Representatives of three religious faiths who last year traveled from coast to coast spreading the gospel from coast to coast spreading the gospel of good will among Catholics, Jews and Protestants, will be signally honored for their efforts.
On May 12 the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity will present them, as a team, with the coveted Gottheil Medal, award made annually for the past seven years to the American who did most for Jewry in the preceding year. The clergymen are Reverend Everett R. Clinchy of this city, Father J. Elliott Ross of Charlottesville, Va., and Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore, Md.
The presentation will be made at the Metropolis Club, 105 West Fifty-seventh street, at the Key Banquet of forty that will be held coincidentally on that day through out the country. Louis S. Posner of the Board of Education will preside as toastmaster as the medal is presented in triplicate to Rev. Clinchy, Father Ross and Rabbi Lazaron.
SELECTION MADE BY EDITORS
Although Zeta Beta Tau, oldest and largest Jewish fraternity in the country, presents the Gottheil Medal, the selection of the recipient is made by a committee of editors representing the Anglo-Jewish press of the United States.
The committee this year included Jacob Landau, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and publisher of the Jewish Daily Bulletin; Bernard Postal, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate; Henry C. Segal, the American Israelite, Cincinnati; Felix N. Gerson, Jewish Exponent, Philadelphia, and many others.
The Pilgrimage Team, as it has been called, visited during 1933 thirty-eight cities. It traveled 9,000 miles, made twenty-one radio broadcasts, organized thirty-five permanent committees and spoke to 129 meetings in which the audiences totaled 54,000 persons. In the course of their travels they conducted round-table discussions, mass meetings, and in public and parochial schools, colleges and universities, they advocated justice, amity and understanding between Jews and Christians.
Their efforts, according to members of the team and reports from the cities which they visited, have proved to be an invaluable antidote in America to the anti-Semitism which has been stirred up all over the world.
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