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John Simmons
Owner/General Manager
n May 5, James D. Grey
will be honored with the
2010 Leonard N. Simons
History Award from the
Jewish Historical Society of Michigan
"for his active commitment to preserv-
ing family and
community his-
.
tory and his work
as a leader of
JHSM."
Grey, a past
president of
JHSM, is also
a member of
the Archives
James Grey
Committee
of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
and Temple Israel, West Bloomfield.
Grey has been president of the Jewish
Genealogical Society of Michigan. He
has served on the board of numerous
community organizations.
In his role as past president and
volunteer for the JHSM, Grey has
chronicled the history of the organi-
zation through his photographs and
commentary, and played an integral
role in the establishment of the JHSM
Yearbook Collection. It is a collection
of Michigan high school yearbooks in
which Jewish students are present.
The contents of the books, which now
number more than 900 and span more
than 100 years, are also being put into
a searchable online database.
Grey created a consulting firm,
WSU Peace Lecture
Human rights advocate and former
president of Ireland Mary Robinson
will deliver the annual Max Mark-
Cranbrook Peace Lecture at Wayne
State University's Community Arts
Auditorium, 450 Reuther Mall, on
Thursday, April 22. No charge.
Robinson, along with four others
who have made noteworthy contri-
butions to peace and positive social
relations, will be honored during a 5:30
p.m. awards ceremony that evening
at NextEnergy Center, 461 Burroughs,
near the Detroit campus.
The peace lecture was a longtime
tradition of the former Cranbrook
Peace Foundation before the organiza-
tion was dissolved and Wayne State's
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
adopted the tradition last year.
Robinson, a recipient of the U.S.
Genetrex, Inc., which serves as a facili-
tator for compilation of family geneal-
ogy and family histories.
Grey, a certified public accountant,
is managing partner of Grey & Co.,
PC, in Bingham Farms. He is a mem-
ber of the American Institute of CPAs
and the Michigan Association of CPAs.
He is a past chairman of the MACPA
Professional Careers Committee.
He has been married to Ruth
(Neuron) for 41 years, and they have
two daughters, Rachel Ellis and Emily
Berman, and five grandchildren. The
Greys are parents of the late Jeff Grey
and live in Farmington Hills.
The Simons Award will be pre-
sented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 5,
at the 51st annual meeting of JHSM
at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills. Keynote speaker
will be Stephen Goldman, executive
director of the HMC. A dessert recep-
tion will follow. Tickets are $18. For
information and reservations, call (248)
432-5517.
Past recipients of the Leonard N.
Simons History Award include: Philip
Slomovitz, Avern L. Cohn, George
M. Stutz, Irwin Shaw, Emma I a7aroff
Schaver, Leslie S. Hough, Philip P.
Mason, Mary Lou Simons Zieve, Judith
Levin Cantor, Michael W. Maddin, Alan
D. Kandel, Sidney M. Bolkosky, Adele
W. Staller, Matilda Brandwine, Susie
Citrin, Edith L. Resnick, Gerald S.
Cook, Sharon L. Altemian, George M.
Zeltzer and Mandell L. Berman.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
and former United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights,
will speak on "Challenges to Global
Peacemaking" at 3 p.m.
At the 5:30 p.m. gathering, she will
receive the Cranbrook Peace Award.
Receiving the Center for Peace
and Conflict Studies' Community
Peacemaker Award during the evening
program will be Victor Ghalib Begg,
chairman of the Islamic Council of
Michigan, and Gail Katz, vice president
of the Jewish Community Relations
Council of Metropolitan Detroit. Also
to be honored by the center are Joella
Gipson, professor emeritus in the
WSU College of Education (Lifetime
Achievement Award); and Eugene
Perrin, M.D. (Founders Award). For
reservations and $65 tickets, call the
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
at (313) 577-3453.