University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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- 1 Wx 1,7 xi 3 ' l a n Beta Tau Kappa Bios, Terprir, Koinoler - Friendship is the joy of life - with this key- note six jewish men on the campus started a fraternity in September, 1932. They were Morris Fisher, president, William Osheroff, secretary--treasurer, Joe Greenstone, Max Altshielder, Harold Kort, and Milton Wolsky. Sponsor was Dr. Claude Stimson of the department of economics. At the end of its first year the fraternity stood highest scholastically among its brother organizations. Also at the end of its first school year Beta Tau Kappa received a charter from the University. The following year Dr. Wilfred Payne became co-sponsor with Dr. Stim- son. New members were pledged, among them Macy Baum, later to become the connecting link between the old Beta Tau Kappa and the present group. That year C1933-19345 the fraternity fared well, but during the next year the number of Jewish students in the school, and consequently in the fraternity, began to decline. At the end of the year 1935-36 Macy Baum was Beta Tau Kappa. Attempts were made C1936-371 to revive the organization, but not until May, 1938, was it reorganized. The first semester of 1938-39, BTK was a pledge organization in the Inter-Fraternity Council, and it assumed active membership the second semester. Mr. Harry F. Fore is present sponsor. --Azzzsiz E i if 5 1-ii ia: 2 H -i .

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Ainsworth, Baker, E. Brown, K. Brown, Burton, Cannell, Carr, Cook Dawson, Hansen, Heacock, Hefllinger, Jacobson, Jelen, Robert Johnson, Russell Johnson Kite, Knoll, Kovarik, Krogh, Maxwell, McKenna, Morton, Nelson Nicholson, Nickerson, Nygren, Peasley, Rickerson, XYalcli, lYendell, VVrigl1t Prerident . Vice-Prerident . S ecremry . Treamrer . H ome Manager . Spomon' . ACTIVES Howard Baker Keith Brown William Burton Herbert Cannell Kenneth Carr Richard Cook joseph Dawson Roland Deaton Wayne Hansen Robert Heacock Robert Hefllinger Myron Jacobson Jerry Jelen DR. C. W. HELMSTADTER, Robert johnson Russell Johnson Darrel Kite Allan Knoll James Kovarik Phil Krogh Fred Kroll Sidney Landers Drew Maxwell Clifton Nelsen Richard Nicholson Carl Nygren Lysle Renne . ROBERT JOHNSON JOSEPH DAWSON . SIDNEY LANDERS . ALLAN KNOLL . ROBERT HEACOCK WILBUR T. MEEK, R. B. CRANE John Rickerson james Waldie Ray Wendell PLEDGES Phillip Ainsworth Elliott Brown Harold McKenna James Morton Gilbert Nickerson Darrell Peasley Clarence Rockwell Robert Whited john Wright

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.3 Adler, Alperson, Block, Delrogh, Friedrnan . Kaplan, Saferstein, Stein, Wolfson, wVS1I15tE1!1 Preridemf . Secretary-Treamrer . H irtorim . S pomor . ACTIVES Sam Adler Max Delrogh Albert Friedman Earl Kaplan Morris Kirshenbaum Melvin Radman Jack Saferstein Edward Stein Nathan Wolfson NATHAN WOLFSON ALBERT FRIEDMAN EDWARD STEIN HARRY F. FORE PLEDGES Leo Alperson Irving Block Harry Gorelick Jack Feinstein Nathan Kraft Herman Weinstein