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Monheit were married in a qui-
et ceremony at the Hunter's
Ridge Clubhouse in Farmington
Hills. The date was significant:
it was exactly one year after they
were reunited.
They joke that the timing of
the wedding was perfect. Mrs.
Gold had just been laid off from
her job at a mining company in
Colorado.
"I had never intended to move
back home to Michigan, ever,"
Mrs. Gold says. "My father con-
siders Marty a miracle worker
for bringing me back."
Leanie Gunsberg, a longtime
friend of both Mr. and Mrs. Gold,
wasn't surprised by the reunion
of her two classmates. "In high
school, they were practically in-
separable," she says. "Even when
they were teens, it seemed like
they were going to get married.
`There was a 24-year lapse in
time since they first went out, but
now that they're together it's like
time has stood still. They have
that same puppy love."
Today, Mr. and Mrs. Gold are
living comfortably in Farming-
ton Hills. He is still a contractor
at Majestic Heating & Cooling
while she is a financial consul-
tant at Detroit Edison.
Mr. Gold continues to dabble
in fads from his high-school days:
He loves to ride Harley Davidson
motorcycles, much to his wife's
dismay. But together they have
developed a relaxing pattern of
traveling and listening to jazz
and blues music.
Their favorite pastime, how-
ever, is recounting their unique
love story to others. "People just
get a real kick out of it," says Mr.
Gold. "We expect Oprah to be
calling real soon."
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ov. John Engler's signa-
ture on the state school-
aid budget passed by the
Legislature last month
means Jewish organizations will
likely be forced to pick up most
of the tab for New Americans
taking English-as-a-second-lan-
guage (ESL) classes.
The legislative package re-
duced adult education funds
from $185 million in 1995-96 to
$80 million in 1996-97. The $80
million came as a relief to some
who expected the governor to
stick with his initial plan of elim-
inating state aid for adult edu-
cation.
The full impact of reductions
on ESL classes won't be known
for a few more months.
"Hopefully, we will find a
funding source for the fall," said
Judah Isaacs, senior staff asso-
ciate for planning and allocations
with the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. "How de-
pends on a lot of variables. For
now, we are waiting to see what
the school districts decide."
Barbara Nurenberg, executive
director of Jewish Vocational
Service, believes the Southfield
and Ferndale school districts will
have ESL classes in the fall. The
two districts in consortium with
Oak Park run ESL classes at
JVS and the Jimmy Prentis Mor-
ris Jewish Community Center
(JPM) for 1,000 New Americans.
Although classes will contin-
ue, the maximum number of in-
struction hours a student can
take without incurring cost is
450. That's half what was al-
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lowed in one school year under
previous funding levels. The
length of the school year for ESL
classes is expected to be short-
ened considerably.
Ms. Nurenberg said JVS is
looking for ways to offset the
costs of child care, which, before
the new legislation passed, was
provided for ESL students at
JVS during class time.
Funding summer classes is
also an issue. State dollars used
to cover JVS summer classes. In
response to the new legislation,
Federation approved using
monies from an endowment fund
for all costs associated with the
JVS summer classes, which av-
erage $220 per student. JVS
serves 100 New Americans and
is anticipating 30 new arrivals
this summer.
JPM summer classes were
never paid for by the state and
cost Federation $10,000 each
summer.
"It's detrimental to interrupt
classes," Mr. Isaacs said. 'That's
why we worked to make sure we
could get the summer funded."
At the same time, Federation,
JVS, JPM, Resettlement Service
and Ferndale Schools are trying
to determine how future ESL
classes for New Americans will
be funded.
Mr. Isaacs said in the coming
months, Federation vows, if nec-
essary, to find a way to continue
funding classes for New Ameri-
cans, many of whom cannot af-
ford to pay for an English
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