Hiller Named Executive Director of Jewish Charities in Baltimore

Robert I. Hiller, executive director of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh for the past nine years, has been named executive director of the Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund of Baltimore, it was announced here today. Mr. Hiller will assume his post September 1, 1965, succeeding Harry Greenstein, who will become executive vice-chairman of the Associated Jewish Charities’ Legacy and Endowment Fund.

Mr. Hiller served as director of the Detroit Community Chest’s Commercial and Professional Unit in 1948, and associate campaign director of the United Foundation of Detroit in 1949. He became associate director of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950, and executive director of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh in 1956.

In a joint statement announcing the appointment of Mr. Hiller, Louis J. Fox, president of the Associated Jewish Charities, and Abraham Mahr, president of the Jewish Welfare Fund, said: “We are extremely pleased and gratified that the Baltimore Jewish community has been able to obtain the services of such an outstandingly capable person as Robert I, Hiller. His career to date has been one of brilliant accomplishment, and we are confident that in him we have found a worthy successor to our own Harry Greenstein, who will continue as executive director until September I.”

(In Pittsburgh, United Jewish Federation president Alvin Rogal, expressing regret over Mr. Hiller’s decision to leave his post with the Federation, said: “Mr. Hiller has served the Pittsburgh Jewish community in an incomparable manner since the formation of the Federation almost ten years ago. We will be truly sorry to see him leave but wish him well in his new position. We know that Baltimore will benefit by his presence there.”)