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PAGE 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 14, 1986
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When Beverly Davis was elected
national president of B’nai B’rith
Women two years ago, she did not
see her role as sitting in New York
giving directions. “One of the best
things about being president of
B’nai B’rith Women.” she says, “is
the ability to travel to places like
Atlanta and all the cities across this
country and Canada to meet the
constituents. That s where I get a
feel about our organization—what
we are, who we are, the kind of
people we attract and what they’re
thinking.”
And travel she has. Not only on
this continent, but to Israel, South
America and to represent her organ
ization at last summer’s United
Nations Conference on Women in
Nairobi.
Blonde, chic and vivacious, Mrs.
Davis described her peripatetic
during an interview at The Southern
Israelite offices after a two-day visit
with Atlanta BBW members in
mid-January. She chuckles when
she says, “I've learned to pack and
unpack a suitcase very quickly.”
Admitting that the heavy travel
schedule can get strenuous at times,
she says she’s learned to cope with
it because, “Very often when you’re
on the top, you don’t always know
what’s going on down below and I
don’t believe you can run an organ
ization unless you really know what
the people are thinking at the grass
roots, because these are the people
who do all the work; they are really
the important part of the organ
ization.”
Shepherded by Connie Giniger,
Beverly Davis (left) with Kdie
Council of B’nai B’rith Women
BBW’s regional director, Mrs. Davis
had come to The Southern Israelite
directly from a meeting with senior
citizens of the B’nai B’rith Unit at
the Jewish Tower and her enthus
iasm was catching. “When you see
how vital they are for their years
and how they’re interested in every
thing that our organization does, it
gives me inspiration and a new
revitalization to go on and do
things.”
Not all aspects of Beverly Davis’s
term have been revitalizing. The
past 17 months have been especially
strenuous because of circumstances
which appeared for a time to be
heading toward a “divorce” in the
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B’nai B’rith family.
As Davis explains it: “At the
September 1984 biennial of B’nai
B’rith International (the structure
for men’s lodges), a recommenda
tion was brought to the convention
that women be allowed to join B’nai
B’rith (men’s lodges) as equal mem
bers.” That, she says, was a depar
ture “and we B’nai B’rith Women
took objection to that.”
Explaining the present structure
of the B’nai B’rith family, Davis
cited three vehicles of membership.
Men, under the overall heading of
B’nai B’rith International, belong to
lodges; the women’s independent
organization is B’nai B’rith Women,
whose members belong to BBW
chapters; and men and women both
may belong to the same group in a
relatively new concept called units.
In units, however, women's member
ship is still through B’nai B’rith
Women and men’s membership
through B’nai B’rith.
The idea that women be allowed
to join B’nai B’rith lodges was
immediately objected to by Davis
and her colleagues. “I felt that if
women joined the men's organzation,
they would be creating at the local
levels, like Atlanta, competition for
the same woman member. We felt it
would dilute our strength and be
detrimental to our organization.
She said, too, that “We have a
totally different agenda as a Jewish
woman’s organization. We have
established our identity and people
will listen to us because our agenda
is primarily for women."
Before the B’nai B’rith Internation
al biennial was over last September,
a subsequent recommendation was
offered that essentially called lor a
plan to be offered at the 1986 bien
nial which would call lor oqual
representation and integration ot
women into B’nai B’rith and that
every effort should be made to
have B’nai B’rith Women engage in
the deliberations that would bring
forth such a plan.
Alter two meetings between repre
sentatives of the men’s and w omen s
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