Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, received tonight an honorary fellowship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at a dinner following the meeting of the board of directors of the American Friends of Hebrew University. About 200 members of the board and national council, the organization’s advisory group, attended the dinner.
Mr. Leavitt was presented with a certificate flown in from the Jerusalem university citing him “in recognition of his devoted services to the University in its work for Learning and Science in Israel, the Jewish People and Humanity.” The presentation was made by Bernard Cherrick, director general of the board of governors of the Hebrew University who arrived recently to report on University progress in research and training activity.
Mr. Leavitt played a key role in the negotiations which led to the recent opening of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University with the aid of a grant of $500, 000 from the JDC. One of the honored guests at the session was Paul Baerwald, honorary chairman of the JDC, in whose honor the school is named. During the 40 years since its founding in 1918, the Jerusalem school has conferred honorary fellowships on only 14 other distinguished citizens “for conspicuous services to the University.”
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