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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Col. Oberdorfer receiving Third Oak Leaf Cluster for his Commenda
tion Rihbon ut parade review Riven in his honor recently at Rohins
Air Base in Macon. —AIR FORCE PHOTO
Col. Oberdorfer Ends Military
Career With Retirement Nov.20
Col. Eugene Oberdorfer, long
time Atlanta civic and commun
al leader, will reach his sixtieth
birthduy on November 20 and
will be retired by the Air Force
after a military career covering
thirty-one years, active and re
serve.
He was honored recently at a
parade at Warner Robins Air
Field when he was awarded a
Third Oak Leaf Cluster for his
Commendation Ribbon.
The Atlantan who is chairman
of the Third Army Area for the
Jewish Welfare Board-Armed
Services Division began his mil
itary career in 1912.when as a
private in the 5th Georgia In
fantry, he served with Gen. Per
shing on the Mexican border.
During World War I he was
infantry commandant at the
Third Officers Training Camp at
Camp Wheeler, Macon. He had
been retired in November, 1950,
as a Brigadier General, National
Guard of Georgia.
Following Pearl Harbor, he ten
dered his services to the Armed
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Forces in any capacity needed
at the time. General Arnold,
commanding general of the Army
Air Force, invited him to join
in the Training Command pro
gram of the Air Force, but apolo
gized that since he had no aero
nautical rating, he could only
offer a rating of major.
Though urged to wait until the
Army activated its more inten
sive infantry program, Col. Ober
dorfer was intent upon serving
his nation at the earliest pos
sible moment and accepted the
assignment. He was shortly pro
moted to lieutenant colonel and
shortly thereafter to the grade of
colonel. He served throughout
World War II, remaining in the
Air Force Reserve throughout
the years that followed.
On several occasions, he was
recommended for a promotion to
Brigadier General but these rat
ings were given primarily to pi
lots. Without the rating however,
he held a reserve mobilization
assignment normally held by a
brigadier general. This was as
Deputy Commanding General of
the Warner Robins Air Material
Area at Robins Air Force Base.
In Atlanta he has been pri
marily active before World War
II and afterwards in promoting
community services for men and
women in uniform through the
Jewish Welfare Board. He was
associated with Oberdorfer In
surance Co. until recently when
he resigned to devote his ener
gies exclusively to the presi
dency of the Empire Realty and
Mortgage Co., the American In
surance Company of Atlanta.
His wife has been outstanding
in leadership of the Atlanta Jew
ish Welfare Fund campaign and
the Atlanta Section, National
Council of Jewish Women.
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Lobel Bar Mitzvah
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lobel of At
lanta announce the Bar Mitzvah
of their son Joel Charles Lobel
at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 17,
at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. A
Kiddush honoring Joel will fol
low. No cards.
Mr. and Mrs. Lobel will honor
Joel at an Open House from 2
to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, at
the Ahavath Achim Educational
Center and at a dance from 7:30
to 11:30 p.m.
Manny Spack Tops
Howlers for Crown
WASHINGTON — Emanuel
Speck, a bowling enthusiast from
Kansas City, Mo., won a national
championship this week. His score
was 109.
Nope, nobody has changed the
pin rules.
B’nai B’rith announced here
that Spack, an expert pin-toppler,
who helped found B’nai B’rith’s
Bowling Association, won first
place in its national membership
contest. In his spare (ooh!) time,
Spack enrolled 109 persons—that’s
better than two a week—as mem
bers of the 113-year-old Jewish
service organization
Spack will receive his awards
Dec. 3 when his enrollees and
several hundred other new mem
bers will be officially initiated in
to Kansas City Lodge by Philip
M. Klutznick of Park Forest, Ill.,
president of B’nai B’rith.
They constitute the Eddie Jac
obson Membership Class, a tri
bute to the late friend and one
time business associate of Presi
dent Truman. Jacobson was an
active member of B’nai B’rith.
Speck, an insurance broker, has
been active in many phases of
B’nai B’rith service activity, in
particular its Anti - Defamation
League, its youth movements and
the Hillel Foundation at the Uni
versity of Missouri. He is a past
president of the Missouri State
Association of B’nai B’rith.
J W It Convention
Recruitment of
Center Workers
MEMPHIS—Aaron Brenner of
Memphis was elected president of
the Southern Section by 318 dele
gates representing Jewish Com
munity Centers in the e leven
Southern States, at the eleventh
annual conference here on Nov.
3.
Elected to serve with Aaron
Brenner, as officers of the South
ern Section, were: David H.
White, Houston, honorary presi
dent; David M. Blumberg of
Knoxville, Eph Charninsky of San
Antonio, Sanford Olasov of Char
leston, and Max Feldman of At
lanta, vice presidents; Victor Rich-
man of Dallas, treasurer; Jay
Markowitz of Tampa, Secretary.
Jewish Center Division represen
tatives are: I. L. Kunian of Nash
ville, and David H. White of
Houston, National Council Repre
sentatives are: Dr. William Axel-
rod of Houston, and Mrs. Milton
Sirkin, Miami Beach. Representa
tives on the JWB Board of Dir
ectors are: FVank Lichtenstein
of San Antonio, Daniel Schianger
of Houston, Henry Shonfield of
Savannah and Julian Zander of
Nashville.
Section elected governors are:
Mrs. Sam Alterman of Atlanta,
George Berke of Chattanooga, P.
N. Coleman of Jacksonville, Mey
er N. Kronenberg of Birmingham,
Hyman Meddin of Charleston,
Lou Klitzner of Memphis, David
Packler of New Orleans, Raymond
Rosen of Sa\ r annah, Sam Seitlin
of Miami, Herbert Shainberg of
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Friday, November 16, 1956
B’nai B’rith Honors Hyman Rubin
COLUMBIA—More than 100 men and women came to honor Hy
man Rubin, assistant mayor and city councilman of Columbia, S.
(’., on Sunday, Oct. 15, at the House of Peace Synagogue when a
class of 23 new B’nai B’rith were inducted into the Josiah Morse
Lodge of B’nai B’rith. Mr. Rubin, a past president of the Lodge and
of Grand Lodge, District 5, was presented with a parchment scroll
commemorating the event containing the names of the new members.
Shown at the presentation are (left to right) Jules Bank, president
elect ol the South Carolina Association of B’nai B’rih Lodges, giving
the scroll to Hyman Rubin; Julius Fisher, executive secretary of DLst.
No. 5 who came from Roanoke, Va., to speak at the occasion, and
Iiyman Simon, president of Josiah Morse Lodge.
Named in the scroll and inducted into the Lodge by Mr. Fisher
were: Rabbi .Marcus Waid, Jules Seiderman, Martin Langer, Ho
ward Kalieka, Joseph E. Winter, Dr. J. J. Alion, Jerry Nadel, II. P.
Rothberg, Harry Levy, Milton I.cvkoff, Dr. Harold Miller, Max
Revelise, Herbert Wallen, Alan J. Reyner, Louis Coplan, Meyer Love,
Peter Ziman, William Kronrad, George A. Port, Edward Zahler,
Jeff Sunshine and Barry Newman.
Memphis, Bernard Weksler of Mi
ami, and Dr. William Wexler of
Savannah, Ga.
In addition to those listed
above, the following Center presi
dents are also members of the
Board of Governors: Eli Abrams,
Corpus Christi; Meyer L. Balser,
Atlanta; Sydney Carter, Augusta;
George Busch, Knoxville; Mitch
ell Bush, Chattanooga; Charles
M. Browne, San Antonio; Nathan
Goldstein, Birmingham; Dr.
Nathan Goldstein, New Orleans;
David Pearlman, Asheville; Klyde
Robinson, Charleston; Sam Schu
ster, Jacksonville; Aaron Shank-
man, Memphis, and Albert Tenen-
baum. Savannah.
Speaking to the delegates on
the topic: ‘‘Docs the Jewish Com
munity Center Serve the Total
Community?” was Charles Aaron
of Chicago, National President,
and Samuel D. Gershovitz, Exe
cutive Vice President of JWB.
As a result of the committee
meetings and sessions held during
the Conference, the Southern Sec
tion has launched a program of
recruitment of new personnel for
Jewish Community Centers in the
South, and will encourage the
establishment, by local Centers,
of national social work scholar
ships to enable young men and
women requiring this assistance to
receive the professional educa
tion which is requisite to Center
work.
By action of the Southern
Board of Governors, Jules Paglin
of New Orleans, Daniel Schianger
of Houston, Dr. William Wexler
of Savannah, and Leon Kaplan
of Miami, all past presidents of
the Southern Section, become
permanent members of the Board
of Governorrs.
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