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Students may be found banking online, creating and sending greeting cards, e-mailing family and friends, or even looking up side effects for medications they may be taking. Damon J. Bradley, Jewish Apartments and Services development Ellen Moss, Ann Barber (standing), Manny Koenigsberg director, said the com- Bertha Sonshine (standing) and Sadie Maltzman enjoy the puter training aims to computer class. prepare older adults for the federal government's implementation of sending benefits, like it group created from proceeds of the Social Security, electronically" sale of Sinai Hospital to the Detroit When Sadie Maltzman announced, Medical Center. The project is a part- "I never dreamed I would get on a nership with Operation Able, a comput- computer," her feelings are echoed by er instruction program for those older others in the class. But Barber said the than 40; Wayne State University's seniors are at "a perfect age to sit and School of Gerontology and the Hannan learn. They are not learning this for a Foundation. job — they are just doing what they Ann Barber, who teaches in all three want to do." apartment facilities, says about half of With no end to what students are the students have no computer experi- finding out about the computer, ence. For them, she starts at the begin- Maltzman said she finally got the hang ning, pointing out the difference of the basics, only to discover her between the more familiar typewriter computer could do something incredi- keys and the lighter-touch, closer- ble. Opening her e-mail, she found together computer keys. she had been sent a full-page color And as far as the computer itself, picture of her great-granddaughter everything is new One class member Julia Rose from Chicago. had nearly 50 e-mail letters awaiting her, In a day when great-grandma carries because although she had learned to around books filled with e-mail address- send mail, she did not know which keys es and downloaded family photos, it is to press to read what she received. She becoming less unusual to walk into a was then astonished that she could send computer class filled with 80-some- the same letter to her three nieces in dif- things. With the efficiency of saving files ferent cities at the same time. onto discs and sendina mail across the Barber commonly hears gasps of,' world in a matter of seconds, it is no "Oh my goodness," and, "How did you wonder that even those new to the com- do that?" puter world are starting to take its time- Bertha Sonshine, a Hechtman resi- savers for granted. dent, is the class coach in her building. One member of the JAS class was She works with Barber, as well as meet- overheard commenting on "old-fash- ing with residents who sign up for ioned" computers, saying, "At 85, I between-class practice sessions. Sonshine don't. have 10 minutes to wait to con- said she hopes to dispel the feeling nect online." II among seniors that "technology passed All Jewish Apartments and Services residents — including those at Hechtman, and in Oak Park at the Anna and Meyer Prentis and Harriet and Ben Teitel apartment buildings — are offered a chance at computer instruction. At each facility, computer teachers offer eight-week, hour-long classes. The computers were provided through a January 1 999 grant from the Jewish Fund, an independent, non-prof- .