Background
Day, Donald Sheldon was born on November 3, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Israel and Frances (Goldberg) Day.
Day, Donald Sheldon was born on November 3, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Israel and Frances (Goldberg) Day.
Bates College (Bachelor of Arts, 1944). Cornell University (Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1948).
Worked at Saperston & Day, Professional Corporation (Buffalo, New York) specializing in Corporation Law, Taxation Law, Business Acquisitions Law. Admitted to the bar, 1949, New New York Delta Sigma Rho; Phi Kappa Phi.
General Chairman, United Jewish Fund, 1971-1973.
1974-1975. Member, Board of Regents, Canisius College, 1972-1978. Senior Company-Chairman, Buffalo Chapter National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1973-1974.
President, United Jewish Federation, 1975-1977. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1979-1984.
President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1988.
Chairman of the Board, Children"s Hospital of Buffalo, 1989-1991. Trustee of Hebrew Union-College, Jewish Institute of Religion, 1980. Trustee, Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1970.
Member: American Bar Association.
Member, Board of Regents, Canisius College, 1972-1978. Senior Company-Chairman, Buffalo Chapter National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1973-1974. President, United Jewish Federation, 1975-1977.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1979-1984.
President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1988. Chairman of the Board, Children"s Hospital of Buffalo, 1989-1991.
Trustee of Hebrew Union-College, Jewish Institute of Religion, 1980. Trustee, Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1970.
Member: American Bar Association.
Married Edythe Greenberg, July 8, 1945. Children— Clifford L., Richard J., Halee Beth.