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Family Matters: Hank Greenberg’s Grandson
Coming To The Hank Greenberg Invitational

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

tions and a sports panel is $195.
Cicurel said the dinner will
here will be a special guest
be well-attended because of the
Monday at the 28th annual
popularity of the award winners.
Hank Greenberg Memorial
Ex-Tigers catcher Ivan
Golf Invitational at Franklin Hills
“Pudge” Rodriguez, a 2017
Country Club in Farmington
inductee into the Baseball Hall
Hills.
of Fame, will receive the Hank
William Gahagan, grandson of
Ivan “Pudge”
Greenberg Memorial Lifetime
the former Detroit Tigers great,
Rodriguez
Achievement Award.
will be at the invitational with
Dinner emcee Jeremy Schaap,
his wife during his first trip to
an eight-time Emmy Award-
Detroit. Gahagan’s mother is Alva
winning ESPN reporter and
Greenberg.
author, will be presented the
Gahagan and his wife, who live
Dick Schaap Memorial Award
in the New York City area, will get
for Media Excellence named in
a tour of Detroit while they’re in
honor of his father.
town for the invitational.
Ian Burnstein, president of the
Sari Cicurel, executive director
board of directors of the Gary
of the Michigan Jewish Sports
Jeremy Schaap
Burnstein Community Health
Foundation, which presents the
Clinic on Woodward Avenue
invitational, said only a few spots
in Pontiac, will get the Barry
remain to play golf and time is short
Bremen Memorial Inspiration Award.
to grab them, but there’s time to make
“We’ve hit a home run with our award
plans to attend the dinner.
winners,” Circurel said.
“We prefer for people to make dinner
The invitational is a fundraiser for
reservations, of course, but people can
the Karmanos Cancer Institute at the
show up for dinner at the door,” she said.
Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Treatment
Cost for the dinner, awards presenta-
Center, an award-winning outpatient

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facility in Farmington Hills.
To make golf or dinner reservations,
call (248) 592-9323 or go to www.
michiganjewishsports.org.
Raffle tickets for a trip to the 2019
Masters golf tournament are being sold
for $100 as part of the invitational fun-
draising effort. The prize includes two
tickets for the round April 5, 6 or 7, 2019,
plus one night of lodging.
The raffle drawing will take place at
the invitational, but the winner doesn’t
have to be present. Call the foundation
phone number to buy raffle tickets.
Cicurel said the foundation’s “Behind
the Game: A Night of Sports Talk” event
May 29 went well, with 140 in attendance
at the Birmingham Athletic Club to hear
from Detroit Lions General Manager Bob
Quinn and sports agent Kevin Poston.
“Bob Quinn and Kevin Poston were
outstanding,” Circurel said. “But the best
part is we raised money for our Dr. Steve
and Evelyn Rosen Stars of Tomorrow
Scholarship fund.”
Those scholarships to go Jewish high
school seniors who have excelled in ath-
letics and academics while also dedicat-
ing time to other extracurricular activi-

ties and community service.

RAIN REIGNS
Rain and wet fields postponed all games
Sunday in the Inter-Congregational
Men’s Club Summer Softball League.
The games were rescheduled for Aug.
5, which will become the final week of
the regular season. Playoffs will now be
Aug. 12 and Aug. 19.
Through two weeks of play, the lead-
ers are Temple Israel No. 5 (4-0) in
the Greenberg Division, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek (3-0) in the Koufax
Division and Adat Shalom Synagogue No.
1, Temple Shir Shalom No. 2 and Temple
Israel No. 4 (1-2) in the Rosen Division.
League games are held Sundays at five
diamonds in two West Bloomfield parks.
Games began May 6 this season before
the league took time off for Mother’s Day
and Shavuot. Games were played May 27
over Memorial Day weekend.
The league’s website is
www.mensclubsoftball.org. •

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N O M I N E E S

2018 Mandell L. (z"l) and Madeleine H. (z"l)

Berman Award

for Outstanding Professional in Jewish Communal Service

ELIGIBILITY FOR NOMINATION
All Jewish communal professionals employed by the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit (JFMD) or local constituent agencies of JFMD who
have been working in the Detroit Jewish community a minimum of five
consecutive years may be nominated for the Berman Award.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
The recipient of the Berman Award shall manifest the highest professional
standards in his/her chosen field. The professional must have made a
contribution to and for the general good of the Jewish community,
demonstrated creativity, dedication, knowledge and care in the provision
of services of the Jewish community. Moreover, in awarding the Berman
Award, consideration shall be given to special professional innovation
which reflect quality professionalism. First consideration is given to agency
professionals, followed by the JFMD's staff and agency executive directors.
The CEO of JFMD is not eligible to win this award. Past Berman Award
winners and yearly committee members may nominate candidates for
the award, but must recuse themselves from the conversation during the
selection meeting. Those past winners and yearly committee members
who have submitted nominations may vote in the final selection.

NOMINATION PROCESS
We encourage each agency to submit a nominee no later than June 29, 2018.
Names of the nominees will remain confidential and may be re-nominated
in subsequent years. If you have any questions, please contact Marianne
Bloomberg at bloomberg@jfmd.org or (248) 642-4611.

Nominate online:
jewishdetroit.org/bermanaward

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: JUNE 29, 2018
Mail to: Marianne Bloomberg - Confidential
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301

Email: bloomberg@jfmd.org

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