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Webster is a member of Meadowbrook Estate, Oakland University's vocal ja77 ensemble, sang the lead in university's production of the Maurice Ravel opera L'heure Espanol (in the original French) and just completed a two-week run in Maltby and Shire's Starting Here, Starting Now. "Whatever she does, she'll definitely be singing," Albright says. Its part of her soul." Temple Israel's Cantor Corrsin, herself an accomplished coloratura soprano, says Webster "has everything — talent, personality, the ability to relate to peo- ple." "If she becomes a cantor, she can do so many things and touch so many peo- ple." Webster agrees. "Whatever I do, I want to touch people's lives," she says. • 3- I 0 NIGHT PACKAGES us i cor tIte 'PeceteA Fontainebleau Hilton with much experience singing in musi- cal and pops roles. As she prepares for . her senior recital at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, she is weighing her options for the future: pursuing a gradu- ate degree in music, applying to cantori- al school or attempting a performing career now, while keeping one of the two other options open for the future. Musically, Webster is "a wonderful coloratura [soprano with a light, agile voice]," says Albright. "Her voice is still developing. It's a stunning voice, with a gorgeous crystalline quality." . When Webster began studying with her, the younger woman was dubious about letting herself go emotionally in her music, Albright remembers. Then she began working on Leonard Bernstein's virtuosic "Glitter and Be Gay" from the musical Candide, a comic aria crammed full of verbal wordplay and innuendo along with every musical ornament imaginable. "I said to her, 'Come on, you have it 248.351 5174 ON THE Go from page 73 My parents taught me at a very early age that I needed to give back," he said. When the family couldn't afford the full tuition to attend Camp Tamarack, they received a scholarship. "From the first day I went to camp at 8 years old, my parents said, 'You wouldn't be going to camp if we didn't get this money, so when you're able, you're going to give back," he said. At Berkley High School, Eric worked with a teacher to put together a teachers' guide on how to teach about genocide, including the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Rwanda and Bosnia. After graduation in 1996, he attend- ed George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor's in Judaic Studies. He called his junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's One Year Program for overseas students an important event for the development of my sense of attachment to Israel, my understanding of Judaism and my commitment to the Jewish people." His interest in politics didn't begin until his senior year. "My roommates were all very inter- ested in politics and they loved to debate," he said. "There were four of us, .and all-the time there was some form of debate going on of one sort or another." That same year, he interned for the United Jewish Communities Washington action office, his first time working in politics and learning about the issues. After graduating in 2000, he became the BBYO assistant director of Wisconsin Region in Milwaukee and met his fiance, Karen Urman, who worked for BBYO's South Florida office. In 2002, he got the Council position. "I came home to work in Detroit and made Mom happy," he said. The job was a little bit overwhelm- ing at first, but said he was fortunate to have both Executive Director David Gad-Harf and Associate Director Allan Gale to help him. "I've been in this job for a year, and I've done things I never thought I'd do," he said. Taking a group of state legislators to Israel this fall is certainly at the top of the list. "Eric is a very quick learner and gets along with people of all kinds in a very smooth, mature, professional way. He has good instincts," said Gad-Harf. "It's helpful for me to have someone who comes with a whole fresh out- look. He is young and I think people kind of underestimate him because of his youth, and they come away impressed with his maturity — which is well beyond his years."