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Minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (1976)
Mr. Herbert Tenzer, presiding. Present: Mr. Charles Bendheim, Mr. Marvin Bienenfeld, Mr. Max J. Etra, Dr. Norman Lamm, Rabbi Israel Miller, Mr. Hyman Muss, Mr. Seymour Rosenblatt, Dr. Alvin I. Schiff, Rabbi Israel Silverstein, Mr. Max Stern, Mr. Irving I. Stone, Mr. Max Wagner, Mr. Herman J. Zwillenberg, Rabbis Zevulun Charlop, Herbert C. Dobrinsky, Morris Finer, Robert S. Hirt, Mr. Sidney Schutz, Dr. Sheldon Socol, Mr. Abraham Zeitz. The dinner took place in the succah of The Jewish Center and was followed by a business meeting in the congregation’s board room. Mr. Herbert Tenzer, Chairman, opened the meeting with a greeting of warm congratulations to Dr. Norman Lamm, member of the RIETS Board, on his recent election as the third president of Yeshiva University. He pledged the full cooperation of this Board to meet the challenges ahead shared by RIETS and the institution. Mr. Tenzer expressed the thanks of the Board to trustee Max Stern, who, as president of The Jewish Center, was the gracious host in the synagogue’s succah and board room. Mr. Charles Bendheim, recently elected member of the RIETS Board and a trustee of the Board of Yeshiva University, was welcomed to his first meeting. Special occasions, as noted later, were recognized with appropriate remarks by the chairman. As the first item on the agenda, the nomination of Rabbi Norman Lamm, a musmakh of RIETS, as the new president to succeed the late and revered Rabbi Samuel Belkin, was placed before the Board of Trustees by Mr. Herbert Tenzer and was seconded by Mr. Max J. Etra. Rabbi Lamm was elected as president of RIETS by unanimous acclamation. Rabbi Norman Lamm was asked to greet the members of the Board in his capacity as president of RIETS. He thanked the Board for the confidence they had expressed in him by investing him with this major responsibility and pledged to strengthen RIETS so that it could continue its illustrious role as the spiritual fountainhead of Orthodox and rabbinic leadership in t…
