Jewish leaders from various parts of the country will attend the Fall Convocation of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati to be held at the Beth-El Chapel of the Temple Emanu-El, in New York on Tuesday, at which a degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, honors cause, will be conferred upon Mr. Paul Baerwald, Baerwald honorary chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Mr. Baerwald is being honored by the College in recognition of his many years of leadership in philanthropy as an officer of the JDC and in other humanitarian organizations, including President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, of which he is a member. Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, will present Mr. Baerwald as candidate for the honorary degree, and Dr. Julian Morgenstern, President of the College, will confer the degree, assisted by Rabbi Nathan Stern of New York, who is president of the Hebrew Union College Alumni Association. Addresses of confirmation will be delivered by Ralph W. Mack of Cincinnati, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College, and Adolph Rosenberg of Cincinnati, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which is the parent body of the College.
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