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Residents enjoy Hawaiian Day at Elan with a special lunch
and Polynesian dancers.
Elan Village's monthly rate includes:
• 24 hour Personal Care Assistance
• Three Kosher Meals Daily
• Housekeeping and Personal Laundry
Services
• Social, Cultural and Educational
Programs Daily
• Shabbat and Holiday Services
• On-Site Licensed Nurse and
Medical Services
• Medication Management
Reasonable Rates
Call today to schedule a tour
JANET ANTIN (248) 386-0303
26051 Lahser Road • Southfield, Michigan 48034
Elan Village provides
Care that Changes with You
5/11
2001
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Preferred Provider of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Eli Saper of Ann Arbor and a sixth-grad-
er at Tappan Middle School is the first
place winner of the Detroit News/Free
Press "Who or What is a
Hero" essay contest. He
did research on his
grandfather, whose life
was saved by Oskar
Schindler, as part of an
earlier family history
video project at the
Hebrew Day School of
Eli Saper
Ann Arbor.
Ryan G. Beale of West Bloomfield, a
graduate of West Bloomfield High
School, has been awarded an
Outstanding Senior Award for 2001 by
the Michigan State University Senior
Council. He left MSU his freshman
year (fall 1997) CO receive his commer-
cial real estate license and to work for
one year; he returned to MSU in the
fall of 1998 to get his bachelor of sci-
ence degree, majoring in humanities
and pre-law. He is the son of Gail and
Jerry Beale of West Bloomfield.
Jonathan Haber of Huntington
Woods was re-elected assistant treasur-
er of the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow
Fund of Detroit. He is a past presi-
dent of the organization and was a
member for 31 years; he is chair of the
organization's nominating committee.
Stefenie Sasson, 18, of Bloomfield Hills,
will take her feature-length student-made
documentary to the Cannes Film
Festival. The recent Detroit Country
Day School graduate made a documen-
tary about On My Own of Michigan;
the film follows the lives of developmen-
tally disabled adults who strive to live
independently. Sasson will attend the fes-
tival as a representative of the American
Pavilion/Kodak Student Filmmaker
Program and her independent company
Sasson Pictures. She is a student at the
School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Allison Stein, graduate of North
Farmington High School and Olivet
College, will receive her master's
degree from Michigan State University
in May. The MSU Army Reserve
Officer's Training Corps presented her
with the AMVETS of World War II
Award.
Volunteers in the Greater Detroit
Hadassah Doll Project in West
Bloomfield will be presented the
Community Achievement Award by
Celebrate Michigan! Since the Doll
Project began in 1996, 16,880 young
hospital patients have received medical
role-play dolls that can be used to pro-
vide comfort and promote communi-
cation between young patients and
medical staff's at 11 area hospitals.
Corinne Stavish of Southfield, a story-
teller, received the Detroit Jewish
Women Artists of the Year Award for
Literature. Stavish, a
senior lecturer in
humanities at
Lawrence
Technological
University, performs at
the Detroit Institute of
Arts, schools, libraries
Corinne
and senior citizen cen-
Stavish
ters. She has also
recorded audiotapes
and edited a book of Jewish folktales.
Her specialty is relating Judeo-
Christian and old-world folktales and
stories about justice and relationships.
In addition, she retells biblical stories
from a woman's point of view.
Jenna Kerner of Orchard Lake, daugh-
ter of Drs. Nathan and Genise Kerner,
recently won third place in the Detroit
News/Free Press creative writing contest,
"Who or What is a Hero?" Kerner is a
sixth-grade student at Abbott Middle
School in West Bloomfield.
Max Fisher, Franklin financier and
philanthropist, received an honorary
doctor of laws degree from Wayne
State University during commence-
ment ceremonies.
Larry Sherman of Franklin is one of
the new board members of the
Community House, a nonprofit com-
munity service organization in
Birmingham. He has served as presi-
dent of the Birmingham Chamber of
Commerce, president of the
Birmingham Rotary Club and chair of
the Birmingham Planning
Commission. He served on the board
of the Birmingham YMCA and has
dedicated three terms to the Federal
Reserve Advisory Board on Small
Business. Sherman is a recipient of the
Community House Community
Service Award.