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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 41

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1992DETROIT FREE PRESS SD COMSiDETROrT KEVIN FOBBS, a Detroit businessman, YWCA honors six area women jT 1 fO The Detroit Urban League received a $10,000 contribution from Borden Inc. for its production of "The Bubbytonian Encounter," a children's play that addresses the problem of sexual abuse. The contribution will bring the play to at least 1,000 more children. It has been performed for more than 2,000 children since 1989. MASK GLENN of Detroit earned an honorable mention in a Wayne State University competition recognizing exceptional papers on the subject of urban economic development The William Deane Smith Award Competition is held annually by the department of geography and urban planning at WSU.

Glenn, a doctoral candidate in political science at WSU, examined development of the Detroit People Mover from a political and economic standpoint. Detroit Mcdonald's Restaurants earned awards at the annual Southeastern Michigan McDonald's Operators Association Awards. The awards: Outstanding Decor, the franchise at 1101 Springwells, owned and operated by Ed Marineau; Outstanding Restaurant and Outstanding Appearance, 1000 Mack ARTISTS AT HEART Sister Ellen Marie Foley presents International Children's Art Exhibit awards to Micheri Moses, Jowanna Sanford and Kelli Drake at Immaculate Heart of Mary Grade School in Detroit. Riverview, Monroe, Northville, Plymouth-Canton, Livonia, Ann Arbor Tecumseh, Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Farmington, Imlay City, Novi, Rochester, Southfield, Troy, Walled Lake Consolidated and West Bloomfield districts. Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, $5,000, and Ingham Intermediate School District, $5,000.

Twenty school districts received grants of $1,500 each. They are the Trenton, Woodhaven, Grosse lie, grade point average. Smith also recently received a scholarship from the Michigan Chapter of the mid-America Educational Opportunity Program Personnel. Smith is a sophomore majoring in sociology; he hopes to attend law school or graduate school. He is a graduate of Ferndale High.

Native American Artists were honored recently by Wayne County Executive Edward McNamara and the Wayne County Council for the Arts. The artists received the Wayne County Artistic Excellence and Community Commitment Award for their contributions to advancing community and cultural programs and awareness of the arts. The artists' works are on exhibit through December at Sword Into Plowshares Gallery on Grand Circus Park in Detroit. The award winners are: Historian and publisher Terry Bussey of Grand Rapids, director of the Michigan Indian Press. Sculptor Dennis Christy of Mt.

Pleasant. Attorney Beverly Clark of Detroit, patron of American Indian culture. Harry Command of Highland Park, director of American Indian Services. Author, lecturer, historian and professor Dr. George Cornell of East Lansing.

Artist, lecturer and tribal chairman Frank Ettawageshik of Karlin, organizer of the Great Lakes Indian Artist Association. Author, lawyer and tribal judge Michael Petoskey of Traverse City, who serves on the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs. John Kawegomoah (1820-1885), hereditary chief of the Ottawa Little Traverse Band who also assisted with drafting the 1885 Treaty of Detroit. Kalamazoo College named three Detroiters to the Dean's List for the fall academic quarter. They are: senior Psiyina Hines, daughter of James Hines and a graduate of Bishop Borgess High School; junior Mary McMillan, daughter of Norma and Leo McMillan and a graduate of Bishop Borgess, and senior John Purrenhage, son of Ann and Ralph Purrenhage and a graduate of DeLaSalle Collegiate High School.

TARIUS HAGGOOD of Detroit is spending the fall semester of her junior year at Albion College participating in the Sea Semester Program in Massachusetts. The two-part program studies the theories of sea life, then teaches through experience aboard a sailing ship. Haggood is a visual arts and economics major and a graduate of Benedictine High School. Her mother is Pamela Haggood of Detroit. was elected to Habitat for Humanity International's Board of Directors.

The board oversees the housing organization's outreach in this country and throughout the world. Now president of Kevin Fobbs Metro Detroit Housing for Humanity, Fobbs has been active with the group since 1986. TWO AREA ACTORS are among the cast of "The White Rose," the current production of The Theatre Company of the University of Detroit Mercy. Keegan-Michael Key and Peter Bellanca, both of Detroit, appear in the story of five students arrested in Munich in 1942 for anti-Nazi activity. The show will run through Dec.

6 at the school's Detroit campus. Immaculate Heart of Mary Grade School in Detroit has a crop of budding artists. Three students won awards in the 1992 International Children's Art Exhibition. Kelli Drake and Jowanna Sanford both won gold awards, and Micheri Moses won a silver award. Brian Wojciechowski's work also was entered.

Twenty-four students won awards at the State Fair: first place, Nicole Dent; second place, Rachel Bell, Sakai Terrell and Deondra Hale; third place, Caris Brown and Christina Hubert; fourth place, Alex Latham; fifth place, James Stewart, Brian Mitchell, Ebony Nelson, Tiffany Harris and Candi Hall; sixth place, Jessica Glover; honorable mentions: Devin Baldwin, Jerome Moore, Jerry Leverett, Chidi Onwuzulike, Shantese Crockett, Tracey Wooley, Nalani Bradford, Stakysha Chandler and Kevin Jacobs. AVERY SMITH of Highland Park received the George, Caroline and Sister M. Angelis Zgoda Family Scholarship for 1992-93 at Madonna University in Livonia. The scholarship is awarded to a Avery student who Smith maintains a 3.5 HAIR SKIN REJUVENATION Sandra Drown M.D. MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HAIR AND SKIN EENEFITS Male Female Pattern Baldness.

Thinning Hair, Razor Bumps, Uneven Skin Tones, Hair Breakage. 557-1414 IbW he first Women of Achievement Awards were presented to six community members by the YWCA of Western Wayne County. The awards recognize achievements in the arts, business, education, government and professions. An award also was given to an outstanding teen. The honorees are: Peg Wilson of Dearborn, arts.

A former art and music teacher, she is a board member of the Women's Association for the Dearborn Orchestral Society. Janie Chuney of Detroit, business. Chuney is a sales representative with AAA Michigan. She volunteers with the Detroit Urban League, the NAACP and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute. Sister M.

Francilene Van de Vyver, education. The president of Madonna University in Livonia was recognized for encouraging an atmosphere of respect and sensitivity for all Madonna students. Under her leadership, Madonna has achieved university status. Donna McEachern of Wayne, government. McEachern is serving a second four-year term on the Wayne City Council.

Among her successful efforts is the State Theater renovation project. Wanda Harris-Foster of Inkster, professions. Harris-Foster is an administrator of human resources for Hegira Programs a non-profit corporation that serves chemically dependent clients in western Wayne County. Leyuna Shaw, 17, of Dearborn, teen achievement. A student at Edsel Ford High, she maintains academic excellence while participating in tutoring, track and music.

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