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A CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP
Are you struggling and juggling to meet
the needs of your aging parents,
a relative, a spouse, children and /or grandchildren?
INSIGHT
if the answer is YES, you are not alone.
This unique support group is being offered for anyone
involved in the care of a loved one, whether your
loved one is still living at home, or in a facility.
Led by Mindi Silver-Weiss, MSW,ACSW
with experienced caregivers
available as supportive partners.
Join us at our next meeting on
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 7:00 p.m.
Ongoing meetings are held the
second Tuesday of every month, 7:00 p.m.
at
Jewish Home & Aging Services
Fleischman Residence/Blumberg Plaza
6710 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield, Michigan
located on the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish community Campus
To register or for more information call
Sheyna Wexelberg-Clouser, MSW, Director of Community Outreach,
(248) 661-2999, ext.347
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U.S. Rep. Sandy Levin, D-Royal Oak,
you'll find Franklin philanthropist
Max Fisher (because he was a delegate
to two Republican conventions), and
Democrats David Hermelin (the late
ambassador to Norway), builder Joe
Forbes,former state senator Jack
Faxon, even Kestenbaum himself.
Among the Michigan 29 is Alan Fox
of East Lansing. "I've known Larry
since the third grade," said Fox. "We
went to high school together. When
we lived in East Lansing, he was
always interested in the history of the
city. So he made a house-by-house
search, he found out who built it, who
lived there, the price the property sold
for. He didn't just dabble. He pays a
lot of attention to details."
Now a partner in the firm of Practical
Political Consulting, Fox observed
Kestenbaum as a fledgling politician in
East Lansing. "Larry is a serious democ-
rat with a small `d.' He really believes in
the political system and in being part of
it. He represents the good side of being
a politician," said Fox.
Kestenbaum's interest in his adopted
home town (he was born in Chicago,
but raised in East Lansing) was reflect-
ed in At the Campus Gate, the history
of East Lansing he wrote as a bicen-
tennial project. It was edited by his
father Justin, who taught history at
Michigan State University.
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Kestenbaum earned his undergraduate
degree in economics at Michigan State
University, and did graduate work in
city planning at. Cornell University in
Ithaca, N.Y. He was elected an
Ingham County commissioner and
served from 1983-88.
By 1990, Kestenbaum had married
Janice Gutfreund, whom he met when
she was earning her Ph.D. from MSU
in clinical psychology. That's when
they moved to Ann Arbor. From
1992-95, Kestenbaum taught at the.
MSU School of Criminal Justice, and
from 1995-98 he was full-time at
MSU's Political Science Department.
That meant a 130-mile round trip
commute for six years.
He began teaching a graduate course
in historic preservation law at EMU
and now is documentation coordina-
tor/senior data archive specialist for
the long-term health and retirement
study being conducted by U-M's
Institute for Social Research.
In July 1998, the Kestenbaums
adopted their daughter Sarah, now 3.
They are members of Temple Beth
Emeth in Ann Arbor. "He is equally as
committed to the value of Judaism in
his life,". said Rabbi Robert D. Levy.
Kestenbaum was involved in the
temple's library committee and the
shivah group, and has taken part in
many brotherhood activities. Janice
formerly served on the temple board.
Kestenbaum was defeated in his race
for state representative in 1998. He
also narrowly lost a race for Ann
Arbor City Council in 1999, and was
appointed to fill a vacancy on the
county commission in June 2000. He
was subsequently elected unopposed.
"I served as campaign treasurer for
Larry's city council race, and because
of his command of the law and his
observance of the highest ethical stan-
dards, it was just a pleasure," said Ann
Arbor lawyer David Nacht.
"Larry is a quirky guy," said Nacht,
who is running as a Democrat this
year for the state representative seat
Kestenbaum lost in 1998. "He's nor
the kind of a guy who you think of as
running for public office because he's
an intellectual, and the way he inter-
acts with people.
"He's very direct, he's himself, he
doesn't put on any airs, and there's
nothing phony about him at all. He's
just the opposite of a salesman. And
that's quite refreshing."
e-Pioneering
Although involved with Usenet News
on the Internet while at Cornell in
1988, Kestenbaum recalls he learned
about the World Wide Web "probably
in 1994 or so in Ann Arbor."
He says he "was actually quite skep-
tical about it [the World Wide Web]
initially because I thought all the pret-
ty pictures were a waste of bandwidth.
"Some friends of mine convinced
me to start a Web site, and gave me an
account on their Web server in
February 1996, and I set up a few
pages with a cemetery links page."
Kestenbaum still gathers informa-
tion from a variety of out-of-print
books, many of which he buys on -
eBay. But he also receives information
from users, getting as many as 100 e-
mails a day about the site.
"I'm just a database guy," says
Kestenbaum.
"Larry has so many different inter-
ests that pull him in so many different
areas that you wonder what hat he has
on at any given time," says fellow Ann
Arbor Democrat and U.S. Rep. Lynn
Rivers. "He is as close to a renaissance
man as you can get. He has so many
interests and they're all driven by good-
nest, he's on our side." ❑