Edith and James Ross of Youngstown, Ohio, have pledged $500,000 toward an information center at the Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus, Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the Hadassah Medical Organization Building and Development, announced at the Hadassah mid-winter conference here attended by 150 national leaders representing 325,000 women in the U.S. including Puerto Rico.
The Information Center, which will bear their name, will house a 200-seat lecture hall for visitors to receive information on Hadassah, a cafeteria for visitors to patients in the Hadassah University Hospital now under construction, and offices for the Public Relations, Tourist and YA’AL (volunteer) Departments of Hadassah. There will be a special room to memorialize and house the last effects of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, who died in the original. Hadassah Hospital there in 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross have previously contributed to Hadassah the building for the School of Occupational Therapy now functioning on Mount Scopus and a research floor at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center at Ein Karem in western Jerusalem. “The training of therapists is much in demand in Israel. In addition to the war casualties, there are many people–particularly from Oriental backgrounds–with congenital malformations, who require orthopedic surgery and physical and occupational therapy,” Mrs. Jacobson explained. She said that “the Ross family gifts to Hadassah have totalled close to a million dollars to date.”
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