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1.Actress Jill Eikenberry mingles with all the guests.
2. Hostess Wendy Fields introduces Dean Lichter.
3.Jeff Lehman, dean of the law school,
and actor Michael Tucker compare notes.
4. Jill Eikenberry chats with Marilyn Varbedian,
city commissioner of Bloomfield Hills.
5.Dr. Mule, Barbara Mule, Ryan Fields, Jessica Fields
and Wendy Fields pose for a portrait in the Fields' home.
6. Dr. Steve Newman, Dean Lichter, Sophia Newman,
Dr. Max Newman and Dr. Donald Newman are ecstatic
about the Newman endowment
7.Sophia Newman and Janet Arnoff chat at the event.
8. Howard Tapper mingles with the guests.
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Law" stars Jill
Eikenberry and
• • Michael Tucker
came to Bloomfield Hills and Ann Arbor
last month, not to publicize their televi-
sion careers but to promote breast can-
cer research. Wendy Fields, a breast can-
cer survivor, hosted a private dinner for
the actors the evening before the couple
spoke at the second annual Betty Ford
symposium, sponsored by the
University of Michigan Comprehensive
Cancer Center.
Eikenberry and her husband,
Michael Tucker, have been married for
26 years and are traveling throughout
the country sharing an inspirational mes-
sage for women with breast cancer. She
underwent treatment in 1986.
The actors mingled with the 50
guests, before dining in the Bloomfield
Hills home overlooking a pond but the
real stars of the evenings were the can-
cer fighters — Dr. Allen Lichter, Dr. Jim
Mule and Dr. Larry Baker, all part of the
University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Lichter, dean of the University of
Michigan Medical School, is a pioneer of
the lumpectomy approach in the treat-
ment of breast cancer. Dr. Nlule is direc-
tor of the University of Michigan tumor
immunology program, while Dr. Baker
is the associate director of the U-NI
Comprehensive Cancer Center.
All these researchers remarked on
the treatment of breast cancer changing
through new discoveries.
Although the guests enjoyed the
celebrity connection at the event, the
most exciting part of the evening was
the announcement from the Newman
family. Dr. Max Newman, and his wife
Sophia, along with sons Dr. Don
Newman and Dr. Steve Newman, will
endow the Newman Family Pro-
fessorship in Radiation Oncology to
benefit to department of radiation
oncology. The gift was given in honor of
Dr. Lichter. "1 am tremendously excit-
ed. and I can't thank them enough,"
responded Lichter.
Wendy Fields summed up the
evening when she added, "We are very
fbrtunate to have researchers like Dean
Lichter to lead us into the millennium."
— Carla Schwartz