I DETROIT Tamarack Program Gets An International Flavor "I HAD A DEAL THAT ALMOST FELL APART WHEN I WAS ON VACATION. THEN I CALLED PT NATIONWIDE BANK." Jessie 'Ricker, Agent, Real Estate One, Rochester, Michigan. "I had referred a client to another lender. When I came back, my client's loan had been rejected because the property ap- praised too low. I called a loan agent at 1st Nationwide Bank, and he was willing to listen to me when I said, 'Look, I know the area around here well enough to know there's something wrong.' "We all worked together; we found an error in the appraisal; they helped me get another appraiser out, and the deal went through. "That's the kind of thing I mean when I say 1st Nationwide Bank gives me the support I need." 111 AlsT ■ NATIONWIDE 1111 VisNIBK EOWI MOUSING LEN D E R © 1990 First Nationwide Financial Corp. 6525 Telegraph Road Birmingham, MI 48010 (313) 642-0288 A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. 20 FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1990 SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A new Tamarack Camps summer pro- gram mixes camp and travel with an international twist. Earlier this week, 32 teens from four countries left on Tamarack Camps' Specialty Travel Trip. For the next four weeks, campers will split their time between Camp Maas in Or- tonville and trips to Wash- ington, D.C., Pennsylvania and northern Michigan. With Camp Maas as home base, the teens will tour Washington, D.C., for six days, take a three-day white water rafting trip in Penn- sylvania and visit Tamarack's Camp Kennedy, a former hunting retreat in the Upper Peninsula, for five days. David Share, a 9th grader at West Bloomfield High School, said he is looking forward to the traveling, es- pecially the white water raf- ting trip. Share originally planned to go to Specialty Village, but signed up too late. He isn't complaining. The travel trip "sounded more interesting to me than the other," he said. The program gives Jaimee Green, a 9th grader at West Bloomfield High School, a chance to travel and enjoy camp at the same time. Usually, going to camp means she is unable to travel with the rest of the family. But the opportunity to make friends was what con- vinced Jaimee to join the specialty trip. "I want to meet a lot of new people," said Jaimee, who does not know anyone else on the trip. "I want to meet all the new kids and see what life is like where they live. I think it will be fun." Creating Specialty Travel Trip gave those 9th and 10th graders who could not par- ticipate in the overcrowded Specialty Village program a new way to spend their summer, said Jeff Metz, Tamarack Camps' assistant executive director. "The idea was to give it an exciting twist not found in Specialty Village," Metz said. "I think it is an oppor- tunity for teens to travel and see a part of the United States they have never seen." In addition to the travel, the trip features an interna- tional mix not found in other Tamarack programs. Although French, Soviet and Israeli teens have been involved in Tamarack, they had always been a minority among the American campers, Metz said. But the Specialty Travel Trip mixes a group of 12 Americans, nine French teens, 10 Soviet Jews who recently arrived in Detroit and one Israeli. "The opportunity for a cultural exchange is the most exciting part of it," said Metz, who hopes the trip will spark life-long friendships. "American kids will learn what life is like in other countries." ❑ Operation Exodus Starts In Ann Arbor At the opening event for the Ann Arbor Operation Exodus campaign, $149,065 was pledged as part of an interna- tional project to raise $3.6 billion worldwide to settle as many as 300,000 Soviet Jews in Israel in three years. Organized by the Jewish Community Associa- tion/United Jewish Appeal, the Ann Arbor campaign has a fund raising goal of $380,000 in pledges by Sept. 30, payable over the next three years. Irving Nussbaum, owner of New York Carpet World and the keynote speaker at the event, stressed the urgency of raising funds to aid the hun- dreds of thousands of Soviet Jews who have applied for ex- it visas. Temple Israel Sets Fund-Raiser Temple Israel will host a summer celebration of good food, wine and music 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11. Twenty four area restaurants will provide ap- petizers, entrees and desserts with a selection of one hun- dred wines served by area distributors. The evening will include a silent wine auction, raffle prizes, band music by Mel Ball's "Intrigue" and strolling musicians in the courtyard. The Art of Food and Wine is an annual fund raiser for Temple Israel. There is a charge. For information, call the Temple office, 661-5700.