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NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ( SHERATON CLEVELAND HOTEL, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1974

MAYOR PERK, CHAIRMAN E. MANDELL DE WINDT OF THE OVER-ALL

CIVIC COMMITTEE SPONSORING THIS OCCASION, DINNER CHAIRMAN FRANC~S A.

COY, PRESIDING CHAIRMAN LOUIS B. SELTZER OF THE NORTHERN ____.)

REGION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS, LADIES

AND GENTLEMEN:

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I AM HONORED TO ADDRESS THE ORGANIZATION THAT MADE

BROTHERHOOD MORE THAN A PHRASE. THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

CHRISTIANS AND JEWS HAS TRANSLATED PREACHMENT INTO PRACTICE.

YOU HAVE BUILT A COALITION OF AMERICANS COMMITTED TO THIS NATION'S

IDEALS OF ~ , /LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. ·'' - 3 -

"BROTHERHOOD" AND "EDUCATION" ARE TWO OF THE THREE MOST

TREASURED WORDS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. THE THIRD IS "COMMITMENT". IN ALL YOUR

ACTIVITIES YOU STRIVE TO INSTILL COMMITMENT TO THE VALUES OF

BROTHERHOOD. YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO COMMIT YOURSELVES AND OTHERS TO

THE VITAL TASK OF IMPROVING HUMAN RELATIONS AMONG THE 211 MILLION

CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES .

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THE IMPORTANT FACT IS THAT YOU SAW A PROBLEM AND TOOK

ACTION TO CORRECT IT. YOU DID NOT SURRENDER TO HOPELESSNESS AND

GLOOM AND DOOM. YOU DID NOT BELIEVE THE PESSIMISTS WHO SAID THAT - ) THE VARIOUS RELIGIONS AND RACES OF AMERICA COULD NEVER ACHIEVE ·

BROTHERHOOD. YOU FELT THAT SOMEHOW THE DREAM OF BROTHERHOOD OF ,,

MAN UNDER THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD COULD BE MADE A REALITY IN THE ___. - - UNITED STATES. - 5 -

WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY NOT YET ACHIEVED THE ERA OF PERFECTION

IN HUMAN RELATIONS. BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT AN IMPORTANT SEGMENT

OF AMERICANS RECOGNIZED A COMPELLING CONCERN AND ~ESOLV!!}_ THROUGH

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS TO DO SOMETHING

ABOUT IT. - 6 -

I AM PLEASED TO BE WITH YOU TONIGHT BECAUSE YOUR GROUP

PROVIDES A MODEL OF WHAT'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA. YOU BELIEVED

IN THE PROMISE AND POTENTIAL OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU VOLUNTEERED.

YOU EXERCISED FREE CHOICE. YOU DID NOT SEE YOURSELVES OR YOUR

NATION AS HELPLESS VICTIMS OF CHAOS AND CATASTROPHE .

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GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH THE HOLY BIBLE AND SAYS THAT "I

HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE

CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH THOU AND THY SEED MAY LIVE." AMERICA NOW

STANDS AT A CRUCIAL POINT IN OUR NATIONAL LIFE --- A POINT WHERE WE

MUST CHOOSE. WE ARE STILL THE MASTERS OF OUR OWN FATE. BUT --- IN

OUR NATIONAL LIFE --- WE HAVE REACHED A MOMENT OF DECISION. - 8 -

LET ME EXPLAIN HOW I SEE THE CHALLENGE. FOR THE LAST QUARTER-

CENTURY I HAVE SERVED IN THE GOVERNMENT.

THESE LAST 25 YEARS HAVE SEEN REMARKABLE PROGRESS IN THE

STATUS OF RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES. GREAT CHANGE WAS ACHIEVED

IN RAISING LIVING STANDARDS AN~SECURING JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW FOR ALL OUR PEOPLE. BETER EDUCATION WAS MADE AVAILABLE. HEALTH------CARE· IMPROVED DRAMATICALLY. MILLIONS OBTAINED BETTER NUTRITIONJ WERE

ABLE TO BUY CARSJ AND OBTAINED VASTLY IMPROVED HOUSING. MUCH WAS

DONE TO ELIMINATE SLUMS. - 9 -

BUT THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS CAME FROM A NEW AND

HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. A SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD BEGAN TO

INSPIRE THIS NATION~ TRANSCENDING EXTREMISM AND BIGOTRY.

WE ALSO GAINED A NEW PERCEPTION OF OURSELVES AS A PEOPLE.

MOST AMER I CANS SA ID: TELL US l'IHAT TO DO/ AND WE WI LL COO PERA TE,

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RESPONDED TO THE ENERGY CRISIS AND THE GASOLINE

SHORTAGE. VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PREVENTED RATIONING. COMMITMENT

TO OUR NATION REMAINED VERY MUCH ALIVE. - 10 -

BUT EVEN THROUGH THE PERIODS OF UNREST AND GLOOM A 7

STEADY AND QUIET LINE OF PROGRESS WAS PERCEPTJBLE IN EVERY CORNER

OF AMERICA. THERE IS CONTINUITY AND THERE IS A NEW MATURITY.

AMERICA FACES SERIOUS PROBLEMS. BUT WE ARE COMING OF AGE AS Pf. ·

PEOPL1SAND WE CAN COPE, AND WE CAN CHANGE, AND WE CAN ASPIRE TO EVEN

HIGHER IDEALS.

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BUT WE CANNOT COPE IF WE HEED THE PROPHETS OF DOOM AND

GLOOM. THEY TELL US THAT CATASTROPHE IS AT HAND. THEY PREDICT THAT

WE WILL BE DESTROYED BY INFLATIONJ THAT WE WILL STARVE FROM FOOD

SHORTAGESJ THAT WE CAN NEVER OVERCOME THE ENERGY SHORTAGE AND THAT ' THE NATION WILL GRIND TO A HALT. HEY TELL US THAT OUR GOVERNMENT

AND INSTITUTIONS ARE BEYOND HOPEJ AND THAT WE HAVE NOTHING TO

LOOK FORWARD TO BUT ANARCHY AND AGONY. - 12 -

I REJECT THIS SCENARIO. I WILL NOT PERMIT THE DOOMSAYERS ~

TO CONSTRUCT A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY OF DEFEAT AND DESPAIR.

AND I KNOW YOU WILL JOIN WITH ME BECAUSE YOU SO GENUINELY LOVE

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR HERITAGE. - 13 -

OUR GREATEST THREAT COMES FROMNO ----- FOREIGN FOE BUT FROM THOSE AT HOME WHO SEEK TO IMPOSE THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING.

THESE NEGATIVISTS- WOULD WRITE A SCRIPT TO PROVE THEIR POINT) TO BRING ABOUT THE VERY DISASTERS THEY WARN AGAINST) AND TO HASTEN

THE END OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY THROUGH CHAOS POLITICS .

. . - 14 -

I RECENTLY NOTED, FOR INSTANCE, AN OUTCRY AGAINST THE

POLICE IN LOS ANGELES BECAUSE THE POLICE DARED TO SHOOT BACK AT A

MURDEROUS GROUP OF SELF-PROCLAIMED REVOLUTIONARIES. THE OUTLAWS

WERE KILLED. THERE WERE CHARGES OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND AN EFFORT

TO PORTRAY THE OUTLAWS AS PERSONS OF HIGH MORAL STANDING. SOMEWHERE

IN THEIR EMOTIONALISM, THE DOOMSAYERS ARRIVED AT A DISTORTED CONCLUSION

THAT THE OUTLAWS WERE THE INNOCENT VICTIMS AND THE POLICE AND SOCIETY

WERE THE OFFENDERS. - 15 - ~~r IF WE HEED THAT NEGl~ , OUR NATION FACES SERIOUS TROUBLE ...... , -- WE MUST CONTINUE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL --- JUST AS

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS HAS CHOSEN TO ACT FOR

THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY.

THE HOLY BIBLE DOES NOT EQUATE GOOD WITH EVIL. WE ARE

TOLD TO "REFUSE THE EVIL, AND CHOOSE THE GOOD."

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RECENTLY, I SAW A NEW SMART-ALECK SLOGAN THAT DEEPLY CONCERNED

ME. THE SLOGAN ON A BUMPER STICKER SAID: "IT'S NOT HOW YOU PLAY

THE GAME, BUT WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE." I CATEGORICALLY REJECT

THAT PHILOSOPHY. AND I REJECT IT ESPECIALLY FOR PERSONS IN

POLITICS.

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THE MORALITY OF POLITICIANS --- AND OF THE GOVERNMENT

ITSELF --- REFLECTS THE MORALITY OF THE CROSS-SECTION OF PEOPLE

WHO GO TO THE POLLS. I SUBMIT HAT IT IS IMMORAL TO CONDEMN

CRIME BY INDIVIDUALS IN THE GOVERNMENT BUT TO CONDONE CRIME BY

REVOLUTIONARIES IN CALIFORNIA. A CENTRAL MORAL THEME IS ESSENTIAL

IF WE ARE TO HAVE A GUIDELINE. RIGHT IS RIGHT. WRONG IS WRONG.

THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE IN THE NATION FROM THE SO-CALLED URBAN

GUERRILLA TO PEOPLE IN THE HIGHEST REALMS OF GOVERNMENT .

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THE MORALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT IS DIRECTLY RELATED

TO THE MORALITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL. I MAKE NO BRIEF FOR ANY BREACH

OF THE PUBLIC TRUST. NOR DO I CONDONE INJUSTICE IN THE NAME OF

JUSTICE BY ANYONE REGARDLESS OF REVOLUTIONARY RHETORIC OR ALLEGED---- PURSUIT OF SOCIAL CHANGE. - 19 -

WE ARE LIVING IN AN AGE OF SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS

THAT WOULD BLUR THE CHOICE OF FREE PEOPLE. WE CANNOT WRITE OFF

EVERY NEWSPAPER AND EVERY TELEVISION NETWORK WITH WILD GENERALIZATIONS

ABOUT MEDIA CONSPIRACIES. BUT WE CAN CHOOSE WHICH NEWSPAPER WE READ

AND WHICH NETWORK WE PREFER. - 20 -

NOR CAN WE WRITE OFF AN ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION OR AN

ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY WITH A SWEEPING GENERALIZATION ABOUT

INDIVIDUAL WRONGDOING. THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDES LEGAL REMEDIES

AND OUR SYSTEM IS STRONG ENOUGH TO HEAL INFECTION. AGAIN~ THERE IS

THE NEED FOR CHOICE --- A VOTE AGAINST CANDIDATES WHO DISPLEASE.

BUT NOT A SWEEPING VENDETTA AGAINST ALL IN OFFICE REGARDLESS OF

THEIR INDIVIDUAL MERIT. - 21 -

~~~~ RY TO DEBUNK OUR WHOLE SOCIETY AND

ALL WHO TRY TO SERVE IT. I MUST TELL YOU THAT I STILL BELIEVE

/~+ ,.,_ ~ IJ7 ~ ,_/..(~ I IN HEROES. AND f AM PROUD TO fo IN IN HONORING A GENTLEMEN TONIGHT

WHO IS A HERO IN THE CITY OF CLEVELAND. I REFER TO THE MAN YOU

ARE HONORING THIS YEAR WITH THE HUMAN RELATIONS AWARD OF THE

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS --- DR. PAUL W. BRIGGS,

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. - 22 -

DR. BRIGGS HAS NOT SUCCUMBED TO THE PSSSIMISTS WHO MIGHT

HAVE TOLD HOW HOPELESS IT WAS TO SEEK RELEVANT INNER CITY EDUCATION.

HE MADE CLEVELAND A SHOWCASE OF EXCELLENCE IN PROVIDING YOUNGSTERS

WITH TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL EDUCATION THAT EQUIPS THEM FOR GOOD JOBS.

BUT MOST OF ALLJ DR. BRIGGS MADE A COMMITMENT FOR CHANGE

AND GROWTH IN THE CLEVELAND SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE THOUSANDS OF LIVES IT AFFECTS. HE ----CHOSE ACTIONS INSTEAD OF PLATITUDES TO ADVANCE BROTHERHOOD.

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I HAVE A FEELING THAT HERE IN CLEVELAND THERE ARE ALSO

MANY OTHER HEROES WHO MAY NOT BE RECEIVING AWARDS TONIGHT. I REFER

TO THE MANY ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO IN THEIR DAILY LIVES CHOOSE TO

EXTEND THE HAND OF BROTHERHOOD TO OTHERS. LIKE DR. BRIGGS,

YOU ARE THE HEROES WHO KEEP AMERICA GREAT. - 24 -

WE MEET ON THE EVE OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S DEPARTURE

FOR THE HOLY LAND. REGARDLESS OF OUR VIEWS ON DOMESTIC

CONTROVERSIES IN WASHINGTON, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

SPEAKS FOR ALL OF US WHEN HE SEEKS PEACE ABROAD.

PRESIDENT NIXON HAS INNOVATED A BOLD AND COURAGEOUS

FOREIGN POLICY THAT HISTORY WILL CREDIT IN DUE PERSPECTIVE. IT

WAS PRESIDENT NIXON WHO DESIGNATED SECRtf.llRY OF STATE KISSINGER

AND GAVE HIM FULL CONFIDENCE AND SCOPE. ( - 25 -

SECRETARY KISSINGER HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT YOUR THEME OF

COMMITMENT REMAINS VIABLE.

THE PESSIMISTS.. Mm NESP:TIVITY :'.f3tlICT6 SAID THAT

SECRETARY KISSINGER COULD NEVER BRING ABOUT A DISENGAGEMENT OF

SYRIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES. BUT HE COMMITTED HIMSELF TO THAT GOAL.

NOW THE GUNS HAVE BEEN SILENCED, MEN ARE NO LONGER DYING, AND THE

SYRIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES HAVE DISENGAGED. - 26 -

ALL THE CREDIT DOES NOT BELONG TO AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. A

LARGE SHARE ACCURES TO THE COURAGE OF THE LEADERS OF EGYPT) SYRIA)

AND ISRAEL AND THEIR AFFIRMATIVE ABILITY TO MAKE A COMMITMENT. - 27 -

PRESIDENT NIXON IS TO BE TRAVELLING THIS MONTH TO MANY

COUNTRIES IN AN EFFORT TO CONSOLIDATE AND STRENGTHEN THE BRIDGEHEAD

OF PEACE AND TO FURTHER NORMALIZE AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH PEOPLE

WITH WHOM WE WOULD LIKE TO ESTABLISH BROTHERHOOD. WE HEAR FROM SOME

THAT HE IS ONLY GOING FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS PURPOSES AND THAT NOTHING

WILL BE ACHIEVED. I PREFER TO BELIEVE HAT WE WILL MAKE ANOTHER BREAK­

THROUGH IN THE SEARCH BY HUMANITY FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER BASED ON

HUMAN COMPASSION, IMAGINATION, AND COOPERATION. - 28 -

I AM VERY PROUD TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AND TO BE

WITH YOU HERE TONIGHT. YOUR WORK EINFORCES MY FAITH THAT A NEW

TOMORROW IS AVAILABLE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IF WE WILL BUT CHOOSE

TO STRIVE FOR IT.

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS., I PRAY THAT YOU"BE OF GOOD

COURAGE., AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEARTS., ALL YE THAT HOPE IN

THE LORD."

#### REMARKS ~ICE PRESIDENT GERALD R. FORD I NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SHERATON CLEVELAND HOTEL SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1974 ~ /(€LF¥E ~O fJf!t\'1 AMS JCANr {D} 77Y Mayor Perk, Chairman E. Mandell de Windt of the Over-All

Civic Committee sponsoring this ocnrasion, Dinner Chairman Francis

A. Coy, Presiding Chairman Louis B. Seltzer of the Northern Ohio

Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, ladies and geatlErnen :

I am honored to address the organization that made brotherhood more than a phrase. The National Conference of Christians and Jews has translated preachment into practice . You have built a coalition of Americans committed to this Nation's ideals of dignity, liberty, and justice for all .

"Brotherhood" and "education" are two of the three most treasured words in the vocabula of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

The third is "commitment " . In all your activities you strive to instill commitment to the values of brotherhood . You have chosen to commit yourselves and others to the vital task of improving human relations among the 2ll million citizens of the United States .

sAw -roo~ The important fact is that you Clbe••--•s•~ problem and I '*)\action to correct it . You did not surrender to hopelessness and gloom and doom .

You did not believe the pessimists who said that the various religions and - F'£L.T THAr $()MCHOW races of America could never achieve brotherhood . You 8c1ais: td that I\. the dream of brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God could be made a reality in the United States .

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We have obviously not yet achieved the era of perfection in human

relations . But the fact remains that an important segment of

Americans recognized a compelling concern and resolved through

the National Conference of Christians and Jews to do something about it

I am pleased to be with you tonight because your group provides a

model of what's right with America . You believ/fn the promise and

potential of the United States . You volunteered. You exercised free

choice . You did not see yourselves or your Nation as f helpless victim S

of chaos and catastrophe .

God speaks to us through the Holy Bible and says that "ll have set

before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that

both thou and thy seed may live. " America now stands at a crucial point

in our :national life - - - a point where we must choose . We are still

the masters of our own fate . But - - in our national life -- - we have

reached a moment of decision .

Let me explain how I see the challenge . For the last quarter-century

I have served in the Government . ~t lag that period thjs :Watien ~"'e'Jr ...

penenced extreme e!tangc1 in mood §wjnaina- ha ck a•• £01 tl2 £1 ARA 1 en's

of gloom and despair to hlghi!!J @f euphoria and exhilfraiion .

We agonized th-reag:h ti:h• 289JiJi}n81Y uu;JJsss umrs jg Kanae anti Vietnam.

We'""Wer~-p?essed 5y crime m our streets, tsUlltias1 aesassinations... .a.nd

We were made uneasy oy rec-ession !:M:e ifttla•ia• alll'li *1>er fosHRi tl>a.t.~y_erything

W\" falling to pieces. We experienced a"l!IMleTatl 83i' 4rug ~ide'!'~c ·_;).

. . -3-

thELseeming disintegration ..c.f. many: institutions and ~s

But. we a,Jso eAjeyee high moment! r:Jf a:chie oeme•• ••si ••iiena1 pride

W-e landed rnen on the 1110011 We EXt'J' t~xt@d bdf It5fl!es from av'1etnam and ft'eeri•ener9' of w ar • We w1foessM !rte Efkffr &dP Pf@ildem bey2~~ the. lron Cat talu ant! d'ie Bam6oo ~urtain .

hese last 25 years have seen remarkable progress in

. 1 d l' . . . . G h' d the status o f rac1a an re ig1ous n11nor1hes. reat ~C..\.\~NC.E g 1 was ac 1eve /\. ~ 0 in raising living standards and securing justice under the law foroS~~t.J.

Better education was made available . Health care improved dramatically.

Millions obtained better nutrition , were able to buy cars , and obtained

vastly improved housing . Much was done to eliminate slums .

But the greatest achievements came from a new and higher state of

consciousness. A spirit of brotherhood began to inswre this Nation , ing transcend.. 1111111111 ...... _ extremism and bigotr . :W:e saw jt op the

We also gained a new perception of ourselves as a people Most

Americans said : tell us what to do and we will cooperate . The American a. people responded to the enrgy crisis and the gasoline shortage . Voluntary ~ cooperation prevented rationing . Commitment to our Nation remained very much alive. Wbtiil g ; 3 ·Btba bur ·a s:n flag th;y; did- not ekstt oy

W s:. earn e to per s eiye ours e 1ve s differ e!n~t~l~y~t~h~r~o~ujlg~hl.il?i..i?... •ws-eio!ifll!l!lfli&!!Plil"itlilll!ii•t.,,..,.. ..

a realizatii1o~n~t~h~a~t~29ig,Jiu~r~r•0~a.. 1~•••••~•••--•• .... lliliil?'t~l~j~IT?g.ii•t1~ 0~2iiilila..,.;•a.. 111-ec~a"l•tzlft!l&~t!lb(lftl£1~tl~t&8"t11W::~1,_.-.,...... ~ - 5 are aet ~el'ni19n, ap ?'MB 1 eness ttntt on! • 7 h 0 W reds t, &lid &&

. ~ - 5 -

-~ . .... - I recently noted , for instance , - - ~ - - an outcry against

the police in Los Angeles because the police dared to shoot back at a

murderous group of self-proclaimed revolutionaries. The outlaws were _,- an killed . "'9t there were charges of police brutality and/effort to portray

the outlaws as persons of high moral standing . Somewhere4 in their

emotionalism , the doomsayers arrived at a distorted conclusion that

the outlaws were the innocent victims and the police and society were the

offenders . _...t- .. .L,.,,~ $.~ .11--v ~ '.} • ,, If we heed that negativity, our Nation iQ'h;';,u-. We must continue ~;'.Ur,_lt\4-{~ to~n good and evil --- .Just as the National Conference of

Christians and Jews has chosen to act for the improvement of society .

The Holy Bible does not equate good with evil . We are told to "Refuse the evil, and choose the good . " ~-~ The slogan Recently , I saw a new/slogan that deeply concerned rre . '1ji\satd!6M.~ avr "it's not how you play the game, _. whether you win or lose. " I /\. it categorically reject that philosophy . And I reject /especially - persons

in politics .

The morality of politicians --- and of the Government itself --- reflects the morality of the cross-section of people who go to the polls . I submit that

it is immoral to condemn crime by individuals in the Government but to condone

crime by revolutionaries in WD" \UJ55S: California . A central moral theme

is essential if we are to have a guideline. Right is right . Wrong is wrong . urban This applies to everyone in the Nation from the so-called ,...ac/guerrilla to

people in the highest t 5 &SIHH&i&JIMUIJf realms of Government .

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The morality of our Government is directly related to the

morality of the individual . I make no brief for any breach of the ,...... public trust . Nor do I condone inajustice..__ in the name of justice by

anyone regardless of revolutionary rhetoric or alleged pursuit of

social change .

We are living in an age of sweeping generalizations that

would blur the choice of free people,. . - : : - . - -- - ..~: We

cannot write off every newspaper and every television network with

J. wild genera!izati{aboutf' media conspi rac~. But we can choose

which newspaper we read and which network we prefer .

Nor can we write off an entire Administration or an entire ....JA.JN§~ political party with a sweeping generalization about individual~~ tk Constitition provides legal remedies and our system is strong enough

to heal infection . Again,. there is the need for choice - - - a vote I against candidates who displease But not a sweeping tVendetta against

all in office regardless of their individual merit . /

:ff.., r: e an tslol U,at there a.re no mete l!et oeS"7 bphets of negat~unk our whole society and all who try to serve it . I must t --ell you that I still believe in heroes . And I am proud to join in honoring a gentleman tonight who is a hero in the city of Cleveland . I refer to

the man you are honoring this year with the Human Relations Award of the

National Conference of Christians and Jews --- Dr. Paul W. Briggs,

Superintendent of the Cleveland Public Schools .

. . - 7 -

Dr. Briggs has not succumbed to the pessimists who might have told how hopeless it was to seek relevant inner city education . A He made Cleveland ~ showcase of excellence in providing youngsters with technical-vocational education -ti•••~ that equips them for good jobs . wo~rarn ,/ And }?,a jpHiatui many '5HtEI hnwo&the p1og1a:ms

America's first suP!'J.ernent:ar 9 e81!ln4iienal 1rei2ter 11• out

est of all, Dr. Briggs made a commitment for change and growth in the Cleveland school system and the thousands of lives it affects. He chose actions instead of platitudes to advance brotherhood

I have a feeling that here in Cleveland there are also many other heroes who may not be receiving awards tonight . I refer to the many ordinary people who in their daily lives choose to extend the hand of brotherhood to others . Like Dr. Briggs , IQ CT~ you are the heroes who keep America great .

We meet on the eve of President Nixon's departure for the

Holy Land .~ asteaa ef sittii;;is pessirnjstjcallJ in 7vYash1ngton and WPiagi:ng his bands about the Arabs and Jnaelis HIH~acll otber , The '.l'residcM ch-o-s-e- to--e-ffer Am:e:riGa's senrices for pea~ Regardless of our views on domestic controversies in Washington, the President of the United States speaks for all of us when he seeks peace abroad .

President Nixon has innovated a bold and courageous foreign policy that history will credit in due perspective . It was President Nixon who - 8 -

designated Secretary of State Kissinger and gave him full confidence and

scope .

Secretary Kissinger has demonstrated that your theme of commitment

remains viable T4\i::1 °81! illi:• rt m SI cummltted hffhs eli to the eitricahon

s::>!O.Uf prjsgpsrs di IS: It ::as 1h"e' HE EM

-Eg.ypti&n l!Hd ISIAEH fbttes --- J ffofilfbMIUon

tha.t bro ht the.- wq;W iq the h•jpls pf Wgrld War Th;;e Again, he g shjgu8;d

The pessimists ~{ieg8li!'Q.lya1t JO 1"9 said that Secretary Kissinger r-.. c ould never bring about a disengagement of Syrian and Israeli forces . ..q''ftey

:-.- a~JAt~er e~<; st;~ i'rt\a\~ tt:-1iuu~1XJ\~~ - ltn~ fo~~teil ~1?tttL!e .

H77 w How the guns have been silenced , men are no longer dying , and

the Syrian and Israeli forces have disengaged .

All the credit does not belong to American diplomacy. A large

share accrues to the courage of the leaders of Egypt, Syria, and Israel a nd their affirmative ability to make a commitment .

President Nixon is to be travelling this month to many countries

in an effort to consolidate and strengthen the ~dgehead of peace and to

further normalize American relations with people with whom we would 19

like to establish brotherhood . We hear from some that he is only going

for public relations purposes and that nothing will be achieved . I prefer

to believe that we will make another breakthrough cm I Ir in the search by

humanity for a new world order based on human compassion, imagination ,

and cooperation •

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I am very proud to live in the United States and to be with

you here tonight . Your work reinforces my faith that a new tomorrow

is available to the American people if we will but choose to strive for

it .

In the spirit of the Psalms , I pray that you "Be of good

~ courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, (FA all ye that hope

in the Lord . ''

. . ' Dr. David Hyatt

"We have the capacity to wipe out anti­ semitism for good - to make anti-catholic and anti-Protestant feeling, a medieval ghost - and to make racial prejudice the extinct, hideous ugly dinosaur it deserves to become. In its attack on prejudice and dis­ crimination the National Conference must double, even triple the force of its program and there can be no neutral ground!" ' ..

n retrospect, it almost seems as if Dr. David Commission for UNESCO. In 1966 he was a I Hyatt was destined to become President of delegate to the White House Conference on the National Conference of Christians and Jews Civil Rights, and from 1955-63, serving as a lay for his reasons for combatting prejudice are volunteer, was Vice President and a member of deeply rooted. the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Interracial As a small blond, blue-eyed Anglo­ Council. American youngster living in the "Little Italy" From 1963-65, Dr. Hyatt took a leave of section of Cleveland, he was beaten with pain­ absence from the NCCJ to serve as Press ful regularity by other small boys who had Attache to the American Embassy in Pakistan. darker skin, eyes and hair. A few years later, he In February of last year, Dr. & Mrs. Hyatt were lived in the town of Austinburg, Ohio, where guests of the Government of Israel for a 10-day there were no Catholics, one Jew and a tour. frightening Ku Klux Klan contingent. He Prior to joining the NCCJ, Dr. Hyatt was remembers the cross burnings, the Saturday associated with the investment brokerage night "whooping and hollering" and the house of Merrill Ly'nch, Pierce, Fenner and menacing sight of hooded Klansmen in the Smith and also was public relations manager pews of the town's only church at the funeral for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. of the church's sexton. of the Hartford Insurance Group. Surely those youthful experiences helped From 1948-50, he was on the faculty of create the deep sensitivities he now possesses Cornell University. Additionally, he has regarding racism, religious bigotry, discrimin­ served as an overseas correspondent for North ation and the administration of fair and equit­ American Newspaper Alliance in Egypt, Libya, able justice. His deep commitment to the cause Syria and Lebanon. He also has performed on of brotherhood and human decency coupled the ABC and CBS Radio and Television Net­ with vital in-depth experience in the operation works and was in the Broadway play "The of the NCCJ provided a natural selection of Dr. French Touch." Hyatt as the fourth NCCJ President. During World War II, because he was out­ For the past 19 years, Dr. Hyatt has been raged and sickened by the barbarism of Hitler deeply involved in the field of education and and Nazi Germany, particularly for its exter­ interracial and interreligious understanding mination of Jews, through the American Field and justice. He joined the NCCJ in 1954 as Service he enlisted in the British Eighth Army national director of public relations. In 1958 and served for nearly two years in the North he was named Vice President for Public Infor­ African desert where he was cited for his work mation and in 1965 became Executive Vice under fire as an ambulance driver. He sub­ President. sequently served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Since 1954, he has spoken on problems of Navy air arm. interreligious and interracial relations to civic, He earned his B.A. from Northwestern and business and social groups throughout the holds an M.A. and a Doctorate in education country. He is the author of numerous articles from Columbia University. for periodicals on these problems. Dr. Hyatt resides in Scarsdale, N.Y. with He currently is serving his second three­ his wife Lillian and daughters Ann and Ellen. year term as a member of the United States

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HAR-12M-9-73 ./ ~371 ' Award Dinner

in honor of

Dr. Paul W. Briggs

Guest Speaker

Vice President Of The United States

Gerald R. Ford

Sunday, June 9, 1974

Hotel Sheraton-Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

The National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner Committee Program General Chairman A. M. Luntz E. Mandell deWindt Rocco Scotti

Co-Chairmen Francis A. Coy Louis B. Seltzer Thomas Vail Invocation Rabbi Phillip Horowitz Dinner Chairman F rands A. Coy A. M. Luntz E. Mandell deWindt Nicholas A. Bucur Steering Committee Max M. Axelrod John E. Elder Memorial Thomas L. Boardman Mrs. A. M. Luntz Nicholas A. Bucur Jack N. Mandel Rt. Rev. Henry F. Birkenhauer, S. J. James M. Carney Rudy R. Miller Willis B. Boyer Judge Anthony J. Celebrezze Karl Rudolph Hugh a·Neill, Sr. Gregory S. De Vine Mrs. Ann K. Serwatka John E. Carlin William 0. Walker Warren H. Chase judge James C. Connell Rev. 0. M. Hoover National Conference Officers Rev. M. Parker Burroughs National Co-Chairmen Thomas Vail William F. May Robert D. Murphy Oscar S. Straus I I Thomas L. Boardman Nicholas V. Petrou Louis B. Seltzer Oscar S. Straus, I I President Dr. Paul W. Briggs Dr. David Hyatt Mayor Ralph E. Perk Vice President Gerald R. Ford

Northern Ohio Region Benediction Robert L. Beda, Regional Director Lavon Brown, Secretary Rev. William McCartney Z. William Toth Those who approximately fifteen years ago were deeply concerned about the deterioration of one of America's outstanding school systems-in Cleveland, Ohio-looked all over the country for an outstanding man to put the pieces back together again. The search went forward for many weeks-in fact into months. Cleveland had been lifted to the very summit of educational effectiveness by a series of at least three noteworthy educators as superintendent of schools. Now suddenly, the system seemed to splinter apart. The situation urgently needed an extraordinary man-a man with all of the usual outstanding qualities but in addition, vision, imagination, courage, a businessman's efficiency, and an educator's sensitivity to the onrushing environmental and technical changes in contemporary urban life. As sometimes happens, the search which spread widely over the American landscape, for a time overlooked the fact, that, right next door-in Parma, Ohio-was one of the most remarkable educators in the nation. This man had come to Parma only a few years before. In an astonishingly brief period of time, with all of the qualities a great man necessarily possesses, Paul Briggs elevated Parma's school system-built new schools, regenerated civi~ enthusiasm and respect, and, more significantly spectacularly inspired the youth of Parma in education, and its high purpose in preparing them for life in an historically changing period. Certainly the leap from the relatively small Parma school system to the substantially larger and much more complicated Cleveland system was a tremendous one for Paul Briggs. Paul Briggs, however, is inherently a man who meets challenges-rises to them, seems to grow with them, and then above them, for even greater ones. Not alone a great educator, but a sensitive humanitarian, one deeply concerned with the ultimate destiny of the cow:itry he loves, and above and beyond all else committed to equitable education for all boys and girls wherever they are and whoever they are-Paul Briggs took command of the Cleveland school system. As a consequence of reaching across the corporate boundary from Cleveland to Parma, with the help of the Parma people, who agreed, though reluctantly, to share Paul Briggs for larger goals, the Cleveland school system not only has been restored to its previous national prestige but has been elevated to a higher plateau than ever before. r Educator, humanitarian, businessman, practical visionary, open-minded student of , America's burgeoning and complicated educational problems, Dr. Paul Briggs tonight deservedly receives the award being bestowed upon him by The National Conference of Christians and Jews. Yet, those of us who know Paul Briggs, who are his friends and confidantes, and who helped to persuade him to cross from Parma to Cleveland, know that tonight Paul Briggs will be simply inspired to return to his desk tomorrow morning with increased determination to further lift Cleveland and its schools to higher goals. He is that kind of man! - Louis B. Seltzer Dr. Paul W. Briggs National Conference of Christians and Jews

THIS IS OUR PURPOSE Forty-five years ago, in 1928, a group of distinguished American citizens, including such men of good will as Newton D . Baker, Charles Evans Hughes, S. Parkes Cardman, Roger W. Straus and Carlton ) . H. Hayes, founded the National Conference of Christians and ) ews. I ts purpose is to "promote justice, amity, understanding and cooperation, among Catholics, Protestants and Jews. And further to analyze, moderate, and finally eliminate intergroup prejudices, which disfigure and distort religious, business, social and political relations. The Conference goal is a social order in which the religious ideals of brotherhood and justice shall become standards of human relations." - NCC) By-Laws

THIS IS WHAT WE DO NCC) conducts a program of education that is national and at the same time follows a multiple approach at various levels to the intergroup situation in the local community. These efforts reach millions of Americans annually, by programs presented through a network of 85 regional offices working with existing institutions and organizations. The following is a list of NCC) programs which are paid for by funds donated by the public: IN THE AREA OF RELIGION, NCC) works with 300,000 churches and synagogues in the United States. The emphasis is on the religious basis of the brotherhood of man without compromise of conscience or each group's distinctive and important differences. IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION, NCC) assists public, private and parochial school systems, colleges and universities, with workshops, institutes, conferences, films, books and service specialists. Thousands of teachers and millions of students are influenced each year by these direct methods. IN OUR COMMUNITIES, NCC) works with 3,000 women's groups, 1,800 service clubs and 1,500 youth groups and with hundreds of fraternal, labor, veteran and farm groups in educating Americans to a program of good will. IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, the NCC) program of films, speakers, panels and printed materials reaches business, industrial groups and labor unions. IN THE AREA OF MASS MEDIA, millions of Americans are reached and educated through the cooperation of newspapers, television, radio, motion pictures, advertising, magazines, books, pamphlets and speakers. Brotherhood Week is being observed in more than Gerald R. Ford 10,000 communities and cities sponsored annually by the National Conference. VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES NORTHERN OHIO REGION Cleveland once again is singularly honored by having the A leader in the Conference family, and one of the earliest offices, the Northern Ohio forum of the Annual Brotherhood Banquet graced by one of our Regional Office of the NCCJ was opened in 1933. This office serves all of Ohio south to nation's foremost leaders, Vice President of the United States, Columbus. Local chapters directed from regional headquarters serve Cleveland, Canton, Gerald R . Ford. Toledo and Ashtabula. Vice President Ford, who was selected by President Richard Led by inspired lay people, this office has developed projects of national importance such M . Nixon to fill the second in command position in December, 1973, as the annual graduate workshops at Kent State University on Moral and Spiritual Values, has in a few short months added new dimensions to the Vice the John Carroll University Human Relations Workshop and the International Youth Forum Presidency, bringing to his responsibilities a candor and freshness on Ethnic Heritage. that has captured the American public. Inter-religious Dialogues, Police Community Workshops, Rearing Children of Goodwill As a member of Congress from the state of , ·he programs and Race and Religion Conferences are carried on on a regular basis. This past year amassed an enviable record of service to his constituents and the weekly radio program Religion For Everyman has won high praise as has the Tri­ to the nation. It is this long term experience and legislative Generation Heritage Conferences; Religious Exchange Programs and the Elementary School know-how that already is marking his tenure as Vice President American Heritage Workshops. with a dynamic, viable and commanding character. The work of the regional office constantly changes to meet the demands of today's society.

" Civic Committee Kangesser, David G. Reavis, John W. Karch, George F. Reed, Joseph D. Adler, Thomas W., Sr. Eaton, Cyrus S., Jr. Kastin, Isadore Robinson, Larry Allerton, John S. Eckley, Fred R. Katcher, Richard Rudolph, Karl H. Armstrong, Arthur S. Eells, William H. Katz, William Rybka, Edward Aumiller, Gilbert Ehle, Jay C. Kelker, Frank L. Eisner, Max Saltzman, Maurice Axelrod, Max M. J. Keller, Joseph H. Seltzer, Louis B. Elder, John E. Klein, Howard B. Baker, R. T. Elie, Obie Serwatka, Mrs. Ann K. Kline, Hayden B. Beard, Charles A. Elliott, C. W. Shafran, Nathan Bedol, Alan P. Evert, Lawrence L. Knowles, Allen C. Shapero, Dr. William Bensic, Steve Knudsen, Semon E. Sherman, F. G. H. Bergeson, Charles Feldman, Raymond V. Kuras, James D. Shibley, Norman W. Bernet, W. G., Sr. Findley, Ralph W. LaMaida, Dr. Vincent T. Silverstein, Dr. Abe Besse, Ralph M. Fine, Marshall N. Leahy, David F. Sindell, David I. Bishop, Warner Fisher, Frank B. Livingston, Dr. Alfred M. Smith, Curtis Lee Blair, Claude M. Forbes, James C. Long, Carl A. Smith, Everett Ware Blonder, Erwin H. Forrest, David R. Lowe, Allen J. Smith, Rolland F. Boardman, Tom Fort, Robert W. Lucas, Charles P., Sr. Saltz, Alfred I. Bolton, Kenyon Frackelton, Mrs. D. W. Luntz, A. M. Spencer, Walter 0. Bonda, Alva T. Friedman, Allen, Sr. Luntz, Ted Stanton, Hon. J. William Bonds, Dr. Alfred B., Jr. Gallagher, C. E. Madison, Julian C. Stanton, Hon. James V. Boyd, William F. Gallagher, John E. Mandel, Jack N. Stefanski, Ben S., Sr. Bremkamp, Richard Gallagher, Joseph M. Mandel, Joseph C. Stern, Nelson Brennan, Edward C. Garber, Suggs I. Mapes, E. J. Stokes, Dr. Rembert Brown, Mrs. Canella C. Gardner, Bertram E. Mausser, Daniel L. Stone, Irving I. Brown, Judge Lloyd 0. Gelbach, John A. Meldon, Paul Storer, James P. Brown, Willard W. Ginsberg, Edward Mileti, Nick J. Strawbridge, Herbert E. Bruner, Mrs. Clark E. Goldstein, Samuel Miller, Paul A. Struchen, J Maurice Bucur, Nicholas A. Gomez, Bishop Joseph Miller, Rudy R. Sweeney, Gerald F. Burmester, Harry F. Goulder, George V. Miller, Sam H. Taft, Sen. Robert A. Bustamante, John H. Grant, A. J. Minshall, Hon. William E. Taft, Seth Carney, James M. Green, Judge Ben C. Moffitt, Jack Talbott, Nelson Carter, Leigh Green, Calvin E. Moritz, David A. Talerico, Roslyn G. Cash, C. A. Greene, John A. Munn, Carl R. Teifke, Fred Celebrezze, Mrs. Anne M. Guren, Myron McCartney, Rev. William Thornton, A. Clifford, Sr. Celebrezze, Hon. Anthony J. Hales, Felix S. Nance, James J. Toepfer, Louis A. Celeste, Frank P. Harris, Charles H. Neumark, Lee W. Toner, Hon. John J. Clement, Dr. Kenneth W. Harrison, H. Stuart Novicky, Rev. Msgr. William N. Tookman, Berge G. Coakley, Joseph C. Hartzmark, Joseph Treadway, Lyman Cole, Joseph E. Pace, Stanley C. Treuhaft, William C. Harvey, Robert A. Paris, Julius Colombi, Mrs. Christopher A. Hauserman, Ben M. Vail, Tom Cooper, W. Paul Patton, Thomas F. Hawkins, Ken Perk, Mayor Ralph J. Waldo, R. E. Cornell, W. A. Howley, Lee C. Walker, William 0. Corning, Robert V. Perris, Donald L. Hoyt, Elton, I I I Wall, John R. Corso, Gaspare A. Phelan, J. Patrick Hughes, James A. Pinkney, Arnold R. Walter, Paul W. Coy, Francis A. Hughes, Robert E. Weil, Mrs. Helen K. Crawford; Frederick C. Polk, Franklin A. Humphrey, Gilbert W. Presser, Jackie Weinberger, Jerome A. Crayton, Mrs. Frederick D. Weir, M. Brock Crosby, Fred M. Ireland, James D. Prewitt, Selmer E. Ireland, R. L. Putka, Andrew C. Westropp, Thomas C. Day, Mrs. Arthur H. Putnam, Mrs. John B. Whitehouse, Alton W., Jr. Decatur, Robert A. Jackson, Judge Leo A. Qua, George F. Widman, Richard G. DeLancey, William J. Jackson, Judge Perry B. Quintrell, Thomas A. Winn, Willis J. DeVine, Gregory S. Jones, Alfred L. Rasmussen, Robert M. Wright, F. H. Dulzer, Sister M. Kenan Jones, John W. Wurmstedt, Charles C. Ratner, Albert B. Durkin, Edmund, Jr. Jones, William M. Zucker, Henry Dwyer, John J. Joseph, Frank E. Ratner, Leonard Ratner, Max Zwerner, Jack B.

.. ~~ BROTHERHOOD REMARKS BY VICE PRFSIDEN.r GERALD R. FORD NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SHERATON CLEVELA\JD HCJrEL St.Il'JDAY, JUNE 9, 1974

FOR RELEASE MONDAY AIVI' S, JUNE 10, 197 4

Mayor Perk, Chairman E. Mandell de Windt of the over-All Civic Corrmittee sponsoring this occasion, Dinner Chairman Francis A. Coy, Presiding Chainnan Louis B. Seltzer of the Northern Ohio Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, ladies and gentlemen:

I am honored to address the organization that made brotherhood more than a phrase. The National Conference of Christians and Jews has translated preachment into practice. You have built a coalition of .Americans corrmitted to this Nation's ideals of dignity, liberty, and justice for all.

"Brotherhood" and lieducationn are two of the three most treasured words in the vocabularly of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. The third is

11 11 ccmnitment • In all your activities you strive to instill carmitment to the values of brotherhood. You have chosen to corrmit yourselves and others to the vital task of improving hl.Ullan relations among the 211 million citizens of the United States. The important fact is that you saw a problem and took action to correct it. You did not surrender to hopelessness and gloom and doom. You did not believe the pessimists who said that the various religions and races of America could never achieve brotherhood. You felt that somehow the dream of brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God could be made a reality in the United States. We have obviously not yet achieved the era of perfection in hl.Ullan relatior:s

But the fact remains that an important seg;nent of .Americans recognized a compelling concern and resolved through the National Conference of Christians and Jews to do something about it.

I am pleased to be with you tonight because your group provides a model

of what's right with America. You believed in the promise and potential of the

United States. You volunteered. You exercised free choice. You did not see

yourselves or your Nation as helpless victims of chaos and catastrophe.

God speaks to us through the Holy Bible and says that "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, tr.ia.t both thou

and thy seed may live. 11 America now stands at a crucial point :1n our national (more) Page 2 life -- a point where we must choose. We are still the masters of our own fate.

But -- in our national life - we have reached a moment of decision.

Let me explain how I see the challenge. For the last quarter-century I have served m the Government. But even through the periods of unrest and gloan a steady and quiet lme of progress was perceptible m every corner of America. There is contmuity and there is a new maturity. America faces serious problems.

But we are coming of age as a people and we can cope, and we can change, and we can aspire to even higher ideals.

But we cannot cope if we heed the prophets of doom and gloom. They tell us that catastrophe is at hand. They predict that we will be destroyed by . inflation, that we will starve fran food shortages, that we can never overcome the energy shortage and that the Nation will grind to a halt. They tell us that our goverrnnent and institutions are beyond hope, and that we have nothing to look forward to but anarch,y and agony.

I reject this scenario. I will not permit the doornsayers to construct a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeat and despair. And I know you will join with me because you so genuinely love our country and our heritage.

Our greatest threat canes fran no foreign foe but fran those at home who seek to impose the power of negative thinking. These negativists would write a script to prove their point, to bring about the very disasters they warn against, and to hasten the end of the American society through chaos politics.

I recently noted, for instance, an outcry against the police in Los Angeles because the police dared to shoot back at a murderous group of self­ procla:imed revolutionaries. The outlaws were killed. There were charges of police brutality and an effort to portray the outlaws as persons of high moral standing. Somewhere in their emotionalism, the doornsayers arrived at a distorted conclusion that the outlaws were the innocent victims and the police and society were the offenders.

If we heed that negativity, our Nation faces serious trouble. We must continue to differentiate between good and evil -- just as the National Conference of Christians and Jews has chosen to act for the :improvement of society.

The Holy Bible does not equate good with evil. We are told to 11Refuse the evil, and choose the good.u

Recently, I saw a new smart:...aleck slogan that deeply concerned me. The slogan on a bumper sticker said: 11 it 's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. 11 I categorically reject that philosophy. And I reject it especially for persons m politics. (more) Page 3

The morality of politicians ~ and of the Government itself ~ reflects the morality of the cross-section of people who go to the polls. I submit that it is inmoral to condemn crime by individuals in the Government but to condone cr:ime by revolutionaries in California. A central moral thane is essential if we are to have a guideline. Right is right. Wrong is wrong. This applies to everyone in the Nation from the so-called urban gueITilla to people in the highest realms of Government. The morality of our Government is directly related to the morality of the individual. I make no brief for any breach of the public trust. Nor do I condone injustice in the name of justice by anyone regardless of revolutionary rhetoric or alleged pursuit of social change.

We are living in an age of sweeping generalizations that would blur the choice of free people. We cannot write off every newspaper and every television network with wild generalizations about media conspiracies. But we can choose which newspaper we read and which network we prefer. Nor can we write off an entire Administration or an entire political party with a sweeping generalization about individual wrong doing. The Constitution provides legal remedies and our systan is strong enough to heal infection. Again, there is the need for choice -- a vote against candidates who displease. But not a sweeping vendetta against all in office regardless of their individual merit.

Prophets of negativity try to debunk our whole society and all who try to serve it. I must tell you that I still believe in heroes. And I am proud to join in honoring a gentleman tonight who is a hero in the city of Cleveland. I refer to the man you are honoring this year with the Human Relations Award of the National Conference of

Christians and Jews -- Dr. Paul W. Briggs, Superintendent of the Cleveland Public Schools.

Dr. Briggs has not succumbed to the pessimists who might have told how hopeless it was to seek relevant inner city education. He made Cleveland a showcase of excellence in providing youngsters with technical-vocational education that equips them for good jobs. But most of all, Dr. Briggs made a cOI11Pitment for change and growth in the Cleveland school systan and the thousands of lives it affects. He chose actions instead of platitudes to advance brotherhood. I have a feeling that here in Cleveland there are also many other heroes who may not be receiving awards tonight. I refer to the many ordinary people who in their daily lives choose to extend the hand of brotherhood to others. Like

Dr. Br>iggs, you are the heroes who keep America great. We meet on the eve of President Nixon's departure for the Holy Land. Regardless of our views on domestic controversies in Washington, the President of (more) Page 4 the United States speaks for all of us when he seeks peace abroad.

President Nixon has innovated a bold and courageous foreign policy that history will credit in due perspective. It was President Nixon who designated

Secretary of State Kissinger and gave lUm full confidence and scope.

Secretary Kissinger has deroonstrated that your theme of conmitment remains viable. The pessimists said that Secretary Kissinger could never bring about a disengagement of Syrian and Israeli forces, but he conmitted !Umself to that goal. Now the guns have been silenced, men are no longer dying, and the Syrian and Israeli forces have disengaged. All the credit does not belong to American diplomacy. A large share accrues to the courage of the leaders of Egypt, Syria, and Israel and their affirmative ability to make a conmitrnent.

President Nixon is to be traveling this month to many countries in an effort to consolidate and strengthen the bridgehead of peace and to further normalize American relations with people with whan we would like to establish brotherhood. We hear from sane that he is only going for public relations purposes and that nothing will be achieved. I prefer to believe that we will make another breakthrough in the search by humanity for a new world order based on human compassion, imagination, and cooperation.

I am very proud to live in the United States and to be with you here tonight. Your work reinforces nw faith that a new tanorrow is available to the American people if we will but choose to strive for it.

In the spirit of the Psalms, I pray that you 11Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. 11

# # # ~f\\ BROTHERHOOD

GUEST LIST

AWARD DINNER

HONORING

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1974

SHERATON-CLEVELAND HOTEL

CLEVELAND, OHIO

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DAIS LOWER TABLE (left to right--as seen from the audience)

Mrs. David W. Frackelton Mr. Max Axelrod Dr. Zelma George (Mrs. Clayborne) Mr • Rudy R. .Miller Mrs. Karl Rudolph :Mrs. Oscar Straus II

Mr. William Eells Mr. Karl Rudolph

Mr. Jae~ N. Mandel P..rs • Rudy R. Miller Ivlrs. Jack N. Mandel Mr. John A. Greene Mrs. Ann Serwatka

~Tr. John Elder Mrs. John A. Greene DAIS CENTER TABLE (left to right--as seen from the audience)

Rev. William A. McCartney Mr. Nicholas A. Bucur Mr. Thomas Boardman .Mrs. V.ir. E. Mandell de Windt V.:rs. Thomas Vail Dr. Paul W. Briggs Mrs. Paul W. Briggs Vice President Gerald R. Ford

Mrs. Francis A. Coy

Mr. Francis A. Coy

PODIUM

:Mr. A. M. Luntz :Mrs. A. M. Luntz Y.ir. Thomas Vail Mrs. Gerald R. Ford Mayor Ralph Perk ¥.:rs. E. Mandell de Windt Mr. Louis B. Seltzer Ilirs. Thomas Boardman Mr. Oscar Straus II Father Henry Birkenhauer Rabbi Phillip Horowitz DAIS TOP TABLE (left to right--as seen from the audience)

Mr. Ben Stefanski Mr. James Carney lv"irs • William Treuhaft Mr. Arnold Pinkney rtirs. Lewis Raymond Mr. Everett W. Smith Mrs. Mr. w. o. Walker Mr. Thomas F. Patton Mrs. James Carney Mr. Ralph Besse Senator Howard Metzenbaum Mrs. Ralph Besse rtir. William Treuhaft Mrs • T.:I. O. Walker Rev. Lewis Raymond TABLE I TABLE 7 Mr. and Mrs. James Reich Mr. and :Mrs. Alex Machaskee Mr. and Mrs • Norman Kyman Mr. and lll?'s. Robert Burdock Mr. and Mrs • Howard Berger Miss Judy Sammon Mr. Alvin L. Gray Mr. Michael Ford Miss Anita Nock Mr. and 11.rs • David Rimmel Mr. and Mrs • David Sarnat Thomas Vail, Jr. Lawrence Vail . TABLE 2 TABLE g Mr. and Mrs. Denny Arvanites Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson ltlT. and :rt.rs. George V. Voinovich Mr. and Mrs. Charles Springman Mr. and Y.rs • Saul Stillman Mr. and llll's. Norman Stahler Mr. and Mrs • Dave Ingalls , Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Braund Mr. and 11.II's. Robert A. Newman Mr. and Mrs. Cam Elliott TABLE 3 TABLE 9 Mrs. Ben S. Stefanski Mr. and Mrs. Ben S. Stefanski II Mr. and ~..rs. Henry Hopwood Mr. and llll's. James Lipscomb Mr. and Y.II's • Alfred F. Connors Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Bishop . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schaut Judge and Mrs. Phillip C. Barragate Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Reed Monsignor William N. Novicky Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Waldo TABLE !t. TABLE 10 Mr. and lla-s. E. W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Cunneen, Jr. Mr. and Virs. Bertram Gardner Mr. and Vll's. w. A. Cornell Mr. and ll..rs. Gerald Sweeny Mr. and :fl.II'S • D. E. Fairbanks Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Cox Mr. and Va-s. B. T. Jeremiah Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leacacos :tr.ir. and Yll'S. D. F. Jones TABLE 2 TABLE 11 ll..r. and Mrs. E. S. Reddig Premier Industrial Corporation Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Ware lla-. and Vll's. J. B. Schulze TABLE 12 Mr. and llll'S. Eugene M. Kennedy Mr. and lllTS. H. D. Weller Mr. and ¥irs. Strawbridge Mr. and Mrs. Brownell TABLE 6 Mr. and Mrs. Wright ?fa-. and Mrs. Savage Mr. and Mrs. w. o. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Day :fill'. and Mrs. G. F. Schlaudecker llJI'. and Mrs. R. F. Curley Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Davis Mr. and ll.rs. w. Moon an TABLE 13 TABLE 19 Presto Fqod Products Loren 3mith Mr. and Mrs. John Garett Betty Ann Smith l"ir. and Mrs. John Garett, Jr. James Briggs Mr. and Mrs • S. Grubman Sarah Briggs Yir. and ¥irs. E. Benchel Judith Craig Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Yance Breaux Palmer Mrs. William McCartney TABLE 20 Walter Branche Christine Branche Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Eames Christopher Branche Mr. and :Mrs. Frank Roberts ll..r. and Mrs • A. C• Thornton TABLE 14 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Brown Mr . and JVl..rs • Pat Barnes Kenny King TABLE 21 TABLE 15 Mr. and Mrs. George Hauer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Quintrell Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lilly Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kidder Mr. and Mrs. William Walter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scalley Mr. and Mrs • Tom Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Carlin Mr. and Mrs. L. Michenzi Mr. and Yirs • John Fisher TABLE 22 TABLE 16 Mr. and Mrs • wm. Bass ichis Mr. and Mrs. Julien McCall Yirs. H. Shan Carran :M'r. and Mrs. Anker Studsgaard Mrs. S. Wagner Mr. and Mrs • Karl Johns Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morgenstern Mr. and Mrs. Donald Meneely lf..r. and Yirs • Jared Faulb Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rauch Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pizzedaz TABLE 17 TABLE 22 Mrs • S. Miller Mr. and 11..rs. R. M. Ginn Dr. Schayle Scheinberg Mr. and Mrs. L. c. Howley Mrs. W. H. Loveman Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Davidson Mrs. S. Horvitz .Mr. and Mrs. s. E. Wertheim Mr. and Mrs. Cleo B. Dolan Mr. and Mrs. v. F. Greens lade Mr. and :Mrs. Sydney Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Bertram J. Krohngold TABLE 29: TABLE 18 Mr. and Mrs. Owen Clarke Mr. and ¥..rs. J. T. Ford Mr. and Mrs • Daniel L. Mauss er ll..r. and Yirs. R. c. McGowan Lt. Col and Mrs. Norman H. Smith, U.S.M.C. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Collinson Dr. and Mrs. John R. Sinnenca ¥.tr. and 11..rs. N. G. Halpern Capt. and Mrs. Ralph F. Murphy, U.S.N. Judge and Mrs. Leo A. Jackson TABLE 25 TABLE 32 11.ir. and :Mrs • John P. Reinartz Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lewis N..r. and l.ilrs. Donald Cruse, Jr. Nir. and ¥..rs. Joe Galen :rt.ir. and ¥.rs. Albert o. Schupp ¥..r. and Ivirs. Fred Frishe IVIr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Heffern Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Intel is ano :M.r. and r.:rs. Richard C. Garretson Mr. and lJ'..rs. Stuart Schultz TABLE 26 TABLE 33 Ivlr. and Vi.rs. Stalker lJ'..r. and rv:rs. Thomas C. Westropp ¥ir ~ John Ellis Dr. and Iv..rs. Charles N. Jordan ¥.rs. Thressa Hodges :Mr • and Mrs • John W. Brown :rtir. and lfirs. John W. Young Mr. and Mrs • James C. Cunningham .r.Ir. and ¥..rs • A. Cameron Bonds Miss Jane Sembric Mr@ and :rt.rs. lYrurray Torrance Mrs. Richard Wise TABLE 27 TABLE 34 Mr. and Mrs. E. N• .Marsh and guests :rt..r. and Mrs. Steve Bensic ¥..r. and :Mrs. J. L. Locker Mr. and JiJ.rS • Ralph S. Locher Mr. and :rt..rso Bo T. Hitch :till'. and :Mrs. James Logar Ivlr. and :Mrs. S. Jacobs Mr. and ¥..rs. Robert Soellner :Mr. and l\1rs. Peter Glynias TA~~:§ 28 TABLE J2 Mary and Hugh Leach Tom a.~d June McGinty .r:..r. and Mrs • Edward Bartlett James and Helen Westwater Mr. and .Mrs. George Baker Mike and Karen Jackson ¥ir. and Mrs. Don Jarrell San and :Muir West Mr. and lJ'..rs. Benjamin Dryer flli..r. and IV..rs. Loren Smith JABIJLgL TABLE ,26 ~lr~ and Mrso James J. Kelley ?vlr. and :Dl".irs. George M. Hasara Mr. and l•lrs. William Hartman Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gomey :Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gibbon Ford Motor Company Mr. and .Mrs. George .Meisel .Mr. and :tv1rs • Charles Clarke TABLE JQ Iv1'JT • and lJXS. John Lewis

Ratner~ lYi.iller, Shafran Foundation TABLE 37

TAB1~_J_l_ l\ilr. and lJ'..rs. Francis H. Wright Mr. and :Mrs • Thomas J. Quayle Mr. and lY..rs. S. B. Hayes lV.iT. and Mrs. Charles E. Campbell :Mr e and Mrs. R. H. Chisholm .Mr. and 11..rs. Robert L. Koblenzer ¥..r. and Vi.rs. L. J. Gee IV..r. and Mrs. Raymond R. Ernest Na-. ai.'1.d :Mrs. Elton Hoyt III Mr. and :Mrs. E. J. Mapes TABLE 38 TABLE 45 Mr. and Mrs • James Williams Mr. and ¥.irs. Gerald Gherlein Jlir. and Mrs • Eugene Ligon Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Leach Mr. and Mrs. Morty Wyman Mr. and Vi.rs. Carl Benedetto Mr. Irving I. Stone - Fish :Mr. and Mrs • Herman Blubaugh Mr. Morris S. Stone Mr. and Mrs • William Wilder Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swilik TABLE 46 TABLE 39 Fisher Foods Mr. and Mrs • Harold Swope Mr. and Mrs. George Baka TABLE 47 Mr. and Mrs • Birt Hays Mr. and Mrs • Henry Deutschlander Mr. and ¥.irs. Robert E. Hughes Mr. and ~.irs. John Moncol Mr. Horace Chapman Rose · Mr. and Mrs • Frank Molmar TABLE 40 Pick-M-Pay Super Market ¥.ir. and Mrs • Richard H. Adler TABLE 4g Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yonkers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartmann Mr. and lllrs • Richard F. Stevens Mr. James J. Nance :Mr. and Mrs. H. Stephen Madsen Mr. and Mrs • Arthur V. N. Brooks TABLE 41 Mr. and :Mrs • David J. Strauss Mr. William Katcher Mr. and Mrs • Armour Weir Miss Estelle Franklin Mr. and Mrs • Gerald Mc Faul Mr. and :fl.irs • John Carney TABLE 49 Hollenden House Mr. and Mrs • R. V. Corning TABLE 42 :Mr. and llirs • J. Donnaley, J~ .. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Quattrochi Ferro Corporation Mr. and :tfl..rs • Ralph Ketchum Mr. and lflrs. Sydney Gold TABLE 43 TABLE 50 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Barr Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Szczepanek Panzica Construction Company Mr. and Mrs. Dave Doliveck Dr. George Theobald Mr. Fid Braffatt and guest Mrs. George Theobald Mr. Ernie Novak and guest ¥.ir. Arnold Brown Jvf..rs • Arnold Brown TABLE 44 Mr .. Peter Carlin Y..rs. Peter Carlin Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Joseph Mr. L. Barrett Smith llir. and ¥.irs • Frederick Woodbridge Mrs. L. Barrett Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bodurtha ¥.ir. James Tanner Mr. Rodney T. Oppmann TJirs. James Tanner Miss Betsy Fallon Mr. and Mrs. Karl Herold TABLE 51 TABLE 57 Mr. and Mrs. Irving Stern Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Klein Guests of Mr. Nick J. Mileti .Mrs. Laura Rosenbluth TABLE 5S Mr. and :tvlrs. Arthur Genshaft Mr. and Mrs • David Gens haft JI.Ir. and l\f;rs. Ted Luntz Mr. Neil Genshaft Mr. and Mrs • M. Karp Mr. and Mrs. Ted Goodman TABLE 52 !Jl'.r. and llfirs • Robert Sangdahl Mr. and :Mrs. James Young Mr. S. M. Murray Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kane Mrs. Philip Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wood Mr. and Mrs. John Lavelle TABLE 59 Mr. and Mrs. Farrell Gallagher Mr. and Fvlrs • G. Rothchild ll;r. Gant Ivlr. and !I.rs • J. Vinnci lti.I'. and Ivirs • Mike Null TABLE 53 Mr. and Mrs • Howard Parry Bill Feest Mr. and .Mrs. Sidney Hirsh Marge Feest TABLE 60 C. W. Bergeson Margaret Bergeson Mr. and .Mrs. J. D. Reed and guests Sandra Johnson ll.ir. and ?firs • Bob Huber TABLE 61 Mr. and ¥.irs. Carl Gomoll Va:-. Zolton Gombos Jv'f.r 9 and Mrs. Frederick W. Doolittle, Jr. Mr. and 11.t.I'S. R. L. Hintz TABLE 54 Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Brown !vlr. and r:l!'s. T. H. Keel or Mr. and Mrs. Norman Berke Mr. i"".rs. c .. J. Henry, Jr. Lenore and Mervis Steel Co. TABLE 62 Norman E. Smith lla-s. Freida Chertoff .Mr. and IV'.t.I's • Gordon Hann Mrs. Sheldon Baumoel Mr. and l\1rs • Leo Neumark Mr. and :Mrs. Robert Bry Mr. and Mrs • Henry Lowenthal Mr. and Nirs • W. C • Butler TABLE 55 TAELE 63 Wir. and Mrs. Jess Bell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Middendorf Mr. and !v1rs. Lyman H. Treadway ¥1r. and Mrs. Roger Williams Steven Kohn :rvir. and Mrs. Raymond Burgess Union Commerce Bank ll.i!'. and Mrs. William Eickert TABLE 64 TABLE 56 lla:-. Allen Knowles .Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Pa~pin Miss Mary Humenik Dr. and Mrs. Abe Silverstein Mr and Mrs • Frank J. Lausche N1I' o and 11.t.I's. Louis L. Schaffer Mr: and Mrs. Neath W. Wilson Mr. and JV"l!'s • Otto D. Themann Mr. and IV.rs. Ovid Corsate~ Mr. and Mrs • Nat Left on Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Kirk TABLE 65 TABLE 72. Mr. and Mrs. Don Reed Mr. and Mrs • Ronald Lohr lJir. M. J. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs • William Bozick Mrs. M. J. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gibson :Mr. J. B. Irwin JI.fir. Nie Gibson Mrs. J. B. Irwin Mrs. Roberta McPherson Gu es ts of Mr. and Ni.rs • Irwin Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Langer Mr. William N. West Mr. Daniel B. Ford, Jr. TABLE 73 TABLE 66 Honorable Frances P. Bolton Senator Charles P. Bolton and guests Midland-Ross Corporation TABLE 7!x TABLE 67 Mr. and Mrs. William Webber Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Earley Mr. and Mrs. Mark Webber Mr. and Mrs • Warren J. Eggly Mr • and Mrs • Douglas Franz and guests Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Rosberg Mr • and Mrs • Henry T. Hackman TABLE 75 Mr. and Mrs. Western A. Todd lfa-. and Mrs. Harold R. Algar TABLE 68 Mr. and Na-s. John Bustamante and guests

Dr~ and Mrs. Carl Wasmuth TABLE 76 Dr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Lovshin Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Meyer Mr. and Mrs • William I. Katz Mr. and Mrs. John Auble Mr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Reynolds M"r. and Mrs. Robert J. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holloway Dr. and ¥~s. Donald H. Baker TABLE 69 Rev. and Mrs. J. Philip Smith Vi.Ts. John B. Putnam TABLE 27. T1l9LE 70 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Munro Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Morrow Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bennett, Jr. Mr. and !firs. F. B. Albright Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Murray Nir. and llirs. R. W. Louche Nu-. and Mrs. H. A. Cashion Wir. and .Mrs. William Cannon, Sr. Mr. and I/u-s • B. M. Haus erman Mr. and ¥u-s • W. F. Haus erman TABLE 78 T!UlLE 71 Mr. and Mrs. William Delf eld Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Ackerman Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kline Mr. and :rvia-s. William H. Bricker JI.fir. and Mrs. R. M. Rasmussen Nir. and lJ'irs • Howard C. Klein Mr. and :rtu-s. Paul Brisk Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Parsons ,!,~LE 79 TABLE_85 :fill'. and Yirs. Carl s. Ablon Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Jorkasky Mr. and J.V'!.l's. W. W. Blauvelt Mr. and Iv"ll's. Gas pare A. Corso Mr. and :fl!.l's. W. N. Brammer Mr. and :Mrs • Allen J • Lowe Mr. and Mrs • Warren Kearns Judge and Mrs • Thomas J. Parrino Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Stack, Jr. Judge and Mrs. Harry Ja£fe TABLE $0 TABLE 86 Mro and Mrs. R. E. Sposito Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Paris :Mr. and Mrs .. John Griffin Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Klein and guests Gertrude Reiss Yir. and Y.1rs. Alfred Wilhelm Howard Klein Mr. and Mrs. R. W. 0 1 Rourke lf.lI". and ?l.trs. R. A. Harvey Mr. and :Mrs • Arthur Armstrong TABLE_?? The Acme Scrap Iron and Metal Mr. and Mrs • William A. Bowen TABLE 81 J.V'!.l'. and Mrs. Meril A. May, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Sunkle Mr. and Mrs. Erwin H. Blonder Mr. and lfll's • Dennis B. Mc Williams Mr., and Mrs u Jonathon Opas Mr. and Mrs. David I. Sindell Mr. and Mrs~ Curtis Moll Mr~ and Mrs EoR. Stell TABLE 88 Mr • and r.irrs " Theo Moll Mr. and l'f.1rs • Herbert A. Gellman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Logan Mr. and l'firs. Howard Dirks lf.!I' .. and :Vi.rs • s~rverino Mr. a.'"ld Jl!J.!'s • Howard Rohan Mr. and Mrs,. Lester Bolstad blr. and l'f..rs. Ben F. Hopkins, Jr. Mr • and :rtirs • Thurman Davis Ivlr.. and !vlrs., A.~thony Garof oli TABL!,~ Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Lawrence Mr. Frank Geraci

~TABLE B? Mrs. Frank Geraci l'fll's. Arnold Pinkney :Mr~ and f.'!...rs. Max Eisner :Mr. George Dobrea Mr~ at"ld Mrs. Alvin O. Schreibman Mrs. George Dobrea Mr. and Mrs~ Ralph Cortell :Mr. Joseph Gallagher Mr. Sam Goldst.in :Mr.. John Gallagher :fJir Q and lV!xs , A. Bonda Mr. Donald Heal.as Ashtabula Rub bar Company !lirs • Donald He alas

TA?,~_§4 TABLE_90

Mr. and Mrs~ Fred Silverstein Carbone Construction Co. Mr~ and :rtirs" Eugene Schwarz Mr. J. P. Martini

Mr. and Mrs Q Paul Siegel Mrs. J. P. Martini rvrr. and Mrs,, Joe Buscemi Mr. Richard L. Bowen and guests Mr. and M:rso Myron Nickman l'fll'. Fred La.Malia Mr. James Sutton Mrs. James Sutton Mr. Norman Washabaugh TABUL 91

Mr. J ~ A. Platek Carbone Construction Company .Mr. and Iv'".:rs. Samuel F. Clarke r1rr Dominic Carbone Guests of Chevrolet Parma Plant Mrs. Dominic Carbone Mr.. and Mrs • J a.mes D. Ireland Mr. Alfred Carbone Mrq and Mrs. Hayden B. Kline Mrs. Alfred Carbone Mr.. Cowling Mr. Harrison Dillard Mrs. Harrison Dillard TABL~ 92 Dr • Jack Nairus Mrs. Charline Bevins Mr. and IVT...rs" Raymond Feldman Mr. Francis Martines Feldman Mechanical Mrs • Francis Martines Mr. a.~d Mrs. H~ Liberatore Mr. and MrsG H~ Kassigkeit TABLE 100 Joseph V. Scaravilli Victor J. Scaravilli Frigid Foods Mr. Carl Long Mrs. Carl Long Mr. Nacy Panzica Au Jam~s Lowe and Guest Mrs. Nacy Panzica Mr, a.nd Mrs , Edward C ~ Brennan Mr. William Reppa Yi.r. and Mrs.. E., D. Conlon Mrs. William Reppa Mr. and Mrs George Pow Mr. Tim Marlowe Mr.. , .Jack W.. Nemecek Mrs. Tim ~'Iarlowe Mr. William Perry T4~1~.26 -· Mrs. William Perry Mr. a:..'ld ~Irs,, Nicholas ft..icur, Sr. TABLE 101 Mrs , Jackie Bucur Mr. ~zs~ Antonio Ramirez-Fabre Mr. James J. Lowe, Jr. lft..r, Mrs. Theodore Stefan Donna w1'1itmore Mr. Nicholas Bucur III Dr. and :Mrs • Francis Gutman :r.ir., Bucur 1'1r. a.lld l\<'lrs. Paul Walter !vlr. and Mrs~ Michael Cargile Mr. and Mrs. William Boettner Modulus Corporation TABLE 102 Mr snd Yi.rs.. Fran.1<:lin A. Polk Mr ., ~ P.. Bo Perry )lfir. and :Mrs. Al Kozimor

Mr" Mrs Q Ed Butler rt.ir • and Yi.rs • Ed • Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dise TABLE og rt.r. and Mrs. Daniel Gentile --.-.• L.·-- Ohio Kentucky Region Mr. Mrs,, Adelbert Tepley Mr. Mrs~ A. Po Goulder TABLE 103 :Mr~ and lfirs. Louis B. Goldner Mr.. and :Mrs " David W. Hardman Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Patterson Mr~ ~.rs ~ James W. Graham Mr. and Mrs. Fred Taylor Mr. and Mrs. George Radich :tJ'.ir. and Mrs • Fabian Odudo George Anthony Moore Mrs. Artha Woods Sadie Harrison TABLE 104 TABL!_~ Dr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Livingston Mr. Herb Conant and Guests Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Heyman Dr. R. M. Woldman Dr. and Mrs • Roger Holmes :Mrs. R. Woldman Mr. and Mrs. P.ir. Larry Robinson Mr. and Mrso Fred Ryzepka Mr. John Mccarter TABLE 105 TABLE B-2 Mr. Charles H. Harris Mr. and :Vl!'s. Joseph R. Chylik Mr. and Mrs .. Leo W. Schmidt Mrs • Mary J avorek Mr.. and Mrs • John J. McDonald Eaton Corporation Mr. and 1'-'Irs • Donald Richards Mr. Manuel Rock TABLE B-3. Seal.test Company Mr. and Mrs. Martin Freed !ABLE 106 Mrs • Julius Cohn Miss Marianne Luntz Mr. and 11.irs. James Frolking Miss Allison Luntz and guest Jack B.. Zwerner Miss Beth Doerge Carol E. Zwerner Janet Droste Mr. a.'ld Mrs • J.. Patrick Phelan l'Jf..r. and Mrs • Hamel Mr. and Plirs • L. S • Freeman Mr. and llfi.Ts. Fred M. Gros by TABLE B-fr.. TABLE 107 JV!..r-. and Mrs • Z. William Toth Mrs. s. A. Harrington Mr. and Mrs. Murray Cohen Miss Jane Toth Mr .. i;l .. S. Tomko Mr. and ¥..rs. T. H. Taylor Mr. :Michael Sirak Mr. Andrew C. Putka Mr. and Mrs • Willis J. Winn IV.tr. Willard Brown Mr .. Myron J. Urdang VlT. Norman W. Shibley Mr. :Mal Morris Judge Alvin I. Krenzler ]fir. and !t:lfrs. Warner B. Bishop TABLE B-5 TABLE 108 Mary Fedor Mr,, Robert W. Falke Mark Phelps and Guest Margaret Kahliff Susanne Boyle Mr. J ~ R. Marano Mr. and Mrs • .McGee Edward L. Pucel Brother James Lacasse Dan Foley Brother Robert Francoeur Father Joseph Witmer TABLE_l09 TABLE B-6 Mr. Milton Arlo Mr. and 11.irs • Ray Luzar Dr. and Mrs. Julius Weil Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rosette llir. and Mrs • Kurt Beer Mr. and Mrs • Merrill Katz 11.ir. and Mrs. Edward Feil Mrs. Anthony Yen Mr. and :Vi.rs. Manuel Reider Miss Anne Brown Mrs. Susan Peters TABLE B-7 TABLE B:_li Mrs. Elena Vassilion Lisa Goulder Miss Lucretia Stoica Susie Goulder and Gues~ Dr. and Mrs • Mic hall Pap Diane Gould er ·· · ·. ··' Sister Mary Loyola Mr. and Mrs. M.Sims . Dr. and Mrs. Vladimir Rus Mr. Richard Goulder and.Guests TABLE B-S TABLE B-16 Mr$ Fred Schwartz Rev. Howard J. Kerner, S.J. Miss Betty Schwartz Brother Clarence Riedlinger,S.J. Dr. Joseph Gage Mrs. Edna Rose Gibbons · Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wiseley Rev. Bernard Haas, S.J. Miss Jean Flowers and Guest ?J.!r. and Mrs. Edward F. Schaefer. ~.ir. John T. Conway Sister Philip Neri, o.s.u. Mrs .. Mary Conway Miss Lillian Thomey Miss Amoretta L. Brown Mrs. Eleanore Stava Alice McNamara Mrs. Adelia Joseph TABLE B-9 TABLE B-17 A. M,.. Luntz Mr. and Mrs. Al Zirker Mr. and Mrs. Gabby Hazen TABLE B-10 Mr. and JI.rs • Paul Skar dis Mr. and Mrs. Eric Saffer Mr. and Mrs. J. o. Shanks Miss Cora Madkins IV..r • and Mrs • James Becker Miss Beverly Gittleman Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pierce Wir. and Mrs. Robert Crossman TABLE B-1$ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Diefenphaler Dr. and Mrs. Earl Brightman TlliW:-:g-1~ Mr. and :rt.irs • Warren Reebe ll.r. and Mrs • Marvin Schwartz Mr. and lf.1rs • Richard Greiner }Jl.r. and Mrs. Mark Mastondreas Jvlr, and fllTs@ Carl R ~ Iv"iunn Mr. YJXs. Obie Elie TABLE B-19 Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hayes The Standard Products Company ll.ir. and :Mrs. John M. Spratt IV.ir. Robert F . .Morey TABLE ~-13 Mr. and Mrs. W. Theodore Wetzler Yir. and Mrs. Martin C. Kelley Judge and Mrs. Perry B. Jackson Mr. Milliard B. Berg Mr. an.d Mrs. Lewis B. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. G. William Seelbach Geneva Potts Mazzille Jackson TABLE B-20 Dr. H" W. Hunter :Mr. Ilka 1.. armo Dr. Alfred B. Bonds Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Wallace Mr. Delbert Meyer Mr. Lawrence Bibbee Mr. J runes Richmond Mr. Mark Noffinger :Mr. and 1'/.rs. Thomas Luntz Mr. Donald Swetgan Mr. and Mrs. s. Berkowitz Mr. Donald Vance Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hendricks ~r. John ~egel Mr. and Mrs. Jack Risher :Mr. Charles Burke Y.ir. and lllI's. Roger Coast Mr. Dave Proctor Mr. Louis Barone TABLE B-21 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Noetzel Sister Sheila Marie, o.s.u. Sister Francis Patrick, o.s.u. Sister Renee Oliver, O.S.U. Sister Mary Tadsen, O.S.U. Dr. and Mrs. Alan.Post Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Miller

TABLE A Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Seda Master Michael George Beda Mr. Robert L. Bedat II Miss Arlene F .. Mole Judge Francis J. Talty Mr e and Mrs. James P. Storer

M:r Q and Mrs. Richard Bremkamp

TABLE B MrG Suggs Garber Mrs" John B .. Putnam Mrs ~ Arthur H. Day Mr~ George Barman Mrs" John H~ Keating