President Truman today received the 1951 Henristta Szold citation and Award for Distingrished Humanitarian Service from Hadassah. Mr. Truman was selected for Hadassah’s third annual award, on the basis of “leadership on the struggle to preserve the democratic way of life,” for “his far-seeing and forthright Point Four Program.”
The Citation and $1,000 Award was set up in 1949 to perpetuate the memory of Henrietta Szold who founded Hadassah in 1912 and died in Jerusalem in 1945. The presentation to the President was made in his executive offices by Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, national president of Hadassah, and a special committee.
The check for $1,000 was returned by the President to Hadassah to be used to establish a fellowship in the name of the President’s mother, the late Mrs. Martha Ellen Young Truman. Additional funds will be added by Hadassah to the fellowship and it will be used to bring a promising young physician from Israel to the United States for graduate study as part of Hadassah’s “Point Four program” for bringing American medical standards to Israel. The physician will return to Israel to teach in the medical school of the Hebrew University and Hadassah in Jerusalem.
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