31 Ordained As Rabbis in H.U.C.-J.I.R. Schools in New York and Cincinnati

Oscar I, Janowsky, professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York and Jacob Ziskind Visiting Professor of History and Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the annual commencement exercises here today of the New York School of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.

A total of 31 members of the graduating classes of both the New York and Cincinnati schools were ordained as rabbis here today and last week in Cincinnati. Six graduates were invested as cantors. Other recipients of honorary degrees from the two schools included: Alexander Altmann, Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Brandeis University; Oscar Handlin, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University; Jacob A. Goldfarb and S.H. Scheuer, New York City industrialists; and Eric Werner, professor of Jewish music at the New York school of the College-Institute.