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Change At The Top

Hadassah welcomes new leadership slate.

Arline Gould ofWest Bloomfield and Zieva
Konvisser of Orchard Lake

Event co-chair Brenda Altus ofWest
Bloomfield, Sonja Kass of Huntington Woods
and Eleanor Roosevelt Chapter President
Jackie Cohen ofWest Bloomfield

Tree of various
Hadassah committees

Past Presidents Susan Yorke and Audrey
Sobel, both ofWest Bloomfielc4 and Annette
Meskin of Sylvan Lake, a national board
member.

Lauren Bruss ofWest Bloomfield, Love of a
Lifetime honoree Francine Hack of
Birmingham and Nancy Jonas of
Farmington Hills

Randi Berris ofWest Bloomfield and incom-
ing Recording Secretary Sharon Fishman of
Bloomfield Hills

5/26
2005

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ozens of Hadassah members
gathered at Congregation Shir
Shalom in West Bloomfield,
for the 2005-2006 Installation of
Officers and to pay tribute to
Hadassah Women of Koach VKavod
(strength and respect).
Installing officers Diane Klein of
Southfield and Susan Yorke of West
Bloomfield announced the executive
officers.
Named were
president, Susan
Luria of Bloomfield
Hills; president-
elect, Judi Schram
of West
Bloomfield; VP,
communications
and marketing,
RONIT
Meredith Weston-
PINTO
Band of
Columnist
Huntington
Woods. Also
named were VP, community service,
Nancy Bechek Bluth; VP, education,
Nancy Finkel; VP, fund-raising, Joan
Chernoff Epstein; recording secretary,
Sharon Fishman; member at large,
Elaine Sturman; and VP, program-
ming, Cathy Slavik, all of Bloomfield
Hills. In addition, VP membership,
Beverly Fine; VP organization, Lauren
Bruss; and treasurer, Renee May, all
of West Bloomfield.
Fine received the National
Leadership Award. Band was named
Woman of the Year for her volunteer
work. Francine Hack of Birmingham
received the Love of a Lifetime chap-
ter for demonstrating her love and
commitment to Israel and the Jewish
people.
The May 19 event honored all
multigenerational life members.
Archives leader Shirley Shultz of

Southfield created the Legacy of
Multi-Generation Lifetime
Membership Boards that stood in the
West Bloomfield synagogue's entry,
where she taped photos of multigener-
ational lifetime members with ages
and names.
Past president Beverly Cohen of
Southfield is the second of three gen-
erations of lifetime members.
Established in 1912, Hadassah is a
volunteer women's organization pro-
moting the unity and continuity of
the Jewish people both in the United
States and abroad.
The outgoing VP for education,
Zieva Konvisser of Orchard Lake is
the second of four generations of life-
time members. Her 4-month-old
granddaughter is already a life mem-
ber. "Hadassah is Israel and Israel is
Hadassah," she said, referring to the
many Israeli health care, education
and youth institutions that Hadassah
supports.
"The medical work and teaching of
Zionism to people who otherwise
wouldn't be exposed are so important
as well," added past-president Arline
Gould of West Bloomfield.

Mother and daughter Sally Reich of
Farmington Hills and incoming Treasurer
Renee May ofWest Bloomfield

Nancy Bechek Bluth of Bloomfield Hills
with her mother, Annette Bechek of West
Bloomfield

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President-Elect Judi Schram and Denise
Parr, both ofWest Bloomfield

Co-President Anne Sukenic ofWest
Bloomfield and Past-President Beverly
Cohen of Southfield

Shirley Shultz of Southfield next to the
Legacy of Multi-Generation Life
Membership Board that she created