NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
The Jewish Community Center Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 21, 2001,
7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, on the Eugene
and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield. The following busi-
ness will be conducted at the meeting:
In accordance with the by-laws of the Jewish Community Center, the Nominating Committee
has met and designated the following list of nominees for election to the Board of Directors:
First 3-Year Term
Ending 2004
Patty Aaron
Cynthia Aks
Sharon Alterman
Martin Hollander
Glenn Pavey
Todd Sachse
Sandy Stark
Malke Torgow
Second 3-Year Term
Ending 2004
Manny Charach
Cliff Dovitz
William Eisenberg
Steve Friedman
Marc Kahn
Hannan Lis
Ken Manko
Karen Sklar Gordon
First 3-Year Term
Ending 2003
Scott Kaufman
TO FILL UNEXPIRED TERMS:
First 3-Year Term
Ending 2002
Irvin Kappy
Sue Marwil
Third 3-Year Term
Ending 2004
Irwin Alterman
Terry Nosan
Second 3-Year Term
Ending 2002
David Goodman
Andi Wolfe
Cheri Victor
In accordance with the by-laws of the Jewish Community Center, the Nominating Committee
has met and designated the following list for election by the Board of Directors of the
Center:
Sharon Hart
President
Lawrence A. Wolfe
Chair, Executive Committee
Terry Nosan
Hannan Lis
Miriam Bergman
Vice Presidents
Marc Kahn
Treasurer
Irwin Alterman
William Eisenberg
Members At Large
Ken Marblestone
Gerald Wolberg
Secretary
Todd Sachse
2001 Nominating Committee
Lawrence A. Wolfe, Chair
Linda Lee, Marc Kahn, Terry Nosan, Mindy Soble Kaufman, Doris Blechman. David Morrison
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LIFE'S JOURNEY
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graduate next month.
Joining Congregation Shir Tikvah,
which sponsored her for the award,
she has been president of Troy Area
Temple Youth and liaison to the board
of trustees.
In the National Federation of
Temple Youth, she has been regional
and national representative to leader-
ship conferences for four years, attend-
ing 22 events, including eight leader-
ship weekends at Camp Tamarack and
a camp in New York.
As a Mitzvah Corps member, she
worked with needy children of other
synagogues and Detroit inner city
youth, obtaining scholarships funds
along the way to finance her charity
work.
After visiting the classroom of her
mother, Pola, who is a Highland Park
teacher, Laura saw that the children
couldn't go outside for recess because
they had thin coats and no hats or
mittens. So she organized a clothing
drive in Troy to help them.
"Laura tackles whatever task she
undertakes with great com-
mitment and energy," said
Shir Tikvah's sponsoring
application. "She greatly
helped to breathe new life
into a floundering (temple
youth) group."
With Laura's brothers Andy
and Scott attending the University
of Michigan and Grand Valley State
University in Allendale, respectively,
she has been the main source of sup-
port on the home front during her
mother's cancer illness. She even
organized a support group among
her fellow students whose parents
have cancer or other serious illnesses.
"In our book, we tell how important
it is for family members to know all
aspects of the illness, such as how to
handle pills, arranging doctor visits,
and so forth," she said.
Spreading Her Wings
Maintaining a 3.75 grade point aver-
age, Laura participates in the school's
theater group (as prop manager) and is
an officer in the engineering club,
winning national and state awards in
robotics and engineering design com-
petitions. "I always liked math and sci-
ence and I do experiments at home,"
she explained. "I made a wooden
pneumatic arm that functions like a
real arm."
She worked on one national engi-
neering competition in a hotel room
where the family lived for four months
after the pipes burst in their home,
flooding the interior and causing part
of the ceiling to collapse.
Laura volunteers for the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
the Farmington Hills-based Jewish
Association for Residential Care
(JARC), the Orchards in Southfield
and the Salvation Army. She assists
migrant farm workers.
Her jobs have been at Kroger, an
event planning office and a coffee
shop, and babysitting. She'll work this
summer at a robotics welding compa-
ny, while striving for more scholarship
funds to enter U-M to study engineer-
ing.
"Laura has been an incredible source
of support to her family and she is an
inspiration to all of us," said Linda
Klein of Bloomfield Hills, who was
NCJW's co-chairperson of the Jewish
Youth Awards with Joyce Sherman of
Southfield.
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The Honor
Roll
Following are the names,
high schools and
sponsoring
affiliations of
the other 18
applicants:
Gina Acciaioli,
Walled Lake
Western, Temple
Shir Shalom;
Steven Adler, Ypsilanti High, Beth
Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor;
Shawn Brickner, North Farmington,
Michigan Region-B'nai B'rith Youth;
Daniel Canvasser, North
Farmington, Temple Beth El;
Michael Hack, Roeper, Temple
Israel; Jason Horowitz, Andover,
Adat Shalom Synagogue; Marla
Jablonowski, West Bloomfield,
Temple Israel; Steven Jaffe, North
Farmington, Adat Shalom.
Jacob Kander, Clonlara School,
Congregation Shir Tikvah; Shelley
Kitain, West Bloomfield, Adat
Shalom; Carolyn Kowatch, Walled
Lake Western, Temple Israel;
Elisheva Levine, Berkley, Central
Region-United Synagogue Youth;
Megan Rappaport, Walled Lake
Western, Adat Shalom; Rachel
Rubin, West Bloomfield,
Congregation B'nai Moshe and Adat
Shalom; Laurie Stocker, North
Farmington, Temple Israel; Seth
Togal, Berkley, Temple Emanu-El;
Scott Unger, West Bloomfield,
Temple Kol Ami; and Stacey Wolf,
Farmington Harrison, Michigan
Region-B'nai B'rith Youth.