Murray I. Gurfein has been re-elected president of United Hias Service, and former Senator Herbert H. Lehman was elected to the new post of honorary chairman, according to an announcement by HIAS here today. Edwin Rosenberg was elected chairman, and Daniel G. Ross as vice-chairman of the organization’s national council.
Mr. Gurfein, who was elected for a fourth successive term, said: “The intensified United Hias Service operations in the past few years is a barometer of distressing events which have swelled the ranks of Jewish migrants and refugees.” In announcing the election of Mr. Lehman to the honorary chairmanship, HIAS declared Mr. Lehman was “a symbol of all that is good in the humanitarian work of rescue through migration.”
Other officers elected were: Mrs. Sidney J. Benton, Harry Berse, Walter H. Bieringer, Adrian M. Easton, Louis Gallack, Herbert C. Kranzer, Mrs. A. Louis Oresman, Hugo E. Rogers, Jacob J. Rosenblum, William Rosenwald and Saul Seidman, vice-presidents; Carlos L. Israels and Ben Touster, associate chairmen of the board; Herbert C. Kranzer, treasurer; Max Ornstein and Dr. Harold M. Weinberg, associate treasurers; Abraham S. Wilk, secretary; and Max Ogust, associate secretary. James P. Rice was re-elected executive director.
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