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Thrice Blessed
Three teachers mark their 20-year anniversaries
in the classroom.
her almost 30 years to accumulate 20
years of teaching, having taken time
away when daughters Carole and Amy
were young and husband Jimmy was in
ith 20 years of nursery
school out of state.
school classroom experi-
Levitsky notes that in addition to her
ence, what does Eileen
teaching
skills, Friedman is "an accom-
Weiner look forward to?
plished
pianist,
spirited dancer, artist
She wants her own grandchildren to
and
creative
photographer."
teach!
Kohn says earning her elementary
This year, Weiner and fellow Adat
teaching certificate
Shalom nursery
fulfilled
a dream.
school and kinder-
Each
September,
garten teachers
she's eager to return
Faye Friedman and
to school because of
Phyllis Kohn cele-
"the adorable stu-
brated two decades
dents and the staff
of sharing wisdom
camaraderie." She
and creativity in
calls the chance to
their classrooms. Ar
influence the lives
a recent dinner
Faye Friedman
Phyllis Kohn
of
children "a
planned by their
cherished
privilege
current teaching
and
a
carefully
honed
assistants, the three cele-
skill." She treasures
brated the milestone sur-
visits and notes from
rounded by dozens of co-
parents and former
workers, past and pre-
students and says her
sent, including the sur-
career "will go on for-
prise attendance of their
ever and ever. It's my
first teaching assistants.
life's dividends."
Each of the honorees
Kohn and her hus-
was presented with a
band, Alan, have three
Rosenthal kiddush cup
children: Leslie, Mark
and a book of messages
and Arleen. Their
written by everyone from
seven grandchildren
school staff to rabbis and
have attended the
cantors to Adat Shalom
Eileen Weiner with student Anna school. Levitsky says,
Synagogue employees.
Eisenberg
"We are so fortunate
This included "the main-
she continues to
tenance man and the
teach, inspire and touch our students."
mail sorter, which just shows how close
Weiner remembers the year she
everyone is," Weiner said.
worked
at Adat Shalom before tern-
Dottie Levitsky, director of the
porarily
retiring to raise her children,
Farmington Hills school, says having
Howard,
Robert and Laura, with hus-
Friedman, Kohn and Weiner as teachers
band Michael. She taught, and occasion-
has made Adat Shalom "thrice blessed."
ally substituted for station wagon drivers
Friedman said she has wanted to be a
who transported students to school:
nursery school teacher since the age of
After her children were all in school, she
11. After helping decorate a bulletin
returned to work — to classes with
board in the Southfield Shaarey Zedek
"twice
as many students, parent-toddler
Beth Hayeled nursery school and kinder-
classes,
enrichment classes, extended-day
garten class taught by her aunt and role
classes
and
more," she says. Weiner adds
model Miriam Meyers, Friedman says
that she can't imagine a more uplifting
she was hooked. She earned her teaching
job than teaching children.
certificate in 1972 from the University of
Levitsky calls Weiner "the epitome of
Michigan, then worked as a Head Start
organization
and creativity" Weiner says
teacher in Southfield before coming to
that
after
having
had the grandchildren
Adat Shalom.
of
co-workers
in
her
class, she is quite
Friedman finds excitement in "intro-
ready
to
teach
her
own
— her daughter
ducing basic concepts at a time when
II
Laura
is
expecting
a
baby.
children really want to learn." It took
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