Over $1,850,000 has been raised toward the $4,000,000 campaign for the first medical school in Palestine, the board of governors of the Hebrew University was told yesterday by Mrs. Samuel J. Roseusoha national co-chairman of the campaign and a member of the board of governmenors. She made this report for the campaign committee of Hadasah and the American Friends of the Hebrew University as the board met for the social day of its three-day session.
Mrs. Rosensohn reported that ground was broken only last week for the new science building of the medical school, which will be built at a cost of $600,000, and for a new wing of the Henrietta Szold Nurses School. Dr. Saul Adler, chairman of the Pre-Faculty of Medicine, stressed the urgency of the training of medical men in Palestine. Dr. Haim Yassky, director of the Hadassah medical organization in Jerusalem, told of the expansion plans of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital so that it will have proper clinical facilities for a Grade A teaching hospital.
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