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• Shirley Slaughter is employed as
a business manager at Our Lady
of Good Counsel Church in
Detroit. She holds a bachelor's
degree in business administration
from Cleary College.
Slaughter, a 17-year resident of
the district, is a founder of the
New Friends of the Michigan
Central Depot Inc., a non-profit
organization dedicated to saving
the train station in southwest
Detroit. In addition to serving a
four-year term as a board of edu-
cation secretary, she has been
active in church activities.
Slaughter, who is married, has
one child and one stepchild.

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from page 16

differences is to present our stories
equally in the classrooms of our
nation.

I'm opposed to anything that

Q2 threatens communities.

Vouchers are a threat! In Oak
Park, you have children in the
school system whose parents do not
reside here and have no stake in our
community. Right now, money does
follow the student. Other districts
are fighting to get those dollars.
With vouchers, if the child
decides to leave mid-year, the money
goes with them and the district still
has to pay the teacher. It can
become a district's worst nightmare
financially. I'm concerned about test
scores with children moving in and
out.
Why should my taxes be allowed
to follow the student out of my
community? What are the ramifica-
tions for the residents? We need
honest answers to these questions.
You have to tackle the root cause of
failures in our schools — breakup of
families and societal ills. Vouchers
will not address the real cause. ❑

GIFT

from page 12

the Millennium Campaign is "so
comprehensive and broad is that it
builds a base for the Detroit Jewish
community for years to come.
"The fact that Detroit was able to
accomplish that in a short time and
not affect the annual campaign is
extraordinary. Some of the anecdotal
evidence that shows giving to a capital
campaign causes your annual cam-
paign to go down has been proven to
be incorrect by the Detroit example."
Individual Detroiters weren't the
only gift givers. The Harry and
Jeanette Weinberg Foundation of
Baltimore and the Kresge
Foundation of Detroit gave chal-
lenge grants for JCC capital projects.
These projects include a Judaic
resource center, a child development
center, an auditorium and a gymna-
sium.
Jewish Community Center
President Larry Wolfe said that the
money raised "shows the outpouring
of support for the entire Jewish
community.
"It shows that there is a need for
both formal and informal Jewish
education, and the Center will be
the home for informal Jewish educa-
tion," he said.
Detroit Federation President
Penny Blumenstein said appreciation
for the Millennium Campaign gifts
went both ways in a Jewish commu-
nity that first came together philan-
thropically in 1898.
"I believe everyone who has partic-
ipated in this Campaign so far has
received enormous pleasure in know-
ing how meaningful this particular
gift is at this particular time. It goes
beyond bricks and mortar, and it's not
just some current campaign for some
current need. It went so far beyond."
United Jewish Foundation
President Robert Slatkin said com-
pletion of the Millennium
Campaign has affected smaller dona-
tions. "It gave inspiration to so
many other members of the commu-
nity who believe in the same areas of
Jewish continuity," he said.
He said community-level giving
— defined as gifts of $3,000 for
either the JCC capital and endow-
ment campaign or the Jewish Life
Fund — has grown to $600,000.
"Long after the Millennium
Campaign is over, the Jewish Life
Fund will go on and on," Slatkin
said: "It is a permanent product that
will continue to grow in numbers
and in stature." ❑

