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Dear Detroit's Jewish Community,
Linda, our family, and I want to thank you for making Wooden Acres
Camp a reality. In only our second year, your support and faith in sendin
your children has been overwhelming.
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After a very successful summer of 2003,
we had over 95% of our
campers enrolled by Sept. 15, 2003, for the summer of 2004. We have
embarked on continuing the tremendous quality of operating our summer
camp the Wooden Acres way.
As our enrollment continues to grow, you have our commitment
Wooden Acres Camp will remain a small, Jewish camp where your that
children and their individual needs always come first.
Your child will have a special feeling and higher sense of self-esteem
after attending Wooden Acres Camp. We guarantee it!
Thank you Detroit, for making our dream a reality.
Akiva honors teacher Chang Greenfield.
Sincerely,
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Harvey Finkelberg
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DIANA LIEBERMAN
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eshivat Akiva has
been an educational
resource for the
Detroit area's Orthodox
community for 39 years.
For 25 of those years,
Ghana Greenfield has
taught some of the school's
youngest students.
On Saturday night, Jan.
17, the Southfield day
school honored Greenfield
with a distinguished service
award during a PTA-spon-
sored concert by the
Chevra, an Israeli singing
group.
"She was one of the main
reasons we moved to
Detroit," says Akiva parent
Ariella Nadel of Southfield.
"First, the school was philo-
Chang Greenfield
sophically what we wanted.
Then, we walked into her
are members of Young Israel of
classroom. She was teaching second
Southfield, where we belong, but in
grade, talking to them in Hebrew, and
the last few years, the school has been
they were answering her in Hebrew.
reaching out to the community as a
They were all so well behaved and
whole."
looked so happy.
Most recently, Greenfield has been
"That was the kind of teacher we
teaching
first and second grades. She
really wanted for our kids."
also
teaches
fourth-graders at Adat
Morah (teacher) Greenfield was born
Shalom
Synagogue's
Beth Achim
in Czechoslovakia, moved to Israel in
Religious
School.
1949 and to New York City in 1963.
"My husband says, 'You have been
"I came to Detroit to visit my
teaching already 25 years — why are
cousin," she remembers. "I was going
you writing lesson plans?"'
to go back to Israel. But I started
But Akiva's curriculum changes
teaching at United Hebrew Schools, I
every
two or three years to keep up
met my husband and I stayed here."
with
educational
innovations and stan-
Greenfield and her husband, Joseph,
dards,
she
says.
And,
most important-
live in Southfield. They have two
ly,
she
is
interested
in
giving each child
grown sons, one in Southfield and one
the best possible education.
in New York.
"Morah Greenfield has a unique
After 25 years at Akiva, "it has
ability
to find each child's strength and
become an extension of my family,"
teach
to
that strength," says Nadel. ❑
she says. "I know all the parents. Most