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Gina Salemi, daughter
of Marcy and Michael
Salemi of Novi, a
16-year-old junior at
Novi High School and a
member of the Shir
Shalom Temple Youth
board, has been named
Salemi
to the U-19 Israeli
National Lacrosse
team, which will com-
pete at the FIL world cup this summer in
Scotland. She is a third-year varsity
lacrosse player on the Novi Wildcats.
Salemi has been recruited by and has
made a verbal commitment to play
Division I lacrosse at LaSalle University in
Philadelphia upon high school graduation
in 2016.

Alan Reinstein pre-
sented a paper, "Retail
Leases: A Student Case
Study:' at the 2015
Annual Meeting of the
North American
Accounting Society. It
earned the recognition
of the McGraw-Hill
Best Paper. More than
50 papers were submit-
ted to the conference.

Women of Wayne hon-
ored Academy Award-
winning filmmaker
Sue Marx at its annual
Headliner Awards
event in April. The
awards are presented to
WSU alumni whose
Marx
achievements have
made headlines in the
media; they recognize
women who have made their mark on
society. Marx won an Oscar for her docu-
mentary short Young at Heart.

Natasha B.
Dabrowski, 22, of West
Bloomfield was recent-
ly named Student of
the Year in the
Michigan Daily at the
University of Michigan.
A graduate of
Cranbrook Kingswood
in 2011, Dabrowski was
awarded the Grace Fry
Leadership Award for leadership in
Student Council and as captain of the var-
sity tennis team. At U-M, she was chosen
by the provost to be the undergraduate
student representative on the Dean's
Search Advisory Committee. She served
as president of the LSA Student
Government; her most notable project

there was the creation of a religion minor
in the History Department. Her course
work took her to Belgium for a summer
program studying the European Union.
She also served as president of the Order
of Omega Greek Honor Society.
Dabrowski was also the only Michigan
student awarded the MLK Drum Major
Service Award. She is the daughter of Dr.
Christine Dabrowski.

Michael Lipsky of
West Bloomfield
recently graduated
from the University of
Michigan with a bache-
lor of arts in film stud-
ies.

Lipsky

International law firm
Duane Morris LLP
named Brian P.
Kerwin, of Glenview,
Ill., chair of the firm's
Global Corporate
Practice Group. He is a
graduate
of Southfield-
Kerwin
Lathrup High School
(1982) and the
University of Michigan
(1986). Duane Morris is an AmLaw 100
law firm founded in 1904. Kerwin, who
was one of the founders of the Duane
Morris Chicago office in 1999, will lead
the firm's second largest practice group
with more than 170 transactional lawyers.

AP Builders principals Steve Perlman
and Pete Alshab have 50 years of com-
bined home building experience, winning
awards such as Developer of the Year and
Builder of the Year. The Bloomfield Hills-
based builder and developer of premier
residential communities recently opened
Golf Ridge of Commerce.

Ciena Healthcare, a
leading manager and
operator of skilled
nursing and rehabilita-
tion centers in
Michigan, recently
named Bradley
Kimelman of West
Kimelman
Bloomfield as executive
chef at Notting Hill of
West Bloomfield. In
this position, he is responsible for culi-
nary operations, incorporating healthy
dietary choices and fresh food options.
"My goal is to provide Notting Hill resi-
dents with a dining experience that high-
lights fresh, high-quality ingredients with-
out sacrificing taste:' said Kimelman.

Matthew Kurzmann
has been promoted by
Marcus & Millichap to
the position of senior
associate. He works in
the commercial real
estate brokerage firm's
Southfield office and is
Kurzmann
part of the Affordable
Housing Advisors
team. Kurzmann has
been with the company since 2011 and
has been instrumental in the creation of a
platform for the Affordable Housing
Advisors' nonprofit clients.

The William Davidson
Foundation
announced the
appointment of Darin
McKeever as its first
chief program and
strategy officer. He is
an experienced social
entrepreneur and
expert in global philan-
thropy. McKeever will
oversee the William Davidson
Foundation's programmatic work, work-
ing closely with the president, executive
committee and board of directors to
ensure that the foundation's philanthropic
investments are aligned with the overall
mission and vision, and provide leader-
ship for all program-related activity and
staffing.

Matthew Barker, a
Max Broock Realtors
Associate Broker, has
been named by
REALTOR Magazine as
part of the 2015 Class
of 30 Under 30.
Currently just 24 years
Barker
old, Barker is one of the
youngest associate bro-
kers in the state of
Michigan. As a team, Matthew and Jeff
Barker achieved a sales volume of $42
million and sold 70 units in 2014.

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