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Quaalude addiction, sold com-
modity options for a year and fin-
ished his schooling at the
American University of the
Caribbean. He decided to move
west to ski, and snagged a resi-
dency at the University of Neva-
da.
But drugs and alcohol dogged
him. Dr. Davis dropped out of
two residency programs because
of his Quaalude addiction and
then took up drinking as a
stand-in for the drugs.
Still, he functioned. He ran a
medical clinic in Salt Lake City,
married, had a child. Then he
ran into trouble with federal au-
thorities.
Dr. Davis said he spent $1
million in legal fees, taking his
case to trial and through the ap-
peals process. He maintains his
innocence today, although he ad-
mits that physicians working-in
his clinic may have been guilty
of billing for services not per-
formed.
"From a business point of
view, I made some mistakes and
I alienated some patients be-
cause we were so busy," he said,
adding that he wasn't well-liked
in Salt Lake City, perhaps be-
cause he is Jewish rather than
Mormon. Of all the physicians
targeted in the sting, he was the
only one arrested.
"They saw me as having

horns," Dr. Davis said. "The city
attorney for West Jordan City,
where I had my practice, said he
didn't believe I was guilty for
what I was convicted of, but they
didn't like my ethics and this was
the way to get me out of the com-
munity."
After his arrest, Dr. Davis
went through a 500-hour reha-
bilitation program to reduce his
prison sentence by a year. He
credits it with saving his life.
"It was probably the worst
thing that happened to me and
the best thing that happened to
me, because it enabled me to
come to terms with myself. I
didn't think I had a problem," Dr.
Davis said. "If you asked me to
line up all the scenarios of my life,
I never thought prison would be
one of them.
"I looked at being in prison as
being in a spacecraft: I had to dis-
cover what I needed to do to be-
come a better human being. I
went back to school, the school of
Bob, if you will."
Next in line for publication is
Doomsday Kiss, in which Alex
Seacourt saves the world from
a deadly virus, followed by A
Time To Die, in which Dr. Sea-
court prevents the large-scale
manufacture of Quaaludes. Dr.
Davis is cleaning up the first book
he wrote in prison, Ghosts Of The
Dead. ❑

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Judaica Boost

An endowed Judaica curatorship is established
at the University of Michigan.

JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER

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esources for Jewish schol-
ars will soon expand, with
a new position opening for
a Judaic curator at the
University of Michigan library.
The $1 million Irving M. Her-
melin Judaica Curatorship en-
dowment provides funding for a
full-time Judaica expert and for
expansion and continued devel-
opment of the Judaica collection.
Detroit Jewish activist David
Hermelin, his wife Doreen, and
his sister Henrietta Hermelin
Weinberg donated $325,000 —
the largest single contribution
to the endowment — in honor of
their father, Irving M. Hermelin.
The library matched their gift,
and the remaining money was
raised from individuals and
foundations.
According to Professor Zvi
Gitelman, director of the
Frankel Center for Judaic Stud-
ies at U-M, the university's Ju-
daica collection currently
numbers 70,000-80,000 books,

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terials.
"Increasingly, the information
resources are not simply books
or not even documents," said Dr.
Gitelman. "There are all kinds
of electronic resources, and we
know that the new person will
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puter media]."
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ble for building the collection
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tance to faculty and students.
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brary is seeking someone who
possesses both a strong back-
ground in Jewish texts and good
information retrieval and pro-
cessing skills. The library will
also retain a part-time Judaica
librarian.
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enhanced or added activities will
allow Michigan's Judaica col-
lection and the community of
students and scholars it serves
to attain a level of excellence and

U M Professor Zvi Gitelman

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reputation enjoyed by few other
institutions," said Jonathan
Rodgers, head of the library's
Near East division.
According to Professor Gitel-
man, 13 faculty members are
associated with U-M's interdis-
ciplinary Judaic studies program,
which offers approximately 20
courses each semester.
The Judaica curatorship is the
library's first endowed curator-
ship. Major donors to the Her-
melin curatorship — many of
them from Michigan — will be
acknowledged on a permanent
plaque in the front hall of the
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Li-
brary. ❑

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