Heideman Receives
BBYO Beber Award
Former Detroiter Richard D.
Heideman, B'nai B'rith International
president, has received the Sam Beber
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the
organization's
youth arm.
The award was
bestowed in cere-
monies at the
B'nai B'rith Youth
Organization's
Perlman Camp in
Starlight, Pa.
Heideman, who
Richard Heideman became the fourth
youngest interna-
tional president of
B'nai B'rith in its 156-year history when
elected at the 1998 convention in
Jerusalem, is one of only a few Beber
Award winners to have been both B'nai
B'rith presidents and international presi-
dents of the BBYO boys' division.
Heideman, 52, a trial attorney in
Washington, D.C., grew up in BBYO
and B'nai B'rith International. He
began as an AZA teenager in Detroit in
1963 and served as Grand Aleph Godol
the following year. His wife, Phyllis, was
a leader of B'nai B'rith Girls; the two
met at a BBYO leadership training con-
ference at Camp B'nai B'rith.
Heideman rose through the B'nai
B'rith International ranks. In addition
to chairing the Young Leadership
Committee, he chaired the Political
Action Network, and served as a
national commissioner of the Anti-
Defamation League and senior interna-
tional vice president and international
chairman of the Center for Public
Policy.
"The Beber award being given TO me
as the international president of B'nai
B'rith symbolizes, in part, the strong
connection between B'nai B'rith and
BBYO," Heideman said.
He saluted BBYO for providing him
with leadership training and develop-
ment opportunities as both a teenager
and adult.
With 30,000 members worldwide,
BBYO is the largest Jewish youth orga-
nization. As international president,
Heideman has announced the creation
of the BBYO Alumni Network,
designed to reach out to those who have
received leadership training in BBYO.
Following the award ceremony,
Heideman left Perlman Camp to lead a
BBI Center for Public Policy delegation
to central Asia, Israel and Jordan.
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