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Several graduates of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School are warming up for another Thanksgiving Day gridiron showdown.

The annual Paul Blank Invitational raises funds for the Association for Safe International Road Travel. The organization was founded by Rochelle Sobel, a JDS teacher whose son Aaron was killed in a bus crash while traveling in Turkey in 1995.

The event is named for the Judaic studies teacher who first brought everyone together for a game in 1998, said Ilan Fulop, chairman and 2001 graduate.

For the first nine years, the men raised money through registration fees and donated about $250 yearly to ASIRT. Last year they solicited corporate donations and raised 10 times as much.

This year they will help the Foundation for Fighting Blindness in honor of Dan Fulop, group historian, who suffers from a degenerative eye disorder called retinitis pigmentosa.

For more information, visit www.paulblankinvitational.com.