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November-December 2010 THE JEWISH GEORGIAN Page 5<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dream Supremes Dance Team<br />
liaison, an image consultant, some real<br />
estate professionals, and several retirees.<br />
All are unified in expressing the powerful<br />
message of women taking center stage and<br />
encouraging people of all ages to stay<br />
active.”<br />
Marianne Broadbear is the team’s oldest<br />
member at 71. “Life gets more challenging<br />
as we age,” she says. “This makes<br />
me feel like a kid again.”<br />
BARRY FARBER CELEBRATES 50<br />
YEARS ON RADIO. Barry Farber, known<br />
as “the dean of talk radio” and “one of<br />
radio’s living legends,” is being honored<br />
on his 50th anniversary of radio broadcasting.<br />
Talk Show Host Barry Farber<br />
Barry launched<br />
his radio career in<br />
New York in 1960<br />
and began hosting<br />
a national talk<br />
show on the ABC<br />
Radio Network<br />
thirty years later.<br />
In 1991, <strong>The</strong><br />
N a t i o n a l<br />
Association of<br />
Bibi Farber<br />
Radio Talk Show<br />
Hosts named him<br />
“Talk Show Host of the Year,” and he was<br />
recently ranked in the top twelve on the<br />
“Heavy Hundred of All Time” list by<br />
Talkers magazine. A conservative commentator,<br />
columnist, and author, Farber is<br />
said to speak 26 languages.<br />
Besides ratings, of course, the “Heavy<br />
Hundred” list reflects “courage, effort,<br />
impact, longevity, recognition, revenue,<br />
service, talent, and uniqueness,” as well as<br />
“historical relevance.”<br />
Today, “<strong>The</strong> Barry Farber Show” airs<br />
daily, on CRN Digital Talk Radio, going<br />
into 11 million homes nationally. For more<br />
information, visit www.CRNTalk.com. To<br />
hear <strong>The</strong> Barry Farber Show, go to<br />
http://crntalk.com/barryfarber.<br />
Barry’s brother Jerry, not to be out-<br />
done, was recently voted one of the 100<br />
best comedians in Atlanta and is said to be<br />
almost fluent in English.<br />
Barry’s gorgeous and talented daughter<br />
and Jerry’s niece, Bibi Farber, is a highly<br />
accomplished songwriter in New York,<br />
and has put out two popular CDs, Firepop<br />
and Second Kiss.<br />
You have probably heard her music on<br />
TV shows, films, commercials, and the<br />
internet—over 300 uses in cable and network<br />
TV alone. Highlights include an<br />
A&E promo for “<strong>The</strong> Sopranos,” a Kodak<br />
commercial, and a Lifetime TV commercial,<br />
as well as the theme song for the Kids<br />
Science Challenge, a science contest for<br />
kids (see the video at<br />
youtube.com/watch?v=dr7q5dzR-3Q). She<br />
has played guitar, bass, and keyboards with<br />
a dozen local bands in New York and currently<br />
plays keyboard in an all-female<br />
Blondie cover band, with which she is now<br />
recording a new CD. Check her out at<br />
www.bibifarber.com.<br />
THE EDUCATION CONNECTION. Boy,<br />
my mother sure could have used Barby’s<br />
and Fontaine’s help with me. Barbara<br />
Levy, M Ed., and former Lovett admissions<br />
Director for two decades Fontaine<br />
Draper have formed Education Connection<br />
to offer their more than 50 years of combined<br />
experience working in education in<br />
Atlanta. <strong>The</strong>ir purpose is to serve as a<br />
resource to parents in the selection of a<br />
school from grades preschool through high<br />
school. If you need help in choosing<br />
between public and private schools, or if<br />
you want to know where to look or what to<br />
ask, check out these respected professionals<br />
at educationconnection.us.<br />
Education Connectionʼs Fontaine<br />
Draper and Barbara Levy
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