(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Mrs. Esther Andrews, for the last twenty-five years an outstanding political figure in the state, was appointed by Governor Fuller to a seat on the Governor’s Council.
Governor Fuller appointed Mrs. Andrews to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Sumner Smith. Mrs. Andrews polled the second highest vote to Councillor Smith in the last Council election in the Third District. She is the first woman to receive this nomination.
Mrs. Andrews served as a member of the advisory board to the bureau of prisons under the then Governor Coolidge, and acted as its chairman in 1919. She was active in the development of juvenile delinquency laws in this State and was mainly responsible, while chairman of the Council of Jewish Women in 1906, in having the Boston Juvenile Court established in that year.
For six years, she was president of the Boston Section, Council of Jewish Women; for six years, national director, and for three years national chairman of the Junior Section.
Mrs. Andrews’ appointment is expected to be confirmed at the next meeting of the Council on Nov. 16.
The ten-day drive to raise $10,000 as the quota of Paterson, N.J., in the Deborah Jewish Consumptive Belief society’s $500,000 building fund was brought to a close at the Y. M.–Y.W. H.A. building with the announcement that the fund went over the top to the extent of $1,914.50 which, with pledges yet to be collected will reach the $3,000 mark.
Filbert L. Rosenstein was chairman of the drive and former mayor Nathan Barnert honorary chairman.
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