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Commerce directors Ralph Ger-
son and Doug Ross.
Mr. Naftaly said Gov. Blan-
chard appointed a number of
Jews to state office, including
many judges.
"His first judicial appointment
was John Shepherd (to State
Court of Appeals), and he also ap-
pointed Rabbi Irwin Groner
(ethics panel), Sondra Berlin,
Larry Deutch and many others,"
Mr. Naftaly said. ❑

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Blanchard was a staunch sup-
porter of Israel and he and his
first wife, Paula, were active in
the Soviet Jewry movement.
"It is an interesting wrinkle,"
the governor said. "When I was
a congressman, I represented a
huge portion of the Jewish com-
munity. But I didn't run around
saying my father was Jewish. It
wasn't appropriate."
Mr. Blanchard is survived by
his wife, Nora; by Gov. Blanchard
and his wife, Janet; daughter and
son-in-law Suzanne and Robert
Brook of Okemos; a stepson and
stepdaughter-in-law, Edward
and Carol Zellner of West Bloom-
field; four grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Robert Naftaly, director of the
state Office of Management and
Budget for four years under Gov.
Blanchard, believes the gover-
nor's strong ties to the Jewish
community are the result of
shared values.
"He agrees with our basic
tenets and his support of Israel
was always strong," Mr. Naftaly
said.
Gov. Blanchard's staffers in-
cluded Shelby Solomon, Mr. Naf-
taly and Department of

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ric Kingston remembers
writing his first poem at
age 8.

"It was about fate and destiny,"
he says.
Twenty-one years later, the
MSU graduate has compiled
much of his poetry into a book
called Visions, sold at this year's
Jewish Book Fair. The book,
which features the poem "i am re-
membrance," is included in the
archives of the Holocaust Memo-
rial Museum in Washington,
D.C.
"I thought it was a creative
piece by a talented young man," Eric Kingston
says museum director Michael
If hatred, war and evil solved
Berenbaum.
One stanza in "i am remem- problems, there would be peace
in the world," he says.
brance" reads:
Mr. Kingston is a self-taught
pianist and actor who also earned
i shovel the ashes of the dead
a black belt in karate and is fea-
with the "why" tearing at me
tured on a metro Detroit gospel
the "why" burning me
radio show. As an artist, Mr.
"why" tattooed in the fire
Kingston steers clear of goals.
of my mind
"A goal is a finite thing," he
Mr. Kingston says he writes says. "A goal can take you to the
from the heart. He examines so- top of a mountain, but a purpose
cial issues — like AIDS, war and can take you beyond the stars. I
use my writing to try to deliver
racism — and asks "why"?
"Why is man, after all these people from the limited ways they
years, still such an ignorant crea- see, feel and react to one anoth-
ture, materialistic and immoral? er." CI