More than $500,000 was contributed here last night to the capital funds program of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, bringing the total contributions to $20,000,000. Preceding the dinner at which the gifts were announced, the college held an academic convocation at which five prominent Americans were awarded honorary degrees as Doctors of Humane Letters.
The recipients of the honorary degrees were George Alpert, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; Charles Frost, philanthropist and industrialist; Dr. Samuel A. Levine, clinical professor of medicine at Harvard University’s School of Medicine; Abraham Levitt, builder of the Levittown communities; and Dr. Abraham White, associate dean of the college and chairman of its department of biochemistry.
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