Aleph Zadik Aleph, the B’nai B’rith organization of teen-age boys, closed its 38th annual convention last night, electing Sheldon Zimmerman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Toronto, as president. He is the first Canadian ever to head the organization, which is comprised of 18,000 members.
The 17th annual convention of B’nai B’rith Girls ended here today with the election of Marcia Goren, Houston, Texas, as president for the next twelve months. Miss Goren, 18, is a freshman at the University of Texas and served last year as the organization’s vice-president for programing.
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