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...Dental School yesterday renamed its main building in honor of the late Sera Gelfand Deutschman '21, who bequeathed the school $3 million upon her death. After a luncheon of scrod and blusberry pit at the Harvard Club of Boston, President Bok called Deutschman a "great friend of the Dental School and a great admirer of its work...
...building is named after Deutschman's parents, Samuel and Ida Gelfand...
...Gelfands' achievements were particularly "miraculous," said Holdhaber, in light of the severe oppression of Jews in turn of the-century Russia Goldhaber read from Ida Gelfand's memoirs, which describe the hardships the Gelfands, both Jewish, had endured on the way to receiving their dental licenses...
Dedication ceremonies of the Samuel and Ida Gelfand Research Center for Oral and Dental Diseases will begin at 11 a.m. today, with Goldhaber and President Bok the featured speakers. Bok could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Samuel and Ida Gelfand were trained Russian dentists who emigrated to the United States just after the turn of the century. Their daughter Sara had a lifelong interest in the profession and began donating funds to the Dental School in 1968, when she established a teaching fund also named after her parents...