YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
Give the Gift of Blood
At Temple Israel
5725 Walnut Lake Rd.
West Bloomfield
(810) 661-5700
Sunday, March 19, 1995
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Blood Drive sponsored by Temple Israel Brotherhood
co-chaired by Louis Lan and Lorraine Lotzoff

BLOOD DONOR PLEDGE CARD

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Southeastern Michigan Blood Services Region

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West Bloomfield, MI
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enise Daskal is not about
to let anything stop her.
She was born with minor
developmental disabilities
and numerous physical impair-
ments, including a fused knee,
arthritis and severe psoriasis.
She was missing her right hip
socket, as well.
But Ms. Daskal brushes it all
aside because "I'm not going to
let anything get me down." To-
diay bile works, volunteers and is
in love. Nis name is Hagan. He
is, in a word, wonderful — and
thank goodness, he hiws sports.
A devoted sports fan — the Denise Daskal: "A role model and
Phoenix Suns are her favorites inspiration."
— Ms. Daskal likes "football,
ireali, \--Q,,ketball and golf and than right for Denise Daskal.
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First she observed her bat
This Ti v ■ %,,
—I Ms. kal will mitzvah ceremony at Congrega-
receive the Hugh
ration Award from Arc,81-1'L-' tion Beth Shalom. She studied
months and learned a
County, an advocacy group for in-
er
dividuals with developmental dis- Pia `":, ravers. The evening
triple awas Ir.-0f. she calls "a
abilities.
e"rzb
e-r , n becau6Q Oct. 26
"Denise truly inspires others," n o t zovna rh
oii,her own bat
reads JARC's nomination of Ms.
Daskal. `Through her willingness date on which her cott.was the
to always take on a challenge and brated his birthday arm-i.,,_
her commitment to live life to the brother had, 25 years before, be-
fullest, she has become a role come bar mitzvah.
It was difficult that her moth-
model for others who participate
er, who died of cancer, wasn't
in JARC programs."
The Arc award marks the cul- there for the occasion. "I miss
mination of what Ms. Daskal her," Ms. Daskal says. "Yet I feel
calls "the best three years of my she's looking down and is very
life." proud."
Next came hip surgery.
Ms. Daskal, 41, was born in
For years Ms. Daskal was un-
Detroit and raised in Oak Park.
She graduated from Oak Park able to get around without the
High in 1974 and lived for many aid of a walker. After the surgery,
years with her parents before she only needed a cane.
Then, she met Hagan Got-
moving into a JARC community
home. She was eager to be inde- tfried-.
"Last summer, our (JARC)
pendent.
She secured a job with Jewish group decided to go on a cruise,"
Vocational Service workshop, Ms. Daskal says. "At first I said,
then began volunteering first at `No, I'm not going, I'm not going.'
the Farmington Hills library and I was scared. My father is 86
then at the JVS library, where years old and I didn't want to
she shelves newspapers and does leave him."
some filing. She also volunteersBut friends finally talked her
with JARC, where she helps with into it.
The Caribbean trip was fan-
mailings.
The volunteering started when tactic, Ms. Daskal says. "Some of
Ms. Daskal was at Oak Park us went from 6:30 in the morn-
High, where she lent a hand in mg until 1:30 at night, non-stop,
the school library. "They need- to the discos and all over."
When she saw Mr. Gottfried,
ed somebody so I said, `I'm here,'
she says. "I like volunteering be- also on the trip, "it was love at
cause you just give of yourself. first sight."
Mr. Gottfried, 36, resides in a
You don't get anything back. I
like being able to do a mitzvah. JARC transitional home. He and
Ms. Daskal enjoy watching sports
It gives me great pleasure."
Today, Ms. Daskal lives in a together and eating out.
"He's the best thing that ever
JARC semi-independent home in
Farmington Hills. She does her happened to me," she says. "He's
own laundry and cooking (pota- so kind and gentle and he treats
to kugel is a favorite) and sets up me like a queen."
Ms. Daskal's next project, she
all her own appointments.
Three years ago, just about says, is to learn how to use the
everything started to go more computer. LI