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Today I was digging around in the stacks of my local junk store when a  pale 
orange card fell from one of the books.  It was a postcard, printed as  
follows: 
OPEN MEETING 
Sunday, March 8th, 1953  2:30  p.m. 
Frankenstein  Memorial  Center 
An  Afternoon of High Hilarity with High Kipnis 
DANCING TO THE EVER POPULAR 
Paul Gordon and His  Orchestra 
Members Free    Guests $1.00     Refreshments 
The meeting was sponsored by the Temple Sholom Senior  League, 3480 North 
Lake Shore Drive,  Chicago.  The postcard had been sent to a  Chicago resident 
who apparently used  it as a bookmark in a volume that eventually made its way 
out to a thrift store  in Pasadena, 54 years later.   
A search of the internet reveals that  Temple  Sholom is still doing business 
at the  same address in Chicago.  Their website proclaims,  
“Temple  Sholom, founded in 1867 and one of  Chicago’s oldest synagogues, 
has  always affirmed Judaism as a dynamic and motivating force in the lives of 
its  congregants.  The  Temple sits in the forefront of  Reform Judaism—
educating both young and old, presenting lectures and programs of  broad appeal, 
serving the disadvantaged in the community and helping those  searching for new 
forms of worship and expression within Jewish  heritage.” 
The Temple also maintains its  own library:  “The Library houses a  
collection of about 6,000 book titles for adults and 2,000 titles for  children.  The 
adult collection is  comprehensive and wide-ranging providing everything from 
Torah study to the most  recent Jewish fiction and poetry.  There is also a 
video collection of about 300 titles and a journal  collection of some 30 titles.”
 
Nice collection there.  I  think I’ll try to stop by the next time  ALA holds 
Annual in  Chicago.  Maybe somebody there can explain to me  what High Kipnis 
is. 
Michael McGrorty 



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