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Life-Long
Humanitarian
ing to a family statement.
After retiring, Miss Goodman expand-
Cod Editor
ed her commitment to
adie Goodman
humanitarian and edu-
was an eye-witness
cational causes by serv-
to wars, coups and
ing for many years in
major regional conflicts
the State Department's
in the Far East during her
Book Fair Committee
lengthy career with the
to raise scholarship sup-
U.S. State Department.
port for students inter-
After she retired, she
ested in foreign service
didn't stop being involved
careers.
in overseas humanitarian
She also founded the
causes.
Afghan Relief
One of her major
Committee as well as
efforts was merging a
an alumni group of for-
group she founded into
mer Peace Corps and
the Doctors Without
foreign service person-
Borders program that
nel who had served in
Sadie Goodman
provides emergency aid
Afghanistan before the
to victims of armed con-
Soviet coup and the
flicts and natural and
eventual Taliban
man-made disasters.
regime.
Miss Goodman, 88, of West
Miss Goodman eventually merged the
Bloomfield, died March 11, 2005.
group into the Doctors Without Borders
"It was a life less ordinary," said a
program and continued to devote time
niece, Barbara Waxer.
to that organization.
She was a passionate supporter of arts
Her aunt, she said, while outspoken,
had a sense of humor and an elegance.
and music, being a season subscriber to
several organizations.
Miss Goodman entered the foreign
Miss Goodman is survived by sisters-
service after losing several siblings within
in-law, Jody Sloan of Florida and Rose
a few years to heart disease. "She was on
Kovel of West Bloomfield; nieces and
a quest to find meaning and purpose,"
Waxer said.
nephews, Sybil Home, Hilton and Sally
Haberman, Ruthie Greenstein, Chuck
For her work during the fall of Saigon
nearly 30 years ago, the State
Goodman, Mark and Brenda Goodman,
Ellen and Leonard Taub, Howard Waxer,
Department honored her with its
Meritorious Honor Award for "outstand- David and Kate Waxer, Barbara and
Lindy Waxer; great-nieces and great-
ing performance and unusual devotion
nephews, Linda Goodman, Ronald
to duty." She helped evacuate U.S. civil-
Goodman, Karen Goodman, Scott Taub,
ians and Vietnamese employees from the
U.S. embasy.
Tracy Weiss, Adam Goodman, Aaron
Lobliner, Sean Waxer, Alix Waxer,
Born to Hungarian bakers in Toronto,
Michael Waxer and Ana Victoria Waxer,
she became a naturalized American citi-
and Ben Kash.
zen after her family moved to Detroit in
1920.
Miss Goodman was the beloved sister
Growing up in an Orthodox family on of the late Annie Haberman, the late
Detroit's west side, she graduated Central Ethel Home, the late Ida Berkowitz, the
late Ruth Waxer, the late Ben Goodman,
High School and then worked as an
the late Harty Goodman, the late Mike
executive secretary for a Detroit retail
Goodman, the late Alec Goodman, the
company.
late Al Goodman, the late Bert
She was an administrator in the State
Goodman, the late Herb Goodman, the
Department's Agency for International
late Louie Goodman; and the loving
Development, joining the governmental
aunt of the late Sybil Eisenstadt.
agency in 1960.
Interment at Adat Shalom Memorial
During her 20-year career with the
Park. Contributions may be made to:
State Department, she "bore witness to
Doctors Without Borders, 333
war and tragedy, having survived the
Seventh Ave., New York City, NY
Pakistan-India conflict in 1966, the
10001. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Soviet-led coup in Afghanistan in 1980
Chapel. ❑
and the fall of Saigon in 1975," accord-
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