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At the presentation of the first
Gerald L. Levin Champions for
Children Award are Debora h
Dinco, president and CEO,
Orchards Children's Services;
Barbara Goldberg, recipient;
Randie Levin, presenter, and
Loretta Polish, Orchards' chair.
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First Gerald L. Levin
Champions for Children
Award goes to Barbara
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ne year after his sudden
death, the legacy of Gerald
L. Levin lives on among
those he inspired to reach
out to kids in trouble.
Levin was known for his exuberance
and innovation as president and CEO of
Orchards Children's Services in
Southfield. He died April 28, 1999 at
age 59, after suffering a heart attack in
Petra, Jordan. The 37-year veteran of the
Orchards was attending the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Michigan Miracle Mission III to Israel
when he died.
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Gerald L. Levin
"A year ago we lost a dear, dear
friend; a great leader and a cherished
husband," said Orchards Chair Loretta
Polish. "We will not see his like again."
At an Orchards' board meeting on
April 26, Levin's widow, Randie, choked
with emotion, presented the first Gerald
L. Levin Champions for Children
Award, on behalf of the Orchards, to
longtime supporters and board members
Barbara and Fred Goldberg of Franklin.
"Whether it be for fund raising, com-
mittee work and all the parties, picnics
or any other aspect of Orchards' life, the
Goldbergs can be counted on to step
forward and follow through," said
Levin, who is Federation's director of
community outreach and education.
"I know that Jerry would agree
that there is no more appropriate
couple to receive the first Gerald L.
Levin Champions for Children
Award than Barbara and Fred," she
added.
Accepting the award, Barbara
Goldberg said, "Working with
Jerry all those years was really very
special for me, and Fred, too."
At the same meeting, the board
voted to rename the Orchards' sports,
arts and tutorial inner city outreach pro-
grams — a special interest of Mr. Levin
— the "Gerald L. Levin Community
Programs."
Also announced at the meeting was
the Orchards' participation in a new
social work exchange with the Nx7a reth
region in Israel's central Galilee ---
Detroit's sister community through
Federation's Partnership 2000 efforts.
The project is being named the
Gerald L. Levin Children's Services Staff
Exchange. Participants will teach and
learn about different methods of resi-
dential and foster care and other services
in both Detroit and Israel.
Said the Orchards' Polish: "Bob
Aronson [Federation CEO], to honor
Jerry, is bringing together the Orchards
and four other children's agencies in a
mutually educational exchange program
about foster care and group homes in
Israel and here."
Randie Levin will coordinate the pro-
ject locally. The Israeli coordinator is
Haim Feingold, an original founder of
the Orchards, who started a similar
agency called Orr Shalom (Light of
Peace) in Israel. ❑