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FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1989
Basketball Contest, Juniors
Added. To Hall Of Fame Games
642-9087
hen the competition
begins. Aug. 27 in
the third annual
Hall of Fame Games for
developmentally disabled
Jewish athletes, there'll be
renewed dedication on both
sides — the athletes as well as
the volunteers.
Returning among the' 80
Detroit-area athletes will be
such competitors as Robert
Werney and Marc Goodman,
while Blanche Pollack will be
among the approximately 80
volunteers who help make
the Games possible.
The Hall of Fame Games,
formerly called the Special
Games, feature track, field
and swimming competitions
and are believed to be the on-
ly games of their kind in the
country for Jewish
developmentally disabled.
They are sponsored by the
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame and the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The athletes are from
among the 150 persons in the
JCCenter's Special Needs
Program.
Pollack is looking forward,
for the third straight year, to
being among the volunteers.
Pollack said she was
"volunteered" by her hus-
band Nate, a Hall of Fame
board member, the first year
to help serve lunch.
"It's very heartwarming
and gratifying," she said. "No
matter how much you work,
you get paid back 100 times
by seeing the satisfaction you
have brought into the lives of
these athletes."
Pollack noted that this
year's menu will feature a
move to more healthful foods
such as turkey franks, pasta
and fruit, rather than the old
hot dogs, potato chips and
pop.
Werney, along with co-
competitor Goodman, is
among the leading medal
winners in the Games.
Werney is working out
regularly — on his stationary
bicycle at home and with
fellow entrants in training
sessions at the Center. "I plan
to do better this year than I
did last year," said Werney.
He's particularly enthused
about the basketball game —
"I was in the Special Olym-
pics last year and our team
took first place" — and he's
also looking forward to the
dinner/dance.
Track events include walk-
Marc Goodman is among the returnees.
ing races, dashes of various
lengths and a 400-yard relay.
Field events are a standing
long jump, softball and tennis
throws, kickball kick and
basketball shoot. Also
scheduled are a kickball and
a basketball game — the lat-
ter a first for the competition
— and swimming races.
A junior division for
7-to-10-year-old athletes will
be offered for the first time.
They will compete in the
same events as the teenagers,
adults and senior adults.
Medals are awarded all par-
ticipants at day's end.
Wheelchair races have been
eliminated due to lack of de-
mand, according to Leanie
Gunsberg, Special Needs pro-
gram director.
Competition
at
the
Maple/Drake campus starts
Aug. 27 after the 11 a.m.
opening ceremony and con-
cludes about mid-afternoon.
Participants and volunteers
return for the closing
ceremony at 7:30 p.m. follow-
ed by a dinner/dance.
Mitch Albom, sports colum-
nist for the Detroit Free Press,
will be master of ceremonies
for the opening ceremony.
Ben Braun, basketball coach
at Eastern Michigan Univer-
sity who was head coach of
the silver-medal-winning U.S.
Maccabiah team, will be M.C.
at the closing.
The purpose of the Games is
to offer friendly competition
Glenn Triest
in a spirit of sportsmanship,
as well as foster Jewish iden-
tity through athletics.
"As long as they're par-
ticipating and getting
something out of it, that's
what's important," said Mark
Unger, executive director of
the Jewish Hall of Fame. But
the athletes do enjoy hearing
the cheers, he said.
"It's a great outlet for
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The athletes enjoy
hearing the
cheers.
them," said Joyce Weckstein,
Fame Games chairperson.
"We grow and we learn every
time we do the Games."
Added Gpnsberg, "We try •
not to look at someone's gait.
We look at their personality."
Furthermore, she said, the
Games aid in educating the
general public to the abilities
as well as needs of the
developmentally disabled.
"It's a very human ex-
perience with all people com-
ing together and seeing one
another as we really are."
Weckstein is confident the
volunteers are eager to get to
work. "We love it and we'll do
it again and again. Every
time we've announced the
Games and asked for
volunteers, they've literally •
poured out of the woodwork."
Persons wishing to help can
call Gunsberg at 661-1000.
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