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t's official.
Jewish Detroit's own Irene
Schumer of Bloomfield Hills is
the oldest student in the world to ever
graduate from the Florence Melton
School of Adult Learning. In case you
are wondering, this statistic has been
researched exhaustively by Judy Loebl,
Federation's Melton director.
An avid student of history with a
master's degree in social work from
the New York School of Social Work,
Schumer enrolled in the two-year
Melton program shortly after her 90th
birthday nearly two years ago. Her
daughter, Sharon Schwartz, also of
Bloomfield Hills, joined her in the ven-
ture, and together they have attended
four semesters exploring the funda-
mentals of Jewish living with Melton
instructors Ruth Bergman, Rabbi
Michele Faudem and Aviva Panush.
As Schwartz explains, she had taken
a leave of absence after 22 years of
teaching at Hillel Day School to help
her mother and father with the affairs
of their family business, General Linen
Uniform Service.
As it turned out, I didn't go back
to Hiller Schwartz says. "My father
[the late William Schumer] became ill
and passed away in 2013, and shortly
after that, we sold the business. At that
point, my mother and I had become a
team — we had been going into work
every day. By the fall of that year, mom
was ready for something new She
was quite an educated woman, still
energetic, a tremendous reader. She
was looking for some stimulation. So
we decided to take the Melton classes
together."
A first-generation American whose
parents emigrated from Russia,
Irene Saltzman Schumer was born
in Brooklyn on Aug. 29, 1923. She
attended Hunter College and gradu-
ated at age 20 with a degree in politi-
cal science and English literature. An
activist and Zionist, Schumer belonged
to a student organization called Avuka,
where she met William at a national
conference when he was representing
the Ann Arbor chapter.
William and Irene married on July
9, 1944, and moved back to Detroit,
where they raised their three children
— Sharon and her sister and brother,
Deborah Tuckman of New Jersey and
Dr. David Schumer of Washington.
Irene has nine grandchildren, five of
whom are married. She is extremely
proud of their academic and profes-
sional achievements. ❑
This story first appeared in the June issue
of Federation's online publication,
myJewishDetroit. www.myJewishDetroit.
org.