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Seniors prove it's never too late
to learn the newest tricks.
Manny Koenigsberg plays a computer game, while Bertha Sonshine assists Ellen Moss at Hechtman Apartments.
apartment building, Moss has gone from never
using a computer to what she describes as "the
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mind-boggling" world of checking stocks and
year ago if Ellen Moss had been asked
world news and e-mailing her out-of-town great-
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to "transfer a page-border format from
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paintbrush to WordPerfect," she would
"It's the best thing that's happened since I
have
thought
she
had
been
transported
moved
in here," she said of the class in the Lillian
Jewish Apartments and Services
to the technological future. And she was. But the
and Samuel Hechtman Federation Apartments in
residents go hi tech in learning
future is now and this computer jargon is her
West Bloomfield. Moss can't get enough of the
their way around cyberspace.
own.
computer, adding, "Anytime the (computer lab)
Since first attending the Computer
doors are open, I walk in, sit and do my own
thing."
Connection program for seniors offered in her
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10/15
1999