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Annual Report of The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation
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Life’s Paths
A recap of the programs, awards, and happenings of August’s convention in Phoenix.
An interview with Lucy Hunt, President of Christians United for Israel at Nevada Reno, pro-Israel advocate, and participant in AEPi’s Israel Amplified.
A unprecedented fiscal year of Foundation fundraising comes to a close.
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he Order of the Lion T to be Awarded The highest award conferred within Alpha Epsilon Pi is being awarded to Past Supreme Master Samuel J. Blustein, Memphis 1975.
Departments 02 Letters 04 Fraternity Records 05 Noteworthy 07 Eleven 38 Alumni Accolades 40 Life’s Paths On the cover: Supreme Master Elan S. Carr, California‑Berkeley 1990, awaiting transport at US Military Airstrip at the Baghdad Airport
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From the Supreme Master Dear Brothers,
Ninety-nine years ago, eleven kids sat in a deli basement near NYU and wondered whether their dream of founding a Jewish brotherhood would Foundation Annual Report ever be realized. Ninety-six thousand Brothers later, Alpha Epsilon Pi has emerged as an international standard of Jewish fraternalism. Our mission continues to express Alumni Accolades our dedication to fighting assimilation and producing the Jewish leaders of the 21st Century. And in direct proportion to our commitment to that Jewish mission, AEPi has grown and thrived to a level that those eleven Founders Life’s Paths could not possibly have envisioned. Today, we have chapters or colonies on 170 campuses in five countries, and alumni lodges in 30 cities. Our 8,500 students initiate nearly 3,000 new Brothers each year. We are the largest fraternity in Canada. We are the largest fraternity in the United Kingdom. We are the first and only fraternity in France. And most significantly, now with six groups, we are the first and only fraternity in the State of Israel. But as stunning as those numbers are, they do not fully capture the extent of our success, which lies in the ever-increasing quality of our Brothers and programs. Our alumni Brothers regularly make headlines through their successes and leadership in the fields of business, law, medicine, and innovation, as well as through their remarkable philanthropic endeavors on behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. And our undergraduate Brothers are not only the “Jewish leaders of tomorrow,” as we are proud to call them, but they truly are the collegiate leaders of today. With top-ranked GPAs on campus after campus, our undergraduate Brothers are leaders in academics. Having raised and donated almost half a million dollars for charity in the last two years, our undergraduate Brothers are leaders when it comes to the values of sedaqa and tiqqun ‘olam. When it comes to standing up and supporting the State of Israel, often in the face of repulsive anti-Semitism, our undergraduate Brothers are leaders of the campus pro-Israel movements. And in terms of elected leadership and political power, AEPi is simply in a league by itself: our chapters and colonies currently contain no less than 120 campus presidents, including presidents of student government, IFC, Hillel, Chabad, AIPAC cadre, and pro-Israel groups. Only two months ago, I took the oath of office as your 71st Supreme Master. I am profoundly honored to serve our Brothers and advance the causes that have made our Fraternity great. God willing, may this be a year of health, growth, unprecedented excellence, and a heightened commitment to our Jewish mission. And as we enter our Centennial year, may we continue to embody that timeless maxim of our people throughout the ages, in the words of the Psalmist: , “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for Brothers to be together.”
The Official Publication of Alpha Epsilon Pi
Vol. 99 Issue 1 Fall 2012 Executive Director Andrew S. Borans, Florida State 1980
Editor Michael Mizrahi, Connecticut 2012
Contributors Adam Matsil, Northwestern 2012 Jeff Jacobson, Northern Arizona 1992
Communications Committee Elan S. Carr, California - Berkeley 1990 Scott Cohon, Wayne State 1991 David Daniels, Arizona State 1998 Jay S. Feldman, Central Florida 2003 Jason Friedlander, Arizona State 1998 Jonathan M. Pierce, Vanderbilt 1986 Sasha Strauss, California - Irvine 1999
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The first publication of Alpha Epsilon Pi dates back to 1920, when the Supreme Board of Governors discussed the creation of what would become The Scroll. The eight-page issue, to be published bi-monthly, was intended to connect the chapters of our growing fraternity across the geography of the country. With the onset of World War II and the dwindling of many chapters, that communication became even more vital. The Scroll developed in to The Quarterly, which then became an instrumental connection across our brotherhood as our country fought a war and our Fraternity fought shrinking membership. At times, The Quarterly was mailed to upwards of 300 military service addresses of brothers fighting for our country abroad. While war has affected our organization in the past, in this issue we take a look forward at The Year of the Veteran launched at Convention this past August. The initiative seeks to recognize and provide support systems for those brothers who have committed themselves to serving in the armed forces. This issue also recognizes the donors who have provided the resources that the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation needs to continue making a difference in the lives of our members. Although our magazine has changed names and formats over the years, the purpose of The Lion remains the same – to keep brothers in touch with Alpha Epsilon Pi and maintain their commitment to living a life of Jewish values long beyond their college years. We hope you enjoy this issue. Fraternally,
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Matthew Ader, Florida 2007 Melissa Jacobs
Stu Schaff, Illinois 2007 Lauren Taylor
Asher Bublick, Lambda Beta 2012 Elizabeth Agnew
Marc Blumberg, Drexel 2004 Audrey Levine
Matt Van Horn, Arizona 2006 Foundation Annual Report Lauren Fishman
Scott Dicks Friedman, Union 2001 Abby Friedman
Eric Baker, Northwestern 2006 Andrea Kiguel
Mischa Zhuraw, Drexel 2005 Stephanie Marine
Eric Fox, Florida State 2005 Erica Jacobs
Matt Cohen, Northwestern 2006 Melissa Epstein
Joseph Waldman, Purdue 2010 Lindsey Weberman
Mark Fredericks, Florida State 2005 Lauren Stein
David Disler, Lehigh 2010 Candace Harrison
Life’s Paths Daniel Borlack, Northwestern 2007 Jessica Raymond
Mischa Zhuraw, Drexel 2005 Stephanie Marine
Andrew Guglielmo, Florida 2010 Holly Hixon
David Nussbaum, Tulane 2000 Jamie Punzalan
Neil Dyzenhaus, Buffalo 2004 Bridget Pellegrini
Ian Jacobson, Drexel 2008 Elizabeth Holody
Brad Gross, Northwestern 2004 Aviva Costello
Ron Ventura, Nevada-Las Vegas 2006 Emily Conroy
David Litsky, Drexel 2005 Beth Cohen
Joel Miller, Georgia Tech 2005 Meryl Hochdorf
Neuriel Shore, California-Davis 2007 Neelie Milstein
Avery Maron, Northwestern 2004 Robin Goodman
Leeor Engelstein, California Northridge 2011 Kara Greif
Matt Montag, Florida 2003 Coty Miller
Alumni Accolades
CHAPTER ETERNAL Joshua (Jay) Alpern, WPI 1960 Donald J. Asher, Cornell 1947 Richard R. Bass, Cornell 1947 Newton Becker, Kent State 1952 Theodore D. Buyer, Georgia Tech 1952 Tom G. Churchill, Cornell 1973 Milford M. Desenberg, Cornell 1955 Mitch Dorson, Arizona 1970 Joel Eisenstadt, Drexel, 2011 James Ferber, Penn State 1968 Franklin Furman, Wayne State 1970 Michael Gerson, WPI 1963 Dr. Harold Gross, Toledo 1953 Art Harris, Texas 1951 Irwin “Win” M. Hecht, Georgia Tech 1952 Harry J. Kaplan, Cornell 1955 Joseph Karol, Tufts 1946 Lew Kirschner, Toledo 1968 Marvin Levine, Illinois Institute of Technology 1953 David Luskey, Texas, Austin 1951 Richard May, Wayne State 1965 Albert H Miller, Rhode Island 1946 Joel Mosak, Illinois Institute of Technology 1959 Harold Novick, Tufts 1940 Jordan Raileanu, Ohio State 1948 Bernard Rapoport, Texas 1939 Justice Gustin L. Reichbach, Buffalo 1967 The Lion
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Landon Nathan Rosen, Nevada-Reno 2013 David S. Rosenbaum, Illinois 1979 Benjamin B. Rouff, Cornell 1936 Alfred Rubin, Kent State 1948 Howard Sachs, WPI 1965 Solomon Saltiel, Tufts 1958 Leonard Seloff, Vanderbilt 1953 David Schechter, Michigan 1959 Burton S. Scheiner, Cornell 1955 Brandon Showalter, Massachusetts 2006 Bernard Seltzer, Penn State 1952 Henry Shapiro, WPI 1952 Israel Sheinberg, Texas 1952 Nathan Shorr, Illinois Institute of Technology 1967 Edward Siegel, Buffalo 1959 Mark Sigismund, Northeastern 1941 Marc Silver, Penn State 1961 William Slepin, Penn State 1953 Sidney Soloway, WPI 1941 `Joseph Soriano, Arizona, 2008 Herbert J. Sukenik, Cornell 1950 Harold Taylor, Johns Hopkins 1942 Sholom Waife, Johns Hopkins 1940 Stanley Wallach, Cornell 1948 Lester Zeff, Ohio State 1945 Norman R. Zinner, Purdue 1956
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Off to Regional Conclaves! After presentations and considerations at the 99th Anniversary Convention in Phoenix, the following Chapters have been selected to host Regional Conclaves: Syracuse University January 25-27, 2013
Temple University February 1-3, 2013
University of South Carolina February 8-10, 2013
University of Missouri February 15-17, 2013
University of Nevada Las Vegas February 22-24, 2013
Ohio University March 22-24, 2013
Conclaves offer a chance for all undergraduate members (including new and pledging members) to attend leadership development and chapter management workshops and seminars. Conclaves play a significant role in giving members the tools and support they need to continue strengthening and building their chapters or colonies.
Know of a young man currently attending
SUNY-Oswego or Dalhousie University? Email Sam Orelove, Director of Expansion, at sorelove@aepi.org with recommendations.
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Our Expansion Team recently inducted 29 individuals as Founding Fathers of the Lambda Beta Colony at Brandeis University. The top 30 institution located in Waltham, Massachusetts is known for its Jewish population, Social Justice and Policy Program, and involved students. Originally founded in 1987, Lambda Beta was closed in the Fall of 2011 for mission congruence and risk management violations. We’re thrilled to be back on the Brandeis campus and look forward to building a strong strong chapter in the region.
West Virginia – Mu Lambda Morgantown, West Virginia
Joining a campus community with limited existing outlets for Jewish men is often a priority when evaluating expansion projects. Mu Lambda at West Virginia closed in 1960 due to difficulties in maintaining membership. Our return to Morgantown is led by eight committed individuals, recently inducted as Founding Fathers, who share in the belief of our Organization. The group has already begun planning brotherhood activities and campus involvement initiatives and are working with our Director of Colony Development to ensure their success.
The Centennial Book: 100 Years of AEPi The history of Alpha Epsilon Pi is rich. From humble beginnings, through world wars, to the decline and rebirth of fraternity life on college campuses, Alpha Epsilon Pi has weathered the storm. Today, we’ve emerged as a strong organization, congruent with the mission and vision that our Founders initially set for us. Our entire 100 year history has been chronicled in The Centennial Book, set to be released in the Spring of 2013. The book is a written account of the history that has made Alpha Epsilon Pi what it is today. Through an exploration of the men behind the Immortal Eleven, to exploring the growing pains celebrations, and significant alumni along the way, the book paints a clear picture of our past. The Centennial Book is currently available for pre-order through Harris Connect, our project partner. When mailed, it will include an complete updated Members’ Directory. To order your copy today, call 800-546-0413.
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In response to our recent post about our expansion project at Brandeis: “As a lifetime Alumni Accolades brother from Brandeis University, I’m proud of the quick response by our national leaders to regain a presence at ‘Deis! Lots of work Life’s Paths still to do but looking forward to the challenge. True to colors!” –David Ringler, Brandeis 1995
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Above: Brother Rothberg meets with Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth Prime Minister. From its launching in 1951 and continuing
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Twitter.com/ AEPi @jtackeff: @AEPi, I had such an inspirational time at #AEPi2012, I just registered for #AEPi2013 in NYC. @alexjakubowski: @RepEliotEngel at #aepi2012 talking about the strength of the US-Israel relationship and @AEPi’s amazing work to strengthen it #respect @coryspeicher: @AEPi convention was absolutely amazing! I could not be happier to be an AEPi! #AEPi2012 @NICfraternity: NIC Chairman @UVADeanGroves speaks to delegates at @AEPi Fraternity Convention. #AEPi2012 http://t. co/4N9AZ39r @SteveyDaitz: Proud President of the Mu Lamda Colony of Alpha Epsilon Pi here at WVU @JFrites: Each time I interact with AEPi and the men who are helping create this expansion I come away feeling even more honored to wear the letters.
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through the present day, Israel Bonds has played a unique role in Israel’s rapid progression from struggling agrarian nation to global economic powerhouse. Proceeds realized through the sale of Israel bonds have helped cultivate the desert, build transportation networks, create new industries, resettle immigrants, and increase export capability. Today, Israel bonds support a nation of extraordinary innovation that continues to push the boundaries of modern technology. Israel Bonds has been widely praised for its extraordinary legacy of achievement. Sam Rothberg, a brother of our Bradley chapter, was an honored founder of Israel Bonds who remained a titan of the organization for more than 35 years. Brother Rothberg was in attendance at the historic 1950 Jerusalem conference convened by David Ben-Gurion,
Published! Hard Target Alan Jacobson, Honorary 2011 Hard Target features American-Israeli FBI Agent Aaron Uziel as he investigates the Election Night explosion of Marine Two, the president-elect’s helicopter. Blockbuster author Lee Child described Hard Target as “Fast, hard, intelligent — a terrific thriller,” and political thriller master Vince Flynn said it was “A smart, complex novel that explodes from the page.” Purchase at aepi.org/ hardtarget and portion of the proceeds will benefit the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation.
at which the Israeli prime minister proposed engaging Diaspora Jewry in the building of the nation’s economy through an Israel bond issue. When the Bonds organization was officially launched six months later, Rothberg assumed a preeminent role in ensuring the success of the new enterprise. With his close relationship to Israel’s leaders – especially Golda Meir – Rothberg traveled frequently to Israel, as often as twice a month, for discussions and consultations on the Bonds program. In recognition of Brother Rothberg’s work, Alpha Epsilon Pi is being honored at the Israel Bonds’ International Prime Minister’s Club Dinner in Boca Raton in January 2013.
For more information, contact pmcdinner@israelbonds.com or visit IsraelBonds.com.
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The Masada Solution Jeff Fishman, Missouri 1968 The Masada Solution is the story of a man who had renounced hostility is forced by circumstances to initiate a massive cycle of violence in his quest to make the world a better place. The fast pace of this story will keep you turning pages to keep up with the action, the personal and political maneuvering, the adventure and the intrigue, until the climactic and unexpected ending. Find it at Amazon.com
WIRED Douglas E. Richards, Ohio State, 1980 A New York Times and USA Today best seller, WIRED is a smart thriller crammed with breakneck action, unexpected twists, mind-expanding science, and intriguing concepts that readers will be contemplating long after they’ve read the last page. Find it at Amazon.com
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total amount of Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation scholarships and grants awarded in 2011-12
$700,000 amount pledged to the seven official philanthropies of AEPi over a seven year period
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Amount raised by the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation during the 2011-12 annual campaign
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Hotel and Resort serving as a backdrop, 613 undergraduates, alumni, philanthropy partners, family, and friends made their way to Phoenix, Arizona for the 99th Anniversary Convention of Alpha Epsilon Pi. With programming scheduled from August 5th through the 12th, undergraduates and alumni alike used the time to develop leadership skills, connect with one another, and conduct the business of the Supreme Council to continue moving Alpha Epsilon Pi forward. As the formal Convention began on Wednesday, pre-convention programs were just coming to an end. Sixty brothers participated in the third annual Hineni, AEPi’s Jewish Identity Enrichment Conference. Brothers at Hineni (Hebrew for “Here I Am”) focused on uniting identity, advocacy, and philanthropy and service to foster strong Jewish ideals with the fraternity experience. The program has become a keystone in Alpha Epsilon Pi’s commitment to strengthening the sense of identity among its undergraduates today. Israel Amplified, which saw attendance from 87 students representing 24 different fraternities and sororities, ran
concurrently to Hineni. Israel Amplified participants learned skills and strategies for bringing Israel advocacy back to their 48 respective campuses. Programming during Convention included a House Manager’s Seminar, led by the staff of Esponda Associates, our housing division. The Epstein Institute, named for the first pledge of reached a majority of this Fall’s Pledge Masters, and the Racoosin School of Fraternalism and Leadership. During a Philanthropy Luncheon that highlighted a successful year of undergraduate fundraising, each of the Fraternity’s seven official philanthropies was presented a check for $25,000. Other highlights of Convention included the installation of the Supreme Board of Governors during the meeting of the Supreme Council, the initiation of honorary brothers, and the recognition of our veteran brothers over a Friday night Shabbat dinner. The Convention came to a close with a final awards banquet and gala on Saturday. The evening recognized the chapters, colonies, and individuals whose performance was exemplary over the previous year. As has been tradition for countless years, a powerful communal singing of Gold and Blue capped the evening with much anticipation for a successful upcoming academic year and the next annual meeting of Alpha Epsilon Pi – the Centennial Celebration in August 2013. ✦ Left: Supreme Master Elan Carr, California - Berkeley 1990, with the Howard Lorber Director of Jewish Programming and Philanthropy Adam Teitelbaum, California - San Diego 2010. Opposite: Brothers gather for the blessing over challah at the beginning of the Convention Shabbat dinner.
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Honorary Initiates Each year at Convention, the International Fraternity selects and invites a number of individuals who share the ideals and values of Alpha Epsilon Pi to join the organization as honorary brothers. This year’s initiation included a particularly laudable group of Jewish leaders. These initiations solidify AEPi’s commitment to identifying the leaders of our Jewish community even beyond their collegiate years and connecting them to the mission, network, and movement of Alpha Epsilon Pi.
2012 Honorary Initiates: Rabbi Daniel R. Allen Executive Vice Chairman, United Israel Appeal
David Bernstein Executive Director, The David Project
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein Founder, Jewlicious Festivals
Rabbi Micah Caplan Congregation Or Chadash of Scottsdale, AZ
Michael B. Citron Leadership Management Director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Shalom C. Elcott President & CEO, Jewish Federation & Family Services, Orange County, CA
Richard Fishman Managing Director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Eric Gallagher, Area Director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Captain Gavriel Jacobs United States Marine Corps
Elliot Karp President & CEO, Jewish Federation of Las Vegas
Adam Milstein President, The Adam & Gila Milstein Family Foundation
Gary P. Saltzman Executive Chairman, B’nai B’rith International
Rabbi Jeremy Schneider Temple Kol Ami of Scottsdale, AZ
The Honorable David Siegel Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles
Mark Teitelbaum President, Teitelbaum Artists Group
Stuart Wachs President & CEO, Jewish Community Association of Phoenix
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10 Convention Award Winners Chapter Awards: Louis Sherr Outstanding Chapter Award New York – Alpha Marc and Dana Katz Outstanding Colony Award Nevada, Reno – Upsilon Nu Members of the Alpha Chapter at New York accept the Sherr Outstanding Chapter Award for 2011-2012.
Abe and Renette Corenswet Chapter Progress Award Miami – Lambda Deuteron Tenzer Family Chapter Progress Award Colorado, Boulder – Chi Upsilon Philip H. and Susan Cohen Jewish Communal Activity Award 1st Place Rochester – Rho Nu
Members of the Upsilon Nu Colony at Nevada, Reno accept the Katz Outstanding Colony Award for 2011-2012.
Edward and Francine Gold Jewish Communal Activity Award 2nd Place Washington – Chi Deuteron
Philip H. and Susan Cohen Jewish Communal Activity Award 3rd Place Connecticut – Upsilon Kappa Johns Hopkins – Psi Drexel – Delta Rho Stanford H. and Sheila Odesky Outstanding Rush Result Award Colorado, Boulder – Chi Upsilon Risk Management Award 1st Place: Drexel – Delta Rho 2nd Place: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo – Sigma Omega 3rd Place: Northwestern – Tau Delta Allan R. Wolfe Outstanding Chapter Publication Emory – Epsilon Leider Family Outstanding Website Design Award Northwestern – Tau Delta Aronin Family Outstanding Delegation Award Cincinnati – Omicron Deuteron
Delegates of the Chapters and Colonies that received the Stanford H. and Sheila Odesky Outstanding Rush Result Award.0 The Lion
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Individual Awards: A. Edward Scherer Outstanding Chapter Advisor Parker Gold, South Florida 1999
David M. Bacharach, Jr. Outstanding Undergraduate Award Adam Fields, Yale
Morris Berke Outstanding Master Award Ben Zettler, Maryland
Philip H. Cohen Undergraduate Achievement Key Alex Masi, Florida Matt Renick, Columbia
Louis Heller Outstanding Exchequer Award Josh Sacks, Indiana Andrew S. Borans Outstanding Rush Chairman Award Jason Shender, Oregon Outstanding Pledgemaster Award Ethan Merel, Northwestern Robert Silverman Outstanding Scribe Award Alex Chanson, Maryland Irving Axelrod and Raphael Wolf House Manager’s Award Jason Tennenbaum, Texas I.E. Goldberg Outstanding Undergraduate Award Adam Matsil, Northwestern
Arnold B. Hoffman Service Award Alex Kolodkin, Ryerson Nehemiah Gitelson Medallion David Weingarten, Washington Daniel Brick, Missouri Arthur Maserjian, Northeastern Elijah Salver, Florida International George S. Toll Expansion Activity Award Marc Cowan, Leeds Phi Sigma Lieutenant Master Award Eric Dansky, Florida Atlantic Sidney E. Goldberg Outstanding Delegate Award Alex Scharg, Michigan State
During the 97th Anniversary Convention in 2010, seven philanthropies presented with the hopes of being selected as one of three to receive AEPi’s philanthropy dollars. After the importance and significance of each organization was realized, an undergraduate delegate suggested a bold proposal: Adopt all seven philanthropies, and commit $100,000 to each over the course of the next seven years. The room erupted in applause. Just two years into that commitment, our undergraduate Brothers have already raised $350,000. At the 99th Convention this year in Phoenix, checks were presented to the bring the total amount donated to each of the following organizations up to $50,000:
Elem Friends of the IDF Jewish National Fund Keshet Leket Save a Child’s Heart Sharsheret
Outstanding Philanthropy Achievement ESPONDA Level: chapters or colonies whose total philanthropy contributions to Official Philanthropies exceeded $10,000 New York – Alpha $17,734 Northwestern – Tau Delta $16,302 Maryland – Delta Deuteron $11,018 California, Davis – Chi Delta $10,541 New Jersey – Alpha Eta $16,320
Ethan Merel, Northwestern, presents Abbie Weisberg of Keshet with a $25,000 philanthropy check. Keshet is a provider of resources and programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities. aepi.org
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by Supreme Governor Jeff Jacobson, Esq., Northern Arizona, 1992
Alpha Epsilon Pi is no stranger to war. In its
99 year history, the fraternity has endured World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a longstanding legacy and much history to be discovered, our fraternity has committed the months leading up to our Centennial Celebration Convention in New York City to honoring our brothers who have served and who are serving in their respective country’s armed forces. This is certainly not the first time an initiative of this kind has been undertaken. In 1940, our fraternity formed an Armed Services Committee to keep in touch with brothers wearing their country’s uniform. This committee also sent servicemen gifts in the name of our fraternity, including wallets stamped with our letters and portable checker sets. Alpha Epsilon Pi even had a fundraising arm, called the Serviceman’s Fund, to finance the fraternity’s service member efforts. During the war years, the last chapter to receive its charter was Iota Deuteron, University of Alabama, on January 24, 1942. Expansion, because of the war, was at a standstill. The Supreme Board of Governors intuitively understood that if our fraternity was to survive, every chapter had to remain active by pledging and continuing to initiate new brothers so that when the war ended, our chapters would be active for veteran brothers returning home to campus. On January 28, 1942, Alpha Epsilon Pi lost its first
brother in combat – Lieutenant Arthur Amron (Chi 1940). Lt. Amrom lost his life serving with General MacArthur in the Phillipines. He was the first of too many who made the supreme sacrifice. There were no Conventions in 1942 or 1943; all fees paid by the chapters for convention were collected and invested in Defense Bonds. Past Supreme Masters offered to replace members of the Supreme Board of Governors should they be drafted. By late 1942, more than 400 brothers – 1/6th of Alpha Epsilon Pi’s entire membership – were on active duty in the armed forces. By 1943, that number swelled to as many as 600 brothers, rapidly approaching half of Alpha Epsilon Pi’s entire membership. By the time the war was winding down, more than 2,000 members of Alpha Epsilon Pi were still in the armed services. By the end of World War II, 67 Alpha Epsilon Pi brothers had made the supreme sacrifice. The Supreme Board of Governors also moved to confer brotherhood posthumously on every pledge who lost his life in service. With pearls in short supply following the war, the badge of AEPi was produced without the 33 pearl inserts. Only about 40 of these badges were produced, one of which is housed in the museum showcase of our Headquarters. 1950 saw yet another conflict with the Korean War. Just a few months into the conflict, 600 brothers were already in the service. On October 16, 1954, Alpha
13 Opposite: Supreme Master Elan S. Carr, California-Berkeley 1990, awaits transport at US Military Airstrip in Baghdad Airport.
Above: After World War II, the short supply of pearls prevented their use in member badges. About forty of these plain badges were produced in the interim.
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Supreme Master Elan Carr lights a menorah to celebrate Hannukah in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein.
Amidst a major war, The Quarterly took on an important role of communication. Stories centered on supporting those fighting and ads regularly promoted the purchase of war bonds. The publication was mailed to brothers fighting overseas.
Jews in Green Jews in Green is a website that seeks to provide resources, connections, and support to Jews who have served, are currently serving, or considering serving in any branch of the armed forces. The site was created in 2004 by Capt. Jason Rubin, Virginia Tech 2003, when he realized that such a helpful resource did not yet exist when he entered military service. With articles filling the archives back to 2004, the site regularly explores topics at the niche intersection of Jews serving in the armed forces. Those considering serving can read first-hand accounts of those who have gone through the process before them to understand the extent to which their religious practices might be compromised while in training camp. Current service members can find information on how to order kosher meals while out on a field operation. General interest pieces also fill the pages of the site, exploring various exhibits that are of interest such as the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s profile of Arthur Welsh, the first American Jewish Aviator.
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Epsilon Pi held an overseas convention in Seoul, Korea, in the Kim Room of the Continental Restaurant. As you might imagine, this skims the surface of Alpha Epsilon Pi’s dedication to our war veterans and those serving in an active duty or ROTC status. For those of you fortunate enough to attend the 99th Convention in Phoenix this summer, the Year of the Veteran kicked off with a moving Shabbat dinner honoring Jewish War Veterans. Shabbat is, in part, a time for reflection. For one night, we reflected on those who came before us in service, those who have given their lives in service, those whose bodies and minds have been reshaped by war, and those who are still prisoners of war or missing in action. Led by a color guard comprised of five Jewish veterans from Jewish War Veterans Post 619 and uniformed IDF soldier, we reflected on the sacrifices of all those who have served or are actively serving in any armed force so that we can remain safe and free here at home. The effort shows no particular favor to the United States alone. In fact, a New York Times Article from August 2012 titled “Enlisting From Afar for the Love of Israel” followed the story of Josh Warhit, Rochester 2012, as he made his way from the United States to enlist as a lone soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. Warhit is just one of many brothers serving in the IDF, not including the scores of brothers from our Israeli chapters who have served or are serving. With a strong presence in five countries, Alpha Epsilon Pi is in a unique position to have members distributed across numerous armed services. The next step in this year-long effort is the formation of Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Armed Forces Committee, the first of its kind in our fraternity in more than 70 years. This committee is comprised of brothers in every branch of the United States military and from the Israel Defense Forces. We are also pleased to be partnering with Jews in Green, an organization started by our very own Capt. Jason Rubin, Virginia Tech 2003, United States Marine, and past founding Master at Sigma Alpha. Jews in Green is a website that serves as a connection for Jews serving in our armed forces to access resources, share experiences, and receive support from others in similar positions when needed. We hope that our relationship with Jews in Green will be the first of many new partnerships to come as we explore the endless possibilities that the Year of the Veteran initiative promises. Such partnerships will allow the fraternity to continue supporting our serving brothers well beyond their college years – and wherever their military careers might take them – so that Alpha Epsilon Pi can continue to be a Commitment for a Lifetime. ✦ aepi.org
15 Active Duty? Reserve? Veteran? ROTC? Let us know! Candidly, Alpha Epsilon Pi’s institutional knowledge of our brothers’ military service is lacking. One of the objectives of the Armed Forces Committee is to identify those brothers who have served or are serving in the military, including those in Reserve or ROTC. Over the course of the next year, we will be collecting data and cataloging information so that we may properly honor our veteran and active duty military brothers. This is where you come in. If you are a veteran, serving in your country’s military, or in ROTC, you are a legacy of a brother who served in the military, or you know of anyone who fits into one of these categories but the brother has passed away, please send the following information to: veterans@aepi.org: Full name Current address and phone number Chapter and year of graduation (if applicable) Country of Service (ie. United States, Israel, Canada, Great Britain, etc.) Branch of the military Date of Entry on Duty Date of Discharge (if known) Rank Unit Designation Decorations or Medals
Top: SG Jeff Jacobson, Northern Arizona 1992; Capt. Jason Rubin, Virginia Tech 2003; 1st Lt. Jordan A. Blashek, Princeton 2009; and SM Elan Carr, California - Berkeley 1990. Above: Carr preparing to embark on a Blackhawk for an anti-terrorism mission. Left: Carr on the roof of Baghdad’s famous Al-Rashid Hotel.
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Please stay on the lookout for articles highlighting our veterans, as well as exciting new initiatives that will celebrate the commitment and passion of our brothers in military service, past and present. If you have thoughts or ideas on this initiative, please avail yourself of the email address as well. Finally, we welcome any photographs or videos that you might have and are willing to share. In the minds of many of us who revere the ethos of service and the willingness to make the supreme sacrifice in defense of our freedom, author Marc Brown put it best when he said, “sometimes being a brother is better than being a superhero.” Truer words have never been said; and in the months and years to come, Alpha Epsilon Pi will strive to identify and honor those amongst us whom embody both. Fall 2012
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Israel Amplified President of Christians United for Israel at Nevada-Reno, Lucy Hunt, shares her experience.
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Each summer, with support from the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, AEPi hosts Israel Amplified together with The David Project, Alpha Epsilon Phi Foundation, Jewish National Fund, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Israel on Campus Coalition, and Hasbara Fellowships. The program is designed to engage today’s fraternity and sorority leaders to be advocates for Israel on their respective campuses. From nearly 100 participants this year, Lucy Hunt caught our attention. She’s a senior journalism student at University of Nevada, Reno, a proud member of Sigma Kappa Sorority, a devout Christian, and a wholehearted supporter of the State of Israel. We wanted to learn more about her unique story, so we took the time to interview her. aepi.org
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Interview by Michael Mizrahi, Connecticut 2012
Tell us about your Sorority experience.
I went to a community college my freshman year. I was only planning on being there for a year and finishing at Michigan, but I decided to go through recruitment and I really fell in love with Sigma Kappa. Like many others, at first I had no idea what Greek Life was about – I thought it was just a bunch of girls that got ready for parties together. It turned out that I learned so much about community service, leadership, networking, and unity within the Greek community and extending that to everyone on campus. So much of what I do everyday turns out to be for Sigma Kappa, for committees, in positions, and for philanthropy events. It’s become a part of who I am. You mentioned that you’re a member of an organization called Christians United for Israel. Many haven’t heard about that. Can you tell us more about it?
Yeah. There are a lot of Christians United for Israel [CUFI] clubs all over the Country and I’m actually a co-founder of the club on our campus with another guy who’s really great. We both got started with Pro-Israel work at the same time when we got scholarships to go to DC for the Washington Summit for Christians United. We learned about the organization, met with our representatives, and we went home with support from coordinators who were able to help us start the club on our campus. It took some work in finding an advisor, adopting the constitution and by-laws, and understanding the structure. Once we got approved last December, we held a couple of events – some movies, mostly educational things. We found right away that it’s hard to get aepi.org
students involved. Our big push this semester is to incorporate the greater community. We just participated in our first organizations and club fair. We now have this huge mailing list of people who want to be involved in our next events. It’s exciting. What kind of things are you doing?
We want to hold events, because it’s the best way to increase awareness and educate. I think that different campuses deal with different issues and different views. With our campus, as far as Israel advocacy, Middle Eastern affairs, the Jewish community, and antiSemitism goes, it’s just apathy. People don’t really know, people don’t really care. So, our goal for now is just to increase awareness — this is Israel. We’re doing a “What Israel Brought the World” event. We’re renting a room and having all these setups of displays of things you knowthe cellphone obviously - and having different foods, and really just having fun, light stuff at first. We’ve also invited Sergeant Benjamin Anthony, an IDF solider, to bring that different perspective. He’s great and spoken at similar events before. Last semester we did things like showing the movie Iranium, and having political discussions, and it got a little bit heavy. To be effective, we really have to balance that. Have some more fun, educational, awareness things, followed by some more serious discussion and open forum for those who want it. I think when you find opposition, you know you’re doing something effective, or you’re doing something important. So we are already starting to get a little bit of that, and I think that it’s interesting
to me. We want to accept views, but we also stand behind what we believe and help teach that. We’re trying to get more involved with other organizations, too. We’re really close right now with Hillel and AEPi on our campus, and we co-sponsor events all the time. That’s really important for us. And, you know, we are like the people who go and support AEPi’s philanthropies and want to really make sure that they do well as well, because that is part of our mission – to really make a difference. We try and do that whenever we can. Tell us what Israel Amplified is about.
It brought a bunch of different Greeks together from different background and really unified us in our approach to advocacy. Talking about our personal narratives and breaking in to our regional groups to discuss anything about what makes Israel special. I’ve never been to Israel, but I’m applying to go soon. It was wonderful to hear everyone talk about their favorite memories and you know, the hardships that they face, and things that happens on their campus, and opposition and support, and really understanding different views and then putting it all in to one story. And then adding the “meat and potatoes” to what you want to say. It wasn’t so much talking about myths and truths, problems in the Middle East, or political issues. And then, how to get resources! That was probably my favorite part. There were so many people there willing to help. They want you to call them when you get home. They want to support you. It’s great that I know I can get help from all these different organizations. CUFI is great in that we have materials and all of that. But
Israel Amplified is a program that began in 2003 through the generous support of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. This conference brings together fraternity and sorority leaders from across the community to discuss Israel advocacy and engagement, and develop action plans to bring those initiatives back to their campuses. This year’s program hosted nearly 100 participants from 48 campuses, representing 24 different fraternities and sororities.
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“I think when you find opposition, you know you’re doing something effective, or you’re doing something important.” That was really great and I liked that a lot. It was a really personal and very different experience for me because I am a Christian female. Especially when large numbers of AEPi’s arrived for the International Convention and everyone was there. I noticed it for a few minutes, and The Lion
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then it faded away. It was so great to me that I could come home and say that this whole group was so accepting of who I was and what I stood for. They taught me so much just from small conversations. As a Christian, there is nothing that should cause opposition to supporting Israel, but that’s not something that we usually come across. How does it feel? Do you get questioned often? What is your connection to Israel?
That question comes across not just in the Christian community, but also in the Jewish community. I think there’s been such a stigma of trying to convert and everything. At the start of Israel Amplified everyone was thinking “WHAT is this Christian girl doing here trying to support Israel? This is weird.” But then, when you talk about how Christianity would be nothing without the Jewish foundation it all starts to make sense. When I talk to Christians a lot of them don’t understand. There’s so many times throughout history, when talking about replacement theory, that Christian leaders might misinterpret things or teach things wrong. Over time, it’s gotten less and less clear. I think a lot of blame can come on the Christian community for oppression that’s happened. When I talk to other Christians, most of them understand. I have to explain sometimes – depending on their political stance – about the reasons we should support Israel. We obviously know there are biblical mandates; it’s very obvious that we should be supporting Israel in the bible. As a political mandate, though, it’s as important as having perhaps our only beacon of democracy, stability, and strength in the Middle East. We need to align ourselves with Israel and the United States. It’s important to support for multiple reasons. Depending on whom I’m speaking to, that’s where I start
from. I get a question a lot, “Well Why? Why do you support Israel?” Israel Amplified helped me answer that with more of a personal narrative. Talking from the heart about what it means to me, and being honest that I didn’t know that much at first. I was apathetic. But once I learned about affairs going on, about the Jewish community, and the antisemitism still seen on campus, I couldn’t not do anything about it. When you tell that story, people start to understand the motives and importance. How did you find out about Israel Amplified?
A friend of mine from CUFI got a message from the president of the AEPi Chapter at UNR and passed the invitation on. So that’s how those relationships and networking works – being close with other organizations on out campus. We had just gotten back from our CUFI Washington Summit when I found out about it. I applied two days later, got accepted, and was leaving in three days. It was really rapid – OK, I’m doing this. I didn’t really think about it; I just kind of jumped in. Can you tell us more about that? Was there a barrier you had to break that was difficult, or did it just make sense that you support Israel and would attend a program like that?
It did just make sense. It wasn’t “put on a broadcast that this girl isn’t Jewish”. I felt like every conversation I had began with “I’m not Jewish, but…” and no one was awkward about it. It wasn’t involved in all my conversations. After the first couple of “Hey I’m not Jewish but I’m here”, it became about getting to know each other. I didn’t think that anything was hard. I thought it was this great experience to learn so much about the culture as well. Everyone sitting around talking about Israel and their memories, like I said. It really made me want to go so much more. There is another student from CUFI who was at Israel Amplified as well. He has been to Israel, and he can roll aepi.org
19 with it a little bit more. I met people who want to help me figure out how I’m going to find a way to get to Israel. It was all a blessing. That’s great. So you’re looking in to Israel trips?
Yeah, there are a bunch of programs. One is called Eagle’s Wings and I have a friend who’s going on that right now. She’s been a few times and keeps going back. AIPAC has some programs as well. I haven’t really been involved in AIPAC though. Right now I’m applying for the JNF Caravan for Democracy in January and that seems really fitting. It’s silly, but on Instagram there was this program that Stand With Us held called Once in a Lifetime HD. They contracted ten Instagramers who had a lot of followers and took them on this trip to Israel to bring pictures back to the world to see it that way, instead of through the news or negative media. People talk about it and it’s so great, but they need to see visuals. It’s a 14-day trip and just recently ended. Kind of sad, because I’m used to seeing so many pictures of Israel on Instagram. These people who went were amazed by it. I’m so excited to know that I’ll get there some day soon. You’re going to love it. It’s really a special country with a lot to offer You mentioned apathy earlier as being the difficult part of your work. It’s obviously hard to motivate students, but what have you done to combat that? Why don’t people care more?
I think that Nevada itself isn’t very involved. I can never really figure out why there’s so much apathy. If people aren’t raised around people who teach them, people who talk about Israel, or people who pay attention to the news, then I’m sure it doesn’t ever come up in their day to day life. So, for a lot of people it’s part of who they are to know about Israel. A lot Christians in the church are taught forever about Israel, starting at Sunday school and getting more intense in bible studies aepi.org
later on. If you’re Jewish, it’s a part of you. It’s your culture and it means so much. I think the core problem we’re seeing is that people are uninformed. The problem that we’re trying to combat is that sometimes teachers on campus have views that can often be incorrect or biased, and I think that I’d like to be able to present both sides before people form an opinion. It’s a lot easier to have both sides and then
campuses, I can be. I was reading in the Israel Campus Beat about how UC was calling the situation with the apartheid walls hate-speech. I thought that’s going to be an interesting dynamic if something like that were to happen at our campus. I think it’s cool to see stuff actually happening. On our campus, it’s not necessarily all apathy. A lot of times, once you present the issue
“I get a question a lot, ‘Why do you support Israel?’ Israel Amplified helped me answer that with more of a personal narrative ... once I learned about affairs going on, about the Jewish community, and the antisemitism still seen on campus, I couldn’t not do anything about it.” choose one of them instead of being taught one and then being told “No no no, this is actually what it is.” I think we need to get there now and teach students before they’ve been swayed to one side. How did you get involved with all this?
This is silly. I was supposed to spend a summer in Maine with my boyfriend’s family, but then we broke up. I needed something to do and my dad was filling in for my pastor at this luncheon. It ended up being a Christians United for Israel Pastors Luncheon and he came back to me and said “I don’t know if you’d be interested in this thing in DC. Check it out.” I looked at it, saw the free trip to DC to learn about something that is of interest to me but that I don’t know much about. So, let’s check it out.”
I went, and it blew my mind. It was amazing. This was the summer of 2011, so it’s not that long ago when I got started with all this. In the past year, it’s become such a mission for me. Now, all these doors are opening up, and it’s just unbelievable. I feel badly that I wasn’t more involved, but thrilled that now, especially on university
and discuss it, it opens people’s eyes and makes them aware of it. They realize they should probably have an opinion, take a side, do something. Maybe they’ll Google it and take something from it, which is better than nothing, at least. Instead of them taking the word of their world religion teacher that Zionism is racism, they can take more of an informed approach and decide for themselves. There’s definitely a strong connection between Fraternity and Sorority and advocacy. What do you think about that?
I think that because the Greeks are so networked and philanthropic, and because they understand leadership, it naturally flows in to advocacy. People who are in Greek organizations get behind things faster than those who aren’t. You see that a majority of people who are vocal and involved on campus are also Greek. Everyone knows someone who’s involved with something and they’ll stand behind it. I think Greek Life and advocacy go together really well. ✦
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THANK YOU
to our generous Alumni and Friends of AEPi, for your your investment in the future Jewish leaders of the world, and ensuring that Alpha Epsilon Pi continues its work as the International Jewish Fraternity.
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Letter from the Chairman & President Dear Brothers and Friends,
Over the past year, The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation has made significant progress. Thanks in large measure to your support, our fiscal year which ended May 31st proved to be the best annual campaign in the Foundation’s history. This year we have hired a full-time professional staff, launched the 1913 Society Undergraduate Brother Initiative, and provided $401,251.84 in individual scholarships and grants. We are very pleased with these results, and yet we know that we are only at the beginning of our Foundation’s road to success. As we approach Alpha Epsilon Pi’s 100th year, our fundraising goals are higher, our outreach to Alumni Brothers and Friends of AEPi will be increased, and our partnership with you will be more important than ever before. As you review this year’s annual Foundation Report, we hope you will share in the pride in these successes and the impact our Foundation is having on young college students—the future leaders of tomorrow. Below are just a few key highlights from this past fiscal year:
Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation Board of Directors Marc P. Katz, Pittsburgh 1976, President A. Edward Scherer, WPI 1963, Chairman Gary Anderson, Kentucky 1972 Andrew Borans, Florida State 1980 Joseph M. Brodecki, Virginia Commonwealth 1970 Ira Brody, Ohio 1984
$ 546,674
Andrew Fradkin, Vanderbilt 1978
Total dollars raised during the 2011-12 annual campaign. An increase of 131.7% from the previous year.
Michael Morris, Vanderbilt 1985
Josh S. Gottheimer, Pennsylvania 1997 Howard M. Lorber, C.W. Post 1970 David Nigliazzo, Florida 2007 Jonathan M. Pierce, Vanderbilt 1986
1,611
94
673
Total individual donors, up from 886 supporters last year.
Gifts of $1,000 and above.
Supporters who made their first-ever donation to the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation.
2,755
$ 401,251 Total Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation scholarships and grants awarded.
Undergraduate Brothers who attended leadership training at this year’s Regional Leadership Conclaves and International Convention.
These are indeed some significant achievements to celebrate. As we approach our Fraternity’s Centennial Celebration and look at what we would like to achieve during the next twelve months, consider your involvement in Alpha Epsilon Pi. How can we pay forward that which we received during our years as undergraduates? How can we help ensure that Alpha Epsilon Pi continues to have the positive impact on thousands of young men throughout our 168 chapters and colonies in five countries? What kind of legacy do we want to create? The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation needs your help in supporting the vision and mission of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Now, more than ever, we have the opportunity to serve the next generation of leaders for the Jewish community. Your help can make it a reality. May you and your loved ones have a year filled with peace, health, happiness and good fortune. Shana tova.
Barry A. Schwartz, Cincinnati 1974 Richard H. Stein, Illinois 1974
Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation Headquarter’s Staff Jay S. Feldman, Central Florida 2003 Managing Director jfeldman@aepi.org Lander C. Gold, Florida 2007 Director of Development lgold@aepi.org Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, Inc. 800-223-AEPi foundation@aepi.org
Fraternally,
Marc P. Katz
A. Edward Scherer
President Chairman Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation Centennial Founder Centennial Founder aepi.org
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Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation: Dollars at Work 2011-12
Leadership, Education & Scholarships AEPi strives to provide our members with the most innovative and best-in-class leadership development and educational opportunities available.
AEPi’s Annual International Convention brings together over 550 undergraduates Brothers from North America, Israel and Europe each summer for four days of educational workshops and leadership seminars.
Seven Regional Leadership Conclave Retreats gather more than 2,000 undergraduate Brothers from every chapter for a three-day weekend retreat
six full-time traveling Educational Leadership Consultants visit AEPi chapters to assist with program development, recruitment, and chapter operations.
The Civic Engagement Initiative educates thousands of young Jewish adults on the importance of being civically involved citizens and leaders on both their campus and the greater community.
At Master Retreats, Presidents learn to become more effective leaders, develop a peer network, and design a strategic plan for their chapter’s success.
Registration and travel subsidies are provided to AEPi Brothers who are accepted to attend the North American Interfraternity Conference’s (NIC) Futures Quest and Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute (UIFI) programs.
Need-based and merit-based Academic Scholarships are awarded to Brothers for undergraduate and graduate study programs.
Chapters receive educational grants to host Risk Management seminars, which serve to educate all AEPi Brothers about safe living and healthy lifestyle while attending college.
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23 Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Israel Education & Israel Advocacy As the only organization in the fraternity world dedicated to Jewish identity and Israel education, AEPi is positioned to reach students on university and college campuses in ways unlike any other campus-based organization.
Israel Amplified is a program that began in 2003 through support from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. This conference brings together fraternity and sorority leaders from across the community to discuss Israel advocacy and engagement, and develop action plans to bring those initiatives back to their campuses. This year’s program hosted nearly 100 participants from 48 campuses, representing 24 different fraternities and sororities.
Hineni: Jewish Identity Enrichment Conference is designed to provide our undergraduate Brothers with the tools and information they need to develop a stronger Jewish Identity within themselves, their chapter, and their campus community. Launched in the summer of 2010, Hineni is Alpha Epsilon Pi’s flagship Jewish Identity Enrichment Conference.
Shabbat Across AEPi is an initiative that honors the fraternity’s establishment by celebrating Shabbat together with chapter Brothers on AEPi Founder’s Day each year.
Israel Education & Advocacy Training scholarships are awarded to individual Brothers to attend Israel advocacy training conferences and educational programs in Israel.
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Two full-time Directors of Jewish and Philanthropy Programming are exclusively dedicated to working with each camper’s Jewish Identity and Philanthropy Chairmen to ensure meaningful programming within all AEPi Chapters.
AEPi Chapters are provided with Jewish Identity Micro-Grants to host Jewish holiday programs such as Shabbat dinners, Hanukkah celebrations, and Passover Seders.
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Annual Campaign & Donor Recognition Alumni Accolades
Top 10 Chapters by Total Number of Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation Donors 1. Florida.............................................. 55 Illinois...............................................55 3. New York................................................. 51 Pennsylvania.......................................... 51
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The purpose of the Annual Campaign of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation is to provide the financial resources that make the Fraternity’s leadership development training, Jewish identity and philanthropy initiatives, educational programs, and important alumni outreach activities possible. Over the past year, the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation has received record-breaking support from alumni and undergraduate Brothers, Friends of AEPi, and parents.
5. Missouri................................................... 46
1,611 Donors
6. Georgia Tech........................................... 41 7. Texas – Austin......................................... 40 8. Florida Atlantic....................................... 38
$546,674
9. Ohio State............................................... 35 SUNY – Binghamton ............................ 35
Donors $59,327
Restricted General Fund
Top 10 Chapters by Total Number of Financial Contributions to Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation 1. Michigan State...................... $42,608
886 Donors
2. CW Post............................................25,550 3. Illinois............................................... 22,203 4. Texas – Austin..................................17,498 5. California – Los Angeles................12,811 6. Pennsylvania.....................................11,141
727 Donors $235,945
7. Florida...............................................11,059
$487,347
8. Ohio....................................................9,788 9. Vanderbilt..........................................8,828 10. Indiana.............................................. 7,937
$191,116 $110,463
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The 2013 Committee In honor of AEPi’s historic Centennial Celebration, August 8-11, 2013, Alumni and Friends of AEPi can join The 2013 Committee with a commitment of $2,013 to the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation (gifts can be paid out on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis through December 2013). The funds raised through the support of The 2013 Committee allow the Fraternity to continue offering best-in-class leadership development opportunities; provide academics scholarships, Jewish programming grants and subsidies to Israel education conferences to our undergraduate Brothers and chapters; and sponsor its annual Convention and Regional Conclaves, where leadership, fraternalism and Brotherhood are instilled as cornerstones of educational and personal development in Alpha Epsilon Pi. As a “Thank You,” members of The 2013 Committee will receive a specially commissioned, limited edition AEPi Centennial Artwork Lithograph by famed Judaica artist Mordechai Rosenstein to hang in your home or office, and be recognized throughout the Centennial Celebration and in the Centennial Edition of The Lion magazine. Rob Ackermann, California–Berkley 1987 Gary Anderson, Kentucky 1972 Jacob Baime, Brandeis University 2008 Kevin Belinkoff, California–Berkley 1986 Jeff Berkowitz, American 2001 Harold Berman, Texas–Austin 1946 David Bernstein, Vanderbilt 1986 Perry Blastein, American 2010 Marc Blumberg, Drexel 2004 Marty Bock, Maryland 2009 Andy Borans, Florida State 1980 Daniel Brick, Missouri 2012 Ira Brody, Ohio 1984 Gil Bubis, Vanderbilt 1977 Barry Burak, Florida 1971 Mark Carmer, Southern California 1992 Elan Carr, California–Berkley 1990 Howard Cohen, Tulane 1963 Philip H. Cohen, New York 1957 Tobias Cohen, Brown 2009 Scott Cohon, Michigan State 1991 Daniel Debow, Western Ontario 1995 Rob Derdiger, University of Colorado 2007 Paul Detwiller, Lehigh University 1980 Keith Dvorchik, Penn State 1989 Eric Farbman, Northwestern 2006 Jay S. Feldman, Central Florida 2002 Jim Fleischer, Kent State 1993 Jason Friedlander, Arizona State 1998 Michael S. Friedman, Yale 1999 Alan Galumbeck, Old Dominion 1968 Dave Gilbert, Ohio State 1985 Seth Gillston, Temple 1996 Sam Glassenberg, Illinois 2002 Tom Glassman, Cincinatti 1988 Barry Gletiman, Ohio 1989 Matt Glick, New York 2010 Neil Glick, Southern California 1992 Robert Glickman, California–Berkely 2008
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Lander Gold, Florida 2007 Parker Gold, Florida 1999 Robert Goldstein, Miami of Ohio 1969 Matt Gordon, Florida Atlantic 1996 Matt Greenberg, Ohio 2000 Dani Greenspan, George Washington 2004 Lawrence Grossbard, Northeastern 1986 Daniel Grossman (Greek Housing Alliance) Yu Gu, SUNY-Stony Brook 2004 Ivan Halperin, Southern California 1968 Murray Helfer, Wayne State 1962 Marc Himmelstein, Tennessee 1969 Ben Hochman, California–San Diego 2004 Steve Horn, Ohio 1984 Jeff Jacobson, Northern Arizona 1992 Elliott H. Kajan, Ohio State 1960 Micah Kamrass, Ohio State 11 Normal Kaplan, Texas–Austin 1950 Steven Kaplan, Illinois 2007 Steven Kasoff, Yale 1993 Marc Katz, Pittsburgh 1974 Stanley Kershman, Carleton 2011 Zev Kershman, Carleton 2014 Jeff Kleid, California–Irvine 1992 Scott Knapp, Florida State 2002 Stanton Koppel, Pennsylvania 1968 Donald Kraft, Purdue 1965 Gordon Kroft, Manitoba 1992 Paul Kurtz, Vanderbilt 1968 Jason Laeser, Miami (Fla.) 1995 Mark Lainer, California–Los Angeles 1960 Larry Leider, York 1991 Leonard Lewkowict, Western Ontario 1986 Shawn Lichdd, California, San Diego 2001 Barry Magen, Temple Don Marks, California–Santa Barbara 1990 Scott Miller, Southern California 1972 Hyman Mizrachi, Nevada–Las Vegas 2003 Morris Family Foundation
Andrew Neiberg, Florida State 2007 David Ogman, Florida 1998 Sam Orelove, Charleston 2011 Jason Oshins, Union College 1987 Michael Oxman, Northwestern 2006 Jon Pierce, Vanderbilt 1986 Jeff Reinstein, Cal. State–Fullerton 2011 Michael Roitman, Nevada–Las Vegas 2009 Joe Rosner, Yale 1996 Glenn Roter, Illinois 1974 Adam Runsdorf, Rutgers University 1988 Edward Scherer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1963 Mark Schiff, Illinois 1974 Barry Schwartz, Cincinnati 1978 Robert H. Schwartz, George Washington 1988 Milton Sender, Pennsylvania 1965 Daniel Singer, North Carolina 2005 Jon Slass, Vanderbilt 1989 Harry Smith, Miami (Fla.) 1950 Ian Sobel, Northwestern 2010 Lee Solomon, Chicago 2008 Immanuel Spira, Duke 1985 Jordan Stein, Arizona 2008 Richard Stein, Illinois 1974 Stanley Strauss, Pennsylvania 1955 Ronald Tarrson, Illinois 1960 Adam Teitelbaum, California–San Diego 2010 Roger Terrone, Florida 1979 Michael Waitz, DePaul 2009 George Weisz, Arizona 1973 Michael Wexler, McMaster 2009 Roger Wolf, Illinois 1974 Ian Young, Ohio State 2008 Jason Zaler, Northeastern 2008 Barry Alan Zamore, George Washington 1991
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1913 SOCIETY Top 10 Chapters by Total 1913 Society Members 1. Florida Atlantic .............................. 35 2. SUNY- Binghamton...............................34 3. DePaul ....................................................24 Pennsylvania..........................................24 5. Drexel......................................................20 6. Minnesota..............................................18 7. Arizona State ........................................16 8. South Florida .........................................15 9. Illinois .....................................................12 10. N evada, Reno........................................10 Virginia Tech .........................................10
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What is the 1913 Society?
The 1913 Society is the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation’s annual giving club specifically for undergraduate Brothers, and is designed to raise awareness of the mission, goals, and activity of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation. The purpose of this annual giving club is to instill within each undergraduate Brother a lifelong commitment of support and dedication to Alpha Epsilon Pi. Participating in the 1913 Society each year is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate Brothers to do their part in ensuring Alpha Epsilon Pi for future generations. Over the past three years, the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation has provided over $750,000 in support for undergraduate Brothers and chapters.
by law, which helps keep chapter dues low. The money raised through the 1913 Society and other Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation initiatives go directly to individual Brothers and chapters through scholarships and programming grants. The Fraternity’s ability to provide high-quality educational, leadership and Jewish identity programs, and support to all AEPi chapters is directly related to the financial capacity of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation. Conversely, the Foundation’s “case for support” used in raising funds annually, is directly related to the success and achievements of the Fraternity’s undergraduate chapters (GPA results, risk management, recruitment results, community service, etc.)
But undergraduates already pay chapter dues, doesn’t that cover everything?
How do undergraduates join the 1913 Society?
Chapter dues that are paid to the Fraternity are primarily used for non-educational expenses (risk management, member insurance, recruitment resources/support, staff support, Ritual resources, The Lion magazine, General Fraternity governance, Administrative Office grounds, etc.). The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation’s goal every year is to subsidize as much of the Fraternity’s educational, leadership and Jewish identity programming allowable Arizona State Darien Azani Daniel Barash Scott Campbell Omer David Erik Demar Sam Halem Nick Keeslar Aryeh Lightman Steven Parkens Jeffrey Platt Ryan Schindler Anthony Schmerling Alexander Simone Gage Singer Adam Train Adrian Vatkin Bentley Aaron Perlman Zachary Simon
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Cal. State, Northridge Joshua Blank Brandon Kaufman Adam Mendelson Todd Rosenblatt Tyler Schwartz Will Schwartz Adam Shamam Nick Van Stryk Cal. StatePoly, SLO Joshua Isaacs Andrew Max Carleton Zev Kershman Carnegie Mellon Brian Alderman
Charleston Aaron Jacobson Samuel Orelove Joshua Schooler Col. of New Jersey Elliot Crane Ari Goldwaser Jacob Levene Evan Levy Joshua Luger Adam Mahonchack Mark Staroselsky Kevin Whitman Brit Zaro Cornell Daniel Chazen, Michael Cline Matthew Lerner Eric Scheiner Jeffrey Sussman
Any undergraduate who donates $19.13 or more to the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation is a member of the 1913 Society for that fiscal year. The 1913 Society is an annual giving club, and undergraduate Brothers are invited to join each year while in college. Joining the 1913 Society is easy! Contributions can be made online with a credit card at aepi.org/1913, or by sending a check to: The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, 8815 Wesleyan Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268.
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Drexel Jonathan Abramson Kenneth Averbukh Andrew Blinn Evan Cohen Zachary Cohen Ben Felser Jeremy Fransman Josh Glass Jared Hurwich Oren Kanel Aaron Katz Mark Koh Elliot Moroz Ben Olen Julian Salkind Raeli Savitt Ian Shinbrot Nathan Strich Yeshayahu Wasserman Scott Weiss Duke David Spiro
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Purdue Joshua Dennison
Towson Zach Ament Daniel Rodgers Harris Rothbard Matthew Scher
Queens Jacob Hirth Joshua Weisblum
Tufts Brett Andler Thomas Cooper
Queens (CANADA) Lee Brymer Leo Evlikhman Josh Levitan Josh Levitan Niv Yahel
Arizona Jonathan Haber
Rochester Inst. of Tech. Brett Arnold
Cal., Berkeley Roy Hadar
Penn State Jordan Schefkind
San Diego State Jesse Kent Jesse Kent Evan Leib San Francisco State Jonathan Liberman San Jose State Leonard Druker Matthew Fineman Adi Hod Eric Medeiros
British Columbia Ben Edelstein Evan Grunberger Michael Levin
Cal., Davis David Neben David Rosove Max Rothman Cal., Irvine Kevin Hekmat Cal., San Diego Brad Segal Cal., Santa Cruz Adel Al-Hindi Aaron Arkin David Burns
Samuel Frank Dylan Masella Michael Shayefar Central Florida Blake Bernstein Jonathan Cannon Samuel Levine David Moskovitz Eric Schreiber Alex Sheckman Sam Whitman Cincinnati Ian Birnbaum Alex Geller Stephen Lamb Brett Musick Kevin Nathan Kevin Sacks Jason Shafer Michael Wagner Alec Zucker Colorado Maxwell Gulliver Steven Kreimendahl Zachary Levin Ian Solow-Niederman Connecticut Michael Lesce Delaware Jeffrey Eller Jamie Futterman Evan Mann Florida Brian Coven Russell Goldin Laser Kaplan Brandon Perdeck Guelph Nathan Amar Aaron Cincinatus Robbie Gelman Daniel Goldberg Josh Greenberg Stephen Temple Hartford Doug Bearak Eric Maurer Benjamin Patterson Illinois Jacob Cahnman Zach Fertig Zach Fertig Josh Gibbs David Goldman Nathan Handler Kenneth Hebeisen Jack Horwitch Seth Pawlow Ty Sampson Brett Wallace Joshua Wolken Iowa Zachary Homer Jordan Horowitz John Richards Jeff Steinback Kansas Alan Cohn Adam Dechtman Zach Finkelstein Ben Juster Alfie Kass Kevin Kitsis Jordan Pollack Kyle Raisher Eric Sherman
Maryland Benjamin Leslie Jared Levine Matt White Maryland, Baltimore Timothy Engers Minnesota Sam Brusen Shai Chazin Jared Cohen Martin Davis Seth Franklin Daniel Goodman Daniel Levine Louis Livon-Bemel Justin Mednick Jordan Mendkoff Matthew Minowitz Asher Parr-Besemer Shalom Raymond Erez Rosenberg Joseph Shapiro Andy Stone Moshe Volovik Misha WahlstromHartmann Missouri Daniel Brick Nevada, Las Vegas Gilor Benaloul Ofir Dahan Dustin Durbin Michael Fishman Jeff Goyer Michael Israelitt Gershon Levy Joshua Nadler Nathan Sigal Nevada-Reno Zachary Alexande Zachary Brounstein Ryan Eylar Justin Major Elliot Malin Johnathan Pietz Gregg Rosenberg Dan Ruben Alexander Yates Zachary Zolowicz Oklahoma Kalman Kreitman Oregon William Bohn Cory Cullen Grant Gurewitz Cody Karlin Matthew Lerman Drew Ostrow Jason Shender Max Snell
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The Cumulative Giving Society’s include contributions to the Annual Campaign, any special campaign, or specific scholarship or chapter fund. The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation’s Centennial Founder Society’s goal is to encourage Brothers to donate a cumulative gift of $100,000 or more. The Washington Square, Blue & Gold, Rampant Lion and Patrons Societies recognize Brothers and Friends of AEPi who have reached milestone cumulative gifts to the The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation.
Centennial Founders
Blue & Gold
Cumulative Gifts of $100,000 or more
Cumulative Gifts of $20,000- $49,999
Morris Berke, Ohio Northern 1939* Phillip Cohen, New York 1957 Marc P. Katz, Pittsburgh 1976 Robert Krovitz, Rhode Island 1932 Howard M. Lorber, C. W. Post College 1970 Michael Morris, Vanderbilt 1985 Theodore Racoosin, New York 1916* A. Edward Scherer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1963 Samuel Shapiro, Illinois 1929* Richard H. Stein, Illinois 1974 MASA/ Jewish Agency for Israel The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
David Bacharach, Old Dominion College 1966* Harold Berman, Texas 1947 Herman Blum, Michigan State 1941* Abe Corenswet, Vanderbilt 1931* Michael Fishel, Ohio 1980 Andrew Fradkin, Vanderbilt 1978 David Goldwasser, Emory 1932* Sheldon Good, Illinois 1955 Max Karl, Wisconsin 1933* Jacob Karno, Tulane 1959 Marvin Kay, George Washington 1950 Barry Levin, Indiana 1970 Elton Lipnick, Texas 1955 Stanford Odesky, Toledo 1959 Sidney Port, Illinois 1933* Bernard Rapoport, Texas 1939* Mark Schiff, Illinois 1974 Charles Stuzin, Florida 1964 Ronald Tarrson, Illinois 1960 Arthur Teich, Pennsylvania 1935* Jonathan Tenzer, Vermont 1962* Walter Winshall, MIT 1964 The David Project Israel on Campus Coalition
Washington Square Cumulative Gifts of $50,000- $99,999 Ivan Halperin, Southern California 1968 Nathanial Krumbein, Georgia 1937* Jerry Reinsdorf, George Washington 1957 B’nai B’rith International Friends of Aish HaTorah Anonymous
“What I learned at Hineni truly spoke to me and
“Walking into Futures Quest, I had no idea
affirmed how relevant Judaism is in my life.
what I was about to do. Now I can say that I
Not only will I forever carry this wisdom with
have changed not only as a member of AEPi,
me, I will spread it on to my chapter.”
but as a person. I know that I will be able to
– Ryan Shindler, Arizona State
make even more impressive changes to our chapter and Greek community as a whole. So basically, thank you. You have changed my chapter for the better without even realizing it.” – Chase Zacher, Northern Illinois
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Patrons
Cumulative Gifts of $10,000-$19,999
Cumulative Gifts of $5,000-$9,999
Harvey Bazaar, Kent State 1962 Newton Becker, Kent State 1952* Stephen Bernstein, Wayne State 1969 Samuel Blustein, Memphis 1975 Andrew Borans, Florida State 1980 Bert Brodsky, New York 1964 Ira Brody, Ohio 1984 Paul Detwiler, Lehigh 1980 Sidney Dunn, Wayne State 1968 Michael Gelman, Maryland 1966 Kenneth Goldberg, Florida 1972 Donald Grossman, Pennsylvania 1959* Laurence Grossman, Vanderbilt 1938* Henry Gutterman, Florida 1958 Marc Himmelstein, Tennessee 1969 Steven Hyman, Toledo 1965 Mark Karno, Illinois 1976 James Katzman, Purdue 1968 Mark Lainer, CaliforniaLos Angeles 1960 Stewart Levitan, Florida 1970 Elton Lipnick, Texas 1955 Eric Lipper, Texas 1986 Robert Lurie, Michigan 1963* Philip Meltzer, New York 1957 Edward Merrin, Tufts Jeffery Mowery, Illinois 1977 Harry Reed, Illinois 1943* Paul Reisman, Illinois 1972 Walter Schafer, New York-Heights 1952 Jeffrey Schiller, Texas 1977 Barry Schwartz, Cincinnati 1974 Mark Shantzis, Florida 1974 S Fred Singer, Ohio State 1943 Harry Smith, Miami 1950 Faizalali Syed, Texas 1986 Emanuel Tarrson, Illinois 1936* Michael Warren, MIT 1969
Gary Anderson, Kentucky 1972 Paul Aronin, Georgia Tech 1950* Robert Ausman, Marquette 1954* Irv Axelrod, Drake 1951* William Baros, Georgia Tech 1948 Scott Bishop, Texas 1990 Lester Block, Georgia 1928* Harvey Bodker, Kansas 1957 Howard Boris, New York 1953 Perry Brickman, Emory 1953 Gilbert Bubis, Vanderbilt 1977 Barry Burak, Florida 1971 Andre Burton, Florida 1975 Elan Carr, California-Berkeley 1990 David Coben, Texas 1986 Millard Cohen, Purdue 1960* Sol Cohen, Pennsylvania 1942* Scott Daitzman, Virginia 1986 Robert Derdiger, Colorado 2007 Jeffrey Dworkin, Texas 1986 Steven Edelson, Illinois 1972 Herbert Eisenberg, Georgia Tech 1949* Marc Feldman, Texas 1990 Louis Field, Emory 1963 Steven Fishman, Missouri 1973 Joshua Frank, Georgia 1989 Marc Franklin, Pennsylvania 1959 Lawrence Gabler, Brooklyn 1965 Alan Galumbeck, Old Dominion 1968 Sam Glassenberg, Illinois 2003 Edward Gold, Wayne State 1961 Stanley Gottsegen, Ohio State 1954* Charles Hale, Tulane 1954 Michael Isaacson, Delaware 1987 Howard Jacobson, Missouri 1962 Baron Jasper, New York 1956 Maurice Jove, Emory 1976 David Kapiloff, Texas 1965
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David Kaplan, Texas 1965 John Korman, Pennsylvania 1981 Lloyd Krieger, Arizona 1969 Paul Kurtz, Vanderbilt 1968 Martin Leaf, Illinois 1947 Larry Leider, York 1991 A Levin, Brown 1964 Harry Levy, Miami 1954 Eric Lipper, Texas 1986 David Lyons, Cornell 1999 David Markin, Bradley 1953 Benjamin Miller, Virginia 1977 J. Clifford Moos, Illinois 1946 Matt Phillips, Penn State 1992 Irving Pozmantier, Texas 1951 Harry Reed, Illinois 1943* Hasbara Fellowships* Jewish National Fund* Ronald Rosenfeld, Pennsylvania 1961 Stanley Roth, New York 1957 Robert Roy, Pennsylvania 1959 Adam Runsdorf, Rutgers 1988 Alan Sager, Tufts 1962 Harry Salzman, Arizona State 1971 Leon Schwartz, Southern California 1954 Gary Shapiro, Arizona State 1971 Edward Slade, Michigan State 1966 Ronald Sonenthal, Illinois 1983 Stanley Strauss, Pennsylvania 1955 Jeffrey Talpins, Yale 1997 Roger Terrone, Florida 1979 Ronald Weisfeld, Texas 1985 Roger Wolf, Illinois 1977 Stephen Zack, Florida 1969 Stanley Zamkow, Northeastern 1971 Gerald Zlotnik, Toledo 1959*
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Annual Giving Societies Alumni Accolades
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The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation’s Annual Giving Societies recognize those Brothers and Friends of AEPi who made contributions to the Annual Campaign, any special campaign, or specific scholarship or chapter fund during Fiscal Year 2012 (June 1, 2011- May 31, 2012).
Supreme Master’s Circle
Founders’ Forum
Gifts of $25,000+
Gifts of $1,000-$2,499
Herman Blum, Michigan State 1941* Howard Lorber, C.W. Post Col. 1970 Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation
Leonard Attman, Maryland 1955 Jacob Baime, Brandeis 2008 David Bernstein, Vanderbilt 1986 Steven Blum, Florida 1987 Marty Bock, Maryland 2009 Bert Brodsky, New York 1964 Bret Caller, Tulane 1987 Steven Caller, Georgia Tech 1963 Elan Carr, Cal.-Berkeley 1990 Howard Cohen, Tulane 1963 Michael Cohen, Florida 1992 Philip Cohen, New York 1957 Scott Cohon, Wayne State 1991 Tobias Cohen, Brown 2009 Scott Daitzman, Virginia 1986 Robert Derdiger, Colorado 2007 Paul Detwiler, Lehigh 1980 Ross Evans, Cincinnati 1983 Marc Franklin, Pennsylvania 1959 Gamma Deuteron Class of 1970-1975, Texas-Austin Michael Gelman, Maryland 1966 David Gilbert, Ohio State 1985 Robert Goldstein, Miami 1969 Barry Gleitman, Ohio 1989 Robert Glickman, Cal.-Berkeley 2008 Lander Gold, Florida 2007 Parker Gold, Florida 1999 Donald Greenspan, Texas-Austin 1975 Steven Hyman, Toledo 1965 Jeffrey Jacobson, Northern Arizona 1992 Tomer Kagan, Cal.-Santa Cruz 2005 Elliott Kajan, Ohio State 1960 Jacob Karno, Tulane 1959
Blue and Gold Gifts of $10,000-$24,999 American Friends of Aish Hatorah Mark Lainer, Cal.-Los Angeles 1960 The David Project Israel on Campus Coalition Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Richard Stein, Illinois 1974
Double Chai Society Gifts of $3,600-$9,999 Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc., American 1986 Newton Becker, Kent State 1952 Michael Fishel, Ohio 1980 Hasbara Fellowships Jewish National Fund Barry Levin, Indiana 1970 Mu Deuteron Chapter, Missouri Adam Runsdorf, Rutgers 1988 A. Edward Scherer, Worcester Poly. Inst. 1963
Cofa Committee Gifts of $2,500-$3,599 Stephen Bernstein, Wayne State 1969 Scott Bishop, Texas-Austin 1990 Samuel Blustein, Memphis 1975 Andrew Borans, Florida State 1980 Ira Brody, Ohio 1984 Jeffrey Dworkin, Texas-Austin Josh Gottheimer, Pennsylvania 1997 Marc Katz, Pittsburgh 1976 Eric Lipper, Texas-Austin 1986 Michael Morris, Vanderbilt 1985 Barry Schwartz, Cincinnati 1974 Ronald Weisfeld, Texas-Austin 1985 *Deceased The Lion
Steven Kasoff, Yale 1993 Stanton Koppel, Pennsylvania 1968 Jason Laeser, Miami 1995 Daniel Mariaschin, New Hampshire 1971 Gary Michel, Delaware 1986 David Nigliazzo, Florida 2007 Michael Oxman, Northwestern 2006 Allen Paschen, Marquette 1950 Jerry Reinsdorf, George Washington 1957 Michael Roitman, Nevada-Las Vegas 2009 Anton Rosenthal, Michigan State 1970 Joseph Rosner, Yale 1996 Glen Roter, Illinois 1974 Mark Schiff, Illinois 1974 Leon Schwartz, Southern California 1954 Robert Schwartz, George Washington 1988 Milton Sender, Pennsylvania 1965 Louis Shlipak, Texas-Austin 1953 Melvin Siskind, Georgia 1950 Jonathan Slass, Vanderbilt 1989 Harry Smith, Miami 1950 Ronald Sonenthal, Illinois 1983 Jordan Stein, Arizona 2008 Stanley Strauss, Pennsylvania 1955 Faizalali Syed, Texas-Austin 1986 Ronald Tarrson, Illinois 1960 Michael Waitz, DePaul 2009 Roger Wolf, Illinois 1977 Barry Zamore, George Washington 1991
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Eye of The Lion Society Gifts of $360-$999 Gary Anderson, Kentucky 1972 Harvey Bazaar, Kent State 1962 Jeffrey Berkowitz, American 2001 Marc Blumberg, Drexel 2004 Lawrence Braun, Rutgers 1977 Joshua Broder, Connecticut 2003 Conrad De Peuter, Duke 2013 Keith Dvorchik, Penn State 1989 Eric Farbman, Northwestern 2006 Jay S. Feldman, Central Florida 2003 Andrew Fradkin, Vanderbilt 1978 Jason Friedlander, Arizona State 1998 Michael Friedman, Yale 1999 Donald Gilner, Tulane 1959 Seth Gillston, Temple 1996 Sam Glassenberg, Illinois 2002 Thomas Glassman, Cincinnati 1988 Donald Grossman, Pennsylvania 1959 Yu Gu, SUNY-Stony Brook 2004 Lowell Harwood, Kent State Lewis Kamrass, Georgia 1981 Scott Knapp, Florida State 2002 Donald Kraft, Purdue 1965 Gordon Kroft, Manitoba 1992 Paul Kurtz, Vanderbilt 1968 Phillip Landman, Cincinnati 1976 Harold Marcus, Penn State 1949 Alan Mibab, Florida 1988 Joel Muderick, Drexel 2002 Michael Novicoff, Kansas 1988 Stanford Odesky, Toledo 1959 Samuel Orelove, Col. of Charleston 2011 Jason Oshins, Union Col. 1987 Robert Roy, Pennsylvania 1959 Alan Sager, Tufts 1962 Gary Shapiro, Arizona State 1971 Immanuel Spira, Duke 1985 Edward Steinberg Adam Teitelbaum, Cal.-San Diego 2010 Roger Terrone, Florida 1979 Matthew Waas, Florida 2005 Robert Weinman, Toledo 1952 Michael Weiss, Tennessee 1972 Asher Yanich, Florida International 2002 Barry Zamore, George Washington 1991 Anonymous
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Builder’s Gifts of $1-$359 Akron Edward Lasoff, 1966 Joseph Salzman, 1960 Marvin Shapiro, 1960 Alabama Ivan Berke, 1965 Jack Fein, 1951* Harold Goldstein, 1953 Stuart Hennes, 1957 Harold Isaacs, 1958 Walter Kaner, 1962 Joseph Ritter, 1950 American Laurence Bloom,1987 Bruce Feinerman,1978 Mark Goldhaber,1974 Steven Rosenbaum,1973 Neil Young,1978 Arizona Steven Brickman, 1985 Jordan Dechtman, 1984 Seth Dunn, 1989 Peter Edelstein, 1972 Jay Goldsmith, 1974 Jonathan Haber, 2014 Lloyd Krieger, 1969 Michael Leffler, 2004 Steven Shore, 1985 Steven Skutch, 1974 George Weisz, 1973 Arizona State Darien Azani, 2015 Daniel Barash, 2015 Alvin Bender, 1963 Scott s, 2015 Eric Caplan, 2000 David Daniels, 1998 Omer David, 2015 Erik Demar, 2015 Adam Gottfried, 2008 Sam Halem, 2015 Jerome Harris, 1960 Nick Keeslar, 2015 Robert Kravitz, 1969 Burton Kruglick, 1947 Aryeh Lightman, 2014 Paul Markow, 1967 Steven Parkens, 2014 Jeffrey Platt, 2014 Ryan Schindler, 2015 Anthony Schmerling, 2015 Ralph Segal, 1959 Alexander Simone, 2014 Gage Singer, 2014 Adam Train, 2014 Adrian Vatkin, 2013 Mitchell Wein, 1984 Auburn Randal Spolter,1982 Baruch Barry Gold, 1969 Robert Wilder, 1970 Bentley Aaron Perlman Zachary Simon, 2014 Boston Arnold Canner, 1956
Arnold Canner, 1956 Robert Grossmann, 1960 Howard Kaplan, 1958 Robert Rosenthal, 1960 Mark Schaffer, 1967 David Schwalb, 1993 Bradley Michael Deporte, 2013 Andrew Farkas Earl Feldhorn, 1960 Maxwell Footlik Alan Galsky, 1964 Mark Lehtman, 2014 Louis Michelson, 1966 Mitch Paroubek, 2015 Stephen Roufa, 1966 Robert Rubinberg, 1987 Miles Russ, 1966 Myron Solomon, 1957 Brandeis Philip Bernstein, 1988 British Columbia Ben Edelstein, 2013 Evan Grunberger, 2013 Jonathan Lerner, 2010 Michael Levin Sol Meyer, 2004 Brooklyn Bruce Donoff, 1963 Leonard Feldman, 1966 Ronald Fried, 1967 Lawrence Gabler, 1965 Fred Gerson, 1971 Stephen Glantz, 1963 Ira Hirschbach, 1967 Robert Israely, 1962 Richard Pearl, 1959 Ronald Rapaport, 1966 Seymour Schlossberg, 1959 Roy Weber, 1965 Aaron Weisstuch, 1959 Steve Willner, 1989 Brooklyn Poly. Inst. Melvyn Baruch,1960 George Bishko, 1971 Marvin Blecker, 1967 Mark Finkelman, 1971 Robert Koondel, 1959 Joel Krinsky, 1964 Stephen Lieberman, 1965 Jerry Machtinger, 1970 Jerry Mendel, 1959 Samuel Mishkoff, 1956 Stanley Rothstein, 1956 Steven Schlosser, 1968 Warren Seider, 1962 Sheridan Steinberg, 1965 Stefan Steinberg, 1963 Brown Andrew Golodny, 2003 Philip Kalisman, 2006 A Thomas Levin, 1964 Seth Orkand, 1999 David Snitkof, 2005 Joshua Troy, 2004 Cal.-Berkeley Roy Hadar, 2013 Robert Jaffa, 1957
Robert Koster, 1958 Bernard Lapedis, 1961 Harold Mann, 1988 Cal.-Davis Mark Nassi, 2001 David Neben, 2012 David Rosove, 2012 Max Rothman, 2011 Louis Sachs, 2010 Timothy Thornell, 1994 Cal.-Irvine Kevin Hekmat Harvey Sherman, 1991 Cal.-Los Angeles Jerome Diamond, 1962 Marshall Field, 1962 Gordon Gelfond, 1951 Donald Gold, 1960 Alan Kholos, 1986 Stephen Lachs, 1960 Nahum Lainer, 1963 Harold Lazner Marvin Sacks, 1952 David Slavitt, 1952 Raziel Ungar, 2004 Leonard Venger, 1964 Cal.-San Diego Shawn Lichaa, 2001 Brad Segal, 2014 Martin Torem of Cal.-Santa Barbara Jason Nazar, 2000 Joshua Silver, 2001 Cal.-Santa Cruz Adel Al-Hindi, 2014 Aaron Arkin, 2014 David Burns, 2012 Samuel Frank, 2014 Dylan Masella, 2013 Michael Shayefar, 2014 Cal. State-Chico Alex Rubashevsky, 2011 Noah Snyder, 2012 Cal. State-Fullerton David Feldman, 2013 Jeffrey Reinstein, 2011 Zachary Saucedo, 2013 Jevon Tabar, 2013 Avery Tyler, 2013 Cal. State-Long Beach Carlos Alfaro David Coulter, 2016 Andrew Dyson, 2014 Jeramie Gipoor, 2015 Ben Halperin, 2014 Zach Katona, 2015 Jason Morrow, 1992 Sam Orlik, 2012 Cal. State-Northridge Joshua Blank, 2015 Brandon Kaufman, 2015 Adam Mendelson, 2013 Todd Rosenblatt, 2013 Tyler Schwartz, 2013 Will Schwartz, 2012 Adam Shamam, 2013 Nick Van Stryk, 2014
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Alumni Accolades
Builder’s Gifts of $1-$359 Cal. State-Poly -Pomona Brian Muller, 1992 Cal. State-Poly-SLO Cole Fox, 2007 Joshua Isaacs, 2013 Andrew Max, 2012 Theodore Nelson, 1974 Randy Urist, 2004 Carleton Zev Kershman, 2011 Carnegie Mellon Brian Alderman, 2013 David Waitzman, 1987 Case-Western Reserve Mark Guillod, 1968 Jonas Legum, 1970 Jacob Lesch, 2004 Michael Ross, 1967 Albert Sattin, 1953 Barry Soukonik, 1970 Central Florida Blake Bernstein, 2015 Jonathan Cannon Samuel Levine, 2014 David Moskovitz, 2012 Justin Pollack, 2006 Eric Schreiber Alex Sheckman, 2014 Sam Whitman, 2014 Charleston Aaron Jacobson Joshua Schooler, 2014 Cincinnati Scott Adams, 1994 Robert Barnett, 1949 Ian Birnbaum, 2016 Robert Diamond, 1985 David Fish, 1983 Gregory Fish, 1971 Alex Geller, 2014 Mark Goldstein, 1978 Philip Harrison, 1967 Stephen Lamb, 2012 Phillip Landman, 1976 Kenneth Miller, 1983 Brett Musick, 2015 Kevin Nathan, 2012 Irving Rosen Kevin Sacks Irvin Schwartz, 1949 Jason Shafer Martin Simon, 1976 Bob Sussman, 1981 Stuart Torgovnick, 1968 Michael Wagner, 2012 Howard Weinberg, 1970 Alec Zucker, 2012 Clark Michael Edberg, 1994 Colorado Nicholas Abramovic James Bautsch, 2009 Joshua Braverman, 2010 Maxwell Gulliver, 2013 Steven Kreimendahl, 2015 Zachary Levin, 2013
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Kenneth Misch, 1983 Eric Rosenberg, 2007 Ian Solow-Niederman, 2014 Alexander Starik, 2006 Brian Wick, 1981 Connecticut Salvatore Faulise, 1958 Ellis Frohman, 1964 Michael Gere, 1962 Alan Glaubinger, 1962 Edmund Grossman, 1957 Leon Kliman, 1960 Michael Lesce, 2014 Eric Levine, 1993 Michael Mizrahi, 2012 Steven Primack, 1964 Columbia Andrew Avorn, 2008 Alan Cohn, 1993 F Cohn, 1958 Laurence Cove, 1955 Benjamin Gene, 2005 Robert Gutmann, 2005 Robert Juceam, 1961 George Leibowitz, 1957 Michael Levin, 1958 Joshua Mohrer, 2004 Stephen Rice, 1967 Nicklas Volbi, 2007 Marc Williams, 2006 David Wodka, 2008 Brian Wolfson, 2006 Adir Yolkut, 2010 Cornell Joseph Basloe, 1964 Daniel Chazen, 2015 Michael Cline, 2013 Alvin Kayloe, 1952 Edward Kimmelman, 1961 Matthew Lerner, 2012 Richard Madris, 1991 Michael Miller, 1962 Ronald Millstein, 1952 Michael Ossip, 1976 Alan Raphael, 1964 Stephen Rogow, 1963 Gerald Sallus, 1948 Stephen Saperstone, 1960 Donald Sargent, 1958 Eric Scheiner, 2012 Murray Socolof, 1935 Jeffrey Spector, 1989 Jeffrey Sussman, 2013 C.W. Post Alan Blumenfeld, 1967 Howard Glickberg, 1969 Ronald Wurtzburger, 1963 Delaware Frederick Berko, 1965 Jeffrey Eller, 2012 Laurence Erera, 1962 Robert Freedman, 1987 Jeffrey Friedhoffer, 1963 Bruce Friedman, 1984 Jamie Futterman, 2012 Gerald Katz, 1959 Michael Klotz, 1985 Richard Levin, 1967 Gary Lustgarten, 1984 Evan Mann, 2012 Michael Met, 1991
Life’s Paths
Edgar Stein, 1965 Neal Wolff, 1986 Theodore Zutz, 1954
East Carolina Paul Hersh, 1966 Gary Silverstein, 1965
DePaul Tyler Borzak Josh Boyle, 2015 Jeff Buchbinder Benjamin Cantor, 2012 Benjamin Chavez, 2014 Jeremy Dalkoff, 2013 Cameron Erickson, 2015 Gregory Fleytlikh, 2014 Or Gera, 2014 Daniel Gertler, 2011 Allan Gordon, 2015 Max Green, 2012 Dylan Gundry, 2012 Aaron Kornick Brandon Krieger, 2012 Mitchell Levin, 2012 Jacob Lipp, 2012 Josh Miller Robert Samen Jurijs Starostin, 2012 Andrew Van Sickle, 2016 Benjamin Wax, 2015 Brady Wilkie, 2014 Danny Zimmerman
Eastern Michigan Neil Block, 1995 Beni Henig, 2011 Jason Weiss, 1992
Detroit Inst. of Tech Steven Epstein,1969 Drake Herbert Baum, 1958 Alan Harris,1955 Michael Kaplan,1971 Seymour Kleinberg,1951 Jerrold Kuhn,1963 Edwin Ribback,1959 Carl Suchar,1974 Bennett Weissman,1961 Drexel Jonathan Abramson, 2016 Kenneth Averbukh, 2015 Andrew Blinn, 2015 Nuri Boardman, 2003 Evan Cohen, 2012 Zachary Cohen, 2014 Ben Felser, 2015 Jeremy Fransman, 2015 Josh Glass, 2015 Jared Hurwich, 2013 Oren Kanel, 2015 Aaron Katz, 2016 Mark Koh, 2016 Shaw Levin, 2010 Elliot Moroz, 2013 Ben Olen, 2013 Julian Salkind, 2015 Raeli Savitt, 2015 Ian Shinbrot, 2016 Nathan Strich, 2016 Yeshayahu Wasserman, 2015 Scott Weiss, 2014 Duke Stuart Gaynes, 1985 Robert Kaufman, 1998 Harris Schild, 1986 Gary Shapiro, 1989 David Simon, 1988 David Spiro, 2014
Emory Elliot Berman, 1942 Perry Brickman, 1953 Myron Butler, 1960 David Deutsch, 1981 Neal Drasin, 1979 Norman Estroff, 1955 Louis Field, 1963 Herbert Goodman, 1958 Daniel Greenwald, 1982 Jack Horowitz, 1955 H P Kaminsky, 1966 Marvin Perlis, 1955 AJ Robinson, 1977 Clyde Rodbell, 1949 Nick Rossin, 1950 Larry Rubin, 1951 J B Shapiro, 1964 Wayne Taylor, 1982 Sidney Tourial, 1964 Bruce Witten, 1964 Florida Elvin Anchipolovsky, 2008 Mario Bick, 1982 Eric Book, 1974 Jeffrey Brill, 2012 Barry Burak, 1971 Andre Burton, 1975 Brian Coven, 2014 Steven Feldman, 1961 Richard Fenster, 1960 Richard Fien, 1972 Jeffrey Ginsberg, 1972 Hunter Gold, 1996 Tayler Gold, 2002 Michael Goldin, 2009 Russell Goldin, 2012 Henry Gutterman, 1958 Thomas Hardesty, 1979 Steven Heller, 1978 Arthur Kapit, 1967 Laser Kaplan, 2012 Jonathan Lenner, 2010 Richard Lenner, 1979 Andrew Lipshutz, 2011 Alex Masi, 2013 James Massey, 1975 Daniel Mukamal, 2013 Michael Namath, 1996 David Ogman, 1998 Joseph Pardo, 2013 Brandon Perdeck, 2015 Sean Roberts, 2012 Jack Rosenberg, 1973 Ronald Ruth, 1963 Lawrence Scott, 1981 Russell Semmel, 2006 Jordan Sheckman, 2007 Bruce Singer, 1971 Kevin Stillerman, 2013 Justin Stone, 2008 Matthew Waas, 2005 William Waechter, 1961 Michael Wallsh, 2011
Matt Weithorn Jared Wettenstein, 2014 Alex Whitman, 2007 Samuel Wiser, 1977 Neil Young, 1980 Ira Zucker, 1980 Florida Atlantic Nadav Alkoby, 2014 David Belolo, 2012 Zac Bogen, 2013 Mark Cohen, 2012 Noah Collins, 2015 Eric Dansky, 2012 Joe Dinnerstein, 2015 Dylan Einsidler Josh Fryd, 2013 Josh Fryd, 2013 Sam Goldberg, 2015 Matthew Gordon, 1996 Jason Gothelf, 2015 Joel Guttman, 2015 Nathen Heavenstone, 2013 Sam Herb, 2015 Matthew Kordas, 2015 Moshe Kraiem, 2011 Michael Krammer, 2012 Ralph Landau, 2013 Daniel Levine, 2014 David Lewinsohn Brandon Macknofsky, 2015 Jeremy Madnick, 2015 Jonathan Mastin, 2009 Abraham Mercado Scott Rassner, 2013 Aaron Resnick, 2014 Josh Rubinstein David Shama, 2012 Tyler Stechman, 2015 Tim Tallent, 2013 Josh Tessler, 2015 Ben Tzalik, 2014 Martin Volinsky, 2012 Jack Whidden, 2014 Michael Yudien, 2012 Devin Zucker Florida Inst. of Tech. Frank Pickman, 1972 Florida International Isaac Bichachi, 2014 Yemani Mason,2013 Dany Raffoul,2015 Elijah Salver,2014 Asher Yanich,2002 Florida State Jonathan Beskin, 2004 Albert Coven,1983 Warren Fuss,1988 Andrew Neiberg,2007 Carl Rubin,2001 Stuart Rubin,2000 Paul Salver,1976 Jeffrey Weinstein,1984 David Zebrowitz,1998 Friends of AEPi Jonathan Altschuler Barbara Atkinson Morris Baron Doreen F Bass M Bass
Friends of AEPi
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Builder’s Gifts of $1-$359 Millicent Berman Ronald Blank Terry R Blank Craig Byus John F. Campbell Laura A Carinci J Christilles Dorothy S Cline Elliot Cohen Pearl R. Cohen Andrew J Conroy Renette Corenswet Jeanne Corwin William R Costello Brenda Crayk Carol Derbin Anonymous Donor Cresswell Elmore Betty Phillips Feinberg Mary C Fenwick Robert Fitzgerald Convocation Flowers, Inc Scott Friedman David Gilston Mark Glicklich Geraldine Green Karen Green Sonya Grill Colchester Dental Group LLC Neal Guber Arlene M Henick Martin Hyde Evan Kelner Stewart Kocivar William G Lewin Joe Macchio Pamela J Mallon Scott Markowitz Sharon McManus Bruce Monastersky Richard A Morton Terrence Ozan Beverly Park Seth G Park Philip J Procacci Greg Robb Matthew S Rosenberg Seligman Rosenberg Marilyn Schechter Eric Schertzer Edward Shakin Oleg Shtaynberger Eleanore Smith John R Soderlund Alan F Strobel Richard Sussman Steven Sweetwood Sloan Tichner Kermit O Twedt Gery Martin Vandervliet Raymond Warner Nathan Yungher General Electric Foundation Temple Sinai George Mason Jacob Federman, 2013 Eric Kidder, 2015 Andrew Scherzinger, 2015 John Tackeff, 2014 Barry Berg, 1969 Theodore Fishman, 1968 David Goldstein, 1989 William Gralnick, 1965
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Ryan Schneider, 1990 Leon Siegel, 1955 Zack Siegel, 2015 Leon Socol, 1948 Larry Taylor, 1962 Harold Tyber, 1973 Richard Waldorf, 1967 Joel Weinstock, 1958 Donald Young, 1957
Nathan Handler, 2015 Robert Handler, 1982 Kenneth Hebeisen, 2015 Jack Horwitch, 2013 Richard Kaplan, 1964 Jack Kornick, 1946 James Kunen, 1953 Marvin Langhaus, 1942 Steven Malkin, 1983 Thomas Marx, 1980 J. Clifford Moos, 1946 Jeffery Mowery, 1977 Seth Pawlow, 2013 Allen Rosenbaum, 1974 Ty Sampson, 2013 Charles Schwartz, 1974 Lawrence Sherman, 1951 Jason Stagman, 1992 Brett Wallace, 2014 Daniel Weitzman, 1980 Mike Wilensky, 1975 Corey Wilner, 1987 Herbert Wolf, 1950 Joshua Wolken, 2015
Dan Chaimovski, 2012 Tom Di Capua, 2013 Hadar Radzinski, 2011 Steven Senft, 2011
James Madison Grant Bigman, 2012 Joshua Lurier David Markoff, 2013 Aaron Robinson, 2012 Cory Speicher, 2013 Josh Verstandig, 2012 Steven Znilek, 2013
Hofstra Scott Baslaw, 1995 Justin Hochberg Richard Klass, 1989 Philip Schlossberg, 1998
Illinois Inst. of Tech. Lawrence Cohan, 1977 Charles Fox, 1969 Robert Goldman, 1961 Jerrold Goozh, 1968 Richard Kain, 1959 Sheldon Kantoff, 1957 Michael King, 1966 Herbert Lewis, 1974 Murray Luftglass, 1952 Jerome Mandel, 1961 Robert Moss, 1955 Richard Reiner, 1962 Ira Rothman, 1974 Alan Sherman, 1953 David Silver, 1962
Houston Eric Bishop, 1995 Jason Feld, 1995
Illinois State Andrew Elterman, 2013 Elliot Englander
Illinois-Champaign/ Urbana David Axelrod, 1975 Harry Axelrod, 1979 Steven Barr, 1983 Bruce Barron, 1977 Ernst Biberstein, 1944 Joel, of Illinois-Champaign/ Urbana 1973 Scott, of Illinois-Champaign/ Urbana 1976 Jacob Cahnman, 2013 Daniel Cohen, 2011 Robert Dolin, 2001 Gerald Eisenstein, 1956 Jonah Ellin, 1995 Steven Feinberg, 1973 Zach Fertig, 2012 Larry Field, 1961 Glen Fishman, 1974 Ari Footlik, 1997 Jarvis Friduss, 1967 Steven Frost, 1976 Josh Gibbs, 2012 David Goldman, 2015 Steven Goldman, 1964 Jay Gordon, 1999 William Greenfield, 1966
Indiana Daniel Bilawsky, 1999 Matthew Bud, 1968 Paul Elkin, 1973 Melvyn Galin, 1953 Joel Garmon, 1981 Larry Goltz, 1974 Ronald Goltz, 1978 Theodore Koenig, 1980 Paul Kraft, 1983 Steven Langer, 1976 Jason Levin, 1980 Errol Magidson, 1965 Scott Margolin, 1986 Stephen Merren, 1970 David Palmer, 1976 Joshua Sacks, 2014 Stephen Schall, 1975 David Siegel, 1981 Gerald Steinfeld, 1963 Gerald Waterman, 1970 Jay Wilensky, 1983 Adam Winick, 1993
Guelph Nathan Amar, 2013 Aaron Cincinatus, 2014 Robbie Gelman, 2013 Daniel Goldberg, 2014 Josh Greenberg, 2013 Stephen Temple, 2011 Georgia State Gary Alexander, 1968 Matt Altman, 2015 Marvin Feinberg, 1960 Drake Greer Marcos Kerbel, 1967 Austin Mandus, 2012 Caleb Nelson, 2015 Michael Rosenstein, 2015 Brandon Savransky Harvard Zander Sebenius, 2013 Elliot Stein, 2013 Hartford Doug Bearak, 2014 Walter Greenberg, 2005 Eric Maurer, 2013 Benjamin Patterson, 2014
Interdisciplinary Center Omri Ariav, 2012 Ilan Bollag, 2012
Iowa A F Baron, 1968 Louis Bradfield, 1963 Gary Caplan, 1957 Kenneth Cohen, 1956 Craig Elmets, 1971 Sheldon Fleck, 1972 David Glazer, 1956 Zachary Homer, 2013 Jordan Horowitz, 2015 Barry Kipnes, 1964 David Levi, 1982 John Richards, 2015 Ira Stein, 1986 Jeff Steinback, 2014 David Vesole, 1974 Ben Wolf, 1969 Jacksonville Jeffrey Kraskin, 1976
Johns Hopkins Matthew Horowitz, 2000 James Kallis, 1960 Mark Kramer, 1958 A L Medin, 1948 Raphael Picciotto, 2006 Arnold Silverman, 1959 Eugene Stombler, 1948 Daniel Wolfe, 1959 Kansas Harvey Bodker, 1957 Alan Cohn, 1961 Adam Dechtman, 2014 Zach Finkelstein, 2014 Howard Hoffman, 1967 Ben Juster, 2012 Alfie Kass, 2015 Kevin Kitsis, 2013 Dennis Klein, 1965 Ron Mandelbaum, 1987 Jordan Pollack, 2012 Kyle Raisher, 2015 Eric Sherman, 2014 Jerome Tilzer, 1969 Kansas State Stuart Dworkin, 1957 Kent State Martin Baker, 1967 Richard Bluestone, 1967 Marc Cohen, 1982 James Fleischer, 1993 Joel Lerner, 1962 Jesse Markowitz, 2014 Joseph Meyers, 1961 Aaron Price, 2015 Benjamin Rodriguez, 2002 Alfred Rubin, 1948* Joel Schackne, 1969
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Miami (Ohio) Howard Blum, 1975 Gideon Duke-Cohan Ronald Emerman, 1969 David Hirsch, 1971 Jared Horwitz, 2012 Ross Simon, 2014 Miami (Fla.) Myron Altschuler, 1949 Stanley Arkin, 1954 Seymour Baron, 1952 Norman Batansky, 1968 David Brodie, 1989 Herbert Cohen, 1953 Bruce Dresner, 1969 Franklin Eaton, 1963 Martin Fine, 1950 Malcolm Friedman, 1955 Lawrence Glick, 1952 William Gorden, 1958 Robert Grover, 1954 Norman Herman, 1951 N R Levin, 1954 Ryan Madanick, 1995 Neil Malamud, 1962 Jay Mussman, 1985 Franklin Nankin, 1949 Louis Rosenberg, 1951 Jeffrey Sapolsky, 1988 Henry Somerfeld, 1975 Edward Zuker, 1969 Michigan Leonard Bloomfield, 1959 David Chudwin, 1972 Scott Dichter, 1968 Philip Feitelson, 1963 Sam Gutterman, 1969 Robert Kanner, 1961 Barry Kroll, 1955 Jeffrey Levy, 1972 Morton Meltzer, 1961 Richard Roth, 1968 Lawrence Silton, 1964 Barney Silverman, 1958 Marshall Silverman, 1952 Norton Steuben, 1958 Steven Weinstock, 1986 Michigan State Steven Arbit, 1984 Steven Goldschein, 1968 Marshall Gurwin Michael Kaplan, 1987 Hubert Katz, 1955 Perry Phillips, 1950 Stephen Ruchman, 1960 Alex Scharg, 2014 Joshua Schenk, 2013 Joseph Simon, 1949 Beryl Simonson, 1971 Laurence Thompson, 1954 Missouri Harlan Abbey, 1952 Andrew Balbirer, 1976 Samuel Balot, 1951 Herbert Bilinsky, 1955 Daniel Brick, 2012 Lawrence Burgheimer, 1961 Paul Chapman, 1963 Michael Cherry, 1966 Kenneth Chinsky, 1982 Edward Chod, 1975
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Bruce Copilevitz, 1960 Jeffrey Cytron, 1990 Stanley Dveris, 1950 Shelton Ehrlich, 1957 Elliot Enger, 1962 Dennis Feit, 1973 Edward Finkelstein, 1959 Steven Funk, 1964 Steve Gardberg, 1994 Scott Garfield, 1972 Theodore Gastman, 1951 Byron Goldenhersh, 1968 Sanford Goldman, 1954 Louis Harris, 1969 Robert Herman, 1953 Gary Lerman, 1967 Martin Levy, 1984 Joel Litman, 1976 Peter Mayer, 1950 Martin Megeff, 1964 Jerald Pelofsky, 1964 Steve Present, 1972 Carl Puritz, 1955 Howard Rader, 1959 Leslie Reiter, 1971 Maynard Rosenbloom, 1951 Miles Ross, 1976 Richard Schuchet, 1965 Daniel Schwartz, 1974 Steven Sherry, 1960 Grant Shostak, 1993 Paul Siegel, 1978 Charles Tigerman, 1964 Stuart Weinstein, 1976 Barry Wolkowitz, 1968 Missouri of Science & Technology Israel Denlow, 1970 Gerardo Joffe, 1948 Mark Joseph, 1970 Bryan Pearl, 1970 Neil Portnoff, 1970 Minnesota Robert Ansel, 1956 Harold Berman, 1968 Sam Brusen, 2014 Nathan Castaldi, 2006 Shai Chazin, 2012 Jared Cohen, 2013 Martin Davis, 2013 Seth Franklin, 2014 James Fruen, 1970 Daniel Goodman, 2015 Daniel Levine, 2012 Louis Livon-Bemel, 2014 Robert Marvy, 1970 Justin Mednick, 2011 Jordan Mendkoff, 2015 Matthew Minowitz, 2012 Asher Parr-Besemer, 2013 Shalom Raymond, 2013 Thomas Rosen, 1971 Erez Rosenberg, 2013 Milton Rosenberg, 1954 Joseph Shapiro Andy Stone, 2013 Moshe Volovik, 2014 Misha Wahlstrom-Hartmann, 2014 Muhlenberg Mikel Daniels,1996
NevadaLas Vegas Gilor Benaloul, 2012 Ofir Dahan, 2012 Dustin Durbin, 2013 Michael Fishman, 2013 Gerald Gordon, 1970 Jeff Goyer, 2013 Michael Israelitt, 2015 Gershon Levy, 2012 Joshua Nadler, 2014 Nathan Sigal, 2012 Marty Weinberg, 1999 Michael Woorman, 1996 Nevada-Reno Zachary Alexander, 2015 Zachary Brounstein, 2015 Ryan Eylar, 2015 Justin Major, 2015 Elliot Malin, 2014 Johnathan Pietz, 2016 Gregg Rosenberg, 2015 Dan Ruben, 2015 Alexander Yates, 2013 Zachary Zolowicz, 2015 New Jersey Elliot Crane, 2013 Ari Goldwaser Jacob Levene, 2014 Evan Levy, 2014 Joshua Luger, 2012 Adam Mahonchack, 2014 Mark Staroselsky, 2013 Kevin Whitman, 2014 Brit Zaro, 2014 New Mexico Sheldon Bromberg William Krieger, 1960 City College (NY) Roy Davidson, 1966 Eugene Kahn, 1970 Michael Laderman, 1968 Jules Levy, 1961 Robert Pavone, 1971 Lewis Temares, 1962 Harold Tragash, 1960 Melvin Zirkes, 1961 Norman Zlotnick, 1969 New York Andrew Apple, 2013 Stuart Avrick, 1955 Eric Bashirov, 2014 Eugene Becker, 1958 Vadim Belinskiy, 2014 Jonathan Bell, 1991 Herman Berg, 1956 Robert Berlan, 1955 Burton Bloom, 1949 Howard Boris, 1953 Peter Brynildsen, 1972 Jeffrey Burg, 1972 Richard Campbell, 2014 Ben Chen, 2013 Steven Cohn, 1970 Zachary Dubow Paul Edelman, 1962 Daniel Eiseman, 2013 Allen Farberov, 2014 Jordan Fine, 2013 Barrish Flashner, 1965 Jonathan Gamliel, 2010
Matthew Glick, 2010 Jacob Goldberg, 2014 Jeremy Grinberg, 2014 Mark Heitlinger, 1979 Joseph Kassin, 2014 Dennis Katsnelson, 2014 Gerald Kligman, 1954 Ryan Kuhel, 2014 Joseph Lee, 2014 Jason Leibowitz, 2009 Paul Levy, 1963 Philip Meltzer, 1957 Saul Miller, 2008 Leonard Moskowitz, 1960 Martin Novick, 1957 Jay Pitlake, 1954 Stanley Rappoport, 1952 James Reiser, 1965 Stanley Roth, 1957 Justin Silver, 2012 Leon Silverman, 1962 Gregory Starikovsky, 2014 Carl Steinhouse, 1952 Daniel Vasserman, 2014 George Wasserman, 1952 Arthur Wessan, 1955 Gerald Wolf, 1959 Justin Zarabi, 2014 New York-Heights Arnold Aaron, 1950 Cary Baer, 1962 Sheldon Buckler, 1952 Robert Friedman, 1957 Norman Gold, 1958 Martin Klausner, 1970 Allen Levin, 1957 Richard Pesikoff, 1961 Edwin Pollaine, 1948 Marvin Schildkraut, 1964 Northeastern Allan Berger, 1965 Michael Bernstein, 1966 Gerald Feldman, 1965 Jonathan Green, 2003 David Horwitz, 1971 Sidney Insoft, 1952 Gary Liebowitz, 1979 Marshall Menachem, 1974 Ronald Millen, 1969 Peter Newman, 1973 Sheldon Rubin, 1962 Steven Tannenbaum, 1978 Joel Wanger, 2011 Andrew Weiss, 2012 Michael Wluka, 1977 Northern Illinois Glen Brin, 1979 Mark Lichtenfeld, 1982 Joseph Ortlieb, 2014 Cary Wolovick Chason Zacher, 2014 Northwestern Nathan Abelman, 2013 Joel Finbloom, 2013 Richard Goldring, 2014 Adam Janet, 2011 Michael Lehrer, 2006 Adam Matsil, 2012 Joel Rabinowitz, 2014 Andy Rodheim, 2014 Aaron Zelikovich, 2014
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Builder’s Gifts of $1-$359 Ohio Northern Stanley Levin, 1955 Ohio State Martin Alpert, 1965 Bennett Aster, 1979 Robert Berkowitz, 1949 Jeffrey Bobier, 1966 Jerome Burman, 1954 Aaron Canowitz, 1959 Richard Douglass, 1982 Jason Eisenberg, 1994 Jerome Garber, 1956 Ronald Gilbert, 1955 Matthew Gordon, 2014 Marty Greenwald, 1986 Lee Gurney, 1955 Norman Jacoby, 1951 Bernard Kamenir, 1951 Andrew Leinoff, 1971 Harris Levinson, 1995 Chad Martin, 2005 Gil Mayor, 1961 Kevin Rachlin, 2007 Ronald Rothschild, 1968 Charles Sacks, 1961 Lester Schoenberg, 1955 Alec Simon, 2013 S. Fred Singer, 1943 David Sokol, 1964 Arthur Spatt, 1947 Charles Stopak, 1955 Lee Turner, 1966 Ian Young, 2008 Lester Zeff, * David Zendell, 1963 Ron Zimmerman, 1961 Ohio Robert Blum, 1982 Steven Fleischer, 1984 Robert Freier, 1985 Gregg Manes, 1981 Michael Weisman, 2008 Oklahoma Alan Barlow, 1989 Leslie Fife, 1988 Kalman Kreitman, 2013 Franklin Salle, 1963 John Schwartz, 1960 Lawrence Schwartz, 1966 Old Dominion Barry Josephson, 1968 Howard Soroko, 1971 Oregon William Bohn, 2014 Cory Cullen, 2014 Grant Gurewitz, 2013 Cody Karlin, 2014 Matthew Lerman, 2012 Drew Ostrow, 2012 Jason Shender, 2013 Max Snell, 2014 Parsons Steven Podolsky, 1969 Fredrick Warman, 1969
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Gary Kravitz, 1973 Mark Shenkan, 1991 Purdue Harvey Berliner, 1965 Lawrence Bressler, 1973 Eugene Chodash, 1958 Joshua Dennison, 2014 Martin Gerson, 1983 Edward Goldberg, 1969 Bruce Hershman, 1957 Martin Kulchin, 1964 Werner Lawson, 1957 Charles Poncher, 1963 Michael Tirengel, 1968 Queens Stephen Dubin, 1961 Jacob Hirth, 2015 Alan Mensch, 1967 Jeffrey Schertz, 1962 Joshua Weisblum, 2013 Queens College Brian Linder Queens Lee Brymer, 2013 Leo Evlikhman Josh Levitan, 2013 Niv Yahel, 2013 Rhode Island Fred Buchsbaum, 1968 Isadore Fine, 1942 Kenneth Hoffman, 1990 Fred Katzenstein, 1958 Herbert Sackett, 1950 Barry Saltz, 1982 Arnold Schaffer, 1952 Richard Wilkes, 1979 Harold Wohl, 1957 Allan Wolf, 1953 Richmond Paul Schueller, 1958 Rochester Joseph Buonomo, 2013 Benjamin Horrow, 2012 Benjamin Phelps, 2012 Phillip Shattan, 2014 Rensselaer Poly. Inst. Gerald Brody, 1954 Richard Hahn, 1967 Lewis Kling, 1966 Donald Margolies, 1959 Henry Mosler, 1962 Gerald Olderman, 1955 Rochester Inst. of Tech Brett Arnold, 2013 Gordon Hewitt, 1973 Hal Stone, 1974 Rutgers Ira Arshen, 1973 Jack Blaine, 1964 Steven Cohn, 1973 Steven Cooper, 1976 Seth Jonas, 1991
Arthur Kagan, 1961 Marshall Karp, 1963 Barry Kritz, 1982 Seymour Levine, 1964 Edward Lewis, 1974 Richard Mitnick, 1963 James Scott, 1976 Lawrence Soria, 1979 Allen Zaks, 1970
SUNY-Buffalo Mark Adams, 1970 Scott Antin, 1991 Andrew Benson, 2014 Stuart Bernstein, 1987 Allan Cooper, 1964 Stewart Hankin, 1960 Paul Schulman, 1964 Alan Sorrell, 1963
San Diego State Alex Berezovsky, 2004 Jesse Kent, 2014 Evan Leib Gavin Stone, 2005
SUNY-New Paltz William Lederman, 2014 Alex Moser, 2013
San Francisco State Jonathan Liberman, 2014 San Jose State Leonard Druker, 2014 Matthew Fineman, 2012 Adi Hod Eric Medeiros, 2012 Sonoma State Josh Maine, 2014 Stanford Chris Folkman, 2002 SUNY-Albany Andrew Fox, 1988 Gary Hecht, 1991 Joshua Rehr, 2008 SUNY-Binghamton Avi Alboher, 2013 Jake Beckler, 2013 Zach Birnbaum Max Buckler Jacob Decter Henry Dinhofer Andrew Dobry, 2014 Jacob Dorfman, 2014 Mark Forman, 1991 Michael Gelb, 2013 Justin Gorkowitz Donny Greenberg Alexander Halman, 2012 Ross Hochman Andrew Lake Andrew Lake Rich Leiberman Will Lesser Brad Levine, 2012 Seth Litwack Daren Moshe, 2014 Ari Novick Jason Ort, 2013 Jon Pascal Ethan Rosen, 2014 Steve Schwartz, 2013 Adam Sebag, 2013 Adam Shapiro, 2014 Noah Siegel, 2014 Noah Silverman Adam Talmud, 2014 Andrew Topal, 2012 George Welge, 2014 Michael Wong, 2014
SUNY-Stony Brook Asher Labendz, 1989 Syracuse Maxwell Ellis, 1950 Neal Lorberbaum, 1984 Paul Newman, 1960 Temple Ira Berkowitz, 1969 Jeffry Bleiman, 1966 Fred Blume, 1963 Eli Engel, 1957 Mark Feldman, 1962 James Fox, 1974 Martin Geher, 1962 Marshal Hyman, 1967 Michael Kelman, 1983 Samuel Marcus, 1968 Brett Riley, 2015 Troy Taroff, 2014 David Vitt, 1961 Max Wald, 1957 Joseph Zuritsky, 1961 Towson Zach Ament, 2012 Daniel Rodgers, 2012 Harris Rothbard, 2013 Matthew Scher, 2012 Tufts Brett Andler, 2013 James Ausman, 1959 Spencer Brody, 1958 Murray Brown, 1944 Thomas Cooper, 2012 Carl Hoffman, 1961 Kenneth Kurland, 1954 Merton Minsky, 1949 Harvey Nisenbaum, 1965 Ernest Picard, 1951 Leonard Rothman, 1962 Herbert Sandberg, 1958 Michael Schick, 1961 Lawrence Sheftel, 1962 Robert Zinman, 1953 Tulane Melvyn Drucker, 1961 Stuart Frank, 1962 David Goodman, 1986 Kenneth Gray, 1992 Mark Green, 1984 David Klapper, 1965 Michael Myers, 1969 Zollie Richburg, 1998 Russell Schwartz, 1984 Ronald Slipman, 1961
Ira Taub, 1987 Russell Thal, 1957 Andrew Titen, 1972 Leonard Washofsky, 1958 South Florida Greg Berkowitz, 2012 Ryan Brenner, 2013 Alex Chatham, 2015 Tyler David, 2015 Treavor Eaton, 2013 Adam Fenster Greg Jacobs, 2014 Michael Kalmowicz, 2015 Rony Keller, 1999 Jeffrey Kurtz, 2014 Albert Leone, 2014 Noah Peeri, 2014 Matthew Smalbach, 2014 Len Steinberg, 2010 Alan Weinerman, 2015 Ryan Weiss, 2015 Southern California Neil Glick, 1992 Morton Golden, 1952 James Mann, 1964 Marc Newburger, 1997 Charles Polep, 1959 Richard Polep, 1961 David Stewart, 1999 Scott Sulman, 2003 Tennessee Howard Allenberg, 1973 Stewart Cannell, 1974 Marc Himmelstein, 1969 Edward Isler, 1975 Howard Klebanow, 1980 Jerry Kosten, 1974 Richard Lemler, 1975 Thomas Loventhal, 1977 Texas-Austin Richard Berger, 1955 Harold Berman, 1947 Zach Blakeman Roger Davidson, 1970 Larry Fradkin, 1956 Ben Freed, 2012 Gary Freed, 1983 Jonathan Green, 1990 Michael Hopkovitz, 1977 Phillip Jacobs, 2010 Herman Josephs, 1946 Joseph Kaner, 1988 Albert Krafcheck, 1961 Aaron Liener, 2014 Steven Lovitt, 1991 David Luskey, 1951 Allan Maierson, 1964 John Perel, 1967 Irving Pozmantier, 1951 Kenneth Reichek, 1973 Herman Ringler, 1962
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John Simon, 1964 Michael Tarnow, 1960 Barry Wallack, 1962 Avrah am Frydman, 1970 William Schuckit, 1970 Ronald Schulkin, 1967 Union Dmitry Abramov, 2003 Elon Gaffin-Cahn, 2012 David Kohl, 1991 Nayan Patel, 2012 Vanderbilt Paul Barnett, 1955 Lawrence Blumberg, 1970 Jeffrey Bootzin, 1969 Louis Gorman, 1985 Charles Itzig, 1961 Byron Kolitz, 1965 Theodore Lipman, 1950 Gregory Mayback, 1986 Richard Mayer, 1973 Marc Ossinsky, 1981 Cyril Pierce, 1987 Norman Sandfield, 1967 Benjamin Schulman, 1938 Steven Shapiro, 1984 Gregory Siskind, 1987 George Toll, 1967 Harris Weinstein, 1962 Robert Youngerman, 1954 Richard Zander, 1970
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David Steinborn, 1959 Richard Williams, 1953 H. Jay Zeskind, 1968 Western Michigan Robert Simon, 1984 Worcester Poly. Inst. Saul Gordon, 1950 Frederic Jacoby, 1963 Roger Litman, 1958 Allen Mintz, 1948 Alan Sidman, 1967 Yale Joshua Kalla, 2013 Robert Klipper, 2011 Andrew Levine, 1997 Benjamin Negin, 2000 Samuel Porat, 1997 Jonathan Sacks, 1995 Richard Worth, 1995
Yeshiva Jonathan Belolo, 2012 Ethan Goldsmith, 2014
“Even though I learned a lot during these past couple of days [at Israel Amplified], I understand that the learning doesn’t stop. Everything on campus and in the Middle East is always changing. Israel Amplified motivated me to want to learn more than anything. I have not been prouder to part of Jewish Greek Life.” – Anonymous survey
York Larry Leider, 1991
Virginia Commonwealth Jordan Rothenberg, 2010 Joshua Rubin, 2015 Virginia Tech Nathan Diskin, 2013 Glenn Feinberg Andy Griesinger, 2012 Benjamin Han, 2012 Sam Johnson, 2015 Ethan Katz, 2013 Mark Moskowitz, 2012 Josh Savage, 2014 David Umansky, 2013 Seth White, 2015 Washington Alvin Bronstein, 1971 Alyn Essman, 1953 Gerald Fleischmann, 1963 Richard Lapin, 1968 Richard Lapin, 1968 Jules Lucas, 1951 Arthur Oberman, 1955 Wayne State Gerald Corlin, 1954 David Eidelman, 1971 Steven Friedman, 1971 Edward Gold, 1961 Murray Helfer, 1962 Robert Hoffman, 1969 Lester Kalisher, 1962 Gerald Kraft, 1955 John Kuhn, 1959 Charles Lax, 1968 Maynard Metler, 1967 David Million, 1968 Alan Mindlin, 1968 David Rubinstein, 1960
Will You Leave a Lasting Legacy in AEPi? Consider a gift that will provide support to the undergraduate brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi for years to come. A bequest to the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation will secure positive Jewish experiences for young adults, and the very best educational and leadership development opportunities for the future leaders of the global Jewish community. Below is suggested bequest language to give to your advisor to modify your will, or to write a codicil.
I hereby give and bequeath $ (dollar amount or percentage % of my residuary estate, etc.) to The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, Inc., located at 8815 Wesleyan Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268, to be used by it in support of the General Fund of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, or its successor fund, if any.* Contact our foundation professionals to discuss a bequest that meets your family’s needs and philanthropic goals. Together, we can ensure the aims and ideals set forth by the Immortal Eleven will be perpetuated for generations to come. Call (800) 223-AEPi, or email Foundation@aepi.org for more information. * The information provided above is not intended to serve as tax or legal dvice. Please consult your attorney and/or financial advisor before making a gift.
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Company Matching Gifts Program Double the impact of your gift to the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation through your company’s matching gifts program. Would you like to see your gift have twice the impact for Alpha Epsilon Pi? Your company may be ready to help. Below is a short list of companies who have matching gifts programs for their employees. Even if your company’s name isn’t listed here or online, you might still have one. Ask your human resource department how you can double your giving. A full list of over 900 companies with matching gift programs can be found online at aepi.org/matchinggifts
“Becoming a 1913 Society member wasn’t about the money or the pin. It was about showing the Immortal Eleven that they mean something to
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me and my Brothers. I did it to symbolize 100 years of brotherhood, and to thank the 90,000 brothers who came before me. I hope that by giving and encouraging my fellow Brothers to do the same, we will be able to leave our mark on the AEPi legacy that has been left for the past 100 years, and one that will live on for hundreds more.” – Josh Rubin, Virginia Commonwealth 2014
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The Order of the Lion to be Awarded Past Supreme Master Samuel J Blustein, Memphis 1975, to be presented with the The Order of the Lion. A 1975 graduate of the University of Memphis,
Brother Blustein’s involvement with AEPi has been long and unwavering. He has served as Regional Governor, General Counsel, and on the Supreme Board of Governors beginning in 1973 as Undergraduate Supreme Governor. While his contributions to AEPi are many, what makes Brother Blustein a true hero is his unwavering commitment to his position, even after being stricken with a debilitating neuromuscular disease. Throughout his term, Sam exemplified remarkable heroism and courage, cornerstone values of our Fraternity. He’s most famously known for coining the phrase “It’s a great time to be an AEPi.” The phrase lives on with undergraduates to this day. As an inspirational leader of our Fraternity, many men have gotten the chance to observe and learn from Sam. After recommendation by a special committee and a delegate vote at the 99th Anniversary Convention, Alpha Epsilon Pi is honored to present Sam Blustein with the Order of The Lion, the highest award within our fraternity, at an event in Houston, Texas this November. In AEPi’s nearly 100 year history, The Order of The Lion has only been awarded to 48 individuals. Sam Blustein is a deserving addition to the ranks. ✦
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“Community Champion”
Partnership 20-years in the Making After pursuing their own paths of practicing law, Jason Cohn, Southern California 1994, and Saar Swartzon, Southern California 1995, connected in 2008 to co-found their own firm, Cohn & Swartzon, P.C.. Brothers from their undergraduate years, Jason and Saar often discuss how fortunate they were to have met 20 years ago to now to be in business together for the years to come.
Adam Goodman, Arizona State, Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix board member, and president of Goodman’s Interior Structures, was recognized as a “Community Champion” by The Arizona Community Foundation.
Rutgers Alum Receives Scarlet Oak Bruce Kesselman, Rutgers 1973, Past Regional Governor, received the Scarlet Oak Meritorious Service award for over 25 years of volunteer activities on behalf of Rutgers University. A founding member of the Alumni Band and Alumni Association representative to the Rutgers Alumni Interfraternity Council, Bruce edits 46 Union Street, a historical overview of Rutgers from 1956-2006 through the eyes of Alpha Epsilon Pi alumni.
Distinguished Service Award Presented
Three Generations Jack Lubin, Florida 1954, Noah Lubin, Brown 2015, and Seth South, Florida 1987
Paul M. Kurtz, Vanderbilt 1986, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Georgia School of Law, was presented the
Distinguished Service Award by the School of Law’s Alumni Association at a presentation in June. Former student N. Karen Deming had this to say: “[Kurtz] indeed did help us through the thicket of the law … and [he] most definitely taught us by [his] example that one’s dreams, one’s work, one’s hopes and ambitions and goals can be taken seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.”
Mr. President Lanny Marks, Tulane 1983, was named President of the Greater Boca Raton Estate Planning Council for 2012-2013.
“Reverse Auctions: A Failure of Leadership.” Jacob Ruytenbeek, Florida State 2004, presented at the World Congress for the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) in Boston, Massachusetts on the topic of “Reverse Auctions: A Failure of Leadership.” Ruytenbeek authored this paper to discuss the influencing factors as to whether one should negotiate or auction within the procurement context. His paper was selected by the Oversight Committee of NCMA for publication in the October 2012 edition of Contract Management Magazine. Ruytenbeek was also recognized as the “Distinguished Graduate” for the NCMA Contract Management Leadership Development Program Class of 2011-2012.
8th-degree Black Belt Alberto Friedmann, Emerson 1990, who holds an 8th-degree black belt, coached Team USA’s 48 athletes to 69 Gold Medals, 40 Silver Medals, and 28 Bronze Medals at the World Martial Arts Games in Austria in August 2012.
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Supreme Master
Elan S. Carr, California–Berkeley 1990 How does it feel to take over as Supreme Master of Alpha Epsilon Pi?
It’s incredibly exciting. This is a great honor and of course a great responsibility. When I contemplate the size of our Fraternity, it’s remarkable — we have more than 85,000 living Brothers, including some 8,500 students on 170 campuses throughout the United States, Canada, Israel, and Europe. We’re a very large operation. But more than anything else, I feel so excited by the opportunity to make a difference. An American statesman once said that it is a great virtue for men and women to nurture the institutions that have nurtured them. AEPi has given me so much and enriched me in so many ways, and I consider myself truly blessed to be in a position to make our Fraternity even better, even stronger, and even more impactful than we have been. What is it about AEPi that excites you?
What excites me most of all is that we are ensuring the future of the Jewish people, one Brother at a time. We rush some of the best, brightest, and most talented Jewish kids in the world, and we
give them the best friends of their lives and memories to last a lifetime, all the while honing their leadership skills and dramatically deepening their Jewish identity and their commitment to the Jewish people. When our Brothers graduate college, they not only get an academic degree, but they also get a degree in Jewish leadership. No other organization in the world is doing what we’re doing, and the impact we’re making is profound and lasting. That excites me. When you were an undergraduate, did you know you’d be involved as an alumnus?
I actually got involved in AEPi International while I was an undergraduate. As early as my sophomore year at the University of California, I would travel from Berkeley to other parts of the state to help start AEPi colonies and informally advise chapters. I loved helping out the Brothers, and I made lifelong friends in the process. So, yes, it seemed natural to me then that I would remain involved. But I remember how awed I was by the office of Supreme Master and by the amazing Brothers who served in that role. I never imagined that I might one day be sitting in that chair. It’s quite amazing. What are you most proud of in AEPi?
That’s easy — our Brothers. The quality, decency, character, and commitment of our Brothers, both undergraduate and alumni, fill me with pride. AEPi Brothers are mensches. They are the best friends you could have, the greatest guys you could meet, the finest men any Jewish girl could marry, and the best leaders you could select for our people. Our Brothers inspire me every day to work hard for our Fraternity. Aside from your day job as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles, many know that you’re also a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve. Tell us more about that. Why do you serve in the military? The Lion
Fall 2012
I believe in service to country and community. Americans are the beneficiaries of so much. We are awash with the privileges that this country confers. It was during my study of law at Northwestern that I decided I wanted to give back and serve in uniform. I commissioned in the Army before 9/11, and it was a great feeling even then. But after that horrific attack, to serve in the armed forces of the United States, and to play however small a role in defending our country and fighting our enemies, is an overwhelming privilege. I am so proud of the many AEPi Brothers who serve in their countries’ armed forces or in the Israel Defense Forces, and that number is growing every year. And you’re a war veteran as well, correct? What was that like?
Yes, I spent nearly a year on military deployment in Iraq. It was all the more interesting an experience because I myself am an Iraqi Jew. My family fled Iraq in 1950 as persecuted refugees, and I ended up going back there as an officer of a liberating army. What a twist! I helped lead an anti-terrorism team in missions throughout the country, which was an amazing experience. And then my tour was extended and I was assigned to prosecute terrorists in an Iraqi court. I was really fortunate to get some great assignments while I was there. And I also had the opportunity to take part in a special pleasure: I led Hanukkah services and weekly Shabbat services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. By the way, I didn’t ask Saddam’s permission to do that. What is so important about AEPi’s Centennial?
The Centennial is not only a celebration of our stunning success over the last 100 years, but it’s also an opportunity to take our brotherhood to the next level. We intend for 2013 to mark the launch of AEPi to an entirely new league, in terms of our size, our reputation, our influence, and our programming. And all of this will culminate in what promises to be the three most inspiring and moving days in AEPi history. ✦ aepi.org
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