Dear Colleague: Now that our highly successful Mid-Winter Conference is over, our Executive Committee is ready to meet again and take up important matters pertaining to our annual program and calendar. Accordingly, our next executive committee meeting will take place on February 19, 1959, at 10 A. M. in Klein Hall, P.G. The agenda will include: 1. Chag Hasmicha 2. Report on Mid-Winter Conference 3. Report on Alumni Fund 4. Standing committees- report and activitations. Please be prompt so that we may conclude our business meeting with dispatch and start our cultural program by 11:30 A. M.The address will be given by Rabbi Norman Lamm, Associate Rabbi of The Jewish Center, New York, who will speak on ore of the dost important problems facing us these days- "The Orthodox Position on Family Pews: Interpreting it to the Laity”,Sincerely yours,RABBI ISRAEL MILLERPresident Rabbinic Alumni

Dear Rabbi Schonfeld: I have before me your announcement concerning the interesting program scheduled for February 19. Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to come to New York again before the end of March. I am especially unhappy, however, over the prospect of missing this session since Rabbi Lamm’s topic is of the greatest pertinence to my own situation, as you know. I am in Wichita with a “heter” from Rabbi Soloveitchik giving me a reasonable time to correct the special arrangement in our small synagogue. I have read many favorable comments on Rabbi Lamm’s treatment of this touchy topic, and, for all that I have written and spoken and read on this subject to date, I still feel that I would benefit from his presentation. I daresay, there are probably far more rabbis in outlying areas, unable to attend these meetings, who are in need of this discussion than there are in the metropolitan area. This gives a pressing immediacy to the step I urged Rabbi Bernstein to take at our Mid-Winter Conference last month. At that time, I suggested similar sentiments about even so informal a discussion as that which the Rabbinic Alumni held at our last dinner: important services and the responsibility of the Yeshiva should impel us toward the regular dissemination of this effort in the field. Since the rules of a convention and the constraints upon the papers presented, I don’t think this would in any way diminish the stature of Yeshiva. I believe that such transcripts or tapes would be equally welcomed by those who attended, but were unable to hear clearly, as well as those who found it very slip by the listener, who would be refreshed for the opportunity to review the material back home. This is not really a difficult project. The technical end could be easily arranged, especially if first services of the Audio-Visual Department were employed. I am sure that our colleagues would be happy to pay for these transcripts or tapes and help to defray the costs of the program. There…