A communal dinner will be held here on October 24 in celebration of the seventieth birthday of Alfred M. Cohen, former Ohio State Senator and international president of the Independent Order B’nai Brith.
Mr. Cohen will be seventy years of age on October 19, having been born in Cincinnati on that day in 1859. He was educated in the Cincinnati public schools and is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School.
Senator Cohen has been the head of the I. O. B. B. since 1925. He is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College. In 1900 he was the Democratic and Independent Republican nominee for mayor of Cincinnati, he served twice as Presidential elector and was president of the Ohio Electoral College. He is president of the People’s Bank and Savings Company.
Mr. Cohen was secretary of Rockdale Avenue Temple from the age of 24 to 50 and is past president of the Temple. At 17, he was founder and president of the Cincinnati Young Men’s Hebrew Association and later served as national president of the Y. M. H. A. His interest in youth was also evidenced by his leadership in having B’nai B’rith establish Hillel Foundations for Jewish students at various universities.
In honor of his birthday, B’nai B’rith is naming all groups of initiates until January 1, 1930, the “Alfred M. Cohen Classes.”
The dinner will be held at the Hotel Alma and the speakers will include Mayor Murray Seasongood, Dr. David Philipson and Sidney K. Kusworm, of Dayton, Ohio, past president of District No. 2 of B’nai B’rith. Leonard H. Freiberg will be toastmaster and Carl E. Pritz is Chairman for the dinner.
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