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High School
Honorees

Eugene Mondry

Eugene Mondry was an all-around ath-
lete at Detroit Central High School,
winning 11 letters in football, track and
tennis. But his major athletic fame is as
one of the state's pre-eminent yachtsman
over a 43-year period.
Two friends convinced him to become
a partner in a racing sailboat in 1955. A
Detroit River Yachting Association regat-
ta hooked him on the sport.
He purchased a high performance
yacht in 1968 and named it "Leading
Edge." He continually upgraded his
boats, all named "Leading Edge," and
won his first Port Huron to Mackinac
race in 1972 and the Chicago to
Mackinac in 1973. He skippered his
own yacht in 43 Port Huron to
Mackinac and 39 Chicago to Mackinac

Steve Fishman

Steve Fishman's father, Herman, a .
1987 inductee into the Michigan
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, was one
of the state's greatest all-around ath-
letes. Following in his footsteps, Steve
as a kid was the leading scorer on the
Jewish Community Center team that
won championships in 1960 and
1961 in the Detroit Pistons Knothole
League.
At Detroit Mumford High School
(class of '66), Steve Fishman earned All-
City honors in basketball and golf At
the University of Michigan, he was a
member of the varsity basketball team
for three years, earning a letter his senior
year. He was president of the Graduate
M Club in 1996-97.
"I'm quite honored," said Fishman.
"I'm not the player my dad was, but it's
nice to be inducted into the same insti-
tution. I never thought I had a hall-of-

races. He won the fleet twice, his class 8
times, and had 13 second-place and 11
third-place finishes.
His other
victories
include the
Richardson
Cup Match
Race
Championship
for all the
Great Lakes in
1983. He
retired from
racing in
1998.
Eugene Mondry
Mondry
and his sons
own a venture capital firm, M Group.
Tragically, a daughter-in-law Leah was
killed last week in a car accident.

fame career, but the fact that I'm in there
has more to do with the coaches and
players I was
with."
Until four
years ago,
when he
turned 51,
Fishman
continued
to play bas-
ketball and
softball in
recreation
league open
divisions.
Steve Fishman
Today, he's
content
with playing basketball against his son
Eric, 12. "Eric's tough," Fishman said.
"He's quick and it's hard to stay in
front of him." Fishman is a criminal
lawyer in Detroit.

Three college freshmen will be honored
Monday at the Michigan Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame dinner.
Matthew Field, who graduated from
Ann Arbor
Greenhills last
spring, and
Emily Taxe, a
graduate of
Bloomfield
Hills Andover,
will be named
the Jewish
News male
and female
Field
high school
athletes of the
year.
Matthew
Milstein, a
graduate of
West
Bloomfield
High School,
will be hon-
ored as the
Taxe
Bill Hertz
Memorial
Scholarship
winner.
Field, now a
student at the
University of
North
Carolina, was
state tennis
champ this
Milstein
year in Division
4 no. 2 singles. He was named to the
All-State first team and Greenhills shared
the division state title. During Field's
tennis career, he won the regional cham-
pionship three times.
Field also played basketball for
Greenhills, was captain his senior year
and was named All-Area honorable
mention.
Taxe was captain of Andover's volley-
ball and soccer teams as a senior. She
was named to the All-District and All-
League teams in both sports, and was
soccer most valuable player and named
to the All-League, All-District and All-
State (honorable mention) soccer teams.
She now attends the University of
Colorado.
Milstein, now a freshman at the
University of Michigan, compiled a 4.01
grade point average at West Bloomfield
while participating in varsity soccer for
three years, track for two years and
wrestling for one year.

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