56 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



On arriving in New York my husband found the 

 administrative organization completed and work await- 

 ing him. The board to administer the Baron de Hirsch 

 Fund was made up as follows: 



Judge M. S. Isaacs, Jacob H. Schiff, Jesse Seligman, 

 Dr. Julius Goldman, Henry Rice, Judge Mayer Sulz- 

 berger, Honorable Oscar Straus, William B. Hacken- 

 berg and James H. Hoffman. 



Let me say here that these men of high purpose 

 and ideals and their successors were ever an inspira- 

 tion to my husband and he enjoyed the full confidence 

 of the trustees throughout his twenty-five years of 

 affiliation with the Fund. To carry -their plans into 

 effective execution was always a source of keenest 

 pleasure to him. 



With the presidents of the Fund, who have been 

 three since its inception.: Judge Isaacs, Dr. Julius Gold- 

 man and the present incumbent, Eugene S. Benjamin, 

 he was always in close contact. Of the original Board 

 only Judge Sulzberger remains in office. The addi- 

 tional new members are: Mortimer L. Schiff, Herbert 

 H. Lehman, Max J. Kohler, Judge Nathan Bijur, S. 

 G. Rosenbaum, Abram I. Elkus, Charles L. Bernheimer, 

 Alfred Jaretzki, S. F. Rothschild, S. S. Fleisher and 

 Julius Rosenwald. 



