NYSTA Correspondence-Invitations to Speak at Various Meetings, 1955-1967

Letter to NYSTA executive secretary G. Howard Goold from U.S. Senator Irving M. Ives, pledging support for federal aid for school construction, January 24, 1955, with attached text of Senate bill; invitation to public hearing of the NYS Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging, from committee chair Thomas Desmond, November 30, 1953; letter from U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy to NYSTA Professional Services director Zoraida Weeks, regretting being unable to speak at annual meeting of the Southern Zone of NYSTA on October 17, noting re-election campaign required him to be in Massachusetts, January 28, 1958; letter to Goold from Eleanor Roosevelt, regretting being unable to attend luncheon, November 14, 1958; letter from Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, noting that Msgr. John J. Voight, Secretary for Education in the Archdiocese of New York, would represent him at luncheon, November 18, 1958; regrets from U.S. Representative to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, January 27, 1960, and March 17, 1961; U.N. Under-Secretary Ralph Bunche, May 21, 1959; U.S. Senator Margaret Chase-Smith, March 4, 1959; Adlai Stevenson, March 10, 1959; Jackie Robinson, March 13, 1968; tentative acceptance from Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins, noting speaker's fee, February 6, 1958; tentative acceptance from Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., September 22, 1966; various officials from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, state commissioners of education, editors and publishers, college presidents and other academics