DETROIT

60 Delegations Are Sending
Young Athletes To Detroit

RICHARD PEARL

Staff Writer

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ith Norway and
Holland in the fold,
it appears some 60
delegations from around the
world will be coming to
Detroit for this summer's
Jewish Community Centers-
North American Maccabi
Youth Games.
The two North Atlantic
countries will be sending the
smallest delegations - a boy
swimmer from Norway and
two female tennis players
from Holland - but 1990
will be the first time either
country has competed in the
biennial youth games, which
began in 1982.
Not surprio.ingly, the
United States, with 46 dele-
gations, will have the most
Maccabi teams par-

ticipating, followed by
Canada, with six. But 10
foreign countries will be rep-
resented, including two
other "first-timers," Great
Britain and Lithuania.
"Those four European
countries give us our best
participation ever from that
part of the world," said Beth
Robinson, administrator of
the Detroit JCC-Maccabi of-
fice.
With Detroit's host team of
200 teenagers included,
there will be some 2,400
young athletes ages 13-16,
plus 5 0 0 adult
coaches/chaperones par-
ticipating in the competition
Aug. 19-26.
Barbara Barend and Nan-
cy Koster, both ranked
tennis players in Holland,
decided to come to the
Detroit games after meeting

Lithuanians Are Still
Planning On Coming

The two major sponsors of
the Lithuanian Maccabi
team assured Detroiters last
weekend that, despite cur-
rent political problems in
their country, they still are
planning to participate in
this summer's Jewish Com-
munity Centers-North
American Maccabi Youth
Games in Detroit.
Mikhail Roseitsan and
Shulem Zelikovich, both of
Vilnius, visited with Jay
Robinson, general chairman
of the Games. They came to
Detroit after visiting earlier
with national Maccabi au-
thorities in New York.
"They told me there was
no problem with them corn-

ing," Robinson said. "They
said the authorities in
Lithuania and the Soviet
Union tell them it (the cur-
rent crisis between the two
countries) is not going to be a
problem to the team. The
Games are a non-political
event."
Roseitsan and Zelikovich,
business partners who plan
to bring a 20-member dele-
gation to Detroit, came to
discuss the Games and in-
spect - the venues, Robinson
said.
The Detroit Games will
mark the first time a team
from the Soviet Union has
participated in the Youth
Games.

• Maccabi Is Seeking
430 More Homes

The housing committee for
the 1990 Youth Games in
Detroit says it has 570 host
homes signed up to house
the expected 2,200 Jewish
teens from around the world
who will be competing Aug.
19-26.
"We've got 430 to go," said
Barbara Robinson, co-
chairman of the housing
committee with Carol Eisen-
shtadt.

"We want to encourage all
of the people who are
holding host registration
forms and who know they
are going to host these

youngsters to get them in to
us," said Robinson. "And we
want to encourage all those
who are planning to take
their vacations that week to
schedule them for another
week and be a Maccabi host
for a week. We can promise
them a wonderful time they
won't soon forget."
Robinson said the housing
committee needs phonathon
volunteers for its Sunday
morning and Monday night
efforts to recruit housing.
For information on hous-
ing or volunteering, call the
JCC-Maccabi office, 661-
1000, ext. 296.

Karen Sklar of Farmington
Hills while all three were in
Israel last year. Barend and
Koster were representing
Holland in the junior divi-
sion of the 1989 World Mac-
cabi Games and Sklar was a
U.S. team chaperone.
"Barend expressed her in-
terest in coming here to
Sklar, I wrote a follow-up
letter and Barend told us she
had a friend, Koster, who
also wanted to come," said
Robinson.
She said the name of the
Norwegian swimmer has not
yet been submitted.
Allocations have been
assigned each team, with
each delegation having until
May 1 to register their full
allotment of athletes.
However, said Maccabi gen-
eral chairman Jay Robinson,
"These numbers are pretty
good," although some teams
could pick up unused quotas
from other teams.
Canada's delegation of 216
athletes from six cities will
be the largest foreign con-
tin gent. That includes 90
youngsters from Toronto and
25 from Windsor.
Of the other foreign coun-
tries, Mexico will be the next
largest, with 57 youngsters,
followed by Venezuela, with
50, and Israel with 39. Also
sending delegations will be
Australia and Colombia.
Baltimore, Md., with 150
teen athletes; Chicago, with
140; Philadelphia, 110, and
Los Angeles, 108, round out
the top five largest U.S.
delegations coming to
Detroit.
The U.S. first-timers in-
clude Akron and
Toledo/Canton from Ohio;
Bergen County and Mon-
mouth, New Jersey; New
York's Riverdale, located in
the Bronx, and the Sephar-
dic Community Center in
Brooklyn; western Connec-
ticut; Richmond, Virginia;
San Antonio, Texas and Or-
ange County, California.
The delegations, their
allocated athletes and
coaches/chaperones:

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United States:
Michigan - Detroit 200 athletes,
30 coaches/chaperones; Ann Ar-
bor 40 and 5. Ohio - Akron, 20
and 4; Cincinnati, 20 and 4;
Cleveland, 55 and 8; Columbus, 30
and 5; Dayton, 20 and 4;
Toledo/Canton, 20 and 4. Illinois -
Chicago, 140 and 19. Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, 110 and 15; Pitt-
sburgh, 87 and 14; Wilkes-Barre,
38 and 6; Allentown, 10 and 2.
Massachusetts -Boston, 59 and
9. Connecticut - Hartford, 20 and

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4; Western Connecticut, 20 and 4.
New York - Riverdale (Queens),
20 and 4; Rockland County (West
Nyack), 31 and 5; Sephardic
Community Center (Brooklyn), 20
and 4; Suffolk (Long Island) 45 and
7. New Jersey - Bergen County,
20 and 4; Cherry Hill, 50 and 8;
Metrowest (West Orange), 37 and
7; Monmouth, 20 and 4; North
Jersey (Wayne), 65 and 10; Tenaf-
ly, 20 and 4.
Maryland - Baltimore, 150 and
20. Washington, D.C. - 94 and 13.
Virginia - Richmond, 20 and 4.
North Carolina - Charlotte, 18 and
4. Florida - Miami, 45 and 7.
Georgia - Atlanta, 35 and 6.
Alabama -Birmingham, 20 and 4.
Kentucky - Louisville, 20 and 4.
Tennessee -Memphis, 8 and 2.
Missouri - St. Louis, 25 and 5;
Kansas City, 20 and 4. Minnesota

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- Minneapolis, 33 and 6.
Nebraska - Omaha, 20 and 4.
Colorado - Denver, 25 and 5.
Texas - Houston, 20 and 4; San
Antonio, 12 and 3. California - Los
Angeles, 108 and 15; Orange
County, 20 and 4; Northern
California (San Fran-
cisco/Oakland), 86 and 13. Wash-
ington - Seattle, 41 and 7.

Other countries:
Canada - Edmonton, 18 and 4;
Hamilton, 13 and 3; Montreal, 50
and 8; Ottawa, 20 and 4; Toronto,
90 and 13; Windsor, 25 and 5.
Australia - Sydney and other cities,
29 and 5. Colombia - 25 and 5.
Great Britain - 28 and 5. Holland
- 2. Israel - 39 and 6. Lithuania,
USSR -14 and 6. Mexico - 57
and 9. Norway -1. Venezuela -
Caracas, 50 and 8.11I

Ann Arbor Gets Close
To Executive Decision

SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE

Special to The Jewish News

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w.o months ago, Nancy
Margolis, Washtenaw
County Jewish Com-
munity Center director and
interim director of the Ann
Arbor United Jewish Ap-
peal/Jewish Community
Association, submitted her
resignation, effective Aug. 31,
to the UJA board. UJA board
members were totally surpris-
ed by the move.
Some felt that the relation-
ship had been equally advan-
tageous and would continue
until a permanent director
was found. Margolis explain-
ed her decision by saying she

"wanted to spend more time
with the JCC."
Some members of the
Jewish community specu-
lated that Margolis had ef-
fected the resignation to get
the UJA board to act.
Margolis had been serving in
an interim capacity since
September.
Two weeks ago, at the last
search committee meeting,
Margolis was recommended
as the preferred candidate for
the permanent position. She
was interviewed for the posi-
tion on April 22. No one else
has been interviewed for the
position.
UJA board chairman Irving
Smokler would not comment

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