Of course we remember AZA and BBG! That was our LIFE! And Tovah was the best (right, Jacki and Susie?)! I think that's the thing that's missing the most for kids these days. The weekly meetings, getting ready for Invite, Invite itself, parties, dances, counsel meetings...sure kept us busy. And we developed forever friendships. I still recall many of the songs - the ones that we all sang, and even some of the Invite ones. And especially the parties at the Sackheim's house - that house was built for parties - the biggest basement in the manor! thanks for the good times!

With all due respect to Tovah, there was MITZVAH, and we were a pretty terrific bunch of people you know. Humph. It was a major part of my life back then, and some of my best memories are related to BBG.

I was in Golden, my wife Susan (Krulewitch) was in Mitzvah and because of the the great times we had, my daughter Marisa was in BBG for four years and my son David, who is in the ninth grade just joined AZA

Tovah BBG was a blast, even when the "younger kids" (ahem: Bowen Class of '70) were being terrorized by the older kids! I am eternally grateful that my mother and Marlene Izen (and I think Paula Harris was part of the conspiracy, too) who dragged me to my first Tovah meeting practically kicking and screaming.

Being a "Tovah girl" was undoubtedly one of the best aspects of my entire high school experience--even with the Sackheims' covert movies at the "Surprise Breakfasts"!!!

I remember all the great songs that Jacki (and others) wrote for our Invite competitions. There was one winner sung to the tune of "How the West Was Won" ("Side by Side...")  What great times we had! Special thanks to George and Esther Sackheim for enduring all of us!

I loved being in BBG and Invite was the best. I remember writing the words for some of those songs (which Susie and I still sing in the privacy of her car, of course). Invite was always so exciting and the BBG/AZA socials were great fun. what a wonderfully sweet and innocent childhood we had. How lucky we were.

Invite was great but of course, your memories are a bit foggy....I am sure that Negev BBG was the best. Patti Yale and I did the fashion show thing.

And then there was the night we all got picked up by the police for curfew violations at the corner of 95th & Paxton on our way home from some BBG/AZA event. We saw everyone we knew at the police station that night. I remember my Dad was horrified that they had nothing better to do than pick up his sweet daughters.....

 Dodim BBG might have been the "underdogs", but we did kick some major booty with the north side (Mather) guys !!!

I fondly remember that Chicago Region AZA/BBG was well known and had a great reputation on the intrernational level for great songs.  These songs were written for Invite competitions.  What an honor that songs written by Chicago Region chapters became the international songs for AZA/BBG!!

The AZA song was based on a song called "Company of Cowards," and was performed by Bowen's own Ft. Dearborn AZA, played on the guitar by Steve Fingerett (no pun intended), and conducted by Don Greenberg.  It was a memorable experience for me to conduct that song at the AZA International Convention at Camp B'nai Brith in Starlight, PA in 1968 in front of attenddes from England, Canada and Israel.

I was turned on to "non-pop/crossover" black music, via WVON, learned lots of other things (that I can't now recall), and got to hang with Mandy Patinkin (Al Rosen's cousin), pre-stardom.....

I actually became president my senior year, though I can remember nothing much about it; hmmmm.......the second half of that year I began burning the banned herb.....maybe it could be,.....no.....no, nothing like that.

I do remember the countless weekend nights, cruising to the Northside, for those ever-so-hopeful "socials". Don't know if I actually dated anyone I met at one, but maybe there were one or two....

The Greek scene, with it's obvious "who's cooler than who" accoutrement, was a turn-off, and since the AZA/BBG world lacked much of that, it was a nice time.....

I was in Meyer Levin too from 64 to 67, when I graduated, as was another classmate. Hondo, Lubo and the South Shore boys were great.What ever happened to them.