The Training School for Jewish Social Work in New York City, initiated by the National Conference of Jewish Social Service in 1925, began its second session on July 6th.
The Admissions Committee, of which Dr. Lee K. Frankel is Chairman, announced that ten fellowships were awarded by the School as a result of a competitive examination held in May. The fellowships were awarded to: David Areinoff of Northwestern University; Jeanette Axelrode of Manitoba University and the University of California; Lena Farber of the University of Washington; Celia R.Goldberg of Smith College; Samuel Levine of the University of Pennsylvania; Jacob Mirviss of the University of Minnesota; Belle F. Rhine of the University of Chicago; Esther D. Schwartz of the Oregon Agricultural College; Mary J. Siegel of Radcliffe College, and Rose Sorkin of the University of Pennsylvania.
The course in the School consists of fifteen months of post graduate study, nine months of which are taken in the New York School of Social Work. The class which began last July is now taking the last three months of work They are to be graduated in September.
Those identified with the organization and administration of the School are: Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Dr. Lee K. Frankel, Vice-President; I. Edwin Goldwasser, Treasurer, and Solomon Lowenstein, Executive Director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, Secretary. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago was the first president of the School and Louis E. Kirstein of Boston has recently been elected to succeed him.
A Cherokee Indian girl, Miss Ruth Muskrat, a graduate of the 1925 class of Mount Holyoke College, has been awarded the Henry Morgenthau prize, for being the member of that class who, in the first year out of college, has done the most to pass on her education to others.
The award comes as a recognition of her work for the people of her own race. Following her graduation last year. Miss Muskrat returned immediately to Oklahoma to be among her own people. She served as Dean of Women at the Northwestern State Teachers’ College of Oklahorna last summer. At present she is dean at Haskell Institute, the largest school for Indians in the United States.
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