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The Harvard Business
School Club of Michigan,
comprised of Michigan-
based members who are
graduates of Harvard
Business School, has
named several Michigan
lk
nonprofit leaders as the
Loewenstein
2012 recipients of its
14th annual Strategic Perspectives for
Non-Profit Management (SPNM)
Scholarship. One is Rick Loewenstein,
CEO of JARC. The recipients will attend
Strategic Perspectives for Non-Profit
Management, an intensive six-day course
presented each summer at the Harvard
Business School in Boston, Mass.
Susan Bonin-Wasserman was nomi-
nated for an Emmy for Public/Current/
Community affairs. The nomination
was for a piece, requested by the Anti-
Defamation League for a symposium that
followed the play Palmer Park, which was
a collaboration with JET and the Hilberry
Theatre of Wayne State University. The
video touched on some of the issues relat-
ing to race, integration, segregation, trans-
portation, housing disparities and issues
of demography.
The Association of
Public Treasurers of the
United States and
Canada (APT US&C)
recently announced that
Oakland County
Treasurer Andy
Meisner has received
Meisner
the coveted professional
credential of Certified Public Finance
Administrator (CPFA) upon completion of
a rigorous curriculum covering every
major aspect of the treasury management
profession.
Jacob Kendall Gubow
recently became an
Eagle Scout. For his
project, this graduate of
Walled Lake Western
raised the money to
purchase and build a
play structure for a
Gubow
local religious institu-
tion. His parents are Colleen and Martin
Gubow.
Barbara Lewis of Oak Park, director
of communications for Lutheran Social
Services of Michigan, has won a Grand
Award in APEX 2012, the 24th Annual
Awards for Publication Excellence corn-
petition. The award was for "Loving Our
Neighbors:' a coloring book designed to
introduce children to the broad range of
services provided by the organization.
The Harvard Business
School Club of
Michigan announced
that Nancy
Schlichting, CEO of
Henry Ford Health
System, has been select-
ed as the Club's annual
Schlichting
Business Leader of the
Year. A celebration to
honor Schlichting will take place in
August at the Atheneum in Detroit.
Henry Ford Health System was honored
as a 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award recipient under
Schlichting's direction. She is credited
with leading the health system through a
dramatic financial turnaround and for
award-winning patient safety, customer
service and diversity initiatives.
Susan Feldman, endowment specialist
at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, has been elected to the board of
trustees of Jewish Women International.
She also serves on the board of the
Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse
and was recently a speaker at the JWI
International Conference on Domestic
Abuse in the Jewish Community.
Bree Kessler of Hawaii, formerly of
Farmington Hills, covers the best sights
and adventures that the Big Island has to
offer in the Moon Handbooks: Big Island
of Hawaii. Kessler offers one-of-a-kind
trip ideas, an itinerary for travelers who
want to spend their entire vacation relax,
ing on the sand. She gives travelers the
tools they need to create a more personal
and memorable experience.
Paul Matlin of Southfield has recently
been appointed associate regional direc-
tor Volunteers for Israel working with
Ed Kohl of West Bloomfield, regional
director for Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and
Wisconsin and member of the national
board of Volunteers for Israel.
Fight Crime: Invest in
Kids Michigan — a
statewide crime preven-
tion nonprofit organiza-
tion led by more than
500 of Michigan's police
chiefs, sheriffs, prosecu-
tors and crime survi-
Lipton
vors — honored State
Rep. Ellen Lipton
(D-Huntington Woods) with its 2012
Crime Fighter Award during a presenta-
tion at the State Capitol.
Lipton was cited for her outstand-
ing leadership for children, youth and
families. Her work has helped to provide
children and youth with access to high-
quality care and education programs to
ensure that they get the right start in
life.
Michel Wrotslaysky
Students Aid Kids In Haiti
From June 10-17, in partnership with
the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee and with support from the
Repair the World Foundation, 16 students
participated in a mission to Haiti, a devel-
oping country still reeling from the impact
of a massive January 2010 earthquake.
Michal Wrotslaysky of Southfield
participated in the mission. The students
worked with other aid organizations to run
educational programming for children,
restore homes and renovate community
facilities, including an impoverished media
cal center and a damaged soccer field, and
met with local leaders to learn more about
Haitian history and the crises the country
now faces.
B'nai Moshe Offers
Rummage Bargains
Gently worn clothing for the family, chil-
dren's items, baby goods, toys, small appli-
ances and furniture items, housewares,
art, books and tapes, and much more can
be found at Congregation B'nai Moshe in
West Bloomfield.
Sale hours are Sunday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-5
p.m.; Monday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.;
and Tuesday, Aug. 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The
synagogue is at 6800 Drake Road. For
more information, call (248)-788-0600.
Davidson Tower To Be Dedicated At Hadassah Convention
.
T
he William Davidson
Foundation and Auburn Hills-
based Guardian Industries
announced a new $12.5 million Sarah
Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower
matching gift challenge, made public
during the moving-in ceremony in
Jerusalem on March 19. It will provide a
dollar-for-dollar match to any new gift to
the Tower payable by Dec. 15, 2014.
On move-in day, Hadassah National
President Marcie Natan met the first
patient to be moved in the new tower,
Shoshana Klein, 92, who praised and
26 July 26 2012
thanked the women of Hadassah.
"We have changed the quality of health
care Natan said. "All the work and
dreams came together for me at this his-
toric moment, eight years in the making."
Constantly aware of the threat of
war, the 20 operating rooms of the new
tower's surgical center are all located
underground, where they are so forti-
fied that they also serve as a giant bomb
shelter against conventional and non-
conventional war. The equipment is state-
of-the-art to conduct medicine's most
complex procedures.
The 19-story building, named for
Sarah Wetsman Davidson, mother of
Dorothy Gerson of Franklin and the late
William Davidson, will be fully func-
tional and ready to be dedicated when
2,000 convention participants attend the
2012 Centennial Convention in Jerusalem
Oct. 15-18, 2012. Many pre- and post-
convention trips have been planned for
first-time and experienced attendees.
There will also be professional groups for
lawyers, doctors and nurses.
Following the grand opening of the
Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital
Tower at the Ein Kerem campus, conven-
tion participants will visit Hadassah's
first medical center at Mount Scopus,
Hadassah College, recently certified as
a "green campus:' and Beit Ar-El, the
renovated headquarters of Young Judaea.
There also will be visits to the renovated
Yad Vashem and Israel Museum, and
archeological, historical and cultural
venues.
For more information about the
upcoming convention, contact the
Greater Detroit Hadassah office at (248)
683-5030. ❑