of battlefield tactics and that sort of thing. What size units were doing that, squads or companies? That is not a big fort, so usually squad formations or a platoon at the most. That was the way the set-up works. 4:27 Interviewer: How many guys were in there with you doing the same kind of training you were? We had the whole 2nd Infantry Regiment which was—what is there, about 150 people to a company, so we had—I take that back, we had the 2nd Infantry, so we actually had one, two, three, four companies and that’s-Interviewer: Basically one Battalion, yes, and at this point the 5th had been an infantry ivision, they had been decommissioned after World War One, so the regiment may not have belonged to anything else at that time. 3 �Not at that time as I recall. No, I take that back because I recall we still had the 5th Division diamond patch on our shoulder, so we were still part of the 5th Division, but don’t ask me how. 5:21 Interviewer: Well, the army sort of kept skeleton structures of various sorts and functional in different ways and the 5th was a regular army division, so it existed in some form and the 2nd would be part of the core of that when it went forward. How did the drill sergeants treat you? They were tough back at that time, but they weren’t anything like marine drill sergeants. Or anything like that, but you learned what had to be done and you marched to the order that they called for, but I didn’t think it was anything hard or unusual or anything like this. It was anything any average person could have learned. 6:04 Interviewer: Did you have any problems with the discipline or things like that? No, no, in Detroit it was—if you were on leave you always had someplace to go and Detroit at that time was a soldier’s town anyhow because all the law enforcement officers were ex-soldiers from World War One, so it worked out very well. Interviewer: You didn’t get in too much trouble in the city then? No, they would—you really had to get radical if you got in trouble down there because they—I can remember occasions where they would put you in a taxi cab and check how much money and send you home to the post rather than lock you up. It was a better recourse than normal. Interviewer: When did you finish up then in Fort Wayne? 7:05 We were there just that one summer and then we went to, it was Camp Custer at that time, and became a fort afterwards. We went out to Camp Custer; in fact the first winter 4 �we were there we slept in tents, twelve by twelve tents heated with a little stove in the middle of them. Interviewer: Because a lot of the facilities there hadn’t been built yet. No, the barracks hadn’t been done yet, but they were before we shipped out, but at that time there we no barracks, no facilities except latrines of course. Interviewer: How long did they keep you at Camp Custer? I was there until January of 1942, after Pearl Harbor when we shipped out to Fort Dix, New Jersey and from there we shipped out to Iceland. 7:58 Interviewer: Once you had joined the army, before Pearl Harbor, were you paying any more attention to what was going on in the world than you had earlier? Now that you were in the army were you thinking more about that you might have to go someplace? Not really because once you’re through with drilling and what not, I mean, we were basically everybody that was in there was from eighteen to twenty-two, twenty-four years old and it was just a time to go out and have fun by yourself. You did your drilling in the daytime and went out at night. 8:33 Interviewer: So, how did you learn about Pearl Harbor? When it happened, we were—where was I when Pearl Harbor came—in fact we were on maneuvers at that time and somebody came out and said they had attacked us. I didn’t hear about it until Monday after because I had been home on Saturday and Sunday and Monday we were out on maneuvers and they came out and notified everybody that we were on closedown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. 9: 09 Interviewer: How did army life change at that point? 5 �Actually at that particular set-up it didn’t change that much except our perimeter guards became a lot more strict. Previous to that, if you had a pass you were on your way. If you didn’t, they checked everybody coming in and out and that was the basic change on the thing. Anybody that was on perimeter guard, front or back, had tightened down pretty much that you weren’t going to get in or out without somebody knowing about it. 9:51 Interviewer: Now pretty soon after that they moved you out from Fort Custer? Yes, it was only—well, from December until January, so about a month and maybe a month and a half at the most and we were on a train for Fort Dix, New Jersey. Interviewer: Now, what kind of facility was that at that time? It was a pretty big camp, I mean it was a permanent army camp, Dix was. I don’t know how long it had been in effect or anything. We were there—I shipped out in March, so we were there roughly three months before we were loaded on a train and taken to New Jersey, to the ship, headed for Iceland. 10:37 Interviewer: Ok now, what kind of a ship did they put you on? It used to be a banana boat between Cuba and New York. Interviewer: About how big was it? It wasn’t that big. I think we had about three companies onto it and we were loaded. It was one of those that if we got in a storm and every time you hit a wave the screw would come out of the water and the ship would rattle from stem to stern all the way through and you would think it was coming apart. 11:06 Interviewer: You’re sailing the North Atlantic in the early spring, so I expect you hit a storm or two? 6 �Oh yes, in fact we were something like—I don’t recall exactly, it seemed like it was six or seven days longer. Of course we were all on that zigzag course to avoid U-Boats and it took a lot longer too, but I didn’t see anything like that, but we whipped that storm and they had made bulkheads on the decks to house the soldiers in and the storm caved them in, a lot of them I should say, not all of them, but it caved a lot of them in on the way over there. 11:47 Interviewer: So then did you have to pack everyone into smaller spaces below the decks? Yeah, yeah, this is true and food was a problem because the kitchens were small on the boat and you got two meals a day. They started feeding at five o’clock in the morning and they fed breakfast until eleven thirty and they would start feeding lunch at twelve thirty and they fed until two thirty. I take that back, they fed until six thirty. They started feeding and that was the two meals that you got for the day and everything was boiled. I don’t care if it was steak or what it was; everything went in the boiling pot. 12:25 Interviewer: Now, about how big was the convoy you were in? Could you tell? It was pretty good size and an actual count I wouldn’t have, but I would guess it was at least twenty tankers. I shouldn’t say tankers, but cargo ships carrying soldiers. There was probably at least that many more that were guarding. Battleships and cruisers, not battleships, cruisers, we had two of them, and the rest were all destroyers guarding that convoy. 13:01 Interviewer: Now, did you have any U-Boat scares on the trip over? Yes, we did that, but I mean that they said they sighted U-Boats and actually I didn’t see any and I don’t know that anybody else did. We had one destroyer that they said rammed 7 �one and I had to believe them because I didn’t see them ram it, but the front end was full of what looked like mattresses, but it was down in the water and every time it took a wave you didn’t see the ship. Even the radar masts were covered up onto it, but it was interesting to watch and I wouldn’t want to have been on it. 13:42 Interviewer: Did the whole convoy go to Iceland or did certain ships peel off and go in another direction? No, this whole convoy went to Iceland. We went right to, in fact we entered Reykjavik harbor and disembarked in Reykjavik and from there we were disseminated all over the Icelandic islands. 14:02 Interviewer: Describe what Iceland was like at that point in time. What did it look like, what were the people like? Well, it was actually, except for Reykjavik, all of the towns—we were in a little town called Akranes, and it was just like a little town in the states anywhere except all the buildings were made out of concrete, of course, to withstand their winter gales and storms and stuff they had, but the fishing, of course, was a big industry. They couldn’t grow anything and they had what they called Icelandic ponies, which was a shaggy little horse, and very few cows, but a lot of sheep. In fact, the army bought everything they could off of them and sheep was the main thing they had, and of course after three or four days a week you got awfully sick of mutton. I never cared for it anyhow, but that’s personal, but in any case—it got to the point they would stamp it unserviceable and just dump it and the mess officer reached the point where he wouldn’t take it. 15:26 Spam wasn’t that good, but we’d rather have that than the mutton after a while. 8 �Interviewer: Now, did you see much of the local population in the village where you were? Oh yeah, there were no rules against fraternizing with the population and they used to— after we were there for three months or so they would hold dances and stuff like that there. Gals would come too and we’d go down to the dance and what not, but there weren’t alcoholic beverages except what we brought in. There didn’t seem to be any there and I don’t remember ever getting in or seeing a bar actually in Iceland at that time. The whole island was more like a small town than it was anything else. 16:19 The city of Reykjavik, I do recall that because the Germans had been there before the war and their engineers had built aqueducts to bring hot water down from the glaciers and they heated the whole town with hot water. That was one of the reasons that—actually Iceland was pro-German before the English got there and that was the basic reason, because they had been there and done their engineering. Laid out heating systems and different items for them that worked out very well. 16:56 Interviewer: I was kind of wondering myself, and you probably couldn’t answer it, but I was wondering if the attitude of Icelanders changed at all once the Germans went and occupied Denmark and Norway? Those are Scandinavian countries the Icelanders might have had some contact with. Not that I recall, I mean, we didn’t—the Icelanders, the actual language they spoke was derived from Sweden and Finland down there, but it was not that particular language, it had it’s own inflections and it—I tried learning it and it was too tough for me to play with, so I didn’t get into it, but the actual living there and the time zones and the way that the winter and the summer went—in the summertime it never got dark and in the 9 �wintertime you had about four hours of daylight and to me it was interesting because I’d never run into anything like that before. 18:01 Interviewer: Right, now what was your actual mission or assignment at that point? Just guarding, actually. I mean, they—I was told, and I don’t know, that when the English landed in Reykjavik, that someone had gone to the German Embassy and said, ―You better get out of here because the English are landing‖, and he said, ―No, they're Germans‖, and whether this is true or not—I know there were Germans there first and I know the English came in afterwards, so I had no reason to doubt it. 18:38 Interviewer: It had been an independent country, so the Germans could be there and it was potentially a place the U-Boats could use. The Germans had weather stations in, or tried to have them in Greenland for instance. So the British had to go and find them too. It was certainly vital to maintaining the sea-lanes. Keeping them open as a base for the allies at that point. How long did they have you based in Iceland? 19:00 I went through one full winter, one full summer, and part of another winter. Interviewer: So, it would be late 1943 or so or early 1944 when you actually ship out from there. So, when you leave Iceland where did you go from there? To England, and in fact, I was—I didn’t realize it at the time that we were shipped out on the Queen Mary, which was even pretty deluxe at that time. They had stripped it, most of it, but it was pretty deluxe and I think we were usually—I think it was a four day trip from Iceland to England and we took seven, but we were by ourselves we were not in a convoy or anything else. That ship led by itself. 19:48 10 �Interviewer: The ship was fast enough and they thought it was safer to do it that way. When we finally go into England, of course, we went to Salisbury Plain, which is actually the least productive part of England. It was interesting—I take that back, we landed in Scotland. We went by train to England. Interviewer: A lot of people landed in Glasgow, which was the main point of deportation. Now, at this point was your division now coming together? 20:28 Yes, in fact we were shipped from there to the Irish Free State and we were stationed south of –what is that town, the capital of free Ireland? Interviewer: Dublin? No, Dublin is the-Interviewer: That’s the free state. You mean Northern Ireland, British Ireland? Belfast 20:48 We were probably fifty or sixty miles south of Belfast and we were just doing field training there. That’s when they started putting the division together in different groups. It was interesting in the respect that I remember taking my platoon and riding the train, guarding the train hauling ammunition across Ireland because of the IRA threatening to blow them up. They did some, but I mean it was such a nice sooty ride. 21:34 Interviewer: They all had steam engines then? Yes Interviewer: Generally, were the men that you sere serving with in your platoon, company etc., were they pretty much the same people that you had been with all along or had new recruits been added to fill out the ranks? 11 �No, they were basically the same people that were in the company we left the states with. We picked up one or two, but that would be about it. Our company was a full company when we left and we were a full company when we left England to go to France. 22:09 Interviewer: What rank were you at that point? I was a Tech Sergeant, a platoon sergeant. Interviewer: You were a platoon sergeant at that point. What kind of responsibilities did you have? Well, you had an officer that headed the platoon and it was his job to take the orders from the company commander and come down from there. He would disperse them to the sergeants, and trying to keep track of a platoon, which is pretty tickly. Only three squads, but me and one person to do it was almost impossible. You need two or more even, but my duties were to just follow up his orders and make sure we stayed together and fought together. 22:55 Interviewer: And normally you wouldn’t command an individual squad. You might be with one, but you could go and work with any of them? Not the squads, no, they had a Staff Sergeant command the squad at that particular time and the only time—if the platoon leader got hit, then you would take over the platoon. If you got hit, you had a platoon guy that would take over the platoon, which was usually a Staff Sergeant, but he was in line for promotions. 23:25 Interviewer: Now, at what point did your division get sent over to France? We landed, what was it, eleven days after D-Day. Interviewer: Which beach did you land on? The one they had all the trouble on. 12 �Interviewer: Omaha? Omaha, yes Interviewer: It had big bluffs overlooking it. We landed on Omaha and it was cleared, of course, at that time. We weren’t and didn’t get any fire. In fact, we marched, I think, probably five or six miles inland before we reached the lines where we could get fire. Interviewer: What did France look like to you when you got there? What condition was the countryside in the first few miles? 24:16 Well, outside of the beaches, the rest of the country was pretty well set, I mean there were some areas which they had bombed, and there were bomb craters there, but in general— the towns, of course, had all been hit and they were in a state of disrepair, rack and ruin and what have you, but when you—the countryside looked just like it always did except it was littered with dead cows, pigs and different farm animals and stuff like this that had been killed. 24:52 Interviewer: Probably a lot of those were killed in the bombardments etc. Yes, I would guess that. Interviewer: Now do you know sort of what section or area of the line you were going into? Was it in the general area towards Saint-Lo? It was, we went right through Saint-Lo and of course again, we didn’t fight Saint-Lo, we just went through it. The town had been taken at that time. We went through Saint-Lo and into the hedgerow country and from there—we were there, I don’t know, possibly a week or so before they made the breakout and we were loaded more or less on trucks. You would go so far forward, unload, and fight the Germans where they would holdup. 13 �If they cleared that, which they were in about full retreat about that time, we would get back on the trucks if possible and move over. They would move another unit through us and they would take up the—25:54 Interviewer: Now, at what point did your unit actually get into action? You landed mid to late June and how long was it before you kind of got into the fighting? I think it was about three days after. We were in action about three days after because they had pulled—there was one of the divisions that hit the beach first that was pretty well-Interviewer: The First division was in that sector and so was the 29th. So we went right through them and too over the sector that they were in and then we continued forward through them. 26:33 Interviewer: Can you describe what it was like going into action the first time? Yes, I’ll tell you, being scared and knowing you had a job to do. If you were scared, it was an earth-shaking event, I’ll tell you. Once you got both feet on the ground you realize what you had to do, you were going to do it regardless of what it was, then it came back down pretty much. There were some things that I learned, I meant we use to do what I call open field drilling and we did this over and over and over again and I could never quite figure out why there was so much of it, but you can’t think clearly when you are under fire and you do it automatically and it works. 27:21 Interviewer: Now you were fighting, that would have been hedgerow country you were in? Yes Interviewer: Did you take a while to figure out how to fight there? 14 �Yeah, actually you were usually sticking the weapon up over the thing and just firing, except they had tanks set up to make a hole through those things, and they would make an opening and we would break through that opening and go through the fields and head for the next hedge. 27:55 Interviewer: Well that was happening a little later in the campaign, once they starting fixing up the tanks to do that. When you first got in they probably weren’t doing that yet. No, actually when you first got there, you would find every field had an opening in it and of course those hedgerows had been built over hundreds of years, I guess, because they were like six or seven feet tall, or better, and five or six feet thick, but each one had an opening and you would find that opening and spread along very carefully on the inside and spread out to cover the field that you were going to go, and then you would all go at once through the field to the next hedgerow. 28:30 Interviewer: But the Germans, in a lot of cases, had machine guns trained on those openings. They did, but on the other hand. I mean. If you go through them at night, they don’t know that you’re going through them. If at three or four o’clock in the morning you go through the opening, line up on the other side of the hedgerow and get ready to go when it breaks daylight, and you’re already there, of course, if you attempt to go through them in broad daylight, then you’re in a lot of trouble. There were many people killed trying to get through them in daylight hours. 29:06 Interviewer: So, did you start doing a lot of fighting at night early on? 15 �Not really, most of it, I’ve got to say, was done in the daytime. We made night marches and things that where we’d run up against not that heavy a group in front of you, the Germans in front of you, and you’d make a night march, go forward and continue from that point, but in most cases you waited until daylight to make your actual advance. 29:36 Interviewer: What kind of losses was your company taking at that point? Pretty heavy, we were probably—I think I had something like oh, six, seven men to a twelve-man squad left in my platoon and I think that was more or less universal. I mean, these were not all deaths; the majority of them are wounds that took you out of action. I mean they—but you could figure at least one out every one of those was going to be permanent. 30:14 Interviewer: Now, about how quickly were you getting replacements up? Did they come in at that stage or did they come in until long after after? They came in after, we fought under, you know, without full complements for probably a couple weeks or so there anyhow, and then we started getting replacements. Interviewer: What could you do for the replacements to help them adjust? Try to put them with one of the guys who had been there a while. Veterans who knew what was going on as much as you could, and we have to remember they’re individuals just like we were and they went through a training period. They knew it as well as we did, but we’d been there and truthfully we didn’t know it. 31:00 Interviewer: As you were—how regular was the fighting in those first few weeks before the breakout? Were you In most days or did you have a few days on and a few days off? 16 �No, we had—actually if got to—if you fought, actually fought for two hours a day, that was a lot because the Germans would pull back. They never sat there and once they determined the odds were against them, they would pull out. I mean, just—they knew what was going to happen and, of course, we had our artillery backup that they didn’t have and they hadn’t moved their tanks in or anything at that particular point. They were holding them over at Calais. 31:48 Interviewer: Some of them were over there and some were holding the British at Caen, but none were in your sector particularly at all? No Interviewer: So, did you feel at that stage that you were actually making progress getting somewhere, even if it was slow? Oh yeah, yeah, this was within, that breakout came—it was a month, within a month after we landed there and at that point we were moving forward all the time. We knew we were going forward, I mean, there was no doubt in our minds that we were advancing. 32:22 Interviewer: Now one of the things that happened to help start the breakout was the American did some very heavy bombing raids around St-Lo. Do you remember seeing any aircraft going over or hearing any of that or was it in a different sector than you? The aircraft—we had bombers going over, in fact, the sky was black with them at times, but I was actually not that close to St-Lo, I mean to where they were bombing, we were quite a ways away from them, but I mean, you could see them, you could hear them. At that particular time it was all B-17’s and we’d already, I mean our aircraft recognition 17 �courses and all, we knew what we were looking at, so—in fact I don’t recall, except on one or two occasions, seeing a German plane at all. It was—once or twice we saw ME109’s, but that was it, there wasn’t any others. 33:18 Interviewer: Did you see American tactical aircraft regularly? Fighter-bombers and two engine bombers and things like that, and did they support you? Yeah, they were in the air quite a lot. Again, it’s not a steady thing and they would go over roofs and then you wouldn’t see anything for the rest of the day. We went through one field where they had landed gliders and the Germans had stuck up posts in the fields and I wondered how anybody came out of that alive because those gliders were all broke up into little pieces. 33:51 Interviewer: That tended to be what happened to them when they landed anyway, but yeah, there definitely were problems like that. Now, what sense did you have that the Germans at that point, how effectively they were fighting or what condition they were in at that time, what was your impression of them? They were effective, believe me they were. The big problem with—I should say that their light machine gun was probably the worst weapon for us that we could run into, but one thing, the Germans, once they determined they had superior forces against them, they would back off. They wouldn’t stand and fight like we would. Don’t ask me why, they wouldn’t stand and fight, they would move back. 34:46 Interviewer: They didn’t have enough men. You say that, but if you go into attack they like to attack two to one, but we’ve attacked when we’ve had—figured we had even—same amount of people we had on the other side over here. I mean you can’t—they don’t stop. 18 �Interviewer: You have several weeks of this fairly regular fighting with fairly steady progress and then the breakout comes and you start moving faster. Once you got out of the hedgerows where did you go? Well, at that particular point, we’d load on trucks and the Germans at that time were setting up little spots here and there that they would fight from. They didn’t have an organized fight, but you might go a mile or two up the road and run into a company of them that was fighting here, and then you would unload and try to clear that and then get back on your trucks and go again and in the meantime these roads were full of littered vehicles. 35:53 I mean they were burning, houses were burning, anything that has been fired on. I don’t know if they were firing on it or it was just the result of the artillery firing onto them that caused it or not because it was normal for artillery to knock out anything that was high. It could be a barn; they would knock it down because they could put spotters into it. I mean, we moved, some days we would move like ten or fifteen miles and the next day you would get twenty-five in. I mean, it was nothing—from that distance we went all the way to the Rhine before we finally hit, got stopped, and I’m trying to think of what that German fort was. I was in Patton’s army and he had sent scouts into this town—they run him out of gas or he ran out of gas, I never quite figured that out, but he had pulled his gas and sent three vehicles into the town and they had pulled out. 37:01 By the time we got gas and got ready to move again, they were back. But these forts, the Germans had forts and I think they were French forts originally-Interviewer: Well the French had—one place the Germans defended in that area was the French town of Metz, it had a bunch of forts around it and that was a place where Patton’s army kind of got bogged down. Some by-passed it and went down 19 �toward the German frontier, but there was a long fight there. Now, were you involved in the fighting around Metz? 37:37 Yes, in fact, that’s where I got wounded. At Metz we had—Patton took the tanks and went around it. He, as you say, bypassed the town, but there was the Tenth Regiment , the Eleventh Regiment and the Second Regiment of the 5th division that stayed there that finally overcame these forts and I mean it was—as I said, I got hit and was shipped back to England, I think, in the first few days that we had the attack there, but it took them, I would be guessing if I said anything at this point because I really don’t recall, but it took a long time and they finally took all of the forts. 38:26 Interviewer: it did take a long time and it took a lot of casualties in the process. Can you describe, sort of, your experience at Metz kind of up to the point of being hit? I mean, what were you doing and what was going on? Well, at the time I got hit we were in attack and I can’t—it was one of those forts, but that wasn’t our primary concern, we were off to the left of it and somebody else was attacking it straight on. I was going across an open field and it actually felt like somebody had taken a baseball bat and just knocked me right off my feet, and you—the realization is there that you got hit, how bad? So, you get up and I found out I could move, so I got-39:15 Interviewer: Where were you hit? In the chest—I took the tail end of a machine gun burst. I took one in the chest and two in the arm on that thing, but I mean I was lucky. Of course, everybody that came out of that war was lucky, but in any case, it—I found I could get up and of course, you’re bleeding and I walked back, I don’t know, maybe fifty yards or so and collapsed there 20 �and one of the corpsmen, or medics, came up and stuck bandages on and they sent me to the rear and then they put me—actually I rode a tank because they couldn’t get an ambulance or anything, so they stuck me on a tank with a couple other guys that were going back and when we got to the field hospital I was unloaded there and they operated on me at that point and the next day, they had taken the airfield, and a bunch of us were shipped back to England for recovery. 40:21 I was there for, I don’t know, about three or four weeks and was sent back over again. Interviewer: What was the hospital time like? It was fine, I mean you couldn’t get out of it or anything like this. I mean, it wasn’t like you could go to town or anything like that. The food was good and it was basically exercise to get you back in shape again. This is—once you got healed up enough that you could do that of course, but once they rated you fit for duty, you were shipped back. You might go as a group or you might go as an individual. 41:12 Interviewer: Was it a good break to have at that point after all the stuff you had been through or did you just want to get back? Yeah, you really give a sigh of relief, I have to say that when you get in that hospital and the tension is not there, everything is gone and you know there is nobody shooting at you, but it’s like everything else that humans go through after two weeks it’s blasé again, you just are living there that’s all. The food is good and everything is good and the realization comes back when they tell you you’re going back again. 41:46 Interviewer: So, what was it like to go back? Was it something you were ready to do at that point, or you didn’t want to go? 21 �I didn’t want to go, period. I don’t think anybody really wanted to go back. I mean, you knew you had to and it wasn’t a question of what you wanted to do really, it was you knew you had to go back, so you might as well resign yourself to it and it wasn’t anything big that I could see it wasn’t anything anyone else wasn’t doing and we were shipped back. Of course we went back across by boat, we didn’t fly back. They flew us in, but they didn’t fly us back and we went back across by boat and loaded into trucks and were taken back to the same outfit I was in. 42:40 In fact, when I got back they had a new platoon sergeant that had taken over the platoon, but in one of the other platoons the guy had been shot up before that, so they just sent me over there. Interviewer: Now, were they still at Metz at that point or had they taken that? Oh no, we were in fact just in a holding position at that time. After Metz was taken they just sat there. This was until—it was winter and it was cold, you know, cold weather until the breakout when they came through the forest there, the Bulge, when they started the Bulge, and of course we were in Patton’s army, so we loaded on tanks, I was infantry all the way, but we loaded on the tanks and cut across country and headed for the bulge. 43:27 It was steady going, I mean, I think we drove two nights and a day or something like that there. Interviewer: Now, before you headed off on this, had the division been able to take in a lot of replacements and recover a lot of its strength? Oh yeah, we were up to full compliment at that time. Once Metz was taken we were, I would say, the best part of a month, we just held and we didn’t do anything. I don’t know what—it was a static position at that time and nobody seemed to be doing anything and I don’t know why. We were right at the Rhine, in fact, we were across the Rhine at a 22 �number of places at that time, but when this thing came we were—they were setting up for an attack to move forward into Germany at this point and they called it off and sent the whole Third Army towards the Bulge and cut that off. 44:36 Interviewer: And then what kind of action did you see at that point? Are you counterattacking the Germans and going through the forest? Yeah, but not in the respect of open field or anything like this-- it was, where you ran into them and they ran. At that time they knew it was over too. I mean, the little town had been taken and I don’t know what unit got in there first, it was part of Patton’s army that had taken the town that held out and really stopped it. Interviewer: Bastogne, the 101st Airborne was there and then Patton’s Fourth Armored got up there and joined them. When they took over that the German’s knew it was done and when we got there, of course we were to the right, we were cutting off the Bulge, and when we went through the wood they didn’t even stop to fight, they ran as fast as they could. 45:38 Interviewer: Did you have any idea what kind of soldiers you were fighting at that point? In terms of, were they old or young? Yeah, we got—yeah, you were right, there were older men and a bunch of, I swear some of those kids were thirteen or fourteen years old that we ran in and I mean, they were like kids we captured. If they got hurt they were crying and I mean, and the old people, the older ones, if they could give up they would, put it that way, but if they had to fight they would do that too, so it was a circumstance kind of a deal. If they had an officer behind them with a pistol pointed at them, they were going to fight. 23 �Interviewer: You were probably up against what they call a Volksgrenadier Division, which was recruited from older men, recovering invalids, teenage boys, and whatever was there, was not what they put at the main points of attack. There were other places in the counterattack on the Bulge where the fighting was a lot nastier, but the rest of them were holding the sector you were in. 46:38 We were just cutting them off, cutting that Bulge off. We weren’t—the soldiers that had gone through were up ahead of us. I mean, we were in back of their main lines and the people we hit, that our particular unit hit, were not professional soldiers. Interviewer: So the fighting was easier on you than it was maybe back at Normandy or at Metz or anything like that? Yes, I don’t mean you didn’t get shot at, but you weren’t under continual machine gun fire and stuff like this. They didn’t have the weapons to start with, but they all had rifles and some of them would fire them, but like I said, the biggest share of them, if they could give up at that time they would. 47:28 Interviewer: About how long did that continue do you think, days, a week, two weeks? I don’t think very long. Seven days at the most. I’m trying to think of whom we met on the other side. Someone came from the other side and I think it was English, but I wouldn’t swear to that, but we met somebody, I know, because—then the word went out of course, ―hey they’re cut off‖. Whoever’s up there is there. 48:01 Interviewer: Once you linked up with people coming down from the north at that point, did you stay where you were, did you go east? 24 �Yeah, we just held and positions became static again and we just held that particular point. We watched a lot of German prisoners come marching back because we were just off a main road and they were marching them back to from the Bulge itself. They were giving up as fast as they could at that particular point. 48:34 Interviewer: How long did things stay static do you think at that time? Oh, probably, it must have been three or four weeks anyhow, before we ever moved out of there and from that point we moved—where did we go? We went-Interviewer: Did you go back south a ways? We went into Sudetenland Interviewer: That’s’ in Czechoslovakia. The Saar maybe, that’s in West Germany? The Saar is that piece of West Germany that--They moved us back down there after the Bulge was cut off and we went in there. The only reason I remember that is we—we didn’t fight them, but a bunch of German cavalry came through on horse and, of course, we sent the prisoners back and kept the horses, which didn’t last too long because the positions were static and the Russians were coming from the other side and they were giving up as fast as they could to us. 49:37 Interviewer: That probably was in the Sudetenland, but that would have been at the very end of the war. I want to keep your story kind of reasonably in order. So, we’ve kind of gotten you through the Bulge, repositioned back in Germany, so then you’re maybe attacking again in February or so? We went to, and I don’t remember the names of the towns in Germany. I know in one town we ran into a point where they had a gal—we were getting sniping fire and I mean the town was laid out like a horseshoe, I mean a wagon wheel, I’m sorry, and the 25 �spokes—the streets ran out like spokes and as you crossed this one intersection we were getting sniper fire, and it hit two or three people. We went looking for it and got into a church up the street, I mean they’re not hard to locate, and there’s a gal about sixteen or seventeen and, I mean, she wouldn’t come down and they shot her from down below. She was up in the belfry shooting at the soldiers at that time. 50:39 This kind of stuck in my mind because we didn’t see too many females that were fighting over there, but this one seemed to have a pretty good hate for Americans because she refused to come down from the belfry. One of the guys could speak good German and he told her to come down two or three times and she shot down at him and that was the end of it right there. Interviewer: Do you remember crossing the Rhine? Yes, we went across on a—we crossed the Rhine and it was into this city that I was just mentioning and there was a railroad bridge there. Bring the infantry we got across it. I mean, it had been—it wasn’t suitable—they had wrecked the train tracks and stuff, but we could still get across if they laid a few planks here and there and we went across that way and into the town, took the town, and spread out both ways. 51:32 I don’t recall where we went from there, as far as that particular town is concerned. The only reason I remember it is because of the sniper fire that we took and she must have got three or four guys anyhow. Interviewer: As you’re moving out into Germany at that point, what’s the campaigning like? Are you meeting a lot of organized opposition or roadblocks here and there? 26 �The organized opposition the Germans had was pretty well gone at that time. We took a lot of area; we walked through a lot of farmhouses and stuff like this. I mean, basically it was just farmland all the way and I don’t recall getting fire except once or twice after that point until we got all the way to, I don’t recall the town, when the actual war was over, but the fighting was strictly sporadic after that. 52:36 There was no concerted effort, I mean, they didn’t have the people and they didn’t have the leadership at that time, I don’t believe. Interviewer: Did you see much of the civilian population going through Germany? A few times, in fact I’m trying to think of the town, and the brewery was left and we found that. We went into it and there were three old Germans there and one of them had lived in New York and he could talk good English and we got to talking to him, and one of the guys asked him, it wasn’t me, and they said, ―What do you think of Hitler now?‖ And the only answer he said was, ―he lost the war for us‖. He still didn’t realize he’d killed all your young people, he’d wiped out the country, but he lost the war. That was the only thing that came to mind on him. Just, I don’t know, that kind of thinking amazes me I guess because there’s got to be a lot more to it than that. 53:36 Interviewer: There were a lot of different responses and then the question of do you say to the American soldiers when they come through. Now, as you were going through Germany, did you go into any of the concentration camps or work camps? We hit one and I can’t remember what it was, but it wasn’t a big one, but again, it was a question of these people have been downtrodden so far that there wasn’t any response to them as far as they were glad to see us or weren’t glad to see us or anything like this. I think they all knew instinctively they were going to live from that point, but some didn’t. 27 �We fed them and we gave them our rations and they had to stop. One of the doctors came through from our side and said not to give them any more rations because they’re killing themselves, so don’t feed them any rations. 54:39 They hadn’t had food in so long, I guess, it didn’t set well with them. I mean they were all just skin and bones. Today I sit here and hear people say, ―Hey, this never happened‖. You never were there that’s why it never happened. Again, some of the things are just so surprising to me. Interviewer: That is why we need to do this kind of thing, just to give people that many more reminders of what all that was really like. Now, you mentioned early getting to Sudetenland and the American did get that far to the frontiers of Czechoslovakia and those areas up in there. Did you get far enough to run into the Russians? Yes, and I say that with tongue in cheek. We saw them and we didn’t meet with them or anything. 55:36 I mean, the newsreels showed a lot of Americans shaking hands and we didn’t get into that because they stopped before they ever got there. We probably had a half a mile between us. You could—we were on a hill and we had a good area and they stopped and they also stopped shooting because they said there were no more Germans. They came up to us as fast as they could. Interviewer: Now, in those last days, did the Germans seem to be retreating toward you? Were you getting refugees coming toward your lines? German soldiers mainly and there were refugees, but I didn’t really put them together with the soldiers, because the soldiers, the minute they saw us their guns went on the ground and their hands went up and in they came. They wanted—they didn’t want to be taken by the Russians that was for sure. 56:28 28 �Interviewer: You mentioned seeing a Cavalry unit. Can you describe what they looked like and what the horses were like? It was, in fact I didn’t think there were any horses left when we—I regret that I should have stayed with that because we had those horses for about four or five days and one day here came a batch of MP’s and they took them all back to the rear. The unit itself was—I mean it was nondescript in the fact that you did not have full uniforms on these people and what have you. I had no idea where they had been or anything, but they got off the horses and we took the saddles off, of course and put them out to graze. The guys knew what they were doing that did it, I didn’t. 57:18 Interviewer: What condition did the horses seem to be in? They weren’t bad; really they were in good shape. In fact, we were told, and again this is here say, the officers, they used them back in the areas where the officers and men were on leave back there that they rode them for recreation. Interviewer: It’s quite possible, they had the Lipizzaner stallions, the white, in Vienna and so forth, and those were protected and at some point those had to get rescued by somebody out of Czechoslovakia. But these, those would be the horses that got left. Most of the German horses would have been used for pulling wagons and those kind of things and gotten killed a long time ago, and kind of an odd thing to have ride up on you at this stage in the war. 57:57 Yeah, it really was and, like I said, there must have been twelve or fifteen of them or something like that, which was a pretty good number of horses in this one particular group. Again, like I said, the uniforms they wore were not fully German uniforms. They 29 �were made up of parts and pieces. Stuff they had picked up on the road and things like this. 58:26 Interviewer: So, Do you remember how you heard about the European war ending or how that news came down to you? I think it was disseminated down through rank, from the officers down to our commander, who notified us. We weren’t called in, I mean, he—at that time you could group, so he would get the whole company together and notify us as a company. At that time I was married and he said for all married men to put their names in and they would be leaving as soon as they could get transportation, which didn’t hurt my feelings. 59:09 Break Interviewer: You mentioned you were married by then. When did that happen? I was married before I went overseas. I didn’t wait, I got in the service and when I found out I was going overseas, I got married, my wife was agreeable, so there was no problem with that. 59:39 Interviewer: Did you have to go back to Michigan to get married and turn around and go right back out again? Well, I was in Custer at that time, I was still out there and when I knew what was going on, I went back home and got married. I couldn’t see too much point in waiting. Interviewer: What did she do while you were off in the service? Worked in war plants and kept house. She had a baby and it worked out well, but she—I remember she worked, she was living in Saginaw at that time, and she worked at the machine gun plant where they made light machine guns. :20 She worked over there for a long time. 30 �Interviewer: Did she go to New Jersey? Oh yeah, she did, I was at Fort Dix and she came out, rode the bus out there, and it was odd because I expected her on one bus and she didn’t get off. I’m walking around the bus station there, in Trenton, in New Jersey, and here she stood against the wall waiting for me, so it worked out well. Interviewer: All right, so you’re a married soldier, but also, someone who had been in since 1940 and you were in there longer than most of those guys, and you had a fair number of days of combat, so you had a variety of ways, and you had been wounded, so you had a lot of ways of picking up points, so you could get out relatively early. When did they ship you out of Germany? 1:22 Well, I was—I got discharged in June, so I think it was probably May because when they shipped me there I went right back to England and we embarked and I came back to the states. Actually I was discharged at Fort Sheridan in Chicago and from there I took the train into Detroit and home at that point. That was quite a ride on that train too. 2:12 Interviewer: Full of soldiers going home? Oh, there was so much alcohol flowing and you couldn’t realize that many people could do that many different things. Interviewer: Go back a little bit to that time you spent in Iceland. What did you do there aside from standing guard or whatever your official job was? Well, your recreation time was your own, but Iceland, actually, it’s a beautiful country in the respect that it’s a bird sanctuary to begin with and we did little items there that, I didn’t, but I was walking along with my guide, he was a sergeant, and he was a Finlander from up in northern Michigan, and just out of the blue he just reached down and pulled 31 �his forty-five out and shot out across the water and knocked off a duck. The next morning there’s a big note on the bulletin board, You Will Not Shoot The Water Foul In this Country Because They Are Protected. The country itself, between the summertime especially, that sun goes down probably twelve or one o’clock in the morning , but it just sinks below the glaciers back there, I mean volcanoes, the extinct ones, and it comes back up in about twenty minutes or so. 3:36 In the meantime, the colors are—of the sky—are so radiant that you just couldn’t believe there could be that many colors going on at the same time. We had more or less freedom of what we wanted, of course, Iceland is nothing but Fjords, which are big bays, and it worked out perfectly for the navy. They had a big—every one of them had ships into them. They had an oil tank, what we called a tank farm, up there that was big oil tanks that they refuel their ships and stuff off of. 4:22 They had a submarine at one of the other ones that was closer to Reykjavik that had, the naval air force had, a submarine—I’m trying to think, they’re standard, I don’t know what they called it, but they use to fly submarine patrols. We went over—one of my sergeants had a chief petty officer that was flying submarine patrol and we went over there to see him one day and he had a—what was his name, Wilhelm Ludwig Gast , and it was strange, he was some German descent, of course, but he kept the whole name and kept the German inflection on it and he’s flying submarine patrol. He said, ―Anyone of you guys taken gunnery practice? We said, ―no‖, and he said, ―Well, if you had, you could have come along with me‖. 5:24 He said, ―I have to have trained gunners in there‖, so they hadn’t run into anything to speak if. But they had those big Mariner seaplanes and that was—the whole thing was set up all the way through. It was—I had never dealt with the navy before that or since that, I mean, as far as personal. I was quite 32 �impressed with the way it was set up and the way it was run, but they use to fly back to the states periodically and they brought fresh hamburger up there and I hadn’t had a hamburger in two years or something like that. It was one of those things that just hit you, all of a sudden you have access to everything and we hadn’t even had access to the states. 6:16 Interviewer: Now did the army give any kinds of creative training or anything like that? Take advantage of the fact that you’re up in Iceland and teach you to ski or skate or any of those things? Like I said, at one time they decided we were going to have, make some ski patrols and they took a group of us, I had my platoon, but I mean, we just went up on the glaciers and it didn’t work. You can’t train a group of men to ski in the period of time that they had left there. There were some interesting things that I still remember, you know, you always put your ski in the exact same path as the man in front of you, and if you had to stop and relieve yourself—everybody used the same spot and this is just normally, can’t count how many they got in the group , but you knew what the purpose of it was and it was an interesting thing, but it didn’t work. As I said, maybe if they had started two years before that. 7:24 Interviewer: Did they have you cross country skiing on the glaciers or what? Yeah, we were just on the glaciers itself and this one spot was probably a two mile run or something like that down the hill and some of these guys would try to take that run kneeling down and they get going so fast, of course, the skis would go right out from under them and they would slide on their back for a quarter of a mile or so before they finally got stopped, but nobody got hurt that I recall anyhow. It was an interesting thing 33 �and we periodically even—they would give us free time and we’d take the platoon out and cover ten miles or whatever they wanted you to cover. 8:14 I can remember taking my platoon out and climbing those extinct volcanoes. You could get around them and I think back on it now and if I’d lost a man up there I don’t know if I’d have been here today or not. It was a foolish thing to do, but we were all young and could handle it then. It was no problem, I mean; you went through it, and actually the fish in the middle of the volcano-=pretty near all of them had a lake in them and they were basically trout and fresh water fish. I don’t know where they came from because it was all salt all the way around there, but in any case, we got to the point we were using concussion grenades and we would drop a couple of them in the water, gather up the fish, take them back to the mess hall and have a good supper out of them. 9:03 Interviewer: Not spam and not mutton. Not spam and not mutton is right. Interviewer: Are there other memories or things that stick out in your mind about your time in the service that you haven’t mentioned yet or other things you left out? Well, I mean, actually all the items I’ve forgotten them. Some of them I wanted to, I mean it wasn’t a question; I just tried to erase them from my mind as much as possible. Did I tell you they dumped the jeep in the water? Interviewer: It was jeeps, the Volkswagen you stole or took from the Germans. Well, this was after the war, when I got home here the Volkswagen put out the Volkswagen—what they had in Germany, they made a special model for the German army that—over here they called it the Thing and I don’t know—10:13 Interviewer: They called it a Kubelwagen. 34 �That’s the job. Anyhow, we took one of them one place, but it was an interesting little outfit, they had about a three pint gasoline container and they had a three cylinder aircooled engine to them. They had about a pint container that you poured gasoline into them and you started the vehicle on that, it was an air-cooled engine, and the engine got hot and they would run them on kerosene. They smoked a lot, didn’t have any power, but they got you there and got you back. I mean, at that time in the war, fuel was really tight in Germany, so we had that for I don’t know how long, and again, somebody came along and took it back. 10:57 Interviewer: Somebody could pull rank on you. But you—there wasn’t much German equipment that you could have. Of course the big thing that I saw in Germany was the non-fraternization policy they had going at that time and I mean if you were caught talking to a group of Germans, you better be giving them orders. If not, there wouldn’t be any pleasantries what so ever. 11:29 Interviewer: Did that end when the war ended or did that keep going in some way? I think it ended. I don’t know that for sure, but I’ve seen and talked to some people who stayed over there and they said that it was a complete different set-up after the war was over. Of course again, once the Russians had put their course or set-up into effect, and they were flying them in, we had to, as allies, had to become chummy with the Germans because that’s the only way they were going to live. Couldn’t believe, I still couldn’t believe we flew that many supplies into Berlin to keep those people alive. 12:08 Interviewer: To look back on the whole thing now, how do you think your time in the service would up affecting you as a person or otherwise? 35 �I think it did just what my mother was expecting it to. It made me realize that I was a man, that I had other things that I had to do because I have to freely admit, I was, when I went in the service, I was someone living for my own purpose and nothing else and I— when I came back I wasn’t the only person in the world anymore. 12:50 I did affect me in that I came home and of course, after I got out of the service jobs weren’t that hard to find and I had a little time as a plumber before I went in the service and I got talking to him and he said, ―When you want to go back into plumbing, we can get you started as an apprentice‖, and I said, ―Ok‖, so I went from there, got my license, my three years, and then I went to work for the state as an inspector, got my masters license and went on from there. 13:27 It was just the things that came together right. I came home, like I said, and I realized I had a family, I had somebody to support, It wasn’t just me, so I had to keep going whether I wanted to or not. I didn’t realize that before I went in the service. I had come up and whatever was mine was mine and that was it and once you can get over this you realize that you have other aims in life. 13:58 Interviewer: All right then, anything else you want to put on the record here before we close this out? No, I think we are pretty well set. I think I will undoubtedly think of something after you’re gone, but that goes without saying I guess. It goes without saying, I think this is a nice deal in the respect that I know that I’m not going to be here for too much longer and I can leave a record like this. In fact, I have thought of going down and having something put on a disc, but what do you have put on a disc? What can you say to your family except, ―I love you, I’m gone, and where we going from here‖. Interviewer: You tell a pretty good story. 15:00 36 �This was well after I got out and we went to the 5th Division--finally after thirty, forty years, why we realized they had an association of that division and I went to that. My brother was down there and this guy coming up the street and he had a T-shirt on that said 5th division on it, and he said, ―‖My brother was in that outfit during the war‖, and he said, ―He was?‖ And he said he peeled the T-shirt right off and he said, ―Here, give him this‖. Of course, my brother said he washed it before he brought it home, but I mean, it was unusual that this happened, but because this happened was probably the reason I got in touch with them. I went to Waco and then I went to Indiana for the next one and I haven’t gone—I’ve gotten a little bit too old to make those kinds of parties anymore, but I may go again if they have one in Michigan in the next year or two and I’m still here. 16:17 Interviewer: Well, thank you for talking to us today. Thank you for coming out. I appreciate the fact to get some of this stuff off. 37 �38 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cooley, Robert I (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooley, Robert I Description An account of the resource Robert Cooley joined the US Army in 1940 and served through World War II. He was a platoon sergeant in the 5th Infantry Division, and was stationed in Iceland, England and Northern Ireland before landing in France after D-Day. He saw action at St. Lo, Metz, and in the counterattack after the Battle of the Bulge before advancing into Germany and Czechoslovakia. His account includes descriptions of life on garrison duty in Iceland, combat in the Norman hedgerows, taking German prisoners and coming upon a small concentration camp shortly after it was liberated. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c74976c1e686e8ccd8d22d94844f0557.mp4 279892e52430432a8990f497f0ccedd9 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/60d0f9e46dc824b65cbf19bb14575156.pdf 08b39f552f704f69890ec809ec398711 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Vietnam War Dale Cooper (1:01:32) Background Information (00:14) • • • • • • • Born in 1948 in Southern Illinois in a farm house. (00:15) Dale was the fourth out of five children. (00:30) The farm grew corn and beans and had some livestock. (00:55) He graduated high school in 1966. (1:15) Dale did have a deferment while in college. But because of this he had 2 children and a wife after he was out of college when he was sent to Vietnam. (1:30) He received his draft notice in February of 1969. He did his physical of September of 1968 before being drafted. (2:09) Dale knew very little about Vietnam at the time when he was drafted. (3:07) Basic Training (3:30) • • • • • • • He when to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for basic training. The men were taught not to stand out as it often subjected the men to harassment by the drill sergeants. (3:31) The men seemed to be mostly from the Midwest area. (4:30) At his qualifying exam, Dale was told he was good to do any job. He requested to be a medic but could not because Fort Sam Houston where they trained was full. (5:00) The discipline was hard but fair. (6:00) There were many men who were not in physical shape or respected discipline. (6:23) Men often avoided association with the men who didn’t like discipline as it put the men at risk. (7:53) Basic lasted 8 weeks. He was selected to go qualify for the M16. (8:31) AIT (Advanced Infantry Training) (9:28) • • • • • • He attended AIT at Fort Ord, California (9:30) The base appeared much more primitive and had buildings from World War II (9:35) Men were taught first aid, hand to hand combat, and on more weapons such as the M16. (10:12) There were no great efforts taken to prepare the men for Vietnam such as mock villages or education on booby traps. (11:27) AIT lasted approx. 6 weeks. (12:20) After a 30 day leave, Dale was to be sent to Vietnam. He did not think he would see his family again after his leave. (12:35) Journey to Vietnam and Early Service (13:00) • He flew from Oakland, California, to Vietnam. (13:05) �• • • • • • • • • The men were flown aboard a commercial aircraft. The aircraft landed in Hawaii then the Philippines and then Vietnam. (13:40) When he arrived in country he saw fire and black smoke. [actually from human waste being burned with diesel fuel] This scared Dale. (14:19) He stayed at another replacement center in Long Binh. Dale was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (14:57) Dale was given training in country on booby traps, helicopters, etc. that could be more applicable to Vietnam combat. (16:30) He was scared early on that he could be killed any second while in country. (17:35) Dale was landed in Camp Evans and was assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd of the 506th Infantry. 1st Platoon. (18:00) Dale was asked if he smoked, as in marijuana. He was told never to take drugs while in the field as he would probably die. (19:42) The men were standoffish around Dale as a new guy could be dangerous in the field. (20:26) When he first arrived, Dale and his unit were south of Camp Evans up in the hills. (21:44) Service south of Camp Evans (22:40) • • • • • • • • • His company had set up an ambush site. When then the VC triggered their ambush, Dale's unit triggered theirs. (22:45) Dale’s reactions to the fire fight were automatic due to training. (23:58) After the fire fight the men in Dale’s unit respected him more as they knew he could hold his own in combat. (24:27) His company commander was from West Point and very dedicated to his duties. (24:53) In the later part of 1969, dale spent most of his time in the mountains. He was never out in the field for less than 30 days. The longest the men were out was 63 days. (26:21) Dale was comfortable in the jungle. He preferred to be in the field. Occasionally the men did stay at fire bases. (27:00) Dale walked point and checked for booby traps for approx. 1 month when he arrived in country. (28:06) He also found a small bomb while walking point. Dale was assigned to destroy the booby trap. (29:20) Booby traps were more prevalent when in the mountains and engaging the North Vietnamese than when engaging the VCs. (30:30) Service as a Radio Operator (31:09) • • • • Dale was given the radio after the radioman left on R&R. When the radioman retuned he didn’t want his job back. (31:10) A new company commander was assigned near this time. One of the first things the new captain did was walk the men out to a rifle range in January of 1970 and test their accuracy on the rifle range. (31:50) He could tell that the company commander [Captain Isabelino Vazquez] was tough and demanding. However he was seen to care highly about the soldiers. (33:50) When a perimeter was set up at night, typically there was a listening post sent out for an advanced warning of activity. Sometimes instead of a 5 men group waiting to intercept a group of North Vietnamese there would be 90 men on alert. (34:59) �• • • • • • • • • • • • In March of 1970 the company went on more intense search and destroy missions because the men were outnumbered in their particular area. (37:26) Some platoons found bunkers, however Dale’s did not. (38:59) After coming back from R&R the platoon took Ripcord. [site of a planned firebase--two other companies from the battalion and failed to secure it] As the men went up the hill there was little to no resistance. (39:48) Marching orders for the next day were often sent to Dale scrambled. He was required to unscramble it. (42:12) On Dale’s R&R he went to Hawaii and had a chance to see his wife. (42:50) Dale did not believe he would come back, even in mid 1970. (43:50) In mid 1970 Dale was made battalion radio man. However he still served out in the field. (44:37) Dale was moved to the tactical operations center [TOC] on Ripcord in late June of 1970. (45:34) Dale did not like being with the strangers in the strange environment of the fire base. He did not know how the people around him would react in a combat situation. (46:27) Ripcord had a landing zone, and bunkers constructed with sand bags. (47:07) He watched people on the base expose themselves in a dangerous situation to protect the fire base. (49:20) Dale’s former platoon was attacked on July 2nd 1970 on hill 902. The company was “wiped out.” (51:26) Service in the U.S. (53:40) • • • • • • • Dale left Ripcord on July 10th 1970. (53:42) He was then sent to Camp Evans. He left the camp on July 18th 1970. (55:01) The aircraft landed in Seattle, Washington. (55:30) Next, Dale was sent to Fort Carson, Colorado, where they, “ironically taught them how to fight a war.” (56:18) Because the unit at Fort Carson was mechanized, Dale was then made a tank commander. (56:31) Dale stayed at Fort Carson for 6 months. His family was able to join him while he was stated there. (56:58) Dale was discharged in early 1971. (57:45) Life after Service (57:58) • • • • After his service, Dale worked at an oil refinery. (57:58) Dale says that he will always be grateful for his experience. Overall, his service affected him positively. (58:58) He was hard on his children after his service to appreciate what they had. (1:00:00) Dale was occasionally harassed by civilians because of his service. Often this was hard to swallow. (1:00:35) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cooper, Dale (Interview outline and video), 2012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cooper, Dale Description An account of the resource Dale Cooper, born in 1948 in Southern Illinois, served in the U.S. Army from late 1968 through early 1971. After completing basic at Fort Leonard Wood and AIT at Fort Ord, Dale was sent to Vietnam. Here he was assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He went on patrols both in the lowlands near Camp Evans, and in the hills and jungles of the interior. He eventually became a radio operator, working his way up from platoon to company level, and then to the battalion. During the Ripcord campaign in 1970, he was serving in the battalion headquarters until he rotated home on July. He spent the last part of his enlistment as a tank commander at Fort Carson, Colorado. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b6f08566e22165eaa13f1ba7e8466ff7.mp4 0120153d1ac345eb99fdfb7c46cc1b9d https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/db4f219d8695ce11262dd763dada4928.pdf df21b9da170878b7fb3ef0f594a8dddb PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Late Cold War Era/ Invasion of Grenada Randal Cope Interview Length: (01:04:17:00) Early Life (00:00:05:00)  Randy was born November 9th, 1961. (00:00:05:00)  Randy spent his entire childhood in Wyoming, Michigan. (00:00:10:00) o He grew up in a family poorer than most. (00:00:27:00) o His parents were always on a very fixed budget. (00:00:35:00) o The family never had extra money for any kind of luxury item. (00:00:41:00)  Randy was drawn to the idea of earning money towards college and decided to join a military service of some kind. (00:01:25:00) o At first, he considered being a fireman so he went to the army to seek a position of this sort, but there weren’t any openings. (00:01:40:00) o He then checked with the Air Force, who directed him to Detroit for a physical and a possible job opportunity. Unfortunately, there were no openings of this type open, but he was offered a job in security. (00:02:18:00)  Randy soon realized that this field was broken up into two sections: law enforcement and protection services. He had accepted a job on the protection side unknowingly. (00:03:00:00) Air Force Training (00:03:30:00)  Entered basic training in September of 1979. (00:03:31:00) o Randy describes this experience as “where they dehumanize you and turn you into a military person”. (00:04:40:00) o He did not find it as mentally or physically straining as many people do. He accredits this ease to the teachings that he received as a child. (00:05:45:00) o “I became more respectful”. (00:06:10:00)  Because he had grown up in a structured environment, Randy felt that he had an advantage over others during basic training. (00:06:50:00) o People from urban communities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, seemed to struggle with the strict nature of basic training the most. (00:07:30:00)  Basic training lasted 6 weeks. (00:07:42:00) o Although weekends weren’t quite as rigorous, trainees were still required to arise at 5:00 A.M. (00:07:46:00)  Air Force instructors were “very verbal and mind-punishing” (00:08:10:00) o These people were not allowed to be physical, but were free to “get in your face” and scream obscenities. (00:08:20:00)  After basic training, Randy was sent to technical school. (00:08:39:00) o Randy’s technical school was focused on security and policing and located only a block away from his basic training camp. (00:08:45:00) o This training lasted a standard 6 weeks for all job titles, but varied in length according to field after that period of time. (00:09:05:00) � One day, Randy and his fellow trainees were called out of their barracks and divided into 8-hour shifts and instructed to guard Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. (00:10:05:00) o At the time, this was one of the largest medical treatment centers in the Air Force. (00:10:20:00) o Randy was called out of the barracks along with the other men to provide security to the Shah of Iran, who was at the hospital receiving cancer treatment. (00:11:03:00) o The Shah of Iran was under high security because he was in exile from Iran. (00:11:25:00) o Randy and his roommate were placed on night duty. (00:11:50:00) o The men wore their “greens” on this assignment. (00:12:17:00)  During his time in technical training, Randy the “possibility of going to war was looming in the back of my head” after the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979. (00:13:50:00) o With the turn of the decade, Randy felt that the Reagan administration would resort to violent intervention if the prisoners weren’t released. (00:14:34:00) o This became the basis for training of military personnel (00:14:50:00)  In the post-Vietnam War era, Randy the mentality of the Air Force was “total selfsufficiency”. (00:15:02:00) o Training became very broad in light of this desire, providing instruction from “small weapons all the way up to large weapons, armored vehicles, and air commanders”. (00:15:35:00)  Randy volunteered to be an air commander because it was “the macho thing to do”. (00:16:20:00) o This field included a small amount of competition, but once accepted, one was “side-by-side” with the other men, not “in line” behind them. (00:16:40:00) o By doing this, Randy had a good chance of staying in Michigan because there were three active bases in state at the time. This was a benefit because he did not have interest in going overseas. (00:17:37:00) Deployment (00:18:30:00)  After technical training, he was sent to Germany. (00:18:33:00) o Randy had just gotten married prior to his departure and was sent on a 3-year tour according to criteria for married air force personnel. (00:18:50:00) o His wife was able to join him overseas a few months later. (00:19:16:00)  Randy was stationed at an airbase on the French border. (00:19:25:00) o This base was much smaller than some of the others to the East. (00:21:00:00) o Because of the small size, men received more “individual training”. (00:21:06:00) o However, because they were a C-Party base, they were deployed more often than other bases. (00:21:19:00)  On one occasion, Randy and others on the base were deployed as a fire team over a 1week period. (00:21:30:00) o On other occasions, men were individually deployed where men received assignments in pairs. (00:21:40:00)  Randy was once sent to Saudi Arabia. (00:21:54:00) o During the 90 days that he was deployed, he stayed at an Air Force base where he did security work. (00:22:06:00) �      o He was unable to explore the land. Then men were strictly confined to the base. (00:22:20:00) In Germany however, the men were allowed “full-reined freedom”. (00:22:40:00) o Men were not allowed to wander, and had to stay within the realms of “marked trails”. (00:22:55:00) o Fishing and hunting were permitted, but restricted to group activities and only by those that obtained legal licenses to do so. (00:23:35:00) Randy was in Germany for three full years from 1980 to 1983. (00:23:57:00) o He arrived there at age 18, and was resentful to leave Michigan. (00:24:13:00) o He was deployed with a group of men from Texas, who Randy became close with and partook in leisure activities with them on a regular basis. (00:24:30:00) o He lived off base in a house while in Germany because he was not eligible for onbase housing because he was only an Airman First Class. (00:25:15:00) Randy was stationed in Zweibrücken, Germany, a city located on the Schwarzbach River. (00:25:40:00) o He was located near a small army unit, situated on the opposite side of a nearby hill. (00:26:00:00) o The men had to drive to the other side of the hill, onto the army side, to retrieve groceries. (00:26:02:00) The Germans were generally civil towards the Air Force men “because there were not many Americans there and none of the hostility that usually comes with that”. (00:26:26:00) o However, because the men were generally young of age, they tended to “give Americans a bad name” with their reactionary behavior to a foreign place. (00:27:03:00) o Air Force men would sometimes get into trouble with German law, but the “German courts were usually understanding” and no severe punishment was ever given. In fact, in most of these cases, the Americans were turned over to United States law. (00:27:20:00) o In large German communities, Americans were commonly resented, but not in the smaller ones, like Zweibrücken. (00:27:53:00) The Air Force units sometimes provided aid in situations, such as fires and security matters, in the German community which they lived. (00:28:27:00) o Randy, himself, elected to donate his AB Negative blood to a badly wounded German firefighter. This blood type is quite rare. However, the transfusion never occurred because the soldier was in an impossible state by the time Randy arrived at the hospital. (00:29:10:00) After Randy was released from Germany, we was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base is Missouri for a short time and then was transferred to Grenada, an island in the Caribbean, where he stayed for roughly three weeks. (00:29:57:00) o Prior to arriving, Randy was uninformed of where he was going and was only given a recall notice. He was still unaware when he boarded the plane. (00:30:25:00) o There were fifty men given a mandatory recall notice, the equivalent of one flight. (00:30:48:00) �o When given a “mandatory recall notice”, men are supposed to be prepared to leave immediately for the aircraft hangar. The men receive training for this kind of situation. (00:31:04:00) o The men had to wait twelve hours on a plane before take-off to allow time for gear loading (00:34:00:00) o The plane finally took off after this length of prep time and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, where the men boarded another plane. At this point they were still unaware of their destination. (00:34:50:00) o The connecting flight took them to Puerto Rico, where they boarded yet another plane. This would be the flight that finally took them to Grenada. (00:35:06:00)  Randy and the other parachuted into Grenada at 4 A.M. and landed near the beach, where it was physically safe to do so. (00:36:04:00) o In order to be certified to jump out of an airplane, one had to be “in the advanced section of Air Force training”. (00:36:50:00)  This task required “physical agility” because it called for 90 pounds of equipment aside from the jump itself. (00:37:02:00) o On the plane ride from Puerto Rico, Randy and the others were told that there were some medical students being denied permission to leave Grenada to go back to the United States. (00:38:15:00)  Additionally, Grenada had been under Cuban and Russian influence, posing a threat of governmental overthrow. (00:38:36:00) o When they arrived in Grenada, Randy and the others immediately began securing the airfield because they were told that there might be Grenadian, Cuban and/or Russian guards there. (00:39:00:00)  The men “feared for the worst”. (00:39:41:00)  They arrived at the terminal, and still there was no sign of another occupation, so they started their “sweep” of this area. (00:39:48:00) o Randy and the others discovered a large room with 20-25 cots near the terminal that the opposing side had used as barracks located behind the terminal. (00:40:00:00)  Randy and his “fire team” entered the room and realized that the opposing men were asleep in their cots. (00:40:15:00)  Randy and the team then took the men in the room captive after waking them up. (00:40:55:00)  The room consisted of mostly native Grenadians with the exception one Russian man. (00:35:06:00)  After this capture, the American Air Force men were able to secure the airfield and without any bloodshed. (00:42:03:00) o After securing the airfield, more American security planes were able to land, marking the official start of the American invasion of Grenada in 1983, otherwise known as “Operation Urgent Fury”. (00:42:10:00)  This invasion was embodied by multiple Armed Force denominations including the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. (00:42:25:00)  The Air Force men never left the air field because their specific duty is to provide security to the airbase. (00:43:00:00) o The Air Force stayed in Grenada for 3 weeks. (00:43:04:00) �o According to some of Randy’s friends who were in the Army during Grenada invasion, some were hurt upon parachuting onto the island. He notes that these men also had a lack of detailed knowledge about the mission, like the Air Force men did. (00:44:10:00)  Some Army and Marine men reported being attacked by both Cubans and civilians because they landed in village areas. (00:44:29:00)  Many of the injuries received during the invasion were due to “streamers”, or parachutes that never fully inflated. One such friend of Randy broke his back as a result of this malfunction. (00:45:04:00) o Randy notes that the lack of maps available to the soldiers amplified the complexity of the invasion because nobody was familiar with the land. (00:46:27:00) o In 1984, after the invasion of Grenada, contemporary presidential candidate Ronald Reagan arrived at Whiteman Air Force Base, where he was provided security by Air Force personnel, including Randy, as he boarded a flight to an outof-state fundraiser. (00:47:50:00)  This kind of protection was necessary due to increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Europe during the early 1980’s. This was particularly frightening to Randy because of the heightened number of attacks to American military installations in Europe. (00:49:15:00) o Randy initially signed up for 6 years of service in the Air Force, although he did consider reenlisting for a time. (00:50:55:00) o As of 1985, he had accumulated 90 days of leave so he took a summer vacation to Michigan. (00:51:11:00) Return to Civilian Life (00:51:20:00) o Following his Air Force years, Randy decided to look into police work. (00:51:25:00)  He got an interview with Michigan State Police and was given a Police Academy starting date soon after. (00:51:28:00)  In the few months between his release from service and his Police Academy start date, the Michigan State police made the transition to computerized records. (00:52:24:00)  During the transition to paperless records, Michigan State Police lost his Police Academy records. When Randy showed up at the academy, he was not permitted to begin training. (00:53:18:00)  “Being still young, I decided not to do the process over again and be mad instead”. (00:53:10:00)  Randy fell into something of a depression following this loss of opportunity, and eventually broke his leg in a drunken driving accident on a motorcycle ride. Randy had grown up riding bikes. (00:54:10:00) o Randy started going to night school for electronics after his motorcycle accident. (00:55:00:00)  This study has taken him into the industrial maintenance field, which is the field of his contemporary career. (00:55:05:00) o Randy’s military experience is “a real sense of pride”. (00:55:20:00) � Being in the Air Force allowed him the opportunity to travel to many places around the world. (00:55:40:00)  Randy also takes pride in the camaraderie that developed while training alongside the other men. (00:57:20:00) o Randy did not start going to military reunions until the most recently past 20 years of his life. (00:57:40:00) o Randy’s wife’s brother is a MIA, and has been missing in Laos since 1970. (00:58:05:00)  He and his wife are active in MIA programs and recently attended a Rolling Thunder National Convention in Washington D.C., where they contact congressmen in order to raise federal concern on these matters. (00:58:20:00)  Randy feels that “the Vietnam veterans are starting to get the help they deserve”, thus his activism is not going to waste. (00:58:50:00) o The only downfall to being in the military, according to Randy, is the inconvenience of not being able to go to college at an earlier age. (00:59:23:00) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Title A name given to the resource Cope, Randal (Interview outline and video), 2011 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cope, Randal Description An account of the resource Randal Cope was born into a lower-income family located in Wyoming, Michigan. He entered the United States Air Force at a young age in search of an employment opportunity. He was trained as a security officer, which also included police work. After training, he volunteered to be an Air Commander and was deployed to Germany shortly after. He spent three years, from 1980 to 1983, in the small town of Zweibrücken where he attended to mostly small security matters, that of both United States and Germany. In 1983, Cope was sent back to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri until he received a mandatory recall notice to Grenada, an island in the Caribbean. This deployment marked the official beginning of the Invasion of Grenada, an event attributed to the end of the Cold War. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/893500344e06f9e6c06a6ec4f47db5d7.pdf 9226f91243a2d9b14d5910d5f0483273 PDF Text Text GALLE\' AZETTE -ll~ORno R€StlURant- qall€y- LUNCH . DINNER Asr ALL DAY -th QhOUS€- -RathSk€Ll€R. SAUGATUCK . ''on the wateu'' DINING DANCING -OLO CROW BaRDANc1NG COCKTAILS ··soG,e BURGE R"" -DOC ~ac1L1t1€s- CORAL GABLES . .. OVER FORTY YEARS IS A LONG LONG TI?Y.t;E It started w~en a part-time student employee bought the busmess. Tom Jbhnson, who worked at the then Grey Gables in East Lansing was on his way to Detroit to join the - Marines when a serious automobile· accident interrupted those hopes. As a result, ~e returned to his job in East Lansing and in 1944, with money borrowed from friends, purchased what is now known as the Coral Gables. . The first decade was a quiet time. Friends were ~ade and associations with Michigan State University were nurtured. Student loyalty was growing. Then in 1957 misfortune struck. A fire completely destroyed the Gables. With the help of friends and students, Tom completely rebuilt. This enterprising young man, whose own athletic aspirations were thwarted as a result of the automobile accident. developed his new business utilizing MSU .student athletes as employees. Tom's connection with athletics, especially football, has always been in evidence. In East Lansing. ~nd elsewhere, student athletes made up the majority of the workforce. In addition to sports, Tom was Coral Gables-Saugatuck. in the Sixties instrumental in fostering new programs and iopper shares the sam phi\oso-pb.'j a.no. bas bec.ome one ot tb.e most suc.cessfo\ nightclubs ever. Topper endeavors. Two notable ones were SAECA (Students a vital forc.e in prom · ons a.no. SU'Q'QOtt'mi -wmtb.- rec.a\\.,,, "'iNe -wete -wa'J ab..eac. ot our time witb tbis for the Advancement 0£ Extra Curricular Activi.ti.es) one. 'Nb.en :t'-'l c.aa. v,ra...,, 'm to.':',\. \...o.n.'i:.\n.'6 'ne \>oo\.eo. while state and c.omm ''-':I -pm1ec.ts ." and Excalibur. These two groups 'f)rovided some of many of the big bands. People like CTA (now Former Western Micb an University Head Coach the input which helped the Coral Gables meet the Cbicag~) and the Sun1iners (now Rare Earth) were Elliott Uzelac. now at tne University of Michigan. social needs of the student population. always m the club. With "Toppers" we were into the .~urns ~p his associatio n vith Coral Gables this way. In time. Coral Gables became "the" social spot for ?isco craze w~y before the rest of the country picked The mput of Coral Galles and the Johnson family the MSU campus. Gee Patrusky. once a manager at 1t up. In the rughtdub business you have to be willing towards athletics a t Wes.em, especially football. was Gables, remembers, "We didn't have a lot of to take a chance and judge the next trend before it instrumental in getting · e football program where it money .. . it was the. only social gathering spot.·· He happens.·· is today. No request - o matter how big or how also recalls that Tom Johnson and the Gables were small went unanswer d." This spirit has always been part of the Coral Gables not satisfie_d with maintaining the "status quo" . "We policy. Major renovation takes place in the club as With all this loyal sup ort. it was only natural that were always looking for something new. something often as every three years. Topper adds. "Another the Coral Gables philos hy and organization would big, and something different." ,g_row. ~nd grow it did . ith the East Lansing opera- good example was Cowboys. We had a country Tony Conti. another Gables employee and MSU nightclub before most people saw Urban Cowboy. In tion gomg strong. a sec nd location was opened in football player, talks enthusiastically about his years addition to planning. all of the reconstruction. Coral Owosso. Next came Satgatuck. a monumental step with Coral Gables. "We all had been helped by Tom, Gables does all of their own construction work. "We forward for the compa y. The resort hotel. once I think he originated the original ·student loan prolike to keep the work we do inside the company." known as the Leindecke Inn. became the third Coral gram.·· He also remembers the giant mural on the says Topper. · Gables in 1959 after MS students made Tom aware wall. "It came to life when someone came bad,. "Coral Gables is more than a few buildings and a of this potential market. Everyone's picture was there. It was a matter of pride familiar orange CG logo " says Topper. "It's people. Saugatuck began to blossom immediately. The Old to have your picture on that wall.· · Most of our key personnel have been with us for Crow Bar and the IL Fo o' restaurant soon became Everyone who remembers the East Lansing Coral years; people like Vi Fox . and Bob Berger in mainstays in the small esort town. It became the Gables agrees it was fantastic! Gables was the only Saugatuck, Gene White at Carlos & Harry's, Michael place for students to go, nd. the place they came to place to go. It was a second home for many. Tom D at the Left Bank. Larry Bronkan, Coral Gables Live, from' all over. Saugatuck as also an introduction to always said it was the people - customers and and my partner John Chayka at Dillons and Coral 0 t~e w~ter. Located n the edge of the Kalamazoo employees - that made Coral· Gables East Lansing Gables in Taylor. Michigan to name just a few. We River 1t . was only natu ·al that boats and boating the successful enterprise that it was. now have a thousand people on our payroll and who would fmd .their w~y into Coral Gables projects. Another name that always comes to mind when knows how many more have passed through the Among the mtroduchon of new and varied drinking reminiscing about the early times of the East Lansing doors since the first Gables was opened." Marcy. and dining areas. provisions for boat docking also Coral Gables is that oflegendary Spartan Coach Duffy Topper's administrative assistant sums it up this way. became part of the c0 niplex. Daugherty. In a recent letter he says. "The Coral The success and good ortune that was evident in ," It's very unique - not an ordinary job. The loyalty Gables ~as founded by the late Tom Johnson, a perbetween us and the company is almost indescribable. East Lansing carried over o the new facilities on Lake sonal fnend of mine. I have never known a more I feel very personally involved - it's more than a job. Michigan. The old Crow brought record crowds to serious, dvic-minde_d person. Tom was a loyal Sparit 's part of my life." the small resort area. \li Fox who has been at the tan. In his own qu1e_t way he did more to suppo t Anytime you walk into a Coral Gables operation Sauga~uck Coral Gables since the beginning, recalls Mich!gan Stat~ than anyone I have ever known. N~t you are met by that friendly and familiar presence of only m athletICs, but all university programs. His son one mght so many te 0 Ple were waiting outside that the people in control. In the early days. you would Tom was asked by t e lllayor to put the band on the find Tom near the door overseeing the operation. front porch in order to keep the crowd under control. Now it's Topper or his brother, Mike. who direct the 19 Then in the early 6o·s the Coral Gables name show. The sports theme is evident too. It looks like spread t? otherd w;ns. Another restaurant was most of the floormen, all dressed in the classic white opened m Gran . aven This was soon to be dress shirt. are just taking time off from MSU Spartan followed by place~i~ Gr ~d Rapids. Kalamazoo and or WMU Bronco football practice. two clubs in th\tcl: 0 it area. At one time Gables Along with the many succe~sful bars and 11 opera ted four Kalabs ·n Kalamazoo. Since it was · restaurants. Coral Gables has branched out to otheF centrally locate1· \\,·lll zoo became Coral Gables endeavors. among them a movie production com~ headquarters. A on:a 1tl) the twelve Coral Gables in pany. Mishnah has made a number of films. some of the state. the co~e ~y also had a major holding in which have included Mike Johnson. Future plans will the Anthony ffo~on. ;~taurant chain with places in combine this knowledge with a nightclub operation Detroit. Washingn wh_1ttsburg and New York. which will feature video and musical entertainment . Topper Jo~~!fa~azo C) directs the business now. Other developments on the horizon will include new Right foreground-Coral Gables-Saugatuck . . · comments. are C) ½as been very good to us. operations on the Gulf Coast of Florida. background is the pavillion which burned . Bu19ldmg in The people ~e;; I(ala~~a My family lived here for m I 60. many yearsa~ 0 o. Gables ran "Toppers". 1 �-THE 1'WIN VILLAGES ON LAKE MICHIGAN -THEN &NOW The twin villages of Saugatuck and Douglas await you with vacation treasure chests filled with all manner of earthly delights. Located within an easy _ drive from millions of midwest homes, between exits 35 and 41 on Interstate I-96. these vacation twins can double your vacation pleasures for a day, a week. or longer. • For some the appeal is a trip back in time to the tumof-the-century tree-lined streets with their quaint old houses and shops, the traces of history that survive, the wooded hills and river banks. F'or others it is the thoroughly modem entertainment offered by a rich variety of establishments. The building .in the center is known as the "WILD CAT BANK" of Singapore. It was brought down the river prior to 1881 to the village of Saugatuck where it still stands. Today it is known as Salmagundi, a retail shoppe. The Pottowattomie Indians first selected the banks of the Kalamazoo as a place to visit at least once a year. They were there when the first white man. Father Marquette, came while making his legendary visit to Lake Michigan country. . . When the white men came in numbers, they liked what they saw. Where the Kalamazoo emptied into the great lake, they established Singapore village and later, when the "singing sands': threatened to bury Singapore. they moved up-river to the pleasant meadows below and the hills above the present day twin villages of Saugatuck and Douglas. . . The twins offer something fo r everyone - for all ages, all tastes, all pocketbooks, and all seasons. , First look about you, then ride the Dune Schooners through the dunes and at first-hand see what the earliest visitor must have enjoyed, or take to the w ater on the Queen of Saugatuck. an old fashion stemwheel paddleboat and view the twins, the great variety of pleasure craft that call this beaut iful port home. and the winding river channel connecting Lake Kalamazoo with Lake Michigan. · Walk the streets and look in on the shops with their great variety of decor and merchandise . He re are assembled, from far and near. all manner of things to titillate your fancy . There are special events: Art and craft shows in the park. fireworks , concerts. festivals . runs, and antique shows. Fishing and the Twins have always been synonomous. Once there were commercial fishing boats berthed along the river banks that traversed the great lake to tend their nets and-return with their harvest. Now these sturdy boats have been all but replaced with sleek. modem power cruisers equ'i pped with all the marvels of technological equipment and captained by experienced skippers who use their fine equipment and pe rso nal skill to insure good fishing for those who are their charter customers. They return to port with pennants flying, with coolers filled with great fish. There are at least 15 expertly crewed fishing charter boats in the area. Take a short drive south from the Twins along the lake shore under the vaulted arms of great oaks and beaches through which Lake Michigan can be seen. Tum east or:i M-89 through orchard, farm . and vineyard country and follow the signs to Fenn Valley. a family- owned and operated 230 vineyard that has won over sixty competitive awa in four years. A little fu rther south o n 118th Str the State o f Michigan operates a game area wher almost any season great flocks of geese may be se eeding on the ground or wheeling into the air as the ave in and o ut. From the town of Fennville go nort the old valley village of New Richmo nd .and cross t esto red swing bridge that used to open for river craft their way to Allegan the h ead of navigation on Kalamazoo. Go west on Old Allegan Road. an In trail. to the Blue Star Highw ay. th en north on th oad to one of M ichigan 's new est and unspoi led sta\park - The Saugatuck Dunes State Park where y can fo llow on foot old lumbering roads _to Lake M gan th rough all manner of woods. wild flowers. an une growth. Back at Saugatuck and D~ las there are beaches to enjoy. walks to be taken . g co urses to be played, an old-time Georgian Bay Stea] owered ferry to explore. and an authentic chain fer o the west bank of the river. Once there. you may· nt to follow the curving road to the Oval Beach on fie Michigan. or scale Mt. Baldy . counting i.ts 281 steps cm chmb to t'n.e obseIV ation platform £ram which you can suIVey the surrounding countryside. You might picnic at th e httle park at the fo ot of Mt. Baldy and relax on the look-out deck by the river from which you may vie w the flotillas of boats navigating the Kalamazoo. At the north end of Water Street in Saugatuck. there are ducks to be fed , and birds to be watched. Elsewh ere there are shops to be shopped. people to b e watched. antiques to be examined. art galleries to be savored. and before you know it. you will be ready to eat. The Twins have an abundance of good eating places. Breakfast. lunch or dinner. In the pre-dawn hours of darkness you will even find stick-to-your-1ibs home cooking. . In the evening there is a variety of entertainment. Classical music on a 9-foot Grand or the sounds of a 1inky-tink piano. The live bands will take you back to the JAZZ of the 40's or the hits of today for your dancing pleasure. If you enjoy the theater, an evening at the Red Barn is a must. · as 11 you fall in love w ith the villages. which is a good possibility, and you find. you want to spend more than one day. the Twins ha~ its share of fine accommodations fro m villas on the lakeshore to bed and breakfast INNS in the village. If you need directions. just ask anyone. You will find many people who regard the Twins as objects of love and affection. Such admirers seem to comprise a cult. returning year after year. and in-between dreaming of the past and anticipating the future. They will love to share their knowledge of the towns with you. Or stop in at the Chamber of Commerce in downtown Saugatuck for expe1i help and literature. Whether you 're an avid boatsman. skier. fishennan. or just love the dean sandy beaches of Lake Michigan, you'll enjoy yourself at Saugatuck-Douglas. 1:he wi~d-sculpted stumps are one feature of a dune nde which you can take. It is an exciting ride and a breathtaking view of this Sahara-on-the-lake . The ride ends with a short trip through the forest which ine:K· plicably reforested itself after the merciless logging. / The North American If you love the charm of a small town , n estled between woods. and rivers and sand dunes. you'll find your place at Saugatuck-Douglas. And if you search for unique. handcrafted. one-of-akind items. or antiques. or exclusive clothing. or very special art. then you must stroll through the streets of Saugatuck-Douglas and explore sh op after shop. The amusements will delight children and adults; the restaurants are excellent . and h otel and resort accommodations are nearby. It truly is the most picturesque port of call on the Eastern Shore of Lake Michigan. "DON'T MISS US: ITS DELlGHTFUL HERE IN SAU GATUCK-DOUGLAS. �CORAL GABLES - - PAST AND PRESENT ,'Th Lein decker boys of Chicago are negotiating for the purchase of ~he Kl e saloon property in this village. The location is a fine one for a summer eenan d the Leindeckers have ample means to build one." So reported- the resort an t k commercial on July 1. 1898. Sau:a uc perty consisted of a building and two lots with river frontage. The T e pro$ 3 750 and the Leindeckers took possession in September, 1898, and cost was o' deJm· g the interior of the old building and building a two story set on rem . addition. · o f 1900 w· h en 1·t b ume d The old building operated as an inn unt il t h e spring to the ground. uild· In January 1901. E.J. Leindecker an~o?nced pl~s _for a new b , mg. A contemporary line drawing shows a building very similar to today s.. Apparently only half of the present building was constructed m 1901 and 1902. In 1905 they continued construction and added_the other gable. The building had 37 sleeping rooms with a complete electnc bell system for each room. The dining room was enlarged so that 100 guests could be seated at one time. The b;rr and pool room was 56 by 20. · The Grand Opening was first announced for April 21, 1906 but was postponed to June 2, 1906 and the newspaper commented"Mr. Leindecker now has a building to be proud of and those who have gone through it have found that there has been no money spared that was necessary to make it first class in every respect." . The building was run for several years as the Leindecker Inn. In approximately 1912 it was sold to someone from Chicago and the name was changed to the Columbia Hotel. It was managed out of Chicago for a few years and then was used by the Georgian Bay Line foil storage. It was also used by the crews of the North and South American as a headquarters. Also during this period the docks were used by Mr. George Wright for transporting people to the beach. He had two boats,for this purpose, the Wm. Cary and the Wolverine. It was a very good business from 1910 until 1936 when the Oval Beach was opened. Mr. Wright also operated a concession and an area for dancing to an old player piano in what is now the parking lot. In approximately 1920 the building was sold again to Mr. Francis Horgan and was renamed the Hotel Saugatuck. It was operated again as a hotel and dining room but du~ to prohibition there was no liquor, beer or wine and therefore it was rather unsuccessful. "With my Luck, when my Ship comes in I'll be at the Airport" , ''Coyote'' In the late ZO's or early 30's it was taken over by Edson and Dale Crow and was made into a very successful dining room and bar. It was still known as the Hotel Saugatuck but it was at this time that the bar became known as the Crow Bar and it is still known as the Crow Bar. Upon the death of Edson Crow,. the hotel was run by Dale Crow and his wife Madge. After the death of Dale Crow, Mrs. Crow sold to the present owner, Tom - Jbhnson. · When Mr. Johnson purchased it in 1959 he soon started remodeling and the name was changed to • Coral Gables Hotel Saugatuck. Later the Hotel . Saugatuck was dropped and it became Coral Gables. The first of the extensive remodeling was to take out a partition along the river side of the building and enclose the porch to make the bar larger. He then moved the bandstand from the south wall to the west wall. The building was extended to the south and a kitchen was added. Where the IL Forno (meaning the oven) dining room is, was the offices for the old building. He then took out the old kitchen and put in a horseshoe bar to service the Crow Bar. This increased the seating capacity from about 350 to 425. In 1960 Mr. Johnson built the second dining room, which is known as the Candle-light Room. When it was almost completed and ready to open. the Big Pavilion next door burned down. The intense heat broke all the windows out and the paint on the building was scorched and blistered but due to drawing closed the fire proof drapes and the fire department spraying the building with water it didn 't bum. After replacing the windows and a good deal of cleaning the room opened with only a small delay. It then had a capacity, between the two rooms of about 155 people and boasted the first gourmet table in this area. Also in the same year they cleaned out the basement and out of a store room. a dark room and an old coal bin there came the Rathskeller. complete · with draft beer, pizza and sing-a-long music. The Rathskeller has since been remodeled and enlarged into a supper club large enough to seat 225 people. Also in 1960 Mr. Johnson put a boardwalk behind the Coral Gables for public dockage. ENTERTAIN ALL ITEMS SERVED ALL DAY- * EARLY EDmONS * OMELETTES WITH TOAST & HASH BROWNS PLAIN .. · · · · · · · · · · · · 2. HAM .......... : • · · · · · · · · · · r • · 2. CHEESE . .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .... · · · · · · · · · · · 2: MUSHROOM ......... · · · · • · • • • · 2. BACON ......... ·.····•······ · · 2. HAM & CHEESE ....... · · · · · · • · · · 3.. WESTERN ......... · · · · · · · · · · • · 3. * EDITORIALS * - HAM QUICKIE HEARTY FARM . 2 EGGS, ANY STYLE GRILLED BOLOGNA HASH BRO WNS TOAST SCRAMBLED EGGS W /DICED HAM HASH BROWNS TOAST 3.75 3.25 *ASIDES* ·HAM ... .... .. . .. . ... ·. . ... . .. .. 1.50 BACON . .... . .. .. . .. . .. . .. .. ... 1.50 SAUSAGE .... . . ........ ... . .... 1.50 TOAST . . . . ..... .. ... . .... ... .. .. 50 HASH BROWNS ... . .. .. . . ... .... ·. .90 FRENCH FRIES .... . ....... . . . .. . . .90 FRUIT COMPOTE POTATO SALAD . .. ... . . ....... . . , COLESLAW ....... .. . ......... . . COTTAGE CHEESE .. . . . TOSSED SALAD ... . .. . .'.'.'. .... ........ ·1 MUSHROOMS-FRIED . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ONION RINGS . .... . . . . ......... 1 ............ .95 **** DONUTS MADE FRESH DAILy *** SINGLE .40 .45 BY THE DOZEN 2.50 2.9 5 -----~~-----*WEATHER* COFFEE. TEA .. · . . . . .. . .............. MILK.::: · . .. · • · · .. · .......... ORANGE . · · .. . · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · V-s JUicJbtc:E ... . SM .60 .... LG .. . ... SM.60 · ·. · .. LG . 50 . 50 .60 ,90 .90 ICED TEA LEMONADE ............. . ···••' POP ................. . . . MILK. HO T SHA.KE ............ ...... ', C~OCOLAT .............. .. E ... ······ · ···· �In 1961 in the building next to the Gables (known as the annex and used t~ hou~ employees) the front porch was fixed up and screened in. It was rne~t for the employees to use for their own relaxation. However, they only ~dr.tl for one weekend. On Mondai morning it was all torn o ut and ~e 0 Gables Dog House was born. The Dog house is still there but has SUlCe been remodeled and expanded. s GE BET Visiting boaters dock at Coral Gables during Venetian Festival. Then in 1962 as he was walking around the yard Mr. Johnson spied an old garage and storage area. After d eaning all the stuff out and ad ding a small piece to it he ended up with "The Galley" where you are now sitting. If you use your imagination maybe you can picture an old 1915 Ford w here you are sitting. In 196 3 another dining room was added, called the Marine Room. This room has a seating capacity of 80 people, so now the dining room area can take care of approximately 235 people. Remodeling ceased until 1966 when the horse shoe bar was removed and replaced by a straight bar. This increased the seating capacity another 50 people in the Crow Bar. Also the present bandstand was built then. Now in the entire building when at full capacity, approximately 1.100 people can be seated at one time. I SWISS ...... 1.95 . .... 1.95 · .. ... 1.95 J .., (J I! (J I> "l\lHAl? VoPcORi'I hNO erl(AO e.RUMt'.> AGAIN~ ooe;111·, f,J-siON£ 1,.1.1 ::.,FM. N j'//tiOH r Also in 1966 Mr. Johnson bought the Heistand Marina and changed the name to Coral Gables Marina, the ofd buildings were removed and 14 finger slips were installed. The boardwalk w as then connected to the Singapore Yacht Club 's boardwalk. In 1972 after Pier 404 was purchased, the boardwalk was extended to Anchor Park. After this was completed Saugatuck could boast of having the longest boardwalk in Michigan. It starts close to Harriss Pie and runs to Anchor Park. a total of 2,081 feet. ... 1.60 .. . 1.7 5 "The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music" ''Maggie'' ... 1.25 CORAL GABLESSAUGATUCK D ·o 2STH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION PLANNED Plans are in the works for a festive week between August 6 & 12th to celebrate the twenty fifth a? niversa.ry of Coral Gables in Saugatuck. According to owner Topper and M1chael Johnson the celebration will be o~e to remember by all. Activities ~ be planned for each day along with reunions from bygone eras. The entertamment on hand that week will be Sllch that Saugatuck hasn 't seen for ~ any years and it will certainly delight both young and old. The celebratmn will undoubtely be one of the highlights of the year for the visitors and residents of Saugatuck. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. 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University Veterans’ History Project Jim Corbett Cold War/Vietnam Era 1 hour 42 minutes 28 seconds (00:00:59) Early Life and Pre-Enlistment -Born in November 1938 in Big Rapids, Michigan -When WWII began the family moved to Detroit so their father could work -After WWII ended they returned to Big Rapids -Attended high school in Big Rapids -Also spent some time in Grand Rapids -Graduated from Big Rapids High School in 1956 -Enrolled in Ferris State University in September 1956 -Attended for two years -Studied pre-engineering -Planned to transfer to Michigan State University (00:02:10) Army National Guard -During his senior year of high school he and his friends enlisted in the National Guard -Served in the same company that his uncle had served in during WWII -E Company Light Infantry 126th Regiment 32nd Red Arrow Division -Trained with mortars, .30 caliber and .50 caliber machine guns -Served in the National Guard from Fall 1955 to April 1958 (00:04:33) Enlisting in the Air Force -Enlisted in the Air Force after two years in college -Tried to become a navigator with Aviation Cadets first -Went to Fort Wayne, Indiana to take the tests -Passed the written and physical tests -Could not pass the vision test -Made him ineligible to be an Aviation Cadet -Joined the Air Force instead to go into electronics (00:06:03) National Guard Training -Taught how to read topographical maps -Started off as being an infantryman -Eventually got promoted to being an assistant machine gunner -Went on field maneuvers during the summer at Camp Grayling, Michigan (00:07:27) Air Force Basic Training Pt. 1 -Air Force basic training was far easier than National Guard training had been -Spent four weeks in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas -On Memorial Day 1958 he was transferred to Biloxi, Mississippi (00:08:14) National Guard Training Pt. 2 -Lived in tents while at Camp Grayling, Michigan -Had some classroom training -Got lost in the woods at Camp Grayling once -Had to be led back to the troops by them calling his name �-Every Monday evening they would meet at the armory in Big Rapids, Michigan -Used equipment that was left over from WWII (00:11:07) Air Force Basic Training Pt. 2 -Did not enjoy kitchen duty in basic training -Never got off of Lackland Air Force Base for any downtime -After Lackland Air Force Base he was transferred to Keesler Air Force Base -Located in Biloxi, Mississippi -Completed his basic training there (00:12:25) Air Force Advanced Training -Spent six hours in a classroom each day at Keesler Air Force Base -General training with electronics -Trained on theory and then went on to hands on training -Basic training with circuit boards -Already familiar with basic electronics from his time spent with ham radio -Able to leave Keesler Air Force Base -Routinely visited the French Quarter in New Orleans -He was never able to get home in time to celebrate Christmas -At Keesler Air Force Base from Memorial Day 1958 to December 1958 (00:18:20) First Deployment to Texas -Assigned to the 341st Strategic Air Command Bomb Wing -Worked on B-47 bombers’ navigation and communication systems -Stationed in Abilene Air Force Base (later renamed Dyess Air Force Base) (00:20:08) Deployment to Alaska -From December 1959 to June 1960 he was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base -Anchorage, Alaska -Assigned to the nuclear strike force -He was on duty twenty four hours and then off duty for twenty four hours -Not a lot of work to do -Bombers were always loaded with nuclear weapons ready to be launched -The B-47s were designed and maintained to be able to take off quickly and strike quickly (00:24:27) Downtime in Alaska -He was able to visit Anchorage periodically before the Great Alaskan Earthquake struck -The Great Alaskan Earthquake would not happen until 1964 -He and the other soldiers were not allowed to go on the ski slopes -A large number of soldiers were hurting themselves attempting to ski (00:25:47) Life in Alaska -Had to adjust to the Alaskan day/night schedule -Elite status as nuclear strike force gained them privileges -Remembers that they got better food (king crab, steak, beer) -Alarms would go off routinely -Never sure if it was a drill or a real strike -Saw Bob Hope and Steve McQueen for Christmas 1959 (00:29:35) Second Deployment to Texas and Deployment to Delaware -Returned to Abilene/Dyess Air Force Base, Texas in June 1960 -Got transferred to Dover, Delaware with the 11th Air Refueling Squadron -Stayed there from summer 1960 to December 1961 (when he reenlisted) �-He was going to go into the Officer Candidate School -Got married instead (00:31:26) Reenlistment and Deployment to Okinawa -He reenlisted and received orders to go to Okinawa in December 1961 -Destination was Kadena Air Base -Had to fly from Grand Rapids, to Detroit, to San Francisco -From San Francisco had to take a bus to Travis Air Force Base -From Travis Air Force Base he flew to Hickam Field, Hawaii -From Hawaii he flew to Wake Island, then Tokyo -From Tokyo finally landed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa (00:34:59) Duties at Kadena Air Base -Worked on the radar on various air craft, specifically on KC97 (fuel tanker aircraft) -Wonders now if the radar radiation is responsible for his cancer -Began to notice an increase in activity concerning Vietnam -Missions involving Agent Orange and reconnaissance were becoming regular -Went to Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam as a part of his assignment -He was technically part of top secret missions being flown over Southeast Asia -Heard rumors that American operatives were already in South Vietnam and Laos (00:42:06) Drug Use on Okinawa -Had access to every drug you could think of -A friend of his became addicted to amphetamines -Eventually lost his mind and shot himself -Meth could be purchased legally, over the counter on Okinawa (00:42:40) Cuban Missile Crisis While at Okinawa -One of the most memorable events was the Cuban Missile Crisis -During the crisis the only news outlets were Air Force and Japanese TV -They had bunkers and bombers that were loaded with nuclear weapons -When the alert happened he and the other soldiers believed nuclear war was imminent -Massive number of nuclear weapons was being loaded onto jets -Believed that it was the end -Relieved when the agreement between JFK and Khrushchev was reached -For him it was the most realistic threat he ever faced while in the Air Force (00:46:37) Typhoons -While on Okinawa he experienced three typhoons -All military housing was concrete to protect against typhoons -Remembers that during storms the base would get shut down -He and a few buddies went off base during a typhoon and went to a bar (00:47:44) Race Relations in Okinawa -Recalls that there was still segregation (not institutionalized) in Okinawa -Every race kept to themselves and went to their own areas for downtime -Okinawans had a different view of Americans -Believed that all Americans, regardless of race, looked the same (00:49:28) Typhoons Pt. 2 -They were still able to catch a taxi during the typhoon -Because of the base being closed the taxi was able to take them inside the base -All aircraft were evacuated to other air bases �-If it couldn’t be evacuated it was anchored to the tarmac with steel chains -Kadena Air Base suffered very little damage -Civilian areas were more prone to taking damage -Downed power lines were the most significant threat (00:52:39) Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam -While in Okinawa he also spent time at Tan Son Nhut Air Base [outside of Saigon] -Did not enjoy the extreme heat and humidity in Vietnam -Enjoyed serving in Southeast Asia though -When he reenlisted he wanted to go back to Tan Son Nhut -Didn’t play along with “office politics” and didn’t get to go back -Stayed on base at Tan Son Nhut -Didn’t visit Saigon very often -Busy with upgrading and maintaining the aircraft that were on base -He and the rest of the soldiers on base were kept on standby most of the time -Remembers being involved with Operation: Ranch Hand -Spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam to kill the foliage -Told that Agent Orange was totally harmless for people (00:57:21) Experience with Chemical & Nuclear Weapons -During his time on Okinawa he heard rumors that there were chemical weapons present -Now known that there were chemical weapons bunkers on the island -Specifically containing various nerve gases and mustard gas -Had goats and rabbits in the area that served as a warning system for leaks -In July 1969 there was a gas leak due to improper cleaning of tanks with a sandblaster -Led to twenty two people being hospitalized -In January 1971 the chemical weapons were moved off Okinawa in Operation: Red Hat -During the Cuban Missile Crisis he heard rumors that missile crews were ready to launch -Underground silos had been built on Okinawa (01:02:03) Deployment to France -Worked at Langley Air Force Base during the time of JFK’s assassination -Got sent to France with C-130 transport aircraft -He was able to vist Paris during his deployment to France -Visited the Louvre -Surprised by the lack of security in the museum -Visited the Algerian quarter -Unaware of the tension that existed and the danger there was in going there -Visited the Eiffel Tower -Bought a hot dog that was served on French bread (01:05:18) Visiting Other Parts of Europe and Encounters with Europeans -He was able to visit Frankfurt, Germany during his time in France -Astounded by the fact that Mercedes were being used as taxis -Enjoyed the local German beer -He found that the Parisians were more arrogant than the rural French -Didn’t take it personally because he knew it was how they treated everyone outside Paris (01:07:34) Deployment to Libya -While in France he was sent on assignment to Libya in January 1964 -Part of a paratrooper training mission in the desert �-Landed in Wheelus Air Force Base -By sheer happenstance ran into a girl on base that he knew from high school -She was married to a soldier that was on the base -Visited the girl and her husband at their apartment in Tripoli -Experienced Tripoli during the Muslim holy season of Ramadan -Remembers that the bus drivers were irritable during the day due to fasting -Remembers being woken up in the morning by the call to prayer -Went on a tour and he, and the other soldiers on the tour, was thrown out of a mosque -Saw camel meat for sale in the markets -Stone walls surrounding the base were embedded with shards of glass to keep out intruders -They were not allowed to work on aircraft from 10AM-2PM -Metal bodies of the aircraft were so hot you could suffer burns just from touching them (01:12:17) Deployment to Germany -Got to see Berlin, Germany -Helped prepare aircraft for reconnaissance missions over the Berlin Corridor -Put equipment on aircraft that would test the quality of Soviet radar -Remembers being in a night club that had telephones at each table -Meant as a way for people to meet each other in the bar without leaving their table -Learned that getting shortchanged by German service workers was fairly commonplace (01:13:49) Deployment to Thailand -Briefly deployed to Dong Hwa [?], Thailand -This occurred during his time at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa -Never get the chance to go into Bangkok -Stayed in Dong Hwa for Air Force duties (01:14:24) Panama Canal Zone Pt. 1 -Got divorced before going to Langley Air Force Base and being deployed to France -After returning to Langley from France he was deployed to the Panama Canal Zone -Specifically Howard Air Force Base/Fort Cobb -Remembers seeing tugboats pulling ships through the locks of the Panama Canal -There were local iguanas so big you had to stop your truck when they crossed the road -Sharks were also a prominent threat in the waters near the base -Major risk in conducting training missions with paratroopers near the water -Very comfortable deployment -Able to easily visit Panama City, Panama -Suffered from possible added exposure to cancer causing chemicals while on deployment -Agent Orange and trichloroethylene (01:21:00) Injury during Aircraft Maintenance -There was a mishap once while he was working on an aircraft -Working on electronics inside the aircraft’s control console in the cockpit -Positioned himself in an awkward, tense angle -Resulted in him snapping his neck (01:23:37) Panama Canal Zone Pt. 2 -Learned later on that chemical weapons were being tested in the Canal Zone -Landed in the Canal Zone during July 1964 -Officially deployed there from August 1964 to October 1964 �(01:26:54) Shaw Air Force Base -After his deployment to the Panama Canal Zone he returned again to Langley Air Force Base -Received orders to transfer to Shaw Air Force Base/Fort Sumter, South Carolina -Worked on the RF101 Voodoo reconnaissance aircraft -Later worked on the RF4C Phantom aircraft that replaced the RF101 Voodoos (01:27:23) Leaving the Air Force -Deployment to Shaw Air Force Base would be his last -Offered an opportunity to reenlist in the Air Force -Discharge date was too close, so he opted out of it -Got discharged from the Air Force on August 20, 1965 -Had same discharge date as a close friend -Went to a state fair together in Minneapolis, Minnesota (01:28:57) Life after the Air Force -Worked at a variety of short term jobs after he completed his time in the Air Force -Worked at Voice of Music in Benton Harbor, Michigan -Continued his work with electronics there -Got a job at Lear Siegler Aerospace Research Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Worked there during June 1966 -Also worked shortly for GTE as well -Went to Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and enrolled in night classes -Fall 1969 -Used the GI Bill for books and tuition -Worked during the day -Married a single mom with three kids in 1968 -Had one of their own together -Received a degree from Aquinas College in December 1972 (01:30:01) Social Security Career and Legal Assistant Job -Before graduating from Aquinas College he took the Federal Service Test -Did extremely well on it -Invited for an interview with the Social Security Administration in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Got a job the next day -Worked in ten different offices during his time with them -Retired in June 2000 -After only a year of retirement he was welcomed back as a legal assistant in 2001 -Worked another four years part time (01:33:12) Other Memorable Events during Service -Noticed there was resentment among the Okinawans about the U.S. presence on the island -Demonstrations were held outside of Kadena Air Base -Remembers that there was a communist mayor in a nearby town -Remembers the level of poverty that existed in Panama City, Panama -Most of the houses had roofs made of sheet metal -Remembers that Libya was also very poor -Also met a large number of Italians that had been there during the Mussolini era -Regrets missing out on a large number of the historical sites in Paris during French deployment -Didn’t know anything about the history of various places until years later -Remembers being impressed by how sophisticated the Parisian metro system was �(01:38:16) Reflections on Service -Taught him that he needed higher education to succeed in life -Recognized that the higher ranking officers were college graduates -Didn’t want to be stuck in a dead end job for the rest of his life -Made him establish a goal to get a college degree after the Air Force -Taught him about the level of inequality and injustice that exists -Both at home and abroad -Led to him being involved in social activism later in life -Advocacy groups and working to fight against injustice -Doesn’t regret joining the military -Even with reenlisting feels that his time in the Air Force was for the best -Harbors no resentment against the military for health issues related to chemical weapons � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. 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Title A name given to the resource Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Corbett, James Description An account of the resource Jim Corbett was born in 1938 in Big Rapids, Michigan. He grew up in Detroit during WWII, attended high school in Big Rapids and graduated from there in 1956. He attended Ferris State University for two years until he enlisted in the Air Force. Prior to serving in the Air Force he joined the Michigan National Guard during his senior year of high school and served with E Company Light Infantry 126th Regiment 32nd Red Arrow Division from fall of 1955 to April 1958. He was trained at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas and was transferred to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi for advanced electronics training. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/38ba2e0a5930a9772f09beaadc728b78.mp3 defe30c84d17c3b7a926a6098595e49e https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8e158f15afa2232df817176112e88ffa.pdf 4048f04b0b892e81afe14f2c2ac7221a PDF Text Text Anne Corlett interviewed by Sharon Bower June 4, 2018 SB: Hi, this is Sharon Bower and we're interviewing Anne Corlett. Anne, tell me, when was the first time you came to Saugatuck? AC: Probably as a baby, because my grandparents came as children separately. And then my father grew up coming every summer and my grandparents owned a big old farmhouse. So, we would come every summer from long before I was born. SB: When’s the first, what’s the first memory? AC: I was born in 60, I would say probably. I remember Easters. I know it's not summer, but we would come up for Easter. My grandparents would put on a big Easter weekend. We'd all fit. They had four children. They were 14 grandchildren. We all fit in that big farmhouse. And I remember walking on the frozen lake and, you know, Easter egg hunts and that. AC: But the summer, you know, they're all summers blended together. As you know, most of the days are on the beach. I probably I remember. I remember my sixth birthday. That might be one of the earliest. That's August 1st. McVeigh's Store was down... So we're on Lake Shore Drive, about a quarter mile north of Center Street. And McVeigh's Store was just that much further down. And I was old enough to walk by myself. And back then they had a post office. So, on my sixth birthday, I went to see if I got any mail, which I didn't. But I always kind of found some change around, you know, a nickel or a quarter or some pennies. And so, there was penny candy. So, it's always worth. That's a big memory. But all those beach days all meld together. SB: And, what do you remember about the area so much? I mean, was it just the water, the beach, the shops? I mean, it's changed a lot now. AC: Oh, we almost never we almost never went downtown sometimes maybe for ice cream at Around the Corner. I think that was there. That... what's now Kilwin's was a big store that sold like fabric and thread. I'm sure it sold a lot more. But as a little kid, I'd go with my older sisters who were loved to sew and we'd go to that big, huge building on that corner of. It's like kitty corner from the. From the ... SB: Drug store? AC: Yes, we are all.... SB: The drug store, wasn't there? AC: No, it was there. I just don't remember it being much of anything. SB: Did you go to church at any of the churches here? AC: No, no. I'm a pagan. [Laughs] �SB: Grandma? Family. AC: My grandmother. No. I don't remember them going to church. But. But I do. I'll tell you what. The Chain Ferry was a big event and I had older cousins and we would walk across the golf course, West Shore. It would take a long time, walk to The Chain Ferry and get into town that way. That was a whole day activity. And back then, right at the Chain Ferry where Wick's Park is now, there was a putt-putt course and I loved it. So, you know, you'd save up your money. You go with your older cousins, take the Chain Ferry, play putt-putt, get ice cream and go home. SB: What age do you think I was? AC: Probably anywhere between ten and fifteen. Sixteen. SB: So, what years? AC: So, that would be 1970-76, I would say. Yeah. So, downtown was pretty sleepy. If it was a beautiful beach day, nobody was downtown and we were lucky. AC: We had our own beach so we would walk down. You know, big memory is just going to the beach and spending most of the day, like I would wake up, put on my bathing suit, have breakfast and go to the beach and spend all day come up, you know, climb trees, find cousins, because by then we had several houses and so different cousins would come. My grandparents built one. Sold it. Bought this big old farmhouse. That's before I was born. CAPTA bought a different house. My grandmother's parents had built a house across the street. Those are all still in our family now. So now we're fourth. Well, I would be third generation, but we all have kids. So, there's four generations that are using that still, same property. SB: Where were you grandparents from? AC: Super cool. They're both from Oak Park, Illinois. They used to take the steam steamship across in the summer. My grandfather would come and camp on the property that my grandmother's parents eventually bought and built on. And that property was super cheap. I bet they well, relative to other property of the time because he couldn't grow anything on it. It was right on the beach. Nobody wanted. Isn't it crazy? And so that was probably in 1910, or something that they bought it. That was right across it. We still own it. It's still in my greater family as I said. 5:04 AC: Now there's 14 owners of because it's my generation. SB: And where were you living at the time? �AC: We were also a suburb of Chicago, River Forest. Well, my grandparents were River Forest too. And I say, Oak Park over. We would drive over. Mom would fill this station wagon. We'd pack in. She was very relaxed. There were six of us. We'd pack in pillowcases and our pillowcase would be our pillow for the ride up. I don't remember because 196 wasn't built then. At a certain point, you'd be driving probably what's now Blue Star. And you'd see as soon as you saw sand dunes, you'd be like, "Ugh, really close." But it would still be 40 minutes. There's probably like a four hour drive or more from Chicago. SB: Did your cottage have indoor plumbing? AC: Yes. Not when they bought it. They bought it. It used to be like a B&B, which back then. What's it called? Boarding house. When they bought it, it had an outhouse. They changed that into like an ice shed. And then they tried to run it as a boarding house. So, they made a his and hers bathroom out of one of the bedrooms, which were still there until the farmhouse, which is what we call it, had a big fire in the 90s. And then we had to remodel, which was nice. But anyway, but yes, there was indoor plumbing in this, you know, by the 60s for sure. SB: And what did you do in the evenings? AC: Games, cards, Scrabble. So, because cousins were often around, my sisters are enough older where I didn't really hang out. But I would go to my cousin's cottage or we'd drift around. So, my parents felt like it was super safe, and it was. And so, we'd drift, you know, from at least the age of 12, I could drift in the evening even and go see what the other Corletts were doing. And they might be playing charades or some other game, multigenerational games all the time. AC: Occasionally, and then every once in a while, my mom, who was a big party giver, would have like about once a year she'd have an art auction and she'd invite anyone who wanted to come in the neighborhood. And it was for dinner and your ticket to dinner was a piece of art you made. And usually, you know, it's all ages. So, it just be anything. It was a clothesline art show and then they'd had that hung clothesline in the dining room. They'd hang them all up and she'd make a big part of chili or something. And then we'd have an art auction, a penny auction at night. You know, that was great. SB: Did you contribute art? AC: Always, sure. I've always done. Ah, I'm a painter. SB: I know you were. What ways did you start? AC: Well, I would. Oh, well, we were always doing projects and stuff. I don't think I took art seriously probably until high school, till I was 15, maybe. SB: Did you paint while you were here during the summer? AC: Not till college. Not until... which is still the 70s. I went to college in 78. So yeah, I would watercolor all the time. My grandmother, that's Helen Corlett, was a water colorist. She used to �go to Oxbow all the time. Occasionally, I think probably twice in my life, I took a class at Oxbow as a young person, younger than teenager, like eight or nine, once or twice, maybe 10. SB: What was Oxbow like then? AC: Oh, it's just really just like a quiet, sleepy little, you know, that old fart, you know, the old Singapore hotel or whatever that is that, of course, that was there with its cricketing floor. So that hasn't changed. And they had little workshops and those little buildings. I think I did ceramic. I do remember doing ceramics one time. I was pretty young, though. I don't remember a whole lot. You know, it wasn't till I was an adult where till I took another class in 2000. SB: But you had to drive up there now? AC: Yes. Yes, we drove. So, my grandparents used to sail here. We always drove. We would come because it was my grandparents’ house. We we'd get three weeks in the summer, so we'd come for three full weeks. My dad would come up on the weekends and then right around when I was in high school, so in the mid 70s, maybe even early 70s, my grandpa bought another house and things happened so that we could be up there longer. And they moved to this little cottage behind that eventually became my mom's. AC: So, we would have three full weeks. It was just heaven. And then later we'd have most of the summer come up. Venetian Night was the height of every summer. AC: Oh, when I was another birthday memory and I might have been turning six. And my mom. I might have been five though, because I remember my sister gave me a purse full of candy. Best present ever. But that year we had all my cousins, different cousins on my mom's side who would go to South Haven in the summer. Just totally a different nut, you know, and my mom's side anyway. 10:06 AC: And they all came for my birthday party. And then mom said, "Honey, I've arranged some fireworks for your birthday." And it was Venetian Night, because my birthday was so close. She just pretended that was my birthday. So, of course, that's why I think I have a real healthy selfconfidence. SB: You thought the fireworks were for you? AC: Yes, I did. I really did, so I had to be only like five. AC: But we would go to the yacht club. My grandfather Corlett, Webster, was one of the very first members there. SB: And it’s the same location? �AC: Same location. You know, recently it's been built up, but it was just like this sleepy little cottage. It was great. And we would just go, you know, we'd lined the docks to watch the fireworks. It's huge. Back then, there was not a Fourth of July fireworks, much less, you know, New Year's Eve. It was just a Venetian Night and the parade of boats. You know, as a kid, I would hear while my parents were having. AC: So, the big thing is on the weekends during the week, there was no schedule. We floated around the house. It was just great on the weekends, a little more of a schedule because my dad was in town and there was always a major cocktail hour. And the kids. You know, I don't know what I did except listen to the dirty jokes. as they kind of got a little buzzed. AC: You know, all the stories on there were always stories like of like of the wild downtown, especially in Venetian Night. You know, we were supposed to stay away because the bikers were coming in town. And I do remember motorcycle, you know, tons of motorcycles parked in front of The Sandbar. SB: But you didn't go downtown? AC: I… Not... Not when... SB: Bikers? AC: No, no. I mean, not really. I couldn't. I was too young. You know, if we're talking 60s and 70s. By the 70s, I suppose I... but I didn't really spend... You know, evenings in the summer, we would go to the beach. And when I was old enough, go to beach fires. And back then, you kind of you could have a beach fire, or you could just look either way down the beach and say, "Huh? Are they having a beach fire there? Is there one in Shorewood, you know." Then we walked out. AC: Are we covering all the questions? Now, I know you're doing great. SB: You're fine, fine. AC: OK. All right. So, when I got older, so I was so like I would say by 73, when I was 13, I also was friends with other people on the lakeshore, the O'Donnells, or, you know, like 10 kids, the two oldest were my age. Chris O'Donnell, you know, the actor, one of them, but he was a baby then. The Quirks were across the street. There were you know, so there were all these people. We kind of had a gang my age that did the whole beach fire circuit. AC: So, you'd if maybe we would have it on my beach. It was usually my older cousins who would do it, or you'd walk down there might be one five houses down. There might be, north of us is Shorewood. That was always a huge gang. Some of those people became lifelong friends and, you know, like Tag Werneck, lifelong friend from beach fires. There's something about it. And so, we'd go down and there was always beer, but... SB: So, someone would build a fire on the beach? �AC: Yes. And I remember foraging for wood on the beach for beach fires people and bring logs down from their house. There was wood or you'd pick the dry beach grass and you'd you know, that was a big adventure. You learn to go to the bathroom in the beach grass, really young because you don't wanna go back up to the house. SB: All the way up there? AC: Yeah. SB: Because it was a hill, right? AC: Yes. Lots of steps. SB: Yep. AC: So, evenings were pretty much fun. And there was beer. You know, I was pretty careful till about well, maybe when I was 15, maybe 16. I'd have one beer, whatever. I got caught once and a lot of trouble. I was grounded for two weeks in the summer. SB: Your parents caught you? AC: Yeah. I came in and my mom's like… You I actually I had snuck out and it came back and she came up to my bed and I was like pretending I was asleep. She's like, "This is your ticket back to River Forest." But I knew she was faking. She didn't want to go back. But I was grounded for two weeks. SB: And it was that mean you had to stay in the house? AC: I couldn't go out at night. So, my friends, my cousins, they come by, they report. They go out. They come back. They report. It was kind of fun, actually. I wouldn't tell my mom that. SB: Did you ever go to Douglas at all? AC: Douglas was... There was a little grocery for a while. You know, I think that was Terry Byrne's father. But that's when I was really young. The Newsstand was always there and the post office. And that's all I remember about Douglas. The library back then, the library was downtown Saugatuck on Butler Street. AC: And one of my mom's really good friends was Bill Allen. He was a newscaster for WOOD TV-8, and they had been family friends, so she'd known him since a kid. 15:00 AC: And he lived. They lived on Campbell Road, which, you know, backs... It was pretty close to us. You could cut across a golf course or whatever. And why did I bring him up? Why did you just ask me about? Oh, no. Oh, no. I thought of the library. He was somebody was instrumental �in getting that library together. So, I think it came together in the 60s because I kind of remember that it was Brandon... SB: Where was it at in Saugatuck? AC: It was on Butler Street, like where... Just down from Landshark's. Like where it is where it is. It later became The Newsstand. I remember when The Newsstand was there. No. Yeah. Right now it's like American Spoon, or something. SB: Yes. AC: Yes. That was a library. SB: A one-story? AC: Yes, just one story. AC: I remember going with my cousin, Steph Higgins. She was a huge reader, four years older, loved her death, followed her everywhere and she went to the library. She took me there once and I had never been. And she knew where every book was. She was such a voracious reader. So, I would go to. And so that was very much fun. But I would go down to her cottage across the street, which was musty, musty, musty. And they had paperbacks like... That was another thing. Tons of reading. And they had paperbacks lining their bookshelves. And she had read every single one, like at least twice. And so, you'd pull out one, you know, it was like a great little secret. AC: Also, they had a huge collection of Archie comics, like they had the biggest. So, we'd sit on the porch and read Archie comics. And, you know, it was you could see the lake from their cottage. So, the breeze would come in. You'd be reaching, reaching Archie comics. SB: Did you like Veronica or Betty? AC: Of course, Betty. Veronica was a bitch and Archie was kind of a dweeb that couldn't like Reggie. Reggie was a jerk. Remember Archie? Wasn't it great? SB: Yes, I do remember them. AC: And then the neighbor next to them on the beach, Debbie Quirk. She was... She had two older sisters. And she she was kind of advanced. She was the first one that got me a beer, you know. And she they had love comics. So, you know, with a big tears, you know. I mean, it's very funny now thinking about like I was like, "Love comics, sort of dicey, you know, compared to Archie." [Chuckles] AC: And then Aunt Peg Higgins', who had been a Corlett who married a Higgins. There's a lot of double marriages in my family. But anyway, two Corletts married two Burmans. Two Corletts married Higgins. Cousins married brothers. �AC: But anyway, Aunt Peg. May she rest in peace. She just died last year. She she was an artist and she had art projects going all the time. So, I would go there and do whatever project they were doing. They were always different, all kinds. We would go we would also go to the beach and a bunch of us would play Star Trek on the beach. I was young, so I had to be the guy with the accent. I couldn't be Spock or, you know, I can't remember his name, not what's supposed to be. SB: How did you play Star Trek? AC: I don't know. We ran around and we'd hide behind Lost Rock and so... Lost Rock, do you know where that is? That's like south of our property. That was a big thing. Walk to Lost Rock and back. You could get you… Sometimes we would dig clay out of the bank there and bring it back and make like clay stuff on the beach. AC: What else? The rock that's at Douglas Public Beach, which we called Buffalo Rock. It's actually a little off of Douglas Public, but we would go there and get washed off by the waves. There was one rock and I found out recently that was way out in the water. But we called it Moby Dick. That was at our beach that we would find every summer. In fact, I would kiss it before I went home. SB: It's still there? AC: Yeah, I just found it not that long ago. We swam and swam and swam. SB: But that that rock was out of the water? AC: It was never out of the water. SB: OK, so you kissed it in the water? AC: Yes. Yeah. Oh, Daddy kissed. Yes. But it was so big. Even you know how the water changes so much. But you could find it every year. My cousins had a giant intertube. We spent hours on that in the water. SB: Then there wasn't any concession stand there or anything like there? AC: No. SB: It was just beach and people's property? AC: Right. Right. SB: Was there Oval Beach there? �AC: Oval Beach. We never... Well, we would walk down and as kids were, you know, the big thing would be walked to the lighthouse and back. And I remember when. We were walking down my cousin Mary and I, but we were 14, so that's being the 74. And we were walk into the lighthouse and back. And we're just walking. And Mary's like, “Anne, Anne, I think I see a naked man swimming." AC: And I'm like, "No, no, no." AC: And she goes, "Yes!" And then we're walking along. And there was a sand sculpture of a penis. [Both laugh] SB: Oh, jeez. AC: So, she's like, "I think that's a penis." AC: I was like, "No, it isn't." She was a year younger than me. She was always freaking out. 20:01 AC: "Come on. I don't think we should go. I don't think we should." And we went and we just kept walking. And most most of the men in there were in the beach grass and stuff. But there were I think there were some naked men swimming, but it was nothing. She was a little more shocked. than I was. AC: We go to the lighthouse, which, you know, isn't really a lighthouse. It's just that thing that's still the same. SB: The big lighthouse wasn't there? AC: Right. I don't know if it's the same, but it was just like a thing on the end of the pier there. And we come back and there was a man taking money. But you could always walk by because it's legal to walk by. But we came back and she told her mom and the police came to talk to us about it. “What'd you see?” AC: Because her mom, her mother was really a prude. She was really freaked out. SB: If you had... Were you cognizant of the gay community being here at all? AC: Not in here at all. Oh, yes. But not… not that whole beach. And and honestly, I can say this, maybe this because I'm an adult and I don't have a problem with anybody doing that, but or being gay or anything else like that. But I don't remember it bothering me, really. At all, because we still would do the whole walk. But Mary, it did freak out, Mary. AC: But I do remember. OK. Back to when we would sit on the front porch, I would sit and listen into, you know, these conversations as the adults. And I had adult sisters who who were married, you know, when I was very young. So, all our weddings, almost all six weddings were �up here in the summer or the spring. Not all of them, but I'd say four out of six at least. I remember the story of my dad and one or two of my brother-in-law's going to The Blue Tempo just to see if it was really gay and it was. SB: Where was the Blue Tempo? AC: The Blue Tempo was... And so that was the big talk. There's a gay bar. The Blue Tempo was... as you come into Saugatuck on I guess it's Culver now. It was on the left on the river. It was kind of you had to kind of go down. There was a sign. Blue Tempo. And I think it was where those were the condos are now. I'm not exactly sure. And so so ever after that, it's like, oh, The Blue Tempo isn't a myth. It really is gay. Now, that story could have been just a story because they were always laughing. But that's the only... SB: It was a wild town in those days, was it not? AC: Very wild. Yeah. That's why we weren't allowed to go in town, especially Venetian weekend. That was like. Up for grabs. Very well. Now, when I was older, I went to college in the fall of 78 in Wisconsin. AC: And then in the summer of 79, I worked at Coral Gables, which is funny because everybody who ever summer-ed here worked at Coral Gables, you know, and I. SB: As a waitress? AC: No. Yes. But it was just in The Galley. The Galley was a breakfast place where The Corner Bar is now, OK. And I worked with... I just talked to this woman who lives here, who grew up here. Maria Dross. Yes. She. She and I worked together there. And she remember the names of everybody. AC: I remember Bob Berger was the manager. Like Mike Johnson, who is older than I am. But he wasn't really in charge. His dad was still alive. And I think his brother was still alive, too. And but Bob Berger was managing and he had kind of come in and sort of scare us, you know, with his big size, a big voice. But Murt made donuts every morning and we'd have Frank Dennison and a couple other guys would come in every morning and have their coffee and donuts. And you just hoped you waited on them because you usually get a really good tip. But, you know, I was just 19. SB: And this was just a part time job or-? AC: This was a summer job in between in college. SB: Every day or just part time? AC: I can't remember. Probably. Yeah. But I mean, it was a breakfast lunch place, so I never. So it was probably part time, yeah. Yeah. My dad never wanted us to work at night downtown in the �restaurants. He's like, absolutely not. But then I got to be friends with the people who worked there. AC: So then even though I was... So, it was legal to drink when you were 18 in Michigan, when I was 18, but when I was 19, it changed to 21. So, I couldn't. But I was used to it because I was in Wisconsin and you could drink. So, my friends who worked there would get me into The Crone stuff. They weren't so tough with ages back then, but sometimes I'd go to a party. The guys who worked there used to live in apartments under what is now The Annex. Occasionally I go to a party there, you know, get in trouble because I come home late smelling like beer. SB: Did you walk home or did you go? AC: I had a bicycle. I rode my bike every day to work. SB: Oh, wow. AC: From the farmhouse to Coral Gables is, you know, four miles. 25:01 AC: Not that much. Five me. Oh, no. Two and a half or three. SB: You have to go down Blue Star, though, right? AC: Yeah. You were down Blue Star. That whole summer, there was a bird that went after my head for the hair, I think, right going over the bridge. Every time it was free, I finally learned to wear a hat because back then, nobody wore helmets. Yeah, so. So, by the time I was a teenager, I was spending time downtown. So, that's in the 70s. SB: And what do you remember about the Saugatuck downtown, then? Was it mostly restaurants, shops? You know, there were some shops. Ice cream stores, or what? AC: The only real, you know, the first like real store was East of the Sun, which was on the corner there, kind of right across from Land Sharks. I forget what's there now. And then across from that was Sue... Oh, you know her. She died young, unfortunately. She was a great golfer. Sue Lewis, Sue and Stubbe Lewis owned East of the Sun. And then they started across the street the like real preppy clothing store, Brigadoon. And those were all those stores. AC: Oh, and The London Shop. Those are the only clothing stores. So do you remember The London Shop? All those old ladies who weren't that old, but they look so old to me. They were the reading glasses on, fancy little stuff, you know, necklace around there. And there were two. In my view, little old ladies, and they had, you know, like really traditional classic clothing. It was called The London Shop, and it was kind of probably where the oh, The Butler isn't there anymore. You know, For the Love of Shoes, where The Butler used to be. It was right in that first block. And we would go there. Mom would drag me there because she wanted to go and only because it wasn't my clothes. It was mostly adults, but they were there a long time and they �were the only. They were the original clothing store in my memory. And then he's then Brigadoon came later. And also, there was a needlework needlepoint shop next to that, I kind of remember. SB: Restaurants? Did you go to any restaurants? AC: Well, The Butler was always there. And same with Coral Gables. But we never went out. But what you want to know where we would go? Oh, The Red Barn. Love The Red Barn. We went as kids. My grandmother went to every show and she would take us as kids out... SB: Now, these were plays they did? AC: Yeah, the plays at The Red Barn. SB: The one that's still there? AC: Yes. SB: By the Belvedere? AC: Yes. And they were top notch. You know, it's they were nearly as good as Mason Street is now because they had someone's gonna know the name of the guy from New York City who brought the New York cast over. And he did. I'll never forget Man of Lamancha. And I think I was about 14, you know, to be like 73 or 4 or 5. And I went twice and it just, you know, drowning in my own tears. It was so good. AC: But those show and there'd be a couple locals. And then Bert Tillstrom, the puppet guy. He always had Saturday afternoon things. We spent a lot of time at The Red Barn. And it was as a treat. If my grandmother took us, we'd go to The Elbowroom first. So that's where that was a restaurant back then. And that's where The Southerner is now. SB: Yes. AC: Yes. Right. It was The Elbowroom. SB: And then it was The Elbowroom again, but long after. AC: But way back in the 70s. Elbowroom. And I always ordered spaghetti because my mom never made noodles. But anyway, so we'd go to that. And I don't think they served alcohol, which so we'd be like if my grandmother took the grandkids, we'd go there and then we'd go to the show. And she always had lifesavers she'd passes and then there'd be an intermission and you'd go to. And that it was the same, of course, old building. It really hasn't changed much. And you go downstairs and they'd serve. Somebody made a cake. And, you know, there was kind of a concession. SB: There wasn't, they didn't have any air conditioner, right? �AC: No, fans. Seems like someone's word as hard as they are. SB: No. No. Because you didn't have... did you have air conditioning in your cottage? AC: No, still don't. This one I don’t get. We spent so much time on the front porch, which wraps around. It makes an L. And this is what always surprises me about new houses. Now that they don't have screened in porches, you know, you see these big, beautiful houses. My opinion, too big, but don't quote me, without a screened in porch. We spent so much time on the porches because that's where you get the breeze. You get wet from the lake. And then you'd sit in the breeze, you know, did a lot of climbing of trees, too, in a wet bathing suit. SB: What have you seen in terms of the changes here? Good and bad. AC: I felt very sad. And I remember my dad was just so sad when the first big condo thing went up. And I feel like the one... SB: Which one was that? AC: Well, I feel like it was the one right as you're first going into Saugatuck. I'm not sure that was the very first, but that was a first really big one. 30:02 AC: Oh, you know, Tara was a place we went to dinner, so that wasn't in Saugatuck, but it was over... Right here on Center and Bluestar. SB: Yes. AC: Yeah. It was up. It's so funny because there's so many condos there now. It was just one restaurant on the top of a hill, you know. And we went there all the time at both my grandmothers. My mom's parents also live. They ended up retiring up here, down by the wash out. Really close to Lake Shore Resort. Anyway, so, both sets of grandparents were around, which was lovely for me. But the The Tara, we went to with some frequency. SB: And your dad was upset about the condo because lost its charm? AC: It just made him sad. Right. It lost its charm. So, I think. And I'm sure there was some Tshirt shops. I don't really remember. I mean, we didn't shop the way people shop. Now, if you needed a pair of flip flops, which actually I don't think they were invented then, anyways. You know, something like that. Oh, we did Mount Baldy all the time. SB: Were there steps up to Mount Baldy? AC: Yes, there were steps. �SB: But at what age would you say this would be? AC: All through the 60s and 70s. We did. We'd go, we'd either we'd walk there, or we'd get driven and dropped off and we'd go up and down and we'd go up the stairs and run down the side, which you can still do. And there used to be a route rope swing on the other side. And I was never big enough to do that by the time it came down. But all my older cousins and siblings did. And then we go up and down and up and down. And then the last time we went up, we'd run down to the Oval and walk home on the beach. So that was great. We also toboggan it in the winter. SB: Oh, wow. AC: Scary. SB: From… From the top? Where Mount Baldy is? AC: From the top. Yeah. The top on Mount Baldy down the back. Actually, I did that with a boyfriend and that would be in 79 or so. Yeah. I'm glad I'm alive. That was something. SB: Do you remember how many steps it was in those days? AC: Well, it was the same steps that were here. You know, they rebuilt these not that long ago. But no, I have no idea. Numbers and I just don't... I can't remember any numbers. SB: Besides the condos, what other changes do you see? That you think were good or bad? AC: Let me just tell you about my family. It's a great story about my grandmother. Her husband, and they weren't married, so she was staying in the house. They ended up buying. They were residents of this boarding house. My grandfather, they were teenagers in like 15. And she told me this story after I got in trouble for sneaking out, which was really sweet. He came, threw stones on her window. They had they had a picnic breakfast. It was like before the sun rose and she snuck out and they went to Mount Baldy and climbed it to watch the sunrise. And there were no stairs then. But that would be like they were probably married in 1915.So that would be before 1912, or something. SB: She had to sneak out, though? AC: She had to sneak out too. So that was nice that she told me. That's true. I don't think they were drinking beer but. OK, let me see. SB: Did you have a boat or anything? AC: Yes, we had a boat. We still have it. It's a 1964 Boston Whaler. So, my grandfather, there was a lot of sailboat racing at the yacht club back then. My dad, my grandfather, my uncle. I never really learned. And I wish I had. I did not spend much time there, but we would go watch them race. And we had this little Boston Whaler. My Uncle Ted, Ted Corlett, did a lot of work �on the docks. You know, it was not fancy the way it is now. And he did a lot of the repair and he was just like. He's an engineer and he just loved to spend time doing it. So anyway, so we we had a really good slip right by the. And we had just a little seventeen and a half foot Boston Whaler. But we would waterski behind it. We waterski on the big lake or in Silver Lake. That hasn't changed really at all. It's funny, though, you go down the river. The houses are so big and fancy and they were just like little fishing shacks. AC: And I remember a lot all those little... Some are the same. SB: You would come from where the the yacht club was? AC: Yes. Down to the big lake. Down the river to... The cove was always a big thing. We would go as kids. We would go as teenagers. There's usually a party there. That whole thing that happens. Venetian weekend happened all the time. Well, not with a barge necessarily, but there are always boats there partying and getting sun. We spend time there too, or we go out in the lake and, you know, jump in the water when it was really hot. Way out there, which we still do. AC: OK. So changes. So the yacht club changing is a big thing, you know. I guess it's for the best. But I. I'm sad about losing the character that used to be there. It was very not fancy, which was lovely anyway. So that all. Same with all the condos. I think it's great. People can enjoy the area, but it's to me, it's lost a lot of that summer cottage thing. 34:58 AC: There's still some of those cottages on Park Street, and I just love them. And I hope that, you know, and I don't I never feel bad if somebody. I mean, I don't I don't disparage somebody putting money into the area. That's fine. But I it is. I miss that old. Like it was a sleepy little town that got a a little crazy in the summer, but it was just a sleepy little town. That was lovely. AC: I would say the Lake Shore hasn't changed a whole bunch, but I'm so lucky that we have a place, and that's remained the same. SB: You know, your grandmother's cotton grandmother's big barn or a farmhouse. AC: Yes, we called the farmhouse. SB: Yes. AC: Yeah. How’re we doing? SB: We’ve got time to talk. AC: OK. How much time to read? SB: An hour. OK. Yeah. And so, what... What other... You did, boating, swimming. You didn't do sailing. �AC: Well, I didn't personally race boats, but other people in my family did. But we did have a Sunfish on the lakeshore, which a lot of people used. I turtled at twice and then bent the mast. So, then I decided I was going to sail it anymore. But my Uncle Ted made surfboards like big heavy, almost like floating rafts. So, we did we'd just play in the water a lot. AC: Oh, I'll tell you another beach thing we did. And these are my creative older sisters. We did sand castings a lot. So, you get Plaster of Paris and a big bucket and then you get the sand wet. My oldest sister, Sue, was a master at it. You take something to make an impression in the sand. Maybe it's your hand. Or maybe it's like she loved to do impressions of, you know, like Mother Mary or I don't know. Stuff she found. And then you pour it. You make plaster with the lake water and you pour it in and let it harden. And then when you flip it out, it's a sand casting and we have him hanging all over. And I had my kids doing when they were a little. So that was a big beach tradition. And artistic. SB: So, you were, were always doing art, doing something artistic always? AC: That was that's how we kept busy. Never had a TV. Never, never had a TV there. Now we do. Which I don't like. But I think the men sort of overrode the new TV because they. Because of sports. SB: What do you think this place was special for you? AC: I mean, the family was there. Connection to family and connection to the lake. And, you know, I am always going to paint the lake. I I am so driven to connect to what what that how it makes me feel to be at the beach. And sometimes when I'm painting, I think all those hours. I mean, we used to lie in the sun and get sunburnt for hours. You know, baby oil or Copper Tone, you know, getting the perfect tan was really important. AC: And so, all those hours I spent on the beach, I did a lot of reading on the beach, too. And we would dig sand, sand castles, make, you know, drip castles. And, you know, there was all kinds of things we did. AC: But anyway, when I paint now, I think, oh, that's what all that time was like, stacking up my bank, like filling me up with all this information that I still need to get out canvas. I think that a lot. That's why I need to paint like the water I painted all the time, or the dunes, or the clouds. I mean, I'm so driven and you think I get tired of it, but I haven't get tired of it. SB: You say it has much changed since those days. AC: Right. Right. The dunes and the clouds. Dune Schooner rides, the same thing. I did him as a kid in the 60s, scared the death, scared me to death. I just took friends on them last year. They're really a lot the same. God bless them for keeping the dune rides. So Mount Baldy, the dune rise. That's all the same. I don't mind. I think it's kind of fun. �AC: The downtown has so many great restaurants. It really does. And it's fun. The bars, the restaurants are great. You know, the shops. I just I don't go to town when it's busy because it's too frustrating. SB: You live here, now. AC: Yes. SB: Now, how did you decide to do that? AC: 30 years now I've lived here. Well, because I married a person who who had a business here. He we met because he was my parents' dentist. So, I was living in Chicago in an art neighborhood, and they were frantic to get me married because I was an old maid, because I was 27. So, they introduced me to him and we hit it off and got married within a year. So, in 88 we got married and I moved here and I'm so happy I did because even though that marriage didn't work out in the long run, it was great. Well, it was great. And we have these wonderful kids, and it was wonderful raising the kids here. 40:02 AC: I loved being… I thought at first, I was afraid a little bit of such a small school system. But it's a stellar system. And you can I was on the school board. You could jump in with both feet and really make a difference. And I think a lot of parents do. I think it's so. So, I've lived for 30 years. So, even in the time I've lived here, it's changed a lot. AC: But especially since the 60s and 70s when I was growing up in the summer here, I think the lakeshore has changed the least, although it's real sad to see Westshore Golf Course gone. And I never really we would go we're right behind the 15th green. We would go in and, you know, put around, you know, goof around out there and we would have lemonade stands out there, made a lot of money, and then we would search for golf balls, sell them back to the golfers, and make a lot of money. I mean, really enough money to go to McVeigh's and buy candy. But the. But other than that golf course, you know, there's some big houses and stuff, but there's still a lot of cottages. And it's lovely. AC: It's so crowded. Like Douglas Beach is so crowded. You know, it's just for parking and stuff. Sort of too bad. But I'm so lucky. I know it doesn't matter to me. I think it's good if people can use it. It's I think that B&Bs are interesting, you know. And now it's AirB&B that that's brought so many more people. But I don't go in. I go into town to do yoga in the morning. I love there's some stores I love, but I don't go downtown in the summer. SB: And how would you compare Saugatuck-Douglas, to other places that you lived? Is it totally different? AC: Yes. SB: A little cocoon or what? How would you describe? �AC: Well, you know, I haven't lived too many other places. SB: You were in Chicago. AC: I was in a neighborhood of Chicago. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. And then when I went to school in Madison, Wisconsin. But up north, I've spent a fair amount of time in a gallery up like in Harbor Springs. And I have a good friend in Traverse City. I've spent lots of time in Leelanau. I think I think Saugatuck, some of those towns way up north are kind of kind of still feel like Saugatuck used to. There's some big money, but mostly it's just local. I love that the farms are still close Here, you can go. And I love our artisan cheeses and, you know, like our like, Virtue's Cider and Fenne Valley and all these places. SB: And let's not forget Cranes. AC: Cranes. You know, I don't remember going as a kid. SB: You don't. remember it being here? AC: I don't remember it being here. SB: Picking apples? AC: It might have been here but I didn't do it as a kid. I can't. We always went to Pier Cove. We used to always go down there. No, I don't remember. SB: What was Pier Cove? Why did you go to Pier? AC: Just because it's a cool beach. SB: You don't like picking fruit here? Any of that stuff? AC: I didn't. I think my mom had too many kids to marshal around, but I took my kids picking fruit. But that would be in the 90s. Yeah. What else is big? Yeah, we put, you know, I think just hanging out outside, you know. We were talking about I was different from anything. SB: So how is it different from any place else? AC: Well, right now, the fact that it's a small town. Oh, it's very different because it's especially in the off-season, it has that wonderful small town feel where you drive in the gas station and you you wave at the owner, you know. AC: Now, I forgot. McGee, you know, from your car or you you know you know, the whatnot was always there. You know, the people there or whatever you see people, you know, all the time. It's a lovely small town, but it has so much sophistication. So even though sometimes people retired back then, now it's hugely a retirement community. And same with the gay �community, I think has has put roots down. They didn't just back then it was OK. There was a bar or two or whatever, and I don't really know. But now it's it's part of our bigger culture. AC: And I think there's such a wealth right now of of intelligence and experience and the willingness to volunteer. And so, this history center's amazing and our library is amazing. And, you know, our school system's amazing in part because of all the partnerships. You know, Rotary is amazing. I mean, there's just so much going on, I'm sure. And for all the SCA and Oxbow. All those things make it such a rich place to live. I don't think other small communities this size have that kind of, you know, at all. SB: Remember, this interview is going to be saved for a long time. AC: Yes. SB: Maybe 50 years from now. Somebody listens to it. What advice would you have for them or what would you tell them about this time? About this time right now? About your community and others right now? How would you explain it 50 years from now, it's going to be totally different. Probably. 45:06 AC: Well, I love this community and I don't think I ever want to leave. I like it. It's I think it's exciting that it's full of tourists in the summer. And I think it's delightful when it's just the people who live here year-round and some people live here, you know, come some people go away in the winter. That's a little different. I think that's delightful, too, to you know, I think we have a beautiful fabric. AC: We have our school, which is really strong and wonderful. And the and the teachers are amazing and the and the parents are amazing. So, we have her school. We have our businesses there. They're starting to dovetail more and more because some of the business owners like Landshark have their kids in the schools. You know, we have professionals living here and raising their families because now they can work remotely. And that's changed a lot. And I think that's lovely. Lots of people work from their home. And then we have the retired community. Or and or summer people who don't have children here, so maybe the gay community or just people that live here because they love it. It's beautiful and aren't necessarily connected with the schools. But then our connect and put all their energy in the historic society or that or the Center for the Arts or Oxbow or many others. AC: There are many other charitable causes like it just had that thing Paws for a Cause or Cause for a Paws or something, fundraising for the animals wide. I don't know exactly. But anyway, we have a great scholarship foundation and people give to that. There's Aware scholarships. Aware is another... So there's, there's all kinds of partnerships going on and. I think that's maybe one of the most lovely things about this community. AC: And then, of course, you have the lake shore and you just can't beat the beaches. And I hope I hope we always all have access to the beaches because they're amazing. And I think when I �stand and I'm painting or I'm looking out over the lake, I feel like it's timeless, like it's… it's the same as it was one hundred years ago. And it'll be the same in one hundred years. SB: Yeah. AC: Yeah. If it doesn't get polluted because of course they're going to let those oil pipelines through or something worse. SB: Yeah. So. So what advice would you give somebody 50 years from now if they were going to be living here or are thinking of living here? AC: I don't know. I mean, treasure it. Treasure it. It's beautiful. I hope it doesn't get out of the range of a regular person being able to afford to live here, you know, right now I live out of town. So, we raised our kids in town. And then when I became single, I bought a house out of town. And it's, it's not the country, but it's more affordable and still beautiful and still accessible to the town. So, I hope that I hope that that's still people are still able to live here and it doesn't price out. SB: And what's your favorite place to paint here? AC: You know, it's kind of might sound trite, but I love to go to the Oval. I love to go up in the dunes. And you can either look north where it's wilderness and dunes or you can look south on the beach with the people. Right now, I'm doing a whole series of people on the beach paintings. So much fun. So, I guess I still like to go to the beach to paint the most. AC: Dune State Park, there is another amazing resource, amazing resource. I go many days a week with my dog to walk her. So. That's a lovely place to paint and just to be. SB: In the park? AC: In the Dune State Park, I don't know how many acres, it's hundreds and it's mostly wooded. But then it has all those beaches too there. Gorgeous. But you need to be willing to walk a little to get there. SB: I need a compass. AC: You might need a compass. The trails aren't marked very well. SB: I could get lost. AC: You could get lost. Yeah. You have to know where the sun sets. SB: Figure, if I haven't asked you that, can you think of your memories of this town that you just remember standing out? �AC: You know, the docks that are along the river on the Saugatuck side of Lake Kalamazoo. You know, so in front of from the bottler all the way down to Wick's Park, those are pretty much the same. And I remember boats rafting off of each other on holiday weekends, and that just makes me so happy. I love to see it now. All the art fairs, I didn't bring that up. They were around. My grandmother did on the clothesline after she was part of the art club way back. It's still I just became a member. It's hopefully the art club will still be up in 50 years. 50:04 AC: And actually, they do a couple our fairs. And I just said, OK, I'm going to do it because I want to bring locals to it and to participate in and bring it closer to what it used to be, which was local people with their art, not just. And know commercial are people right now, visual artists like say. SB: Right. Right. AC: But the… So, the art club is another great resource. And there's a garden club or two. I don't really know. Anyway, and Oxbow. SB: Have you been back to Oxbow? AC: I love Ox by actually going to teach there the summer. I'm going to teach pastels. They have the art in the meadow classes. So that's not part of their accredited through the Art Institute. That's kind of more for locals. Oxbow’s fabulous. I can't believe how much the same it is. Even though they have new buildings and they've kept the old they've kept the feeling. It's really a wonderful, happy place. AC: You know, in the 60s and 70s, I was sort of a wannabe hippie. And I feel like, you know, your bare feet in the sand and you're wearing a halter top. Everybody else is wearing, you know, little cutoffs. I feel like that's still happening in Oxbow. Oxbow is timeless and that's lovely. And they have all those that Talmage words there. There's amazing art coming out of there. I hope that's still going in 50 years. AC: And if somebody was to here and live here, definitely go and spend time there and support it and get to know at. Because it's amazing and has been here, you know, a really long time. Hundred and fifty years or something. SB: OK for when you were a child and you would be coming up here for the summer? Well, what would be the thing that you would look forward to? AC: So, the whole thing was pure joy. Let me get one side. Pure joy. It was, you know, even the summers I worked or the summers I didn't work. It was just so it was just beautiful and it was safe. You know, it's kind of amazing. My parents just let me go. You were lucky to live in that time. I think so. And have the grandparents with the foresight, too. Yes. Oh, I can't tell you how lucky I am. I think that every day. I think that every day. �SB: Great. Thank you. AC: Well, thank you. It's been really fun and you're really good at that. SB: So glad to have preserved your history. I'm going to use it for people to understand what life was like. And we don't lose those memories. That is very interesting. It's really great. We’re done. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/decc0cc5d54b3ddfbb8e27b716e42f96.mp4 67a4c19846c72e4989ab76f5f8bf68b4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3394f55dd0085df64820af0f37cee9e9.pdf dfe852472733812af8bf299952014deb PDF Text Text Cornelius, Philip Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Interviewee’s Name: Philip Cornelius Length of Interview: (38:55) Interviewed by: James Smither Transcribed by: Maluhia Buhlman Interviewer: “We’re talking today with Philip Cornelius of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The interviewer is James Smither of the Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project. Okay, now Philip can you start us off with some with some background on yourself, and to begin with where and when were you born?” June 1st 1925, Blodgett hospital. Interviewer: “And what town is that in?” East Grand Rapids. Interviewer: “Okay east Grand Rapids, Michigan, alright. Now did you grow up in east Grand Rapids?” (00:31) Yes. Interviewer: “Okay, what did your family do for a living then?” My family was in the furniture business. Interviewer: “Okay and-” �Cornelius, Philip Well they had, they also owned the Wolverine Brass Works. Interviewer: “Okay, alright now what was business like for them in the 30’s?” Good. Interviewer: “Okay so this is the depression?” They- In those days they only sold directly to plumbers and some stores, they had the Wolverine Brass Works. Interviewer: “Okay, so you did okay during the depression then?” Yes. Interviewer: “Okay alright, now did you know people who had more trouble?” (1:31) Oh probably, the only thing I remember is I was in high school during those days. Interviewer: “Okay now when you were going to high school, before Pearl Harbor, did you pay much attention to what was happening in the world?” Oh yes, I always kept up with news and I knew, I also knew I was gonna be in the service, by the time I- I was 18 when I graduated because I had rheumatic fever in the eighth grade and I was in bed for six months because that’s what they did in those days so you didn’t have a heart problem, and that was terrible, but I kept up with my grades and I graduated when I was 18 so it wasn’t so bad. Interviewer: “Now do you remember how you heard about Pearl Harbor?” Oh my yes. �Cornelius, Philip Interviewer: “So how did you learn about it?” Radio. Interviewer: “Okay now when that news came, was that a surprise?” Not really, I was very active with what was going on in the world, and I knew we were all in trouble, and also because I was 18 I went in pretty fast. Interviewer: “Right, well you were 16 when Pearl Harbor happened.” Yes. Interviewer: “So you were still in school but you knew as soon as you finished high school you were on- Now did you actually complete high school at the time?” Yes. Interviewer: “Okay and then when did you actually enter the service?” (3:42) Boy….I would say June of ‘43. Interviewer: “Okay so right after you graduated?” Oh yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, now what branch of the service did you join?” I was in the Seabees, the Navy, construction. �Cornelius, Philip Interviewer: “Okay now when you enlisted did you get to pick that or did they just send you there?” Well I was wearing, just like you I wore glasses and all of the sudden I was restricted which was lucky because at that time the Seabees were just being formed, and I could wear glasses because we were truck drivers and construction and all that stuff. So they weren’t- and it was the or the Army and this was right after the bulge and all that stuff. Interviewer: “Well the Bulge comes 1944, so when you first enlisted that wasn’t the issue.” Yeah. Interviewer: “Now go back to the time when you enlisted, where did you report to first, or where did they send you for training?” I’m trying to think. Interviewer: “Did you go to Great Lakes?” I’m foggy on my memory. Interviewer: “Alright, did you go to Great Lakes?” (5:31) No. Well I was in Great Lakes for a little time but that was when I was getting into the construction business in the Seabees so it was different. It was Navy but I had different witnesses like when I saw the bomber at the Empire State building. Interviewer: “Alright well we’re trying to talk about sort of the training that you got when you first went in. So did you go to Great Lakes for processing or did you do boot camp there?” �Cornelius, Philip Bootcamp, we were trained by the marines. Interviewer: “Alright and so what did that boot camp training consist of?” Everything, that was so long ago, it was about six weeks and I became a heavy equipment operator and I also did the work of a grader, but mostly I was a truck driver. Interviewer: “Okay, now did they give you specialized training for that, do they teach you how to drive the big equipment?” Oh yeah. Interviewer: “And where did you do that training?” Great Lakes. Interviewer: “That was still Great Lakes? Okay now was the part of the boot camp or was that after the boot camp?” (7:28) After the boot camp. Interviewer: “Okay, alright now when you were being trained by the marines did you get a lot of discipline?” Oh my yes. Interviewer: “Did they treat you like you were marine recruits?” Yeah, well we trained with them you know basically, cause we were the truck drivers and all that stuff for the marines. �Cornelius, Philip Interviewer: “Okay, yeah. Alright so you would serve alongside them so you would train alongside them.” Oh yeah. Interviewer: “Okay and then, now how- Was it hard for you to adjust to life in the military?” No, I like it. Interviewer: “Okay, because marine training has the reputation of being kind of unpleasant.” It was, but I didn’t mind it. They were a little kinder to us because we were the support for all their operations. Interviewer: “Okay, so they might need you later.” (8:38) Yep. Interviewer: “Okay, alright do you have an idea of how long you did the Seabee training?” Oh gosh, it seemed like years but it was just, I would say it was three months. Interviewer: “Alright, so you finish your training then it’s probably going to be late 1943 at that point?” Yeah. Interviewer: “And once you complete the training where did they send you?” �Cornelius, Philip Well California to start with, we went out to the Hawaiian Islands, and from there we went- I went to Attu in the Aleutians where I spent most of my time. Interviewer: “Okay now can you describe what Attu was like to live on?” It was rugged, it was good though, you gotta remember that we unloaded all the ships and we confiscated quite a lot of stuff and we managed to counter- In the wintertime we used the snow to hide the confiscated stuff and we took care of ourselves first and we- then we took care of the marines. Interviewer: “Okay now what kind of construction work were you doing there?” Everything, I was basically a truck driver, big trucks. Interviewer: “But were they building bases or air fields?” (10:41) Oh yeah. Basically I was in construction and I served in Africa and I served in the far far away east, and the Aleutian Islands. So I was in quite a bit, they moved us around. I was a heavy equipment operator so I had- I could pretty well pick what I wanted, so that’s what I did. Interviewer: “Okay, now when you moved around did your whole unit go or did you go by yourself or with a small group?” Oh gosh that I don’t even remember. I was basically in a group. Interviewer: “Now do you think it was a group of a few dozen men, or several hundred?” Oh that’s- That was so long ago, that was ‘43, ‘44, ‘45. Interviewer: “Okay now when you were on- I mean how much snow did you get on the �Cornelius, Philip Aleutians?” Oh man it never stopped, it would come and it’d go because we were right on the divide between the Pacific ocean and the Arctic ocean, we were on a line. We figured in the year and a half or two years we saw the sun 30 days, and so all the storms formed right off Attu and because that’s where the warm water hits the cold water. Interviewer: “Now did the warm water keep it from getting really cold? I mean how cold would it get?” No, well it was cold it wasn’t- We were in the arctic, on one side of us we had the Arctic Ocean, and on the other was the Pacific. So all the storms, we figured we had in the two years we were there we had 30 days of sun setting. Interviewer: “Right, do you know- I mean how cold did it get? Did it get below zero?” Oh no too much, that’s why we had so much snow. Interviewer: “Alright, now who else was based on Attu with you? And were there air units or marines?” (14:02) Oh everything, it was- Attu was a major fly away, we had Army bombers, Navy bombers, we hadInterviewer: “Did you have seaplanes there?” Yeah we had everything, and I’ll never forget them. We had one day when the North Pacific fleet was in our harbor, with 10 or 12 destroyers and three cruisers, and it was a fleet, and the Japs came over with a bunch of airplanes and they had such a heavy attack from all those ships and stuff they dropped all their bombs in the ocean. One bomb got on the island and one officer got a purple heart cause he got a piece of shrapnel on his heel, that was a big story. �Cornelius, Philip Interviewer: “Okay so was that the only time the enemy showed up while you were there?” Yeah, well they tried to but you know, we were the farthest island out, they had to come at us first but usually they didn’t make it. Interviewer: “Alright, so did you have fighter planes based there?” Oh yeah, we had Army and Navy. Interviewer: “Now you said you were there for quite some time, were you there…do you remember where you were when the Japanese surrendered? Had you moved on by then?” Yeah, I think I was in the San Francisco area at that time. Interviewer: “Alright now you mentioned that you did go to Japan?” Yeah. Interviewer: “So when did you do that?” (16:35) Toward the end. Interviewer: “And when you went to Japan what were you doing there?” I was in- I was a Seabee. Interviewer: “Okay, now were you building bases for the Americans?” Yeah. �Cornelius, Philip Interviewer: “Okay, and then when you were in Japan, did you see much of the Japanese people themselves?” Oh yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, and were they civilians-” Yeah Interviewer: “Or military? Okay. I had a- I was in charge of, for a while we had a big laundry and I had German prisoners, prisoners of war working for me, and they were great. Interviewer: “Now where was that?” (17:28) In California, they were captured in Africa. They were the prime Germans when they took Africa, and they were all- the ones I had, they were all college graduates and very smart and didn’t want to go back to Germany, and they had to go back to Germany because that’s the way it works. They liked their space and they worked in the laundries and all that kind of stuff, and they like the American girls, they were interesting guys. Interviewer: “Now had they been officers?” Oh everything, but they were all graduates, colleges and everything else. I had everything under me and they were really just great guys, and they weren’t looking forward to going back to Germany. Interviewer: “Okay and then while you were in Japan did you have any Japanese who worked for you there?” �Cornelius, Philip Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay and what were they doing?” They were just workers. Interviewer: “Right but were they working with you in the construction or?” Well I had laundry and I was in charge of prisoners of war, and so I had a pretty good crew. They were all college graduates. Interviewer: “Right, well those were the Germans though.” Yeah. Interviewer: “But I was asking about when you were in Japan. So when you were in Japan did you see much of the destruction from the bombing or was the area you were-” (19:37) Oh yeah but it’s- We were pretty well stuck in the bases, cause we pretty well chewed the area up itself during the war Interviewer: “Okay, so you were in- Do you remember what base you were at in Japan?” No. Interviewer: “Okay, alright were you close to Tokyo?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, and did you go into Tokyo?” �Cornelius, Philip Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, and what did you see there?” Destruction, a lot of it, we flattened it. Interviewer: “Now some parts of Tokyo hadn’t been hit, and there’s a business district and the Imperial Palace, I mean did you see any of those things?” I don’t remember. Interviewer: “Okay, now when you were in Japan were there any discipline problems with your men?” No. Interviewer: “Okay so they weren’t going off and finding women or getting drunk and things like that?” (20:45) Oh a little. Interviewer: “Not to the point where it was making too much trouble.” No. Interviewer: “Okay, alright now you mentioned you stopped in some other places, did you just stop over? Like you mentioned Okinawa.” Yeah. Interviewer: “Did you do construction there?” �Cornelius, Philip Yeah, I’d forgotten about while I was a truck driver, so I got to the islands but you know that’s so long ago and I was a kid so, you know I was about 20, 21. So it was an adventure. Interviewer: “Okay, and you also got to the Philippines.” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, and were you around Manila or someplace else?” I can’t remember. Interviewer: “Okay, do you remember much about what the places look like or what you saw there?” (21:55) Yeah, it was pretty well beat up, we took a pretty good pounding there when we were fighting there, but you know that’s so far back, my memory isn’t as good as it used to be either. Interviewer: “Okay, and then you also said that you went to Africa?” Yes. Interviewer: “And was that North Africa like Morocco or Algeria, or somewhere else?” We came over, it was near the Egyptian line, and I was a truck driver so I got around a lot. Interviewer: “Okay but in Egypt or someplace else?” Yeah, various places. Interviewer: “Okay and when you were there I mean did you- If you went to Egypt did you �Cornelius, Philip like, go and see the pyramids or anything like that?” Oh yes. Interviewer: “So you were there…alright and did you get to the Suze canal?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, so you’re really just back and forth moving all kinds of things all over the place.” Yeah, well I was a truck driver. Interviewer: “Right, now were these almost cargo trucks?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay but not- as opposed to dump trucks or something else. Okay, alright and…let’s see, okay. So how long do you think you stayed in the Navy after the war ended? Because it sounds like you got to a lot of places after the Aleutians. So did you go from the Aleutians back to California and then other places?” (24:10) Yeah. Interviewer: “Yeah okay, so you think maybe you were in until early 1946?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, now do you remember the point system? Their determining when you got to go home?” �Cornelius, Philip No, it was important but we had quite a few Michigan guys and one of my best friends was a Bill DeVries, was a middle weight champion in golden gloves, and so he was a good friend of mine, so we got a little booze when he went to- He fought for the Navy, and bases and he was the champ of- He was a lightweight and he got showered with booze and he didn’t drink. So we had a little party, and I remember we were drinking it all straight, and we’re all sitting in the snow in our underwear outside of the barracks. We were stoned oh boy it was bad, but it wasn’t that badYes it was, yeah it really was. We had a few casualties that didn’t even make it out of the snow, we had to take them in the Quonset hut that we were in, you know we were at an early age and we got- Everybody got a case of whiskey, a mixture, and we had enough for everybody in the barracks, some of them didn’t drink at all so that doubled up on the other people, and we really got stoned. It was bad, awful. Interviewer: “So there wasn’t always that much to do in the Aleutians then?” There wasn’t. Interviewer: “When you had extended periods, when you were just stuck in the barracks because the weather was too bad?” (27:16) Oh yeah. Well we were truck drivers and I had a snow plow and so that was my busy time, we had to keep the roads open and we got a lot of snow, and we got a lot of rain. It’s a very wet area and the other thing is it’s the land of midnight sun you know. So we had only a very, very short period of darkness. Interviewer: “Oh in the summer?” Yeah. Interviewer: “But then in the winter you don’t have much light at all?” No that’s right, yes it was dark all the time. It was interesting, but what the hell when you’re only �Cornelius, Philip 18 and 20 this kind of stuff you can live with it. Interviewer: “Alright, now are there other things that happened when you were in the service that kind of stands out in your memory.” Yeah, we went through an earthquake and it was a pretty severe earthquake, in the valley area outside of San Francisco, and that was a memorable thing. All of a sudden the lights were all jumping all over the place and shaking. We’d never been in an earthquake before but it’s an experience, and actually it actually made it move, a major highway nearby over about four or five feet, and it was something to watch the lights blink, dancing all over the place and there’s no place you could go cause everything was going. So it’s a pretty great experience. Interviewer: “Yup. Now when you finished your time in the service, did they make an effort to encourage you to reenlist, or were they just sending everybody home?” Yeah, basically they’re sending, they had plenty of people who wanted to stay in so. Interviewer: “Okay, so you go home, now when you got home what did you do?” (30:19) I went to school. Interviewer: “You went to college?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay and where did you go to college?” Michigan. Interviewer: “Alright, and what were you studying there?” �Cornelius, Philip Business. Interviewer: “Okay, and did that go well?” Yes. Interviewer: “Okay, and then once you graduated from there then what did you do?” I didn’t graduate because at that time, I’m trying to remember that. Oh, my father had a crooked partner whose family was very wealthy in Cadillacs and we didn’t- My dad didn’t realize he was a gambler, bad, and all of the sudden their business went under, and he didn’t have any control over it. So that’s when I was in college so I didn’t get involved that much, and I was out on gi-giyou know the cheapestInterviewer: “G.I bill?” (31:42) The bill, and so I was set for it, but that was a trying time and my grandfather owned the Wolverine Brass Company in Grand Rapids, and they were well set but my father’s brother Harold he became an alcoholic, couldn’t take the stress, and we had a lot of family problems around that time, but we survived. Interviewer: “So did you kind of leave school and come help out or?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay and then did you work for your grandfather or someone else?” Yeah, I did. Interviewer: “Alright and then did you come back and live in east Grand Rapids or did you-” �Cornelius, Philip Yeah, I went to Michigan and I couldn’t- I didn’t graduate because all of the sudden this thing took off and I had to get to work, help out, but I completed my, you know, time later because I didn’t need much more to do, but I enjoyed my time in Michigan. I was in a fraternity there and I was a Greek, at Michigan we had a- We had our own building downtown and Ann Arbor that was owned by the fraternity and we used to march down the street, robes and stuff on. You know when you’re a veteran and you’ve been in service long enough that kind of an old hat but it was kind of fun. Interviewer: “Alright now how do you think your time in the service affected you or what did you learn from it?” Nah. Interviewer: “You were basically just the same guy the whole time?” (34:50) Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, do you think you learned anything from that that helped you later?” No, I don’t think so. You get a certain amount of discipline and you get some adventures like when I hit- That bomber hit the Empire State building. Interviewer: “Okay yeah talk about that, I mean why were you in New York?” Just a weekend pass. Interviewer: “Okay and were you stationed-” There was a hotel there that the government bought, and then you can stay there for three nights, and usually they had three or four guys in the same room. Some on the floor, some on the bed, �Cornelius, Philip but we had room service and food and all that stuff that they had treated us, it was a great great place to be. Interviewer: “Now were you stationed in that area someplace?” Well I was- Yeah we were right on the base, forget exactly where it was. Interviewer: “Was it in New York harbor somewhere?” Yeah. Interviewer: “Okay, yeah, alright, now how did you- Did you see the plane hit or just hear it?” (36:28) Yeah. Interviewer: “Can you describe what happened?” I heard it and we were near the window and I’d been on an airbase and I said “You know that plane is flying too low.” So we ran to the window and we saw it hit the Empire State building. It was a twin engine B25 and of course they were all killed but usually had a crew of seven. Interviewer: “Now did you ever learn why that happened? Was the pilot killing himself or anything?” No. Interviewer: “Alright how much damage did it do to the building?” You know I don’t even remember. It was, well it knocked some stones, some of the brick away, but other than that it didn’t damage anything it happened to hit an area that didn’t have any �Cornelius, Philip construction, it was a part of the building that… Interviewer: “So it was- We think of planes hitting skyscrapers, we now think of 9/11 but that was much bigger and much worse. Alright so we were talking about saying, you know “Do you think your time in the service affected you” when you were saying not very much but you did get to see some interesting things.” Oh my yes. Interviewer: “And go some places you wouldn’t go otherwise.” Yes, right. Interviewer: “Alright, alright anything else you can recall that you want to put on the record before we close out the interview?” (38:25) Oh I don’t- It was so far back, I was a kid then I mean I was in my young 20’s. Interviewer: “Yeah it was a lot, seventy years ago that’s a long time ago.” Yes it is. Interviewer: “Alright well thank you very much for talking to me this morning.” Oh that’s- I enjoyed it. �Cornelius, Philip � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CorneliusP2110V Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cornelius, Philip Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03 Title A name given to the resource Cornelius, Philip (Interview transcript and video), 2017 Description An account of the resource Philip Cornelius was born on June 1, 1925, in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. In June 1943, after graduating high school, he enlisted in the Navy. Due to having glasses, he was placed in the Construction Battalions, better known as the Seabees. He received his training at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois, then went to Attu in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. While at Attu he helped build airfields and bases, and Japanese aircraft routinely attempted, and failed, to break through the defenses on Attu. From Attu, he went to California and oversaw German prisoners-of-war from the Afrika Korps, and also did construction work in Egypt. Sometime between his places of service he was in New York City and witnessed the accidental crashing of a B-25 bomber into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. He served on the Philippines and Okinawa doing construction work, and the same in Japan as part of the Army of Occupation. He was discharged in early 1946. 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