Calling All Alumni:
Hillel to host reunion
honoring its 60th year.
GABRIELLA BURMAN
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Walk the halls of Hillel Day School
today and you will find students
designing sukkot using iPads, debat-
ing the minimum wage, playing math
games on the floor and growing
sprouts in the school’s greenhouse.
But while the learning has
changed with
advances in
technology and
educators’ better
understanding of
the brain and the
multiple ways in
which children
learn, much of
Steve Freedman
Hillel remains the
same, from the hallmark warmth of
the teachers to its unwavering com-
mitment to delivering an outstand-
ing Jewish and general education to
Jews in metropolitan Detroit.
The past, present and future will
be celebrated on Friday, Nov. 24,
when the school hosts an Alumni
Reunion Breakfast, its first event to
honor the school’s 60th year. Alumni
and their families, as well as past
teachers and administrators, are all
invited to the school to reconnect
with classmates and faculty, enjoy
breakfast and tour the newly reno-
vated spaces that have transformed
the building for today’s students.
“Hillell was founded in 1958 by
families determined to educate and
mold well-rounded American Jews
by giving them an outstanding gen-
eral and Jewish education, regard-
less of financial needs,” said Steve
Freedman, Hillel’s current head of
school. “We owe them an enormous
debt of gratitude. Today, Hillel is
one of the oldest non-yeshivah day
schools in the United States; a mile-
stone in itself, especially at a time
when many day schools across the
country have closed.
“Hillel’s place in our community,
and its strength at 60 are the direct
result of the collective efforts — the
sweat, tears, hard work and financial
commitments made by all of those
who came before us and by those
who are serving the school now,”
Freedman said. “We hope all alumni
will join us to pay tribute to our past
and to help us look forward to the
next 60 years.” •
The Alumni Reunion Breakfast will take place at
Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills on Friday,
Nov. 24, at 10 a.m. RSVP to
ashaffren@hillelday.org.
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