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This was not to
be another typical high school or college class reunion. Instead, on
September 9, 2006 well over 250 men, (well over 400 attendees) aged
26 (Jacob Lohser) to 90 (Paul Milner), gathered as brothers at the
Beachwood Marriott, not to celebrate the anniversary of their
graduation but the founding of their Cleveland Heights High School
fraternity, B.A.T., established 77 years earlier on September 10th
1929, one month before the stock market crash of 1929. Most, from
their affluent suburb of Cleveland Heights, went on to college, then
into the professions: medicine, law, education, business, the arts,
the military. Many, troublemakers in their callow youth as active
members, gained local renown, some, national. Albert Ratner ’46 is
CEO of Forest City Enterprises was the main speaker at the dinner
dance, Amongst the attendees were Robert Goldberg, President of Ohio
Savings, the Belkin Brothers, Jules and Mike, household name as
impresarios of entertainment, the first to bring in the first names:
Frank, Elvis, Madonna. Doctor and Lawyers? Dime a dozen....
Read the review by Kevin Goodman here
Thanks to your 77th Reunion committee for a fantastic top class BAT reunion weekend!
Archie Berk, Co-Chair and Treasurer, Bill Berk,
Co-chair and Program Chairman, Kevin Goodman Co-Chair and Secretary , Jules Belkin Program Committee Co-Chair,
Saul Isler, MC of evening and Battyhoo author.
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