David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, was presented with the 1926 Richard Gottheil Medal for outstanding service to Judaism in the presence of over 300 members of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity at the annual “Old Timer’s Day” banquet at the Hotel Astor, Sunday night. Harold Riegelman, chairman of the dinner, made the presentation address.
The other speakers were United States District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, Federal Judge Grover N. Moscowitz, president of Zeta Beta Tau, and Professor Richard Gotheil of Columbia University, former president of the fraternity, in whose honor the medal is named. The program was broadcast by Station WRNY of New York to 4,000 Zeta Beta Tau members at chapter reunions in 36 cities.
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