Zeta Beta Tau, national Jewish college fraternity, will hold its thirty-sixth annual convention here from December 28 to 31, it was announced today.
The four-day conclave which will be attended by several hundred representatives of colleges throughout the country, will include meetings, dinners and dances and will wind up with the fraternity’s annual New Year’s Eve ball.
Irving Fane of this city is chairman of tre pre-arrangements committee.
Zeta Beta Tau is known as the donor of the Gottheil Medal, given each year to the American who has done the most for Jewry Eight medals to date have been awarded.
Founded in 1898, the fraternity has thirty-four chapters at the principal universities of the United States and Canada and thirty-five alumni clubs in the principal cities.
National officers include Herbert E. Steiner, New York City, president; James Frank, Jr., Philadelphia, treasurer; and David Berelson, San Francisco, secretary.
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