CLOSE-UP Secretaries Continued from preceding page alleys," Cohn said. "She's the ideal secretary!' Lippert said she will con- front the judge whenever she's unhappy about a work- related issue. "The judge is quite vocal," she said. "So, it's easy to be right up front with him!' During a highly publicized case, such as the Diamond Mortgage securites fraud four years ago and the recent bribery case of The United States vs. Leon Jenkins, Lip- pert is in contact with the press on a daily basis. "I make sure the media is in- formed when things are going on, h6w long the trial is going to take, and I tell them the witnesses who will be on the stand that day," Lippert said. Lippert's day usually ends by 5:30, but it's not uncom- mon for her to stay late or be in the office on the weekend preparing jury instructions. is the only way to describe silk flower arrangements from our professional floral designer. Your choice . . . bring in your own vase or select from one of ours and we will create a masterpiece just for you. For 3 days only all silk flower arrangements are 30% off. 4 ■ I . Lippert also is involved with the committees Cohn chairs. Cohn is secretary treasurer for the Theodore Levin Memorial Foundation, April 7, 8, 9 for which Lippert is book- keeper. Cohn also chairs the Levin Library committee, Law Media committee and the various state bar commit- tees. Lippert schedules the meetings and makes sure Cohn has the appropriate agendas and materials. She organizes the judge's meetings by giving him a three-by-five card with the date, time and directions at- 1•0 tached to his folder with agenda items. . Lippert has developed a close bond with the judge and employees in his chambers. "We are, in chamber, the judge's other family," she said. "What's said in our house stays in our house!' Five years ago, the bond between Lippert and Cohn became even closer when the judge prepared her wedding ceremony. Lippert said she and the judge's other employees are -I amazed at the pace Cohn sets. "We all would like to know what kind of vitamins the judge takes, so that we could keep up with him!" El al I LOCAL NEWS I Tel-Twelve Mall • 12 Mile & Telegraph • Southfield Daily 10-9 • Sunday 12-5 • 354-9060 Fine furniture, accessories always 20% off Harvard Prof To Speak For Holocaust Center Prof. Charles S. Maier of Harvard University will open the Holocaust Memorial Center's spring lecture series on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the DeRoy - Theater of the Maple/Drake Jewish Com- munity Center. His topic will be "Evasions of the Holocaust." Prof. Maier has been pro- fessor of History and a senior associate of the Center for VINTAGE WRISTWATCHES WANTED PATEK PHILIPPE ROLEX AUDEMARS VACHERON LeCOULTRE CORUM COIN GUBELIN CARTIER MOONPHASES CHRONOGRAPHS All interesting or unusual time pieces. Need not be running. ABBOTT'S-COINER CORPORATION • Birmingham, MI 48011 • (313) 644-6833 1393 S. Woodward Ave. SAVE ON STORAGE Charles S. Maier r, STORAGE AND CLEANING SAVE $800 ! Bricker Tunis Furs - 112(PIRES 6-30-89 Discount for pre-payment Check or cosh only JNJ BrickerAmis Nis 6335 ORCHARD LAKE RD • ORCHARD MALL West Bloomfield 855-9200 28 FRIDAY,APRIL.7,,19.89. 10th Anniversary Sale Save 30 to 50% 251 Merrill Birmingham (313) 644-7311 2915 Breton Grand Rapids (1.800-622-RUGS) 4 -4 European Studies at Harvard University since July 1981. . He taught at Harvard from 1967 to 1975 and was a visiting professor of history at the University of Beilefeld in the German Federal Republic in spring 1976. Maier then served as associate professor and professor of history at Duke University until 1980. Maier is a fellow of the European studies program at the Woodrow Wilson Interna- tional Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He concur- rently holds a fellowship for writing and research in inter- national peace and coopera- tion awarded by the MacAr- thur Fundation. He also has held fellowships from the National Endow- ment for the Humanities, the German Marshall Fund, and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among his publications are Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Ger- many and Italy in the Decade After World War I and more recently The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity. Maier is currently under- taking a study of the United States and European recon- struction after World War II. There is no charge and the building is wheelchair accessible. The second presentation in the series will be delivered by Prof. Henry W. Meyer of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Prof. Meyer, who will speak on May 9, was a member of the Men's Orchestra at Birkenau- Auschwitz. —I -4 .1 -4 -4 -4