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sons and their wives, and my two youngest
grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Boyd
Mitchell and Michael Boyd Mitchell, Jr.,
and Dr. and Mrs. Kiefer Mitchell and
Kiefer Jackson Mitchell, Jr. It is for the
children that we have labored with love.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Stern.
DELEGATE STERN: Mr. President, I
would like you to welcome my wife in the
front gallery, my wife Sandra.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Harry
Taylor.
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: Mr. Presi-
dent, this is one of those oversights that
might result in endless trouble for me, but
I forgot that my wife is in the rear
balcony.
(Laughter.)
And she is really the most important of
all the women in my life.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Singer.
DELEGATE SINGER: Mr. President,
I would like to announce that the words
of Ira Wagonheim, the Poet Laureate of
the Convention, are now in published form
and are available in the clerk's office if
anyone is interested in remaining for pos-
terity this notable addition to the conven-
tion proceedings.
On a personal note, I would ask the
Convention to join with me in giving a
warm welcome to my mother, who is
sitting in the balcony above the rostrum,
Mrs. Anna Singer.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: I would like
to introduce to this assembly and have
them recognize my daughter, Elizabeth
Ghiselin Clagett. Her father has spent
only four months here, but her grand-
father spent many, many years of his life
as a delegate and as President of the
Senate across the hall, the Honorable
Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer.
(A ppla use.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. President,
in addition to my good wife who is one of
the family now sitting up in the balcony
where she sat so many times, and my
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sister, Mrs. Stone from Pennsylvania, I
would really like to ask you to welcome a
couple from Anne Arundel County, Mr.
and Mrs. William Tretbar. Mrs. Tretbar
is one of those people dedicated to com-
munity service. She came to our commit-
tee meeting and testified on her own per-
sonal behalf as a private citizen. We did
not have enough of that. I therefore sug-
gest we give them a hearty welcome.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: Mr. President, I
hope we will recognize all of those who
have not yet been recognized in the balcony
and who love us dearly.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Churchill
Murray.
DELEGATE E.G. MURRAY: Mr. Pres-
ident, in spite of the blanket clause that
covered everyone, I would like to ask the
Convention to join me in recognizing the
Librarian of the Convention, Mrs. Keller.
Mrs. Keller's work has contributed so much
to the progress of the Convention.
I might also add that she was one of
the people who contributed to my election,
I having sought election without any politi-
cal support, other than the opposition.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Rybczyn-
ski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Pres-
ident, it is my pleasure to introduce to the
Convention the wife of my right-hand man
here, Mrs. William Rush.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Mr. President,,
my husband is not present in the balcony
today, although he has been on many pre-
vious occasions.
We were married approximately two
weeks after the Constitutional Convention
swunjr into operation, and he has some-
times doubted whom I married.
I want to thank the other 141 delegates
to this Convention, and those of the Com-
mission, for having at least justified in my
mind the many hours of time that I have
bean married to constitutional revision.
(Applanxc.)
(The Secretary of the Convention, Rob-
ert J. Martincau, and the Chief of Staff,
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