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I would also like you to recognize by your

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applause, although they are not here, the additional

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secretary who was in the! -President 's office until a week

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ago. She left. She was expecting a baby in about a month.

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This is Susan McCahan. (Applause.)

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And also, the very efficient administrative

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assistant who served me so long, Dorothy Ellen Bauer,

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who left has week to return to college. (Applause.)

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Delegate Koger.

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DELEGATE KOGER: Mr. Chairman and ladies

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and gentlemen: You have heard quite a good bit at this

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Convention concerning the contribution and achievements

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of the Maryland Negro. Nine times out of ten most of you

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have heard of Henry 0. Tanner, who was an outstanding art-

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ist, who has pictures hanging in the Louvre, who was

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from Maryland.

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You know of Ira Alridge who was a Shakespearean

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actor.

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You know Mathew Sousa and John Price, Free

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Negroes on the Arc and Dove .

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And you know Mathew Henson, the explorer.