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July _ . 2olo
r. Stuart Kirschenbaum
has a new jacket in his
wardrobe.
Right now, it hangs in
his podiatry office in Detroit. When
the weather turns cold, the jacket will
do much more than keep him warm.
Kirschenbaum received the Brown
Bomber Jacket at the annual cer-
emony that honors the memory of
boxing champ Joe Louis, the fighter
from Detroit known throughout the
world as the "Brown Bomber."
Jackets have been presented
since 1992 by directors of the Joe
Louis Video Memorial Room at the
Cobo Center in Detroit to those who
have made a difference in the lives of
young people, as did Louis.
"This is a wonderful honor and
very humbling, especially when you
consider those who are previous
winners," said Kirschenbaum, who
served as Michigan boxing commis-
sioner from 1981-1992.
Past recipients included President
Jimmy Carter, U.S. Rep. John
Conyers, D-Detroit, and Motown
Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Former Detroit Lions star and NFL
Hall of Famer Charlie Sanders also
received a jacket this year during
ceremonies attended by nearly 250
at the Charles H. Wright Museum of
African American History in Detroit,
where a "Joe Louis: Hometown
Hero" exhibit will be on display
through October. All the previous
jacket ceremonies were held in the
Video Memorial Room.
Kirschenbaum equated receiving
the jacket to being presented the
green sports coat for winning the
Masters golf tournament. It's more
symbolism than functionality.
"The jacket represents what Joe
Louis stood for and meant to our
country," he said.
Louis will always have a spe-
cial place in the hearts of Detroit's
Jewish community for what he
did June 22, 1938, New York's
Yankee Stadium. He knocked out
Max Schmeling barely two minutes
into the first round of their fight.
Schemling was from Germany, and
one of his biggest and most vocal
fans was Adolf Hitler.
The jacket ceremony is held June
Dr. Stuart Kirschenbaum wears his
Brown Bomber jacket award.
22 each year to remember the date
of that momentous knockout.
Kirschenbaum has several ties to
Louis besides being involved in the
same sport and meeting Louis a few
years before he died April 13, 1981,
at age 66 in Las Vegas.
In recognition of Kirschenbaum's
humanitarian efforts, he received
a "Joe Louis Award" from Sports
Illustrated and the Detroit Institute of
Arts in 1993.
At the request of Louis' family,
Kirschenbaum was Martha Louis'
guardian during the final years of her
life. After finding Joe Louis' second
wife penniless and abandoned in a
Farmington Hills nursing home in
1988, Kirschenbaum raised several
thousand dollars for her care. When
she died Aug. 2, 1991, he made
sure she was buried next to Joe in
Arlington National Cemetery outside
Washington, D.C., as was Joe's wish.
Kirschenbaum has one of the
world's largest collections of Joe
Louis memorabilia. One special item
that could be part of his collection
instead belongs to everyone.
Working with the Michigan Jewish
Sports Foundation and U.S. Sen.
Carl Levin, D-Mich. Kirschenbaum
donated to the city a glove that Joe
Louis wore in the Schmeling fight.
Thanks to a fundraising effort, the
glove is displayed in a granite show-
case with the inscription, "The Glove
that Beat Nazi Germany," behind a
statue of Joe Louis at Cobo Center.
Kirschenbaum was inducted last
year into the Michigan Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame. 1
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