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Prepare to be amazed!
Sunday
September 18, 2016
7:00pm
at
Robert Marans with George Phifer,
director of the Huron-Clinton
Metroparks Authority
3rd Place
Finalist on
America's
Got Talent
Can he truly read your mind? How does he know somuch about your past…
things even you have forgotten? Is this real or is it magic? You don’t want
to miss witnessing Oz Pearlman, the mentalist, in action!
Oz’s performance will benefi t the
B’nai B’rith College Scholarship Program.
Our evening will be hosted by the hilarious “Big Al” Muskovitz
and will also feature local singer/guitarist Alex Weberman.
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To order tickets, visit the Berman Box Offi ce,
call 248-661-1900, or go online at www.theberman.org
For VIP tickets, that include a special “Meet & Greet” afterglow,
call David Lubin at 248-252-2606,
or Rick Sherline at 248-613-5400
For information on the College Scholarship Program and sponsorship opportunities, please contact B’nai B’rith Great Lakes Region at (248) 646-3100 or at greatlakes@bnaibrith.org.
sponsored by
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14 September 15 • 2016
with a second daughter, Pam —
moved to Oak Park. Marans landed
a job with a transportation plan-
ning agency that later became the
Southeast Michigan Council of
Governments (SEMCOG). There,
he was part of a major survey that
looked at transportation and land use.
Marans graduated with a Ph.D.
from a new program at U-M and,
in 1974, began teaching in the
Institute of Social Research. Many
of his books focused on how nature
influences the way we live.
In 1971, Washtenaw County
created a county parks system
and brought in Marans as a board
member. He has served on that
board since 1971, the last 10
years as its president. In 1986,
he was appointed to the HCMA
Commission.
As a member of the commission,
Marans is proudest of the coop-
eration between Washtenaw and
HCMA in maintaining some of the
county bike-hike trails that wind
through the Metroparks. He is also
proud of Summer Fun, a newer
program that enables seniors and
nature-deprived city children to
spend time in the parks.
Marans, an avid swimmer,
retired from teaching in 2004,
but continues to stay involved
in U-M and in the Southeast
Michigan region. He served on the
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
and Michigan Land Use Institute
boards, among many others. He’ll
travel to China next month to
lecture on patterns of rural-urban
migration in that country and per-
haps start a program to address the
challenges in that movement. He
has also been asked to write about
the quality of life in new towns.
“I may be involved in that for the
next decade — who knows?”