Something Extra
Bonstelle Theatre Turns 100
The World Of Sports
Circle of Thought
When young students throughout the world open
their New Burlington Top Class course book to page
13, they can read about what Scott Warheit of
Farmington Hills has been up to.
The book, designed for students studying
English in Spanish secondary education programs,
highlights children and young adults from many
countries, including Warheit.
"We wanted to compare an adult writer and a
young writer," said Lynda Siman-Tov of Eric
Cohen Books Ltd. in Ra'anana, Israel. "We found
Scott through surfing the
Internet for a young sports
writer."
Warheit was included in
the first printing of the book
published by Burlington
Books in Cyprus in 1998.
When the book was reprinted
in 2002, Warheit's story
remained in the book, with
an updated photo of Warheit.
The adult author Warheit
Warheit
shares a page with Canadian
Gordon Korman.
Warheit, a student at University of Michigan,
has been a sports writer since he was a kid. He has
been a contributor to the Jewish News, the Detroit
Sports Confidential, a monthly sports magazine; the
Internet Web site Michigan Live; the Oakland Press;
and the Detroit News.
He also has met with sports columnists from
newspapers and radio stations.
"I have known WXYT program director and
afternoon talk show host Gregg Henson for years,"
he said. "In fact, his wife Nicole was my seventh-
grade math teacher.
"I've also interviewed numerous sports personali-
ties in Detroit, including former Detroit Tiger
manager Sparky Anderson, former Detroit Piston
coach Chuck Daly and former Detroit Lion
Herman Moore. I've also written stories on the
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame," he said.
And according to the course book, "He has a job
that most young people only dream of."
Members of the public are welcome to meditate,
One of the oldest synagogues built in Detroit,
contemplate or just enjoy themselves at the seven-
Temple Beth El, was constructed in 1903 by
circle flagstone labyrinth completed this month at
renowned architect and synagogue member Albert
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park.
Kahn.
The labyrinth, 36 feet in diameter, was built by
In 1922, the congregation moved farther north to
12- and 13-year-olds from the synagogue's reli-
Woodward and Gladstone, and the building became
gious school, with the help of art therapist
the Bonstelle Playhouse. Jessie Bonstelle, managing
Margaret Goldstein of Southfield, landscaper
director of the Garrick Theatre, who trained nation-
Brian Yaffa of West Bloomfield and clergy assis-
ally known actors and actresses, purchased the
tant Ande Teeple of Huntington Woods — all
building and had it remodeled by theater architect
Emanu-El members. Parents and siblings took
C. Howard Crane. Until 1932, the playhouse pre-
their turns as well, said Teeple, who served as
sented programs of musical comedy, drama and
project coordinator.
dance. It then became a motion picture theater and,
The design was the work of landscape architects
in 1951, was acquired by Wayne State University.
Elizabeth McKinney and Joan Slusky.
The theater is currently part of the university's
The project was in the works for two years,
graduate theater department, whose graduates
Teeple said. The finished labyrinth will be incor-
include Lily Tomlin and Tom Sizemore.
— Sharon Luckerman porated into the synagogue's religious school cur-
riculum.
"King Solomon's Temple was built on the same
layout," Teeple said.
Before laying the paving bricks and flagstones,
students had to dig down 9 inches into the soil.
"It was harder than we thought," Teeple said.
"That's when Brian [Yaffa] donated his time and
his machines."
The project was funded by a Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit DeRoy Testamentary
Grant for arts in the schools.
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Bonstelle Theatre, former Temple Beth El
Seeds Of Peace Conference
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Writers from the New York Times, the Associated Press
and Newsweek joined their colleagues from Lebanon's
As-Safir, Israel's Ha' .Aretz and many other newspapers
and magazines at the Seeds of Peace International
Youth Conference, held Oct. 10-16 in New York.
The conference, which also included academics and
corporate executives, included 125 young people, ages
15-19, along with adults involved in the international
youth organization. Attending from metropolitan
Detroit were Miriam Liebman of Farmington Hills
and Beth Aviv Greenbaum, who teaches English and
Holocaust studies at Birmingham's Groves High
School.
Delegates to the conference heard presentations on
the role of the media in conflict, freedom of the press,
defining news, covering conflict, the distinction
between news and propaganda and the use of the
media in diplomacy.
"The most exciting thing was seeing the young peo-
ple from all over the world enjoying each other's com-
pany," Greenbaum said.
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Enjoying Temple Emanu-El's labyrinth are Eric
Pullyblank, 11, followed by Wendy Yaffa and son
Michael Yaffiz, 14, ofWest Bloomfield. and Linda
Rosenthal-Pullyblank of Birmingham.
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In "Get Packing ..." (Mixed Media, page 76 of this
issue), the Travel Channel episode with former
Farmington Hills resident David Rosemberg has
been postponed from Nov. 28 to a later date, possi-
bly in January.