Edward M. M. Warburg, president of the United Jewish Appeal was awarded an honorary degree here today at the 71st commencement of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Mr. Warburg was cited as “One of the country’s most distinguished humanitarians” who helped make it possible for the UJA to save and aid more than 2,300,000 persons since 1939 and under whose chairmanship the UJA raised close to $300 million. He was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letter degree.
Other recipients of the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters were Dr. J. Victor Greenbaum Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati Medical College and Leon Lederer Cincinnati civic and communal leader. Six rabbis, alumni of the College-Institute, received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. They are Rabbis Philip D. Bookstaber Abraham Feinstein, Ariel Goldburg, Norman Goldburg, Victor E. Reichert and Morris M. Rose.
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