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BOOKS

Volume Tells How Kids
Can Be Stranger Smart

BY GARY LICHTMAN
Special to The Jewish News

Cheryl Katz Wysoki wants
your children to be stranger
smart.
For the past 13 years, Wysoki
has been drilling her Detroit
elementary school students on
the danger in dealing with
strangers. Her techniques are
now available to others through
a just-published book, Stranger
Smart (Ginn and Company).
"I realized my kids (at White
Elementary) were not informed
about strangers," the Oak Park
resident explained. "Everytime I
taught a lesson on safety I
asked questions and was upset
with the responses I got."
"I decided to write a book for
my classes because there wasn't
any publication available and
found my family and friends
pushing me to market it," she
added.
Wysoki wrote the illustrated

Poetry Volume .
Published

QUESTION?

48-page paperback in rhyme to
lighten her fear of its subject
matter. The book, which took
more than two years to com-
plete, opens with the following
words:
"Here are some children who
need your help. They are not
STRANGER-SMART, ARE
YOU? Whenever you see this
little red stop sign, Tell these
children what they should do!"
"It needs to be a discussion
book, not just something that
should be handed to a child to
read and look at the pictures,"
Wysoki explained. The five
topics included in the book were
decided upon after conferring
with the Southfield Police De-
partment. They are: how to deal
with unsafe situations, common
lures, who strangers are, what
to do if you are grabbed, and the
need to know personal informa-
tion.
Stranger. Smart not only
creates an awareness of danger,
but prepares children with a list
of what they should know and
watch out for. Badges with the
words "I am Stranger Smart"
are attached to the back binder
of the book.
"It is something that most
kids don't talk to their parents
about and the book invites the
parent and child to discuss the
subject," Wysoki said.
Stranger Smart can be pur-
chased by mail. To order the
book, call the publisher, toll-
free, 1-.800-848-9500.

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OBITUARIES

In cooperation with these
Jewish Welfare Federation member agencies:

Alexander Stein

Edith Covensky

Detroiter Ectith Covensky
writes about love, death, war
and other themes in Milim
Acherot (Other Words), a collec-
tion of poetry just issued by
Eked Publishers of Tel Aviv.
The 28 poems in Milim
Acherot are written in free
verse. The volume represents
the first compilation of Mrs.
Covensky's poetry, although in-
dividual poems have appeared
in Bitzaron, a New York-based
quarterly review of Hebrew let-
ters.
The author is a native of
Bucharest, Romania who moved
to Israel as a young girl. She
came to Detroit in 1966 follow-
ing a two-year stint in the Israel
Defense Forces, where she.
served as a code breaker in the
communications division. Mrs.
Covensky is a graduate of
Wayne State University and has
a PhD degree in French Litera-
ture from WSU.
The book is available at
Spitzer's and Borders Books,
both in Southfield.

Alexander J. Stein, a social
worker for United Community
Services, died Dec. 6 at age 74.
Born in Poland, Mr. Stein re-
tired nine years ago. He was a
member of Cong. Bnai Moshe
and the National Association of
Social Workers.
He leaves his wife, Hannah; a
son, Joseph of San Diego, Calif.;
a daughter, Dinah of Chicago,
Ill.; a sister, Anna Alexander of
New York; and two
grandchildren.

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Jack Skirball

Los Angeles — Jack H. Skir-
ball, a rabbi who left the pulpit
to become a filmmaker, has died
at age 89.
Rabbi Skirball led a Reform
congregation in Indiana in the
1920s, but during the Depres-
sion left the rabbinate and
began producing eucational
films.
He later formed an indepen-
dent film company with Frank
Lloyd and produced The How-
ards of Virginia and Magnificent
Doll.

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