Defying the tradition which calls for complimentary tickets to public officials, Brooklyn’s Borough President, Raymond V. Ingersoll, yesterday purchased a ticket to the annual marine-sport dance to be given by the Junior Federation of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, on the night of June 16.
A group of Junior Federation officers accompanied by County Judge Algeron I. Nova. chairman of the Brooklyn Federation’s current $500,000 drive, in which the Juniors’ quota is $7,500, called at the office of the Borough President.
Mr. Ingersoll paid his dollar and became the holder of ticket No. 1. The Federation expects to sell at least 2,000 more.
“I hope the Junior Federation will find thousands of others to whom it will be as easy to sell a ticket as it was to me,” the borough’s chief official declared.
Visitors to Borough Hall yesterday included Samuel Weinberg, chairman of the dance; Miss Cynthia Shapiro, vice-chairman; Miss Irene Menczer, secretary, and Theodore Kupferstein, chairman of publicity for the affair.
Irving P. Kartell, chairman of the group, announced that about $5,000 of the Junior quota has been raised thus far.
LAWYERS ATTEND DINNER
About 250 members of the Lawyers’ Club of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities attended the ninth annual beefsteak dinner given last night at the Unity Club, Brooklyn. No speech-making was permitted at the purely social affair, of which Herman S. Bachrach was the chairman.
WOMEN RAISE $2,000
Approximately $2,000 was raised during the first day and a half of the roll call being conducted by the Women’s Division of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities to add ten thousand names to the list of contributors in the Federation’s $500,000 twenty-fifth anniversary campaign.
Mrs. Nathan L. Goldstein, chairman of the roll call, presided at the meeting, which was held in the main dining room of the Abraham & Straus store. Speakers were Mrs. Goldstein, County Judge Algeron L. Nova, chairman of the Federation’s $500,000 campaign Magistrate Jeanette G. Brill and Miss Dorothea Fitch.
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