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MONDAY. NOVEMBER 18—
B’Nai B'rith Meeting. Ochs Memorial Temple Center.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20—
Junior Hadassah, l’aid-Up Membership Dance, Patten Hotel.
Mizpah Adult Study Group, Temple Center, 8:00 P. M.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26—
Chattanooga Jewish Welfare Federation, Board of Directors meeting,
Election of Officers, Chamber of Commerce, 7:45 P, M.
Senior Hadassah, Monthly meeting at Hebrew Institute. Report of
Delegates to the National Convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27—
Senior Hadassah Dance, Alhambra Mosque, 10:00 P. M.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2—
Mizpah Sisterhood Meeting; Temple Center,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4—
Mothers League. Regular monthly meeting, Hebrew Institute.
B’nai Zion Congregation Dinner at the Synagogue.
The Center Group, regular bi-monthly meeting. Address by W. G.
Forster, Editor, The Chatanooga News-Free Press, Ochs Me
morial Temple Center.
MONDAY. DECEMBER 9—
Mizpah Adult Study Group. Ochs Memorial Temple Center. Subject:
“Should We Feed the Starving in Europe?"
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11—
B’nai Zion Sisterhood, Regular monthly meeting.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31—
B’nai Zion Sisterhood, New Years Eve Dance, Patten Hotel.
Colonial Club, New Years Eve Dance, Read House.
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B’nai Zion Notes
Picture Courtesy Chattanooga Times
Mizpah Congregation’s Memorial to Adolph S. Ochs
"A tribute to greatness” was
the theme of the dedication of a
monument to the late Adolph S.
Ochs by the Mizpah Congregation
of the Julius and Bertha Ochs Me
morial Temple.
The monument, pictured above,
is a double columned minature
portico of brilliant stone designed
in Ionic mode.
‘‘Members of the Mizpah Con
gregation have two purposes in
mind in building and dedicating
this memorial to Adolph S. Ochs,”
declared Rabbi Abraham Fein-
stein. “First, they wish to pay tri
bute to him for his service to the
congregation, and, secondly, they
wish to think of the memorial to
him as a tribute to greatness.”
The Mizpah monument was
dedicated Tuesday morning. Later
that day in brilliant ceremony,
memory of the publisher of the
Chattanooga Times and the New
York Times was reversed at an
other dedication.
Elmer Davis, CBS news com
mentator was principal j packer
at the exercise formally opening
the Adolph Ochs Memorial Ob
servatory and Museum on Look
out Mountain.
Tablet on the Observatory
reads: “In memory of Adolph S.
Ochs, journalist, philanthropist,
statesman, whose vision, enter
prise and generosity created this
beautiful park on the sides of this
mountain upon which this edifice tinguished citizen, his friends and
stands, did so much for the com- neighbors who were honored by
munity which lieB in the valley his companionship and influenced
below and served so conspicuously by his ideals have dedicated this
the nation of which he was a dis- building.
Now that the din of voting ex
citement has subsided everyone’s
realizing more and more the ne
cessity for straight thinking along
the lines of national unity. But
to get back to before the election,
there were many election-eve par
ties. The largest was at the Read
House, where 51 workers of the
recent Welfare Federation Cam
paign met, ate, listened to the
returns, and climaxed the even
ing by honoring three of the Fed
erations most ardent workers.
During the dinner an excited
newsboy came in carrying his ex
tras with screaming headlines:
ELECTED—PHIL ANGEL, HEN
RY MORRIS AND M. B. FIN-
KELSTEIN. In this novel man
ner these three men realized that
they were the honorees of the
dinner. Phil and Henry have
been active since the Federation
drives were started here, while
Morris Finkelstein has been the
Pianist Josef Hofmann Plays Tuesday in Concert Series
Josef Hofmann, world famous i
! pianist, will be presented by the |
I Chattanooga Community Concert,
Association at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday, j
November 19, at the Memorial i
j Auditorium as the first of an j
I eagerly anticipated series of music j
presentations.
The artist, called by Anton Ru- j
1 binstein “the greatest genius the
world of music has ever known," I
j will perform a brilliant program
jof piano classics, beginning with I
| Bach-Liszt’s Chromatic Fantasy!
and Fugue and Beethoven’s Sonta j
in E Flat. The second series of j
'selections will be compositions by
Chopin, including the familiar
| Nocturne in G. Minor and Taran-
telle. Pieces by Rachmaninoffff,
Modtner end Rudnfrph GanzTom-
prise the final part of the pro
gram.
Josef Hofmann was born near
i Cracow, Poland, in 1876 of mus
ically inclined parents. When a
mere youngster he exhibited a
love for music and would pick out
on the family piano pieces he had
heard at the opera. His older sis-
and his career thereafter was one
JOSEF HOFMANN
1 series of acclaims and accomplish-
l ments after another.
In 1887, accompanied by his
parents, he made his American
debut at the Metropolitan Opera
House with instantaneous and
enormous success. However, when
he had played 52 of the contracted
80 concerts, his tour was halted by
ter first gave him lessons, then he
was sent to more mature teachers.
At the young age of six, he
made his first public appearance—
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
This was but a temporary set
back and the youthful prodigy was
fortunate enough to secure as pa
tron Alfred Clark of New York
who agreed to pay costs of Josef’s
study and his famtty’s mainten
ance if there were no more con
certs until the pianist was eigh
teen. This gave plenty of oppor
tunity for study and development.
His career has been a distinguish
ed one and marked by world-wide
triumpljs. .. . . _ — -
In addition to his great musical
career, Hofmann has been fortun
ate in having a delightful life. His
summers are spent in a rambling
country home with his four de
lightful children. The older ones
were proud indeed, when in 1937,
their illustrious father played his
golden jubilee concert on the same
stage where he made his debut as
a child of ten.
Rabbi Gerstein’s sermon for
Friday evening, November 22,
will be a review of Ernest Hemin-
way’s new novel, “For Whom the
Bells Toll.”
Cantor Ezekiel Baruch, who
chanted the Holiday services, has
been retained for one year. The
cantor will officiate at all Friday
evening services as well as on
other occasions. Cantor Baruch
has made a deep impression upon
all who have heard his rendition
of the services.
The new members of the con
gregation will be guests at a din
ner on Wednesday, December 4,
at the Synagogue. An interesting
program is being planned. The
Sisterhood is preparing the dinner.
chairman of the last two cam
paigns. The three men received
gifts and both Rabbi Abraham
Feinstein and Rabbi Israel Ger-
stein spoke as did Harry Miller.
Later Julius Kushner, chairman
of the affair posted himself by the
radio and set up a blackboard to
record the election returns. Others
played cards and Mahjong.
And now for some exciting
news! If you please, the name is
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Franco. Per
haps you recall that we told yon
that Freda Spector had gone to
New York City to meet her fianee
whose boat had just docked from
Brazil. On their way back to
Chattanooga, they stopped off to
see Freda’s sister, Bess, who’s liv
ing there now, and last Friday
while still in Washington they de
cided to be married. So now
they’re here in Chattanooga visit
ing Freda’s parents Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. Spector and Bess Is back
home for a visit too. Felicitations
and great happiness to the newly -
wedded Isaac Francos—this from
Tom and Kitty.
This column bids welcome to
the just-arrived Michael Robert
Shalett. The proud parents are
Sidney and Anita Shalett, who
still lay claim to Chattanooga as
“home town,” even though they
have resided in New York for the
past several years. Master Michael
announced himself November 4 at
the New York Infirmary for Wo-
' men and Children, 321 E. 15th
Stsaet. “Qjkddy” Sid&oy is a-4*r-
mer member of the editorial staff
of the Chattanooga Times and is
now associated with the New York
Tiimes, while Mrs. S. is the former
Anita Effron . . . And three days
later on November 7 little Miss
Thurnauer made herself known to
her happy parents Mr. and Mrs.
Hans Thurnauer.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthar Sulzberger
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