4 FalkN C A Cat:* 544-4500 Berkley Flower Shop et, 3071 W. Twelve Mile Since 1930 Profile: Ernest Drucker • Wedding Flowers • Bar/Bat Mitzvah Themes • Corporate Accounts Welcome • Flowers/Balloons • We work with you or your planner - • Free Consultations CARLA JEAN SCHINARTZ/LOCAL COLUMNIST AGE: "Almost a senior cit- izen." Ceil Stocker Larry Stocker Sandi Stocker OCCUPATION: He is the owner of Executive Custom Shirtmakers and Tailors in Birmingham. EDUCATION: He gradu- ated from a fashion design school in Vienna, Austria. WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO PUT YOUR HOME ON AUTO PILOT? FAMILY: He is married to Marietta Sobel. He has two daughters. His daughter, Judy Ludin, resides in St. Pe-. tersburg and is a writer with the Jewish Press of Pinellas County and public relations director for the Menorah Manor, a Jewish nursing home. Another daughter, Debbie Sokolov, is a new mother and also resides in St. Petersburg. His twin broth- er, Kurt, lives in Reno, Nev., while his sister, Hilda See- wald, lives in New York. Intellihome is as easy as pushing a button, picking up a phone or using a keychain remote. Ill For more info or r a demonstration UAW ,4 TT Automated Energy Controls 3567738 T A X E X M P T RESIDENCE: Bloomfield STOCKS TAX-FREE BONDS MUTUAL FUNDS First of Michigan Corporation FoM A Members New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Herman Schwartz A L West ORGANIZATIONS: He is vice president of the mercan- tile division of the Allied Jew- ish Campaign. He is a Mason, a Shriner and a member of B'nai B'rith. He also enjoys his membership with the Franklin Racquet Club. P L A N FAVORITE BOOK: He just finished reading a book about displaced children dur- ing the war years. N U (313) 358-3290 G S T Michigan Toll-Free 1-800-826-2039 S TAX DEFERRED ANNUITIES IRA's MONEY MANAGEMENT HOBBIES: Tennis, con- certs, classical music and the- ater Senior Vice President - Investments T T his business 26 years ago. Ernest Drucker is con- stantly asked for his auto- graph because many people mistake him for actor David;__ Niven. Last spring, he and his wife visited the display "Heritage and Mission: Jewish Vienna" at the Jewish Community Center in Pinellas County, Fla. They were interviewed for the local paper because of their Viennese heritage. "The photographs brought back many memories." ❑ NAME: Ernest (Ernst) Drucker Branch Manager Travelers Tower / Suite 1020 26555 Evergreen Road / Southfield, Mich. 48076 LATEST ACCOMPLISH- MENT: "On a personal lev- el, we are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. People are coming to cele- brate this from all over the country. On a business level, we are considered a top re- tailer in the country. I am called upon to give seminars on custom shirtmaking." PHILOSOPHY: "Don't look for the perfect solution — just look for the best. En- joy life, your family and ap- preciate your health." BACKGROUND: Ernest Drucker was raised in Vien- na, Austria. His parents, Is- rael and Antonia, were the owners of a dry goods store. Ernest Drucker He attended Viennese schools and had the opportunity to study fashion design, shirt- making and custom tailoring. During Hitler's reign in the late 1930s, he and his broth- er were fortunate to leave Austria with a temporary visa to Paris. In Paris, he stayed with his sister. When the visa expired, he had the choice of joining the French Foreign Legion or going to Cuba. He and his brother arrived in Cuba in 1939. Since they spoke Yiddish and German, they went to the Jewish sec- tion of town. With help from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), he was able to set up a small custom cloth- ier business in his apartment. He worked around the clock and often just ate bananas and pineapples to save enough money to immigrate to the United States. He arrived in Key West, Fla., and eventually went to New York. He then entered the United States Army and was sent back to Europe where he participated in the Normandy invasion. He be- came a special agent for counter intelligence and worked through the war in France and as the director for two counties. He took part in capturing Hitler's aide, Mar- tin Bormann. Luckily, he was also able to locate his own mother. He almost became an army career man, but he de- cided to return to the United States and establish a busi- ness. He returned to New York and began working at Macy's. He then met his wife at a Jewish dance at the Manhat- tan Center. She is also from Vienna. Since his brother was a furrier in Detroit, they de- cided to move here. He opened Document Airs On ABC Tel Aviv (JTA) = The widow of an Israeli official linked to the Iran-Contra af- fair said over the w -:ekend that she has no knowledge of how a secret document that,_, alleges early knowledge of the affair by President Bush reached an ABC televisiori-_, news program. Judy Moses-Nir, Amiram Nir, said t top- secret document shov-n and quoted from on "Niglflirie" was not among a co lleCtion of her husband's papers had reported stolen fror:.2. a safe in her home last year. The document, in Hebrew and translated into English for "Nightline," was de- scribed as classified Israel_ minutes describing Mr. Ni.f. meeting with Mr. Bush in February 1986 at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, in which Mr. Nir wrote that he apprised the then vice presi- dent of arms-for-hostages negotiations with Iran. The issue has been re- visited of late with related comments by former Na- tional Security Counsel ad- viser Howard Teicher, who (;' also says Mr. Bush knew L, about the clandestine deal. Judy Moses-Nir reported the theft two years after Mr. Nir, 38, was killed in a 1989 plane crash in Mexico. She said she knew of no progress in inquiries into the cause of that crash. Mr. Nir served as special assistant for counterter- rorism issues to Shimon Peres when he was Prime Minister.