A total of $100,000 was raised by the American Friends of the Hebrew University tonight at a dinner honoring Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, AFL-CIO, who was made an honorary fellow of the University. The funds will be used to establish a Joseph Curran Fund for the Humanities at the Hebrew University.
Israel Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn invested the honorary fellowship on Mr. Curran, who was cited for his “outstanding contribution to the university in its work for science and scholarship for Israel and the Jewish people and for the progress of mankind as a whole.” Nathaniel L. Goldstein, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, lauded Mr. Curran for his contributions to “a free trade movement and to free institutions of higher learning.”
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