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With Their Centennial Gift, Merton J. and Beverly (z”l) Segal 
Continue to Enrich Jewish Lives Long into the Future

As a longtime community leader and philanthropic 
supporter, Mert Segal has had an extraordinary impact on 
Jewish Detroit. “There was hardly a time in my life when I 
wasn’t involved in Jewish education or community affairs,” he 
recalls. Born in Detroit, Mert grew up in a kosher household, 
studied Hebrew and became a Bar Mitzvah. As a student at 
the University of Michigan, he helped to reactivate a Jewish 
fraternity, Chapter Tau Delta Phi and eventually became the 
executive secretary of the national fraternity. He married 
Beverly (z”l) in 1955. Together they raised three daughters, 
Carol Ziecik, Laura Segal and Dana (Dr. Steven Weinstein). 
Mert has five grandchildren, Lacey (Elliot) Foon, Cooper and 
Jane Ziecik, and Miles and Leah Weinstein. In addition, he has 
twin great granddaughters, Eloise and Phoebe Foon. As Mert 
built his company, Meadowbrook Insurance Group, into a 
highly successful and respected business, he remained 
deeply connected to the Jewish community. He maintained a 
close affiliation with Temple Beth El, “chairing almost every 
committee of the Board of Trustees,” he notes, and eventually 
served as President in 1975. He has also been a dedicated 

supporter of a variety of Jewish and secular organizations, 
including Federation, AIPAC, the Ecumenical Institute, 
Beaumont Hospital, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Berman 
Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Michigan. 
Today, with his partner, Glynda Beeman, Mert continues to be 
active and involved in Jewish communal life. 
He also remains a major philanthropic supporter of the 
community. Now, with his commitment to the Federation 
Centennial Fund, Mert extends his legacy of impact long into 
the future. The Centennial Fund is the central endowment 
campaign for Jewish Detroit and is designed to secure the 
welfare of Jewish Detroit for the next one hundred years. 
Mert’s Centennial gift will establish a Perpetual Annual 
Campaign Endowment (PACE) Fund, a vehicle which provides 
a foundation of critical support to the Jewish community 
through the Annual Campaign. “I am happy and proud to be 
part of the Jewish community,” he says. “My hopes are for it to 
thrive and perpetuate Jewish traditions and Jewish leadership 
in Detroit and throughout the world.”

L to R: Glynda Beeman, Mert Segal, Carol Ziecik, Laura Segal

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