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[letterhead] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH Division of Oklahoma Association for Mental Health, Inc. 3113 CLASSEN BOULEVARD OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73118 JACKSON 4-6857 Division of National Association for Mental Health, Inc.
President J. L. FARMER Vice Presidents REV. IVAN G. POTTS RUSSELL PLANCK ROYCE CLAY Secretary MRS. KENNETH GORDON Assistant Secretary MRS. HOMER PAUL, JR. Treasurer JOHN WALKER Assistant Treasurer MRS. BYRON BISCO Executive Director WILLIAM D. WELBURN Administrative Director SARA M. FOSTER
August 30, 1968
The Hon. Julian Bond 162 Euhrlee Atlanta, Georgia 30304
Dear Mr. Bond:
As proposed via telephone just a few minutes ago, I issue herewith a most urgent invitation for you to be our featured headliner for what we think will be one of the most significant gatherings of young people ever assembled in our State.
It is proposed that our ANNUAL MEETING, scheduled at the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education at the University of Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday, October 26, 1968 depart from its usual format of reports, organizational boasting, and "nit-picking." Instead we propose to get with the action.
We are planning the program along the general outline of a similar gathering held in Oregon last Fall. A photostat of one page of their program will give you some idea as to what WE have in mind.
We have already assembed an alert and informed group of resource persons. We have also lined up a cross-section of students representing such stances as those of the hippy, the square, the extreme left, the extreme right, the middle-of-the-road. No-holds-barred symposia will be conducted on such matters as sex, war, generation gap, cultural gap, racial gap, dope, etc.
We anticipate an attendance of 500.
But we need a headliner -- but not just ANY headliner. So, after your appearances on TV during the recent Chicago convention, it was the consensus of our office this morning that your experience, your general bearing, your attainmnets, represented a made-to-order combination of what is needed to complete our proposed program. Hence our telephone call and this letter.
Frankly, we are a voluntary, less-than-a-non-profit group; so we could not presume to offer you an honorarium as substantial as you no doubt can expect from now on. At the same time we would not presume to ask you to share your time and influence merely for expenses.
If it is at all possible for you to arrive at a quick decision on this matter it would be most helpful if you could let us know on or before Tuesday morning. September 2,
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DIRECTORS
*Mrs. Byron Biscoe Oklahoma City
Rev. Cecil L. Bolding Duncan
Dr. Harold Budde Weatherford
*Royce Clay Hobart
Mrs. Frank A. Cowell Bartlesville
*Mrs. Kay Duke Pawhuska
*J. L. Farmer Midwest City
Mrs. John Finegan Tulsa
Leonard Galbraith Claremore
Oren George Hobart
Mrs. Michael Gladstein McAlester
*Mrs. Kenneth Gordon Oklahoma City
Mrs. Walter Gray Oklahoma City
Mrs. Dow Gumerson Oklahoma City
Mrs. Dewey Bartlett Oklahoma City
Mrs. E. E. Brown Duncan
*Executive Committee
B. Joe Gunn Okmulgee
J. R. Hall Miami
Mrs. Fred Harris Lawton
Cliff Hayes Bethany
R. L. Heiligman Claremore
Father John Joyce Oklahoma City
Dr. Noel Kaho Claremore
Robert S. Kerr, Jr. Oklahoma City
Dr. Morgan Lee Norman
Dr. Bertha Levy Oklahoma City
Mrs. Joe Melton Alva
*Mrs. Doys Montgomery Duncan
John Parrish Lawton
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Mrs. Frank Buttram Oklahoma City
Mrs. Joe Hathaway Tulsa
*Mrs. Homer Paul, Jr. Oklahoma City
*Mrs. Jim Payne Oklahoma City
*Russell Planck Tulsa
*Rev. Ivan G. Potts Seminole
Dr. William T. Riddle Tahlequah
Miss Irene Shugars Bartlesville
Mrs. W. E. Simon Alva
Vince Snider Ardmore
*L. E. States Perry
Dr. Louise Stephens Langston
Mrs. G. K. Sutherland Hominy
*John Walker Oklahoma City
Mrs. J. H. White Muskogee
Mrs. John Hubbell Pawhuska
Roy Turner Oklahoma City
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since we have called a session of our Planning Committee for 9:30 A.M. If such is possible, would you call me collect at my home any time over the Labor Day holiday; Area Code 405, 943-8993. Or if you prefer to call our office anytime after 8:00 A.M. Tuesday, September 2: 524-1449. If a reply by that time is not practicable, may we request a reply by Friday, September 6?
Thank you for considering this matter --- and for what you are doing for our country.
Sincerely yours,
[signature of William D. Welburn] William D. Welburn Executive Director
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