Eleven Rabbis Graduated from the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Honorary degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Law awarded for distringnished service in Judaism, were conferred by the Hebrew Union College upon Dr. Boris D. Bogen. Executive Director of the Independent Order of the B’nai B’rith, the largest Jewish fraternal organization in the world and Dr. Solomon Lowenstein of New York. Executive Director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Socities in New York City, for outstanding Jewish social service. Dr. Lowenstein is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College, Class of 1901.

Eleven graduates weer awarded the degree of Rabbi in Israel by Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the College, at the granduation exercises held in the chapef of the Administration Building.

The training of a Jewishly educated laity is the important task of the American rabbinate, declared Rabbi Gerson B. Levi. of Chicago, in the Baccalaureate address.

Ludwig Vognistein, chairman of the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Maurice J Freiberg, vice-chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College, addressed the graduates.

Those receiving the Degree of Rabbi were Bernard J. Bamberger. Daniel L. Davis. Bernard M. Doriman, Maurice N. Eisendrath. Jalian B. Fetbelman, Bable B. Glazer. Jutius Gorton, William R. Rosenblum. Victor ### Reichert. Joseph Urschen and Sanmuel J. Wolk.

Prives for excellence in scholarship were awarded by Dr. Morgenstern to a number of graduates and students who have distingtished themselves during the current scholastic year. Rabbi Nelson Glick who is now in Jena, Germany, was awarded the Mrs. Henry Morgenthau traveling scholarship, permitting a student to spend a year abroad following Jewish studies. Three fellowship scholarships were awarded for granduate work in American colleges, the Edward L. Heinsheimer Memorial Fellowship was awarded to Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, the Felix Kahn Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Rabbi Joseph Utschen, and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Scholarship was awarded to Rabbi Samuel J. Wolk. Other prizes awarded were: the Simon Lazarus Prize, Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger; Kaufmann Kohler Prize, Rabbi Daniel L. David; Fred Lazarus Prize, Rabbi Joseph Utschen; the William Miller Memorial Prize, Martin Friedman; the Rabbi Morris Youngerman prize, Rabbi Julius Gordon.