a gu ide to s imcha hs Syma Echeandia's 70th birthday celebration contra dance with the Oakland County Traditional Dance Society at the First United Methodist Church of Troy with members of Oak Park-based Congregation T'chiyah in attendance: Standing (left to right): Harold Gurewitz and Mary Ellen Gurewitz of Detroit; Cheryl Turetzky of Southfield; Lou Echeandia and Syma Echeandia of Shelby Township; Jeffrey Ram, Sheila Kohn and Sheldon Kohn of Huntington Woods; and David Goodman and Peter Cooper of Oak Park. Sitting: Barbara Goldman of Detroit; Andrew Levin of Bloomfield Hills; Alvin Saperstein and Harriet Saperstein of Detroit; Mary Freeman of Bloomfield Hills; and Roslyn Schindler of Huntington Woods. Sitting in front of the Sapersteins is Frannie Goldstein of Southfield, and sitting furthest in front is Jon Quirk of Oak Park. Groom Michael Colman, teaches his soon-to-be granddaughter, Phoebe Turner, how to play checkers just before his wedding in July. Phoebe, 6, is from Seattle and is the granddaughter of Michael's bride Janis Holtzman. Robin and Michael Berman of West Bloomfield at their wedding Oct. 14, 2012, at the Colony Club in Detroit Elliot Murph Borman and his parents came in from Denver to have his baby naming at Temple Israel in August 2012. Elliot Borman, 6 months, is surrounded by his cousins: Brayden Brodsky, 6, of Bloomfield Hills; Olivia Brodsky, 3, and Carson Brodsky, 8, of Bloomfield Hills; George Borman, 4, of Denver; Chase Brodsky, 9, of Bloomfield Hills; Hugo Brodsky, 7, and Felix Brodsky, 9, of Royal Oak; and Jonny Brodsky, 14, of Farmington Hills. C68 celebrate! I March 2013 Alex and Kari Altman of Berkley at their wedding, Oct. 13, 2012, at the Skyline Club in Southfield