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Eugene Applebaum and Dr. Eva Feldman, neurology professor at
the University of Michigan School of Medicine

Anesthesia intern Shannon Colucci monitors anesthesia doses being applied to a patient simulator
during a mock surgery in the Marcia & Eugene Applebaum Surgical Learning Center of Beaumont
Hospital.

Beth Derwin, Beaumont's director of legal affairs, Rhonda and Dr.
Charles Main, chief of pediatric oncology, and Richard Astrein, a
trustee of the Beaumont Hospital Foundation

Dr. Harry Herkowitz, chief of orthopedic surgery at Beaumont
Hospital and his wife Jan

Applebaums' Anatomy

Following are major philanthropic contributions by Eugene and
Marcia Applebaum in recent years:

• $5 million to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit to remodel and expand the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Campus, now the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum
Jewish Community Campus.

• $5 million to Wayne State University's College of Pharmacy
and Health Sciences in Detroit.

• $2 million to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit to help create
the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, of which Eugene Applebaum
is co-founder. He also is co-founder of the Applebaum-
Hermelin-Tauber Child Development Center in Israel.

• $2 million to the University of Michigan Ross School of
Business in Ann Arbor.

• $1 million or more each to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
Michigan Opera Theatre, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and local
and national research on multiple sclerosis.

• Creation of the Applebaum Center for Jewish Learning at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek's B'nai Israel Center in West
Bloomfield. The Applebaums are members of Shaarey Zedek.

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Leslye and Dr. Lewis

Rosenbaum, vice chief of medi-
cal services

Bloomfield Hills' Lois and Mark Shaevsky, a member of Beaumont's
board of directors

cialist, pointed out the new cen-
ter already has been used, shortly
after it opened, by 30 surgeons
from around the world. "And
they learned a new procedure to
repair wrists, so the center is a
success already," he said.
During tours of the center,
guests watched Dr. Kenneth Jurist
of Bloomfield Hills, who special-
izes in sports medicine, use a
kosher beef bone to demonstrate
an orthopedic procedure to show
how the learning center's tech-
nology can help young arthritis
sufferers.
A graduate of Detroit Central
High School and Wayne State
University's College of Pharmacy,

Applebaum opened his first
store, Civic Drugs, in the shadow
of Ford's World Headquarters in
Dearborn in 1963. He brought
together six other drugstores in
the Detroit area to form Arbor
Drugs, Inc., in 1974.
CVS Inc., acquired Arbor
for $1.5 billion in 1998, and
Applebaum was the largest
shareholder. Arbor had been
ranked as the nation's eighth
largest drugstore chain, with 208
stores and $1 billion in annual
sales.
"Gene always has been a
real visionary in the basics of
the drugstore business': said
Frederick Marx of Marx Layne &

Co., a Farmington Hills firm that
handled the Arbor chain's mar-
keting and public relations for 10
years. "He insisted any new store
had to be located at the corner of
`busy and busy.'"
Applebaum now is president
of Arbor Investments Group, a
Bloomfield Hills-based holding
company that oversees his real
estate and financial ventures, and
serves as a base of operations for
his philanthropic work.
He summed up the exciting
evening at Beaumont: "We just
wanted to make sure future gen-
erations have the best health care
possible." E