100 Years Ago
(From the Dec. 11, 1925 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Aleph Zadik Aleph Order of Young Men
On Tuesday evening, December 29, at 8 o’clock, the order will hold their second annual Collegiate Hop. The dance will be held in the Y.M.H.A. banquet hall. The committee in charge wishes to announce that collegiate style will be the correct dress for the evening. A prize will be awarded for the best dress.
The Kansas City chapter of the order has more members attending the university than any other chapter. The following members will be home from school for the Christmas holidays: William Horowitz, Yale; Martin Kirshner, Oklahoma; Sidney Magazine, Lewis Sutin, Harry Brenner, Heim Wolberg, Illinois; Philip Klutznick, Zolley Lerner, Nebraska; Julius Peltzman, Henry Brown, Kansas; and Abraham Margolin, Washington.
90 Years Ago
(From the Dec. 13, 1935 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Aleph Zadik Aleph chapters 2 and 200, of Kansas City, Mo., are preparing for their hostship of a three-ringed event by the western region of A.Z.A., to be held here December 27, 28, and 28. During that period, the western region will stage: a tournament in basketball, oration, and debate; a convention at which delegated will complete the redistricting of the western region; and a conference of A.Z.A. advisers.
Three states, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, are included in the reorganized western district. Chapters from Kansas City, Kan, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Wichita, Topeka, Denver and Pueblo will be represented in the tournament and convention sessions, in addition to the two local groups. The western region is a reorganization of the former Missouri Valley region.
The Center is to headquarters for the gathering. The general committee in charge of arrangements is composed of Nathan Stein and Davin Minkin (of AZA #2) and Jack Louis. The western region debate and oration contest is a preliminary to a district tournament to held in St. Louis. Winners of the St. Louis event will be entries in the national tournament, which will be part of the program at the convention next summer in California.
The host chapters here have prepared a round of social events to augment the activities slated for the western region meet. Official hostesses will assist in welcoming the delegates, members of the hostess committee being: Misses Betty Samazin (AZA #2 Yom Kippur Queen), Lee Dorfman, Helen Novorr, Rose Katz, Jean Goldberg, Jackie Siegel, Sara Gordo, Sara Mae Galler, Maxine Eisen and Rosalin Salwin. A number of the young ladies were A.Z.A. Sweethearts in 1935 and 1936 contests for the title staged at the annual Yom Kippur dance.
In addition to the medals, survivors in the oration and debate clashed will be given free trips to St. Louis to compete in the district meet. Oration subjects must deal with a famous Jewish personality. The debate subject is “Resolved: That public, rather than private, ownership of land should be encouraged in Palestine.”
Leonard Belove, speaking on Herzl, is representing A.Z.A. chapter No. 2 in oration. Belove and Leon Sedler are the chapter’s entries in debate. The basketball team will be selected from the following: Robert Chickinsky, Isadore Braude, Herman Klurman, Carl Tovsky, Yudell Luke, Harold Braude, Isadore Danovsky, Leonard Belove and Bill Kornfield.
