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60th Reunion
Central Class of 1950 makes plans to reminisce together.
Bill Carroll
Special to the Jewish News
N
ow it can be told: "Mackie"
Kaufman got married three
months before she graduated
from Detroit Central High School in June
of 1950.
Also, two of her classmates were preg-
nant on graduation day.
On the class trip, a boat ride up Lake
Huron to Mackinac Island, a number of the
seniors got violently sick and had to leave
the ship.
"We had sort of a strange graduation
class; everything seemed to happen to us,
but nothing kept us from graduating. It all
went off without a hitch': says Mackie, who
is brunette Marilyn Kaufman Wayne of
West Bloomfield.
She and her twin sister, Blondie, who is
blonde Rosalind Kaufman Hayes of West
Bloomfield, graduated along with more
than 700 students — most of them Jewish
— in the combined January and June
classes, one of the largest combined gradu-
ation classes in Central history. The Jewish
migration to the northern suburbs acceler-
ated around that time.
"I would have been expelled imme-
diately if they found out I was married;
those were the rules:' recalls Wayne, now
chairperson of the 1950 classes' 60th
anniversary reunion to be held Sunday,
July 18, at Glen Oaks Country Club in
Farmington Hills.
"My parents wanted me to be mar-
ried at the Book Cadillac Hotel in June,
but the closest date we could get was in
March': she says. "So we had a beautiful
ceremony and dinner with 300 people
and all the trappings.
"There was nothing really secret about
the wedding itself, but we all kept my
marriage a secret until graduation. My
friends would often have to remind me
to take off my wedding ring in school."
They lived in a duplex on Glendale
Street.
She and her husband, Holocaust sur-
vivor and current insurance man Larry
Wayne, who was 26 at the time, have been
married for 60 years and have four chil-
dren and nine grandchildren.
"Talk about strange,' muses Marilyn
Wayne, "How about the time Gael Greene
Marilyn Wayne, Marilyn Sobel and Carl Gilbert, all of West Bloomfield, Phyllis Novetsky
and Marlene Goldberg, both of Southfield, and Ann Benderoff of Farmington Hills look
over graduation photos from 1950.
came to school one day with her hair dyed
green and got suspended for a few weeks!"
Greene's father was the noted women's
clothier, Nat Greene. She became a nation-
ally recognized food writer in New York
City and replied she will attend the
reunion.
Another famous alumnus is renowned
costume jewelry designer Kenneth Jay
Lane, also based in New York, whose
creations include the three-strand faux
pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush
to her husband's inauguration. Marvin
Frankel is a retired Oak Park district judge.
David Pearlman became a violinist for the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Ramon
Gilbert became a cantor in New York.
Harold Katz is a journalist in California.
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