ception and Paul Ber. stiedthe Ameri. D House recep- rt was the 25th Committee on ORT has long on termed the sncies the key. ORGANIZATION FOR REHABILITATION THROUGH TRAINING rr development Fall, 1971 VOLUME XXV, No. 3 Published by the American ORT Federation 4.V:71b111'0 foluntary Ages. fed in the day. sairman of this At least 40,000 of them will be in the Iran. At the request of the National presided over Israel ORT schools. Ministry of Education, experimental epartment. The MoreStudents,New classes, built around a comprehensive presented with "We continue to grow and develop, s work on this and we develop even more rapidly in education approach, were opened in ProgramsIndicatedquality than we grow in quantity," the ORT technical schools. First indications on the shape of is the estimate of Max A. Braude, In France es are con- the ORT program in the current ORT Director General. France. The new dormitory for boys ; communal school year, which began in Septem- Inventory from North Africa and for recent :nes, Marra- ber, indicate increased student enroll- North African emigres in France ! apprentice- ment, primarily in Israel and to lesser A sampling of developments in- "means a whole new way of life tor 3Ungsters at degrees in Iran, India, Argentina and cludes the following: the students at Strasbourg," notes a an was pos- France. India. The new girls' school in report. mter for Ba- The major new developments, how- Bombay is able to reach out to com- Missing children. Unfortunately, to salvage ever, lie in the kinds of education of- munities in the furthest provinces by there remain in most areas of ORT is no other fered and the increased extension of reason of its dormitory which this operation large segments who are not talify by the ORT education to the junior college year is at full capacity for the first as yet being reached. accepted as level. time. • Simultaneously, the ORT profile ed NationalCommunityAwardfor ORT tat was sure- The Council of Jewish Federations bon, Chad, the Central African Re- automobile and Welfare Funds, the coordinating public, Ivory Coast, Tibetan refugees, tinguishable body for Jewish communities through- Argentina, Chile. The instruction of ter, can be out the U.S. and Canada, has selected Peace Corpsmen destined for such Worocco for American ORT Federation as the countries is also part of this program. one of the 1971 recipient of its Schroder Award, Meritorious the world. the most eminent distinction granted The William J. Schroder Award, ts of their by the Council to an organization. established as a tribute to the first ery right to The Award is for the ORT tech- nical assistance programs established president of the Council, is a "recog- be able to tion of meritorious service . and to function in African developing nations through agreements with the U.S. Agency for outstanding contributions to local, tpe became national or international welfare." - when they International Development and other The Council's decision signifies that - vocational governments. Funds for these opera- tions have been in the neighborhood ORT has accomplished work of this nature in organizing basic manpower I, Moroccan of $10 million, all provided by the governments involved. educational services in developing Diminished nations. tains. Massive Innovation The Schroder Award comes just a The Award Committee regards this few months after an international At the telecommunications lab in the aspect of ORT work as a massive in- distinction was bestowed on ORT, Syngalowski ORT Center, Tel Aviv. novation, above and beyond the estab- the Cardinal Bea Prize of the Roman Catholic International Foundation for 1971-72 shows greater involvement lished ORT programs, which have at the lower rungs on the academic served the Jewish world for more Humanum. scale in the junior high schools, as in than 90 years. ORT technical assist- The Award will be presented at the Israel and in the Latin American Jew- ance breaks new ground by remold- 1971 General Assembly of the Council ish communities, as well as the intro- ing an essentially Jewish experience in Pittsburgh, at its banquet session duction of meaningful studies on the to the needs of non-Jewish areas. on Saturday evening, November 13th, world of work for children in the The Award Committee took note by Stanley C. Myers of Miami, chair- community primary schools, as in of the enormous span and variety of man of the Award Committee, to Dr. Iran and elsewhere. such programs in many nations, each William Haber, American ORT Presi- Enrollment in all ORT programs with its unique conditions. Among dent, and Paul Bernick, Executive for the year, will be about 62-63,000. them are Guinea, Mali, Kenya, Ga- Director. 141 The Extra Factor The geographic spread and the ex- traordinarily broad variety of such programs established by ORT in such diverse environments and peoples— Guinea, Mali, Kenya, Gabon, Chad, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, for the U.S. Peace Corps, Ti- betan refugees, Argentina, Chile— this dimension stamps ORT as The Winnmg uniquely resilient and adaptable. No other voluntary agency has Com- parable specialization, personnel or experiential resources, or has system- Strategy atic access to an established, modern educational system. The technical assistance programs Extracts from the presen- host governments, which are respon- share the ORT experience in com- tation on which the Council sible for their funding. pletely non-Jewish areas and with of Jewish Federations and ORT Technical Assistance pro- non-philanthropic funds. Welfare Funds decided on grams have trained about 4,200 per- The advantage this effort brings to the 1971 Schroder Award sons. To that tally should be added the Jewish community is manifold. Rept for ORT. some 200 vocational instructors from A Jewish agency has shown itself able 20 African nations trained at the ORT to achieve in a difficult field, and this The aims of ORT Technical Assist- Technical School in Nathanya, Israel, is now recognized by the U.S. Gov- SO ance Programs are broad in scope under contract to the Israel foreign ernment, United Nations specialized schoc and in their impact on nations just aid program. agencies, African nations and the in- men. the i entering the modern age. The goal is What Makes it Different ternational community. Israel has nothing less than building institu- provided many ORT specialists and sters tions of a kind that did not exist be- Factors that make this a unique these programs dovetail with Israel's amo. fore in these nations, and to mold contribution to human development, interests. dren include the following: „( them into viable and indigenous edu- It should be noted that these pro. The key elements were devised cational programs that impart mod- grams express Jewish values of human men de novo, since there was not a body ern technical knowledge in a system- responsibility, and that is the moral plais of experience to draw upon, nor did atic fashion. bedrock on which they stand. OR' the host countries possess people, These projects are contracted by The tradition or procedures that could be ORT with the U.S. Agency for Inter- opet national Development, and with the built upon or adapted. ORT carries the project through all the stages, from original on-site in studies by ORT specialists to the final to Jacob Frumkin handing over to the host authorities wor Dr. Jacob Frumkin, Director of the of a viable program and institution. Fall 1971 lear New York Office of the World ORT ORT uses the "team approach," Published quarterly in Spring, Summer, unci Union since 1948 and identified with fielding teachers and administrators Fall and Winter the ORT both here and in Europe for en bloc, after rigorous orientation of Vol. XXV, No. 3 Annual subscription 50c AMORTFED, New York more than 60 years, died in New York the "team" at the Central ORT Insti- Cable Address: American ORT Federation in September, after a protracted ill- tute in Switzerland. 222 Park Ave. South, New York, N. Y. 10003 1 ness. He was 92 years old. 677-4400 the. Phase In - Phase Out ORGANIZATION FOR REHABILITATION Lawyer, editor, scholar, he was a THROUGH TRAINING wa) fighter for Jewish civil rights in Czar- All programs are designed with Second class postage at New York. N. Y. the ist Russia, began his work with ORT a "phase-in—phase-out" progression OFFICERS — Dr. William Haber, President; ma: Charles J. Hensley, Chairman, Exec. Comm.; in 1906, organized the first ORT which assures that there will be in- George Backer, Honorary President; George J. tha Mintzer, Honorary Chairman, Exec. Comm.; Hon. committee in Berlin in 1921 and was digenous people at all levels to take Maurice Bernhardt, Chairman, Administrative an officer of the Founding Congress of over. This is done largely by the train- Committee; Shelley Appleton, Chaim Miller, Mark Carter, Harry H. Platt, John F. Davidson, Mrs. thi the World ORT Union in 1922. ing of local people as teachers and Max M. Rosenberg, Louis Hollander, Mrs. Monroe M. Rosenthal, Joseph S. Spivack, Vice Presidents; wit Dr. Frumkin was a vice-president of administrators at the Central ORT S. David Gamso, Treasurer; Leonard D. Bell, As- sociate Treasurer; Matthew Schoenwald, Secretary; agt the American and European Friends Institute in Switzerland. Paul Bernirk, Executive Director and Assistant Secretary. The American ORT Federation repre- ou of ORT. He was a link with the By virtue of its international sents the World ORT Union, with which it is at- filiated, in the United States. ORT is devoted to Golden Age of eastern European setting, ORT is able to recruit per- the vocational training and economic reconstnic- sonnel with extensive experience in tion of Jews throughout the world.