B’nai Brith Starts $150,000 Drive for Bellefaire Home

Preliminary pledges totalling $5,000 served to start the $150,000 membership campaign launched by Bellefaire, the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home, it was announced by Louis H. Schwarzenberg, chairman of the campaign committee, at the annual meeting of the board of trustees and directors this week.

Of the preliminary pledges announced at the dedication of B’nai Brith Hall, which was attended by graduates of the Home and representatives of the B’nai Brith who came from 16 states, $2,000 was received from the alumni. The continued support of the graduates in the campaign for maintenance subscriptions to cover the accumulated and anticipated deficit was promised by their president, George I. Wirpel, of Chicago.

The following officers were reelected: Fred Lazarus, Jr., Columbus, Ohio, president; Adolph Finsterwald, Detroit, vice-president; Max E. Meisel, Cleveland, treasurer of the sinking fund; Alfred A. Benesch, Cleveland, treasurer of the general fund; Stella S.Lazarus, Cleveland, recording secretary; Edna Belle Diamond, Cleveland, financial secretary; Samuel Gross, chairman of local board, and George W. Furth, vice-chairman of the local board.

Sol S. Kiser, of Indianapolis, past president of the Home, was master of ceremonies at the dedication ceremony. Samuel Goldstein, of Lorain, first vice-president of District Grand Lodge No. 2, represented his district. He related the history of the Home which was founded by the B’nai Brith sixty-three years ago. William Sultan, of Chicago, past president of District Grand Lodge No. 6 of the B’nai Brith, and a trustee of Bellefaire, spoke on behalf of his district.

The tablet bearing the inscription: “B’nai Brith Hall-Erected as a tribute to the B’nai Brith which conceived and dedicated this Home in consecration of the principle of brotherly love,” was unveiled by eight-year old Marian Weimer, one of the three hundred children who live at the Home.