Contributions from non-Jews as well as Jews have helped to raise nearly $1,600,000 toward the Five Million Dollar Endowment Fund for Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, it was announced yesterday by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, and chairman of the campaign, in a report to Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the college.
In making public the total of $1,600,000 Mr. Ochs announced that S. R. Guggenheim, of New York, had sent him a check for $50,000 for the Endowment Fund. This was the third contribution of $50,000 to be made by a member of the Guggenheim family. Daniel Guggenheim and Murry Guggenheim had previously each given $50,000, and Murry Guggenheim had pledged himself to give an additional contribution of $50,000 at any time that such an amount would bring the total fund up to $2,000,000.
Among the contributions that have been received from non-Jews are $5,000 from Charles B. Taft, of Cincinnati, brother of William Howard Taft, former President of the United States; $1,000 each from Crawford Johnson and Robert R. Meyer, of Birmingham, Ala.
Mr. Ochs announced a gift of $25,000 from Ike Adler of Birmingham, Ala; $5,000 from Moses Tanenbaum of New York; $10,000 from Col. Fred Levy of Louisville, Ky.; and $1,000 from Louis Wiley of New York. In addition, the Fund will also receive an amount equal to $150,000 from the estate of Louis Heineman of Jamestown. N. Y.
Mrs. Rosa Brown, of San Francisco and New York, provided bequests for seventeen institutions under terms of her will, disposing of an estate of approximately $650,000. Mrs. Brown, who died in San Francisco April 6, was the widow of Ralph Brown and a sister-in-law of the late Sir Mortimer Davis.
The institutional bequests include the American Red Cross Association, hospitals, synagogues and orphan asylums here and in California.
A campaign for $100,000 to erect a new Y. M. H. A. building in Hackensack, will be launched in Bergen County on April 30. The new structure to be erected on the site of the present “Y” will include an auditorium, a library, class rooms, club rooms, gymnasium and swimming pool.
The campaign is under the direction of the Jewish Welfare Board.
Clem Plager is the presodent of the Bergen County Y.M..HA. and William N. Weinberg is executive secretary.
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