PLEASE

Sunday, Ma

honoring

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Meer

Recipients of the Torah. Builder Award

Mr. Sandy Eisenberg

Recipient of the Community Chesed Award

5 pm Cocktails • 6 pm Dinner

Burton Manor, Livonia Michigan

For more inforMation please call
Akiva Hebrew Day School 248-386-1625,
info @ akiva .org

4/26
2002

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her from helping patients physically, she
switched to office work and became our
assistant treasurer ... really finding a
niche for herself. She's a very depend-
able, hard worker.
Korinsky, 83, of Farmington Hills,
retired from a career as a science teacher
to get involved in charitable activities.
"It just makes you feel good to help
other people," she said: "I can't believe
my age anyway ... and I'm certainly not
decrepit. I want to continue to work in
the community"
She and her husband of 46 years,
Morris, were Central High School
sweethearts. A pharmacist,
he died 16 years ago. She
has two children and one
grandchild.
With an education
degree from WSU,
Paulette Bonin
Korinsky was a science
teacher for 30 years in
As a teenager in 1938,
Detroit, and served as a
Vienna-born Paulette Bonin,
supervisor to train student
81, of West Bloomfield also
teachers. She once was
fled the Nazis. Her father was
named one of 50 outstand-
caught in Nazi-occupied
ing teachers in the nation
Scandinavia while on his job
Paulette Bonin
and attended a science
as a clothing salesman. She
teacher workshop at
attended Commerce High
Harvard University in
School and worked in various
Cambridge, Mass. She
stores before marrying Ben
helped write four science
Bonin, who owned the Bonin
textbooks.
Ice Co. in Detroit for many
Korinsky has belonged
years. He died 10 years ago.
to the Sinai Guild for 14
She has four children, 12
'-
years, volunteers at the
grandchildren and one great-
Maisel Women's Health
grandchild.
Center in West
At 57, she earned a bache-
Bloomfield; was a docent
lor's of science degree in edu-
for 10 years at the
cation at Oakland University
Cranbrook Museum in
after getting an associate
Bloomfield Hills and, as a
degree at Oakland
member of the Jewish
Community College, but she Rose Korinsky
Home and Aging Services
didn't seek a teaching position
Auxiliary, demonstrated art
"because I didn't want to take
and showed movies to senior residents.
a job away from someone who might
She won a Governor's Service Award for
really need it," she said.
her efforts. ❑
She plunged into volunteer activities,
and now is co-president of her Hadassah
chapter where she also has belonged to a
The induction ceremony for the
study group for 55 years. She is treasurer
Jewish
Apartments and Services
of Parlcwood Chapter of Women's
2002
Eight
Over 80 honorees will
American ORT and works at the ORT
be
held
Sunday,
May 5, at the
boutique in Orchestra Hall.
Meer Jewish Apartments building
Bonin boasts that she drives at night,
on the Eugene and Marcia
enabling her to participate in her many
Applebaum
Jewish Community
volunteer and charity activities. She
Campus
in
West
Bloomfield;
delivers Meals on Wheels and helps dis-
brunch
at
11
a.m.,
ceremony at
tribute food for Yad Ezra.
noon. Emcees will be Alan
Muskovitz of the Dick Purtan
Rose Korinsky
Show on Oldies 104.3 WOMC
"Rose Korinsky is a real role model for
and Sherry Margolis of WJBK Fox
all of us," said Rusty Rosman of
2 News. Brunch tickets cost $65.
Commerce, president of the Sinai Guild,
(248) 592-1102.
now observing its 50th anniversary.
"When she injured her back, preventing
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— known as Oma (German for grand-
mother) to her family — also has four
grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Even while incapacitated, Frank
learned of another honor — being
named a finalist for the Governor's
Service Award for all of her volun-
teerism.
"I hope to get back to normal soon
and resume all of my activities," she said.
"I'm looking forward to attending the
Eight Over 80 event and the Governor's
Service Award dinner in Lansing."
Frank fled Nazi Germany as a young
woman in 1936, and worked in Detroit
stores. She and her late hus-
band, Jack, in the plastics
business, were married for 44
years.

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