ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
JEWISH FEDERATION
OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT

Nominees to the Board of Governors

Pursuant to the bylaws of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT,
the following list of nominees selected from the membership of the Federation, eligible
for election to the Board of Governors of the Federation, has been presented to the
Executive Vice-President not less than 30 days prior to the Annual Meeting, to take
place on Tuesday, October 4 at Temple Beth El.

FOR RE-ELECTION

3-Year Term Ending in 1997

Irwin M. Alterman
Paul D. Borman
Jerome Y. Halperin
David B. Hermelin

FOR ELECTION

Mitchell A. Mondry

Jeannie Weiner

Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not fewer than 25
members of the Federation and filed with the Executive Vice-President of the Federa-
tion not less than 10 days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one person
may be nominated in each petition, and no nomination shall be valid unless the nomi-
nee has consented to be a candidate.

1994 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

James M. August
Chairman

Douglas A. Bloom
Suzan Folbe Curhan

Richard Krugel, M.D.

Barbara Tukel
David R. Victor

JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
Robert P. Aronson, Executive Vice-President
P.O. Box 2030 • Bloomfield Hills MI 48303-2030 • (810) 642-4260

AESTHETIC DERMATOLOGY

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SHARON KANON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

Emery I. Klein
Richard Krugel, M.D.
Ellen Labes
Mervyn H. Manning

3-Year Term Ending in 1997

Ronald A. Klein

Coral Reef
Growth, Stress

ruing into the blue-green leader in the effort to study and
waters of Israel's gulf of deal with the disruptive effect of
Eilat two years ago, Razi industry, agriculture and the hu-
Vago had no time to gaze man impact on delicate coral reef
in wonderment at the exuberance ecosystems.
of color in the undersea world.
Often flower-like in appear-
Snorkeling among the coral reefs, ance, corals are actually animals
the former navy commander had whose limestone skeletons form
a job to do. He was staking out the reefs found in nutrient-poor
the best vantage points from tropical waters. They can thrive
which to mount his camera so because they have a symbiotic re-
that he could photography with lationship with algae which em-
computer image processing to bed themselves in their tissue.
measure coral growth in the sea. Algae absorb the waste of their
His novel approach is a break- host, converting it into protein.
through, since
In turn, with
PHOTO BY WERNER BRAUN
delicate living
the help of the
corals die when
sun in the
they are touched.
process of pho-
Mr. Vago is
tosynth esis,
concerned that
they supply the
the corals are in
coral polyps
stress, a term
with oxygen
that we tend to
which they
reserve of the hu-
need to breathe
man condition,
and most of the
but can also ap-
energy they
ply to coral reefs
need. Together,
when they are An Israeli coral reef.
they provide a
plagued by for-
rich home for a
eign invaders — chemicals, myriad of marine creatures and
sewage, sand, even storms and fish, turning the "blue desert" into
clouds that affect temperatures an enchanting 'jungle of the sea."
and light supply. "The corals are
"I used coral samples from a
part of a whole intricate chain," beach that was widened. They
said the biologist. "Endanger the were doomed anyway," said Mr.
corals and you endanger the en- Thieberger. 'When sand falls on
tire ecosystem."
the coral, it breaks their soft tis-
The coral reef ecosystem sus- sue. Corals can't lodge on sand,
tains an incredible variety of fish and the sediment screens out
and other marine life. Some make sunlight. It's getting harder and
their home in the thick stone-like harder to find corals without
reefs.many are of species that biol- stress."
ogists believe to be 200 million
In the laboratory, she put the
years old. Barnacles and sponges, multi-hued corals in aquaria with
sea urchins and brittle stars, yel- running seawater that was spiked
low and black butterfly fish, blue with nutrients. "Increase of nu-
damsel, anemones — thousands of trients causes an increase in the
different living creatures crowd to- density of the algae. The self-shad-
gether in the underwater labyrinth. ing effect and competition for co.,
Corals in stress have also been causes stress and in extreme cas-
the focus of research by yael es death. I could see by the shad-
Thieberger, a young scientist who ing and color of the coral in
uses a camera to monitor corals photographs that there was a re-
in the sea and in aquaria.
lationship to the concentration of
"Harmful environmental effects chlorophyll and growth," said the
can be visibly detected by observ- young Israeli biologist.
ing changes in coloration of the
`There is a close correlation be-
corals," noted Mr. Thieberger. In tween the measurement of corals
her three-year study, she observed in their natural habitat and the
the damaging effect of bacteria lab results. The advantage of us-
and the significant decrease in ing the camera is that it is a non-
growth rates on corals when their destructive method."
environment is not in balance.
"Besides not causing any dam-
Razi Vago and Yael Thieberg- age to the coral, you also get very
er are part of a team at Israel's high resolution and lower error
Bar-Ilan University's Environ- rate with the camera," said Mr.
mental Biology Department, that Vago. "You can take many pic-
has developed the unique meth- tures of the same coral repeated-
ods of measuring coral growth ly. You know exactly what
and the effects of stress. Profes- dimension the area of the coral
sor Zvi Dubinsky head of the was when you first saw it and
group, is a world-renowned you can compare it later. The

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