A dinner and dance will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria to honor twelve physicians who have served on the staff of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn for twenty-five years or more, Judge Harry E. Lewis, honorary chairman of the commit tee, announced Friday. The affair is scheduled for January 20.
The men to be honored are Dr. Simon R. Blatteis, Dr. Adolph Bonner, Dr. Isaac D. Kruskal, Dr. Max Lederer, Dr. John Linder, Dr. William Linder, Dr. Joshua Ronsheim, Dr. Simon Rothenberg, Dr. Leo S. Schwartz, Dr. Herman Shann, Dr. Milton G. Wasca and Mr. Benjamin Wolfort.
Abdallah ibn Salam, the Jewish convert to Islam in the time of Mohammed, died in 663.
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