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know this fact, it is difficult for me
to touch upon this subject. But I
have been gradually preparing the
groundwork by discussing his fu
ture, the possibility of his mar
riage in some time to come, and
especially his building of a home
for himself. He is not as alert,
mentally, as the other paraplegics
I know. He seeks for his com
panions Christian boys rather than
Jewish associates. I do not know
whether this represents a flight
from Judaism as well as a flight
from the reality of his physical
condition. In my contacts with him
I have found that he has built a
wall behind which he wants to hide
himself or a vital phase of his life.
The sum and substance of the
whole matter is that I find the para
plegics are in many respects like
other patients at the hospital, “only
more so.” But whereas the ordi
nary patient at the V.A. hospital
feels that a cure may be found for
him, no matter how ravaging the
disease from which he is suffering,
the paraplegic, in most cases is
crippled and handicapped for life.
The use of a leg or an arm or the
nervous system cannot be restored,
though they can be considerably
rehabilitated. Thus, there is a
greater need for giving these men
more comfort and more under
standing. At the Cushing Hospital
physicians, nurses, attendants and
Red Cross people, and, I like to
think chaplains — including the
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish —
have tried to be as helpful as possi
ble in order to enable the para
plegic to carry his burden more
easily and to make himself as inte
grated a member of society as
possible.
Phi Ep Convention
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at the Standard Club. Bill Clarke’s
band will play for the dance. At the
dance the Phi Ep Dream Girl will
be crowned.
Heading the convention com
mittees are: Eugene Oberdorfer,
General Chairman; Herbert A.
Ringel, Vice-Chairman; Morris W.
Macey, Vice-Chairman; T. L.
Waxelbaum, Convention Affairs;
Sam Massel, Jr., Liaison Officer.
Past and present national offi
cers of Phi Ep who live in Atlanta
are: Eugene Oberdorfer, Past
Grand Superior; Eugene Zaeharias,
Past Grand Superior; Morris W.
Macey, Member of Grand Council;
Joseph J. Fine, Past Grand Coun
cilor, and Rabbi Jack M. Roths
child, Grand Chaplain.
Present officers of the National
Fraternity are: Norman Korff,
Grand Superior, Chicago; Milton
K. Susman, Grand Vice-Superior,
Pittsburg; Stanley R. Sundheim,
Grand Treasurer, Philadelphia;
Louis D. Traurig, Grand Recorder,
Waterbury, Conn.; Robert L. Adler,
Grand Councilor, Chicago; Robert
G. Sandler, Grand Councilor, Des
Moines; Morris W. Macey, Grand
Councilor, Atlanta; Paul B. Spiwak,
Executive Secretary, Philadelphia.
The Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity
maintains offices in Philadelphia in
the Lewis Tower Building.
Phi Epsilon Pi has chapters at
the following Southern colleges:
University of Virginia, Washington
and Lee College, Georgia Institute
of Technology, University of Geor
gia, Memphis State College, North
Carolina State College, Louisiana
State University, Miami Univer
sity and the University of South
Carolina. These chapters are grow
ing with the South. The University
of Georgia Chapter has just pur
chased a handsome new house and
the chapter at Georgia Tech is con
tracting to build a modernistic
house in the near future.
In addition to the recipient of
the National Service Award, whose
identity must remain undisclosed
until the award is presented at the
Stag Banquet, Ben Kartman, Editor
of Coronet Magazine; Harold Gold
man, Iowa industrialist; Victor Le
vine, Miami attorney and others
will be present.
All eyes will be focused on Phi
Ep and on Atlanta, September 8,
9 and 10, as Atlanta proudly serves
host to the friends and fraternity
brothers of its fine citizens who
wear the Phi Ep pin as alumni
mingle with college men in a
nostalgic atmosphere of “Auld
Lang Syne”.
He Had No Time
A Jew hurriedly walking past an East Side synagogue was stopped.
“Please come in. We need another man for a yahrzeit.”
“You may have a yahrzeit,” said the passerby, “but 1 haven’t got
a minute zeit.”
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Translating Yiddish
Mrs. Meyer suffered from a bad cold. She took her, Abie, along
with her when she went to the doctor, because Mrs. Meyer had never
learned to speak English.
The doctor told her to put her tongue out. He put a thermometer
in her mouth and took her temperature.
“You have a bad cold,” said the doctor. “How long have you had
it?” Mrs. Meyer didn't understand the question. The doctor told Abie
to ask his mother how long she had the cold.
Mrs. Meyer replied in Yiddish that she had the cold since Tisha
B’Ab.
Abie translated this for the doctor. “Doctor, mama says she has
had the cold since the destruction of Jerusalem!”
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