The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Congratulatory letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly