MAY 12 • 2022 | 43

We can’t help when 
your child draws on 
the wall.

But we can help you 
save for college.

B I R M I N G H A M

Member FDIC

Jonah Cohen of 
Farmington Hills 
recently won top 
honors in the 
Music Teachers 
National 
Association (MTNA) Senior 
Composition Competition 
finals. He is a composer, pia-
nist and cellist. His composi-
tions tend to revolve around 
his fascinations with space, 
time, motion and stagnation, 
and how they are relevant in 
the here and now. Jonah 
has received recognition 
from the National Young 
Arts Foundation, National 
Young Composers 
Challenge, Foundation for 
Modern Music and many 
others. In 2022, performanc-
es of his music will be fea-
tured by the Orlando 
Philharmonic Orchestra, 

Akropolis Reed Quintet and 
others.

Neil Weissman, 
managing direc-
tor-investments 
of Wells Fargo 
Advisors in Ann 
Arbor, has been 
recognized on the 2022 
Best-In-State Wealth 
Advisors list by Forbes. This 
accolade represents a list of 
professionals that come to 
work with one goal on their 
minds — helping their clients 
succeed. Neil has more than 
13 years of experience in the 
financial services industry.
 

Robert 
Schefman is a 
finalist in the 
sixth triennial 
Outwin 
Boochever 
Completion for 2022. The 
exhibition opened to the 

public at the National 
Portrait Gallery in 
Washington, D.C., on April 
30. He is a featured artist 
locally at the David Klein 
Gallery.

Sen. Jeremy 
Moss 
(D-Southfield) 
was recently 
awarded a 2022 
Legislator of the 
Year Award from the 
Michigan Townships 
Association (MTA) for his 
support of township govern-
ment. Moss is serving his 
first term representing the 
11th State Senate District in 
southern Oakland County. 
He was the youngest-ever 
elected official in Southfield 
city history.

The Ritchie Boys, 
America’s Secret 
Intelligence Unit 
in World War II, 
will receive the 
2022 Elie Wiesel 
Award at the U.S. Holocaust 
Memorial Museum’s National 
Tribute Dinner. A local man, 
Guy Stern, was one of that 
group. The Ritchie Boys, 
included many Jewish refu-
gees from Nazism and was 
instrumental to the Allied vic-
tory.

Alan Reinstein 
submitted a 
paper, “Belding 
Party Store 
Lottery Fraud: 
Detecting Lottery 
Fraud,” which earned the 
Best Paper Award at the 
2022 Western Region 
Meeting of the American 
Accounting Association, held 
recently in Long Beach, Calif.

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