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Honoring

October 9, 1974

PHILADELPHIA SHERATON HOTEL THE DISTINGUISHED REPUBLICAN AW ARD DINNER

Thomas B. McCabe Chairman

Senator Senator Richard S. Schweiker Honorary Co-Chairman Honorary Co-Chairman

W.W. Keen Butcher Robert H. Shertz, Esquire Treasurer Chairman, Republican Finance Committee of Pennsylvania

W. James Macintosh, Esquire Chairman, Award Committee

Vice Chairmen

Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Frank C. P. McGlinn, Esquire

F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Malcolm B. Petrikin, Esquire

Honorable John H. Ware, III Biographic Notes of

GOVERNMENT Mr. Scranton is a member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament (SALT). He has served the government in other capacities as: Member, President Ford's Transition of Power Panel Member, United States Railway Association (1974) Member, President's Price Commission (1971-1972) Chairman, President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970) U.S. Ambassador and Chairman, U.S. Delegation INTELSAT (1969) Missions to Western Europe and Middle East for President-Elect Nixon (1968) Delegate and Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Pennsylvania State Consti- tutional Convention (196 7-1968) Vice Chairman of President Johnson's Panel on Insurance for Riot Torn Areas (1967) Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1963-1967) Member of Congress (1961-1963) Special Assistant to Secretary of State (1959-1960) BUSINESS Mr. Scranton is Chairman of the Board, Northeastern Bank of Pennsylvania. He joined the law firm of O'Malley, Harris, Warren and Hill in 1947. He was Vice President of the International Textbook Company from 1949 to 1952. He became director of the Scranton Lackawanna Trust Company in 1952, and then President in 1954. He merged the Trust Company into the Northeastern Bank in 1956. He has served as a Director of many corporations and is presently serving as a Director of: IBM Corporation Northeastern Bank of Pennsylvania Scott Paper Company Sun Oil Company TRUSTEE - Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York CIVIC AFFAIRS Mr. Scranton is the Chairman of the National Conference on Government; Vice Chairman of the Urban Institute; and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission. He has recently served as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and a Trustee of . PROO RAM

Honorable Hugh Scott-Master of Ceremonies Republican Leader of the Unites States Senate

STAR SPANGLED BANNER ...... Marsha Gehris ') MENU Assistant to the Dean, Lebanon Valley College

INVOCATION ...... His Excellency the Most Reverend Martin N. Lohmuller, LESFRUITSdeANANASFANTASY Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia

TOASTS CONTREFILET de BOEUF ROTI DINNER Sauce Perigourdine WELCOME ...... Thomas B. McCabe Chairman, I Distinguished Republican Award GRILLEES TOMATO au FROMAGE Dinner Committee

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS ...... Robert H. Shertz HARiCOTS VERTE ALMONDINE Chairman Republican Finance Committee of Pennsylvania LA SALADE GARN! MAISON REMARKS ...... Drew Lewis Republican Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania LA BOMBE REPUBLICAN FLAMBEE Honorable Richard S. Schweiker "') United States Senator from Pennsylvania I ADDRESS ...... Gerald R. Ford CAFE President of the United States

AW ARD PRESENTATION

RESPONSE ...... Honorable William W. Scranton CABERNETSAUVIGNON

BENEDICTION ...... Reverend Henry N. Nichols Janes Methodist Church

Hail to the Chief- by the Valley Forge Military Academy Trumpeters led by Col. Dudley Keith Feltham Music - Joseph Martin Orchestra DINNER COMMITTEE

Mrs. Arlin M. Adams Mrs. Albert G. Isaacs Mrs. Donald R. Aikens Mrs. J. Alexander Jacobs John W. Angst Edwin T. Johnson William A. Barbour Joseph H. Jones, Esquire Robert L. Bast, Esquire Paul R. Kaiser Hal L. Bemis Kevy K. Kaiserman, Esquire Honorable Daniel E. Beren Joseph V. Kasper, Esquire Clifton U. Berger Edward A. Katz Mrs. Francis J. Betancourt Arthur C. Kaufmann Honorable Edward G. Biester, Jr. Carl R. Kehler Honorable George I. Bloom Robert F. Kelly William W. Bodine E. Drummond King Arthur E. Bone John Knoell Daniel J. Bove Berton E. Korman Edwin R. Broden Edwin M. Lavino J. Mahlon Buck Benjamin F. Leaman William C. Buck Morris Lloyd Honorable Lester F. Burlein Honorable Joseph M. McDade Howard Butcher, III Robert McKenna Honorable Robert J. Butera Henry S. McNeil Francis J. Carey Honorable Harry A. McNichol George Cheston Mrs. A. Abbott MacGregor Milton Clark Malcolm C. MacKinnon Mrs. Leon Clemmer David F. Maxwell, Esquire Cummins Catherwood, Jr. William A. Meehan, Esquire William T. Coleman, Jr., Esquire F. Stanton Moyer Frank Colona John W. Murphy, Jr. William H. Combs William E. Parke, Esquire Philip L. Corson J. Harold Perrine Mrs. Philip Corson J. Newton Pew Honorable R. Lawrence Coughlin, Jr. Frank Piasecki Harold Cramer, Esquire Mrs. Frank Piasecki Deliaven Develin Lachlan Pitcairn William J. Devlin Lawrence L. Plummer Paul Carpenter Dewey, Esquire Carl A. Posse Charles D. Dickey Paul Restall Silvio F. D'Ignazio Honorable Benjamin Reynolds Richard B. Dingfelder Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds Stewart M. Duff J. Permar Richards, Jr. Robert C. Duffy, Esquire Edward H. Rosen H. K. Dulaney Abraham Roth Edward J. Dwyer Honorable Theodore S. A. Rubino General John S.D. Eisenhower Honorable Richard T. Schulze Mrs. Nina Cooke Emlen Isadore M. Scott John L. Esterhai Robert Montgomery Scott Harold Farr Bernard G. Segal, Esquire Harry W. Fawkes Joseph M. Segel Milton A. Feldman, Esquire H. Robert Sharbaugh Mrs. Herbert A. Fogel Philip T. Sharples Edwin J. Folz William Cramp Sheetz Richard L. Foster Miss Carmel Sirianni Honorable Richard C. Frame Marlay Smith Kenneth W. Gemmill, Esquire , Esquire Joseph Gerard J. Franklin Styer l Christopher Gigliotti Daniel M. Tabas Franklin L. Gordon, Esquire Honorable Richard A. Tilghman Frederic H. Gordon Mrs. Owen J. Toland Mrs. Milton S. Green Dr. J. Ellis Turner Courtlandt S. Gross Mrs. James M. Umstattd John A. Gubanich Nicholas D. Vadino, Jr., Esquire John T. Gurash William L. Van Alen, Jr., Esquire H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr. William T. Vogt Perrin C. Hamilton, Esquire John R. Wanamaker Mrs. John B. Hannum John W. Wellman, Esquire Nelson G. Harris J. Robinson West Richard W. Havens James J. White, III J. Welles Henderson, Esquire Franklin B. Wildman, Jr. Wilber Henderson Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman, Jr. H. Ober Hess, Esquire Robert G. Wilder Roger S. Hillas · Edwin Winner Charles H. Hinkson, Esquire Charles W. Wolf, Esquire Ronald L. Holey Jacques S. Zinman