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Hebrew Union College Awards Honorary Degree to President of M.i.t

April 3, 1962
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Julius Adams Stratton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters here at Founder’s Day ceremonies of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Honorary degrees were also conferred by Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, on Dr. Alfred A. Benesch, founder of the Bureau of Jewish Education in Cleveland; Dr. S. Richard Silverman, director of Central Institute for the Deaf and Professor of Audiology at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; and three rabbis, David Samuel Gruber, Columbia, S. C.; Iwan J. Gruen, New Castle, Pa., and Robert P. Jacobs, director of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, Washington University, St. Louis.

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