Workplace Announcements for January 2014

          Mark A. Brick of Milwaukee has been named a Master Certified Remodeler by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

          This program, according to a NARI news release, “identifies professional remodelers who have undergone comprehensive review and testing in areas of business management, ethical conduct and technical skills.”

          Brick is founder and president of B&E General Contractors, Inc., headquartered in Glendale. He is a past president of Milwaukee and national NARI.

          NARI is the trade association of the remodeling industry, with national headquarters in Des Plaines, Ill. It represents some 8,200 member companies and 63,000 individual remodeling contractors.

          Former Milwaukeean Nathaniel Deutsch on Dec. 15 received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies.

          He received the honor for his 2011 book “The Jewish Dark Continent.” The work is a study of the ethnographic investigation of the Jewish Pale of Settlement carried on before World War I by Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863-1920), who is most famous as the author of the classic Yiddish play “The Dybbuk” under the pen name S. Ansky.

          Deutsch is professor of history and co-director of the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. He received the award in Boston.

          Susie Stein on Oct. 1 was appointed philanthropic counsel to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Technical and Trade School Foundation in Milwaukee.

          She was previously chief philanthropy and marketing officer at the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center and the founder and president of Strategies for Philanthropy LLC.

          Her education includes a certificate in nonprofit governance from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.