Delegates to the 113th convention of District 1 of B’nai B’rith called on local school boards today to guard against “sectarian influences upon public school students” under the Federal aid program. In a resolution adopted at the closing session of the convention, the delegates declared that “the public schools have always been and must remain a unifying influence in America’s pluralistic society.” In another resolution, the delegates recommended the establishment of a commission for “service to the aged.”
A Solomon Menter, a Syracuse attorney, was elected president of District I. He succeeds Moses L. Kove. Mrs. Phineas Gordon of Brookline, Mass., was elected president of the District’s women’s group. More than 2,000 delegates, representing 600 B’nai B’rith lodges and chapters from New York and the New England states, attended the four-day convention.
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