ORGANIZATION FOR REHABILITATION THROUGH TRAINING

VOLUME XXIII, No. 3 Published by the American ORT Federation Fall, 1969

French ORT is now in the midst of a MoreStudents,MoreSchoolsthisYear development program that will en- The number of people—youth and adults—availing themselves of ORT large the capacities of practically servicesduring the school year that began September 1st will be at an all-time every school in its network. peak, probably close to 55,000. The first possibility of vocational A record number of youth will attend the ORT vocational and technical learning for girls of the Jewish com- ; ago. high schools, close to 35,000. munity in Bombay, will come into re sent to More new educational facilities than a year ago. Some of them were being with the establishment of a the inter- have been opened, or will be opened breaking the educational barrier in school which is the gift of the Gov- ich is aid. in the course of the year, than in any communities that had not had high ernment of Denmark. he world. school facilities before. similar period. Among the areas of Latin America ding in a expansion are , France, Iran, This was the case in Bat Yam, Hof lage eight Argentina and India. Hasharon and Benyamina. A school A thoroughly renovated and up- southern for girls was opened at Lydda. Factory dated center for advanced techno- Career Choices schools were established in logical studies, including a computer 1 soon be- Occupational and career possibili- and in the Negev town of . center, was dedicated in September in VI" work- tiessuch as computer data processing, In East Jerusalem, ORT inaugurated Buenos Aires. ncling to industrial chemistry, telecommunica- two vocational schools for Arab youth. This by no means exhaustive in- icentrated tion and automation will be featured The French program is geared to ventory of added ingredients to the which are the avalanche of North African refu- ORT program underscores what Max two-year gees of the sixties. The schools con- Braude, ORT Director General, de- structed within the last few years to scribed at the international executive serve the needs of newcomers have committee conference last Summer, fe it clear proven to be inadequate for the task. as "an impressive tempo of growth." • role was would be ory Coast ExpansionPlanAnnouncedforIsrael ,sistant to Phase two of the "home front strat- Phase two, starting with this school i?re. egy" to extend ORT high school year, in effect means converting the is and in. opportunities in Israel by "tripling doubling goal into a tripling pro- ier, small. the enrollment," was announced by gram, with the aim of bringing about ses of the Gen. , President of 7,000 more teenagers into the schools ce impart. ORT Israel, at the mid-year meeting during the next few years. ig chosen of the World ORT Union executive 2nt Amer- Final Results committee last June. s unusual The ultimate effect of the Phase A plan to double the enrollment of A freshman student at the Ort Vocational Two Operation of tripling the 1965 Center in Teheran. Iran learns the 14-18 year olds in the ORT secondary ORT high school student body will elements of his skill. schools for vocational and technical be a nation-wide system that embraces studies was put into effect in 1965. in the curriculum, supplementing a some 20,000. Other ORT Israel pro- Such schools then were able to ac- continued emphasis on electronics, grams are also going forward, and will commodate 6,800 youth. The dou- secretarialskills and drafting. bring just this year's total enrollment bling program was projected for 5 Information received from the 21 in all phases—secondary and other- years. countries of operation indicates that wise—to 35,000. these are some of the factors that will Overwhelming Hurdles "The doubling program has been make this 89th year of ORT not only Despite the dislocations of the Six very effective, one indication of which the biggest in its history, but also the Day War in June '67, the chronic is that the schools graduated over most responsive to the tides of change shortage of teachers and construction 7,000 skilled journeymen and tech- in education and in job technology. bottlenecks, this goal was for all prac- nicians in June," Gen. Herzog noted. The student body at the ORT tical purposes, achieved in the last "But this is nowhere near enough secondary schools in Israel this Sep- school year when ORT high school for Israel's educational or manpower tember first, swelled by 2,500 more enrollment reached 12,239. requirements." Large Outpouring for Women's Convention

The 20th Biennial National Convention Ccu of Women's American ORT will convene wood, November 20th to 24th at +he New York ing ol Hilton for four intensely programmed that days of planning for the future. MUM More than 1,500 leaders, representing almo: the 85,000 members who are organized from in 650 chapters all over the country, are expected to attend, probably the largest thum single national ORT conference ever on of cyt the American scene. Directors and specialists from prac- tically every major program on four In continents, will be present to analyze late current trends and problems, and out. no line +he directions and anticipated only needs. In commissions, plenary sessions brati and other groups, delegates will get For I into every aspect of both the program overseas and the organization as it re- at G2 ORT Institute A view of the 20th Anniversary and Graduation Assembly at the Central lates +o the community. OR1 in Anieres, Switzerland. last June. The Convention call is issued by Mrs. TI Monroe M. Rosenthal, President, Mrs ages Jack Eisenberg is Convention Chair. to t] A Generation of Teachers man, and Mrs. Leonard MinkofF is Co. class( Chairman. five They came from all over last June "They" were 54 alumni of the Insti- staki to the Central ORT Institute located tute, who have made their careers in tong in the tiny hamlet of Anieres, outside ORT, and to this day are part of the perimentation, and the source of to p Geneva, Switzerland. They came to vital administrative and educational numerous innovations in teaching methodology. celebrate the 20th anniversary of the cadres that make the ORT schools Fc Institute. But there was hardly time what they are. While instructors remain the chief one for indulgence in nostalgia as they First in a generation of teachers product of the Institute, in response cand plunged into renewal of their own produced by the Institute in the last to the diversified needs of the ORT blom education. two decades, they have since grown educational complex, it has assumed on h into men of major responsibilities in a whole gamut of functions and is, in of h a score of countries. fact, the University of ORT. MUM Among these veterans were the Multiple Strands pam ing heads of the schools in Ashkelon and One strand of this multiple opera SIMUI Holon, Israel, the technical director tion is continuing teacher education COM in Tunis, the principal of the School The alumni assembled for this anni- for Deaf Mute Children in Casa- versary went into a four day seminar, A blanca, and the director of the Cen- whose sessions, in effect, comprised a befc Fall, 1969 ter for Basic Education in that same thili Published quarterly in Spring, Summer, study course in technological and Fall and Winter city. educational trends that have practical cate Vol. XXIII, No. 3 Annual Subscription 50c Men at the Helm impact on the schools they lead. is al Cable Address: AMORTFED, New York Thc American ORT Federation There were others, like the head of As examples of the manner in which 222 Park Ave. South, New York, N. Y. 10003 shot ORegon 7-4400 thc ORT technical aid program in the Institute serves to keep ORT spir ORGANIZATION FOR REHABILITATION Gabon, West Africa, a technical di- staffers updated, there were sessions THROUGH TRAINING rector in the French program, the asso- on the school as a production model, Second class postage at New York, N. Y. ciate director of the Institute itself. the installation and design of work- OFFICERS — Dr. William Haber, President; GeorgeBacker,Honorary President; Mark Carter, When they first arrived at this shops, the use of closed circuit tele- Julius Hochman,Louis Hollander,Mrs. Max M. hav Shelley vision for instruction, the use of film Rosenberg,JosephSpivack,Vice-Presidents; place, the Institute was not only new wit] Appleton.Associate Secretary; CharlesJ. Bensley, strips, and the fabrication and pro- Treasurer; S: David Gamso, Associate Treasurer; in itself, it was also a new kind of live CharlesJ. Bensley, Chairman Exec. Comm.; Hon. school for which there were no guide- jection of visual models. MauriceBernhardt,Chairman Admin. Comm.; Paul hav Bernick,Executtve Director. lines to follow, no tradition. It was The seriousness and level of the beg The American OAT Federation represents the seminar is obvious from this listing. World ORT Union, with which it is affiliated, in the first international school for the Ian, the United States. ORT is devoted to the voca- educating of technical and vocational More important, it is clear that al- tional training and economicreconstruction of throughout the world. educators. Today it is an institution though this was the celebration of an cial The American ORT Federation currently receives anniversary, the entire spirit of the its funds from the Joint Distribution Committee, of international renown and recogni- hol a member agency of the United Jewish Appeal, tion, a laboratory of educational ex- occasion was future-oriented. and front' memberShip dues. tea 2 for part of each day the students attend ion Breaking the Silence Barrier manual training classes under the di- rection ot Mr. Sultan, who is himself onvention Casablanca. When the wide, that unlocks a new world. Three deaf. Perhaps because they are dis- II convene wooden gate shuts behind you, clos- glasses of water are tested; one cold, tracted by whatever sounds are around New York ing off the sounds of the narrow street one tepid, one hot. As each is identi- them, or perhaps because their afflic- ogrammed that leads to the school, it takes a fied the teacher places a card on which tion teaches them an extraordinary moment to adjust to the strange, the word is written on the board. presenting patience from inlancy, their handi- almost eerie silence, which is broken Then the mint is identified, and organized crafts reveal the artist's attention to from time to time only by the hollow ountry, are finally it is put in the pot and the detail and an unusually developed thump of a drum, or the sudden clang •he largest hot water is added. appreciation of color and line. of cymbals clashing together. ever on Painfully and slowly, at first, later Examples of this are evident in with increasing ease, each child reads their colorful and often humorous om prac- No Laughter Here aloud the sentences which the class pictures, made by pasting tiny bits of on four In this school you hear no children has formulated to describe the process. bright paper in designs. analyze laughing or calling to one another, Afterwards he will write about it. and out- no gay shouts when they are at play— This is the way his elementary school- Creative Expression nticipated only loud rhythmic noises whose vi- ing begins. y sessions Not only do these manual training will get brations can be sensed by the students. Recently, the Director of the School, classes offer an opportunity for crea- program For this is the Institute for the Deaf Mr. Jacob Sedoun, a graduate of the tive expression, they help also develop as it re- at Casablanca, Morocco, sponsored by ORT. d by Mrs. This year fifty children, ranging in ent, Mrs ages from about two-and-a-hall years ,n Chair- to the teens, are enrolled in five )ff is Co- classes. The little ones, in groups of fiveor six, are one by one taught pain- stakingly each movement of mouth, source of tongue and throat muscles required teaching to produce various sounds. For hours the teacher moves from the chief one to another holding a lighted response candle which the child must learn to the ORT blow out. Placing one small hand s assumed on her own throat, the other in front and is, in of her mouth, the child will feel the P. muscles of her mouth move and the ex- pansion of her breath made in sound- ple opera. ing the letters. Sometimes sooner, education. sometimes later, the miracle is ac- this anni- complished with each one. y seminar, And so it is that a child who never A mprised a before in his life uttered a sound, a A lesson in breathing at the CRY School for Deaf Mute Children in Casablanca. Ocal and child who was unable to communi- practical cate except with his hands and eyes, ORT Teachers College in Switzer- manual dexterity so that when they lead. is at last able to speak—and to learn! land, who has taken courses on edu- have finished their schooling, these cating deaf children, designed an in- r in which Then his eyes shout of triumph, the youngsters can be trained for useful dividually adjusted hearing aid which ep ORT shout which echoes from his soaring employment. he has made for each child. Although sessions spirit. Some who graduate are placed in most of the students are totally deaf, various factories where their working Dri model, The 3 R's are Possible some have residual hearing and the of work- conditions as well as their progress Since the children are deaf, they proper hearing device enables them rcuit tele- can be supervised via the ORT ap- have never learned to speak. And to distinguish certain sounds. Each se of film prenticeship program. Others who without speech they are doomed to classroom is wired so that the hearing and pro- have the ability, go on to the ORT lives of uselessness. But as soon as they aids pick up the voice of the teacher, high schools—Ain Seba for boys and have been taught to articulate they without distraction by extraneous el of the Val d'Anfa for girls. begin to read and write and to use noises. The hearing aids help the stu- tis listing. Women's American ORT has con- dents develop tonality and cadence r that al- language as a communication tool. sistently helped as part of its support At the second class level, word asso- in their speech to avoid the flat mono- ion of an to ORT's specialized schools for edu- tone characteristic of totally deaf it of the ciation is introduced. Family house- cating and training the handicapped hold activities, making a pot of mint people. through their Student Health Project. tea, for instance, familiar, yet a key In addition to their academic work, From the Boston Jewish Advocate

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DirectoryoftheORTSchoolsinlsrae OKfarR"- Central Headquarters El 39 Shderot David Hamelech Kfai , Tel. 248156 Pre:

Gilboa Abu Gosh •01(fciR 99 Jaffo Yeshiva Vocational High School Mechanics, Metal Machining, Fashion Trades Agromechanics, Domestic Science Givatayim ORT Vocational High School ORT Engineering School ORT Vocational High School SKfaaihj 1 Rehov Hazafzafot Der Electricity, Mechanics, Fashion Trades 15 Rehov Golomb Haifa Ashdod 7- ORT Nautical School in the name of Israel Rogosin ORT Municipal Laboratory Assistants School OR Near the Light House, P.O.B. 81 Rehov Bikurim Industrial Chemistry F, Marine Radio Offleers, Marine Electricity Officers Kin Ashkelon ORT Municipal Vocational School Rehov Hatene OR ORT Vocational High School Ref Afrida Applied Arts, Secretarial Trades Electricity, Mechanics, Construction Mechanics The Jeanette Gayl ORT Apprenticeship Center Kiryat Shprinzak 7 ORT Apprenticeship Centre Locksmithy, Automechanics, Electricity, Sewing, Car- Loc Shimshon Gimel, Hebo Rabi Eliezer Milrad OR Mechanics, Carpentry, Auto-Electricity, Locksmithy, pentry, Women's Hairdressing ORT Factory School Kir Ready-Made Clothes, Secretarial Trades, Construction A Mechanics Chemicals and Phosphates Ltd. OR Ashrat Mechanics for Industrial Processes ORT Vocational High School Heerev Leiet Me Agromechanics, Garment Trades Yeshiva Vocational High School OR Azata Mechanics Re Yeshovoth High School Herzliya 2 Mechanics Yad Giora ORT Vocational High School Shiv'at Hakohavim Mil Bat Yam Electronics, Electricity, Mechanics OF ORT Vocational High School for Girls Hof Hasharon Bn 13 Rehov Nizana Do Fashion Trades, Secretarial Skills ORT Technological Center Agromechanics, Domestic Science, Electronics ORT Vocational High School for Boys No Ramat Hanassi Holon Lv Mechanics, Electricity ORT Vocational High School Mifde Ezrahi, Rehov Pro. Shor 1 Ic Beersheba Electronics, Instrumentation, Precision Mechanics, At the First Municipal Comprehensive High School Automechanics, General Mechanics, Technical Clerks 17 Rehov Hashalom ORT "Amcor" Factory School Benyamina ORT "Shoham" Factory School ORT Vocational High School "Hashomron" Ne Shomron, Giv'at Hapoel Isfiya Industrial Instrumentation, General Mechanics ORT Vocational School 0] Bnei Brak Mechanics ORT Vocational High School for Girls Jerusalem NI 14 Rehov Nissenboym ORT Technical and Vocational High School V( Fashion Trades, Domestic Science 42 Rehov Hanevi'im Ein Harod Electronics Engineering, Electronics, Mechanics, Die- Pi ORT Regional School Emek Harod Making, Automechanics G: Ein Harod Ihud Vocational High School ORT-Alliance B( Agromechanics, Domestic Science and Sewing Mechanics, Aeronautics Ein Shemer Factory School in Automechanics Yeshiva Vocational High School El Hussein Boys' Vocational High School 0 Auto-Mechanics, Domestic Science El Mameunya Girls' Vocational High School Gan Yavne The J. F. Kennedy ORT Apprenticeship Centre ORT Vocational School in Yeshiva "Ahuzat Yaakov" at Mekor Haim, Rehov Itam 0 Mechanics, Locksmithy, Carpentry Printing Trades, Automechanics, Auto-Electricity, 4 Mechanics, Ready-Made Clothes, Women's Hair- ORT Laboratory Assistants High School dressing, Auto Mechanics, Construction Trades Industrial Chemistry, Laboratory Assistants Kfar Avraham OR:1 Vocational High School for Girls ORT Vocational Tora Umlaha High School Ramat-Amidar, Derech Eilat Electricity, Mechanics Fashion Trades, Architectural Drafting, Interior Kfar Ata Decoration, Secretarial Trades Pre-Vocational School ORT Shenkar Textile School Mechanics, Fashion Trades, Vocational High School 24 Rehov Anna Frank Kfar Habad Textile Trades ORT Vocational School Ramla Mechanics, Construction, Carpentry, Cabinet Making, ORT Vocational High School for Girls Printing Trades 45 Sderot Herzi Kfar Saba Fashion Trades, Domestic Science, Technical Clerks Shapiro ORT Vocational High School Rehovot Derech Haifa ORT Vocational High School Electronics, Electricity, Instrumentation, Mechanics, Rehov Giborei Yisrael Technical Clerks Electronics, General Mechanics, Automechanics ORT Vocational School Yeshiva Vocational School Porat Yose1 Fashion Trades, Women's Hairdressing, Carpentry 8 Rehov Bar Kochba Kiryat Bialik Mechanics ORT Comprehensive High School Rishon LeZion Rehov Nir-Am Moshe Gindi ORT Vocational High School Instrumentation and Electronics, Mechanics, Fashion Mechanics, Technical Clerks, Sales Personnel Trades, Drafting, Science and Humanities Sde Boker Lod ORT Vocational Trend in the ORT Vocational High School Comprehensive High School Kiryat Batei-Sefer Hatihonim Sde Eliyahu Mechanics, Electricity ORT Regional School of the Religious Kibbutzim ORT Factory School for Aviation Trades Emek Beit Shean Aircraft Industries, Aviation Mechanics Agromechanics, Domestic Science Megiddo Sde Hemed ORT Technological Centre Vocational School Yeguiya Kapayim Regional Council Megiddo Nahalat Yehuda Agromechanics, Domestic Science, Electronics Electricity Miron Shafir ORT Vocational School, ORT Vocational High School Bnei-Akiva Yeshiva, "Bar Yohai" Merkaz Shapiro, Doar Na, Lahish Zafon Doar Na Darom Hagalil Electricity, Auto and A gromechanics, Mechanics, Mechanics Fashion Trades and Domestic Science Natanya Tel Aviv Lvovitch ORT Vocational High School ORT Syngalowski Memorial Centre New Industrial Zone 28 Derech Hatayassim Electronics, Electricity, Instrumentation, General Me- Engineering Electronics, Engineering Electricity, Elec- chanics, Agromechanics, Carpentry, Marine Mechanics tronics Technicians, Electricity Technicians, General Officers, Ship Stewardship, Technical Clerks, Archi- Mechanics, Precision Mechanics, Die-Making, Tele- tectural and Technical Drafting, Hotel Trades phone and Telegraph Nazareth ORT Vocational High School ORT-AMAL Vocational High School 32 Rehov Hatabor Mechanics, Automechanics Fashion Trades, Hairdressing, Seminar for Fashion Nehalim Trades Vocational High School ORT Vocational School Mechanics, Electro-Mechanics 13, Sderot Yad Levanim Petah Tikva School for the Deaf, Mechanics, Fashion Trades Girls' Vocational High School Shapiro ORT Apprenticeship Centre Beit Bluma Abu Kabir, Rehov Lagoyim Fashion Trades Electricity, Auto-Electricity, Mechanics, Sheetmetal, Ramat Gan Printing, Garment Skills, Radio, Dental Techniques, ORT Vocational High School for Boys Guided Apprenticeship Classes, Electricity, Lock- Electronics, Precision Machining, Mechanics, smithy, Printing, Carpentry, Garment Skills Electricity Yeruham ORT Krintzky Vocational High School Factory School Cabinet Making, Carpentry Tempo Works in the Negev 5 Leadership Dialogue GarmentIndustryChapterHonorsMiller An experiment in community dialogue has been scheduled for December 10th at the New York Hilton in the form oi an ORT luncheon for United Jewish Appeal Leadership people. The men Sam invited are on the 1969 UJA Young of Ar Leadership Cabinet or recent alumni, guest whose names were recommended by Angel Robert Max Schreyer, the leadership group's Membership and Placement Chairman. 7trtahdel\ Slated for the time of the National and fi UJA Conference, the program for this under meeting, billed as a Dialogue with ORT, Stenzc was designed in conjunction with the chapt( UJA, as an "in depth exploration of the Mr. work of ORT in its manifold dimensions, from and the deeper significance it has in Amen Jewish life around the world," as de- scribed by Charles J. Bensley, Chairman surve) of the American ORT Executive Com- ORT mittee, who is the convener. on de In addition to Mr. Bensley, discussions gram Chaim Miller, center, receives a token of admiration for his achievements from Judge will be led by Dr. William Haber, AOF who s Jacob T. Zukerman. Shalom Secunda, noted artist, is at the left. President, and Max A. Braude, ORT peale( Director General. meet The new activity season was kicked chapter has rooted itself in an indus- off with a bang by the Testimonial try where ORT simply did not exist Th LeagueSalutesReese Dinner to Chaim Miller, sponsored by only three years ago. Secret for tf The National ORT League will the Garment Employers' Chapter on Chaim Miller, founder of the chap- nual honor Samuel Reese, chairman of its September 6th, at the Hilton Hotel ter, which has become a model for in- executive committee, at a testimonial in New York. dustry-based organizations elsewhere, to be held at the Americana Hotel in More than 500 people representing and whose achievement was recog- New York, on Sunday, December 7th. every segment of the industry, and nized by his designation as ORT The December luncheon is the tra- many other endeavors, jam-packed the Man-of-the-Year at the National Con- A r ditional annual meeting of the organ- Trianon Ballroom for a gala evening ference in January, was honored at the st ization. To it will assemble several that indicated how effectively the the dinner. Labm hundred delegates and guests from Judge Jacob T. Zukerman made the on fraternal groups, societies and con- CohnHeadsDetroit Drive presentation to Mr. Miller. George J. Work gregations. Over 300 organizations Mintzer, former chairman of the Sion ( are affiliated with the National ORT Irwin I. Cohn has been named American ORT Federation Executive the g League and there are more than 300 chairman of the current membership Committee, and Impartial Chairman Cent( individual members. drive of Detroit Men's ORT Chapter. in the industry, paid his respects In Samuel Reese has been a veteran in Announcing t h e appointment, personally, and for ORT. the e ORT for a quarter century, holding Harry H. Platt, president of the Chap- who A Tradition numerous posts of leadership. ter, said the objective this year is to ades, enroll 300 new ORT members. The Murray Cudrin, Executive Director Cross Section Support mark Chapter now has a roster of 1,000 of the National Dress Manufacturers' and ; The affair is being organized by a members. Association, and a founder of the meeti cross-section of community leaders. Co-chairmen of the membership chapter, together with Herbert Pen- Th Chairman is Isidore Feld. Co-chair- drive are Albert M. Coleman, Dr sig, Impartial Chairman of the Gar- Sarin men are Philip Braver, David Falus, Harvey M. Firestone, Jerome C. ment Center Trucking Industry, vice- secretnd Simon Stern and Bruce B. Teicholz. Hirsch, Milton Lucow and David president and active worker in the Journal Chairman is David G. J. Page. chapter, opened the program. The a Ion Zisselman, and Co-chairmen are Max Other membership committee mem- renowned Jewish musician, Sholom agree Goldfeder, Rabbi Moshay Mann, bers include Gerson Bernstein, Stanley Secunda, was Master of Ceremonies. conf( Jerome Wasserstein and Jack Wein- T. Burkoff, Harold L. Frank, John L. This was the second such affair mont stein. Greenberg, Dr. Harold W. Jaffe, Rich- sponsored by the Garment Employers' of th Other testimonial committee mem- ard L. Kux, Harry T. Madison, Milton Chapter. Its impact on the industry bers are Samuel Bonchek, Benjamin J. Miller, Allan Nachman, Max D. has been so effective that it has be- El( Chapnick, Walter J. Covadlo, Maurice Schuster, Dr. Murray H. Shekter, come a tradition. An attractive and Gold Enright, Abe Martin, Isaac Seife, Sidney M. Shevitz, Samuel S. Simmer impressive Journal was issued for the secre Hyman Sterman, Max Zaum. and George Taxe. occasion. secre 6 iller World Director on U. S. Tour LaborORTNews Dr. Vladimir Halperin, Director of the World ORT Union, and a lead- Los Angeles Plans Ahead ing specialist on international Jewish affairs, will address more than a score Samuel Milman, executive secretary of meetings in communities across the of American Labor ORT, was the country in the course of a speaking guest speaker at a conference of Los tour during October. Angeles Labor ORT on September With the authority of a scholar who 7th. More than 50 representatives of possesses intimate knowledge of the trade unions, the Workmen's Circle forces of change affecting Jewish life, and fraternal organizations attended, he will report on the new challenges under the chairmanshnp of Isidor faced by ORT, and the perspectives Stenzor, newly designated head of the for the Seventies. chapter. International Leader Dr. V. Halperin Mr. Milman had just come back Dr. Halperin has held top positions Gunzbourg, he received his education from an extensive tour of Latin in the world organization and its cen- at the University of Paris. He is a American countries, where he had tral headquarters in Geneva, for a professor of Hebrew in Geneva. surveyed ORT programs and met with quarter-century. He has been Director His speaking tour will take him to ORT workers. He was able to report for the past 12 years. Chicago, Milwaukee, New Haven, on developments of the overseas pro- These responsibilities have involved Miami, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Jack- gram and the great pressure of youth him in every aspect of the program, sonville, Richmond, Philadelphia, From Judge who seek an ORT education. He ap- and more recently, he has surveyed Dayton, Charleston and other areas. pealed for more strenuous effort to the programs in Israel and Latin meet the need. America. an indus- The meeting heard reports from A grandson of one of the founders moriant not exist Secretary I. Litewka. Plans were made of ORT in 1880, Baron Horace de Sol Tekulsky for the Los Angeles Labor ORT an- the chap- A founder of the National ORT nual conference in January. lel for in- India'sOperationRescueLeague and one of the best known elsewhere, figures in the New York community. ORT India carries on the ORT Mr. Tekulsky was a loyal and gener- , as recog- Renewal in Chicago tradition that everyone can learn — as ORT ous worker in ORT and a member of and that even those who do not meet onal Con- A major step to organize and renew the national Board of Directors of official norms can become productive )nored at the structure and activities of Chicago American ORT Federation. He was members of society. Labor ORT took place at a meeting on the Executive Board of the Na- Last year, ORT India started to made the on September 11th at the Vladeck tional ORT League. give training at the Bombay ORT George J. Workmen's Circle Center. One deci- Nathan D. Shapiro Polytechnic, outside its high school sion of the conference was to establish A founder of the Brooklyn ORT of the program, for boys who did not have Executive the group's headquarters office at the Society, an attorney of high standing qualifications for admission to the Thairman Center for the time being. and participant in practically every three year secondary schools. A first phase of the Brooklyn Jewish com- respects In one respect the meeting marked class was opened for 12 boys. munity, he was an active and devoted the end of an era. Morris L. Polin, At the end of the year, four pupils leader in ORT. He was for several who was Chairman for several dec- proved sufficiently capable to pass the decades a member of the American ades, retired. He had long made his entrance examination for the Poly- Director ORT national board of directors, and mark on the group. His leadership technic. Those remaining continue facturers' of the executive board of the Brook- and achievement were extolled at the their training. Although they will not r of the lyn ORT Society. meeting. have a State diploma at the end of bert Pen- Charles Kreindler The main report was presented by their studies, they will be able to find the Gar- National Secretary of American Samuel Milman, national executive good jobs at higher wages. ORT Federation for many years, stry, vice- secretary. New directions for growth T in the More Coming Charles Kreindler was a veteran and participation were arrived at after ORT India plans to open a similar am. The worker and leader in ORT affairs, a long and fruitful discussion. It was course for 18 students next year. and a major link with the labor move- , Sholom agreed to convoke a representative 2monies. Chairman, Mr. G. L. Gabriel, writes: ment. He was a vice-president of the conference within the next few "Even this number creates many prob- ch affair ILGWU. months as a step toward the renewal lems of accommodation in our exist- mployers' Mr. Kreindler was a founder of of the organization. ing building and it is very difficult to industry American Labor ORT in 1938, and Elected as officers were Herschel find accommodation elsewhere. But t has be- an active officer since then. He was a Goldfarb, chairman; we are detemined to help these boys :tive and Irving Levitt, member of the executive committee secretary-treasurer; Rebecca Goldfarb, even if their benches have to be put d for the and Board of Directors of the Ameri- secretary. in the Polytechnic's hallways." can ORT Federation. 7

A Last Chance Pays Off Aiding Biafra The Israeli daily Davar recently re- by Adam Penn last chance, Seidman went to work to ported on a letter in Hebrew to Arieh conquer the machine. It was agony to Born in Western Europe during the Reichman, Director of the Nathanya adjust his reflexes to the high speeds, ORT School, by Lawrence Akomodo, a First World War, Louis Seidman— but after six weeks he had done so. former exchange student from Biafra. as we shall call him—spent the Second With the technical elements behind Akomodo, who was brought to Israel by in a concentration camp. He is a him, he acquired confidence. His the government as part of the ofFicial survivor. His arm will always show teachers were encouraging, and soon exchange program, studied at ORT the ineradicable, telltale number in referred him to his first job in an Natanya for two years and the ORT blue tatoo. American factory. He is still there, Technion for one, during which time he was "adopted" by the Reichman family. He has been trying to emigrate and when the school reopened on ever since, and finally made it just Describing the scarcity of everyday August 25th for the Fall term, he products and the hardships brought by under a year ago, at the age of 53. He came back for advanced courses. had earned his living as a textile the war, he appeals for help from Israel. "Many die each day but we must operator, in the course of which he continue to fight. I work twenty lost three fingers of his right hand. hours a day for my country." he Uncertain Future writes. Mr. Reichman, his ORT teaching staff His source of income since his ar- and students are collecting soap, sugar, rival was the New York Association radio batteries, etc. to send to Biafra. for New Americans. The future, at his age, with his physical disability, and with his communication gap, looked cced. Like Seidman, a good propor- bleak indeed. He had begun to won- tion of graduates return to the school der whether he had not been too hasty after getting some work experience to emigrate. under the belt, for further upward- In desperation he came to the bound learning so that they can Bramson ORT Trade School, ORT's qualify for better paying and more only program in the U.S. This school skilled employment. specializes in garment skills and exists Job Prospects to serve refugees and other new ar- rivals. Still, it was not at all certain "The shortage of trained workers in the trade has created a condition that he could manage. A newcomer learns the skills for his new that gives our students the oppor- Learning by Doing life in America at the Bramson ORT Trade School in New York. tunity to select and prepare for better- Before being accepted, Seidman was paying jobs. That is what brings an tested. He was as surprised as the in- With individual variations, the increasing numbcr of them back to structors to find that he had corn- Seidman drama is repeated about 500 us," reports Mrs. Helen Lowe, the pensated with the dexterity of his left times in the course of a year at the school's Director, who is herself a hand, which indicated that he might Bramson School. That is the number veteran graduate. be able to manage his tasks. An in- of refugees who come, with all the The record also indicates that the dividual program was devised for him. timidity and uncertainty of strangers School continues to serve a useful pur- Encouraged by overcoming this in a strange land, with a sort of final pose, since even at this late date, hurdle and with the adrenalin motiva- hope that maybe here they will find hundreds of refugees enroll each year. tion of a man who knows this is his a way to acquire the know-how to The line of trainees, of which Seid- begin their new lives. man is a current example, stretches The record of the School shows that back 27 years and more than 18,000 Have You with very few exceptions, they suc- persons. And still they come. Overlooked ORT BULLETIN 222 Park Avenue South Your ORT New York, N. Y., 10003 Membership You have helped bring educa- tion, hope and independence to thousands of Jews the world over. Renew your mem- bership now in American ORT Federation to help continue this work. 341 cogapa