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HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF ANN ARBOR. LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
AFTER. A QUARTER CENTURY OF INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMING.

DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer

From left to right:
Sheva Locke, principal of
the Hebrew Day School of
Ann Arbor.

Roots And Branches

The Hebrew Day School opened in fall of 1975,
with 12 students. It remains the only Jewish day
school in Washtenaw County, serving 95 stu-
persistent hammering clanged through
dents in grades K-5. Another 13 sixth-graders
the halls of the Jewish Community
First-graders Maya Rosen
from last year's graduating class attend voluntary
Center of Washtenaw County one
and Jo Glogower search for
Sunday afternoon Hebrew sessions.
mid-January day.
artifacts as part of a first-
"Our goals are making Judaism a vital part
The clamor came from the first-grade class-
grade science project.
of their lives while maintaining a high-level
room at the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor,
general studies department," said Sheva Locke,
where 19 6-year-olds pounded hammers and
Hard at work are junior
who has served as the school's principal for the
chisels to learn paleontology (the study of fossils) paleontologists fared
past three years.
— the hands-on way.
Kaufman and Adam
Before accepting the job in Ann Arbor,
General studies teacher Linda Smith had
Carbeck, both in Linda
Locke,
then known by the first name Shawn,
embedded assorted bones and artifacts in plaster
Smith's first grade class.
was director of school services for the Agency
slabs, and her pupils were enjoying a noisy, messy
for Jewish Education (AJE) in metropolitan
time digging them out.
Six-year-old Adam Carbeck dusted off a large bone and
Detroit. Previously, she had served in a similar position in
held it up for inspection. Guilia Cherniak, also 6, unearthed
San Francisco.
Locke is frequently asked why she uses the unusual
two smaller bones and a Japanese coin.
Meanwhile, down the hall, third-graders used up-to-date
Hebrew name Sheva, which is translated most often as
seven." But the word also can mean "an oath," and that's the
computers to write reports on the solar system, and fourth-
graders bounced up and down in time to the new Hebrew
meaning she prefers.
An Ann Arbor resident whose husband is a tenured profes-
song they learned.

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