Insight Remember When • • WSU Cites Applebaum From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Pharmacy College re-named to honor generous alumnus. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem protested Sabbath drivers using a new highway that runs near their neighborhood. A three-judge panel in Moscow ruled that the Lenin Library must turn over to the Chabad Lubavitch movement 12,000 books that had been confiscated by the Communists. 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 The facility will replace the outdated Shapero Hall, the former WSU School of Medicine building on the Chrysler Freeway service drive north of Lafayette Boulevard.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 37