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Des Moines Sunday Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Section Six, February 16, 1964 HOME AND FAMILY SECTION

Pat Connolly, wife of Des Moines attorney John Connely III, is the mother of eight children 19 years to 18 months old. She attended St Joseph Academy, Drake University and the College of St. Catherine at St. Paul Minn. She represents Des Moines parochial schools on the Iowa Board of International Education Children's Institute, has headed a number of Catholic women's organizations, worked on the United Campaign and sings in the choir of her church, Holy Trinity . She says:
"Although every generation has to learn in its own way what it means to love your neighbor. I hope that my children will learn by their parents good example."

Madelyn Glazer, wife of Edward Glazer, president of Dial Finance Co. is the mother of four children. She is a graduate of Milwaukee Downer Seminary and Ohio State University at Columbus. She was co-chairman of United Campaign's women division in 1962, has served on boards of Willikie Hopuse, Girl Scout, Planned Parenthood; is a past chairman of the women's division of the United Jewish Appeal. She says
"prejudice is as an image projected through the lens of fear.. You cannot save yourself by denying your neighbor and you cannot maintain your own pride by destroying his."

Willie Stevenson Glanton is the wife of Municipal Judge Luther T. Glanton jr., first Negro judge elected in Iowa. She is a practicing attorney (60 per cent of her clientele white). Arkansas born, she's a graduate of Tennesee State University at Nashville and the Robert H. Terrell Law School, Washington D.C. In 1962 the U.S sent the Glantons to Africa and Southeast Asia as goodwill ambassadors. They have one son. She says:
"As we observed the Africans' drive for freedom, human dignity , higher standards of living and their thirst for education. I realized that her in America, our land of freedom and plenty there are still those of us who must continue to struggle for these same things."

Dorothy Goldberg, wife of Dr. Louis Goldberg, Des Moines physician is the mother of two children. Des Moines born, she was a journalism major at Northwestern University, Evanston III; has served on boards of Des Moines Social Services - Travelers Aid, Mercy Hospital Guild, Jewish Social Service; is chairman of Talking Books Project for the Blind. She says:
"All of us have something to offer whether we are white or brown or just plain freckled. Our hope is that we can help transform the misunderstanding that now divides us into an understanding that will unite us."

June Parker Goldman is the wife of the Rev, Max Goldman. Methodist minister in Forest City. An only child of a Japanese-American marriage, she was educated at Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan, and in Pittsfield, Mass, where she lived with her grandparents during World War II years. She was graduated from Wellesley College (Mass)  in 1947. The Goldmans have three children. She says:
"It isn't the color of a person's skin that makes him good or bad but the color of his thoughts; and not the shape of a person's eyes that will determine what he shall become, but much more: The shape of his dreams."

Sara Hill is the wife of Luther Hill, jr. Des Moines Attorney . She is president of the Planned Parenthood Committee of Des Moines, secretary of the Des Moines Park Board, a member of the Mayor's Action Committee and the Citizen's Committee to study the city's 1980 plan. She attended Connecticut College for Women at New London, majoring in economics . The Hills have two sons. 
"Prejudice is a social millstone, rater like the excess baggage the airlines charge extra for. You end up paying extra for it all through your life. It weighs you down and hampers your ability to think clearly about situations and people. Frankly life is just too short I don't have any time for it."

HELEN STEIN, who started the Know Your Neighbor Panel is the wife of Arthur Stein, jr. An executive of Central States Theater Corp., and has two sons. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin she is a Brailist, in 1958 organized a recording for the blind group in Des Moines, was instrumental in making Iowa one of only three states using volunteer prisoners in aid for the blind. She says:
" We have found courage to explore the unknown reaches of the universe, and yet are fearful of people who seem a little different. We have mastered the most complicated scientific formulae and yet often lack comprehension of the simple Golden Rule."

DES MOINES' KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR PANEL 

Crusade Against Prejudice 
By Lillian McLaughlin 
Pictures by Jack Brinton

ONE HOT afternoon last summer a Des Moines bound car made a brief stop at a restaurant in a small Iowa town and unloaded an unusual assortment of women. 
One stepped one with Oriental eyes and a looped up pony tail hairdo caught with a flower; a Negro in cotton skirt and barefoot sandals; a Sister of Mercy with unmistakable Irish eyes; and two others wearing shorts, whom an ethnic expert abroad on Main Street might have sized up as Anglo-German-Scotch and Semitic. 
One of the women came to a quick stop and started laughing. 
"Sister," she said "people will think you have rounded up a bunch of strays. 
On the contrary, the group's heterogeneity was by design. 
The five were one section of Des Moines, remarkable Know Your Neighbor Panel en route home the morning after an evening program in a southern Iowa town. 
As the nation today begins Brotherhood Week (Feb. 16 -22) this panel is rounding out its 164th consecutive week in pursuance of the same goal. 
This goal: To seek out and fight - even in themselves - the prejudice that destroys brotherhood. 
In batteries of five or six, chosen from a roster of 13 women, the panels have spoken before 130 groups (at latest count) about 75 of these in Polk County. 
They have traveled at least 15,000 miles into 32 Iowa Cities and towns, four other states in one week this month sent two groups into Chicago Ill. 
They have reached an overall audience of about 35,000 business and professional men and women. housewives. Chambers of Commerce members, legislators and legislators' wives high school and college students, 4-H youth and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish groups. 
Now panels have been pontificating on worthy subjects for years, usually in single performances fre

A section of the panel in action. From left: Mrs. Soifer, Sister Mary Timothea, Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Glanton, Mrs. Hill.

quently undistinguished. 
To what is the pulling power of the Des Moines K.Y.N. smash hit, three and a half year run due?
On reason: The panel is unsponsored a voluntary undertaking by a group of busy women, including two religious - both nursing educators - and 11 mothers with a combine total of 32 children. One of the mothers also is an attorney with a brisk practice. 
Another reason: The women put on a polished presentation that clearly has had hours, days of thoughtful preparation. 
The presentation is simple: The moderator introduces herself, explains why the panel is there, then one by one the panelists introduce themselves. 
They speak as they would in a living room, tell briefly, meaningfully about themselves, their families their
PANEL - 
Continued on Page Five

Elizabeth Kruidenier is the wife of David Kruidenier, vice president and general manager of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company Des Moines born, she attended S.U.I., was graduate from Connecticut College for Women, New London, She has served on the Governor's Commission on Civil Rights, boards of N.A.A.C.P. Des Moines League of Women Voters; was first president of Iowa Association for the United Nations. The Kruideniers have one daughter. She says:
"Which of us would count himself on the side of intolerance and bigotry? Yet there are people that can't find jobs... homes for quite irrelevant reasons; so somewhere, somehow, some of us good Americans are just not practicing what we profess to believe."

Arlene Morris is the wife of James B. Morris jr., Des Moines attorney and the first Negro to receive the Junior Chamber of Commerce Award of "Young Man of the Year" Like her husband, Mrs. Morris is a State University of Iowa graduate and has done graduate work at Drake University. The Morrises have three sons. She says: 
"I must teach my three sons that the color of their skin is not a form of punishment,... (but) I will not pass down the old hates that some Negro children receive from their parents."

Sister Mary Rosine, director of education at Des Moines' Mercy Hospital School of Nursing was graduated from Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Kansas City, Kan., in 1944 and spent the next two years in the Army Nurse Corps. In 1947 she entered the Sisters of Mercy novitiate in Council Bluffs. She has a B.S. degree in nursing from Creighton University, a master's degree in nursing education from St. Louis University. She says: 
"In our School of Nursing we have graduated with honor and pride Negro and white Jewish and gentile students.... When a nurse, for that matter goes to the bedside of a patient she doesn't stop at the door and think of him in terms of race color or creed."

Ahuva Soifer, wife of Samuel Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation is the mother of two sons and two daughters. Born in Siouz City she was educated at Hunter College (New York City) the Seminary College of Jewish Studies and New York School of Social Work at Columbia University. She teaches Hebrew in the high school department of the Des Moines Bureau of Jewish Education. She says:
"Democracy's very life line may depend on our awareness of differences and respect for variations. I care about you, very much as individuals and as representatives of groups, and I am glad when you get to know me and care about me, too."

Sister Mary Timothea is a director of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines and president of the Iowa Nurses Association. She attended high school in Omaha. Neb., entered Sisters of Mercy novitiate in 1948 in Council Bluffs. She has also studied at College of St. Mary in Omaha and in 1954 was graduated from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Denver, Colo, She says:
"Even Catholic parents can be prejudiced against a religious vocation . Why does a women choose such a life? So often people think a girl enters the Convent because she is a misfit in the world- rejected by society, a wall flower, a withdrawn personality, or disappointed in love. There are 170,000 Sisters is the United States. Could there be that many disappointed women?"

Becky Waldron is wife of Charles Waldron, president of Waldron Engineering Co. Reared in Des Moines, she attended Vasar College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. was graduated from the State University of Iowa. She has worked on all the city's major philanthropic and cultural drives, some for as many as 15 years. The Waldrons have a son and daughter, both teenagers. She says:
"I must never let a prejudiced remark slip by unanswered; instead I must explore gently. Verbal prejudice is only an arm's length away from physical violence, which produces raging mobs, mad hysteria and gas chambers."

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Des Moines Sunday Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Section Six, February 16, 1964 HOME AND FAMILY SECTION Pat Connolly, wife of Des Moines attorney John Connely III, is the mother of eight children 19 years to 18 months old. She attended St Joseph Academy, Drake University and the College of St. Catherine at St. Paul Minn. She represents Des Moines parochial schools on the Iowa Board of International Education Children's Institute, has headed a number of Catholic women's organizations, worked on the United Campaign and sings in the choir of her church, Holy Trinity . She says: "Although every generation has to learn in its own way what it means to love your neighbor. I hope that my children will learn by their parents good example." Madelyn Glazer, wife of Edward Glazer, president of Dial Finance Co. is the mother of four children. She is a graduate of Milwaukee Downer Seminary and Ohio State University at Columbus. She was co-chairman of United Campaign's women division in 1962, has served on boards of Willikie Hopuse, Girl Scout, Planned Parenthood; is a past chairman of the women's division of the United Jewish Appeal. She says "prejudice is as an image projected through the lens of fear.. You cannot save yourself by denying your neighbor and you cannot maintain your own pride by destroying his." Willie Stevenson Glanton is the wife of Municipal Judge Luther T. Glanton jr., first Negro judge elected in Iowa. She is a practicing attorney (60 per cent of her clientele white). Arkansas born, she's a graduate of Tennesee State University at Nashville and the Robert H. Terrell Law School, Washington D.C. In 1962 the U.S sent the Glantons to Africa and Southeast Asia as goodwill ambassadors. They have one son. She says: "As we observed the Africans' drive for freedom, human dignity , higher standards of living and their thirst for education. I realized that her in America, our land of freedom and plenty there are still those of us who must continue to struggle for these same things." Dorothy Goldberg, wife of Dr. Louis Goldberg, Des Moines physician is the mother of two children. Des Moines born, she was a journalism major at Northwestern University, Evanston III; has served on boards of Des Moines Social Services - Travelers Aid, Mercy Hospital Guild, Jewish Social Service; is chairman of Talking Books Project for the Blind. She says: "All of us have something to offer whether we are white or brown or just plain freckled. Our hope is that we can help transform the misunderstanding that now divides us into an understanding that will unite us." June Parker Goldman is the wife of the Rev, Max Goldman. Methodist minister in Forest City. An only child of a Japanese-American marriage, she was educated at Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan, and in Pittsfield, Mass, where she lived with her grandparents during World War II years. She was graduated from Wellesley College (Mass) in 1947. The Goldmans have three children. She says: "It isn't the color of a person's skin that makes him good or bad but the color of his thoughts; and not the shape of a person's eyes that will determine what he shall become, but much more: The shape of his dreams." Sara Hill is the wife of Luther Hill, jr. Des Moines Attorney . She is president of the Planned Parenthood Committee of Des Moines, secretary of the Des Moines Park Board, a member of the Mayor's Action Committee and the Citizen's Committee to study the city's 1980 plan. She attended Connecticut College for Women at New London, majoring in economics . The Hills have two sons. "Prejudice is a social millstone, rater like the excess baggage the airlines charge extra for. You end up paying extra for it all through your life. It weighs you down and hampers your ability to think clearly about situations and people. Frankly life is just too short I don't have any time for it." HELEN STEIN, who started the Know Your Neighbor Panel is the wife of Arthur Stein, jr. An executive of Central States Theater Corp., and has two sons. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin she is a Brailist, in 1958 organized a recording for the blind group in Des Moines, was instrumental in making Iowa one of only three states using volunteer prisoners in aid for the blind. She says: " We have found courage to explore the unknown reaches of the universe, and yet are fearful of people who seem a little different. We have mastered the most complicated scientific formulae and yet often lack comprehension of the simple Golden Rule." DES MOINES' KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR PANEL Crusade Against Prejudice By Lillian McLaughlin Pictures by Jack Brinton ONE HOT afternoon last summer a Des Moines bound car made a brief stop at a restaurant in a small Iowa town and unloaded an unusual assortment of women. One stepped one with Oriental eyes and a looped up pony tail hairdo caught with a flower; a Negro in cotton skirt and barefoot sandals; a Sister of Mercy with unmistakable Irish eyes; and two others wearing shorts, whom an ethnic expert abroad on Main Street might have sized up as Anglo-German-Scotch and Semitic. One of the women came to a quick stop and started laughing. "Sister," she said "people will think you have rounded up a bunch of strays. On the contrary, the group's heterogeneity was by design. The five were one section of Des Moines, remarkable Know Your Neighbor Panel en route home the morning after an evening program in a southern Iowa town. As the nation today begins Brotherhood Week (Feb. 16 -22) this panel is rounding out its 164th consecutive week in pursuance of the same goal. This goal: To seek out and fight - even in themselves - the prejudice that destroys brotherhood. In batteries of five or six, chosen from a roster of 13 women, the panels have spoken before 130 groups (at latest count) about 75 of these in Polk County. They have traveled at least 15,000 miles into 32 Iowa Cities and towns, four other states in one week this month sent two groups into Chicago Ill. They have reached an overall audience of about 35,000 business and professional men and women. housewives. Chambers of Commerce members, legislators and legislators' wives high school and college students, 4-H youth and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish groups. Now panels have been pontificating on worthy subjects for years, usually in single performances fre A section of the panel in action. From left: Mrs. Soifer, Sister Mary Timothea, Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Glanton, Mrs. Hill. quently undistinguished. To what is the pulling power of the Des Moines K.Y.N. smash hit, three and a half year run due? On reason: The panel is unsponsored a voluntary undertaking by a group of busy women, including two religious - both nursing educators - and 11 mothers with a combine total of 32 children. One of the mothers also is an attorney with a brisk practice. Another reason: The women put on a polished presentation that clearly has had hours, days of thoughtful preparation. The presentation is simple: The moderator introduces herself, explains why the panel is there, then one by one the panelists introduce themselves. They speak as they would in a living room, tell briefly, meaningfully about themselves, their families their PANEL - Continued on Page Five Elizabeth Kruidenier is the wife of David Kruidenier, vice president and general manager of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company Des Moines born, she attended S.U.I., was graduate from Connecticut College for Women, New London, She has served on the Governor's Commission on Civil Rights, boards of N.A.A.C.P. Des Moines League of Women Voters; was first president of Iowa Association for the United Nations. The Kruideniers have one daughter. She says: "Which of us would count himself on the side of intolerance and bigotry? Yet there are people that can't find jobs... homes for quite irrelevant reasons; so somewhere, somehow, some of us good Americans are just not practicing what we profess to believe." Arlene Morris is the wife of James B. Morris jr., Des Moines attorney and the first Negro to receive the Junior Chamber of Commerce Award of "Young Man of the Year" Like her husband, Mrs. Morris is a State University of Iowa graduate and has done graduate work at Drake University. The Morrises have three sons. She says: "I must teach my three sons that the color of their skin is not a form of punishment,... (but) I will not pass down the old hates that some Negro children receive from their parents." Sister Mary Rosine, director of education at Des Moines' Mercy Hospital School of Nursing was graduated from Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Kansas City, Kan., in 1944 and spent the next two years in the Army Nurse Corps. In 1947 she entered the Sisters of Mercy novitiate in Council Bluffs. She has a B.S. degree in nursing from Creighton University, a master's degree in nursing education from St. Louis University. She says: "In our School of Nursing we have graduated with honor and pride Negro and white Jewish and gentile students.... When a nurse, for that matter goes to the bedside of a patient she doesn't stop at the door and think of him in terms of race color or creed." Ahuva Soifer, wife of Samuel Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation is the mother of two sons and two daughters. Born in Siouz City she was educated at Hunter College (New York City) the Seminary College of Jewish Studies and New York School of Social Work at Columbia University. She teaches Hebrew in the high school department of the Des Moines Bureau of Jewish Education. She says: "Democracy's very life line may depend on our awareness of differences and respect for variations. I care about you, very much as individuals and as representatives of groups, and I am glad when you get to know me and care about me, too." Sister Mary Timothea is a director of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines and president of the Iowa Nurses Association. She attended high school in Omaha. Neb., entered Sisters of Mercy novitiate in 1948 in Council Bluffs. She has also studied at College of St. Mary in Omaha and in 1954 was graduated from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Denver, Colo, She says: "Even Catholic parents can be prejudiced against a religious vocation . Why does a women choose such a life? So often people think a girl enters the Convent because she is a misfit in the world- rejected by society, a wall flower, a withdrawn personality, or disappointed in love. There are 170,000 Sisters is the United States. Could there be that many disappointed women?" Becky Waldron is wife of Charles Waldron, president of Waldron Engineering Co. Reared in Des Moines, she attended Vasar College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. was graduated from the State University of Iowa. She has worked on all the city's major philanthropic and cultural drives, some for as many as 15 years. The Waldrons have a son and daughter, both teenagers. She says: "I must never let a prejudiced remark slip by unanswered; instead I must explore gently. Verbal prejudice is only an arm's length away from physical violence, which produces raging mobs, mad hysteria and gas chambers."