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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Southern Notes
(Continued from page 15)
The Atlanta Council of Jewish Wo
men announce a most interesting
course for volunteers in social serv
ice work given by well-known social
workers every Tuesday afternoon in
the Temple.
Opening with a general discussion
on the field of social work on No
vember 3rd, the schedule of the course
follows:
“Public Welfare Work — State,
County and City” by Miss Van Dus-
seldorf of the state department of
public welfare, on November 10th;
“Financing Social Agencies—Commu
nity Chest, Council of Social Agen
cies, Social Service Index”, by Mr.
Frank Miller, executive director of
the Atlanta Community Chest on No
vember 17th; “Family Welfare”, by
Mr. Edward Kahn, executive director
of the Jewish Educational Alliance,
on November 24th; Child Welfare—
“Field of Child Care and Its Develop
ment” by Miss Gay Shepperson of the
state department of Public Welfare
and “Atlanta Program of Child Care”
by Miss Mary Newell, executive sec
retary of Fulton and De Kalb Coun
ties Child Welfare Association, on
December 1st; “Development of Jew
ish Child Care in America—Special
Child Problem”, by Mr. Armand Wyle,
superintendent of the Atlanta Hebrew
Orphans Home, on December 8th;
“Delinquecy, Crime, and its Treat
ment”, Mr. Hugh Fuller, professor at
Emory University, on December 15th;
“Health” by Miss Mary Dickinson,
executive secretary Anti-Tuberculosis
Association, on December 22nd; talk
by Mr. J. B. Franklin, superintendent
of the Grady Hospital, on hospital
work, on December 22nd; talk by Mr.
J. D. Stanley of the Y. M. C. A. na
tional council on group work, Recem-
ber 29th; “Group Work at the Jewish
Educational Alliance”, Mr. Kahn, on
December 29th; “Trained Social Work
and the Place the Volunteer has in
it” by Miss Ernestine McGill of the
Atlanta School of Social Work, on
January 5th.
Goldsboro, N. C.
Memorial services for the late Rab
bi J. L. Mayerberg were held recently
at Oheb Sholom temple. Rabbi Mayer
berg for thirty-seven years served the
Oheb Sholom congregation.
Rabbi I. L. Freund read an eulogy
of Rabbi Mayerberg. J. P. Shargo
presented to the congregation a
bronze memorial tablet and Leslie
M eil, as president of the congregation
accepted it.
Appropriate musical numbers were
rendered by the choir with Miss Mary
Brockwell playing the violin. Mrs.
I. L. Freund sang solos.
Many friends were present from
towns within a radius of 25 miles,
as well as such personal friends of the
late Rabbi Mayerberg as State Treas
urer Nathan O’Berry, Judge and Mrs.
F. A. Daniels and others.
Dr. Israel Mayerberg, of Selma;
Dr, Emil Mayerberg of Wilmington,
Delaware, and Dr. Jake Mayerberg, of
Baltimore, sons of the deceased, join
ed their sister, Miss Florence Meyer-
beig, of Goldsboro, to attend the ser
vices. Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, an
other son, wired from Kansas City
that he was unable to attend on ac-
GEO. W. OCHS-OAKE
The many southern friends t j
Ochs family grieve the pa- ^ 0 f
George Washington Ochs-O . a
brother of Adolph Ochs. Mr Och-
Oakes- at the time of his dece. Was
an officer and director of th N ew
York Times Company and ed r 0 f
Current History, the monthly riod-
ical of the New York Times.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
but attended school in Tennessee
where his parents moved after the
war between the states. He was grad
uated from the University of Ten
nessee in 1880, and thereafter rose
from carrier boy on the Knoxville
Chronicle, to a reporter on the Chat
tanooga Times, subsequently becom
ing city editor, night editor and man
aging editor of that newspaper. When
his brother Adolph Ochs bought the
New York Times, he became publisher
of the Chattanooga Times.
He was twice mayor of Chattanoo
ga, president of the chamber of com
merce, president and one of the found
ers of the Library Association and
president of the board of education.
He was decorated with the cross
of the French Legion of Honor by
the president of France in recogni
tion of his work in publishing the
Paris exposition edition of the New
York Times in Paris in 1900.
Following his presidency of the
Civitan Club of New York in 1923,
he became its first and permanent
honorary president in 1928. In 19 11
he was appointed on the national ad
visory editorial commission of the
George Washington bicentennial.
Surviving Mr. Ochs-Oakes are two
sons, George W., Jr., and John b‘'t-
tram.
Standard Club
The annual banquet of the Hebrew
Benevolent Congregation was tendei-
ed Saturday night of the week cm
of Temple dedication activities,
at the Standard Club, it was alter, e*
by the members of the congregation
and visiting guests. Speakers at
banquet were Mrs. Leo G. Stra ->•
Mr. Armand Wyle, Rabbi Golden on
of Pittsburg, Rabbi Binstock ol *
Orleans, Rabbi Faulk, Southern repre
sentative of the American Union
Hebrew Congregations, Mr. V
Kaliska and Rabbi David Marx.
count of his duties as chairman
charity drive.
The occasion was also the am
sary of Rabbi Mayerberg’s "5th
day.