2006
OCTOBER
Student Financial Aid Awards Two Grants for 2006 By Art Poulten
The winners of the 2006 Touro Fraternal Association Scholarships received their grants at the Association’s headquarters. Shown, from left, are Alan Lury, chairman of the Touro Student Financial Aid Committee; Jared Sugerman and Merredith Rappoport, grant recipients, and Robert Miller, chairman of Touro’s board of directors.
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Arthur Poulten Roasted September 20, 2006
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By Howard Custis
n Sept. 20 th the Touro membership gathered for the roast of Arthur Poulten, Chairman Emeritus of the Board. A Touro member since 1962, Art rose through the ranks of Touro becoming Chairman of the Board in 1989 and serving until he retired in 2001. As a chairman for 10 consecutive terms he retains a permanent voting seat on the board. Whereas past chairmen held meetings in restaurants using paper napkins to write their meeting agendas on, Art and his crew conducted their meetings in our own Touro building’s boardroom with a copy of a formal, printed agenda for each person present. Under Art’s stewardship he and his team started programs too numerous to list here. Our student aid program whose dynamic expansion ($200K in disbursements with no delinquencies) Art attributes to the hard work of Touro’s present leadership. The team preserved Poulten Roast - continued page 5
2006 March of the Living
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young woman entering her senior year in college and a young man beginning his freshman year are the recipients of the 2006 Touro Fraternal Association $3,000 scholarship grants. Merredith Rappoport of Johnston and Jared Sugerman of Cranston were selected from a large pool of applicants for the annual scholarships made available to Touro members and their children by the Association. The applications were screened by Touro’s Student Financial Aid Committee, which was chaired by Touro board member Alan Lury. In addition to the grants, 11 other children of Touro members shared in $25,000 in interest-free student loans. It marks the 26th consecutive year that Touro has provided interest-free loans to qualified members Financial Aid - continued page 3
By Andy Lamchick
Inside This Issue
Sizing Up Stu, see page 3
From the Chairman ........................ 2 Social Scene...................................... 2 As I See It......................................... 3 Touro Golf Results........................... 4 New Brothers Inducted.................... 6 Out and About................................. 7
Pictured (l-r) Touro's 2006 March of the Living recipients Shaina Lamchick, Emily Gold, and Ashley Fernald
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eing the Chairman of the Community Involvement has its privileges, among them, the follow-up phone calls to needy organizations to let them know that Touro is able to help them financially. The excitement and appreciation they feel transmits directly through the phone wires. March - continued page 6 ~ ~