Sol M. Strook is Reelected President for Third Time of New York Federation

Sol M. Stroock has been elected president of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies for the third year and Dudley D. Sicher has been named chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation, according to an announcement yesterday by Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the board.

Mr. Stroock is the fourth president named to lead the organization since the local Jewish community chest was founded in 1917, his predecessors in officed being Felix M. Warburg, Arthur Lehman and Joseph L. Buttenweiser. Mr. Sicher succeeds Percy S. Straus, who presented his withdrawal as chairman of the Business Men’s Council, but who will continue, with Frederick Brown, as honorary chairman. The Business Men’s Council is the organization responsible for the money-raising activities of the Federation and is composed of representative men from business and the professions who voluntarily solicit funds in their respective fields.

Other officers of the Federation for 1928 have been named as follows: Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the board; Arthur Lehman, associate chairman; Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, Benjamin F. Feiner, Henry F. Samstag and Jacob Sperber, vice presidents; Col. H. A. Guinzburg, treasurer; Walter E. Baer, associate treasurer; Edwin H. Stern, comptroller; Herman Lissner, secretary and Solomon Lowenstein, executive director.

Announcement was made that the Business Men’s Council, which includes 134 trade and professional groups, will hold a dinner at the Hotel Roosevelt on Wednesday evening, March 21. The dinner meeting will be held to welcome Mr. Sicher, the new chairman of the council and his associate officers, whose names are to be made known next week. The purpose of the dinner meeting also will be to present a report of the expenditures in 1927 by the 91 constituent societies of the Federation, and to submit the findings of the Distribution Committee on the allotment of funds to the affiliated societies for 1928.