Mrs. Hugo Dalsheimer was installed here last night as president of Maryland’s oldest synagogue. Mrs. Dalsheimer is president of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the agency which represents over 100,000 women in more than 500 women’s auxiliaries throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Although three other American congregations have had women presidents, the 126-year old Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, which elected Mrs. Dalsheimer to its highest office, is by far the largest temple ever to do so. Its membership contains over 450 families. In an induction address delivered last night, at the temple, Dr. Maurice N, Eisendrath president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, hailed Mrs. Dalsheimer’s election as a “symbol of the need for augmented tenderness in a world which often glorifies hardness and harshness.”
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