Wolverine Support Network is a registered student group. Every other Friday, the groups come together for a stress-busting activity. Each session is led by two or more trained WSN volunteers. Loosely based on a peer program at Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles, WSN engages more than 200 students in 23 peer groups that meet across campus to support each other’s mental well-being. There was widespread sadness.”Īfter running in 2013 on a platform that stressed the need to address mental health on campus, Dishell and a handful of other students launched the Wolverine Support Network this winter. “George knew so many people his death affected campus,” said Dishell, a senior from Los Angeles. That night at the Townsend was the culmination of a synergistic meeting between Orley, her close friend Aikens and U-M Student Body President Bobby Dishell, who was moved by George’s death. With amazing energy and dedication to the same mission, Linda Aikens and I set out to do what we could in Ann Arbor, helping the daily life struggles that are so common at college age.” “In the aftermath of losing my son, I am determined to find something positive and make a difference for kids who suffer as George did. “The constant worry, counting of pills behind his back, trying to get his friends to watch over him - it was all an enormous worry for us and our family,” Orley said. With psychiatric help and medicine, George found a way of living with mental illness. All of us know that this pressure is way too much to go through alone.” You have to constantly be the best possible version of yourself at all times.
You’re growing up, meeting new people, living on your own, learning to deal with a different workload, eating habits, exercise routine. “Not until that spring did he share with us that he had tried to take his life during first semester.
He struggled, but very quietly,” Orley said. “George went to U-M and, in the first semester of freshman year, his troubles began. “It was a much different experience than the way we talked about - or didn’t talk about - his mental health issues. “This disease is socially accepted and actually became a bonding experience with other kids and families that dealt with the disease,” she said. “The hopelessness and helplessness that accompanies depression and bipolar disorder had gotten to him,” Orley said. He also struggled with depression and bipolar disorder. Orley, 20, a U-M rising junior, was a loving son, a caring brother, an accomplished athlete, a devoted friend, a natural leader, a strong advocate for those less fortunate and a passionate supporter of Detroit. The fundraising event was sponsored by the George Orley Mental Wellness Initiative, started in his memory. 5 to learn about a new University of Michigan peer-to-peer support network that helps students suffering from depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. Orley related her personal tragedy to a crowd of about 250 people who had gathered at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham Feb. “My son had committed suicide,” she said. 26, 2013, Diane Orley got a knock on her door that she says changed her life and who she is forever. Norman M.Cooper Charlton, Diane Orley, Linda Aikens and Bobby Dishell Cooper Charlton, Diane Orley, Linda Aikens and Bobby Dishell It is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of Dr. A memorial will be arranged when possible. The family thanks the caring staff of Hospice Plus. Survived by daughters Marcia Kaplan (Michael Privitera), Cynthia Reynolds (Peach), Carolyn Kaplan (Jon Sanford), and Diane Orley (Randall), stepsons Michael Hudson (Diane) and Daniel Hudson, along with 8 grandchildren, 5 step-grandchildren and 2 step-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Audrey, his brothers Sol and David, sister Sylvia, grandson George Orley and stepson Adam Hudson. He loved travel, good food and wine, and his home in Santa Fe. Kaplan worked for social justice in many areas and generously supported Democratic causes, opera, chamber music and theater.
During his prolific career, he authored 10 editions of the most popular textbook on Hypertension (Clinical Hypertension) and over 500 scientific publications.ĭr. He was a world recognized leader in the field of Hypertension, starting from the early days demonstrating how high blood pressure was a major cause of heart attacks and stroke. Born to Sarah and IJ Kaplan, and raised in Dallas, he traveled the world over as part of a six-decade career. (89), Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, died peacefully on Apof complications of heart failure. Kaplan, 89, of Texas, died on 05 April 2020.
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