Governor Herbert H. Lehman has accepted membership on the honorary committee for the testimonial dinner to be tendered Harry G. Anderson by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Brooklyn, it was announced by Court of Appeals Justice Irving Lehman, chairman of that committee.
The dinner is to be given Sunday night, April 8, at The Towers Hotel and is in celebration of Anderson’s tenth anniversary as president of the Association. Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz is chairman of the dinner committee and Commissioner of Water Supply Lewis H. Pounds heads the reception committee.
Justice Lehman announced the following as members of the honorary committee:
Supreme Court Justice Charles C. Lockwood, vice-chairman; Gov. Herbert H. Lehman; Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division; Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, president of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities; Supreme Court Justices James C. Cropsey; Harry E. Lewis; Meier Steinbrink; Peter P. Smith; Charles J. Dodd; County Judge Algeron I. Nova; chairman of the Federation’s $500,000 twenty-fifth anniversary campaign now under way; former Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer; Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr.; Municipal Court Justices Nathan Sweedler; acob S. Strahl; City Court Justices Alexander H. Geismar; Louis Goldstein; Judge of the Court of General Sessions Morris Koenig; Michael Furst; Alonzo G. McLaughlin; Bronx County Judge Harry Stackell; Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein.
Subscriptions to the dinner are five dollars each, and many reservations to the dinner have already been received, it was stated at Judge Moscowitz’s office.
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