Congratulations Telemus Capital proudly supports the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit We join in honoring Gene Applebaum for his dedication to our community and recipient of the 2073 Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Community Service In 1988, Eugene Applebaum, seated, surrounded by other local Jewish leaders Joel Tauber, Al Taubman and Max Fisher. TELEMUS Give Back from page 12 CAPITAL SOUTHFIELD I ANN ARBOR WWW.TELEMUSCAPITAL.COM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT I ASSET MANAGEMENT I WEALTH ADVISORY 1862130 To our Friend Eugene Applebaum Congratulations on receiving the 2013 Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Community Service. It is an honor to partner with you in our shared philanthropic endeavors. The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Michael H. Steinhardt Chairman Robert P. Aronson President Rabbi David Gedzelman Executive Vice President 1862160 16 September 5 • 2013 JN in all of its detail and regardless of where people are on the religious or political spectrum:' The Applebaums also have been extremely active in the field of healthcare, where their vision and generosity are making a profound impact on the future of medicine. Eugene Applebaum was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 25 years ago and, since then, they have contrib- uted greatly toward research on this and related diseases, much at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Today, the Mayo Clinic's Eugene And Marcia Applebaum Neuroscience Center is the nation's pre- mier neuroscience research center. "Gene is an inspiration for his coura- geous battle against multiple sclerosis:' said Michael Camilleri, M.D., executive dean, Department of Development, Mayo Clinic. "Although challenged by MS, this devastating disease will never define him. The Applebaums choose to fight MS through extraordinary generosity to our researchers and physicians who work toward a cure:' Applebaum also has been a longtime leading contributor to his alma mater, Wayne State University, which has renamed its pharmacy school the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Irvin D. Reid, WSU president emeritus who met Applebaum a month before he became president in 1997, called it an immediate meeting of the minds. "I thought of Wayne State as a premier urban research university, one that needs to relate to the city of Detroit:' Reid said. "One of the people I would bounce ideas off of was Gene:' Reid wanted to create a foundation, and Applebaum became its first chair. Together they raised about $1.1 billion, more than $900 million through WSU's Capital Campaign. "Without Gene, there was no way I could have started that campaign. "Gene sees that he owes the city of Detroit and Wayne State, his alma mater; he's a man who does not forget where he came from or who helped him to get there Reid said. The Applebaums have supported other medical institutions including the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center in the Henry Ford Health System, which they co-founded; and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. Beaumont Hospital's Marcia & Eugene Applebaum Surgical Learning Center in Royal Oak is a premier training center for surgeons from around the world, recog- nized as the first facility of its kind. With an additional gift, the learning center will be expanded to become the Marcia and Eugene Applebaum Simulation Learning Institute, which will provide training for a wider array of health professionals, not just surgeons, said Margaret Casey, Beaumont Foundation president "He and Marcia both are philanthro- pists at heart, he believes in giving back to the community," she said. "When you talk to Gene, he talks very much about his roots in Detroit, and how much the Metro Detroit community means to him, and he wants to be part of sustaining it and [hav- ing it] become more than it already is" The Applebaums also have been active supporters of the arts, and are donors to the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Give Back on page 18