ar.
The TENTH Annual
Conference
on Psychiatric Disabilities
Wednesday, May 151 2002
7 PM
Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph
Bloomfield Hills
Northwest corner of Telegraph
at 14 Mile Road
Sponsored by
Helping. Mental Illness.
I MA
Presentation
-From Resistance to Recovery
Laurie Curtis, MA
Legal Aspects of Non-Compliance
Bernadine Trout, RN, MS, JD
With Support from
Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman
Foundation
Judith and Edward Narens
Education Fund
For Reservations or Information Please call 248-559-8235
or fax 248-559-0229
HEARTS OF GOLD from page 33
Volunteer Extraordinaire
Heart of Gold winner Wendy Evans,
a native of Great Britain, says she
"grew up" in the London museums.
She passed on her passion for art to
children Anita, now 33; David, 29;
and Edwin, 28.
Evans and husband Dr. Leonard
Evans moved to the United States in
the late 1960s. In 1985, when their
children were old enough, she
enrolled them in art-history classes
at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Learning the classes would be free if
she became a docent for. three years,
Evans signed up — and got hooked
on volunteering.
Diane Abel, director of DIA vol-
unteer services, said Evans has held
numerous positions with the art
museum, from chairing a 1,000-plus
volunteer committee to instituting
four different volunteer recognition
awards, to sharing her DIA initia-
tives on a national level.
"She has a natural gift for teach-
ing," added Abel, who supported
Evans' award nomination.
Evans has volunteered to train and
tour most of the museum's special
exhibitions for the past 16 years.
"She is a role model to all volunteers
and a volunteer extraordinaire," Abel
said.
Through the DIA Speakers
Bureau, Evans also logged 4,000
miles reaching out to the communi-
ty through her slide presentations.
Among her appearances, she's pre-
sented slide shows about artist Ben
Shahn for Jewish Russian groups in
Southfield through an interpreter
and at the JCC in West Bloomfield.
Evans' parents, like so many
Jewish parents, encouraged learning.
"And I enjoyed the museum classes
so much that I eventually enrolled at
Wayne State University and got a
master's in art history," she said.
Evans has taught at WSU and
other colleges.
"The DIA's an important cultural
center in Detroit and Detroit's been
so good to our family, I want to give
something back to Detroit," Evans
said. 111
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The other six Heart of Gold win-
ners are: Chris Allen, Detroit;
Nancy Brown, Northville; Irene
Pawlak, Troy; Mary Renkiewicz,
Detroit; Karole Schaufele,
Tecumseh; and Lucy Whiters,
Pontiac.
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NCJW Honors
Andrea Stone
The Awards Committee of the
National Council of Jewish Women,
Greater Detroit Section, has awarded
Andrea Stone the Emerging Leader
Award for her dedi-
cation and ability to
lead.
Stone has been
active in the Greater
Detroit Section for
almost seven years.
She was an original
co-chair of the Just 4
Kids Committee
and arranged the
Andrea Stone
Bingo for Books
project and the
flower plantings at Kadima houses. She
has also served on the nominating com-
mittee, the All Kids Playground
Committee and the Jewish Youth
Awards Committee, where she served as
a judge this year.
Stone will receive her award at the
installation luncheon on May 14.
The awards cornmittee is co-chaired
by Nena Dillick and Carolyn Schreiber.
AJCommittee
Lauds Archer
The American Jewish Committee,
Metropolitan Detroit Chapter, will pres-
ent its 2002 Judge Learned Hand award
to former Detroit Mayor Dennis
Archer.
The award will be
presented to Archer
Tuesday, June 4, at the
Atheneum Suite Hotel
and Conference Center
in Detroit. The guest
speaker will be Jerome
Shesteck, president of
Dennis
the American Bar
Archer
Association and AJC's
chair of the national
legal committee. The tribute co-chairs
are C. Beth DunCombe, Peter
Karmanos Jr., Gary Torgow and
Reginald Turner.
Archer returned to the law firm of.
Dickinson Wright PLLC as chair after
serving an eight-year term as mayor of
Detroit. He has been nominated to
serve as the next president-elect of the
American Bar Association. From 1986-
1990, he served as an associate justice of
the Michigan Supreme Court.
For event information, call (248)
646-7686.