September 08, 2011
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… University of Michigan, but came back to Wayne State in 1990. She worked in the former College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, where she created and ran the Detroit Orientation Institute. A lifelong…
… to the future of Southeast Michigan." The Drikers have two children, Stephen Driker and Elissa Driker-Ohren. True to tradition, Wayne State was where Stephen "became an item" with his wife, Jennifer…
… volunteer, she retired in 2002 but remains as busy as ever in her work with nonprofits. She is president of Hillel of Metro Detroit, which is based at Wayne State. The Driker family at the Anthony Wayne…
… are Wayne State alumni, and each has a brother and sister who are graduates of the university. Their son, Stephen Driker, M.D. '98, earned his medical degree at Wayne, as did his wife, Jennifer…
… university was accessible, affordable and, most importantly, offered students like him, the child of immigrants, a chance for higher education. As a student, he chose Wayne because, he jokes, "My father said…
…, D.C., Eugene Driker went into private He says he senses new life surrounding practice back in Detroit and became a Wayne State. "The university has never been founding member of Barris, Sott, Denn…
… a doctoral candidate in instructional technology. And youngest son, Anthony, Bus. '10, was married in June to Sarah Buyle, Nurs. '10. "I take a lot of pride in the university," the elder Frank…
… Elaine and Eugene Driker when they were graduating from Central High School in the mid 1950s. "It was the school of choice for people in our circumstance," says Eugene Driker, who notes that the…
… I could go to any college I wanted to as long as I could get there on the Dexter bus." That is how he ended up in college with many of his high school classmates. "It was a lot of fun. We had a great…
… time at Wayne," he says. While arriving at Wayne State was perhaps a foregone conclusion for the Drikers and many members of their family and social circles, subsequent roads led them back to Wayne…