Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, today assumed direction of an eight-month state-wide special gifts campaign – with a goal of $1,000,000 a month – to make possible immediate construction of the University’s $10,000,000 non-sectarian Medical School. The school is scheduled to open in the Fall of 1953.
Dr. Belkin has been granted a partial leave of absence from University duties to enable him “to bring to successful completion this noble project which represents the greatest challenge undertaken by the American Jewish community in the field of education,” an announcement said.
Dr. Belkin reported that the University has already secured pledges and contributions amounting to $2,250,000 from 43 founders. He said that the University would seek the funds through 457 additional founders – contributors of $25,000 and more to the project – adding that the University is seeking a total of 500 contributors of $25,000 or more.
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