Award of the $800 Alexander Kohut fellowship to John B. Alexander, a non-Jew, was announced Friday. The recipient attained highest honors in the Semitic department of the Yale University, Graduate School during the last two years.
The fellowship was founded by the late Dr. George Alexander Kohut in memory of his father. Alexander, a graduate of Boston College, received his bachelor of divinity degree from Yale in 1932.
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