Business & Professional

MEMOS

Jay and Becky Levine were never happy with the deck on the home they built four years
ago. It was too small. It was high maintenance. It wasn't what they wanted so, they called
Gittleman Construction, Inc.

"I love their work," said Becky. "They brought out their team and were really helpful."

The Building Industry Association
of Southeastern Michigan has a new
executive committee for 2008. Among
the members are Richard Komer
of Southfield, first vice president,
and Richard Kligman of Clinton
Township, vice president.

Dr. Allison B. Rosen of Ann Arbor
has been selected to receive the
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Foundation's McDevitt Excellence in
Research Award for individual work as
a clinical researcher. She is an assis-
tant professor of internal medicine at
the University of Michigan. She also
holds positions at the U-M School of
Public Health and the VA Ann Arbor
Healthcare System.

Dr. Alan Kwaselow of West
Bloomfield has been named one of
Metro Detroit's Best Doctors 2008,
selected by his peers. Kwaselow is an
allergist and immunologist in pri-
vate practice in Novi and a clinical
assistant professor of medicine and
pediatrics at Wayne State University
School of Medicine, Detroit. He is a
past president of the Michigan Allergy
and Asthma Society.
The Jewish Fund announced the
appointment of Nora Barron of

Barron

Bloom

Bloomfield Hills,
Douglas Bloom and
Matthew Lester of
Birmingham to its
board of directors.
The Jewish Fund was
created in 1997 from
proceeds of the sale
Lester
of Sinai Hospital to
the Detroit Medical
Center and has since awarded $38.6
million in grants to expand health
and human services to residents of
Metropolitan Detroit.

Dr. Mark J. Lowell of Ann Arbor has
been recognized by the American
College of Emergency Physicians as
a "Hero of Emergency Medicine
Lowell serves as associate professor
of emergency medicine, University of
Michigan Medical School, and medical
director of Survival Flight, University

of Michigan Health System, Ann
Arbor.

Rana Blumberg, assistant profes-
sor of humanities at James Madison
College at Michigan State University
in East Lansing, is one of the final-
ists for the Sami Rohr Prize, given
by the Jewish Book Council. Her
non-fiction entry is titled Houses of
Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
(University of Nebraska Press).

Gittleman addressed the Levine's request for more outdoor deck time by including a hot
tub for year round use in the redesign. They made the tub flush with the deck to ease
access and create an uninterrupted horizon. Below, the deck is enclosed to hide the tub and
provide storage the couple didn't even know they wanted — until they got it.

Now constructed entirely of maintenance-free
Trex and accented by wrought iron spindles and
handrails, the new deck is everything the old one
wasn't — big, carefree and good looking.

"The old deck was way too small, the new one is
so much bigger," said Becky. "I love how it looks."

Kenard Lawrence of Waterford has
published The Oys of Twelfth Street
(PublishAmerica).

Nancy Goldberg of
West Bloomfield has
passed a national
certification exam
to become a certi-
fied case man-
ager (CCM). She is
a licensed master's
Goldberg
social worker, a
certified advanced
social caseworker and a certified
advanced social work case manager
through the National Association of
Social Workers; she is also a certified
brain injury specialist. Goldberg works
for Special Tree Rehabilitation in Troy
as an internal case manager for brain
and spinal cord injury clients.

OU Job Workshops
The Orthodox Union Job Board, which
seeks to provide employment oppor-
tunities to the unemployed and those
seeking better positions, announced
that "How to Take an Interview" on
Monday, March 3, will be the first
installment of the OU Professional
Series workshops, which will be
Webcast worldwide on the Job Board
Web site, www.ou.org/jobs/index.
The Webcast will originate from
OU headquarters in New York. The
OU is partnering with social services
agencies nationwide in presenting the
series, locally with the JVS of Detroit.
While the workshop is in progress,
a Hollywood acting coach will work
with volunteers from the audience
and prepare them for interviews. The
"before" and "after" mock interviews
will be taped and broadcast after the
seminar.
"For people who think they know
how to take an interview, think again
and learn the secrets of Hollywood
actors on how to express confidence
during the interview process:' said
Michael Rosner, director of the OU Job
Board.

So, when you think you're stuck with something
you don't like, call Gittleman and discover how
a fresh eye can lead to a great new plan for
your lifestyle.

Just ask the Levine's.

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