Seven hundred and forty-two eligible applicants for residence in the Young Women’s Hebrew Association on 110th Street had to be turned away last year, according to Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, acting president, in the twenty-sixth annual report of the institution, made public yesterday.
The report showed that the dormitory housed 540 residents during the year. “The proper housing of young girls of our own faith or any other,” Mrs. Warburg stated in her report, “is one of the most important social problems of this city. We consider the girl who lives here truly one of the chosen few. Nowhere outside the home of devoted parents could she find the personal concern and interest she receives here. Unfortunately, we are only partially meeting this demand. Thousands need us, –not only the stated number who met our requirements and were turned away,– but those many who seek us for reasons of loneliness and because of small earnings, those who are older than the required age for admission and who can barely meet the necessities of living. These keep knocking at our doors.
“There are few homes in this apartment house age where families can disperse conveniently and give up their privacy to accommodate group friendships of their children,” Mrs. Warburg stated in her report. In stressing the need for community centers and Young Women’s Associations, Mrs. Warburg also pointed out that the total attendance at the Y.W.H.A. on West 110th Sreet for 1927 was 347,003.
Mrs. Israel Unterberg was re-elected president of the association and other officers again chosen include: Mrs. Jerome J. Hanauer, Mrs. Samuel I Hyman, and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, vice presidents; Mrs. Simon Liebovitz, treasurer; and Mrs. Benjamin Marshall, secretary. The following members of the board were re-elected for three years: Miss Mattie Blogg, Mrs. Samuel I. Hyman, Mrs. Isaac Kubie, Mrs. Eva Levy, Mrs. Arthur Rcsenthal and Mrs. Edgar Rosenstock. Mrs. Carl H. Pforzheimer was elected to the board for one year.
The annual report showed that the institution spent $132,500 during 1927 and that the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, of which the Y.W.H.A. is one of the ninety-one constituent members, contributed $35,827.
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