Three distinguished scientists and a public official received honorary degrees last night from Yeshiva University at an academic convocation held at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. The four degrees, including the first in the institution’s 55-year history ever presented to a woman, went to Dr. Leo M. Davidoff of New York City, world-renowned brain surgeon; Dr. Martha M. Eliot, chief of the Children’s Bureau of the Federal Security Agency; New York State Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein; and Dr. Julius M. Rogoff, Professor Emeritus of Endocrinology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
Drs. Davidoff, Eliot and Rogoff received the Doctor of Humane Letters degree and Mr. Goldstein the Doctor of Laws degree. The recipients were presented for the degree by Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein, Professor of Sociology. Dr. Samuel Belkin, the University’s president, cited each recipient and conferred the degree.
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