The Susan Alterman
The Susan Alterman
JCC Leadership Award
Jewish Community Center Leadership Awardees
was created in memory of Susan Alterman,
by her husband, Irwin and son, Owen.
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Doris Blechman 1990 - Harry M. Eisenberg 1990
Jerald Kaufman 1990
Lawrence Wolfe 1994 - Susan Alterman 1994
Lisa Broder 1996 - Steven Fisher 1996
Miriam Bergman 1998 - Ken Marblestone 1998
Susan Alterman was an exemplary role model for the Jewish
Congratulations to Miriam Bergman and Ken Marblestone,
Community Center, and for more than 25 years she partici-
pated as an active member of the Health Club and became
who have recently received the prestigious
Susan Alterman JCC Leadership Award.
increasingly involved in leadership responsibilities. She was an
inspiration to many members, and her warm personality con-
tributed to the respect she earned at the Health Club. Susan
served on the Board of Directors and became Vice President
of the Center. Her daily use of the Center and interaction with
the staff and members brought special insight and knowledge
to her participation on numerous JCC committees. Susan was
honored with the JCC Young Leadership Award in 1994.
serves as Co-chair of Temple Beth El's General
Investment Committee. Outside of the Jewish community, Ken
Susan served the Jewish community in many other ways as
well. She was treasurer of the National Council of Jewish
Women, Detroit Section, and for those years performed her
volunteer duties at the NCJW office almost daily. She served
serves on the Dance Gallery Foundation Board of Directors in
Ann Arbor. He is a First Vice President and Director of NBD
Bank's Private Banking & Investments Center in Ann Arbor. Ken
has been married for I I years to Janisse Nagel and has two
daughters, Melissa, 7 and Haley, 3.
Ken Marblestone has been on the Jewish
Community Center Board for one year. He is
also a member of the Marketing and Budget &
Finance Committees, and was a member of the
Center's Strategic Planning Group. He also
on the Board of Orchards Children's Services and several
Federation and Adat Shalom congregation committees. Her
love of Judaism continued through a study group that met
Miriam Bergman has been a member of the
regularly for almost 25 years and included annual study trips
to Jewish communities around the United States.
JCC Board of Directors since 1994. She began
her involvement with the Center as a liaison
from the Young Adult Division of Federation.
She has served as Co-chair on the Child
Development Center Committee since 1995
and as a member at-large of the Executive Committee since
1997. She is currently a member of the Day Camp Committee
and has served on the Nominating Committee. Miriam lives in
Susan was born in 1944 and grew up in PortJervis, New York.
She attended Russell Sage College in Troy, New York and lived
on a kibbutz in Israel for almost a year after college. She
worked in market research at a major advertising agency in
New York City, Eastern Airlines in Miami, and NBD in Detroit,
until she left the corporate world to raise her son, Owen.
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Susan became ill in November, 1995, which resulted in her
death in April, 1997.
West Bloomfield with her husband, Ronald and children,
Zachary and Rachel. She works as a clinical pharmacist for
Coram Alternate Site Services in Plymouth.