Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Women's Campaign and Education Department
2002-2003 SLATE OF OFFICERS
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President
Nancy Grosfeld
Annie Cohen
Education Vice Presidents
Barbara Kappy
Melinda Soble Kaufman Abbe Binder Sherbin
Campaign Vice President
Nancy Jacobson
Corresponding Secretary
Malke Torgow
Recording Secretary
Baylee Shulman
Designates to the Board of Governors
Marjorie Krasnick
Melba Winer
First Term
Roselyn Blanck
Lori Garon
Margaret Gonik
Marcy Gottesman
Stacy Klein
Cheryl Margolis
Diane Perlman
Judy Rubin
Jennifer Silverman
Leah Trosch -
Jodi Weinfeld ,
Nominees to the Board
Second Term
Nancy Gad-Had
Nancy Jacobson
Sissi Lapides
Debbie Levin
Lisa Lis
Marta Rosenthal
Third Term
Nancy Grosfeld
To Fill Unexpired Term
Roberta Madorsky
Nominees to the Advisory Service Council
Nancy Glass Rose Rita Goldman Nancy Grand Susie Pappas JoAnn Shatanoff
Chair, Nominating Committee
Beverly Liss
Women's Campaign and Education Department
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
BYLAWS
In accordance with the Federation's Women's Campaign and_ Education Department Bylaws, Article VII,
Section 1: "The call to the Annual Meeting shall include the slate to be presented for election. Additional
nominations may be made by petition, signed by twenty-five (25) members of the Women's Campaign and
Education Department and submitted at least one (1) week in advance of the Annual Meeting,
provided that such nominees have consented to serve if elected."
The Women's Campaign and Education Department's Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 30, 2002.
If you would like to attend, please call the Women's Campaign and Education Department at:
(248) 642-4260, ext. 181.
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Community and Justice in Detroit, and
then for the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit. At
this last job — where she helped devel-
op the blueprints for the Jewish
Coalition for Literacy — she got to
know the MiCOEJL staff people who
worked in the same office. "When I left;
they said 'Why don't you join the
board?' So I did," she remembers.
Marcus, whose undergraduate degree
is in child development and family and
community services, continues to volun-
teer with the Coalition for. Literacy
tutoring at Orchards Children's Services
in Southfield. "There's a real need for
tutors, not just in what we think of as
deprived areas," she says. "There are
children at the bottom of the reading
level everywhere."
A few weeks ago, Marcus graduated
from Wayne State University with a
master's degree in library and informa-
tion science. She's already -started a two-
year job in the children and youth area
of the Southfield Public Library, a job
she hopes will become permanent when
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already had on them.
Nominated for various honors includ-
ing the Disney American Educator
Award, he has won the Oakland County
Technology Teacher of the Year Award.
Weisserman didn't even attend a ceremo-
ny honoring him as WDIV-Channel 4
Outstanding Teacher because he didn't
realize his work with students was unique
enough to make him a winner.
While future projects are bound to
take him deeper into the world of tech-
nology, he vows to keep his focus on his
students.
"I don't program because I like pro-
gramming so much," he says. "I program
because I like the opportunities it affords
kids and schools."
His immediate future plan is a project
he describes as "the creation of new
`global' initiative, which will bring
together students from countries around
the world."
Hoping to pilot the program by the
start of the 2003 school year, interest has
been expressed by politicians and educa-
tors from countries including Russia,
Croatia, Thailand, Morocco, South
Korea and Israel. In early May, he expects
to meet with the Croatian ambassador in
Washington, D.C.
Reflecting on his teaching methods, he
sees his work as a kind of educational
reform.
"It requires rethinking our basic educa-
tional assumptions," he says. 'As a
teacher, for instance, it requires thinking
less about 'material to be covered' and
more about 'engaging in meaningful,
thoughtful activity' That's scary because
you may not know in advance what your
students are going to learn on a given
day, but energizing, too — because what
the kids learn ends up being so much
more valuable."
As rewarding as his in-class time is,
Weisserman also says he appreciates that
on-going relationship I get to have
with my students isn't just that I stand at
the head of a class and lecture."
Teaching at .both WBHS and U-M
brings a special long-term connection
with students.
"The best thing about my job is that I
tend to have the same kids for three or
four years in high school, and then get
the kids again in college," he says.
He and his wife, Dr. Dolly Kerin
Weisserman,- with whom he is expect-
ing his first child in September, are
known to show up on the doorsteps of
former students now at
insisting
they join them for a very early morn-
ing breakfast.
"In many instances, they become my
extended family members," he says of
students who have joined him for
Passover and Chanukah celebrations.
"It means a lot to be able to watch
them go from very young adolescents to
full-fledged adults, and to have helped
them, in some small way, become whom
they've become." ❑
WEISSERMAN
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the city completes its new and expanded
library building.
"I would also like to get involved in
child advocacy" she says, "and possibly
to do research on maternal and child
issues."
For now, the children in her Sunday
School class give her plenty of experi-
- ence with the kids-eye view. "If you go
to Israel, be careful," one little girl said
to her solemnly. "There are bombs there
and you could get killed."
Marcus, who spent the summer of
1988 in Israel and went on the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
young adult mission to Israel in 2000,
says she is sorry the children are forced
to grapple with the idea of bombs and
of death. "It's a concept they can't quite
grasp," she says.
"My chief reaction to the situation in
Israel is sadness," Marcus says.
She's written letters to members of
Congress and to the White House, as
well as attending local pro-Israel rallies.
Her wish for the region is deceptively
simple: "I want there to be peace so all
people, of whatever faith, can live there
and visit there without fear." ❑
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