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know their bodies best. They let their
doctors know when a medication
isn't working or they're not comfort-
able with a particular nurse. This
approach to living their own lives is
working well."
The family set up the Bonnell
Foundation in 2010 to help families
meet the financial costs of treatments
for CF and to provide tools for fami-
lies to navigate the difficulties of liv-
ing with CE
"The foundation's website,
Roadmap to CF (www.
bonnellfoundation.org ), serves as a
guide for the journey:' Laura says.
"We learned so much about resources
and treatments for CF over the years
and wanted other parents to have
this information readily available. We
raise money and donate it to schol-

arships, lung transplants and other
areas to help meet the particular
needs of CF families. We also donate
to the CF Foundation to help with
research."
The girls' grandmother is Lois
Teicher of Dearborn, a well-estab-
lished Detroit sculptor.
"I wanted to find a way to help my
daughter, Laura, and my two grand-
daughters," Teicher says. "I enjoy
creating playful drawings, and Laura
suggested I draw several of them as
seasonal greeting cards, giving the
proceeds to the Bonnell Foundation.
Sales went well this holiday. The cards
are now available year-round:'

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To learn more or to donate, go to www.
bonnellfoundation.org. Find the thank-you
cards at www.bonnelifoundation.orgIshop.

Writer Bel Kaufman dies at 103

JTA Writer Bel Kaufman, grand-
daughter of Yiddish writer Sholem
Aleichem, has died.
Kaufman, author of the 1965 hit
novel Up the Down Staircase died July
25 in Manhattan at
age 103.
The novel was
based on her experi-
ence teaching in pub-
lic schools in New
York City. She used
real memos from the
administration and
Bel Kaufman
other documents
to tell the story of
a fictional teacher working to inspire

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her students despite the bureaucracy
and chaos. The book was made into a
movie in 1967.
Kaufman was born in Berlin and
grew up in Odessa and Kiev. She
came to the United States in 1923
and earned a master's degree from
Columbia University.
She had trouble obtaining a job in
the public schools due to her lingering
Russian accent, according to the Los

Angeles Times.
At age 99, Kaufman taught a course
on Jewish humor called "Six Weeks of
Laughter" at her undergraduate alma
mater, Hunter College in New York.

Ace Greenberg, ex-Bear Stearns head, dead at 86

JTA Alan C. "Ace" Greenberg, the
former head of Bear Stearns invest-
ment bank and a major donor to
Jewish causes, has died at 86.
Greenberg,
famous on Wall
Street for his hard-
charging manner,
appetite for risk
and his financial
acumen, died July
25 in Manhattan of
Ace Greenberg complications from
cancer.
He had been chief
executive officer and then chairman
of Bear Stearns, and was chairman
of its executive committee when the
financial firm collapsed in March
2008 and was bought by JP Morgan
Chase, amid the financial crisis.
Greenberg also was a major fund-
raiser for the UJA-Federation of New
York, hosting an annual private din-

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ner for its largest donors and helping
to preside over its annual Wall Street
dinner. His own contributions to the
New York Jewish federation ran regu-
larly over a million dollars a year, and
he also made substantial donations to
the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and
to build a middle school and sports
center, named for his mother and
father respectively, in the Jerusalem
neighborhood of Gilo.
Greenberg was born in Oklahoma
City and spent virtually his entire
career at Bear Stearns, starting in
1949 as a clerk and working his
way up to become CEO in 1978 and
chairman in 1993. He often declared
during his reign at Bear Stearns his
disdain for MBAs and preference for
"PSDs" — that is, people who were
poor and smart and who desired to
be rich.
He is survived by his wife, two chil-
dren and five grandchildren.

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