somebody brought his Joe Cornell I do sing her praises. She has
award from when he was 13. It worked the livin' stuff out of all
was a screaming, crying, hugging the committee members. I told
affair."
people Sunday that if a little lady
A few weeks after her fateful comes up to you in the market
encounter with Ms. Elston, Ms. and calls you by your maiden
Feldman gathered together name, keep walking," she joked.
schoolmates from Mumford High
If members of the Pasteur El-
— many of them Pasteur grads ementary Alumni Foundation
— after their 30-year reunion. can raise more money, they plan
The casual meeting culminated to build a habitat playground at
in a loose agreement that they'd the school or to paint in places
do something for their old school. where it's needed. In the interim,
Sunday's reunion sealed the pact. at least one alumnus, a pharma-
Hundreds of grads reached by cist, asked if he could come into a
phone and post met at Pasteur in class and talk about his profes-
the afternoon for a program that sion.
included speeches by a represen-
"If somebody didn't pinch me,
tative of Detroit Mayor Dennis I would think it wasn't for real,"
Archer's staff and Pasteur Prin- said Ms. Elston, a maintenance
cipal June C. Green-Rivers. A worker at the General Motors
group of children in the school's Tech Center. "I wish that every-
Head Start program sang. T- one would' try to do this for his
shirts and sweatshirts were sold. school, especially athletes, singers,
People mingled with old friends people who've made it in business.
and strolled through the school What a difference it would make.
building. A few thousand dollars It wouldn't have to be large sums,
were raised. A lot of people com- but if everybody puts a drop in,
mitted to joining the alumni the bucket will become full."
group, which already has a core
On Thursday, the alumni
of 20 people.
group met to go over the proceeds
Sunday's gathering, Ms. Elston from last Sunday's event and to
said, was "marvelous."
plan fund-raising activities.
"I am still on a high. I cannot
"It seems like something we
believe our turnout and that peo- should've been doing all along,"
ple are still so in love with our Ms. Elston said. "It just takes
school that they want to give one spark of energy to start up
something back. This was all be- a fire, and the fire was started
cause of Marcy Tatken Feldman. by Marcy. I just love her." ❑
Corrections
In the May 16 article on being observant in. West Bloomfield, the
l ocation of the eruv was incorrect. The eruv is east of Orchard Lake
1.ro:.d on
and south of Maple Road for one square mile. Also, the Bais Men-
ach.em and Ganeinu day schools are run by Bais Chabad of Farm-
ington Hills, not Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield.
Incorrect information was printed under the name and photograph of Kathryn Becker, Berkley High
School senior, in the May 16 Yearbook '97. The information for Birmingham Groves senior Tami
Tarnow was lost in the mail:
KATHRYN BECKER Berkley
TAME TARNOW Birmingham Groves
Becker is co-valedictorian and recipient of the
Madame Curie science/math award and the Xe-
rox humanities/social science award. She is ac-
tive in orchestra, Future Problem Solving,
drama, Oakland Teen Democrats and Patterns
literary magazine. She was a co-presenter at the
Junior Academy of Sciences. She will attend
Oberlin College.
Tarnow is a member of National Honor Society,
Phi Beta Kappa, Blues Honor Corps and Dream
Dialogue. She was a forensics state finalist, on var-
sity cross country, and is an accomplished figure
skater. She is president of Shir Shalom Temple
Youth. She won a U-M Regents-Alumni Scholar-
ship and will attend the University of Michigan
Honors College or Northwestern University.
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