A commencement “in absentia,” similar to that held in New York recently, for German-Jewish students deprived of their degrees and diplomas by the Hitler regime, will take place here Thursday night at the Y.M.Y.W.H.A. under the auspices of a country-wide committee of forty young people, mostly graduates of Eastern colleges, universities and professional schools.
Among the speakers thus far announced are Dean Franz Ericson of Upsala College: Dean Herber C. Hunsaker of the School of Business of Dana College; Dr. Paul Keller, member of the board of trustees of the latter institution, and Aaron Lasser, vice dean of Mercer Beasley School of Law.
Rabbi Marius Ranson, of Temple Sharey Tefilo, East Orange, is scheduled to give the invocation and a local Protestant clergyman, Rev. Dr. T. Porter Drumm will give the benediction.
The sponsors’ committee is headed by Abraham Silverstein and Erwin I. Meyer and Lawrence B. Weisberg, co-chairmen; and the Misses Fannie Hautzik and Emma Gorrin, secretaries.
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