THE Order Of SHOFAR Sleph Zadik of Aleph B'nai B'rith Youth Organization ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) OCTOBER, 1976 Be it known to all men: That the Supreme Advisor BBYO "Spirit" Aleph Zadik Aleph of the nai fidence in the following Brother Alepty Grips Int'l. Abe Babior David Beber Conventions Ben Bernstein Jerome Diamond Isadore Clewitz Dabid Fellman One could almost feel the excitement in the air at the 1976 AZA and BBG Interna- Harry Freed be that tional Conventions. A sense of being a part he laws Meyer Freeman of something great could be seen in the eyes Sinai, of the nearly 300 BBYO members through- Abe Friedman ppears out the world. Leonard Derman d, this It was an excitement which began with the terror, call of the roll of Districts to ceremonially does hereby constitute them nored. launch the annual conclave at B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp in Starlight, Pa.. and ran Chapter No. 1 located in prison ultiply through to an historic election for Interna- State of Nebraska falsely tional officers. perpetuate said Chapter acc The unique, and original short play ational "Everyjew" gave substance to the theme, Laws of the Supreme bod. "RBYOrAnInternationalSpiriti Ritual, and Traditions of from The States of the Order by Grand Aleph ask if fers upon them and their su Godol, Joel Kaplan and International N'siah, bound Shari Miller helped the delegates focus on of a Chapter of this Order Lord the issues facing AZA and BBG in the future Giben at Omaha, refuge. and the 53rd Annual AZA and the 31st An- seal of the Supreme Adbisor nual BBG Conventions were underway. evil. It was to be a Convention which many 3rd day of May 1924 not by would describe as "the best BBYO Conven- SamBeber gether tion I've ever attended." A Convention so President at the packed with new and creative programming that by the end of the six days, exhaustion the delightful exhaustion one feels when he is worn out but knows he has accomplished something-was the mood of the day. A look at the program from only one day -Thursday, August 19-is evidence of the level of activity at this, the International somewhat when he explained why he wasn't Sam Beber, founder of AZA, passed away on the evening of August 25 in Convention: going to lecture on government morality. "I Chicago. Mr. Beber, who would have been 75 years of age in September, had 100.00 think there probably is a mythology and mis- been ill for some time and died of pneumonia. The funeral was held in Omaha, A BBYO Maccabiad 100.00 conception about reporters in general, may- Nebraska, where, on May 3, 1924, he took the leadership in proliferating a 175.00 The day began immediately after break- be Woodward and myself in particular, that 100.00 fast with a "Bicentennial-Olympic Macca- somehow we're more than reporters; that single group of 15 boys into "The International Order of Aleph Zadik Aleph 100.00 biad." With events ranging from a 100-yard we're philosophers, that we're moralists, or for Young Men." 100.00 dash to three-legged races and an egg-push- that we're political scientists." The Pulitzer- At the international convention of B'nai B'rith, held in Atlantic City in 1925, ing competition, everyone participated. Ad- prize winning journalist continued, "In fact, young Sam Beber (only 24 years of age) with the help of his fellow townsman 120.00 ditional activities included a poster contest 100.00 nothing could be really farther from accu- Henry Monsky, persuaded B'nai B'rith to adopt the AZA as its official youth 200.00 and yell competition. However, for most, the rate. I know reporters who would pretend 100.00 real highlight was an obstacle course which movement. For 17 years he served as the President of the Supreme Advisory their knowledge of morality, philosophy, po- 100.00 featured running through tires (football train- litical science is somehow, by virtue of their Council of AZA, which preceded the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission as the 100.00 ing camp style), pulling oneself along the being reporters, more than the ordinary per- highest governing body of B'nai B'rith youth. parallel bars, walking the balance beam, per- son's knowledge on these subjects, but that Elsewhere in this issue appears a special eulogy delivered in memory of 100.00 forming a couple of somersaults and running is lawfully presumptuous." Sam Beber at the B'nai B'rith International Convention in Washington, some 100.00 to the finish line. The primary point Bernstein wanted to 200.00 The most amazing aspect of the Macca- make was how important AZA was to his life of the AZA founder's own recollections of the early days of BBYO, and a biog- 200.00 200.00 biad was that 300 people were able to pull as a teenager. He explained that he "was in raphy of Sam Beber. 100.00 off a fantastic program-lasting the full the bottom of my class and never active in B'nai B'rith Youth Commission Chairman, Anita Perlman, herself a close 100.00 morning with no time for boredom- an student government." Unlike high school friend of Sam and Helen Beber, reflected: 100.00 area smaller than a football field. which, he found, "was very much not about "Sam Beber was an extraordinary person. His many achievements in and 100.00 Carl Bernstein Received Award the real world," he found "that the part of out of B'nai B'rith reflected a dynamic, perservering, driving personality. He had my life as a teenager that did have some real 105.73 Exhausted after the Maccabiad, the dele- meaning and did have some validity was a great love for the Jewish people and all humanity-ap especially for young 102.93 gates moved into the dining hall for lunch about doing something constructive with people. His presence at an international youth convention invariably inspired 100.00 immediately after which they prepared for 100.00 BBYO as opposed to school.' rousing, thunderous cheers. He was one of those rare souls who became a 100.00 one of the highlights of the week- the ap- What made BBYO involvement special to 100.00 pearance of Carl Bernstein, journalist of legend in his lifetime." Bernstein was that "here was an organiza- 100.00 Watergate fame, to receive the Sam Beber tion in which my peers and I were able to While deeply moved by the death of AZA's founder, BBYO International 111.11 Distinguished Alumnus Award. function without directives from parents, Director, Dr. Max F. Baer noted that "there is some solace in the fact that Sam An alumnus of Lincoln AZA in Silver from teachers, from other adults To me, Beber lived to be a leading participant in the Golden Anniversary celebration 107.06 Spring, Md., the co-author of "All The Presi- (Continued on page 2) 100.00 dent's Men," disappointed the delegates (Continued on page 3) 100.00