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JVS Exec Al Ascher
Planning Retirement
KIMBERLY LIFTON
_ Staff Writer
A
lbert Ascher, the ex-
ecutive director of
Jewish Vocational
Service for the past 19 years,
is retiring at the end of the
year.
Mr. Ascher, 61, surprised
board members with word of
his retirement at a meeting
Jan. 31. Yet he said he
started planning this depar-
ture date last spring.
"There are no maybes.
There is no story. I am retir-
ing," said Mr. Ascher, who
turns 62 in November. "I en-
joy this work and I love this
agency."
JVS President Linda Klein
said board members were
"unanimously very sad"
about the news of his
retirement.
"He is an extremely able
and creative executive and
has brought the agency into
the 1990s," Mrs. Klein
said. "He is good with the
non-Jewish as well as the
Jewish community. The
bottom line is that he really
cares about the people his
agency is serving.
"When you have a good
executive, you don't like to
see that person leave," Mrs.
Klein said. "Some tough
times might be coming
along, but the agency is in
very good shape internally.
We all respect his right to
retire."
In the coming weeks, JVS
will launch a search for a
new administrator, Mrs.
Klein said.
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After he leaves JVS, Mr.
Ascher said he will take
courses in history and polit-
ical science at the Univer-
sity of Michigan in Dear-
born. He also hopes to travel
and pursue his many
hobbies, including photog-
raphy, computers and stamp
collecting.
Mr. Ascher, originally
from New York, said he will
remain living in his Lathrup
Village home. He moved to
Detroit in 1972 from East
Orange, N.J., where he serv-
ed as assistant executive di-
rector for Metro West JVS.
Mr. Ascher's departure
comes amid trying times for
Federation agencies, which
have been operating on flat
budgets from the Federation
and the United Way of
Southeastern Michigan.
Agencies also are bracing for
state budget cuts. 0
Beth Jacob Cancels
Some Classes Due To Flu
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Albert Ascher:
19 years at JVS.
flu and strep throat
epidemic hit the Sally
Allan Alexander
Beth Jacob School for Girls
last week forcing officials to
shut down some classes.
With less than 50 percent
attendance due to illness,
the administration closed
school Feb. 21, 22 and 24 for
one fifth grade class and for
all students between sixth
and 12th grades, said
Florence Sperka, co-
principal of Beth Jacob for
the lower grades.
Flu symptoms began show-
ing up in the first grade a
few weeks ago and quickly
spread to the upper classes,
Mrs. Sperka said. Some chil-
dren contracted strep throat
while others had
temperatures as high as 104
degrees.
This wasn't the first time
Beth Jacob closed its doors
during a flu epidemic, she
said. She remembers classes
were dismissed when she
was a student and when her
now grown daughter attend-
ed the school.
The epidemic also struck
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's
Joseph Tanenbaum School
for Boys, but not as severely,
said Rabbi Raphael Skaist,
the school's principal. The
school was not forced to shut
its doors. El