Junior Hadassah has gained 1,500 new members, bringing the total national membership to 11,500, it was announced here today by Miss Nell Ziff, national membership chairman of the organization.
Miss Ziff’s report covers a one year period to July 1. The increase is the largest recorded for Junior Hadassah since 1932.
During the past year fifteen new groups were organized, most of them in the east. Junior Hadassah groups now function in 200 cities in various parts of the country.
Miss Ziff also announced that Junior Hadassah raised its full administration budget of $11,000.
One of her last acts of philanthropy before the Baroness Edmond de Rothschild died a few weeks ago was the contribution of $7,500 to Hadassah to repair the Hadassah Hospital in Safed, Palestine, it was announced yesterday at the organization’s headquarters here.
The property of the hospital building was given to Hadassah by the late Baron de Rothschild shortly after the World War and is the only hospital for tubercular patients in Palestine. In the last few years the condition of the building had become so bad that the hospital would shortly have had to be condemned as unsafe. No funds for repairs were available. When the situation was communicated to the Baroness she responded immediately with the gift. Extensive repairs are now possible.
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