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Dan &Betty Kahn Building • Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield, MI Jimmy Prentis Morris Building • A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus CC 15110 West Ten Mile Road • Oak Park, MI youth programs," Deitch said. Deitch won two silver medals in the last Maccabiah Games, in 1997. "From a Jewish standpoint, that was a tremendous experience, and having my kids with me on the medal plat- form was just a great thing," he said. "I'm planning on doing it next year. "My family have been members of Shaarey Zedek for 50 years," Deitch added. "This is like a lifetime dream that I'll be honored [by the Hall of Fame] at the place that I grew up in." Vc% nose Soo THE BOLD LOOK OF KOHLER® WE NOW CORRY KOHLER SHOWER DOORS! CLEAR REFLECTION OF OMIT( SINCE 1964 • Although raised in New Jersey, play- ing basketball for the University of Michigan was a boyhood dream for Paul Groffsky. "I can't tell you why," he said. "I was a sports fan and I just adopted the U-M football team as my team. I had my heart set on going to Michigan." Groffsky, of Keego Harbor, now 66, was a 6'4" basketball center for U-M his sophomore year and led the team in scoring and rebounding. "In my senior year, I was a forward and captain," he said. Ron Kramer, who later played football for the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, played center. "Ron was an extraordinary athlete and a great basketball player," Groffsky said. Groffsky played on the U.S. gold medal basketball team in the 1953 Maccabiah Games and was the lead- ing scorer in the championship game. After college, he worked in his father's window glass business for six years but returned to U-M to earn master's and law degrees. He now practices wills and estate law for Sommers, Schwartz, a Southfield law firm. He is the father of three. "Getting this honor is a great thing, kind of awesome," he said. "If Hank Greenberg's in here, what am I doing here? Like almost all Jews, I was a big Hank Greenberg fan." But to Groffsky, the biggest thrill was just playing basketball. "That's all I was ever interested in," he said. "I would have paid to play." Groffsky is also proud of his work at Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield — a trustee from 1989, then temple president, 1993-94. Currently he's back on the board. Bernie Kahn ForYour Free Estimate or Consultation Call Our Custom Experts at: 248353 - 5770 And Visit Our Southfield Showroom: 222223 TELEGRAPH ROAD 11/3 2000 108 -vira-ow.4.;:,, mosar (S. of 9 Mile Ril.) Bernie Kahn, besides being a top backstroke swimmer at the University of Michigan, has had a long career as a television and movie script writer. Kahn, now 70 and a resident of West Hollywood, Calif, originally came to U-M from Brooklyn, N.Y., on an alumni scholarship. As a youth, Kahn was national Boys Club backstroke champion, junior AAU champion, New York high school champion and N.Y. state champion. At U-M, he was an all- American for two years and was sec- ond in the AAU nationals in 1953, "which for all intents and purposes made me the second best swimmer in the country," he said. He was also an all-Army backstroke champion. At the 1953 Maccabiah Games, Kahn won the 100-meter backstroke, setting a Maccabiah record. "That - was the climax of my career," he said. After getting a master's degree from Michigan in speech, Kahn started writing for NBC radio, created a TV game show, and moved out to California. "I ended up writing over a career about 150 situation comedy episodes, including scripts for Get Smart!, Bewitched, All In the Family, Maude, The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch," he said. "I was nomi- nated twice for Writer's Guild awards. I created a show, Joe and Valerie, an NBC sit-com lArith a disco theme, and wrote or produced five Movies of the Week." Kahn has written three movies, the most successful being the 1971 Disney release, The Barefoot Executive, featuring Kurt Russell and a chim- panzee. "It was supposed to be a satire on the television business, but it turned into a series of monkey jokes," Kahn said. Kahn has also had three plays pro- duced, one starring Milton Berle, and had 10 rock and roll records made. "I had a very varied career," he said. At age 50, Kahn started master's swimming and never loit a race in his age group, becoming California champion. "I never lost interest in my sport," he said. "In fact, now I swim four or five times a week." He credits swim- ming as playing a big part in his suc- cess. "You have to be so disciplined to work out, to train," Kahn said. "That discipline has carried over into my life as a writer. I think swimming has really given me the foundation to do that." Kahn, a_father of three, still follows Michigan football. "Hopefully they will go to the Rose Bowl— I'll be there," he said.