0 Our Expansion Is Now Complete Shop our store for all new merchandise. We are now always 20% OFF! Kimbrly Palter of West Bloomfield was named one of the top three high school journalists in Michigan by the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. She was also honored for her excellence in journalism at the National Model United Nations conference in New York with a Press Medal of Distinction. She is editor-in-chief of Kimberly Palter West Bloomfield High School's newsmagazine, The Spectrum. She will graduate summa cum laude and will attend Northwestern University. She also recently won a Marshall Fields Project Imagine scholarship. Semi Annual Sale 20-50% OFF Spring & Summer Shoes and Accessories Save now ... wear now! The latest Italian designs Sizes 4-12 in 5 widths super-slim to wide Fit, fashion and friendly service! ax Somerset Collection 248.637.3060 www.marmishoes.com 6/1 2001 44 MINIM - - - - - - The Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah Doll Project was selected by the state of Michigan for the Michigan Week 2001 Volunteer lead- ership Award in recognition of dedica- tion to community service and many hours of volunteer work. Tracey Trotsky of Farmington Hills, a fifth-grade teacher at Brick Elementary in the Lincoln Conscilidated School District, won the Washtenaw County Sam's Club contest for the teacher of the year. She was awarded $500 toward the pur- chase of school supplies. • Sofas • Dining • Tables • Bedrooms Lamps • Bedding ctures • Accessories • Sesto Meucci • Rangoni of Florence •Van Eli Here's To .1 • - - - !I Karen Alpiner of Franklin has been appointed the new committee chair of the Agency for Jewish Education's Jewish Experiences for Families (JEFF). She is the lay education director at Congregation Shaarey Zedek and is responsible for oversee- ing the nursery school, religious school, high school and youth pro- grams as well as the Applebaum Life and Learning Center. Alpiner is on the boards of Camp Ramah, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Alyn Pediatric Hospital in Jerusalem. She is co-chair of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Beit Midrash Program, is a member of Shalom Detroit and has been involved with Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education _ Preschool Work Group. Devra Wanetik, formerly of West Bloomfield, was given a regional award for spot reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists. She is an editorial assistant for the Jerusalem Report in Israel. Ezra Wanetik, of New York .City, has been promoted to sergeant in the New York Police Department Academy. He works for the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he manages the donor records area. Both are the chil- dren of Leonard and Ann Wanetik of West Bloomfield. Shelby Faye Kaufman, a junior at West Bloomfield High School, quali- fied Top Ten and won four medals in the category of Retail Merchandising Associate Level at the International Career Development Shelby Kaufman Conference for marketing stu- dents, which was held in California. Jeremy Shulman of West Bloomfield received his juris doctor degree cum laude from Boston University School of Law. Dr. David Weinberg of Toledo has been awarded a Distinguished Faculty fellowship by the board of governors of Wayne State University. He is the director of the Cohn- Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at WSU. Sandy Loeffler of West Bloomfield, administrative assistant at the Cohn-Haddow Center, was presented an Exceptional Service Award by the office .of the president of WSU for her role on the commit- tee that brought Israel's Shimon Peres to the community last year. David Saperstein of Huntington Woods, an attorney with the Detroit office of Garan Lucow Miller PC, has had an article selected to be published as the feature article in the Public - Corporation Law Quarterly. Its title is "Why There Are No Common-Law Exceptions to Municipalities' Governmental Immunity: A Municipal Perspective."