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JN Editor Robert Sklar will speak
at the singles Shabbat service.
8:30 p.m. At Congregation B'nai
Moshe. Kari Grosinger, (248)
642-4260, Ext. 241.

Saturday, March 14

Purim bash. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. At the
JCC Maple/Drake. Sponsored by
Hillel of Metro Detroit, YAD and
the Community Outreach and
Education Department of Federa-
tion, B'nai B'rith Leadership Net-
work, Hadassah's Ruach chapter,
Temple Israel, the JCC, The Jewish
News and MSU Hillel. Sharon
Wise, (313) 577-3459.

Dinner at Illusions, Royal Oak,
with Jewish Professional Singles. 7
p.m. Larry, (248) 545-6912.

Wednesday, March 18

Young adult lunch with Rabbi M.
Robert Syme, 12:30-1:30 p.m.,
Big Daddy's Parthenon, West
Bloomfield. Cost: $12. (248) 661-
5700.

Coffee night, Jewish Professional
Singles. 7:30 p.m. At Muddee
Waters, Berkley David, (248)
398-9370.

Sharon Wise smartly plans social events and her future.

Thursday, March 19

Dinner with Jewish Professional
Singles. 7 p.m. Matt Bradys
Restaurant, Southfield Road.
Harry, (248) 357-8850.

Friday, March 20

Young Adult Shabbat Service. 8
p.m. At the home of Rabbi Danny
Nevins, 29753 Sugar Spring Road,
Farmington Hills. (248) 851-
5100.

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Midwest Jewish singles Shabba-
ton. At Bais Chabad of West
Bloomfield. For Jewish singles
over 30. Cost: $175 per person.
Rochel Crockett, (248) 855-6170.

March 22-24

UJA Young Leadership Conven-
tion in Washington, D.C. Tanya
Mazor-Posner, (248) 642-4260.

BARBARA WYLAN SEFTON

Special to the Jewish News

sk Sharon Wise what she
values most, and she will
tell you without hesitation:
the people in her life.
Friends, family and even those she has
yet to meet are the lifeblood of this
fun-loving Southfield resident with
curly brown hair and an illuminating
smile.
"I just love to be around people.
The bigger the group, the happier I
am," says Sharon, 25.
That's why it seems so fitting that
she has spent the last year and a half
planning social events for students and
young adults as program director for
Hillel of Metro Detroit.
"I love the social aspect of the job.
It's a great excuse to be able to walk
up and talk to anyone. I like the fact
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that I meet new people every day —
whether it's someone who walks into
my office or at an event," she says.
Sharon's latest project — a massive
Purim Bash — is a carnival event set
for March 14 at the Jewish Communi-
ty Center in West Bloomfield.
But as much as she loves her work
at Hillel, Sharon plans to pursue
another vocation that has been calling
to her for years: medical school.
"I've always wanted to go to med-
ical school. That's what I'm working
toward right now," she says.
-These days, you'll find Sharon two
evenings a week on the campus of
Wayne State University taking pre-
med courses. She'll take the MCAT in
April. "I'm going to medical school,
no matter how long it takes me," says
a determined Sharon.
A native of Danbury, Conn., Wise
graduated from the University of
Rochester in 1994, where she studied
psychology. She has lived in Detroit

for three years, and says she'd like to
stay.
"I've met some of the greatest peo-
ple in my life here. My friends are
very important to me. I've worked
hard for them. It's not easy to move to
a new place and not know anyone,"
says Sharon. "My family is in Con-
necticut, so my friends are my family
here."
Like so many students, with tuition
to pay and classes to attend, Sharon
hasn't been on a "real" vacation for
over a decade. But that changed
recently, when she spent a week in
Cozumel, Mexico.
"It was fantastic. I went snorkeling
and had a great time," says Sharon.
She laughs. "Now, that I went on
vacation, I'm hooked. I'm going to
Lake Tahoe in May. And, I want to go
to Israel before I start medical school."
Moving on, you might say, or at
least, on the move. El

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