Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan, second from left, accepting a check for $2905.50 on behalf of the Community Chest of Lancaster County from Captain Hamilton Howe, U. S. Navy, Commander of the U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, MD. Captain Richard B. Derickson, Commanding Officer, Service School Command and Chairman of the Red Feather Drive at Bainbridge, and Mr. John Reardon, U. S. O. Area Director watch the presentation. The check represents part of the money collected in the Combined Charities Drive at the Center. Captain Howe, in presenting the check, said that it was only a small repayment from the Bainbridge men and women for the fine hospitality and friendship of the people of Lancaster.
Prior to a tri-service honor guard ceremony in honor of Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Strickler, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, (J-5) Civil Affairs, United Nations and Far East Command, in recognition of his outstanding services to the UNC/FEC Headquarters, Pershing Heights, Tokyo, Japan, (L to R), Maj. Gen. Strickler, L. L. Lemnitzer, Commander-in-Chief, United Nations and Far East Commands; (Rear), Lt. Gen. Earl W. Barnes, Chief-of-Staff, UNC/FEC; and RADM Miles H,. Hubbard, Ass't COFS, (J-4), UNC/FEC. US Army Photo.
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From MG-29 The General Daniel B. Strickler Collection
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, smilinly chats with Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Strickler, commander of the 28th Division, as he reviews newly arrived troops of the Pennsylvania National Guard outfit. Ike told the GIs that preserving the peace "Is all we want and all we are trying to do."
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From MG-29 The General Daniel B. Strickler Collection
100th Anniversary celebration at Wheatland. Identified from left to right: R. E. Fellers, Director, Division of Philately; E. George Siedle, Assistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Transportation; Samuel C. Slaymaker, Buchanan Foundation; Albert J. Robertson, Assistant Postmaster General and Controller, Bureau of Finance; John B. Rengier, President, Buchanan Foundation; Frederic S. Klein, Director of Public Relations, Buchanan Foundation. Taken in Mr. Siedle's office, Washington, D. C., at time of decision to issue Wheatland stamp commemorating a Presidential shrine in Pennylvania, in the 100th anniversary year of the election of James Buchanan to the presidency, 1856. Five copies of photograph. Taken for the Post Office Department of the United States of America.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Convention Committee, National Federation of Post Office Clerks Local 95, First Convention. Identified are: H. B. Carpenter, Chairman; Henry E. Stafford, Ellis Kline, J. R. Bowers and Joseph P. Sherr
