Beta Alpha Tau 77th Reunion

BETA ALPHA TAU

77^th ANNIVERSARY REUNION 1929 - 2006

This was not to be another typical high school or college class reunion. Instead, on September 9, 2006 well over 250 men, (well over 400 attendees) aged 26 (Jacob Lohser) to 90 (Paul Milner), gathered as brothers at the Beachwood Marriott, not to celebrate the anniversary of their graduation but the founding of their Cleveland Heights High School fraternity, B.A.T., established 77 years earlier on September 10th 1929, one month before the stock market crash of 1929. Most, from their affluent suburb of Cleveland Heights, went on to college, then into the professions: medicine, law, education, business, the arts, the military. Many, troublemakers in their callow youth as active members, gained local renown, some, national. Albert Ratner ’46 is CEO of Forest City Enterprises was the main speaker at the dinner dance, Amongst the attendees were Robert Goldberg, President of Ohio Savings, the Belkin Brothers, Jules and Mike, household name as impresarios of entertainment, the first to bring in the first names: Frank, Elvis, Madonna. Doctor and Lawyers? Dime a dozen....
Read the review by Kevin Goodman here

Thanks to your 77th Reunion committee for a fantastic top class BAT reunion weekend!

Archie Berk, Co-Chair and Treasurer, Bill Berk, Co-chair and Program Chairman, Kevin Goodman Co-Chair and Secretary , Jules Belkin Program Committee Co-Chair, Saul Isler, MC of evening and Battyhoo author.

Cleveland Heights High Alumni Foundation News Fall 2006

Pre Parties

Golf outing

Picnic

Adam Fleischer's dinner party

Saul Isler's Speech

Bill Marshall's 50th Birthday Party

Albert Eggy Ratner

Anthony Vitale

BAT Talks

Billy Vaughn & Gang

80's Boys

80's Boys

80's Boys

Brain Schwartz, Paul Katz and Bart Stone

Don Penn

Don Penn

Don Penn

Gift of appreciation

Goodman, Ratner & Isler

Joe Baden

Josh Isler listening to his dad.

Katz & Stone

Keving Goodman & Albert Ratner

Mrs Goodman, Fleischer and Katz

Pops

Reunion 77

Saul & Albert

Seymour Ullman

The finest speech

Kevin & Tracy Goodman

Tsonton, Wilde and Goodman

Buffet

Catching up

Congrats

Dinner

Hellos and welcomes

Hellos and welcomes

Isler Boys

Josh introduces Saul

Josh takes control of the room!

Mike Abrahams

Mingling

More hellos

Picking up where we left off

Saul sets the stage

The Bullers and Mandelfinos

The Colorado Isler's

Welcomes

Mark & JC

Mark Cohen & Jules

Bar Napkin

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