For Openers

Award Of A Lifetime

Yiddish Limericks

thought I died," was how Magda Rimai recalled a frightening April 12 inci-
derit.
A day that began with anticipation and ended with a much-deserved
honor had elements that left her friends shaking.
While awaiting the start of a Golden Oldies awards ceremony at the Detroit
Athletic Club honoring volunteers, the 97-year-old Rimai began to choke. After
futile attempts were made to revive her, someone ran to the head table to summon
help. As she began to turn blue, a man appeared and administered the Heimlich
maneuver, recalled Rimai's friend, Marcy
Feldman of Huntington Woods, who was
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there. After catching her breath and thank-
ing the gentleman with a kiss on the cheek,
Rimai, whose experience went unnoticed by
most, sat back in her seat.
"We didn't realize who the man was," said
Feldman, who later discovered him to be the
event's keynote speaker, Dr. Gerald Coyle, a
Grosse Pointe orthodontist. He was invited
to speak on volunteerism by his colleague,
event founder Dr. Sam Harris, 99.
On the podium, Dr. Coyle modestly,
without explanation, announced, "The most
exciting thing that happened to me today
was a kiss I got from Magda."
Rimai, the only award winner represent-
ing a Jewish agency, was nominated by social
worker Lainie Phillips of Prentis Jewish
Apartments in Oak Park, Rimai's home for
Magda Rimai with Dr. Gerald Coyle the last 37 years.
Always busy, she once knit blankets for a
fund-raiser and, upon discovering they went
unsold, "purchased them herself and donated them to a hospital," Phillips said.
Rimai also has given 30 years of volunteer service to the Meals on Wheels program.
Feldman said a visit to Rimai's apartment may reveal "her loom on the dining
room table, TV blaring and flour on her hands while she bakes."
On behalf of the 11 friends attending the ceremony for Rimai, Feldman
announced, "We are all going to make contributions to the Golden Oldies in
honor of Dr. Coyle." Later in the day, Dr. Coyle came to Rimai's apartment to
make sure she was all right. She was more than all right, said Feldman. He "literally
saved her life." 0
— Shelli Liebman Dorfman, staff writer

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""Increased outreach of the messianic
community made us realize we had to
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was important to let the Christian
community know about Pesach from
a Jewish perspective."

—Alice Abrams, of Cincinnati's Jewish
Community Relations Council, describ-
ing The Passover Project, a series of
model seders for church groups.

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