When I was in ninth grade at Pimlico Junior High School, a friend started wearing a green tie to school, complete with a small Star of David pin. He couldn’t hang out with me, because he had to study about some guy named Martin Buber. But the most important aspect of all this was a daily diary he had to keep, including the names of the teen-age girls he was planning to ask out on dates. He invited me to a meeting once he went from pledge to “aleph.” All I know is that I too was soon wearing the green tie, and getting used to meetings run under Roberts Rules of Order. There were blind dates, mixers, dances, heart fund marathon dances, basketball games, regional conventions at the Atlantic City Breakers Hotel, and “good and welfare,” where some… read more
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A Wonderful BBYO Night
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I came across this looking for info on the old Benny Goodman’s Beef and Beer. Used to love that place. My mom and two of my brothers worked down at Mike’s back in the day. That place was an instution,people today have no idea.
And let’s not forget, Mike’s Pizza and Baskin Robbins next to Shapiros in Pikesville, Benny Goodman’s Beef and Beer and the Kiwanis Hall.
Dances and mixers and service too. I am sorry I could not make it to the reunion, though I recently reunited with friends from 35 years ago through facebook, who I met in BBYO.
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