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Local News Editor
Marty Oliff
When it comes to meeting
new people, Marty Oliff con-
siders himself a pretty lucky
guy.
He attributes that luck to
his job — agency program di-
rector for the Jewish Corn-
munity Center of Metropoli-
tan Detroit.
"I've got an advantage.
Look where I work. I'm very
lucky to be the person who
sits up at the front desk at
dances and I'm very fortunate
to be the person who walks
through the halls every night
and looks in the gym and
checks out the programs.
People call up and come down
to find out about programs
and I'm the one they talk to."
The Bronx-born Oliff, 33,
supervises many department
heads and programs that
allow him to interact with
persons of all ages. He also is
in charge of the Jimmy Pre-
ntis Morris Branch, editor of
the Center News, manager of
the Camp Ruth Conference
and Recreation Center and is
responsible for youth and
teen groups and special proj-
ects.
Although he typically
works a 60-hour week, he
doesn't find it as a detriment.
Rather, at the Center he can
combine his leisure time and
athletic activities and work
time all in one place. How-
ever, he does have time for
outside pursuits: tennis,
which he plays and teaches,
old TV shows, collecting
baseball memorabilia and lis-
tening to oldies.
He also lends his time to
the Michigan Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame, the Maccabi
World Union and JWB corn-
mittees.
Oliff is happy right now,
living the single life. "I love
my independence and I think
that's the one thing that a
single person has going for
them above and beyond any-
thing else."
Oliff
assessed
the
.
availability of activities for
Jewish singles as being pre-
tty good. He said for the "so-
cially skilled," those who
have an easy time meeting
and speaking to people, there
are plenty of opportunities to
mingle. What needs im-
provement, he said, is the
means for the more intro-
verted or the non-bar-
attending crowd to meet
other singles.
"What does not exist, un-
fortunately, are enough op-
portunities for those who are
not so socially adept, who are
somewhat shy, who for one
reason or another have been
turned off from these social
things (bars, dances).
"Now I'm not advocating
dating services or personal
ads or things like that. I
think what we need to do,
and certainly we're trying to
do it here at the Center, is
get more recreational and
educational programs going
which would attract singles.
They would then meet
through the particular ac-
tivity as opposed to showing
up at a dance or bar where
everybody knows why they're
there.
"We do enough for the so-
cially adept; we don't do
enough for those less fortu-
nate."
Oliff came to the Jewish
Center four years ago. Prev-
iously, he worked at a Jewish
center in Palo Alto, Calif.
Raised in Chicago, Oliff
attended the University of Il-
linois at Champaign-Urbana,
where he earned a B.A. de-
gree in liberal arts and psy-
chology, a M.A. degree and
Ph.D. degree in counseling
psychology.
As a graduate student he
taught college classes in basic
psychology and career de-
velopment and life planning,
which he said led to the de-
velopment of his JETS
(Jewish Teens in Service)
program at the Center, one of
his Jewish communal contri-
butions. The JETS program
gives Jewish teens the oppor-
tunity to learn about Jewish
communal agencies by volun-
teering their time. At the
same time, Oliff said, they
learn about tzedakah (char-
ity).
Oliff also has helped estab-
lish a Maccabi Club in De-
troit, in which Jewish teens
can participate in varsity-
level sports. He also helped
bring the Maccabi games, an
Olympic-style competition for
teens, to the Detroit Center.
Currently, Oliff is happy in
his Center post because of the
variety. But, he said, one day
he'd like to be a Jewish Cen-
ter director as well as a
licensed and practicing coun-
seling psychologist. ❑
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CALENDAR
COMMUNITY NETWORK FOR
JEWISH SINGLES (25-45):
Brace-Lederle Field, drop-in
coed football, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, free; 661-1000, ext.
347; Strike 'N Spare Lanes,
drop-in bowling, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, $5, 477-2786.
ROSE SHERER SOCIALITES
(55 and up): Northgate East
club house, Oak Park; busi-
ness meeting and slide pre-
sentation about Israel; 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, refresh-
ments, 546-6779 or 548-6850.
`Stress Off'
At Main Center
Nanice Chayet, certified
acupressurist, will present
"The Executive Stress Off,"
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at
the main Jewish Community
Center.
The program is sponsored
by the Community Network
for Jewish Singles (25-45).
Fee for the program is $4.
For information, call Jill Cole
or Babs Sepe at the Center,
661-1000, ext. 347.
MORRIS & SARAH FRIEDMAN
LECTURE ON
YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Professor of Hebrew Literature -
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Director of Yiddish Literary Studies.
Max Weinreich Center for Advanced
Jewish Studies al VIVO in New York
"Yiddish Language and Yiddish Folklore —
The Inter-Relationship"
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
Public Welcome
Sunday, November 2, 1986
2:00 P.M.
Louis and Esther
La Med Auditorium
United Hebrew Schools
21550 W. 12 Mile Road
Southfield, Mich.