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just the best place to further your
Jewish education," she said.
The other graduates also have
landed good jobs in the community.
Rabbi Miller is assistant director of
the University of Michigan Hillel;
Allan is education director at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek and
Kochavi is education director at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak
Park.
His Early Years
Davidson is proud of "his" gradu-
ates, usually taking them to lunch at
Guardian headquarters and posing
for pictures with them. Perhaps he's
reminiscing about his own Jewish
education and his roots in the tradi-
tions of the Jewish community that
led to his philanthropies.
The son of Sarah and Ralph
Davidson, he graduated from
Detroit Central High School and
went through the religious school
system at Shaarey Zedek, where he
later served two years as president.
"My first job as a teenager was as
an usher at the old Royal and
Avalon theaters;" he reflected. "That
was enough to' ke'dp me going until
college."
He was a track athlete in high
school and even played football in
his first year at the University of
Michigan, where he got a business
degree, followed by a law degree
from Wayne University in Detroit.
"After practicing law for a couple
of years, I decided I wanted to rep-
resent myself, not others," he said.
His uncle took him into a fledg-
ling auto glass business that vacillat-
ed between growth and disaster dur-
ing the Great Depression and World
War II. With the business facing
bankruptcy and possible extinction
in the - 1950s, Davidson had the
foresight to see the potential uses of
glass in buildings and new technolo-
gy — and he turned the business
into a success. Guardian went public
in 1968 at $17 a share, but he took
it private in 1985 by simply buying
the majority of the stock himself.
Always interested in sports, he
bought the Pistons in 1974 for a
reported $274 million, followed
later by the Tampa Bay Lightning of
the National Hockey League and the
Detroit Shock of the Women's
National Basketball Association.
Forbes magazine, a national busin -E§s
publication, estimates the Pistons'
value now at about $450 million.
Davidson scored a sports "three-
pointer" last year when the Pistons
won the NBA title, the Lightning
won the Stanley Cup and the Shock
captured the women's title. He
brought all three trophies to
Guardian headquarters and allowed
each of the 300 employees there to
pose for a photo with the trophies.
After some small talk about the
"missing" hockey season and his dis-
dain for most of the pro basketball
referees, Davidson brought the con-
versation back to his devotion to
Jewish education. He keeps a small,
map of the United States with dots
showing the locations of Davidson
school alumni, most of them con-
centrated in New York, New Jersey,
Florida, California and Michigan.
But there's one dot in Texas, and he
and his visitor wondered how that
person might be doing.
A phone call later to Texas deter-
mined the "dot" to be Annie
Glickman, 32, now a day school
teacher at Congregation Shearith
Israel in Dallas, the largest
Conservative synagogue in the city,
with 2,000 families. Her husband,
Rabbi David Glickman, is assistant
rabbi there. Annie is originally from
Tacoma, Washk , and David is a
Lansing, Mich., native who attended
the University of Michigan, then
rabbinical school in New York. They
met while they were both studying
in Israel for a year.
"I learned about the Davidson
school while I was in Israel and went
there to get my master's degree,"
said Glickman, now the mother of a
3-year-old son. "The school has a
greatly enhanced program that can't
be found anywhere else. I'm happy
to be able to carry my Jewish educa-
tion forward — out here to Texas.
"Mr. Davidson can be proud of
himself as a real educator; he really
put the spotlight on Jewish educa-
tion everywhere." ❑
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