Story by Alan Hitsky Photography by Armando Rios

Seniors in Oak
Park dance the
night away.

S

enior citizens living
at the Pfentis and
Teitel apartments on
the A. Alfred Taubman Jewish
Community Campus in Oak Park
had their own prom last week,
courtesy of .the college students
at local campuses served by
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit
(HMD).
A few high school students
also got into the act at the Jewish
Apartments & Services' first
"senior prole While many resi-
dents on the Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Campus in West
Bloomfield have joined in tlw
festivities for area elderly spon-
sored for many years by West
Bloomfield High School, this was
the first similar event hosted by
JA&S.
Karen Adelman of HMD said
the idea grew out of summer
programming. A prom for college
students who didn't attend their .
own became a prom for seniors,
sponsored by HMD's new Tzedek
Committee:
A grant helped to defray the
cost of the disc jockey, who
was also subsidized by Cloud 9
Special Events. Lesley Zwick of
Chocolate Impressions also low-
ered her price so that the seniors
could take home a photograph
of themselves carved into choco-
late. ❑

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June 1 • 2006

Clockwise from top left:

• Roman Krivochenitser, 17, a senior at West Bloomfield High School, dances next to Norm

Klegman of Southfield.

• Rose Fuchs, manager of the Prentis Apartments' cafeteria, volunteered at the prom.

• Eva Nobe, a resident of Prentis, talks with WSU student Lana Yusufova.

• Prentis resident Sylvia Mevis holds her "picture on a chocolate."
• M.C. Jamez, DJ of Cloud 9 Special Events, leads the dance line with Klara Vaynblat and

Roman Krivochenitser.

• Marina Bruz and Klara Vaynblat hold their photos, joined by Eva Nobe, center.

• Volunteers at the senior prom pose for a photograph.

Emily Baker, a graduate student at

Wayne State University in Detroit,

dances with Millie Rosenblum, a

resident of Prentis Apartments.