A memorial scholarship program, under which contributions of $5000 will be used to set up perpetual scholarships in the names of Tel Aviv University students and faculty members who died in battle, will be among the initial projects of two new regional leadership bodies established by the American Friends of Tel Aviv University.
Victor M. Carter of Los Angeles, president of the American Friends and chairman of the university’s international board of governors, said the new regional groups are in Chicago, where a board of trustees was formed, with Lawrence Goodman as chairman; and in Philadelphia where a board of directors was organized with David Cohen as chairman. Carter said a New York board will soon be established.
Carter said that recipients of the scholarships will be “qualified young Israelis, who will carry forward the promise of academic fulfillment that was denied their gallant predecessors.” He also said that all scholarship gifts will be made in a way to assure that the donors will have “no feeling of personal patronage,” nor will the next of kin of the memorialized casualties know the names of donors, “thus being spared a sense of individual obligation or gratitude.”
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