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Staying Together

Women from the Dexter-Chicago
neighborhood continue bonding.

Leonard Poger

Copy Editor

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emories of the old
neighborhood never
die — or even fade

away.
Just ask five women who
grew up in the Jewish neigh-
borhood around Dexter and •
Chicago Boulevard in the 1950s.
They were close friends while
students at Durfee Junior High
School and later at Mumford
High School.
They called themselves
the "Buni Hugs" during their
Durfee days and then the
"Delphis" in high school.
After graduation, they were
busy with families but managed

March 20
Robyn (Lebow) and Bryan
Weiss of Berkley are thrilled
to announce •
the birth of
their daugh-
ter, Hayley
Sloane. Proud
grandparents
are Marcie
Hillman
and Dale
Lebow of West
Bloomfield and Sheri and Jeffrey
Weiss of Farmington Hills. Great-
grandparents are Gloria Lebow
of Farmington Hills, Seymour
Grundy of West Bloomfield, Jesse
and Janette Antman of Walled
Lake and Harold Roland of
Sarasota, Fla. Hayley is named in
loving memory of her late bubbie
Helen Grundy, her late great-
great-aunt Shirley Davis and her
late great-great- grandmother
Sadie Schwartz.

March 1
Meredith (Koenigsberg) and
Jason Hillman of Cleveland, Ohio,
formerly of Huntington Woods,
announce with love the birth of
their daughter, Caitlin Bryce
(Soreh Brachah). Loving grand-

to keep in touch during special
events, such as family simchahs
for their children and grand-
children. Accompanied by their
husbands, they also enjoyed
cruises together and traveled
throughout the U.S.
"We had common bonds,
common interests -- old
friends are really your true
friends:' said Esther
(Greenberg) Olson.
She said, "Being friends since
the mid-'50s, these girls have
seen it all together — mar-
riages, births, changes, illnesses,
deaths, good times and bad
— and yet the friendships
remain!'
Fifteen years ago, Marcia
(Kutnick) Tuck decided to

parents are Lauren and Alan
Koenigsberg, Barbara Hillman
and her fiance, Allen Rubiner.
She is also the granddaughter
of the late Bruce Hillman. Also
sharing in the joy are great-
grandmothers Patricia Davis
and Sarah
Koenigsberg.
Caitlin is also
the great-
granddaughter
of the late May
Bussell, and
is named in
Hillman
memory of
her maternal great-aunt Cynthia
Efrate and her paternal grandfa-
ther Bruce Hillman.

Feb. 15
Debbie (Eskin) and Darryl
Kaplan of West Bloomfield are
thrilled to announce the birth
of their daughter, Morgan
Haylee (Meytal Chavah). Proud
grandparents are Barbara Eskin,
Alan Kaplan and Jan VanStrien,
all of West Bloomfield. Also
sharing in their joy are great-
grandparents Dorothy Zeldes
and Dolly Rotenberg. She is also
the great-granddaughter of the

accelerate the contacts. The
group formed what they now
call the Rummikub Girls, and
meet in each other's homes
every other Tuesday.
These aren't high-stakes
Rummikub games — "only
five cents a point:' Olson said.
But they did create specialized
T-shirts for themselves, bear-
ing the name of the club and a
group photo of themselves.
The club was thinned a little
when Marcia Hutnick (later
Davis) married John Tuck and
moved to Sarasota, Fla., six
years ago.

The six remaining in the
Detroit area didn't want any
break in the long-time rela-
tionships so they flew to the
Sunshine state for a reunion
in January, staying at Marcia's
home.
Carol (Kaufman) Kay of
Farmington HillMived in Oak
Park during her school years
but joined the group,as a teen.
She said John Tuck stayed at a
hotel during their visit because
he didn't "want to stay in the
same home with seven women."
Besides Esther and Carol, the
other club members are Sandy

late Irving and
the late Sylvia
Pelavin, the
late Harry and
the late Tillie
Eskin, the late
David Kaplan
Kaplan
and the late
Manuel Rotenberg. Morgan is
named in loving memory of her
maternal grandfather Morton
Harvey Eskin.

Bloomfield and Jules Zisman
of California. Rabbi Chizever
is rabbi of conservative
Congregation Temple Israel in
Longwood, Fla. Sophia is named
in loving memory of her mater-
nal great-grandfather Stanley
Gilbert and her paternal great-
grandmother June Zisman.

Feb. 2
Dr. Jennifer Schaumberg-
Chizever and Rabbi Richard
Chizever of Heathrow, Fla.,
are overjoyed to announce the
birth of their daughter, Sophia
June Chizever (Sigal Yisraela).
Thrilled first-time grandparents
are Ellie and Joel Schaumberg
of Wolverine Lake, Caroline and
Jerry Chizever of Tarzana, Calif.,
and Carole and Ben Feuer of
Marina Del
Rey, Calif.
Ecstatic great-
grandparents
are Rosa
and Julius
Schaumberg
of West
Chizever

Brooke Allison Barker,
daughter of Liz and Jeffrey
Barker and sister of Matthew and
Samantha,
will read
from the
Torah on the
occasion of
her bat mitz-
vah Friday,
May 19, at
Barker
Temple
Israel.
Her proud
grandparents are Nancy Krawitz,
Joanne Barker and Larry Barker.
She is also the granddaughter of
the late Philip Krawitz.
Brooke attends Orchard
Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield. She felt her most

Enjoying a January reunion

in Florida are Esther Olson,
Peggy Sandler, Sandra

Brenner, Nancy Braun,
Beverly Keller, Marcia Tuck

and Carol Kay.

(Kutnick) Brenner of Walled
Lake (Marcia Tuck's twin sis-
ter); Peggy (Gordon) Sandler of
Walled Lake; Nancy Braun of
Farmington Hills, who joined
the group in 2000 after moving
to the Detroit area from New
York City; and Beverly (Moore)
Keller of Farmington Hills.

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meaningful mitzvah project
was volunteering for Cookies &
Dreams fund-raiser for Camp-
Mak-A-Dream, to help send
children and young adults with
cancer to camp.

William Samuel Bunin,
son of Marcia Kohn-Bunin and
James Bunin of Minneapolis, for-
merly of Farmington Hills, will
be called to
the Torah as
a bar mitzvah
Saturday,
May 20, at
Temple
Israel in
Minneapolis.
He is the
Bunin
grandson
of Beverly
Bunin of St. Paul, the late William
H. Bunin and the late Roselyn
and the late Harold Kohn.

Jamie Ryan Daniels will
be called to the Torah as a bar
mitzvah Saturday, May 20, .
at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek Southfield. Proud

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