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For further information about Ampal, your American corporate connection to Israel, and a prospectus, call: Al Schonwetter Representative, Ampal Securities Corporation (313) 547-7056 or 1-800-556-8766 Operator 903 Member SIPC This is neither an offer to sell no a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus which may be obtained in any state wherein the underwriter may lawfully otter the securities. PROVIDING A FOUNDATION ON WHICH ISRAEL BUILDS 1 •• Congratulations to Michigan photographer, MARDI SILK, who has recently won First Place and Color Print of the Year for the 1987 International Color Print Competition. This annual competition is sponsored by P.S.A. (Photographic Society of America.) Ms. Silk also just won several Honorable Mentions in the Detroit International Salon of Photography. In addition, she won a First Place Gold Medal in the color print competition with 16 countries competing. All winning prints will be on display at the Summit Place Mall in Pontiac from October 12-18. Ms. Silk has recently completed a one-woman show displaying her photography at the Fisher Building and New Center One Building during a three-week exhibit. She- has won numerous awards in local, regional, state-wide, national, and international competitions. 48 FRIDAY, •QQT..-9, 1987 • - Wizard Continued from preceding page watched the New York Celtics play. Nobody knew the game in the Midwest until they came around." In those days, Jewish athletes were far from rare in Detroit. "Jewish athletes were in basketball. We played at Hannah Schloss (Jewish Center) before I got to high school. We were state champs in every division." Although organized profes- sional basketball was shat- tered by the Depression in 1929, Schecter was part of a travelling pro team, the Flint Buicks, in the early 1930s. The Buicks recruited top col- legians from the Midwest and played exhibitions in the area. Schecter's post-playing career includes one year as head coach at Annunciation High School, a Detroit Catholic school, plus some amateur coaching with the Parks-McMichaels team, a Ford-dealership-sponsored squad, in the late 1940s. Schecter owned a small coal company in the early 30s, but it was sunk by the Depres- sion. He got a full-time job at the Times in 1934 and stayed until the paper went out of business in 1960. Schecter was head of the mail room, and had "about 100 men working for me." At age 55 he became a real estate agent and worked un- til his retirement in 1978. He enjoys watching sports on television and, although his eyesight is bad, he still knows a blunder when he sees it. A mention of modern pro basketball reminds him of Game 6 in last spring's Pistons-Celtics playoff series, when Boston's Larry Bird - swiped Isiah Thomas' last- second in-bounds pass, in- tended for a stationary Bill Laimbeer, which the Celtics turned into the winning basket. "We never lost a game with ten seconds to play like the Pistons did. First principal of basketball is go forward, toward the man passing it to you. I learned that when I was ten years old. Here's a man getting $100,000 a year (Laimbeer — who actually earns closer to $1 million) standing flatfooted underneath the basket!" The origin of his nickname is long forgotten. "How I got the name of 'Susie' nobody knows. In fact, a judge = he used to play at Western High School — and there was a piece of property I had to ap- praise (in court), and I ap- praised it and he says, 'You know you're under oath?' and I says, 'Yes, sir,' and he says, `How did you get the name of Herman Fishman Susie?' and I said, 'I don't know.' The name goes back a long time. Everybody had a nickname on the street — Stinky, stuff like that." Schecter was inducted into the Wayne State Hall_ of Fame in 1980, but the new honor is a big thrill. "I've got a lot grandchildren (eight) — they're all happy. They're coming from Boston, New York, California." Schecter has two children, both married. His son, Alan, and daughter, Suzanne, have families, and two great- grandchildren are on the way. Alan, left his job as sports editor of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil in 1961 to join his father in the real estate business. Although he never saw his father play pro ball, he recalled a demonstra- tion of Schecter's athletic pro- wess. "When I was going to junior high school and we were playing in Erwin Arkin's back yard one time . . . my father came by to pick me up, to take me home for dinner; and he threw a few in. And all the guys that we played with who thought they were hotshots found out real quick that there was a real difference!' Schecter knew fellow in- ductee Herman Fishman "very well. He was a good baseball player and a fair basketball player." Fishman was a four-sport star at Detroit Northern High School. He won six varsity let- ters in baseball and basket- ball at the University of Michigan, and held the Big Ten single season earned run average record (0.89) for 15 years. In 1942, he pitched for the service all-stars against American League all-stars. Fishman owned an insurance agency in Detroit and was a member of the Detroit Pistons board of directors un- til his death in 1967.