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one knows Jews have horns. It
made me realize that while I felt
like everyone else, to them I was —/
different. I guess I feel like I have
to do this work so that no one
touches my children's heads."
Ms. Yorke, who is vice presi-
dent of Temple Israel and serves
on the national board of Hadas-
sah, is being honored for her work
both in the Jewish community
and with intergroup initiatives.
Through Temple Israel, Hadas-
sah and the Ecumenical Institute,
she has initiated numerous in-
tergroup dialogues, social action
activities and leadership de-
velopment.
One of the projects she
helped start is the Ecu-
menical Institute's Church-
Synagogue Tour, an event
she likens to a "progressive
dinner." Over the course of
three hours, participants vis-
it two churches and a syna-
gogue, meeting with their
religious leaders and con-
gregants.
The 1997 Greater Detroit
Women of Achievement
awards takes place Thurs-
day, May 1, at the Radisson
Plaza Hotel in Southfield. In
addition to Susan Yorke,
honorees are Brenita Craw- -/
ford; president and CEO of
Mercy Hospital; Dalia Gar-
cia, manager of training and de-
velopment at Mexican Industries;
and Jane Thomas, assistant dean
at Wayne State University School
of Medicine.
In addition, a lifetime achieve-
ment award will be presented to
Mildred Jeffrey, governor emeri-
ta of the Wayne State University =\
board of governors.
ABC News Senior Correspon-
dent Bettina Gregory will be the
guest speaker.
According to Nancy Bechek,
ADL's director of development for
the Michigan region, ADL plans
to make the Women of Achieve-
ment awards an annual event.
"The response has been very pos-
itive," she said. "Our goal is to C
point out the wonderful and nu-
merous efforts that are made by
many people in the metro Detroit
area toward building bridges of
tolerance and understanding."
Funds raised from the $125-
per-ticket event will "help support
the many programs of the ADL,
and its fact-finding research which
we are well known for," said Ms.
Bechek.

PH OTO BY B ILL 1-IANSEN

hen Susan Bonin volun-
teered to produce a video
for the Anti-Defamation
League's first Detroit
Women of Achievement benefit,
she wasn't expecting the experi-
ence to change her life.
A professional documentary
video producer and ADL board
member, the West Bloomfield res-
ident thought a video in which the
honorees got to tell their own sto-
ries might be more powerful than
the usual speeches. However, in
talking to the five women from di-
verse backgrounds whom the

Susan Bonin interviews Women of
Achievement winner Susan Yorke.

ADL has named "women of
achievement" for their communi-
ty efforts, Ms. Borin found herself
becoming personally moved.
"It was incredible finding out
about the common ribbon in their
pasts and the incidents of dis-
crimination that spurred them on
to be activists," she said. "It was
an angle that I didn't even realize
was going to happen when I start-
ed."
She was pleased with the hon-
esty and openness of her subjects.
"People were really going within
themselves," she said.
Among the women being hon-
ored is Susan Yorke of West
Bloomfield, whose commitment
to community activism stems in
part from early encounters with
bigotry. Ms. Yorke, who is Jew-
ish, and her family moved to what
was then called Bloomfield Town-
ship in the 1950s, before most oth-
er Jews had left the city, and she
attended Bloomfield High (now
Andover). "I was one of the only
Jewish students in a school of
500," she recalled.
"One day one of the kids came
over to me and put his hand on
my head. When I asked him what
he was doing, he said he was feel-
ing for my horns, because every-

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For ticket reservations for the
Women of Achievement event,
call the ADL, (810) 355-3730.