Community

JCC Hosts
Annual Meeting

Tikvah Group
Installs Board

The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's annual meet-
ing is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 21, in the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield. The meeting will be
preceded by a dessert reception at 7.
The evening will include the elec-
tion and installation of officers and
board members and the presentation
of the Susan Alterman JCC
Leadership Award to Mindy Soble
Kaufman and Todd Sachse.
Others on the program include
Rabbi Lee Buckman, invocation;
Mark Hauser, greetings from the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit; Lawrence Wolfe, president's
report; Harry Eisenberg, report of
the nominating committee; Irwin
Alterman, award presentations;
Herman Frankel, renovation update;
Hugh Greenberg, capital campaign
update. Terry Nosan will be the
evening's emcee.
For reservations, call Michelle
Haarer, (248) 661-7600.

Joan C. Epstein was elected to a second
term as president of Tikvah Group,
Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah.
Tikvah's former co-presidents, Sue
Luria and Judi Schram, installed the
incoming slate of Jean Schechet,
Sherrie Stern, Cathy Slavik, Sue
Kaufman, Karen Gunsberg, Gayle
Floyd, Linda Schnyder, Sheila Cohen,
Diane Fishman and Jackie Michaelson,
vice presidents; Laurel Epstein, treasur-
er; Dorothy Klausner and Susan Miller,
secretaries; and Sherry Lofman, Linda
Sherr, Nancy Kantor, Linda Golding,
Leila Stollman, Phyllis Applebaum,
Sharon Fishman and Barbara Morets
general board members.
President Epstein recognized several
members for their contributions and
service to Tikvah Group. The Love of a
Lifetime Award went to Linda
Schnyder; Woman of the Year Award to
Cathy Slavik; and service awards to
Phyllis Applebaum, Laurel Epstein and
Diane Fishman.
To join Tikvah Group, call
Hadassah, (248) 683-5030.

Here's To

University of Michigan student
Abby Rosenbaum has been awarded
the Louis and Saralee Segel Israel
Scholarship from the Michigan B'nai
B'rith Hillel Fund. The $1,000 gift
goes to a Jewish student in a
Michigan college spending time in
Israel pursuing a credit value project
in an accredited university course.
Rosenbaum's project is the
American Photo Trek, a photojour-
nalism course complementing her
studies at U-M. The award honors
the memory of Louis Segel, long
active in local and national B'nai
B'rith programs especially geared to
college youth.

Gabriel Isaac Bolkosky, son of
Sidney and Laurie Bolkosky of Oak
Park and a violin student of Donald
Weilerstein, received his professional
studies diploma from Cleveland
Institute of Music. He was honored
at the May 20 commencement with
the Darius Milhaud Award, recog-
nizing an exceptionally creative and
versatile student.

Joyce Weiss of West Bloomfield has
been recognized as a certified speak-
ing professional, the highest earned
award of the National Speakers
Association.

Action In Washington

Rep. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, who spoke in May to the Joint Action
Committee in Washington, D.C., was introduced by former Michigan resident
Natalie Pelavin. JAC is a nationwide network of Jewish community activists
advocating a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, reproductive rights and separation
of religion and state.

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Aaron Fidler, son of Rhona and
Robert Fidler of West Bloomfield,
recently graduated magna cum laude
from the honors program of the
Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania. He was recognized at
commencement exercises for receiv-
ing the Spade Award, a 124-year tra-
dition recognizing outstanding lead-
ership and commitment to the uni-
versity community. He also received
the Joseph Warner Yardley Prize,
awarded to a member of the senior
class at the Wharton School for out-
standing scholarship and leadership.
Fidler is a past recipient of the
Herbert Steuer Memorial Prize,
which is presented to a Wharton
junior whose scholarship, personality
and qualities of leadership are
regarded by the faculty as being the
most outstanding in their class; he is
a past recipient of the Sol Feinstone
Undergraduate Award and the Paul
Miller Scholarship, both of which
recognize leadership and academic

achievement at the University of
Pennsylvania.

Mark Wentzel of Ann Arbor was
one winner in the student category
of the Polk Art Competition at the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.
Jeffrey Abt of Huntington Woods
was a winner in the faculty/alumni
competition and Sylvia Perle of
West Bloomfield was a winner in the
open category.

Sam Segall, a graduating eighth-
grade honor student at Norup
Middle School in Oak Park, has
been selected by the People to
People Student
Ambasador pro-
gram to travel this
summer to New
Zealand and
Australia with 15
other students
from Oakland
County. He will be
a freshman at
Berkley High
Sam Segall
School in the fall
and continuing his
religious studies at
Congregation Beth Shalom.

Benjamin Anchill, a graduating
senior at West Bloomfield High
school, will receive one of the two
$2,500 Irving M. Glazer student
scholarships for incoming freshmen
in Jewish studies at Indiana
University. He will enter the univer-
sity in the fall and major in business
while earning a certificate in Jewish
studies. Admitted to IU's Honors
College, Anchill has been awarded a
four-year faculty scholarship.

David Salama of Farmington Hills
received a bachelor of arts degree
from Brandeis University in
Waltham, Mass. He completed a
major in sociology and a minor in
Near Eastern and Judaic studies as
well as a minor in the health, law
and society program. Salama gradu-
ated cum laude and with honors in
sociology, having written a thesis on
graduate medical education. The
department faculty chose him to
speak at the sociology commence-
ment. Salama will be a staff member
on this summer's Michigan Teen

