Jewish members of the student body and faculty at Yale University have received outstanding honors during the academic year which will come to a close June 21.
Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of the Yale University Observatory, has been recently elected Correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences to fill the vacancy left by the death of the late Professor H. H. Turner, of Oxford. Professor Schlesinger, who is president of the International Astronomical Union, and the second American to hold this office, has been awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society of England, the Bruce Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the Valz Medal by the French Academy of Sciences for his work in the field of astronomy.
In the list of fellowships and scholarships awarded by the University are included fellowships to Harold Stein, of New York City, who will work at the British Museum and the Bodleian Library; David Fell-man, of Omaha, Neb., who will conduct research on the economic interpretations in American political theory; Jacob Weiss, of New Haven, who will work in the field of bacterioloy; Eva Saper, of Newark, N. J., who will study in the field of physiological chemistry; and Sidney Simon Glazer, of Brooklyn, who will do research work in linguistics. Moseh Bar-Am, of Tel-Aviv, Palestine, who has studied at the Hebrew University and Dropsie College, has been awarded the Kohut Fellowship in Semitics.
GETS ENGLISH FELLOWSHIP
Eugene V. Rostow, who graduates this June from Yale, has been awarded a Henry Fellowship for graduate study next year at Cambridge University, England.
Elections to Sigma Xi included the following Jewish students: Miriam Freda Becker, New York; Leon Arnold Greenberg, New Haven; Nathan Rakieten, New Haven; James E. Weiss, New Haven; Fred J. Freuchtemeyer, Jr., Cincinnati; Bernhard Henry Hartman, Washington; Richard E. Kaufmann, New York City; Saul L. Padowitz, Eliot Herman Rodnick, Morris Rubin, all of New Haven; and Jacob Leon Kovner, Brockton, Mass.
Elections to Phi Beta Kappa included that of Samuel W. Block, St. Joseph, Mo.; Robert Burstein, Hartford, Conn.; Abraham B. Cohen, New Haven; Leon E. Feinberg, New York City; David M. Goldman, Wallingford, Conn.; Manuel M. Goldstein, Hartford; Jerome Hartz, Baltimore; Saul L. Padowitz, Eliot H. Rodnick, Richard M. Seigel, all of New Haven; and Bernard A. Herman, Dorchester, Mass.
Recent prize awards went to Bernard Rapoport, of Hartford, who won first prize of the Berkeley Premiums in competitive examination in Latin composition, and Walt Whitman Rostow, of New Haven, second prize in the same competition; and Robert Abraham Rosenbaum, of Milford, Conn., who won a Benjamin F. Barge Mathematical Prize.
FOR EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC
Richard M. Seigel has received the John W. Corwith Memorial Scholarship Prize of $250 for excellence in Latin.
The Benjamin Jepson Memorial Prize, awarded by the Yale School of Music, has been given to Morris Mamorsky, New Haven, for excellence in the field of music.
Recent appointments and promotions to the Yale University Faculty carried the names of Harry Martin Zimmerman, Louis Herman Nahum, Louis Harold Cohen, Paul Harold Lavietes, and Simon B. Kleiner.
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