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An Honorary Degree For Barbra
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Sailing can be a breeze.
Sailing, Sailing ...
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n an effort to get more young
adults and women interested
in sailing, the St. Clair Shores-
based Great Lakes Yacht Club is
offering classes geared specifi-
cally to these groups.
Young adult classes will be
held on the following Monday
evenings: June 19 and 26, July
3, 10 and 17 and Aug. 7, 14 and
21. Instruction for women will
take place on these Tuesday
evenings: June 20 and 27, July
11 and 18 and Aug. 8, 15 and 22.
The classes will be under the
direction of club member Julee
Roth, who has published a na-
tionally distributed text on sail-
ing instruction.
The Great Lakes Yacht Club
was founded in 1952 by Jewish
sailors and it still maintains a
largely Jewish membership of
both sail and powerboaters.
For further information about
the classes and the dub, call (810)
778-9510.
Two Jewish Coaches Afflicted
With March Madness
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here's one in the NIT, and
one in the NCAA tourna-
ment. One Jewish college
basketball coach, that is.
Coach Ben Braun's Eastern
Michigan team earned a
berth in the NIT and Coach
Seth Greenberg's Long
Beach State squad is playing
in the NCAA show thanks to
its championship in the Big
West Conference tourna-
ment.
Eastern Michigan (20-9)
faced Bradley (19-9) in a first-
round NIT game Thursday
night in Peoria, Ill.
Even though six of East-
ern Michigan's top 11 play-
ers are freshmen, the Eagles
finished third in the Mid-
American Conference regu-
lar-season standings and they
made it to the championship
game of the MAC tournament
before losing to Ball State.
This is Mr. Braun's ninth sea-
son as the coach at Eastern
Michigan. Going into Thursday's
game, his career record with the
Eagles was 160-125.
In 1989, Mr. Braun coached
the United States men's bas-
ketball team to a surprise sec-
ond-place finish in the Maccabi
Games in Israel.
Coach Greenberg's Long
arbra Streisand will be on
stage Sunday, May 21, at
Brandeis University, but she
won't be singing. Brandeis will
present Ms. Streisand with her
first honorary degree, a doctor of
humane letters, during the
Waltham, Mass., school's 44th
commencement ceremonies.
Ms. Streisand will be honored
by Brandeis for her contributions
to the arts, her work to improve
relations between blacks and
Jews, and for her philanthropic
activities in support of women's
equality, human rights and civil
liberties, children at risk and
preservation of the environment.
Besides Ms. Streisand, there
will be five other honorary degree
recipients: philanthropist Walter
Annenberg, journalist Daniel
Schorr, author/politician Conor
Cruise O'Brien, U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council chair Miles
Lerman and Louis Perlmutter
(Brandeis class of 1956), an in-
vestment banker and attorney
who is chairman of Brandeis'
board of trustees.
Kids Will Get A
Kick Out Of This
A
youth soccer clinic will be
held Sunday at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris branch of
the Jewish Community Center
in Oak Park. Here's the sched-
ule:
Ages 4-6: 1-1:45 p.m.; ages 7-
9: 2-3 p.m.; ages 10-12: 3-4 p.m.;
and ages 13-and-up: 4-5 p.m.
For further information on the
clinic, call the sports and fitness
department at JPM, (810) 967-
4030, Ext. 221 or 223.
Brandeis
University
will honor
Barbra
Streisand.
UAW, Chrysler Leaders
Receive Awards
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rifted Auto Workers (UAW)
president Owen Bieber and
Roy Levy Williams, com-
munity relations manager for the
Chrysler Corp., were presented
human rights awards for com-
munity service by the Jewish La-
bor Committee (JLC) during a
tail, Wholesale and Department
Store Union.
Thomas Donahue, secretary-
treasurer of the AFL-CIO, pre-
sented the awards to Mr. Bieber
and Mr. Williams on behalf of the
JLC's National Trade Union
Council for Human Rights.
What's New At
Temple? A Degree
In Jewish Studies
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Beach team (20-9) is the 13th
seed in the NCAA's West Re-
gional. The 49ers will open
tonight against No. 5 seed Utah
(27-5) in Boise, Idaho.
Mr. Greenberg, in his fifth
season as the coach at Long
Beach, has a career record of 88-
58 with the 49ers.
emple University in
Philadelphia, which was
founded as a Baptist college,
began offering a bachelor's de-
gree in Jewish studies this school
year. Temple joins some 90 oth-
er institutions in the United
States and Canada which have
similar programs.
At Temple, 34 courses are of-
fered within the Jewish studies
major. They range from "What
Is Judaism?" and "A Survey of
Modem Jewish History" to "Jew-
ish Humor" and "Israel Today."
Sol Hoffman, Owen Bieber, Lenore Miller, Thomas Donahue, Roy Levy Williams
and Michael Perry.
dinner held in New York City.
"This is the first time we have
honored leading figures from
both the management and labor
sectors, and we couldn't have
started with two more deserving
individuals," said Lenore Miller,
president of the JLC and the Re-
Council chair Sol Hoffman also
was the dinner chair. Michael
Perry is the executive director of
the JLC, an advocate organiza-
tion for both Jewish and labor is-
sues which was founded in 1934
in response to the rise of Nazism
in Europe.