The $1,500,000 building fund campaign of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association rose to $661,100, it was announced by Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, chairman of the drive committee.
Colonel Michael H. Friedsam, president of B. Altman & Co., contributed $25,000. He said he was giving to the Y. M. H. A. because he believed it “is as effective an agency as I know of for the development of the spiritual, mental and physical make-up of Jewish youth.”
Other contributors were Justice Living Lehman, of the Court of Appeals, $15,000; the Lawyers’ Club, $33,500; Solon Summerfield. $15,000; Arthur Sachs, 7,500, and Alfred Rose, Samuel Kronsky, James H. Rosenberg and Benjamin Feiner, $2,500 each.
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