The thirty-fourth anniversary of the death of Isaac M. Wise, founder of Hebrew Union College, was marked at annual Founders’ Day exercises held here yesterday.
“Isaac M. Wise played a great role during the more than half century of his active career in public American Jewish life,” declared Dr. David Philipson, only surviving member of the first graduating class of the college. The class had four members.
“He obtained a leading place in American Jewry and was easily first among the rabbis of his day and generation,” Dr. Philipson said.
“He blazed new paths in the founding of state institutions. Hebrew Union College, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are the enduring monuments to his memory.”
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