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FROM THE CHAIRMAN page) it is fatal to begin to peek in on the
material and to read of times long ago, to see
BARRY COLEMAN pictures of unrecognized
people.
“We are travelling in the footsteps,
Who were these chaverim
Of those that’d come before
“that’d come before”? So
And we’ll all be reunited many, sadly, no longer with
On that new and sunlight shore” us.
It occurred to me that those
T 1990s were themselves in
writing for our ITON in the
hus sang the Weavers at their
reunion concert in Carnegie
their 70s, 80s, and even
Hall in 1963 as an introduction
nineties. Their stories of the
to the song “When the Saints Go Marching pre-WW2 early days of our Movement, the
In”. As did the late Frank Donnell z”l, taken Meetings, the Hachsharot, the pre-war
from us so suddenly before his time, sing in reorganization. The war years and after – so
the mid-sixties around the campfire in the many stories saved for posterity in our
back garden of the Glasgow Bayit.
magazine (ITON), now merged in with our
stories, right on through to the turn of the
century and beyond.
And the recurring theme of concern for the
future of Irgun Bogrei Habonim. “Will there
be a new generation to keep our association
going?” So pleaded the pioneers of the Kfar
Blum generation.
Over the last year I have had the privilege and
honour to have scanned all the Magazines, -
ITON – of “Kol (Vatikei) Bogrei Habonim”
since the very first publication in 1994 to
date. They are all posted on the Irgun Bogrei
Habonim Drive.
th
I say, “privilege and honour” because it has 65 Anniversary Celebration, 1994
allowed me the opportunity to become I look again at the pictures, and the annual
familiar with chaverim in whose “footsteps get-togethers. Group after group, year by
we are travelling”. When scanning a year, growing older and younger together.
magazine (it takes maybe 5 or 6 seconds per Just as they wondered what the future of
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