Dr. Kurt Pine, executive director of the Shorefront Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association in Brooklyn and associate general director of the YM-YWHA of Greater New York, died here yesterday at the age of 56.
Born in Germany, Dr. Pine came to this country in 1940 and held posts in Pittsburgh and New Haven before assuming his post in Brooklyn in 1949. He was active in the work of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and the United Jewish Appeal.
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