HOLLYBUSH SUMMIT CONFERENCE AT GLASSBORO 43 YEARS AGO

It’s an event the town of Glassboro will never forget, the landmark Hollybush Summit Conference. which placed this small college town on the world map of significant historic events. It brought together President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexi Kosygin at Glassboro College, now Rowan University, which on June 25-27 marks its 43rd anniversary of the conference. Its main focus was on Israel, which earlier that month in the Six-Day War annihilated the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, clients of the Soviet Union. Kosygin asked Johnson to urge Israel to relinquish the territory they conquered, but Johnson declined as did Israel. Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson was then vice president of the junior class, which in the fall, as the senior class, invited Johnson to address the June 1968 graduation. Johnson accepted, which became another historic event for the college. After the graduation, on a CBS Radio Network Dimension report, I asked college president Dr. Thomas Robinson to react to the two historic events. “Before Hollybush and the graduation, Glassboro was a small, quiet South Jersey college town in which history swirled by us; now we are a part of history.” Levinson, in a comment on the event’s 40th anniversary, told HM, “We had the feeling that just being there we were becoming a part of history.”

WELL DESERVED HONOR FOR TERRY STEEN

Terry Steen’s philanthropic work is well known to his fellow congregants at Ventnor’s Congregation Beth Judah and in Philadelphia where he heads a large billboard company. In Israel, his reputation is just as legendary in his work for the Arava Institute - an environmental giant – and his memorable bike rides. The rides stretch from Jerusalem to Eilat through the broiling Negev Desert to raise funds for Arava, with some local friends involved. For his monumental contribution in Israel and to raise awareness of Arava’s mission, next Sunday, June 27, Terry will be the recipient of Arava’s prestigious “Peace Building and Environmental Stewardship Award.” The presentation will take place in Philadelphia at the National Liberty Museum, 321 Chestnut St., at 7 p.m. Several Beth Judah members will attend. Tickets are $70 per person and those who register can make a contribution in Terry’s honor to Arava, a groundbreaking academic institution located in the south of Israel. The honoree’s email is terry@steen.com. He is very humble about his charitable work and HM salutes him as the Honorable Mensch of the month.

ALAN COHEN ELECTED ATLANTIC COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION PRES.

Alan J. Cohen is one of the busiest lawyers in this area, just concentrating fully on his post as a partner in the Northfield-based law firm of McAllister, Hyberg, White, Cohen and Mann. Now he has taken on the role of president of the Atlantic County Bar Association, which adds a lot of activities to his already busy schedule – including family and as vice president of the board of trustees of Northfield’s Congregation Beth Israel. The slogan “give a busy person something else to do” and he’ll do it” fits Cohen’s desire to serve his profession and community. Here are some of his credentials: licensed in N.J., Cal. and Mass.; certified by the N.J. Supreme Court as a civil trial lawyer; qualified as a state-wide mediator for the American Arbitration Assn.; and a practice involving litigation in all courts and many other legal venues. Civic-wise, Cohen served as parliamentarian for the AC Rotary Club and was recognized by the N.J. Law Monthly as one of the state’s Super Lawyers over a five-year period. A graduate of Muhlenberg College, Cohen received his law degree from Pepperdine University in 1981 and lives in Galloway Township with his wife,

Bonnie, and two sons, Nathan and Neil. Mazel Tov, Alan, for a highly achieved legal, religious and civic career.

ADRIENNE RAPHEL’S FAMILY PROUD OF THEIR HONOR PRINCETON GRAD

When you graduate from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude, with Phi Betta Kappa Society recognition, you have reached the highest strata of academic achievement and reaching that lofty level recently was Adrienne Raphel. She is the bright daughter of Neil Raphel and Janis Raye of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and granddaughter of Murray and Ruth Raphel of Atlantic City and granddaughter of Irvin Raye, of Brigantine. Adrienne, who gained her high honors from Princeton’s English Department personifies the adage that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” as the offspring of equally brilliant parents and grandparents. Her writing skills are that of a poet, and she will pursue her MFA degree in poetry as well as teach classes in English literature to undergraduates at the University of Iowa. An additional honor from her Ivy League School was the English Department’s Thomas B. Wanamaker English Language Prize and Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize as well as a special award for her poetry thesis. “She has made us proud at her high level of academics, and that you can’t go much higher than she did,” declared her family. “She is the best of the best .. . a certainty to achieve a bright career.”

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

It was a unique event and HM says Mazel Tov to three area married couples who tied the knot June 10 in different years, coming together last week on June 10 to celebrate the event at Luke Paladinos in Northfield. Holding their first exclusive “June 10th Club” gathering were Sharon and Marc Lovitz (43 years) Ellen and Lloyd Eisen and Michelle and Noah Bronkesh, married 31 years. They’re inviting other June 10th couples to call Marc at 412-8080 to join next year’s 2nd anniversary gala. Collectively they said, “the restaurant was a 10.”