The Hadassah today announced the creation of a Louis D. Brandeis Scholarship Fund of $50,000 to provide training in vocational fields for hundreds of young people in Palestine “immediately and during the post-war years of reconstruction which we know will follow an allied victory.”
The fund is a memorial tribute in honor of the late United States Supreme Court Justice whose 85th birthday is being observed tomorrow. According to Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national president, the money will be spent at the rate of $5,000 a year over a ten year period. During the first three years, 100 scholarships will be provided annually for the Alica L. Seligsberg Trade School for Girls in Jerusalem, founded by Hadassah in 1940.
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