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PAGE 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 14, 1986 2S2S2S2S2S2S2S2SZSZS^S2SHS2SHS?5ZSZS2S252SaS2S2S2S2SZ& The Royal Treatment BBW’s Davis aims to keep B’nai B’rith family together Banquet room available for large parties. Private Party rooms also available. Reservations on parties of six or more. "Fast take out service" AUTHENTIC MANDARIN AND SZECHUAN CUISINE EMPRESSof CHINA M 4251 North Peachtree Rd., (% mile inside 1-285) CHAMBLEE 451-1216 l AS2S2S2SH5252S252525252S25Z5Z52SZ5252S2525HS252525^15252SZS2S2S2525H52S2SZSHS2S(lS<Li>i! □YER&DYER Z'y^JOoC EUROPEAN DELIVERY CENTER U S. MODELS AT EUROPEAN PRICES SAVE THOUSANDS 1986 BMW 325 .......... . $15,900 1986 Saab 9000 Turbo ......... $19,750 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300 E $31,175 1986 Volvo DL . . . ........... $12,255 .1986 Saab 900 Turbo ......... $16,195 1986 Mercedes-Benz 500 SEC . . $53,720 OTHER MODELS AVAR-ABLE SALES AND LEASING Call Roger Beard Today DYER & DYER 5260 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Chamblee, GA 30341 (404) 452-0077 800-286-6016 In Georgia 800-241-3061 Outside GA. AUDI • BMW • MERCEDES-BENZ VOLVO • PORSCHE • SAAB • FERRARI By Vida Goldgar 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 U a LOVE” AND UNDERSTANDING”. TWO WORDS THAT ARE OUR FOUNDATION AND OUR PLEDGE While undoubtedly KING SPRINGS VILLAGE Health Care Center provides the finest nursing facilities in the South, our goal is to make our residents comfortable, happy, and secure by providing the ultimate in professional care and a wide range of social and recreational programs. That’s why KING SPRINGS VILLAGE Health Care Center provides the little “extras” that assure a feeling of privacy, dignity, and independence. Our emphasis is always on the quality of life. Extra care . . . Extra service Extra interest. Let us show you “love" and “understanding” in action. You are warmly invited to visit and observe firsthand our wide range of social and recreational programs, and to meet our dedicated staff. We are confident that you will like what you see. KING SPRINGS VILLAGE HEALTH CARE CENTER 404 King Springs Village Pkwy. Smyrna, Georgia 30080 (404) 432-4444 Dave Morgan, Administrator Kosher Meals upon Request Approved tor Medir ..re Admissions seven days a Please I all lot more mini i or drop l,y lor ,i Ic; Owned By Henry & Barbara Grossberg Israel & y etra Goldberg Rappaport, president of the Atlanta 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 Continued next page-