metro » continued from page 12 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. 4VOEBZ 4FQUFNCFSUItQN 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 6735 TelegrBQI3PBEtSuitFtBloomfield Hills, MI 48302 * (248) 646-3100 2125260 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?”