Life!
EDUCATION
Hillel
Celebrates
Addition brings state-of-the-art
gym and theater.
INDUCTION DINNER
Mitchell Shecter of Farmington Hills and Jonathan
Cohen and Jake Canvasser of West Bloomfield,
all 13, welcome visitors to the new addition and
school entrance.
S
17,000 square feet and gave
tudents, administra-
students a regulation-size,
tors, faculty, parents,
state-of-the-art gym, along
grandparents and
with a fully equipped stage.
friends watched with pride
The project also included
during a Sept. 6 ribbon-cut-
new offices, new conference
ting ceremony that celebrated
rooms, a refurbished play-
the opening of Hillel Day
ing field and a redesigned
School of Metropolitan
parking lot.
Detroit's new gymnasium - and
"This addition to our
theater at its Farmington Hills
facility furthers our abil-
campus.
Steve Fre edman,
ity to deliver world-class
"Tonight we celebrate the
head of s chool
athletics and performing
completion of this wonderful
arts education, and we could not be
building that will now come alive with
the happy sounds of hundreds of Jewish more pleased for our children:' said
Rob Goodman, school board president.
children nurturing their minds, bodies
and souls," said Steve Freedman, head of Hillel's enrollment is 592 students.
The school choir, Ruach, performed
school.
and remarks were made by school lead-
The $4.5 million addition added
Students help cut the giant
ribbon at the dedication.
ers. A multime-
dia presentation
offered a visual
timeline of the
yearlong con-
struction.
Freedman
recognized
Terri Farber
Roth who, dur-
ing her tenure
Terri Farber Roth,
as president,
co-chair of the
had the vision
committee
to initiate the
project as well as
to raise the majority of the funds. Roth
paid tribute to Ricky Blumenstein and
Bob Canvassar, volunteers who oversaw
every aspect of the project.
Several students, representing all
grades, ceremoniously cut a huge rib-
bon, dedicating and officially opening
the new facilites.
The event concluded with eighth-
grader Nathan Pilkowitz shooting the
first official basket.
Chairs for the event were Renee Erlich,
Natalie Newman and Shari Kaufman. '1
Please loin. Us
As We
Celebrate The
Twenty-Second
Annual
Induction Dinner
HONORING
2006
INDUCTEES
Larry Stark
Bert Ruby
Mathieu Schneider
Marianne Ring Caplan
Alvin Foon
Recipient
Jerome Bettis
Monday
November 6, 2006
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Members of the Hilietthoir
perform at the dedfca,ti
For More Information
Science teacher Joan Freedman and
development manager Laura Berger
with her daughter, Talya, 17 months,
in the new gym/theater.
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