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Trade Secrets Revealed
Southfield-based JVS will host its first
women's fundraising event, "Trade
Secrets," headlined by Birmingham fash-
ion designer Linda Dresner, at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Townsend
Hotel, Birmingham.
The event will benefit the JVS Women
to Work Program for women job seekers
who, in addition to job search assistance,
often require emotional support to re-
enter the workforce.
Lila Lazarus of Fox2/WJBK-TV will
interview Dresner about the secrets of
the fashion trade and field questions
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from the audience. Guests will be able to
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"trade secrets" of their own in a rolling
Linda Dresner
gift exchange. Guests are asked to bring
a gift valued at $36 minimum and include a secret with it.
Ulla Lilienthal, a graduate of the program, will be presented with the 2009
JVS Women to Work Award. After her divorce, Lilienthal found a job through
the University of Michigan labs with the assistance of JVS after being out of
the workforce for 25 years. She was recently promoted. The event is being
co-chaired by JVS board members Hadas Bernard and Elaine Fieldman.
Tickets are $100 to $500. Contact Sharon Snyder, (248) 233-4290 or
ssnyder@jvs.det.org .
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OUR PROGRAMS FEATURE:
Henry Baskin,
attorney, has been
certified by the NBA
Players Association
as a licensed player
agent. He has rep-
resented athletes
and entertainment
Baskin
professionals on
a number of legal
matters over the course of his career.
He is principal of Baskin Law Firm
PC in Birmingham.
Lynne Geller of
Detroit has been
promoted to the
position of director
of corporate and
foundation rela-
tions for Hospice of
Michigan. She will
Geller
create and imple-
ment a major gifts
campaign for the
Maggie Allesee Center for Quality
of Life, an education and research
center that is part of Hospice of
Michigan and will oversee all of
Hospice of Michigan's corporate and
foundation fundraising initiatives.
A study by Avraham
Raz of West
Bloomfield, profes-
sor of pathology
and radiation oncol-
ogy at Wayne State
University in Detroit,
and collabora-
Raz
tors Vitaly Balan,
research associate
and Pratima Nangia-Makker, assis-
tant professor in WSU's School
of Medicine and the Barbara Ann
Karmanos Cancer Institute, was
published in the Dec. 15, 2008, edi-
tion of Cancer Research, a scientific
journal supported by the American
Association for Cancer Research Inc.
In addition, an image from the study
— the graph of allelic variations in
Asian and Caucasian women super-
imposed over an image of galectin-3
expression in cancer patients — was
featured on the cover. The study pro-
vides evidence that an allelic varia-
tion in the galectin-3 gene may influ-
ence a woman's risk for developing
breast cancer and partially explain
why Caucasian women have a higher
occurrence than Asian women.
Among several women recently
appointed to the Women's
Commission for Oakland County is
Carla J. Schwartz of West
Bloomfield, to serve a two-year term.
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