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A CALL FOR
NOMINATIONS FOR...

The Sixth
Annual
Installation
into the

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OVER

SENIOR
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JEWISH
HALL
OF FAME
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The annual event recognizes the spirit of
Chanukah and metro Detroit seniors who are
eighty years or older
for their contributions in the
Jewish and/or community at large.

To request a nomination form:

Call Sherry Veal at
(248) 661-0123, Ext. 1-233.

Completed nomination forms must be
postmarked by January 8, 1999.

Sponsored By:

Sharon and Marc Berke
Married: August 13, 1994
Marc Berke's lunchtime request
was atypical of most callers who
asked WCSX 94.7 FM to play their
favorite song. Berke asked
to pro-
pose to
his girl-
friend
Sharon
Sherline
on the air.
Jeff and Terri Trepeck
"I knew
Married: April 4,
I wanted to
1998
do some-
She couldn't place the
thing cre-
brilliantly sparkling
ative," Berke
item on her finger,
said. "I
but when Terri Rosen
want to
saw the Lalique crys-
just get down
tal ice bucket she
on one knee."
knew Jeff Trepeck
With a disc
was proposing mar-
jockey's assis-
riage.
tance, Berke
Several years earlier.
Sharon and Marc Berke
recorded his
Rosen and her parents found the
proposal. The
beautiful ice bucker in Paris. They
station gave him a 20-minute time
bought it, but agreed that they
block during which his request
wouldn't use it "until I got
would be aired. Only trouble was,
engaged." Rosen remembers.
he had to get Sherline to listen to
She never shared the story with
WCSX during those 20 minutes —
Trepeck. When he asked her parents'
not an easy task, as Sherline and
permission to take their daughter's
Berke don't agree on radio prefer-
hand in marriage, Terri's mother,
ences.
Reva Rosen, told him the long-
He used the excuse of going to
standing
tale.
pick up a gift he had purchased for
One evening, the couple carried in
their five-year dating anniversary.
dinner. "Jeff was quiet the entire
He drove around aimlessly, waiting
evening," Rosen recalled. After dinner,
to hear the recording. She kept ask-
he said he had dessert in the car. "I had
ing where we were going and was
no idea what it was, but I was very sus-
getting more and more impatient
picious because he hates dessert and I

Happenings

Jewish
i Npartments

Dec. 31-Jan. 1, 1999
Join young Jewish adults from Michigan and Illinois at
Pilgrim Park camp in Princeton, Ill., for a Steppin' Out
New Year's Eve. Extravaganza. Chicago's outdoor events
organization for Jewish adults will host broomball,
lacrosse, football, arts and crafts, sledding and hiking.
After a cocktail hour, dinner will be catered and games
played around a bonfire. Cost: $128-185. Call (773)
509-8595, or e-mail steppin@xnet.com .

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Media Sponsors:

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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MEMORIES

Tuesday, Jan. 12
Discuss The Gold of Exodus with Rabbi Josh Bennett, as
part of the Loop book club program. 7 p.m. Birmingham
Borders. Kari Grosinger, (248) 203-1470, or Amy Milner,
(248) 354-1050.

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1998

because she thought I was lost,"
Berke recalled.
Finally, he heard his own voice
over the airwaves, pulled over to the
side or the road and turned up the
volume. After the pre-recorded mes-
sage, Berke pulled out an
engagement ring that had
been passed down from
his great-great-grand-
mother through his
mother to him, and
popped the question.

Services also thanks all the other organizations who
have contributed to the success of
'Eight Over Eighty"

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