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CATHOLIC INTERRACIAL COUNCIL 21 W. Superior St. / Chicago, Ill. 60610 / DE 7-1025

October 22, 1968

Mr. Julian Bond
162 Euhrlee Street
Atlanta, Ga 30314

Dear Mr. Bond:

I am writing to extend a most cordial invitation to you to give the principal address at the John F. Kennedy Award Dinner of the Catholic Interracial Council. The dinner will be held on Friday, November 22, 1968, and will be a special commemoration of President Kennedy on the 5th anniversary of his death. The place will be the Conrad Hilton Hotel, scene of the recent blood disorders during the Democratic convention.

This year the John F. Kennedy Award will be presented to Otto Kerner, who, as you know, is former Governor of Illinois and Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. We want to pay tribute to Governor Kerner for his skillful leadership in making the Kerner Report the excellent document which it is.

We think the date and the place of the event are very appropriate to help us face some ugly trends in our society and to remind us what our country still can be. Your youth and idealism; your commitment to politics remind us in many ways of John Kennedy. We want you to speak to us on this commemorative evening not only about John Kennedy, but about the future and where we go from here.

The John F. Kennedy Award Dinner is a major public event in Chicago attended by 1000-1500 people. It is also an important source of support for the Council's work. The dinner is the occasion for the Council to honor those who, in the spirit of President Kennedy, have given outstanding leadership in the cause of interracial justice and good will.

Previous recipients have been: Edwin C. Berry, Director of the Chicago Urban League, 1967; Very Rev. Msgr. Daniel M. Cantwell, retiring CIC Chaplain, 1966; Rev. Richard Morrisroe, the young Chicago priest wounded in Alabama because of his civil rights work, 1965; Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., 1964;

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OFFICERS

PRESIDENT
Paul Q. Twine, Sr.

VICE PRESIDENTS
Mrs. Lynn A. Williams
Francis J. Hilkin
Robert L. Berner, Jr.

SECRETARY
George Murphy

TREASURER
Robert J. Leander

CHAPLAIN
Rev. William L. Devereux

PRESIDENT, WOMAN'S BOARD
Mrs. Salvatore Ferrera

DIRECTORS
Kenneth C. Barr
Sr. M. Olivia Barrett, R.S.M.
Emmett Brown
Dr. John E. Coons
Robert J. Cronin
Mrs. Robert J. Cronin
Arthur Falls, M.D.
Salvatore Ferrera
Maurice Fischer
Charles J. Frahm, M.D.
John Hatch
Rev. Thomas Heaney
Curtis Heaston
Donald H. Heyrman
Arthur Hixson
Rev. William Hogan
Mrs. Donald Johnson
Mrs. George Jones
Robert Keeley, Jr.
Edward M. Kralovec
Mrs. Edward Leak
Dr. Metz T. P. Lochard
William E. Lowry, Jr
John Maloney
John McManus
Edward Noonan
Miss Barbara O'Connor
Leonard O'Connor
George O'Hare
Roy J Pierson
Jorge Prieto, M.D.
A. A. Rayner
Samuel Riley
Mrs. Ora Lee Sanders
Sr. M. Angelica Seng, O.S.F.
Anthony Scariano
Rev. Thomas Seitz
R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.
Roland J. Sibrie
Edmund A. Stephan
James Strenski
Timothy Toumey
Richard J. Walsh

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
John A. McDermott