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T
ALAN ABRAMS
Special to the Jewish News
he name of Eugene Applebaum is being perma-
nently enshrined in academia as it has been for
the last two years in Jewish communal life.
The Board of Governors of Wayne State
University in Detroit announced on Oct. 8 that its College
of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions has been
renamed for Applebaum.
The name of the college, which moves next fall to a
270,000-square-foot, six-floor facility at John R and Mack,
is the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences. The facility will replace the outdated Shapero Hall,
the former WSU School of Medicine building on the
Chrysler Freeway service drive north of Lafayette Boulevard.
The pharmacy school is the second major metropolitan
Detroit landmark to bear the name of Applebaum. In 1999,
the 196-acre Jewish Community Campus at Maple and
Drake roads in West Bloomfield was named the Eugene and
Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus.
The renaming of the campus followed the contribution
of $5 million by Applebaum and his wife to local Jewish
programs. Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit offi-
cials called it the largest capital donation ever made to local
Jewish institutions and programs.
A year earlier, the Applebaums made a $5 million dona-
tion to WSU's "Preparing for Tomorrow" campaign. It was
the largest single personal gift ever made to WSU, and
helped find the pharmacy building construction. Associates
and friends of the Applebaums have contributed $2 million
to the campaign in their honor.
Built Arbor Drugs
Applebaum, who graduated from WSU in 1960, founded
and built Arbor Drugs, Inc. into the nation's eighth largest
drugstore chain before selling it in 1998 to CVS. At the
time, he was the largest individual shareholder of the
Fortune 500 company. He remains a member of the board
of directors of the Rhode Island-based CVS.
A resident of Bloomfield Hills, Applebaum chairs the
Wayne State University Foundation. He received an hon-
orary degree from the university in 1998.
"Eugene Applebaum's commitment to Wayne State
University and his lifelong dedication to the city of Detroit
make him especially deserving of this recognition," said
WSU President Irvin D. Reid.
"Now that this distinguished college bears Eugene
Applebaum's name, generations of students will be remind-
ed of his invaluable contributions to this institution, this
city and his profession," Reid said.
"I am honored and deeply touched by the Board of
Governors' decision," said Applebaum. "My experience at
1991
1981
Eugene Applebaum
Wayne State guided me throughout my career, and I am elat-
ed that the best possible education in pharmacy and the
allied health professions can be obtained in our community."
Other beneficiaries of Applebaum's philanthropy include
the University of Michigan ($1.2 million) and the Barbara
Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit ($1 million).
The Applebaums gave $500,000 to create the Eugene and
Marcia Applebaum Campaign Challenge Fund, which pro-
vided matching grants to donations to the Jewish
Federation's Annual Campaign in 1997. Their donation
helped boost the total raised that year to $29 million, corn-
pared with $26 million in 1996.
They also endowed the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum
Professorial Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Rehovot, Israel; the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Beth
Hayeled and Jewish Parenting Center in West Bloomfield
for Congregation Shaarey Zedek; and Applebaum Village at
Fresh Air Society's Camp Maas in Ortonville.
Along with his close friend since boyhood, the late David
B. Hermelin, Applebaum and Joel Tauber opened the
Applebaum-Hermelin-Tauber Child Development Center
in Yavne, Israel. Yavne was the Detroit Jewish community's
Project Renewal sister city in the 1980s.
The Applebaums are supporters of the Israel Museum,
Israel Bonds, Michigan Opera Theatre and Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Through their collection of artwork by Michigan artists,
displayed at home and in his office, the Applebaums have
been patrons of the arts. Their early support for artists has
resulted in increased public awareness and recognition for
artistic endeavors.
The Applebaums are the parents of two daughters, Lisa
Applebaum of New York City and Pamela Applebaum
Wyatt of Bloomfield Hills. El
Twenty-five black Bedouin goats
were shipped from Tel Aviv
University to Kenya to improve
dairy goat production.
Two sea water desalination units
were constructed by an Israeli firm
in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.
Nancy C. Hahn, formerly of
Southfield, has been appointed
Southern Ohio-Kentucky area director
of the American Jewish Committee.
1971
Dr. Louis Finkelstein resigned as
chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.
Vandals attacked the Bar-Ilan
High School in Rio de Janeiro.
Detroiter Milton Maddin was
named acting president of Sinai
Hospital of Detroit.
Detroiter Max Levin gave a 59-piece
original art collection to the
Northwood Institute in Alma.
Mrs. Joseph Newman of Oak Park
was selected Volunteer of the Week
by the Detroit Shopping News.
1951
A bill providing for the regular elec-
tion of the president and setting forth
conditions of tenure passed its first
reading in the Israeli parliament.
Detroit Jewish organizations were
invited to include messages in the
cornerstone of Sinai Hospital of
Detroit on West Outer Drive.
Detroiter Marilyn Lipsitt left for
Columbus, Ohio, to attend Ohio
State University.
— Compiled by Sy Manello,
editorial assistant
10/12
2001
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