1976- Nesta Gallas, First Female President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)
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Widely published and a mentor for many women and men, Nesta M. Gallas was active in professional organizations throughout her career. She was elected to membership as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in1973. She was the first woman president of the American Society for Public Administration, 1976-77, and she received its Cushman Award for outstanding achievement in advancing the practice of public administration. Nesta co-authored with Edward Gallas and Ernest Friesen the seminal textbook on court management, <strong>Managing the Courts. </strong><br /> <br />She was born in Herne Bay, England, on 29 August 1917, the second daughter of William Pring Williams and Katherine Tardrew. Nesta moved to California with her family in 1923. They settled in Santa Monica. She entered college at the age of fifteen and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with honors from UCLA in 1938. While at UCLA she was the May Day Queen and played the cello in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber music at the Biltmore Hotel.<br /> <br />Following graduation, Nesta worked for the Los Angeles County Civil Service from 1938 to 1942 where she met her future husband, Edward Gallas. Edward and Nesta married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. Following Edward's service in the Navy during the War, they moved first to Northern California and then with two sons to Honolulu where she worked for the Civil Service Commission and had two daughters. <br /> <br />From 1953 to 1958, Nesta was the first female Personnel Director for the City and County of Honolulu. The family than moved to Los Angeles where she studied for and received a Master’s and Doctorate in Public Administration at the University of Southern California in 1967 and served on the faculty.<br /> <br />Following relocation to New York City, Nesta worked at the United Nations as a Public Administration Officer. From 1968 to 1986 she was a professor at City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she was also the Dean of Graduate Studies. She became Professor Emeritus in 1986. She died in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on August 11, 2012.
PA Times
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PA Times
2012
PA Times
Source: Nesta Gallas. (n.d.). PA TIMES Online. Retrieved October 12, 2012, from <a href="https://patimes.org/nesta-gallas/">http://bit.ly/Rmq9my</a>
<a href="https://www.aspanet.org/ASPA/Make-Connections/Awards/Nesta-M-Gallas-Award.aspx">ASPA</a>
Medium: Photograph
English
Figures
Nesta Gallas, ASPA, Women, Public Administration, LA, NYC, United Nations
Historic
Chiefs of Police, New York City
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The New York State Association of Chiefs of Police was organized on November 30, 1901, in Rochester, New York and incorporated in 1957. It is a not for profit organization dedicated to serve the people of the State of New York in the maintenance of law and order and to support the more than 500 Chiefs of Police as they carry out the functions of their office.
D.H. Anderson
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Library of Congress
ca. 1889
D.H. Anderson
Source: About Our Association. (n.d.). New York State Association of Chiefs of Police. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from <a href="http://www.nychiefs.org/about_us.php">http://www.nychiefs.org/about_us.php</a><br /><br />For Further Exploration Please Visit <a href="http://www.nychiefs.org/">http://www.nychiefs.org/</a>
Link: Chiefs of Police, New York City <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003671170/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003671170/</a>
Medium: Composite Photograph.
English
Public Safety
Chiefs of Police, Law Enforcement, New York, NYC, Police
New York City
Children's Aid Society
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">New York City founded in 1853. It serves 150,000 children per year, providing foster care, medical and mental health services, and a wide range of educational, recreational and advocacy services through dozens of community centers, camps and other locations in the New York area. CAS has originated a series of child welfare innovations that have since become commonplace, such as:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> some of the first industrial schools</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first parent-teacher associations</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first free school lunch programs</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first free dental clinics for children</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first day schools for handicapped children</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first kindergarten in the United States</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first foster homes</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first “fresh air” vacations, in which urban children visit host families in the country for the summer.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In 2011, The Children's Aid Society was rated 4/4 by charities rating organization Charity Navigator, for the 11th consecutive year.</span></p>
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Underwood & Underwood
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National Orphan Train Complex
1909
National Orphan Train Complex
Source: Children's Aid Society. (2012, June 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:42, October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/UVuCND">http://bit.ly/UVuCND</a>.
For Further Exploration Please Visi <a href="http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/">http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Aid_Society">Wikipedia</a>
Medium: Photograph.
English
Organization
Children's Aid Society, NYC, Healthcare, Nonprofits, Foster Care, Mental Health, Community, Child Welfare
United States
In Unity, September 11th
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<p><strong><em>When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Chief Edward F. Crocker, FDNY, 1908</em></p>
Jay Jonas, FDNY Battalion Chief: "I try to put it in historical perspective for people: Prior to September 11th, the New York City Fire Department in 136 years of existence lost 752 firemen in the line of duty. During six years of bombing in World War II, the London Fire Brigade lost about 400 people. Prior to September 11th, the largest life-loss the New York City Fire Department experienced was 12 in one incident and that was in 1966. On September 11th, we lost 343 people in 28 minutes." Excerpt: “The Entombed Man’s Tale,” From A Day in September: In Their Own Voices
Synthia Saint James
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A Day in September
2002
Synthia Saint James
Source: The Entombed Man's Tale. (n.d.). A Day in September. Retrieved October 5, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/SCaP8s">http://bit.ly/SCaP8s</a>
Link: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/68/6a/04686ad79bb03d62716c2fc8643a2809.jpg">In Unity </a>
Medium: Lithograph.
English
Artwork
9/11, FDNY, Fire, Fire Department, New York, NYC, September 11, United States
New York City
Isidor Straus: Educational Alliance
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The Educational Alliance on 197 East Broadway in New York City was founded by a group of Jewish philanthropists including Isidor Straus. The building was erected in 1891. Originally it was a settlement house for Eastern European Jews immigrating to New York City where English was taught as was vocational instruction. Today The Educational Alliance provides community services and activities to neighborhood residents at several locations. The Lee Kohns Cultural Arts Center is part of the original Educational Alliance building. The entrance on Jefferson Street bears his name. Lee Kohns was the son of Lazarus and Hermine Straus Kohns. Hermine was the daughter of Lazarus and Sara Straus. A plaque where the Educational Alliance's auditorium is located is dedicated to Lee Kohns. A second plaque bears the name of his son, Robert Lee Kohns and the Robert Lee Kohns Foundation. A third plaque in this hallway reads: "Isidor Straus, philanthropist, humanitarian and ardent supporter of programs to help the poor and downtrodden become part of the American dream. A man of vision and compassion, committed to the growth of America as a democratic homeland and a land of freedom and opportunity. A founder and the first president of the Educational Alliance 1891 - 1912."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">An article by Ilene Scholnick Ausubel, Vice President of Development at the Educational Alliance, reads, “The legacy of Isidor Straus and the other founding philanthropists continues on today. For 125 years, the Educational Alliance has been the place where the people on the Lower East Side and East Village have come for the opportunity to create a better life. Today, the Educational Alliance serves 50,000 people through 36 programs and remains focused on providing educational projects and culture, social services and recreation.”</span></p>
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Educational Alliance
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Educational Alliance & The Straus Historical Society
Building photo - before 1906
Plaque photo - unknown
Educational Alliance & The Straus Historical Society
Isidor Straus: Educational Alliance <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org">The Straus Historical Society</a><br /><br />See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Alliance">Wikipedia</a>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Links:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Adler, Joan. “Many Waters Cannot Quench Love – Neither Can the Floods Drown it” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 2 (New York: August 1995); pp. 3-8.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/______nwsltr895.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/______nwsltr895.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Hon. Isidor Straus, House of Representatives: 1894-1895” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 1 (New York: August 2002); pp. 1-8.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/________nwsltr802.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/________nwsltr802.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Monuments, Buildings, Memorials, and Library Collections Dedicated to Straus Family Members” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 1 (New York: August 2009); pp. 1-7, 12.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/_________nwsltr809.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/_________nwsltr809.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Ausubel, Ilene Scholnick. “The Educational Alliance” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 16 No. 1 (New York: August 2014); p. 7.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/nwslttr814.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/nwslttr814.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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Medium: Logo & Photograph
Plaque
Plaque
Isidor Straus, Educational Alliance, NYC, Jewish, Community, Education
New York
Isidor Straus: Kruger and Firemen’s Memorial
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The Kruger and Firemen's Memorial in New York City was first suggested in 1908 by the late Episcopal Bishop Henry C. Potter. He preached a sermon at the funeral of Deputy Fire Chief Charles W. Kruger who lost his life while fighting a fire. The memorial's purpose soon became that of honoring all of New York's fallen firemen. Isidor Straus (1845-1912) served on the Kruger and Firemen's Memorial Committee and became its chairman in 1910.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Isidor Straus chaired his last meeting of the Kruger and Firemen's Memorial Fund Committee at 5:30 PM on January 4, 1912 New York City. Two days later, on January 6, 1912, Isidor and Ida Straus (1849-1912) sailed for Europe on the Cunard Steamship Company's "Caronia." This was their final journey. On April 15, 1912, the Strauses were aboard "Titanic" when it sank.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The dedication of the Kruger and Firemen's Memorial took place September 5, 1913. Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936), oldest son of Isidor and Ida, presented the Memorial to the city. He said, "We erect monuments to our war heroes and it is fitting that we should erect them to men who fight in the war that never ends."</span></p>
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Kruger and Firemen's Memorial Committee
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The Straus Historical Society
Circa 1900s
The Straus Historical Society
Isidor Straus: Kruger and Firemen’s Memorial <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org">The Straus Historical Society</a>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Links:</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“‘Soldiers in a War That Never Ends’ The Kruger and Firemen’s Memorial” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 2 (New York: February 2002); pp. 1-3.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/________nwsltr802.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/________nwsltr802.pdf</span></b></a></p>
Medium: Photograph
English
Memorial
Isidor Straus, Kruger and Firemen Memorial, NYC, Fire, Firemen, Titanic
New York
James McConnell - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Whether it is a hurricane, a fire, a flood, a black out or a terrorist threat, the City turns to James McConnell, Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Data, Office of Emergency Management and his team to produce the GIS data maps that are essential to the City's emergency response. Since the late 1980s when GIS emerged as an important technology that captures, manages, analyzes and presents geographically referenced data, McConnell has been one of the GIS trailblazers for the City and is now one of the foremost GIS experts in the country.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Since September 12, 2001, McConnell has headed GIS at the Office of Emergency Management, when he was drafted from City Planning to coordinate the City's GIS capacity in the aftermath of 9/11. Working with 100 GIS experts from many government agencies and private companies, McConnell and his colleagues made thousands of maps in the first few weeks that were critical in rescue and recovery efforts.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">McConnell is frequently described by colleagues as "an extraordinary, consummate professional" because of the scope of his knowledge about all the elements required to use GIS well—"data, software, hardware, people, politics and GIS science." He anticipates what economic, demographic, social, health, education, physical infrastructure data might be needed and gets it by forging rare partnerships with hundreds of public and private agencies. Recently, McConnell created the definitive map of the City's 400-plus subway stations, from the staircases to escape hatches, by obtaining the blue prints and converting them to GIS format. It was immediately useful in containing a track fire at a subway station in Brooklyn. Says OEM Commissioner Joseph Bruno, "Quantifying and mapping New York City is McConnell's passion. It would be hard to overstate the benefits that accrue to ordinary New Yorkers because of his quiet and constant leadership."</span></p>
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2012 SLOAN Public Service Award Winner - UrbanOmnibus
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UrbanOmnibus
2014
UrbanOmnibus
<a href="https://urbanomnibus.net/2014/12/the-anatomy-of-emergency/">UrbanOmnibus</a>
Link: <a href="http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2012/#McConnell_James">http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2012/#McConnell_James</a>
Medium: Photograph.
English
Figures
James McConnell, Sloan Public Service, Awards, GIS, Data, Cities, NYC
New York City
Jefrick R. Dean, Sr. - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bus Operator, New York City Transit Authority</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In his 22 years as a bus operator, Jefrick Dean has driven every bus route out of the East New York Depot in Brooklyn. On his current route, Dean drives from the depot to downtown Brooklyn and back to the depot eight times a day. He works from 6:30 am to 10:30 am, has a two-hour break, and then works again from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Dean welcomes each passenger who gets on by saying, "Take your time. Welcome aboard," and he has gone so far as to learn to say this in Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Haitian Creole and Swahili. He also strives every day to make sure that everyone exits his bus in a better mood than when they entered, and most do. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bus riders occasionally write or call the NYC Transit Authority to praise a bus operator they view as exemplary. Given the City's bus fleet of 6,000 vehicles that transport an average of 2.7 million riders each week, these "unsolicited commendations" are surprisingly rare. Very few bus operators have accumulated more than a dozen in their careers. Dean has received 132, consistently praised by riders as being, in their words, "extremely special… most extraordinary… compassionate… exemplifies untiring patience … a most shining personality." Dean is the very definition of a civil servant.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Dean became an ordained minister six years ago and has been one of 76 volunteer chaplains serving under Rabbi Harry Berkowitz, the chaplain for the NYC Transit Authority. Rabbi Berkowitz notes, "All of my volunteers are wonderful, but Dean is truly one of the outstanding ones." In 2008, after bus driver Edwin Thomas was murdered by an angry passenger, Dean was "the rock that everybody relied on to get through the grieving."</span></p>
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NY Daily News
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NY Daily News
2013
NY Daily News
Source: <a href="http://nyti.ms/QWknuj">Six City Employees to Receive Sloan Public Service Award.</a> (n.d.).NYTimes.com. Retrieved October 12, 2012
Image of Jefrick R Dean Sr. receiving an additional award - <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/road-heroismnews-honors-11-transit-workerswent-amp-call-duty-article-1.1250814">NY Daily News</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.twulocal100.org/story/bus-op-jefrick-dean-wins-coveted-sloan-public-service-award">Source: Transport Workers Union</a>
Medium: Photograph.
English
Figures
Jefrick R. Dean, Bus, Busing, Brooklyn, NYC, Transit, Minister, Religion, Sloan Public Service
New York
Jesse Isidor Straus
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936) was born in June 25th, 1872 at 28 West 38th Street in New York City. He attended Harvard and graduated in 1893 with an A.B. degree. Jesse married Irma Nathan (1874-1970) on November 20th, 1895. After graduation, Jesse began work as a clerk at Hanover National Bank and then went on to work for Abraham and Straus in Brooklyn. In 1896, he joined R.H. Macy & Co. Jesse and his brothers Percy and Herbert assumed sole senior partnership at Macy’s in 1912. They were called a “triumvirate” and “Merchant Princes” by the press. He was a Macy’s partner until 1919 at which time he was elected the President.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Jesse was active in the Democratic Club. He also was a member of the Founders’ Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Jesse was elected president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association for 1922. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the United Hospital Fund on February 1, 1924 and to the active committee to raise funds for the Hampton-Tuskegee Institute in March 1925. The same month he gifted the Atlanta Art Museum 5,000 annotated photographs of paintings, mostly by old masters of the Italian Renaissance School.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Jesse was part of a delegation of the New York State Chamber of Commerce that went to Cuba as guests of Cuba’s President Machado in January 1928. He was a member of the New York State Commission for the Revision of Tax Laws. The commission became operative April 23, 1930. Jesse was also the chairman of the notification committee of the Independent Citizens’ Committee for the re-election of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lieut. Governor Herbert Lehman of New York in October 1930. Jesse was elected to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in 1925 and chairman of the Visiting Committee in 1930. He was a director of the New York County National Bank, the Lincoln Trust Company and the New York Life Insurance Company. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, the Educational Association of New York, the National Economic League and the Business Historical Society to name just a few of his affiliations.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">He took his appointments seriously, learning everything he could about each organization and its purpose and then acted accordingly. He personally gave the award to graduates of the Brooklyn Junior High School No. 109. He supported the Isidor and Ida Straus Scholarship at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, VA. He gave generously to the American Red Cross, the National Committee on Prisons and Prison-Labor, the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, Mt. Kisco Police Department, the Boy Scout Fund and countless other causes. With all of his business, civic and philanthropic activities, Jesse Isidor Straus was a devoted family man. He tried to be home each evening for dinner. Although he couldn't prevent his mind from wandering to the problems of the day, he was always available to his wife and children. He was a serious man who still found it possible to bring humor and music into his world. Jesse Isidor Straus was a merchant, public servant and philanthropist. And in each he excelled.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In 1931, Jesse was appointed as head of New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (T.E.R.A.). He left that position in 1932 after realizing it had become a full time position. Although he resigned as chair of T.E.R.A., Jesse continued his civic work. He was a member of the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Jesse also served on the Salvation Army United Appeal general committee. In 1933, he was nominated and appointed the United States Ambassador to France, a position he held until 1936. He died on October 4th, 1936 surrounded by family.</span></p>
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Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936) <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org">The Straus Historical Society</a>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Jesse Isidor Straus 1872-1936” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 1 (New York: August 2004); pp. 3-7.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____________nwsltr804.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____________nwsltr804.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Jesse Isidor Straus 1872-1936: Part Two” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2 (New York: February 2005); pp. 1-7.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____________nwsltr205.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____________nwsltr205.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">“Jesse I. Straus ‘Businessman for Roosevelt’ and Ambassador in Paris” Straus Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 2 (New York: February 2013); pp. 8-9.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____nwsltr213.pdf"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">http://www.straushistoricalsociety.org/uploads/1/1/8/1/11810298/____nwsltr213.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p>
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Justice Jane Bolin, First African-American Judge
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In college, Jane Bolin was surrounded by white male students who would ignore her, and her career advisor told her to stop pursing her judicial dreams. She promptly ignored all the obstacles in her way, and became the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the New York City Law Department. She was officially appointed as a judge the New York World’s Fair on July 22, 1939 and would serve on the bench until she was forced to retire at age 70. As a member of the NAACP, she strived to create racial equality in all of her causes. She encouraged such equality in child services, ensured that probation officers were hired without regard to religion or race, and funded childcare agencies that would help children regardless of race.
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A black and white photograph of Jane Matilda Bolin, the first African-American woman to serve as a judge. <br /><br />Source: Jane Bolin. (2012, July 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:31, October 5, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/SOVH3Z">http://bit.ly/SOVH3Z</a>
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