100 Years Ago
(From the April 9, 1926 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
The order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph held a regular meeting last Sunday at the Y.M.H.A. Alephs Dave Forman of Omaha and Jake Finkelstine of Lincoln were the guests of the local chapter. Phil Klutznick and Zolley Lerner of Nebraska University; Heim Wolberg of Illinois University; and Julius Peltzman and Henry Brown of Kansas University are at home for the Passover holidays.
Regular business of the day was dispensed for the purpose of administering the ritual to the new members. Those receiving the ritual were Joe Koralchik, Eugene Epstein, Nathan Aaron and Jacob Brown.
A charter will soon be granted by the Supreme Advisory Council for a Kansas City, Kan., chapter. The local ritual team will install the new chapter shortly. Plans are now being formulated for installation, which will be followed by a banquet and dance.
The A.Z.A.’s will have a hike starting at 7:00 from the “Y” Sunday, April 11. The program committee has planned some novel features for this event.
80 Years Ago
(From the April 12, 1946 issue of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Nearly 200 delegates from states throughout the Midwest attended the first post-war convention of District 2 A.Z.A., held here April 6, 7 and 8 at the Jewish Community Center.
The convention opened Saturday evening with the basketball preliminaries, followed by an ice breaker informal mixer in the Lodge Room at the Jewish Center … The first round of debates was held during an afternoon session when Kansas City 335 chapter defeated East Chicago chapter 435. The finals in the oratorical contest were held following the debate eliminations. Loeb Granoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Granooff, won the district championship and earned the right to compete in the national tournament to be held in July… America Chapter 511 of St. Louis won the bowling tournament held Monday morning at the S&S Alleys. The ping pong doubles was one by Paul Galitzky and M. Gallas of Kansas City. Finalists in the basketball tournament were the members of the Isaac Franks chapter of Cleveland, Ohio… The debate finals held Monday afternoon was won the team representing America chapter 511 of St. Louis, which defeated the Kansas City team of chapter 335.
The final event of the convention program was the formal banquet held at the Hotel Muehlebach. The B’nai Jehudah Aleph Club recently organized by Joseph Cohen, former president of District 2, guided by Maurice Mouber and Michael Hodes, advisers, was formally installed as an A.Z.A. chapter. Ed Winer, District 2 A.Z.A. director, and Victor Perlmutter of the national A.Z.A. office, conducted the ceremony. Loeb Granoff is Aleph Godol.
