"One of These Days the People Will Make the Governments of the World Stand Aside and Let Them Have Peace." President Dwight D
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Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts — April 22, 1982 "One of these days the people will make the governments of the world stand aside and let them have peace." President Dwight D. Eisenhower IN MEMORIAM The twelve Dunfey sons and daughters dedicate this Reunion Assembly of the New England Circle to the memory of our Mother Catherine A. Dunfey A WOMAN FOR PEACE August 29, 1894 — March 25, 1982 Welcome to this very Special Reunion Assembly of the Geneva in 1975. Last October, as chairman of a group of New England Circle. This evening's gathering brings together, governmental experts working on a United Nations study of for the first time, many of the more than 800 Circle members the relationships between disarmament and development, who have been to our 18 previous dinner discussions and Ms. Thorsson and her committee completed more than three other Circle events held here at the Parker House since 1974. years of work on the analysis. The project involved more We are especially honored by the presence of this evening's than 100 researchers and dozens of experts appointed by the Discussion Leader, Sweden's Under-Secretary of State for UN Secretary General. Disarmament, Inga Thorsson, and many of our former Circle Her "committee" this evening includes the assembled past Discussion Leaders, and several Special Guests. Circle Discussion Leaders, and our Special Guests, each of We are gathered to listen to and participate in a discussion whom has been on the leading edge of the national and inter- of the critical issue of our time: our responses and strategies national debates, conferences and movements that are shap- for a nuclear age. We come to talk about ideas which are ing our nuclear futures. And her committee also includes sweeping the nation and the globe. We are here to contribute each of you, for, as Circle events have demonstrated since to a rational agenda for our nuclear—or non-nuclear—future. our first meeting more than eight years ago, these are par- This Special Assembly is in keeping with the best tradi- ticipatory discussions designed to promote constructive tions of the New England Circle's purpose: to assemble for change. the discussion of social, political, literary and educational As a discussion catalyst, we begin the meeting with a show- topics; to exchange ideas and opinions that lead to construc- ing of the film The Last Epidemic, a 35-minute, award-win- tive change in our lives, in our nation, and, as this evening's ning documentary that has the distinction of being specially topic mandates, throughout the world. shown to members of both the U.S. House and Senate. For there are no national boundaries to the nuclear arms In this nuclear age, such change is actively sought and race. The issue is planetary, as our Discussion Leader so well acutely needed. As national political columnist Hugh Sidey knows. For more than two decades, Inga Thorsson has been wrote recently in one of his Time columns: "We have built grappling with nuclear issues in the conference rooms and ourselves into an era of nuclear absurdity. We have created lecture halls of dozens of nations. She wrote her first book on a glittering armada of rockets, warheads and electronics the topic in her native land (No to Swedish Atomic Weapons) controlled by the unfathomable workings of the minds of a in 1959, and since then has not left the arenas of international few frightened men. America's march up the nuclear diplomacy and disarmament. A member of the Swedish Par- mountain was made in the name of peace. The time for a liament for a decade, her country's Ambassador to Israel courageous march down, under the same banner, may be from 1964 to '66, she has been chairman of the Swedish Dis- at hand. ." armament Delegation to the United Nations since 1973, a This evening's Special Reunion Assembly is one step in post she has held in conjunction with her work as President that march. We are pleased to be a part of it. of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference held in Your Hosts .... Jack, Bill, Bob, Walter, Roy, and Jerry Dunfey CIRCLE DISCUSSION LEADERS 1974 — 1982 I. Author Richard N. Goodwin* II. Historian Dr. Henry Steele Commager III. Former United States Ambassador to Canada Kenneth M. Curtis* IV. Georgia State Senator Julian Bond V. Former Massachusetts Congressman Michael Harrington* VI. United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy VII. Author & Columnist Jimmy Breslin VIII. Atlanta Mayor and Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young IX. Human Rights Activist Coretta Scott King X. United States House of Representatives Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. XI. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith* XII. Former Press Secretary to the President Jody Powell XIII. New York Mayor Edward I. Koch XIV. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader XV. Feminist Gloria Steinem XVI. United Auto Workers President Douglas A. Fraser XVII. Author-Journalist Donald Woods XVIII. Central American Humanitarian Bianca Jagger *Here this evening as Honored Guests Guest List FRANCINE ACHBAR, Producer, "Impact" WBZ-TV 4, Boston, HOMER BABBIDGE, President, Hartford Graduate Center, Ma. Hartford, Ct. FRED ADAMI, Director, Consumer Affairs, The Gillette JACK BACKMAN, State Senator, Brookline, Ma. Corporation, Boston, Ma. PHILIP BALBONI, Director, Editorials and Public Affairs, JOYCE LONDON ALEXANDER, U. S. Magistrate, U. S. WCVB-TV 5, Needham, Ma. District Court, Boston, Ma. RICHARD BARRINGER, Director, State Planning Office, ROGER ALLAN, Public Affairs Director, WRKO Radio, State of Maine, Augusta, Me. Boston, Ma. EDWARD BAUMEISTER, Producer, WGBH-TV 2, Allston, LENECIA VALDA ANDERSON, Director, Creative Services, Ma. WHDH Radio, Boston, Ma. JACK BEAN, Deputy Regional Administrator, Health Care MARILYN ANDERSON-CHASE, Executive Director, Rox- Financing Administration, U. S. Department of Health and bury Multi-Service Center, Roxbury, Ma. Human Services, Boston, Ma. JOSEPH ANGELONE, President, Joseph Angelone Company, PEGGY BEAN, Executive Assistant to Roy Dunfey, Dunfey Portland, Me. Hotels, Boston, Ma. TOM APPLETON, General Manager, A to V Inc., Charles- JAMES A. BELL, Senior Correspondent, Time Magazine, town, Ma. Boston, Ma. MAURICE AREL, Mayor, City of Nashua, N. H. ED BERGER, Syndicated Financial Reporter and Spokesman JOELLE ATTINGER, Correspondent, Time Magazine, Boston, for the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, Boston, Ma. Ma. MEL BERNSTEIN, Senior Vice President, K. K. & M., NATALIE CHRISTIAN, Anchor, WLVI-TV 56, Boston, Ma. HELEN "POPPY" DOYLE, Chairperson, Democratic National SYL DUPUIS, M. D„ President, Catholic Medical Center, Boston, Ma. ALTON CIANCHETTE, State Senator; President, Cianbro Committee, Ashfield, Ma. Manchester, N. H. CHRIS BLACK, Political Reporter, The Boston Globe, Boston, Corporation, Pittsfield, Ma. DUDLEY DUDLEY, Executive Councillor, Third District, RICHARD DUTREMBLE, U. S. Marshall, Biddeford, Me. Ma. STEVEN P. COHEN, Real Estate Developer, Benjamin L. Durham, N. H. DAPHNE W. DWYER, II, President, Mott Enterprises, JAMES E. BLACKWELL, Professor, Department of Sociology, Cohen and Son Real Estate; Publisher, Condo Owner BARBARA BORIN DUNFEY, Chairperson, New Hampshire Marblehead, Ma. University of Massachusetts, Boston, Ma. Magazine, Boston, Ma. Commission of the Arts, Portsmouth, N. H. LOVELL DYETT, Host, "Lovell Dyett Show," WBZ Radio, JOANN BLUMSACK, Brookline, Ma. JEAN COLE, Editorial Consultant, Brunswick, Me. CATHERINE DUNFEY, Catherine Dunfey Designer Sweaters, Boston, Ma. LARRY BLUMSACK, President, Presentations, Brookline, Ma. JOHN COLE, Contributing Editor, The Maine Times, Marblehead, Ma. BARBARA EDELIN, Real Estate Broker, Boston, Ma. RICHARD BOYER, State Senator, Nashua, N. H. Topsham, Me. CATHERINE M. DUNFEY, Consultant, Hampton, N. H. KENNETH C. EDELIN, M.D., Chairman, OB-GYN Depart- JOHN BRADY, Editor, Boston Magazine, Boston, Ma. NOEL CONGDON, Denver, Co. DANIEL DUNFEY, Portsmouth, N. H. ment, Boston University Medical School; Director, GYN TOM BROKAW, NBC, New York, N. Y. THOMAS CONGDON, Denver, Co. DAVID DUNFEY, Student, School of Law, Boston College, Department, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Ma. STEPHEN BROOKS, Attorney, Albany, N. Y. TIMOTHY J. CONNORS, Executive Director, Portsmouth Chestnut Hill, Ma. JANE CENTER EDMONDS, Consultant, J. C. Edmonds As- BERNARD E. BRUCE, Associate Dean, Graduate School, Housing Authority, Portsmouth, N. H. DIANE DUNFEY, Student, Boston University, Boston, Ma. sociation, Boston, Ma. Brown University, Providence, R. I. WALTER E. COREY, JR., Attorney, Portland, Me. EILEEN DUNFEY, Manchester, N. H. SISTER JANET EISNER, President, Emmanuel College, DAVID BRUDNOY, Critic, WNAC-TV 7; Host, "The David ROBERT CRAIG, Assistant Professor, Department of Politi- GAIL DUNFEY, Director of Personnel, Charles River Breed- Boston, Ma. Brudnoy Show" WRKO Radio, Boston, Ma. cal Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H. ing Laboratory, Wilmington, Ma. HARRY ELAM, Chief Justice, Boston Municipal Court, Boston, WILLIAM BURKE, JR., President, National Hydro Energy CALLIE CROSSLEY, Reporter, WGBH-TV 2, Allston, Ma. JOAN DUNFEY, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Ma. Corporation, Boston, Ma. LEONARD W. CUMMINGS, Assistant Staff Manager, Equip- Boston, Ma. GARY L. ENNIS, Director, Maine Indian Education, Caribou, JAMES BUSH, Consultant, Wheeler Associates, Boston, Ma. ment Installation Department, New England Telephone JOAN L. DUNFEY, Owner, The Gallery, Portsmouth, N. H. Me. CYNTHIA BUZZETTA, Training & Development Specialist, Company, Portland, Me. MARY DUNFEY, Program Associate, Historic Preservation