Prof. Kallen Honored on 75th Anniversary; Receives Education Award

Prof. Horace M. Kallen, distinguished scholar and Jewish leader, was honored tonight on the occasion of his 75th birthday at the 18th anniversary dinner of the American Association for Jewish Education. The dinner, held at the Waldorf-Astoria, was attended by prominent personalities in Jewish life and by scholars and communal leaders in all fields of endeavor.

Prof. Kallen was presented with the Mark Eisner Education Award for his interest in the cause of Jewish education. He has been active in recent years in the American Association for Jewish Education, a national agency of which he is vice president, Philip W. Lown, president of the American Association for Jewish Education, expressed the gratification of his co-workers in Jewish education that the Association was privileged to sponsor this tribute to Prof. Kallen. The dinner was arranged by a sponsors committee of which Ben Touster, Jewish communal leader and former president of Hias, was chairman.

Prof. Kallen has been actively associated with Jewish communal work throughout his fruitful career as scholar and teacher. He was a close friend and collaborator of the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis while Mr. Brandeis spearheaded the Zionist movement. Together with the late Dr. Stephen S. Wise he helped to convene the historic sessions of the American Jewish Congress at the close of World War I, and has been active in the AJC ever sine.

He is the author of many books and articles dealing with philosophy and sociology and with various aspects of Jewish life. As chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology of the New School for Social Research he has helped to mould many outstanding personalities in the academic world. He previously taught at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin.