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Judge Avern Cohn and Nancy Lippert: 'What's said in our house stays in our house.'
Jewish organizations to which Mr.
Cohan belonged. I knew more people
in the Jewish community than I knew
in the Arab community."
"It was interesting for the presi-
dent of the Jewish Community Coun-
cil to have an Arab as his secretary,"
Cohan said. "It worked out perfectly?'
In January 1987, the Histadrut
honored Cohan. Later that year, he
and his wife invited Miller and her
sister, who are part Palestinian and
have never visited Israel, to join them
on the trip, where Cohan was to
receive the award. Cohan donated the
money he received from the award to
a school in Safed that teaches Israelis
and Arabs.
While in Israel, Miller visited her
father's birthplace, a small village
called Jish, in the hills of Galilee. She
also met for the first time relatives
living there."It was an experience
that I'll never forget?' she said.
This past December, Miller
retired and moved back to Lansing.
She now spends much of her time
with her children and grand-
daughters — when she's not weaving
drapes, sweaters and blankets.
"The 28 1/2 years with Mr. Cohan
were very exciting and very challeng-
ing?' she said.
"Millie did a lot of things that an
executive assistant would do; she was
my right hand, there's no question
about it," Cohan said. "She was real-
ly like a partner in many of these
business activities. People from out-
side respected her as well. It was very
difficult to break up the team?'
nother team that's been in
the making for the past few
years believes their members'
loss is the company's gain.
That company is WW. Group
Inc., the largest franchise of Weight
Watchers International.
Three years ago, Sheri Madon was
hired as secretary to Florine Mark,
owner of 11 Weight Watchers fran-
chises in the United States, Canada
and Mexico.
Madon, a one-time member of
Weight Watchers who knew nothing
of its owner, started working for Mark
in September 1986. "I interviewed
with her son, David, and then I met
Florine," Madon said. "From that mo-
ment on, we knew we were destined
for each other?'
Before landing the Weight Wat-
chers job, Madon's resume included 25
years of experience as secretary for
three company presidents — all of
whom were men. "Each of them was
unique in his own way, but Florine is
just a little bit more dynamic; she's
Mildred Miller working for Leon Cohan in 1962 and
today (left): 'It was hectic, always hectic'
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