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UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES Executive Office of the Secretary UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES Executive Office of the Secretary-General Cabinet du Secretaire general Mr. Secretary-General, Ben Rivlin told me today that you accepted (in person to him) to be Honorary Chair of the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Planning Committee along with former President George H.W. Bush. (My memo of 23 May 2001 regarding this request is attached). Is this accurate? If so, I will send him a confirming note, as he requests. Please advise. ^ Gillian Martin Sorensen 7 June 2001 .:, *? NOTE TO MRS. SORENSEN Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration - 7 August 2003 With reference to your memorandum of 23 May 2001, this is to confirm that the Secretary-General agrees to be the Honorary Chair of the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Planning Committee. Thank you. S J^bal Riza 31 July 2001 cc: Ms. Lindenmayer UNITED NATIONS m&§ NATIONS UNIES NEW YORK GILLIAN MARTIN SORENSEN Assistant-Secretary-General for External Relations Executive Office of the Secretary-General To: Mr. Benjamin Rivlin Date: 25 June 2001 Fax: 212-817-1565 Ref.#: Organization: Ralph Bunche Centenary Page: lofl Commemoration Planning Committee This will confirm that the Secretary-General accepts with pleasure to be named as an Honorary Chair of the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Planning Committee along with former President Bush who has already accepted. Kindly keep us apprised of planning for the commemoration. ///^L-V/ft. AoAtf^l^C^ Sincerely, VJ GiMian Martin Sorensen S-3840, United Nations, NY USA 10017 Telephone: (212) 963-5495 Fax: (212) 963-1185 06/25/01 MON 18:26 FAX 212 963 1185 EXEC OFF SEC-GEN/EXT REL ********************* *s* TX REPORT *** ******* * ************* TRANSMISSION OK TX/RX NO 4591 CONNECTION TEL 98171565 CONNECTION ID ST. TIME 06/25 18:25 USAGE T 00'35 PCS, SENT 1 RESULT OK UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES NEW YORK GILLIAN MARTIN SORENSEN Assistant-Secretary-General for External Relations Executive Office of the Secretary-General To: Mr. E enjamin Rivlin Date: 25 June 2001 Fax: 212-817-1565 Ref.#: Organizatim: Ralph Bunche Centenary Page: lofl Commemoration Planning Committee This will confirm that the Secretary-General accepts with pleasure to be named as an Honorary C lair of the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Planning Committee along with former Pres dent Bush who has already accepted. Kinc ly keep us apprised of planning for the commemoration. Sine ;reh Giwi an Martin Sorensen UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: The Secretary-General DATE: 23 May 2001 A: THROUGH: Mr. S. Iqbal Riza SIC DE: Chef de Cabinet FROM: Gillian Martin Sorei DE: SUBJECT.- Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration - August 2003 The 100th birthday of Ralph Bunche will be commemorated in August 2003. Brian Urquhart and Ben Rivlin ask if you would accept to be Honorary Chair of the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Planning Committee along with former President Bush who has already accepted. This would seem appropriate (an exception to our general rule) in honour of Ralph Bunche. Please advise. Recommendation: Accept. RALPH BCINCHE CENTENARY COMMEMORATION PLANNING COMMITTEE RALPH BGNCHE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue Suite 5203 New York, New York 10016-4309 Tel: 212 817-2100 Fax: 212817-1565 May ,6, 2001 &» H.E.Kofi Annan /". Secretary-General <y United Nations /* fsr ^ Dd New York, N.Y. 10017 V t*\ Dear Secretary-General: We are writing to_yjou_as co-chairs qfjhe Ralph Bunche Centenary jCommemoration Planning Committee. The 100th anniversary of Bundle's birth will occur in August 2003 and a number of us who kfievTand worked ^InHfrffiTnlive come together to plan a fitting7oB|ervation for this centenary. Enclosed is a statement which presents the rationale'fbr this 'observance. The Planning Committee is in the process of establishing an international sponsoring committee for the Bunche Centenary. We are writing to invite you to lend your name as Honorary Chairman of the 1 t I - *•* Mi^^».t,m_^^t^J».^^-i--W"»*^''™- '*-^ ,*rAr>- 'V-r '-"-.- -.•> .-.-, , .-,--• j - • .... Sponsoring Committee to be made up of renowned leaders. Wejiayejisked .former Piejidgnt_George H.W? Bush*, whoj)efn£nded Bunche ^Jienhejwa of the United States at the United 5Jations, to serve as thejojthe^AHon£rary_^-^aim of the committee. We have just received a letter of ac^ejjtonc^fron^him. We would be delighted and honored if you would accept our invitation to join him at the head of the Sponsoring Committee. At its last meeting, the Planning Committee unanimously expressed the hope that a major observance of Bunche 's centenary will take place at the United Nations. We would like to consult with your office in planning this observance and the form it should take. We very much hope that you will feel able to accept our invitation. Sincerely, Brian Uquhart Benjamin Rivlin May 17,2001 PLANNING A CENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE A year-long 100th anniversary program, Ralph Bundle—the Legend and the Legacy, will celebrate, reevaluate, and build upon our inheritance from a great American and a great international civil servant. The Centenary program will run from August 2003 through August 2004. It is being planned by the Ralph Bunche Centenary Planning Committee* and coordinated by The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies ofThe Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Ralph Johnson Bundle's life and achievements are surely an authentic American legend. From humble beginnings as a young black man in America, he achieved many firsts in a racially hostile social environment. He fashioned several path-breaking careers, in academia, as a civil rights leader and as a dedicated civil servant in both the United States government and the United Nations. He was to be the first African-American, or person of color of any origin, to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He received this international honor hi 1950 for his success as United Nations Mediator in bringing about the 1949 Rhodes armistices between Israel and its Arab adversaries, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. For all of Bunche's pioneering roles in race relations, human rights, decolonization, and international mediation and peacekeeping, his name is hardly remembered today. His legacy, however, is too important to be ignored. Hence, this centenary commemoration. The centenary will not only pay respect to what Ralph Bunche accomplished. It will, perhaps even more importantly, underscore the relevance of his agenda fortoday and tomorrow. The Centenary Committee will advance special projects to reintroduce him to America and the world. It will endeavor to attract widespread participation in a broad range of activities toward the end of deepened understanding of his historic contributions to the United Nations and to humankind. It will hope to translate the legend, which is a gift from the past, into a legacy, which is an instrument for a better future for humanity. Ralph Bunche saw United States leadership and involvement in multilateral international organizations as essential to the goal of peace on earth. From 1946 until his death in 1971, he served the cause of peace as an international civil servant. He had helped create the United Nations at San Francisco in 1945 and had a central role in the adoption of three forward looking chapters of the UN Charter that dealt with post-war colonialism. For two decades, as Under-Secretary-General - the highest post held by an American in the UN - he played a leading role in the conception and conduct of the UN's peacekeeping function. He was, indeed, "Mr. Peacekeeping." Bunche was also a scholar and an early student of Africa and the problems of race. His prize-winning dissertation on colonialism in Africa earned him a PhD in government and international relations at Harvard University. His field research in Africa also contributed to his study, A World View of Race. He became a professor and first chair of the new political science department at Howard University. He was president of the American Political Science Association. Before World War II, he was a key member of the small research team assembled by the noted Swedish scholar, Gunnar Myrdal, which produced the historic study on race in America, An American Dilemma. He was a life-long activist on race and civil rights issues. In 1936, he was a founder of the National Negro Congress. Late in his life, he was with Martin Luther King and other Black leaders in the march on Washington, and was prominently visible in the front rank with Martin Luther King in the march from Selma to Montgomery. Part of Ralph Bunche's greatness was that he transcended racial identity. He was, simply, a great American who happened to be black. The Ralph Bunche Centenary program will be a prism enabling all who join in the enterprise to translate his record into insights and impetus toward a better future for humankind. *Its members include Sir Brian Urquhart, Professors Benjamin Rivlin and Lawrence S. Finkelstein (former colleagues of Dr. Bunche), Joan Bunche (daughter of Dr. Bunche), William Greaves, (producer of the documentary, Ralph Bunche, An American Odyssey), Professor Thomas Weiss (Director of the CUNY Ralph Bunche Institute), James T.L. Dandridge II (Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training), Dean Scott Waugh (UCLA, Social Sciences), Professor Charles Henry (Professor of Afro-American Studies, UC Berkeley), Professor Herschel le Challenor (Clark-Atlanta University), Ambassador Terence A. Todmari, Ambassador Horace Dawson (Director of the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University), Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (Afro-American Studies, Harvard University) and Professor Ron Walters (Director, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland). Sir Brian Urquhart and Professor Benjamin Rivlin co-chair the committee. JUN-12-2001 14=24 P.01 THE RALPH BUNCHE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5203, New York, New York 10016-4309 Tel: 212/817-2100 Fax: 212/817-1565 E-mail: [email protected] FAX DATE: June 12, 2001 TO: Mrs.
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