Daniel G. Ross, national president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, has been elected a deputy chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University, it was announced here today following the conclusion of the Board of Governors’ meeting. Dr. Israel S. Wechsler and Joseph M. Mazer remain deputy chairmen of the board.
Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, has been elected a member of the Board of Governors of the University. He played a key role in the opening last fall of Israel’s first university-level social work school, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work of the Hebrew University. JDC provided the founding grant of $500, 000.
Other new governors elected from the United States include: Dr. Abraham Sachar, president of Brandeis University; Victor Carter of Los Angeles, chairman of AFHU Southern California chapter; Dr. John H. Garlock of New York, national president of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee; Leo Guzik, New York, a vice-president of AFHU: Prof. Milton Handler, New York; Samuel H. Landy, chairman of the AFHU Philadelphia chapter; Mrs. Florence Perlman, representing Hadassah; and Nathan Schwartz, chairman of the AFHU Chicago chapter.
The Chair of Bacteriology in the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School has been named in honor of Mrs. Etta L. Rosensohn, a former national president of Hadassah. The decision to name the Bacteriology Chair in Mrs. Rosensohn’s honor was taken in recognition of her “vast and important contributions” to the development of the medical school.
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