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A34 liflMIII) LONG ISLAND WORLD Philanthropist Joseph Gurwin, 89 Ukraine to feed hungry people and gave money to causes in Israel, among other pursuits. He also was past chairman of the board of the UJA-Federatkm of New York. Recently, his philanthropic foundations had lost miHirm in investments from the disgraced finanriw Bernard Madoff, but Gurwin was determined to keep giving. "He said that wasn't going to stop him he was going to continue with his philanthropy using his personal money, which he did," Pressman Gurwin said. At his funeral on Sunday, hundreds of mourners packed Temple Beth El in Great Neck.

"He wasn't an armchair said Davidson, who officiated at his funeral. "He translated his good fortune into a In addition to his wife and brother, Gurwin is survived by a son, Dr. Eric Gurwin of New Jersey; a daughter, Laura Flug of New York, and four grandchildren. He was buried in Paramus, N.J. and sent to the Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust His mother and father died there; his brother, Chaim, survived, only to become trapped in Lithuania, which during World War became part of the Soviet Union.

Gurwin, who went on to a career providing mamiariiring and textiles for the military, made philanthropy a key focus of his life, his wife said. "He said he felt he was saved for a she said, "and that was to save and help other He donated and fundraised millions for the Rosalind and Joseph Gurwin nursing center named after him and his first wife, who died in 1997 partly as a way to honor the memories of his murdered parents. "He said he couldn't take care of his own parents because they were killed in the Phyllis Pressman Gurwin said. "He wanted to help other people's Besides helping to found the Holocaust museum, Gurwin built a community center in Joseph Gurwin raised millions for nursing center in Commack named for him and first wife. Gurwin was born on June 13, 1920, and immigrated to the United States when he was 16, speaking no Wnglih and with $100 in his pocket, his wife said.

Gurwin's mother, father and brother, who all stayed behind in Lithuania, were rounded up Space pioneer Popovich MOSCOW Former Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, the sixth man to go into orbit, died yesterday at age 78, reportedly of a stroke. Popovich was born in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. The first of his two trips into orbit was in August 1962 as the sole man aboard the Vostok-4 capsule. The launch came a day after another Soviet was launched into orbit, marking the first time that two hnmana were ever in orbit around the Earth at the same time. Popovich next went into space a dozen years later in Jury 1974 as the commander of the two-man Soyuz-14, a 15-day mission to the Salyut space station.

AP of JFK Richard Reeves recalled in a 2002 New York Times article, that he occasionally watched Kennedy inject himself in the thigh with the corticosteroids that kept him from succumbing to Addison's disease. "Jack," Fay told him, "the way you take that jab, it looks like it doesn't even hurt" According to Reeves, the president lunged at his old friend and stabbed the needle into his leg. As Fay screamed in pain, Kennedy said, "It feels the same to me." Fay included the incident in the manuscript of his memoir, but Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the president's brother, crossed out the paragraphs before publication. Leaving the Pentagon two years after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Fay helped reconstitute his family business into a fi-nanrial consulting and business venture enterprise. He also was a founding partner of William Hutchinson an investment brokerage firm.

Survivors inrhide bis wife of 62 years, and three children. BY JMNKR MmOS The death of Joseph Gurwin last week leaves a large void in the area of Jewish philanthropy on Long Island and beyond, said Rabbi Jerome Davidson, rabbi emeritus of Temple Beth El in Great Neck. "His passing represents the loss of one of the great philanthropists in the Jewish Davidson said of the Lithuanian immigrant who was a founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and who raised millions for the Rosalind and Joseph Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Commack. Gurwin, who narrowly escaped the Holocaust and then went on to amass a fortune and donate mfflifma, died in Manhattan last Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 89 He and his wife, Phyllis Pressman Gurwin, maintained homes anhattan, Southampton and Pahn Beach, Fla.

NATION Paul Fay BYJOEHOUfY The Washington Past WASHINGTON Paul B. Fay a confidant of John F. Kennedy's from their service together during World War to his tenure as a high-ranking Navy Department official in the Kennedy administration, died Sept 23 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his home in Woodside, Calif. He was 9L Fay, a San Francisco businessman after his years as Navy undersecretary during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, got to know Kennedy in 1942, when Fay was a young Navy ensign assigned to the PT Boat School in Melville, RI. Kennedy, a junior naval officer at the time, was Fay's instructor.

Both men were dispatched to the South Pacific, where they were part of the same squadron Kennedy as skipper of PT 109, Fay as executive officer of PT 174 and subsequently captain of PT 167, based at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Sally Bedell Smith, author of "The Private World of the 91, longtime confidante 1 1 ii Fay, left, was a Navy undersecretary during the administration of Kennedy, his instructor at the PT Boat School in the '40s. Kennedy White House" (2006), noted that Fay's family was "a West Coast version of Kennedy's Irish Catholic family: six children dominated by a hard-driving Republican businessman. Fay graduated from Stanford University in 1941 and joined the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war, he returned to San Francisco, where he became executive vice president of the family business.

He stayed in touch with Kennedy and the extended Kennedy family. He campaigned for John Kennedy during his first race for Congress, in 1946, and in his subsequent campaigns for the Senate anH the White House. He was an usher at his friend's wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier. "He was great said his nephew, Charles McGettigan. "Everyone enjoyed being around him.

He was like a Pied Piper." Kennedy, a year older than Fay, enjoyed his friend's company as welL Biographer Smith quoted journalist Rowland Evans, a close friend of Fay's, 8 who observed that "Kennedy liked people who were brash, as long as they were not rude. He loved the banter, and Red Fay had that Shortly after Kennedy was elected president in 1960, he offered his old friend the job of undersecretary of the Navy. In "The Pleasure of His Company" 0966), Fay's best-selling account of bis friendship with the late president, Fay recalled his less-than-satisfying interview with Robert McNamara, the newly appointed defense secretary. Fay found him to be "a coldly, serious man," and the interview did not go welL McNamara, in fact, concluded that Fay lacked the requisite experience for running a huge organization. Although Kennedy had agreed to give his defense secretary the authority to appoint whomever he wanted, he overruled McNamara, and Fay became the Navy's second-ranking civilian official in February 196L He remained close to the president so close, journalist i 3.