Pledges of $7,500,000 to the 1963 United Jewish Appeal were announced tonight at a dinner here of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York which formally inaugurated its 25th anniversary year campaign.
More than 1,000 guests attended the banquet at which some 600 volunteers who served in the first New York UJA campaign in 1939 were honored. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Israel Ambassador Avraham Harman were the principal guest speakers.
New York UJA treasurer Samuel D. Leisdesdorf, as representative of the dinner’s guests of honor, was presented by Gov. Rockefeller with a medallion issued by the State of Israel in celebration of the UJA’s 25th anniversary. Similar medallions were distributed to 300 founders and leading officers of the UJA of Greater New York and to members of their families representing founders who have died.
Charles Revson, a New York UJA vice-president, presided. Other speakers included Jack D. Weiler, chairman of the board of trustees, and Monroe Goldwater, president. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, unable to attend the dinner, sent a telegram of greeting in which he warned: “With regard to Israel, it has become clear in recent weeks that the cause of peaceful development in the Middle East faces new dangers from resurgent, revenge-seeking forces. We can show our increasing concern with peace and stability in this area by maximum efforts in the UJA campaign.”
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