Simons Archives Seeks Assistance
The Leonard N. Simons Jewish
Community Archives of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
is beginning a new collection and
needs community assistance.
The archives is asking those in the
Detroit Jewish community who have
visited Israel or been in contact with
Israelis since the beginning of the
recent disturbances in the Middle
East to donate letters, postcards,
diaries, e-mails, or photographs
related to their experiences in or
about Israel.
The archives staff is eager to pre-
serve reactions to the current situa-
tion in Israel from members of the
local community.
• The collection, which has yet to
be named, would be preserved and
made available for research in the
Jewish Community Archives in the
Max M. Fisher Federation Building
in Bloomfield Township.
To donate materials or find out
more about the project, call Heidi
Christein, (248) 642-4260.
JCC Hosting Fame Games
The 16th annual West Bloomfield
Community Fame Games on
Sunday, Oct. 13, will showcase the
athletic abilities of children and
adults with special needs. The
games will be held on the grounds
of the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield.
The day includes opening cere-
monies, track and field events,
aquatic events, special children's
medal presentations and closing cer-
emonies followed by an evening
dessert reception.
Concert Ushers
Are Sought
The Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit is seek-
ing ushers for its 2002-2003
Julius Chajes Encore Concert
Series.
Responsibilities include ticket
taking, managing the crowds,
guiding the performers from the
green room to the stage and
seating patrons at four of the 11
scheduled Encore concerts.
The first concerts of the sea-
son take place Sunday, Aug. 11,
when the Israeli Scouts
Friendship Caravan has two per-
formances.
Concerts will continue until
June 2003, usually at the West
Bloomfield or Oak Park loca-
tions of the JCC.
To volunteer, contact Katie
Marcus, (248) 432-5470.
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The event is presented by the
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation
and sponsored by the Jewish
Community Center, Northwest
Child Rescue Women, West
Bloomfield Parks and Recreation
and West Bloomfield Schools
Community Education.
There is free admission for partici-
pants and spectators, and the public
is invited. Volunteers are needed. To
participate or volunteer, contact
Nancie Furgang, (248) 432-5460.
JCC Honors
Lillian Kellman
Lillian Kellman of Walled Lake has
been named the first Volunteer of the
Month by the Jewish Community
Center of
Metropolitan
Detroit.
The retired
mother of five,
grandmother of 11
and great-grand-
mother of three
said she likes to vol-
unteer because "I
have to be doing
Lillian Kellman
something. My life
would be very dull
if I didn't work."
At the JCC for two years, Kellman
performs clerical tasks in the Jewish
Life and Learning Department at JCC
in West Bloomfield.
Those interested in volunteering at
the Jewish Community Center should
call Elaine Schonberger, (248) 432-
5577.
Here's To...
David M. Paull of West Bloomfield,
a third-year strident at Michigan
State University-Detroit College of
Law, was named to the fall 2001
dean's liSt. He is a member of Journal
of Medicine and Law and Student
Bar Association.
service project, which was refur-
bishing a section of trail at the
Birmingham Environmental Center.
Outside of scouting, Randall was
active on the school track team and
at Temple Emanu-El. He is the son
of Scott and Debra Silver.
Fran Victor and Bill Harder of
Victor-Harder Productions Inc. in
West Bloomfield received an
EMMY award for outstanding cul-
tural affairs program from the
Michigan Chapter of the National
Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences at the 24th annual
EMMY awards on June 9. The
documentary, titled Harmony of
Strings, is the story of the third
annual Texaco-Sphinx
Competition, a juried music com-
petition for young adult black and
Latino classical string musicians
that took place in Ann Arbor in
February 2000.
Jonathan Haber of Huntington
Woods was named Goodfellow of
the Year at the
Goodfellows'
annual meeting.
He dedicated 30
years to helping
thousands of chil-
dren as a member
of the Old
Newsboys'
Goodfellow Fund Jonathan Haber
of Detroit. Haber
has been a member of the Detroit
Goodfellows since 1970 and served
as president in 1980. He is assistant
treasurer of the board.
Mari Cooper, president of Fair and
Informed Residents of Huntington
Woods, was presented with the
Political Action Award at the 17th
annual Pride banquet and awards
ceremony. She led a successful cam-
paign last November when
Huntington Woods voters approved
an ordinance banning discrimina-
tion based on sexual orientation.
Judy Wax Goldwasser of
Bloomfield Hills won an APEX
2002 International Award of
Excellence from Communications
Concepts for Building On Success,
a 250-page, hardcover history of
Woods Construction Inc.
Goldwasser is president of the
Bloomfield Hills-based
Wordwatch corporate writing con-
sultants.
Haran C. Rashes of Ann Arbor
earned the Next Generation
Leadership
Award from the
Jewish
Community
Center
Association of
North America.
Rashes has been
president of the
Haran C Rashes
Jewish
Community
Center of Washtenaw County
since 2000. He is an attorney with
Clark Hill PLC in Detroit.
Randall N. Silver, a 17-year-old
who attends Birmingham Groves
High School in Beverly Hills,
recently won the Eagle Scout
Award. He earned 25 merit badges
and had to complete a community
Wacky weathercaster and broad-
cast legend Sonny Elliot has been
inducted into the Michigan
Broadcasting Hall of Fame. His
madcap weather shtick began on
television around 1950, four years
after he broke into radio. He
moved to TV, and a variety show,
a year later. He still delivers the
news with jokes he writes twice
daily on WWJ-AM Newsradio
950. The Germans shot down
Marvin Elliot Schlossberg's B-24
bomber in World War II, sending
the native Detroiter to a POW
camp, which the Russians later
liberated. In 1999, he earned the
Society of Professional Journalists'
Lifetime Achievement Award.