The resignation of Albert Abrahamson, executive director of the National Refugee Service, to enter one of the armed services, and the appointment of Joseph E. Beck to succeed him, were announced simultaneously today by William Rosenwald, president of the organization.
Mr. Beck, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Society of Philadelphia since 1934, will assume his new post May 1. Mr. Abrahamson became director of the National Refugee Service in June, 1941, and was on leave from Bowdoin College where he has maintained his affiliations as a faculty member since 1928. “The National Refugee Service is very much in Albert Abrahamson’s debt,” Mr. Rosenwald said. “He skillfully guided the organization through a period of change and stress. His many contributions to the effective working of the agency represent, in the end, contributions to the successful meeting of the refugee problem itself.”
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