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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989

NAME: Louis Herschel Golden
AGE: "Let's just say I'm 'Young at
Heart! "
OCCUPATION: President of Community
Steel and Processing
RESIDENCE: Birmingham.
FAMILY: Divorced. Four children:
Stephen, Kathrine and Andrew are in
the family business; Michelle is working
on her Ph.D. degree at Wayne State
University. His sisters are Vera
Weinberg, Lucille Wonboy and Doris
Chandler.
EDUCATION: Attended Michigan State
Normal which is now Eastern
University.
SYNAGOGUE: Temple Kol Ami.
ORGANIZATIONS: A benefactor of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and a founder
of Temple Kol Ami. On the board of
directors of Yavneh Academy. Midwest
Director of American Friends of Haifa
University and member of the board of
governors at Haifa University. Active
supporter of Kaplan Hospital, Jewish
National Fund and member of the
President's Committee of Mercy College.
FAVORITE BOOK: "When I was a kid it
was Tarzan and the apes and now it is
Love, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie -
Siegel." Also the story of Golda. Mein
HOBBIES: Gardening, fishing, golfing,
gun collecting, book collecting and
lecturing on the philosophy of
parapsychology.
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: "I've planted
600 bulbs in my rock garden." Also
being honorary chairman of the AIDS
benefit sponsored by Friends of Kaplan
Medical Center.

BACKGROUND: Louis Golden was the
only son of Lester and Pauline Golden,
owners of a shoe store in Ypsilanti. The
Goldens were one of two Jewish families
in Ypsilanti, while he was growing up.
The family traveled to Ann Arbor for
his bar mitzvah.
He describes growing up in rural
Ypsilanti like the Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn. "I had my own raft
on the Huron River and I used to
charge a penny to the island."
Golden loved playing baseball as a
youngster. After graduating from
Ypsilanti High School, he received a
baseball scholarship and a literature
scholarship to the university in town.
Golden took the baseball scholarship to
attend college. He also had the
opportunity to play professional baseball
with the Stove Company, making two
dollars each game, and working as a
sports writer for the Ypsilanti Daily
Press.
He eventually came to Detroit to
make more money to help support his
family, since his father was ill. His first
job in Detroit was at Sam's Cut Rate. "I
learned about people, life and the
struggle for Jews to find jobs in the city.
I learned that Sam's was a security
source for young Jewish people who
needed work. I learned about human
experience there?'
After a misunderstanding, Golden
was fired from Sam's. When he met his
buddy from home, who was also
unemployed, they both found paying
jobs with the -U.S. Army. In the army he
learned about radio engineering,
metallurgy and property disposal.
When he was released from the
Army, he began to buy and sell steel. In
1946, he started his own business,
Commodity Steel.
Goldeh became involved in
charitable causes after a near death
experience. "I was about 240 pounds
eating dinner with friends, who were
great storytellers at the Kingsley Inn,
and I couldn't stop laughing. Then I
couldn't breathe and I was choking. In
my mind, I was looking down at me and
seeing all the things that happened to
me. I thought I had to reach my
children. I started calling out to them,
and I called for Steve in my thoughts."
Just when a doctor was about to
perform a tracheotomy, Golden
miraculously recovered. When Golden
returned home, Steve asked him why he
was calling his name. Golden realized
he had communicated with his son