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Hooray For The
New Americans

lag Day is certainly the time to get patriotic, but this year brought new
meaning for those who recently earned their American citizenship. Fellow
students from their English as a Second Language class honored the new
Americans in a program held June 14 at the Oak Park building of the Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit. In addition to reciting the Pledge
of Allegiance and singing patriotic songs; the group enjoyed a red, white and
blue dessert of blueberries and strawberries in white cups. ❑
— Kerri Guten Cohen,
story development editor

Anna Shmidt
of Southfield
joins the
group in say-
ing the Pledge
of Allegiance.

Here's To...

Beth Schwartz, a junior at the
University of Michigan, has won the
UMTA Celebrate Playwriting Award
from the university's theater depart-
ment. Schwartz is writing a play
tided Dreamers about the Holocaust.
She was also awarded the Robert and
Gertrude Berman Israel Youth schol-
arship from Adat Shalom Synagogue,
which will be used toward her Jewish
studies major at U-M.

Jessica Rothenberg of Farmington
Hills received an outstanding achieve-
ment award from Meadowbrook
Elementary School for academic
excellence and her attitude toward
education and acceptance of others.

English instruc-
tor Sheila
Kohn of
Huntington
Woods chats
with some par-
ticipants.

Howie Kahn of West Bloomfield
received a Hopwood Award from the
University of Michigan in the area of
non-fiction/essay. The $5,000 prize
was granted for
the submission
of two essays in
the contest for
aspiring writers.
"Back to a
Beautiful End"
was an essay
written about
Kahn's grandfa-
Howie Kahn
ther Barney
Kasoff, 99. "From My Window: An
Elegy" focused on discrimination and
hate crimes.

Morgenstern Greenebaum, formerly
of Bldomfield Township and a gradu-
ate student at the New York

University Film School, has received
an award for art directing at New
York Magazine's First Run Festival of
Film, Video and Animation.
Greenebaum wrote and directed
Surprise Party.

United Way Community Services
elected new members to its board of
directors and presented honors to
outstanding community programs at
its recent meeting. Ira Jaffe, manag-
ing partner at Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer &
Weiss is new to the board. The
Richard E Huegli Award for Program
Excellence was awarded to Gilda's
Club of Metropolitan Detroit for
innovative approaches and risk-taking
with proven problem-solving results
and to HAVEN (Help Against
Violent Encounters Now) for its help
to abuse victims in regaining their
lives and its work to eliminate
domestic violence, sexual assault and
child abuse through treatment and
prevention services.

Lauren Epstein of West Bloomfield
has accepted membership in the
National Society of Collegiate
Scholars. She will be honored in the
fall during a campus ceremony at the
University of Michigan.

Jason Epstein, class of 2001 at West
Bloomfield High School, has been
selected to participate in the National
Student Leadership Conference on
Law and Advocacy, a leadership
development program for high school
students.

Fiynii Nejke of Oak
Park listens intently to
the program.

Passing The Gavel

To set the stage for Flag Day,
there were plenty of flags,
songs and a red, white and
blue dessert.

Stewart Weiner, new president of
Jewish Family Service of
Metropolitan Detroit, receives the
gavel of leadership from Kathleen
4 Wilson-Fink, the outgoing presi-
dent, at JFS' recent election and
installation of board and officers.

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