LIFESTYLES • A Tradition of Excellence • Spring Gift Certificate PROFILE from Guy Stern: German Scholar • • a FRANKLIN CLUB APARTMENTS CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ Local Columnist 1:4.6 given annually on Goethe's birthday, March 22. The second accomplishment involves Stephen Goodell, a colleague, Nancy Bolt, the head librarian of the state of Colorado and myself. We put together an exhibit called 'The Nazi Book Burning and the American Response.' Now we have a planning grant to make that a traveling exhibit throughout the United States." PHILOSOPHY: "I measure a human life in terms of beneficial achievements that advance the well being and enjoyment of the human race." An Adult Community 28301 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI 48034 353-2810 Activities, Utilities Transportation, Country Store Beauty Salon, Wellness Center, Dietician, Worship Service, Greenhouse, Companionship, Optional Meals & Mail Service I I I I I I I I For Free Vertical Blinds and Installation Selection Available I I I Applicable to New Tenants Only Expires April 30, 1989 • A Tradition of Excellence • I I I I I Illimminumammummtutmmll THE JULIUS CHAJES MUSIC FUND j5 CONCERT SERIES 1988 — 1989 Season e tr:, 4,1% SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1989 at 3 P.M. SHEILA FIEKOWSKY Violinist Admission: $7; Members: $6; Senior Adults & Students: $5 J.C.C./Maple Drake Bldg. For ticket information call Annette Chafes 661-1000 82 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989 NAME: Guy Stern AGE: 67 OCCUPATION: Distinguished professor of German at Wayne State University in the Department of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literature. RESIDENCE: Southfield FAMILY: He is married to Judith Edelstein Owens, a lawyer and high school teacher at Kimball High School in Royal Oak. His son, Mark, lives in Cincinnati and works for a pharmaceutical company. EDUCATION: He was graduated from Soldan High School in St. Louis, Mo.; baccalaureate degree from Hofstra University; M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. SYNAGOGUE: Congregation T'Chiyah ORGANIZATIONS: Executive committee of American Jewish Committee and Leo Baeck Institute; secretary of Kurt Weill Foundation for Music; chairman of Academic Advisory Committee and board member of Holocaust Memorial Center, West Bloomfield. FAVORITE BOOK: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and Journey to Italy by Goethe. HOBBIES: "Creative writing beyond academics. I call it finger exercises." LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: "I was just awarded the Goethe medal for North America by the president of the Federal Republic (of Germany) and the International Goethe Institute. It's BACKGROUND: Guy Stern was born in 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany. His parents, Julius and Hedwig, were in the textile business. At age 15, he was able to obtain an affidavit from his uncle in St. Louis and an affidavit from a Jewish children's committee enabling him to leave Germany. "Anyone who could get out, got out," recalls Stern. His parents and siblings subsequently perished in the Warsaw Ghetto. About 15 years- ago Stern was reading the book Why Six Million Died and came across the name of the consulate member, who validated his affidavit. The book revealed how the American consulate in Hamburg was very lenient compared to other cities. "I knew then that if I lived in Stuttgart, I'd be dead; but living near Hamburg, I'm being interviewed." In St. Louis, Stern lived with his aunt and uncle, Ethel and Benno Silberberg. He attended high school and got odd jobs working in restaurants and hotels. He began taking classes at St. Louis University. In 1942, he was inducted into the U.S. Army. He participated in the Normandy invasion and visited Buchenwald the day after its liberation. In the army he was sent to the military intelligence center and was trained as a prisoner of war interrogator because of his command of the German language. He once interrogated a person, who was in his athletic club, from his hometown. "It was the kind of interview that you know so much about a person, that they are astonished." Stern waited until darkness before he interrogated him. He received the Bronze Star for his intelligence work from Gen. Courtney Hodges, the commander of the First Army. After the war, he went to New York because he had a chance for a newspaper career with Shepard Stone of the New York Times, his superior intelligence officer from the war. When that didn't materialize, he entered Hofstra and then Columbia University for graduate work in the German