Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland was the principal speaker tonight at a dinner meeting of the America-Israel Society at the Commodore Hotel in ceremonies at which he presented the histories of the 48 states to the Library of the Hebrew University. Daniel G. Ross, national president of the American Friends of Hebrew University, accepted the history books, assembled by the individual governors, from Gov. McKeldin, who is president of the America-Israel Society.
The history volumes will comprise part of a collection of Americana, which is being assembled as a nucleus of the library’s new facilities, to be housed in a building scheduled for erection on the University’s new campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem. The books will replace some of the 600,000 volumes in the University library on Mt Scopus, access to which is controlled since the Israel War of Independence by Jordan.
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