George Alpert, prominent Boston attorney and leading figure in Jewish communal circles, was elected president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad this week-end. He succeeds Patrick B. McGinnis, who resigned in the wake of complaints by commuters and investigations by three states into the operations of the line, one of the major commuter railroads in the country.
Mr. Alpert, 57, the son of immigrant parents, was educated in Boston’s public schools, served in the Navy in World War I and was assistant district attorney of Suffolk County, Mass. He has been active in various corporations and is currently a trustee of a bank, as well as member of a number of bar associations.
One of the founders of Brandeis University only non-sectarian university under Jewish auspices in this country. Mr. Alpert is chairman of the university board and in 1953, received its first honorary Doctorate in Laws. He is also honorary chairman of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a school of Yeshiva University, and has been associated with the Boston Combined Jewish Appeal and other Jewish organizations and communal institutions.
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