Ten leaders of American religious, cultural and humanitarian endeavors were awarded honorary degrees tonight at Founder’s Day exercises marking the 82nd anniversary of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform rabbinical seminary. Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the College-Institute, presented the degrees to:
The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister Emeritus, Riverside Church, New York; David E. Kaufman, Philadelphia, former U.S. Minister to Bolivia and Siam, attorney and philanthropist; Rabbi I, Edward Kiev, librarian, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York; Philip M, Klutznick, Park Forest, Ill, national president of B’nai B’rith; Moses A. Leavitt, New York, executive vice-chairman, Joint Distribution Committee; Samuel D. Leidesdorf, New York, leader of civic, social welfare and philanthropic endeavor; Moshe Maisels, editor of Hadoar, Hebrew weekly, New York; Rabbi Max Reichler, spiritual leader of Beth Sholom-Peoples Temple, Brooklyn; Rabbi Maurice Zigmond, director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and Rabbi Arthur Zuckerman, director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, City College of New York.
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