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SAM AND TRISANNE BERGER TO BE HONORED AT 63rd ANNUAL GALA SUNDAY, MARCH 19th • 5:00 pm Beth El Synagogue Center is proud to honor Sam and Trisanne Berger at our March 19th Gala. They have chosen as their theme, “We make a living by what we get, But we make a life by what we give.”
Georgetown University Law School. Sam was also president of the Drexel Hillel Association and a Hebrew school teacher and tutor. After law school, Sam worked for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel Winston Churchill as Counsel for Employee Benefits In 1994, Tris and Sam moved to in Washington, D.C. In 1985, Sam Scarsdale from New York City and joined Price Waterhouse’s National Tax immediately joined Beth El Synagogue Practice. In 1990, Sam was promoted Center. Their daughter Yael (Yali) to partner in PWC’s New York City was born in 1996 and their son Kenny Management Consulting Practice until arrived in 2000. IBM acquired the unit in 2002. Sam Tris, a San Diego native, became then worked as an IBM Executive a bat mitzvah and was confirmed at in IBM’s global Human Resources Sam and Trisanne Berger Temple Beth Israel, the largest and technology and consulting practices. oldest Reform Temple in San Diego. After receiving her bachelor Tris and Sam were the recipients of the President’s Ne’emanim of science degree in accounting from Cal Poly Pomona in 1985, Service Award in 2008. What a difference eight years can make! Tris worked at Price Waterhouse as a CPA. In 1992 Tris left Price When the Bergers were honored in 2008, Yali was in sixth grade Waterhouse to help manage the wealth of a high-net-worth family and Kenny a second grader at Schechter Westchester. Today, in Mount Kisco. She then worked part time for Charlesbank Capital Yali is a sophomore at the University of Southern California and Partners, a private equity firm located in Manhattan and Boston. Kenny is a junior at Schechter Westchester. Both Yali and Kenny Sam was raised outside of Philadelphia, where his parents were attended Beth El Day Camp and many mishpacha programs. Tris founding members of Temple Israel of Upper Darby (no longer in was happily working part time at a private equity firm, sometimes existence) and subsequently members of Temple Beth Sholom, in chanting Torah and Haftarah, had been involved with the Women’s Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Sam went to public school through fifth Seder, Dinner Dance (what we called the Gala in the old days), and grade, graduated from Akiba Hebrew Academy (renamed the Jack Beth El’s Centennial Celebration Committees, and co-chaired the M. Barrack Hebrew Academy), received his bachelor of science Intergenerational Kallah. She was also finishing her second year as degree from Drexel University, his law degree from the Temple a student in the Florence A. Melton Adult Jewish Learning program University’s James E. Beasley School of Law, and his LL.M. from (Tris specifically remembers coming home continued, page 9
Casino Night..................................... page 2. Learning Opportunites.................pages 6, 7 Shabbatot in January........................ page 3 New in Our Museum......................... page 8
Day Camp Open House................... page 10 Sisterhood Cinema Brunch.............. page 13