PEOPLE
Daneka Anthony
takes time out from
her clerical job to
talk with an elderly
resident.
Daneka Anthony
takes her new friend
for a walk while her
supervisor, Michelle
Thompkins, looks on.
TXXER CITYLNTERNS
Students from
Have A Dream Foundation
learn about the working world
at the Jewish Home
For Aged.
Text by Kimberly Lifton
Photos by Glenn Nest
F
gram's support system,
working summers through a
federally funded project.
This year, 10 students, now
in the 10th grade, worked at
the Jewish Home For Aged's
Borman Hall.
Na—ki—la?".
"Not bad. It is Hava
Negila," said Warren Coville,
a retired philanthropist and
former Jewish Home For Ag-
ed board member.
The students filed papers,
manned the phones and
distributed supplies. They
helped residents with
recreational therapy and did
laundry. They even cut hair
and did manicures.
For most of them it was the
first time they learned Heb-
rew words, Yiddish sayings
and a little history of Jewish
immigration to Detroit.
ifteen-year-old
Nakila Woods was
struggling a bit, try-
ing to remember the
few Hebrew words she
learned this summer while
working at Borman Hall in
Detroit.
She shrugged her
shoulders. "Is it Hava
Because of efforts of Mr.
Coville and his wife, Margot,
Nakila Woods and her 77
former classmates from the
fifth grade of Roosevelt
Elementary have been given
new opportunities.
Those students who
graduate high school and are
accepted to college will
receive scholarships from
the Covilles' "I Have A
Dream Foundation."
For now, the students are
taking advantage of the pro-
Tanica Williams learned
how to be a beautician this
summer. But after working
and getting to know the
residents, she has decided
she might be better suited to
the nursing field.
Daneka Anthony learned
clerical skills. Some days,
she filed memos. Other days,
she answered phones. Most
important to her, she got a
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