October 6, 1969 Mr. Julius Bisno Associate Executive Director Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles 590 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90004 Dear Julius: It was very pleasant indeed to hear from you and to learn that you and Rose and your family are getting along nicely. I am glad that Jay is going to spend the next year in Israel and that he is following a most wonderful profession that must be most interesting indeed. I am sure that you and Rose must be semi- experts yourselves on the subject. I hope that he is able to carry on and, surely, will become a big name in the world in his chosen profession. We have been living in Evanston for the past 4-1/2 years. We have one married daughter with two boys, and an unmarried daughter, all living in this area. If you get back in the Chicago area anytime, would you please make contact with me? You will find my home number in the Evanston phone book. Now, as to the "doddering" remnant of the original AZA Y members. You are quite right with the use of this word. A few weeks ago I was in Omaha and spent some time with Harry Sidman and Max Givot and we tried to remember some things and found that our memories at least were "doddering", although the three of us, at the moment, are all in good health. The original group of boys met in the spring of 1922 and formed the organization known as "Aleph Zadik Aleph". At that time there was a young man, all of 21 years of age, living in Omaha and working as a chemist for the Armour Packing Company, by the name of Nathan Mnookin. Nate was a good friend of my brother Dave's and we asked him to be our advisor. Actually, Nate was with us only about a year and decided to return to his hometown, Kansas City, Missouri. We then asked a young man by the name of Oscar Weinstein to be our advisor and he was for a matter of a very few months, He also left the city. At that time, the star of Sam Beber