Commencement exercises of the Hebrew Union College will be held in the College Chapel next Saturday.
Dr. Julian Morganstern, president of the college, will ordain the following as rabbis: David J. Seligson, Arverne, L. I., N. Y.; David I. Cedarbaum, Norman Gerstenfeld, Sidney M. Lefkowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Norbert L. Rosenthal, Chicago; Alexander S. Kline, Moses Cyrus Weiler, Cincinnati; Louis Joseph Cashdan, Detroit; Theodore H. Gordon, Minneapolis; David H. Wice, Petersburg, Va.; Milton L. Grafman, Pittsburgh, and Perry E. Nussbaum, Toronto.
The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. Harry W. Ettelson, of Memphis, an alumnus of the class of 1904. Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber, of Chicago, member of the class of 1886, will pronounce the invocation. Rev. Dr. Samuel Sale, of St. Louis, will pronounce the benediction.
Honorary degrees will be conferred by Dr. Morganstern, who will also award the annual prizes.
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