Gustave L, Levy, prominent financier, philanthropist and communal leader, has been named chairman of the 1976 United Jewish Appeal & Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign to meet human needs in Israel, elsewhere overseas and in the New York metropolitan area. The drive, covering New York City, Westchester and Long Island, will officially begin next autumn.
The announcement of Levy’s acceptance of the chairmanship was made by Laurence A. Tisch, chairman of the UJA & Federation Joint Board. Levy will succeed Lawrence B. Buttenweiser, chairman of the 1975 drive, now in its concluding phases.
As chairman of the largest local yearly campaign for philanthropic funds anywhere in the world, Levy will direct the efforts of some 20,000 volunteers organized in trade and professional divisions, in community and congregational committees, and in women’s young adult, youth fraternal and other groups.
Tisch said: “We are fortunate that the New York Jewish community’s unified effort to care for the needy and endangered, sick and troubled among our fellow Jews anywhere in the world will be led in the year to come by one of our community’s most respected and effective leaders.”
A LEADER IN MANY FIELDS
A resident of Manhattan and Armonk, N.Y., Levy is a leader in a wide variety of philanthropic, civic, cultural and educational causes. Among the positions he holds or has held are those of chairman of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Medical Center and School of Medicine; treasurer and past campaign chairman of the UJA of Greater New York; past president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; treasurer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and of the International Synagogue; and chairman of the President’s Council of New York University’s College of Business and Public Administration.
The 1976 joint campaign will be the second fully unified drive by the UJA and Federation, following the coordination in 1973-74 of their traditionally separate campaigns in order to cope with the humanitarian emergency brought on by the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War.
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