Funeral services were held yesterday at Temple Israel in New Rochelle for Harry K. Gutmann, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, who died Friday morning in his home in Scarsdale after a long illness. He was 64 years old. Holder of the highest voluntary layman’s position in Reform Judaism. Mr. Gutmann was elected as the UAHC’s chairman on Dec. 3, 1972.
In 1962, Mr. Gutmann, a native of Union City. N.J., joined the UAHC Board as president of the organization’s largest eastern regional branch, the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues, and held numerous posts with the UAHC including vice-chairmanship in 1968. During his Federation presidency he founded the only rabbinically staffed psychiatric counselling center serving Jewish families in the metropolitan area, and was first president and pioneer of the New York Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.
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