Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston, Massachusetts

              January 28, 1976
Mr. Mitchell Marcus
Chairman
National & Local Relations Committee
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
72 Franklin Street
Boston, MA
Re:      American Friends of Haifa University
Dear Mitch:
This letter will serve as notification to the National and
Local Relations Committee of recent efforts to establish a Greater
Boston Chapter of the American Friends of Haifa University.
Recently, a group of local leaders, including both of the undersigned, Neil Cooper, Joel Berkowitz and Ron Kaplan met with Dr.
Aryeh Nesher, Vice President of Haifa University and David M.
Winter, National Director of the American Friends, to discuss the
possibility of such a chapter.  Among the communities which
presently have such chapters are Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and
Chicago.
The purpose of a local chapter would be to familiarize
Boston Jewry with the varied programs of the University and to
assist in the raising of funds for scholarships.  The annual
chapter membership fee would be $100. On Sunday evening, February
29, 1976, we are planning a meeting at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Ronald Kaplan as the initial effort to interest a wide range of
members of the Boston Jewish community in forming a Greater
Boston Chapter.  Dr. Nesher will be with us that evening.
If our effort to establish a formal Chapter is successful,
we further plan to conduct a limited campaign for scholarship
funds in May-June, 1976.  The amount of the individual scholarships
which we would seek from both members of the local Chapter and
from a limited number of members of the general community is one
hundred ($100.00) dollars to one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars,
with a tentative total goal not to exceed twenty-five thousand
($25,000.00) dollars.  A list of those individuals from whom we
would solicit such scholarship funds will be submitted to your
committee in advance of our campaign.  Furthermore, each individual
contributor will be made aware that his scholarship shall in no
way affect his annual support to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Israel Emergency Fund.