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The first graduates of Detroit's Mumford
High School celebrate 50-year-old bonds.
SHARON LUCKERMAN
StaffWriter
iffy years ago, they were carefree Detroit teens hanging out at Cupid's Bow
diner, Fredson's deli, Zukin's ice cream parlor and the Wy-7 bowling alley.
Now they're doctors, lawyers, judges, artists, teachers and businesspeople.
This was a special group who received special attention for being the first
students and — four years later — the first graduates of Mumford High School, then a
state-of-the-art school on Wyoming between Six and Seven Mile roads in Detroit.
Though they've had several other reunions, the class of1953 held their largest reunion
— their 50th — on May 17 at the Somerset Inn in Troy. More than 200 of the 67- and
68-year-olds gathered from around the country.
"This was a once-in-a-lifetime event," says Barbara Zuckerman Sachse of Bloomfield Hills.
"It was so warm and heimish and festive. You could feel the energy in the air from beginning to
end."
Chairman Joyce (Prag) Sachs of Franklin, heading the 25-person reunion committee with Judie
Schuster Koploy of Bloomfield Hills, says their class was indeed special. "We felt unique as the first class
to graduate from Mumford," she says. "And we made friendships that lasted these 50 years."
And though they had a carefree attitude and lots of fun, she points out the graduates of 1953 were a very
Above:
Mumford 50th reunion
committee members still
hold dear their high school
days. From left, Joel Tauber
of West Bloom fief Judie
Schuster Koploy of
Bloomfield Hills, Dr.
Sheldon Markel of Ann
Arbor, Joyce Sachs of
Franklin and Barbara
Zuckerman Sachse of
Bloomfield Hills. Their
photos from the Mumford
"Capri" Yearbook of 1953
are inset.
Left:
Mumford students, circa
1953.
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