Ben Touster, noted Jewish philanthropist was today elected chairman of the board of CARE, the nonprofit international aid agency. Mr. Touster’s association with CARE began in 1951, when he joined the board as a representative of United Hias Service. He was elected a vice-president two years later, and since 1957 has served as treasurer.
Mr. Touster’s keen interest in CARE programs in many countries of the world, including Israel, which he has visited frequently, is part of a lifetime of activity in philanthropic and communal affairs. He is a former president and now associate chairman of Hias; a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; honorary vice chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York; a member of the executive board of the American Jewish Committee; vice-president of Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn; honorary president of the Y. M. and Y.W.H.A., Borough Park; and has served many other organizations and institutions in various capacities.
“I feel deeply honored to have been chosen for this high office in an organization that does so much for so many, ” Mr. Touster said. To help feed 40, 000, 000 hungry people in the course of a year, to provide countless others in need with the means of making their own living, to bring the benefits of modern medicine to areas where it has never been known before is to my mind an achievement of historic importance. I believe the founding of CARE as a non-political and non-sectarian relief agency was one of the great ideas of the Twentieth Century, and I consider it a privilege to be associated with it.”
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