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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. ❑ A New Store Devotee To Reproductions of the Finest Jewelry Pieces in the World at Prices So Low, You Wouldn't Believe It. TRUE FAUX JEWELRY STORE 280 N. 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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.