Favorite friends
spend a day with
Hillel elementary
students.

JULIE WIENER Staff Writer

KRISTA HUSA Photographer

Top of page: Aunts, uncles,
grandparents and friends mingled in
the lobby beforf. going to class.

Middle of page, left to right:
First wader Emily Hersch and
aunt, Marianne Pesick, draw
pictures of each other.

First grader Victor Kaufman
and his aunt, Alla Katz,
color together.

Frances Fine's kindergarten
class sits in a circle with
guests during story time.

Right: Kindergarteners and
"special persons color together.

11/6
1998

22 Detroit Jewish News

.

. ore than 400 adult
. friends of Hillel Day
. School of Metropolitan
_ Detroit kindergarteners
through third graders piled into
school buses and swarmed the halls
for "Special PersOns' Day"
After an early-morning breakfast,
minyan and screening of a movie
about Hillel, the assortment of grand-
mas, grandpas, cousins, aunts, uncles
and friends hit the classrooms.
In Joanne Liss' first grade, students
interviewed their visitors and drew pictures
of them engaged in favorite activities.
"I think it's terrific. I could spend all
day drawing with her" said Michelle
Leader, aunt of first grader Maura
Kuper, as the two collaborated on a
picture of them playing with Leader's

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