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and chapel to the Farmington
Hills school next year.
"We think we can occupy parts
of it by the spring," said Robert
Schostak, the Hillel president.
At Akiva Hebrew Day School,
JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER
meanwhile, students still don't
he city of Huntington know if expansion awaits the
Woods has a track record Lathrop Village brownstone or if
of electing few females to classes instead will be shifted to
its five-member city corn- another location entirely.
"All I can say for sure is that
mission.
Tuesday changed that prece- we need 150,000 square feet, and
dent when three women, all of all we have now is 35,000," said
whom are Jewish, were elected Barry Eisenberg, Akiva's execu-
to the commission. tive director. "We've been oper-
Michelle Friedman Appel, ating classrooms in the library
Phyllis Kramer and Mary White and, at times, in the auditorium.
received the highest vote totals. We're out of space."
They will take office on Nov. 13,
No relief is expected soon,
joining Mayor Ronald Gillharn, school officials concede.
who ran unopposed and Corn-
Last year, Akiva agreed to sell
missioner Gordon Hassig.
its building to developer Jeffrey
"I think people were tired of Surnow for $1.3 million. But the
feeling like the government hap- deal was made contingent on two
pened to them," Ms. Kramer said. factors: that the school find a new
"I also think people were tired of site, and that Mr. Surnow be
having one viewpoint." granted rezoning of the present
In Southfield, incumbents Sid- property to build a strip mall.
ney Lantz, Vicki Goldbaum and
To date, the parties have
Joan Seymour easily won re-elec- struck out on both counts.
tion. Candidate John Reeves was
Mr. Eisenberg and Mr.
also successful in his bid.
Surnow declined to discuss de-
Perhaps the biggest surprise tails of the agreement.
in that city was the defeat of
"It's nobody's business," Mr.
Sharkey Haddad, who finished Surnow said, adding that he re-
dead last in the race among eight mained confident an amicable so-
candidates. Mr. Haddad received lution will be found.
the fourth-highest vote total in
"I'm not interested in going to
court (against the city of Lathrop
the September primary.
In other races, Farmington Village), and I'm not interested
Hills voters elected Aldo in fighting," Mr. Surnow said.
Vagnozzi to a two-year term as "I'm not that kind of developer."
mayor. Vicki Barnett, off an un-
Inside Akiva, school officials
successful bid to unseat state are pleased with the switch this
Sen. David Honigman, was the year to single-sex classrooms for
top vote getter in the Farming- some ninth-grade students.
ton Hills City Council race. She
"Especially for girls, when they
joins incumbents Nancy Bates are in single-sex classes they
and Terry Sever, who were re- seem to learn better and feel freer
to express their opinions," said
elected.
In Walled Lake, where voter Rabbi Karmi Gross, Akiva's prin-
turnout was at 9 percent, in- cipal. Rabbi Gross said the sin-
cumbents Linda Ackley, William gle-sex concept eventually will be
Burke and Heather Hill all won expanded to other grade levels.
At Hillel, construction on the
their races.
Birmingham voters re-elected school's 25,000-square-foot, $11-
Archie Damman and Dante million addition is right on sched-
Lanzetta. Russell Dixon and ule, Mr. Schostak said, with
Scott Moore also were successful. dedication ceremonies slated for
Over 1,200 voters showed up next fall.
in Oak Park to re-elect Mayor
"About 99 percent of the inte-
Gerald Naftaly and council mem- rior renovation is complete," he
bers Raymond Abrams and said.
Michael Seligson. Their races
In the spring, work will be fin-
ished on an outdoor soccer field,
were uncontested.
baseball diamond and volleyball
court on land along the northern
border of the property.
Hillel hopes eventually to build
its student body to 800 from its
current level of 665. ❑
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Schools Working
On Growth
DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER
C
lasses are cramped, but
hopes remain cautiously
high at two Jewish day
schools awaiting larger
digs.
At least the students at Hil-
lel Day School can see and hear
the construction that will bring
a new science wing, gymnasium
Correction
An incorrect name was listed
last week among the athletes
who will compete in the Pan
Am Maccabi Games. Jordan
Kobernick of Huntington
Woods will participate in
junior track.
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