Championing the Wayne State Foundation Working closely with Wayne State University president emeritus Irvin D. Reid throughout his tenure, Eugene was able to bring a new level of philanthropy to the university. Reid met Applebaum a month before he became president in 1997, and called it an immediate meeting of the minds. They had similar […]
After graduating from Wayne State University, Eugene went to work as a pharmacist for Sam Pearlstein at Merrill Drugs, and loved it. Gene recalled how pleased he was to be working in the pharmacy business: “I was working at Merrill Drugs at Puritan and Greenfield and I was making $200 a week, I thought […]
Eugene worked tirelessly for the first 12 years to build Arbor Drugs. “The one word I would use to describe Gene is driven,” Eric Bolokofsky, Arbor Drugs Senior VP of Merchandising said. “He lived and breathed Arbor Drugs 24/7.” Though he had graduated from pharmacy school, Gene was not trained in business. Yet, his knack […]
