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from Basil O’Connor (31) thanking him for his tireless service on behalf of the National
Foundation. “You have served on the National Advisory Committee for the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis since its organization almost nine years ago.
“Despite the other demands of the tragic times we have been through on your time and on
your strength, you have attended with almost complete regularity the bi-annual meetings
of the Medical Advisory Committee – all of which have been held in New York City – in
each instance consuming usually two days apart from the time spent in traveling. This, of
course, necessitated, at such periods, the total abandonment of your other activities.
Between bi-annual meetings you have examined and studied seriously, the many
applications for grants that have been made to the National Foundation, and as a result
you have come to those meetings equipped to discuss and pass on those applications
intelligently and to advise the National Foundation wisely. You could not have done all
this without becoming sincerely and intensely interested in the National Foundation, its
activities, its policies and its future. In connection with all these things you have, from
time to time, brought to us and permitted us to share that veritable warehouse of
understanding, reasoning and knowledge that only one who has attained the standing in
one’s profession that you have possesses. All that you have done has been done
voluntarily and as a contribution to the welfare of humanity without any thought of
compensation on your part.” ---- following further words of gratitude on behalf of himself
and the Foundation, “I know that without the contribution you have made we should
never have accomplished whatever of value we have accomplished. Faithfully yours,
Basil O’Connor, President.”