Graduation from the University of Wisconsin was accompanied by high honors for a dozen Milwaukee Jewish young men and women.
The John Lendrum Mitchell memorial gold medal for the best undergraduate or master’s thesis in industrial relations was awarded to Wilbur J. Cohen and the Vilas medal for excellence in public speaking and debate to Bernard J. Hankin.
Among local students who were cited for high scholastic honors at the university were Dorothy L. Bernstein, Haya Kruglak, Richard J. Morawetz, Nannette R. Rosenberg, Wilbur Cohen, Harold J. Tarkow, Arthur B. Magidson and Seymour H. Kaufman. Howard Eder, was awarded the Mary Martin scholarship, a $50 prize, by the Milwaukee chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for leading in an examination conducted annually by the D. A. R.
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