Notables To Speak At National Conventions SAM BEBER PHILIP M. KLUTZNICK J. J. LIEBERMAN JULIUS BISNO LESTER J. WALDMAN The five men pictured above will be speakers at the national AZA and BBG August. Lieberman, Beber, Klutznick and Bisno will be with the AZA's, August conventions to be held at Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan, in 18-22. Waldman will cap BBG seminars on human rights the following week. Fill in the Ranks the SH FAR Replace Every Member Who Enters The Armed Forces Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization AZA-BBG-BBYM-BBYW 29TH YEAR 6 AUGUST, 1952 Send address changes to The Shofar, 1761 R St.. N.W., Washington 9, D. C., Office of Publication, Baltimore, Md. ADL Program Director FOUR AZA PIONEERS TO TAKE PART To Climax BBG Seminar IN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROGRAM Lester J. Waldman, national program director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, will be the principal A total of 105 years of AZA experience will be repre- speaker at the national BBG convention to be held at Michi- Civil Rights Planks sented by four pioneers of AZA who will participate in the gan State College, August 25-29. His presentation will Urged for Political national AZA convention at Michigan State College, August sharpen objectives developed 18-22. Registrations of delegates and guests expecting to in seminars on intergroup re- lecturer in human relations Parties by ADL attend the convention are due lations begun at district BBG there. at the national BBYO office on tiring efforts and guidance Mr. Waldman is an enthusi- B'nai B'rith's support of conventions and completed at August 10. have developed AZA into a astic supporter of BBYO as an strong civil rights planks in the national convention. the platforms of both national The four men-Sam Beber, leading Jewish youth organi- active member and past pres- District BBG associations political parties was pressed Julius Bisno, Philip M. Klutz- zation. ident of New York B'nai investigated human relations B'rith Lodge No. 1. He has nick, and J.J. Lieberman-are Sam Beber, Omaha, founder at the national Democratic within their immediate geb- served also as secretary and and Republican Conventions among the outstanding per- of the order, will preside at graphic areas in preparation (See BBG, Page 11) (See CIVIL RIGHTS, Page 6) sonalities of AZA, whose un- Talent Night, at which the for the national seminar theme will concern the Seven which will explore intergroup relations throughout the na- A Quick View of Michigan's Gym Cardinal Principles of AZA, Each district has been as- tion. A rumor clinic will be signed one of the principles to demonstrated as part of the dramatize in what is expected national seminar. to be the most meaningful in- formal dramatic show ever The ADL program expert presented at an AZA con- will develop his talk to the vention. BBG's around the material they will cover in their semi- Julius Bisno's address to nars under the title, "BBG's the convention on August 19 Can Do Their Part in the De- will tie in with Talent Night velopment of Good Human Re- under the general theme of lations." Another phase of the "AZA Rededicates Itself to Its human relations theme will Seven Cardinal Principles." be developed in a seminar Bisno, now director of the on relationships within the Los Angeles Jewish Commun- family. munity Council, the second largest of its kind in the The convention speaker re- world, served as national di- cently became program direc- rector of AZA from 1933 to tor of the ADL after serving 1945. as director of the Metropoli- tan New York Regional office His predecessor? as an AZA of the ADL. An army veteran, staff member (the first paid having served for four years professional worker of AZA as a personnel consultant and and its second grand aleph military psychologist in the godol), Philip M. Klutznick of Adjutant General's Depart- Chicago, will also participate ment, he studied at the Uni- in the convention. Klutznick, versity of Cincinnati, Hebrew a Chicago builder and defense Union College and Long Island housing chief during World University. War II, was elected by the He holds both a Bachelor of 1951 AZA convention as the Science and a Law degree. A Michigan State College's Jenison Gymnasium first recipient of the AZA and BBG's during their national conventions at former instructor at Long Is- as seen from the air. This huge building will fur- outstanding alumnus award, the university this summer. Athletic fields are named in honor of Sam Beber. land University, he is now a nish all the athletic facilities to be used by AZA's behind this structure. (See AZA, Page 3)