Maurice Levin, president of Hearn’s department store, has accepted the chairmanship of a committee of New Yorkers who will celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Hebrew Kindergarten and Infants Home, 35 Montgomery street, by running a campaign to cover the current deficit and raise enough money to improve the present building.
The drive, to be known as the “Minute Men Campaign,” will begin on November 1 and will conclude with a banquet in January. Every man and woman will be asked to buy five or more “minutes of maintenance” for the 183 orphans at the institution. To maintain the institution twelve dollars an hour is required. A one-dollar contribution will buy fifteen “minutes of maintenance.”
The organization maintains two homes, an Infants Home at Far Rockaway, which cares for sixty-four orphans between one week and five years old, and the Montgomery Street Building, which is divided into a kindergarten and day nursery. One hundred and nineteen children between the ages of three and fifteen are cared for in this building. The home maintains a day nursery for widowed mothers compelled to work to support themselves.
On the anniversary committee besides Mr. Levin are George D. Simon, Borough President Samuel Levy, Barney Marks, A. J. Kobler, Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, Morris Abramowitz, Joseph Benjamin, Isidor Haber, A. L. Horn, Isidor Mendelson and Max Sulkin. Harril L. Selig is executive director.
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