YOUR CHILD'S
ROCKET
TO THE STARS
Growing
Jewish high school
unveils changes.
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he Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit has begun
the 2001-2002 school year with
46 new students and nine new faculty
and staff members.
Heading the list of new faculty.mem-
bers and staff is Carim Calkins, who
comes on board as dean of students and
science instructor. Most recently assis-
tant principal at South Lyon High
School, Calkins was head of the middle
school science department at Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit.
Matthew Berg, JAMD's new business
manager, worked as director of adminis-
trative services at Cranbrook
Educational Community in Bloomfield
Hills for seven years and controller and
director of finance at Marygrove College
in Detroit for seven years earlier.
Heading the Bible Department is Eric
Grossman, a Ph.D. candidate at
Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.,,
who spent the last three years helping to
build the New Jewish High School of
Greater Boston.
Lauren Cohen, artist-in-residence, is a
futuristic sculptor whose works are on
view throughout the Detroit area. Her
courseload will be based in ceramics and
three-dimensional art.
Other new instructors are Jerry
Gutman, Advanced Placement history
instructor and A.P. coordinator; Mallie
Holoshitz, Hebrew instructor; Kelly
Underwood, French instructor; Liz
Vederman, English instructor; and
David Williams, media specialist.
In the most recent edition of the
school newsletter "Mah Chadash?"
("What's New?), Rabbi Lee Buckman,
head of school, writes that the West
Bloomfield school's new students out-
number the returning students. But the
school's strength is in its community.
"No other school can compare to us
in that respect. Students find their place.
They find the reassurance of belonging.
They make new friends. They notice
that others are looking out for them.
They see that every student counts.
"They become part of a community
that supports, inspires and challenges
each individual to discover talents they
never thought they had." Ei