• Officers
• Members-At-Large
• Executive Director

• Past Presidents
• Honorary Past Presidents
• Committees

President
Mark Friedman
Los Angeles, CA

Vice President
Albert Bloomfield
Manalaphan, NJ

Secretary
Joyce Torchinsky
Washington, DC

Treasurer
Leon Komm
Getzville (Buffalo), NY

Immediate Past President
Martin J. Birnbaum
Syracuse, NY

Marc Benjamin (term expires 2008)
Toronto, Ontario Canada

James Cohen (term expires 2009)
Denver, CO

Jason Goldstein (term expires 2009)
Atlantic City, NJ

Ira Levinson (term expires 2008)
Baltimore, MD

Charles Salomon (term expires 2008)
New York City, NY

Franklin O.L. Steinberg (term expires 2009)
Manhasset, NY

Robert Zimmerman (term expires 2009)
Springfield, MA

The Chairman of the Education and Public Information Committee, Mindy Moline Botbol, is an ex officio member of the Executive Committee.

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1932 * Herbert Berger
St. Louis, MO

1935 * Bernard Danzansky
Washington, DC

1936 * Judah Rosenberg
Philadelphia, PA

1939 * Ralph Schugar
Pittsburgh, PA

1942 * Max Sugarman
Providence, RI

1943 * Isador Alpert
New York, NY

1945 * Manuel Stanetsky
Brookline, MA

1946 * Albert Kasdan
Brooklyn, NY

1947 * Charles E. Kaye
Chicago, IL

1948 * Benjamin F. Solomon
Brookline, MA

1949 * Morton Etkin
Buffalo, NY

1950 * Leonard S. Labowitch
Cleveland, OH

1951 * Isaac Nieberg
New York, NY

1952 * Harry Groman
Los Angeles, CA

1953 * Milton Yaffe
Chicago, IL

1954 * Ira Kaufman
Detroit, MI

1955 * Samuel Berkowitz
Cleveland, OH

1956 * Leonard A. Levine
Philadelphia, PA

1957 * Fred Goodman
Milwaukee, WI

1958 * Sigmund Danzansky
Washington, DC

1959 * Irving Glasband
Los Angeles, CA

1960 Joseph M. Morris
Brooklyn, NY

1961 * Jack J. Louis
Kansas City, MO

1962 * Samuel Paperman
Montreal, QUE

1963 * Marvin A. Stein
St. Louis, MO

1964 Burton L. Hirsch
Pittsburgh, PA

1965 * Edward T. Newman
Miami Beach, FL

1966 H. Seymour Weinstein
New York, NY

1967 * Louis J. Freehof
San Francisco, CA

1968 Louis Schlossberg
Boston, MA

1969 Morton M. Silverman
Los Angeles, CA

1970 * Leon Hyman
Brooklyn, NY

1971 Burton E. Goodman
Milwaukee, WI

1972 Larrie S. Blasberg
Miami Beach, FL

1973 Seymour L. Mandel
Chicago, IL

1974 Bennett Goldstein
Philadelphia, PA

1975 Herbert Paperman
Montreal, QUE

1976 Jack (Sonny) Meyer
Louisville, KY

1977 Stanley Louis
Kansas City, MO

1978 Andrew Fier
New York, NY

1979 Robert W. LeVine
Brookline, MA

1980 Joseph S. Roth
Skokie, IL

1981 Richard W. Stein
St. Louis, MO

1982 Sonny Levitt
Miami, FL

1983 Melvyn G. Mesnekoff
Buffalo, NY

1984 Herbert Kaufman
Southfield, MI

1985 Norman Cutler
Wilmette, IL

1986 Robert Schoem
Paramus, NJ

1987-88 Andrew Fier
New York, NY

1989-90 Michael Benjamin
Toronto, ONT

1991-93 Mark Weissman
Fort Lauderdale, FL

1993-95 Robert Weil
Cincinnati, OH

1995-97 * Arthur Grossberg
Hollywood, FL

1997-99 Jill Glasband
West Hollywood, CA

1999 - 2001 Steven C. Dranow
Spring Valley, NY

2001-2003 Sonny Levitt
North Miami, FL

2003-2005 * Kenneth R. Kornhauser
Dix Hills, NY

2005-2007 Martin Birnbaum
Syracuse, NY

* Deceased

1950 * Mose H. Bernstein
Athens, GA

1951 * Jack Lewis
Baltimore, MD

1952 * Harry Nieberg
New York, NY

1954 * Maurice L. Rapheld
San Francisco, CA

1958 * Norman Roth
St. Louis, MO

1960 * Harry Gordon
Miami, FL

1960 * Irving Blasberg
Miami Beach, FL

1960 * David Hirsch
Bronx, NY

1960 * Arthur Mandel
Chicago, IL

1961 * Louis Weinstein
New York, NY

1961 * Albert Sacks
Philadelphia, PA

1962 * Abraham Paperman
Montreal, QUE

1962 * Samuel Paperman
Montreal, QUE

1962 * Bernard Schwartz
Philadelphia, PA

1963 * Harry Kirschenbaum
Brooklyn, NY

1965 * Saul Kumin
Cleveland, OH

1966 * Carl Grossberg
New York

1966 * Jack Goldstein
Philadelphia, PA

1966 * Joseph Goldstein
Philadelphia, PA

1967 * Samuel E. Willen
Los Angeles, CA

1967 * Harry Kumin
Cleveland, OH

1969 * Alex A. Berger
Philadelphia, PA

1972 * Charles A. Alpert
New York, NY

1976 * David Musicant
Hackensack, NJ

1978 * Nathan Mesnekoff
Buffalo, NY

1979 * Herman Goldberg
Rockville, MD

1980 Gordon Weil, Jr.
Cincinnati, OH

1980 * Edward J. Levy
Houston, TX

1986 Joel S. Kirschenbaum
Brooklyn, NY

1989 * John J. Benjamin
Toronto, ONT

1989 Robert L. Gordon
Akron, OH

1991 * Hyman J. Torf
Chelsea, MA

1993 Alan Yaffe
Chicago, IL

1995 Seymour Bensman
Whitefish Bay, WI

1995 Seymour Resnick
Fresh Meadows, NY

1995 Franklin O. L. Steinberg
Manhasset, NY

1996 Joel W. Weinstein
Wilmette, IL

2001 * Jules Furth
Chicago, IL

2007 Charles Salomon
New York City, NY

* Deceased

Donations and Contributions
Gene Kaufman, Chairperson
Leslie Bloomfield
Deborah Torf Golden
Eric Goldstein

Education and
Public Information
James Cohen, Chairperson

Executive Seminar
Michael Rosenthal, Co-Chairperson
Lynda Shayer, Co-Chairperson
Mindy Moline Botbol
Christine Feingold
Jason Goldstein
Eileen Meyer Renco
David Rubin

Grievance and Complaint
Michael Benjamin, Co-Chairperson
Sonny Levitt, Co-Chairperson
Joel Kirschenbaum

Group Purchasing
Bruce Jacobs, Co-Chairperson
Jay Mesnekoff, Co-Chairperson

Internet
Laurence Paperman, Chairperson
Michael Levitt
Philip Weinstein

Scholarship
Jordan Benjamin, Chairperson
Elaine Birnbaum
Michael Blasberg
Mindy Moline Botbol
Jason Goldstein
Matthew Kessler
Cindy Komm
Eileen Meyer Renco

Strategic Planning
Mark Friedman, Chairperson
Martin Birnbaum
Albert Bloomfield
James Cohen
Jill Glasband
Sonny Levitt
Eileen Norman Perice
Robert Weil
Alan Yaffe

Tripartite
Bennett Goldstein, Chairperson