Our annual tribute to the Michigan Jewish community's
brightest high school seniors.
These pages include submissions from 197 graduating seniors.
All of these students have a 3.50 or higher unweighted cumula-
tive, high school grade point average (with an 'A" being 4.00).
Cap Gown is archived on
JNOnline.com.
ALAN HITSKY, Associate Editor
MICHELLE RESKA, Art Director
SHAWN ACHTMAN
Walled Lake Western
Friendship Circle and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit volunteer, French Club, track, baseball, National
Honor Society, Shapiro AZA vice president, Michigan
Region BBYO Regional Convention and regional/interna-
tional retreat coordinator.
Michigan
WHITNEY AIDENBAUM
Jewish Academy
BBG region and chapter president, BBG coordinator of
BBYO International leadership conference, National
Honor Society, Spanish Club president, University of
Michigan Scholar Recognition Award, volunteer violin-
ist at Fleischman Residence.
Pennsylvania
LEEANN ACKER
West Bloomfield
National Honor Society, Gaza Food Bank (Pontiac/Keego
Harbor) and Hillel Day School volunteer, JCC Maccabi
volleyball, SHOCK (Students Helping Others Choose
Knowledgably).
Undecided
MICHELLE ATTAR
Jewish Academy
National Honor Society, Student Diversity Symposium
liaison, swim, tennis and cross country, JCC Maccabi swim
team, Hebrew III Student of the Year, Friendship Circle
volunteer.
Michigan
ELANA ACKERMAN
Bloomfield Hills Andover
National Honor Society, Future Doctors of America Club
president, Bloomfield Youth Guidance Outstanding Youth
Citizen Award, Temple Beth El Religious School, BBYO,
National Student Leadership Convention Medicine and
Healthcare Program.
Michigan State
JASON BANK
North Farmington
Swim team All-State and All-League, Shaarey Zedek
USY board member and regional participant, JCC
Maccabi Youth Games, National Honor Society,
Humanitarian Club, Automotive Society of Body
Engineers 2nd place winner, OCCRA robotics, class
board three years.
Miami
(Ohio)
AMANDA ADELSON
Birmingham Groves
Birmingham varsity figure skating team captain, national
and international competitor, two-time state and district
champion, National Honor Society, Cross-Cultural
Solutions, volunteer in Peru, Hebrew student at Michigan
Jewish Institute.
Michigan
JESSICA BARR
West Bloomfield
National Honor Society, Volunteer Impact president and
secretary, newspaper editor-in-chief, DECA, tennis, BBYO
Fall Conclave and leadership conclave coordinator, chapter
vice president, Adat Shalom USY vice president, Friendship
Circle and Habitat for Humanity volunteer, National
Scholastic Press Association Journalism Honor Roll.
Michigan
IN
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2005
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