Eddie Cantor, noted comedian, was the recipient here of the 1951 National Service Award of the Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity which is now holding its 47th annual convention at the Roney Plaza Hotel. The award was given to him in recognition of this contribution “to the essential of Jewish life in America.” it was announced by Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, of New York, chairman of the selection committee.
Cantor is the founder and main contributor to the Eddie Cantor Camp Committee, which annually sends 2,000 city children to a summer camp at Cold Spring, New York. He has raised over $10,000,000 for the United Jewish Appeal and, in 1950, traveled to Israel to see for himself the needs of the new republic for immigration funds. Phi Epsilon Pi is a national social fraternity consisting of 37 undergraduate and 35 alumni organizations throughout the country. The fraternity was founded in 1904 at the City College of New York.
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