Our California chapters, how they were found, trained, and inducted.
Feburary 21, 1960, Brother Bob Greenburg, Supreme Scribe and Exalted Ruler of MDC was going to move out to California. He rose and promised to do everything possible to spread Sigma Alpha Rho "Across the Nation". Two brothers then contacted Bob. One gave him the name of a brother in California. The other told Bob that he was soon going to move to California.
Within two weeks of Bob's arrival a meeting took place — two brothers and one prospective. S.A.R. was explained to the boy and , as a result, he promised to bring some frirends to meeting number two. That meeting saw three prospectives. The folloing meeting brought seven. The next saw then — and the "group" became a "contact".
During this time Btorther Supreme Exalted Ruler had been notified, and Brother Supreme Exchequer had sent some handbooks.
Approximiately six weeks after Bob's arrival the brother who had told Bob of his moving to California contacted him from Van Buy. The first meeting of the Van Nuys group consisted of nine prospectives. This second contact, about fifteen miles from West Hollywood, was bolstered by the original group.
Now training began in earnest, to each contact was appointed a Sigma Rho, Kappa Beta, and Kappa Mu. Committees such as J. & C. A., Athletics, Sigma, Community Service, and Flyer were appointed. The two contacts played soft-ball and had a contest to see which could learn the handbook better. More handbooks had been received. The boys held card-stags, with ten percent of every game going to the treasury. Flyers we sent out and a newspaper was prepared for induction. The boyers went camping together, assisted by a boy-scout leader and brother of Detla Omega.
The groups grew to fifteen boys each. Theta Theta sent them tapes. The boys began to write to Alpha Iota. All the while they studies their handbooks.
The rest is in the history books. Permission for induction was given by the SBC at Charity Ball. The two chapters took their tests and on July 30, under the supervision of Brothers Marvin Spivack and Jerry Shaeffer, Gamma Sigma and Gamma Theta we inducted.
Since that time, both chapters have affiliated with the Jewish Federation of Southern California and newly formed Jewish Community Centers. The groups have also received wide publicity from local newspapers.
This is the work of Brother Bob Greenburg and the Spirit of Sigma Alpha Rho