Ben Altheimer, founder of the Flag Day movement, originator of Bundle Day, president of Temple Beth El before its merger with Congregation Emanu-El, and philanthropist, who will be eighty years old next Thursday, will be the guest of honor on Sunday, March 16, at the Hotel Biltmore at a luncheon which will be one of the featured events of an all-day program signalizing the thirtieth anniversary meeting of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver, whose treasurer he has been since the institution was founded. Ludwig Vogelstein is chairman of the committee in charge of the luncheon, and Judge Samuel D. Levy, of the Children’s Court and chairman of the New York Committee of the Hospital, is arranging the morning and afternoon sessions of the annual meeting.
Adolph S. Ochs, of New York; Judge Horace Stern, former president of the Philadelphia Federation of Jewish Charities; and Alfred M. Cohen, of Cincinnati, president of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith, are associated with Mr. Vogelstein as vice-chairmen of the testimonial in Mr. Altheimer’s honor and trustees of the hospital and other friends of Mr. Altheimer from various parts of the country also are members of the committee.
Mr. Altheimer is the only surviving officer of the founding group, which took office when the National Jewish Hospital was formally opened in 1899, as the first free, national, non-sectarian institution for the care of tuberculous. Today, one out of every four beds maintained in the United States under Jewish auspices for the care of tuberculous is provided by the hospital in its sixteen building units at Denver.
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