Seymour Facher, director of development at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, died last week at Beth Israel Hospital, following a heart attack. He was 61 years old. Facher came to the Seminary in April, 1980, from Brandeis University, where he had served since 1974 as vice-president of development and university relations. At the Seminary, he had directed a successful building fund effort which resulted in a new library, now under construction on the institution’s New York campus.
A graduate of Ohio University in Athens, he served in the United States Army during World War II, returning in 1946 to graduate study at Teachers College, Columbia University. Beginning this year, he served as a fund raiser, and later as a campaign or development director, for a number of agencies in the New York area, including Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan New Jersey, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the Synagogue Council of America.
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