Feb. 2, 2010 issue

REMEMBERING JOE: (from left) Janis Conlin, widow of the late Joe Pollack, and Ira Rutherford, superintendent of the Pollack Academic Center for Excellence, cut the ribbon at a dedication of the renaming of the former Edison Oakland Public School Academy Jan. 29. The Eastern Michigan University charter school was renamed posthumously in honor of the late Pollack, who was EMU's director of charter schools from 1996-2009. Pollack passed away Oct. 10, 2009.

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