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 36 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 . ' W...rew , ". - MVXRIMi3WORWW:VVegMUMMMEMSWOMi — 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. 3) ,