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Beth Jacob School for Girls in But that's not true. The people I
Oak Park. During her high-school know work other jobs. It's too ex-
days, she worked on scenery for pensive not to."
Ms. Cohen holds up a small
plays and the yearbook.
In her not-so-free time, she de- bag of chain mail. "That's over
$100," she says. A winding and
signed fashions.
"I used to sit at the back of the cutting machine cost more than
room in Hebrew class and draw," $250 and a blow torch ran $300.
Luckily, her parents, Erwin
she says. "To keep me quiet, the
teachers let me. I designed stuff and Myrtle, have allowed their
that I could never, ever wear daughter to transform the base-
there."
A metals class at WSU so-
lidified her goals. Ms. Cohen
had found her niche. She sells
a few of her pieces, but that's
not her main focus. She in-
tends to enter graduate
school after receiving her
diploma next May. Some day,
she'd like to make a living
Bracelets of chain mail and cut metal are Ms.
from art.
"I'm hoping to," she says. Cohen's mainstay.
"But, if not, I'm always will-
ing to work another job ... A
lot of people say that artists are ment into a studio.
"They've been really support-
slackers, that they cop out, that
they're not really working hard. ive," she says.
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Remains A Mystery
JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER
annie Zolotow did not have ed to figure out a way for us to
a family to take care of her. stay in her life."
For three years, until Ms. Zolo-
But she did not die without
tow's death last January, JVS
friends.
Her obituary read: "Survived staff went out of their way to
by all of her friends who cared for make sure she had not only an
her at the Jewish Vocational Ser- advocate, but a friend.
At Ms. Zolotow's unveiling (a
vice."
Ms. Zolotow, who was devel- date has not yet been deter-
opmentally disabled, died this mined), her stone will read: "She
past New Year's Eve. Several touched our lives."
from JVS attended
her funeral.
"Anyone who knew
Fannie or knew about
her was touched by
her story," said Fran
Cook, program coordi-
nator of adult day ser-
vices.
Ms. Zolotow was liv-
ing in an adult foster-
care home when she
was referred to the
JVS adult day pro-
gram in 1985.
Six years later, in
1991, state aid for the Fannie Zolotow had many friends at JVS.
day program was
about to be cut off by
When Ms. Zolotow's funding
Oakland County Community
Mental Health because Ms. Zolo- for the adult day program was
tow was ill and could not attend about to be cut off, staff members
moved her to the senior adult
the program on a steady basis.
Without a family, and only a workshop. The workshop enables
court-appointed legal guardian, older members of the communi-
Ms. Zolotow was "adopted" by ty to work in a sheltered setting.
JVS knew putting her in the
JVS staffers.
program
would require providing
"We couldn't leave her," Ms.
Cook said. "Had we just let her her with extra attention, but it
go, she would have been cut off was their only way of ensuring
from the world. No one else knew her needs would be met.
"She was unusually sensitive
her or cared about her. We want-
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