Byron Siegel
Receives Award

Byron "Buddy" Siegel, who has
chaired the Temple Beth El
Brotherhood blood drive for 10
years, has received
the Robert L.
Rosenbush Award,
which goes to a
member who emu-
lates the qualities of
the former brother-
hood president, the
late Robert
Rosenbush.
Byron Siegel
Under Siegel's
leadership, the
blood drive has become a semi-
annual event averaging a donation of
80 pints.

Workshop Set
On Archives

Heidi Christein, director of the
Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
will present a workshop that teaches
professional techniques for exhibiting
historical documents and artifacts.
Titled "Exhibits in a Small Shop,"
it will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday,

June 24, at the Walter P. Reuther
Library, Wayne State University, as
part of the annual meeting of the
Michigan Archival Association.
Christein, along with James
Conway, head of design of the
Detroit Historical Museum, will offer
tips on organizing, planning and dis-
playing small historical collections.
For information, call Mike Smith
or Mary Wallace, (313) 577-4024.

JAW Chapter
Sets Installation

Marshall-Israel-Brandeis Chapter,
Jewish Women International, will
have its installation or officers at
noon Thursday, June 17, at Farina's,
2485 Coolidge.
The following will be installed:
Irene Rodman, president; Esther
Applebaum, Ruth Blumberg, Eileen
Israel, Helen Pliskow, Rose Stern,
vice presidents; Estelle Friedenberg,
treasurer; Jean Katz, financial secre-
tary; Dorothy Bodzin, recording sec-
retary-; Rose Michelson, communica-
tions secretary; Anne Koper, corre-
sponding secretary; Ruth Fisher,
sunshine secretary; Ida Nathan,
installing officer; Bess Lipson and
Anne Berman, installation chairmen.
For reservations, call Estelle
Friedenberg, (248) 353-3238.

Here's To...

RebeccaLillie Feinstein, formerly of
Bloomfield Hills, received a four-year
high school academ-
ic scholarship to the
North Broward
Preparatory School
in Florida. She is the
daughter of Ann
(Abrams) and David
Feinstein of Boca
Raton.

Lauren Rich of West Bloomfield
received the Michigan Principal's
Award for Student of the Year at Ealy
Elementary School for the 5th grade
graduating class.

Betty and Grant Silverfarb will be
awarded the Josephine S. Weiner
Award for Community Service at the
NCJW/GDS Kosher Meals on

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Wheels Benefit on June 24 at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Mrs.
Silverfarb has delivered kosher meals
for over 25 years; she and her hus-
band established a fund for kosher
meals on wheels. They both also
funded the annual Jewish Youth
Award. She is a volunteer in the Up
and Out for Seniors program.

Marcia Gordon of Bloomfield Hills is
the 1999 winner of a $2,500 grant
from the Harry and Sarah Laker
Scholarship Fund,
which is co-sponsored
by the Beth Achim
Religious School of
Adat Shalom
Synagogue. She will
attend the Hebrew
University in
Jerusalem.

First Cap
And Gown

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Graduation class proves they are ready
for schools of higher learning.

SHELLI DORFMAN
Editorial Assistant

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object stored in the carton on the stage;j\
The children introduced the articles to
the audience as a way of sharing infor-
mation about the individual from whom
they had received their name(s).
Gartenberg said the play was an oppor-
tunity for the students to learn about
their namesakes as well as their heritage.

eary-eyed guests, many
flashing pictures and stand-
ing behind video cameras,
watched as 19 graduates
marched in white robes to accept their
much-deserved
diplomas.
To the
applause of 150
parents, grand-
parents, siblings
and friends, the
1999 graduating
class of the
Shaarey Zedek
Beth Hayeled
kindergarten was
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introduced.
The June 2
celebration took
Members of the Shaarey Zedek Beth Hayeled kindergarten class
place at the
per form.
Shaarey Zedek
B'nai Israel Center
in West Bloomfield.
When the curtain opened, the class
The program was highlighted by the
stood dressed in clothing depicting the
presentation of The Secrets in the
time when their ancestors lived.
Kindergarten Chest, written by kinder-
Marly Zack, 5, named for her aunt
garten teacher Susan Gartenberg.
Zelda May chose from the chest a
Narrator Joyce Bagley, assistant
handmade afghan her Aunt Zelda knit
kindergarten teacher, explained that each
for her nieces.
new graduate had chosen a special
Evan Rocher, 5, in a cap, knickers
and suspenders, presented can-
dlesticks that depicted those
"buried by Margit (his relative)
when the Nazis came to get
her." The candlesticks were later
salvaged from the ground,
brought to America and given
to Evan.
Most of the children learned
that their ancestors made good
lives in spite of limited opportu-
n ities.
Danielle Rapp, 6, showed
_/
dolls, like the ones left behind
by her namesake Rilkah, killed
as a young child in the
Holocaust.
Gartenberg hopes the pro-
Andrew Goldman, 6, tells about his family histog, ject taught the children "that
while classmates Ronnie Israel, Marly Zack and
they have a responsibility to
Jack Canvasser stand back.
carry on their Judaism because