Edward M. M. Warburg, former chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, has been named head of the Charles H. Jordan Memorial Fund in honor of the late executive vice chairman of the JDC who was found dead in Prague last year while on vacation, Louis Broido, JDC chairman announced today.
Mr. Jordan’s body was found mysteriously in the Vltava River in Prague on Aug. 20, 1967 and the circumstances of his death are still being investigated. According to Mr. Warburg, the Memorial Fund will provide scholarships and fellowships in the fields of social work and communal organization mainly, in connection with the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work in Jerusalem and related disciplines at the Hebrew University.
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