A scholarship endowment fund to help worthy and needy Hebrew University students, with an initial gift of $250,000 was announced today by Samuel Rothberg, newly-elected president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. The fund was established by Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf of New York, who previously donated a $1 million science center on Mount Scopus for the Jerusalem-based university. The fund will aid junior, graduate and post-graduate students.
Proceeds from the fund, Mr. Rothberg said, will provide 25 scholarships this year. The Ferkaufs intend to expand the principal in coming years to enable more students to benefit from the program, he said.
Mr. Rothberg’s election at a board of directors meeting today was announced by Prof. Milton Handler, newly-elected chairman of the board of the American Friends. The new president predicted that 2,000 American students will study at the university in 1969-70. The Friends conduct a program of education and information in America about the university.
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