Hadassah today announced the appointment of a medical reference board of ten health experts who will advise the organization on professional problems arising from its hospital, child welfare and public health activities in Palestine. The announcement was made by Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, Palestine chairman, in a report covering the first year of service by Hadassah’s new medical center on Mt. Scopus.
Dr. E.M. Bluestone of this city, director of Montefiore Hospital, is chairman of the board which includes Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Dr. J.J. Golub, director of the Hospital for Joint Diseases; Dr. Jonas Friedenwald, professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University; Dr. S.S. Goldwater, New York City Commissioner of Hospitals; Dr. Maurice B. Hexter, of the Federation of Jewish Charities; Dr. Emanuel Libman, noted diagnostician; Dr. Israel Wechsler, neurologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital; Dr. Abel Wolman, professor of sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, director of Beth Israel Hospital and president of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, wife of the Governor, were guests of honor yesterday at the annual mother-daughter tea held under auspices of the New York Chapter of Hadassah at the Hotel Commodore. Proceeds of the event, which 1,550 women attended, will be used to buy trees to be planted in a Sarah Delano Roosevelt Grove in Palestine.
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