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(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All in favor, sig-
nify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
The calendar is adopted.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Freed-
lander.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: Mr.
Chairman, I am pleased to ask this Con-
vention to welcome five students of Friends
School, Baltimore City, with a parent,
Mrs. Louis Eliasberg.
THE PRESIDENT: Delighted to have
you. (Applause.)
Delegate Bryson.
DELEGATE BRYSON: Mr. President,
I would like the President to welcome 68
students from the Hampstead Elementary
School in Carroll County, along with twelve
parents and their teachers, Mrs. Ferrier
and Mrs. Baukert.
THE PRESIDENT: We are delighted to
have them. (Applause.)
Delegate Fox.
DELEGATE FOX: Mr. President and
ladies and gentlemen of the Convention: I
would like you to join with me in wel-
coming in the gallery over the rostrum
thirty-six students from Wicomico Senior
High School in Salisbury, together with
their principal, Mr. George Caudle and
Mr. Hall Jackson, William Johnson, John
Sixby, and Richard Thurston.
I know it is one of the finest high schools
in the State of Maryland, because two of
my three sons have graduated from it.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: There has been dis-
tributed on your desk a memorandum in
support of the — sorry. Delegate Ritter.
DELEGATE RITTER: Mr. President, I
would like the delegates to extend their
usual warm welcome to a distinguished
visitor we have with us today, Mr. Wilbur
Young from Osgood, Indiana, a former
State Superintendent of Instruction for
eight years. He is an elected official of that
State who worked for many years with
Dr. Pullen, and is here today observing
our deliberations with his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. George W. Young, who is secretary to
the Honorable Senator Roy Staten from
Baltimore County.
THE PRESIDENT: Delighted to have
you. (Applause.)
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Delegate Hopkins.
DELEGATE HOPKINS: Mr. President
and fellow delegates: I know you would all
like to join me in best wishes to Delegate
Hickman who has just let me have the
privilege of announcing the arrival of his
first granddaughter, Elizabeth Carter
Pratt, who was born December 8 at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Mr. Presi-
dent, I would like for the Convention to
welcome a delegation from the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People which includes Bishop and Mrs.
Edgar A. Love of the Methodist Church,
Dr. Lilly Jackson, President of the Balti-
more branch of the NAACP, and Dr. John
Tilly, Director of Voter Education, along
with other members. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: There has been dis-
tributed to your desk in the Convention
chamber today a memorandum in support
of the deletion of section 10 of Committee
Recommendation R&P 2. This is marked at
the top "corrected copy."
You have had a copy distributed the
latter part of last week. The Committee
discovered an error. It has been reprinted.
Please return to the page or destroy your
old copy, and make sure you keep only the
corrected copy.
Because the Christmas spirit is in the
air, I have authorized the Chief Page to
place on the Clerk's desk in the front a
very handsomely wrapped carton, and I
will now authorize the page to distribute
to each of you a copy of the circular which
is on one side of that carton.
The purpose of the carton is to solicit
your contribution for a party for the
pages. This will be a Christmas party for
all the pages, not merely those on duty
this week. The circular on one side and
the carton on the other, are the work of
one of the administrative assistants, Sarah
Williams, and I suggest that it is so good
that it should be worth a dollar of your
money just to come up and look at it.
(Laugh ter.)
It will remain there, so you do not all
have to rush up at this moment. But be-
fore the day is over, please do so.
I would like to take a few minutes to
discuss with you a possible schedule of
work of the Convention for this week and
next.
It has become obvious that the work of
the Convention is requiring practically all
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