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The Governor was married June 8, 1941, to the former Barbara Ober- feld of Baltimore, and they have two children. Gary, 28, is married to the former Donna Feinblum and they live in Baltimore. He was grad- uated from the University of Baltimore School of Law and was ad- mitted to the Maryland Bar in 1970. He then joined the Baltimore law firm with which his father had been associated before he became Gov- ernor. Their daughter, Ellen, is a 1969 graduate of the University of Maryland. She was married in April 1971, to Jack Victor Kahn of New York. The Kahns now live in Baltimore. Until 1969, the Mandel family lived in Strathmore Park in the North- west section of Baltimore City. His parents, the former Rebecca Cohen and Harry Mandel, were both natives of Baltimore City. Both are now deceased. Governor Mandel's principal hobbies are sports and pipe collecting. As a youth, he played baseball and was once offered a chance to pitch in the old Eastern Shore League, but he decided to go to college in- stead. He has played nearly every sport and still occasionally works out at the U. S. Naval Academy Gymnasium. He enjoys hunting and takes occasional duck and goose hunting trips to the Eastern Shore. On a trip to Maine he brought back a black bear cub which he presented to the Baltimore Zoo. The cub was a gift to the Governor from the Maine Game Commission. He is an avid sports fan and often attends games of the various professional teams in Baltimore, He attended the National Football League Championship Game won by Baltimore in New York in 1958. He went to Cleveland in 1964 where Baltimore lost, and he went to the Super Bowl in Miami in 1969 and was there again in 1971 when the Colts won the World Championship. He was also present in 1970 when the Baltimore Orioles captured the World Series. The Governor has over 400 pipes in his collection and is seldom seen without one. The Pipe and Tobacco Council of America honored him with its "Pipesmoker of the Year" award as 1969's "national figure who best exemplifies the manly art of pipesmoking." In 1964 Marvin Mandel was named Man of the Year by his college fraternity Tau Epsilon Phi, and he was named Maryland Veteran of the Year in 1968 by an association of various veterans' groups. He is a member of the Baltimore, Maryland, and American Bar Associations, Omicron Delta Kappa, and he is Past State Chairman of the Jewish War Veterans. Governor Mandel has been named "Man of the Year" by numerous other organizations. In addition, he is the recipient of the 1969 and 1970 Herbert Lehman Ethics Awards and was named Man of the Year by the 21 Jewel Square Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Masonic organization of that State's most prominent jurists, businessmen, gov- ernment figures and civic leaders, His alma mater, the University of Maryland, conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Governor Mandel at its 1969 commencement exercises. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Towson State College in 1969 and from Washington College in 1971. In June 1971, Governor Mandel received honorary Doctorates from Morgan State College in Baltimore, Yeshiva University in New York, and Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1973, the Governor was awarded honorary degrees by The Johns Hopkins University and Mount St. Mary's College. 9 |
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