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Food For Thought

Graduation luncheon leads to 50-year marriage.

LEONARD POGER

Copy Editor

ate Fine was fulfilling a family obligation in
attending the Detroit Central High School
graduation of cousin Rosalyn "Roz" (Fine)
Kane in June 1953. But at a family post-com-
mencement luncheon, he met Ethel Adler, his
cousin's classmate and close friend.
He liked what he saw. They talked at length and
after the family luncheon Ethel drove him home
because Nate didn't know how to drive.
They soon started to date. In nvo years, they
married.
Fifty years later, they were guests of honor at
their anniversary celebration, celebrated June 26 at
Congregration B'nai Moshe.
Recalling their first meeting, Ethel, then 17, said
she had heard about Nate from his cousin Roz.
After meeting him, she saw that "he was a nice guy
and I liked him."
Nate thought Ethel was "very attractive, being a
redhead and all."
At the time, Nate, then 21, was in his senior year
at what is now Wayne State University in Detroit.
Their next contact was a double date with Roz
and a friend to a Detroit Red Wings' game at
Olympia Stadium.
Ethel stressed that Nate was very considerate in
those early dating days. "Even though I was doing
the driving on dates, he insisted on escorting me
home in my car and then walking to his home
eight blocks away so I wouldn't have to drive home
alone."

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Nate soon started taking lessons
through a private driving school,
with Ethel helping him in between
lessons.
The Fines' early married life was
detoured by the U.S. Army a year
after they married. Stationed in
Arizona near the Mexican border, the
Fines found they loved the area and
planned to live there after his 1958
discharge.
But their Detroit roots called them
home and Nate resumed teaching in
the Detroit Public Schools. He
taught history and geography in ele-
mentary school before retiring eight
years ago.
Ethel worked in several clerical
positions for the schools before
resigning to raise their two children,
Carolyn and Steven, who now live in
Farmington Hills and West
Bloomfield. In 1977, Ethel returned
to work as an insurance underwriter,
Ethel and Nate Fine
retiring in 1998.
During most of their marriage, the
moved to a West Bloomfield condominium in 1997.
couple lived in Livonia and were
Their 50th anniversary celebration included a
active members of the Livonia Jewish
detailed
and humorous chronology of the couple
Congregation, now known as Beit Kodesh. Both
written
and
narrated by their daughter and son.
are still active in the congregration with Nate fre-
One
of
the
trivia details about their parents' first
quently leading services. He is a past president of
date
at
the
Red
Wings' game was that they saw
the congregation and former Sunday school princi-
future Hall of Famer Gordie Howe — when he
pal.
just 25 years old.
After living in Livonia for 39 years, the Fines

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June 21
Jill Greenberg and Robert Green of
Los Angeles are delighted to
announce the birth of their son, Zed
Dashiell Green, brother of Violet
Avalon, 23 months. Happy grand-
parents are Dr. Charles and Carolyn
Greenberg of Bloomfield Hills and
Philip and Dorothy Green of New
York. Zed is the great-grandson of
Millie Greenberg of Toronto.

June 21
Jessica (Miller) and Daniel Klein of
Chicago welcome with much love
their son, Andrew Philip (Gavri
Avner). Sharing in their happiness
are grandparents Judie and Ron
Klein of Commerce Township and
Judy and Alan Miller of Highland

Park, Ill. Excited great-grandparents
are Sylvia Maiseloff of Farmington
Hills, Pearl Rosenbaum of West
Bloomfield and Blanche Levy of
Glenview, Ill. Andrew is also the
great-grandson of the late Philip
Maiseloff, the late Alfred Klein, the
late Harry Rosenbaum, the late
Harry Levy and the late Sydney and
Elaine Miller. Andrew is named in
loving memory of his maternal uncle
Gabriel Miller and his paternal
great-grandfather "Papa" Philip
Maiseloff.

Chaim). Welcoming
Jack are grandparents
Howard and Elinor
Marsh of West
Bloomfield and Leon
and Debbie Warner
of Farmington Hills.
Marsh
Jack's great-grand-
mother Estell Wainer
is equally proud. Jack
Hayden is named in
loving memory of his paternal great-
grandfathers Jacob Warner and
Herman Marsh.

June 20
David Marsh and Pamela Warner
Marsh of West Bloomfield are
thrilled to announce the birth of
their son, Jack Hayden (Yakov

June 6
Dov and Amy Carl of Skokie, Ill.,
are pleased to announce the birth of
a son, Daniel Aaron (Daniel
Aharon). Welcoming him home are

sisters Samantha Debra and Hannah
Liora and brother Matthew Jacob.
Delighted grandparents are Micki
and Dave Carl of Chicago and
Penny and Seymour Greenstein of
Southfield.

May 25
Stacy (Bishop) and Craig Wilson
welcome with love the birth of their
daughter, Molly Rose (Aviva Eliana).
Proud grandparents are Alan Bishop,
Laurie Lefkowitz and Ellen and
Allan Wilson. Ecstatic great-grand-
parents are Shelly and Mary
Freedman, Milly and Nat
Hocherman, Fran Goldstein and
great-great-grandmother is Mae
Forstadt. Molly is named in loving
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