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But evening ladies and gentlemen where speaking to you from the Grand Ballroom of the hotel Waldorf Astoria where is a special service feature of your city station is bringing you a transcribed broadcast of the testimonial dinner and honor of New York state attorney general Nathaniel L. Goldstein the featured speakers on Mayor Vincent are Intel it Harry and lieutenant governor Frank Seymour Mr Goldstein who is national campaign chairman of the twenty five million dollars medical center campaign sponsored by you see the university will be cited here tonight for his devotion to the advancement of the medical sciences and his untiring championship of the health and welfare of all races and face of the speakers on the program will be Quentin Reynolds and Dr Samuel Bell master of ceremonies will be Ed Sullivan and here to introduce him is Mr Fabian. And I welcome you to this dinner honoring our attorney general the final Goldstein given on behalf of the College of Medicine sponsored by achiever university to be erected in connection with a new branch hospital in the city of New York you will notice perhaps I did not say I thank you I think it would be arrogant on my part to thank anybody for coming here to honor Nat Goldstein and to vary the cause that we are all here to support it is always pleasant to gather together to pay tribute to a man like not Goldstein whose public achievements are written on the record of the history of New York but it was many private and worthwhile contributions to our community I know him too but a few because of his great modesty. As you know he has assumed the chairmanship of the National Campaign for this medical college and no man has worked harder at this than he had yes and it is pleasant and inspiring to gather together to support the achievement of a great dream which can result if this dinner is a success in the building of the College of Medicine but more of this late. Before I turn the gavel over to the Toastmaster of the evening I think I should publicly thank on behalf of the dinner committee several gentlemen who have been most earnest and ardent in their work and have contributed so largely to this evening I speak of Robert Whiteman which labored so prodigious Lee and William Grant like thank every Smith has had on usual burdens which he has carried with the thank you and for the building of the hospital the replica of the hospital which you will see later many thanks to Max fine for his imagination energy and devotion thank you and I must also thank my critical or his brother in the very his brothers for their great help in arranging his thank the gentleman who will preside this evening has such a vast experience in being a master of ceremonies and Toastmaster ranging from the stage to radio to television that no more expert or experienced hands could be found to run in the event of this kind he holds records for his stage performances in radio he has achieved great success and he is one of television's brightest stars and at the same time while doing all this his syndicated column appears in the largest circulated paper from coast to coast I am very happy therefore although he has developed a poker face and television. To tell you that the deeds that he does in support of every worthwhile cards give evidence of the great heart of the man and I am proud to turn over the gavel to Mr Ed Sullivan thank you thank you thank you even Ladies and gentlemen. Distinguished guests reverend clergy this evening really start off in a very pleasant know many pleasant for me and I because I was. Sitting right in front of us here in rabbi last time came up to him and they were talking about that they are tonight honoring the attorney general. Said to Rabbi last time he said Did you see Sugar Ray Robinson had some of. The rabbi said Sure I belong to. This is true I must beg your pardon as I am not going to. And then another pleasant note was struck by the attorney general son. Young Steven today celebrating his twelfth birthday. Celebration Thank you I wearing a big I like Ike button and it is but you know thanks for having the most pleasant introductory note of the evening was sounded by two very good friends of mine two very good friends of yours they sent us here today. From Mr and Mrs George Frankel off twenty five thousand dollars for the achieve a part of that. Thank you and I have a very pleasant duty presenting to you for a very lovely lady and I'm going to ask the spotlight man if you can pick them out as I would like them to get up and think about I know you'd like to meet him. So there has must be a very proud night one of a series of our nights in the mother in the life of the mother the attorney general to see this typically are gathering. Financiers and civic minded hearing her son who was honored the city and state I'd like to meet a mother the attorney general Mrs Mike Austin she said you know he just. Told me thank. You. Seventy seven years ago. After a few years and I had about twenty seven and certainly look seventeen. And here on the day as the wife of a distinguished American Mrs Wonderful will be with you spank you. Thank. How there is a youngster sitting on a desk then a five herself with every worthwhile cause the city project or you will all know art that I couldn't farm for. I've introduced the mother. Of the attorney general I've referred to a son I know we all want to meet his wife Let's go see him Would you stand please. Christ talking to her husband here during dinner and I was asking about some of these figures. And the figures to me were I stole and I said these figures here in the little booklet. To me are all reporting because said down here and the bottom of one page that the issue of a charter is the first charter granted by the New York State Board of Regents for a college of medicine since eighteen hundred and thirty eight is the first New College of Medicine to be established New York City since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and general Goldstein said he's well he said if you just then elaborate on that he said The national figures are equally appalling back in one thousand nine hundred five we had twenty six thousand medical students new doctors doctors rather a population of eighty five million American I was in one thousand nine hundred five twenty five forty five years later in one thousand nine hundred fifty we have lost one thousand doctors you now have twenty five thousand doctors for a population of one hundred fifty millions of people here in New York you have nine medical schools with a total capacity Romit of twenty nine hundred students and each year we graduate five hundred ten there are twenty thousand applications for this limit in a Roman of twenty nine hundred and you have a shortage a national shortage now of fifty thousand doctors so if anybody had any doubt in his or her mind as to the need which is represented in typified by this guy the night those figures should resolve them all represented tonight you have a distinguished array of people representing the governor of New York State is a member of the board of the trustees of the State University he's quite an unusual man quite and quite unusual for a number of reasons lieutenant governor Frank Moore was is an immigrant he told me that he was born in Toronto and he came across the border. To Buffalo with his family in a little town outside of Buffalo I certainly want to Hobart university there and then along came World War one to indicate his resolution and the measure of the man he tried to enlist in the United States Army and they turned him down he didn't weigh enough so then he went around and went out on the recruiting stations and try to become York Times office as special as jobs as a balloon watch or an airplane spider nowadays so they went back across the border and only then of course was the United States citizen he got himself into the Royal Canadian Air Force by showing his birth certificate which show that he did come originally from Toronto and then after serving under that second flag He then served on a third flag because he transferred to the British army and all of his public activities got no mortar has been outstanding an outstanding example of the greatness that has come to us from other countries it with a tremendous sense of privilege and pleasure that I introduce to you in our lieutenant governor New York state Frank C. want to. Thank you Mr Sullivan. Dr Melton chairman of the board Levy and friends of a splendid institution and a great citizen yes she will and the time he will Goldstein and the absence of the governor it becomes my privilege occasionally to act in his staff and tonight my assignment is most pleasant. On behalf of all who serve you in state government from our great governor to the new was clerk I watched him you do this job. I'm sure that the people of this thing I'm Pyar state would want me to add their prideful Greetings to you who do honor to one of New York State's finest citizens it's neither my function or my purpose to itemize his many accomplishments over the years but I cannot resist characterizing them whenever there is need for intelligent courageous and vigorous help you can entrust the job to our attorney general and confidently expect him to succeed we have always found this to be true. And you will soon have proof in your campaign to raise funds for the medical school for his shade there is a great need today desperate need for more doctors to provide them we must have more and ever better training facilities. The new State University has initiated two new medical centers one here in New York and one upstate in Surrey kids there are underway but even one completed at a cost of many millions they will not be enough there is good reason why education including medical education should not be the job of government alone and Mr Sullivan has indicated to you something of the reluctance of the private institutions to attempt the task of financing new medical schools but yes Shiva. As undertaken to supply in important measure added opportunities for such medical education and I compliment and salute you for your courage you have set high goals to achieve your objectives and by the way ours in the state requires money much money fortunately. And we share the services of a man who has rare talents for wisely raising as well as spending that most essential building material money his associates in state government are proud of his helpfulness to you as I know you are of his great services to us we wish and anticipate for you and him great success in your efforts we joining with you tonight in paying tribute to him wishing for Mrs Goldstein and our attorney general for many more years of good health and happiness together and somewhat selfishly the wish that his splendid services may be available to all of the people of our state. A long time off thank you. Thank you very much Jeff. Fortunately there are are many shounen on his committee. Yaps I think even have the brains have evolved like we have many others. And it seemed to them that instead of just discussing per se and building of a college that might dramatize it magnificently in college were to be here on the stage so that college would be translated X. and it turns. Act through building before your eyes. And serving as the narrator are while this is being assembled here before you. Is any Our crew was born in the bronze. Looked in front of this family whose dad was the superintendent of schools and programs. And who in every. Capacity whatever as author or Fahrenkopf correspondent or a television personality or his own private capacity as a human being dynamic Nepos and job in every area ladies and gentleman and I write in my question Reynolds. Tonight I'd like to talk to you about a dream the problem with us adults is that we don't very often believe in dreams I like kids are much smarter than we are youngsters know that sometimes. Dreams do come true if you have enough faith in them the New College of Medicine to be erected here in New York City is still nothing but a dream but said it's a dream that you and I can help come to. It's quite fitting that the first medical school to be built under Jewish auspices should be sponsored by U.C.B. University the first American University of Jewish are altogether proper that this great contribution by American Jewry to our American institutions should be nonsectarian and in the interests of all people everywhere without regard to race creed or cup it's a historic note to recall that the first director of the new medical college will be an outstanding American doctor and medical scientist of Jewish origin the first in our history to a head a school of medicine he is Dr Harry and resentment. There is as everyone knows an alarming shortage of doctors in our nation today our new medical college will do much to alleviate the material pop of this serious condition it will make a lasting contribution to the Marlin physical good health of America those of us who play a role in the dramatic birth of this infant the blessing will be manifold that can be no greatest satisfaction then to know that the edifice we have to build will serve us a lasting memorial for all time and for all men to Attorney General in the Faneuil Goldstein national chairman of the College of Medicine campaign it was being on a diet tonight gave your whole hearted simple cents you can visit our college we're going to bring it to you in minute show a model of the New College of Medicine is about to grow before our eyes on the stage. It will rise eight feet and will be twenty five feet in length you will see each section put together floor by floor wing by wing Department by the plot you will have the opportunity to make a material contribution allocated to any part of the institution closest to you and to perpetrate for all time ya name all the names of your loved ones while providing the most modern facilities for educating our future pastors Flemings Curies and listed all of things must start with a firm foundation we have exactly that as the College of Medicine begins to take shape. As our dream begins to take on substance here on the base represents the basement occupying twenty five thousand square feet it will How's the great half million dollar power plant so necessary to the operation and maintenance of the building in the middle of medical equipment in it the exterior grounds will be beautifully landscaped landing simple Chom very fine meant to the school and the surrounding area of the medical center at the first flaw now taking shape well opened its arms to students faculty and visitors it will be the location of the college's administrate of offices and a new modern four hundred thousand dollar medical library no efficient medical school can planets daily or overall activities without proper administration in ministration Department will require three hundred fifty thousand dollars the medical library the sauce of medical knowledge will be indispensable both to instructors and students and will perform an important function in the life of the medical center. The true caliber of a school is most often reflected in the quality of its library our College of Medicine deserves the things we continue to move up with prying into the insides of this great new school entire second floor will be the site of the department of anatomy costing one million two hundred thousand dollars madam is the science dealing with the structure of all going as one might say that we are engaging in an autonomy lecture and atomy lecture right here right now but our structure the New College of Medicine here young man man women will have the wonderful opportunity to study the most important branch of medical science under the most advantageous conditions it will be a dream come true. For those youngsters who might not otherwise be able to go to medical school moving upwards we reached the third floor of this inspiring structure standing at the window we look out over the North Bronx we can see the labor is busy at work on the new municipal Hospital Center a project which will cost the city of New York about forty million dollars That's Pelham Parkway close by and the east Chester Road and seminal Avenue the New College of Medicine will be easily accessible by subway buses are old and new highways threading through the area from Long Island Queens Brooklyn but happen in Westchester. New College will be closely affiliated with the municipal hospitals and that in fact we are staffing both the Hospital Center and the medical center we have a wonderful working arrangement through the graciousness and cooperation of the city of New York its mayor its commissioner of hospitals and other key figures and Department. The third formal How's the departments of biochemistry and legal medicine biochemistry deals with the chemistry of living organisms and why list a Pavane will cost eight hundred fifty thousand dollars it's often been said that the chemical elements of the human body worth less than one dollar but greater knowledge of this chemistry has done much to prolong and better human life joining this department will be the department of legal medicine which will be cry over a two hundred thousand dollars outlaid legal medicine is not to be distinguished from illegal medicine but rather represents the impact of the law on medical practice it's altogether proper for me to remind you of the construct of the thick of medical practice on the law and government climbing up another flaw the elevators and not yet installed we come to the fourth law where the smell of medical products clean and fresh stays with us here are two main departments one the Department of college or eating six hundred fifty thousand dollars and the Department of Medical Ethics which calls for two hundred thousand dollars just remember that every time you have a prescription filled you and your family are benefiting from the advances made in family colleges and studying medical ethics our young doctors want to learn the true meaning of the Hippocratic Oath how to conduct themselves in public and private practice benefiting their fellow man and meeting their obligations to the community in general the Department of physiology takes up most of the space on the fifth floor of the College of Medicine as we proceed up stay as the cost of this unit is one million dollars physiology is the science dealing with the functions of living organisms. Most of us know that this is another vital branch of medical knowledge it's worth contemplating here is a constructive faucet taking shape in a world where destruction showers us with open and you name feed up on the six log we find two major departments bio physics and microbiology bio physics is a new field and has to do with the use of radio isotopes and radioactive materials created by an atomic pile for the treatment of disease well worth its allocation of half a million dollars This could perform great miracles equally important as microbiology which requires a similar expenditure and deals with the study of microbes virus and other bacteria at this point we're entitled to a seventh inning stretch. During which time I can remind you of the significance of what is being accomplished here this school of medicine will be the eighty eighth in America but the first medical college constructed in New York City and more than half a century and the first to be granted a shot up by the state part of Regents in one hundred and fifteen years and now back to the seventh flaw went to great wings last betting out here is a Department of Surgery will cost four hundred thousand dollars students will work between this great department and the municipal Hospital Center across the way fine relationship will exist between these two forces engaged in learning healing and curing. While the wonders of surgery are well known to us we are not as fully familiar with preventive and environmental medicine which will share adjacent space on the same flaw and will require a half a million dollar outlay we're all familiar with the old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And every dollar contributed to this great department will pay dividends by the hundred fold we have sent to the eighth law we are still climbing a modern edifice in miniature we realize as we go along that this model and plywood is a picture of the shape of things to come we stand very close to reality we have presented with great and significant opportunities we're privileged to take a pot and have been into the taking on this floor we observed two more spacious wings spreading out to capture a prominent part of the New College of Medicine here is a department of path ology which will cost half a million dollars this science treat small but conditions searching for their causes and. Alongside is the Department of Medical Research to cost an equal sum of money and it was had to say that an important new medical discoveries will not someday emanate from the medical research department located here now we move up to the ninth law we are approaching the top there is just one more awful lot to be constructive. Through a window we catch a glimpse of greater territory on the outside the new clean flaws the modern facilities move into focus here on the ninth floor of the department of pediatric research along with a beautiful play decked for recreation purposes the plan for this section looks attractive and interesting the total cost will be half a million dollars generous donors would certainly like to contribute to this wing of the College of Medicine our tour is approaching a climax we're climbing slowly to the tenth floor above us is the final ceiling the main section of this floor is a department called the animal Institute and rests on the top floor of the College of Medicine and will cost three hundred fifty thousand dollars it is set aside to study and research and is a vital adjunct of the institution run away out of the college now. Too or is almost over we stop only briefly on the ninth floor to see why rest surgery the villian has to be added and an outlay of a hundred thousand dollars Next up three lecture hall. Each costing one hundred thousand dollars on the way towards the ground we look at each ball that beautifully constructed at the most modern design. It was a lecture hall on the eighth flaw another on the six law and the last one on the fall we're back now on the second flaw we must know they got to take a quick peek in the huge modern quarter of a million dollar auditorium which will accommodate seven hundred fifty students and faculty members. It's a billion. It's departments together with all its appointments this will cost a total of ten million dollars The College of Medicine is the initial stage of the medical center which will call for a total outlay of twenty five million dollars This is our aim and is well worth our simple well. Now we're back on the ground we look about us and observe with pride the lovely landscape terraces the trees the shrubbery close by stands a beautiful modern College of Medicine a symbol of the present a landmark of the future. We can be well proud of this we can be proud of the part we play in building this medical college but small This building will serve as a permanent symbol of our faith in the future of mankind this now is merely a dream but it's the kind of dream that you and I working together can someday bring to life. You might write. One Mr Reynolds that. Thank you gentleman may I introduce a gentleman Mr Reynolds thank you. I'm sure that no amount of appreciation can be expressed which would be adequate to tell Flaten how we admired his work and how much we enjoyed. Thank you and as for that beautiful model Thank you heard me earlier in the evening thank you Max fine far as imagination energy. And work in getting it done you now understand what I meant Thank you Max Factor thank you are and it's exactly a small detail I forgot he contributed a great thank you because you're surprised you're surprised to see me up here again but the fact of the matter is that at cell of and actually some of you may have read in the paper that his daughter just became engaged and he had to leave to drive her to the airport to make California so we ask your forgiveness but he showed how sincerely he was behind this effort by turning himself away from his family at this particular time and coming here so I hope you will understand in the mean time to take over the gavel for the next part of the program I'm going to call on a man who has done a tremendous amount of work for this death that was largely instrumental in working with Mr fine on this beautiful replica behind us. He's a vice president of United Paramount Theater is an old time showman and I man with a real Jewish heart Mr Robert White thank you. I will follow the script so I'll wear glasses and as much as I pinch hitting at about six o'clock this evening I received a message from Ed Sullivan side you took my speech I read it it says Dear Bob because Betty and Bob that's the son in law to be leaving from midnight rather at midnight on the coast could I possibly tear away from the dinner about nine thirty and turn the rest of Toastmaster to you in other words I would make the opening talk introductions to the best I can graduate the attorney general and the rest of the folks I meet you at the hotel about six fifteen by which time we can thrash out all of the problems you know loving god. Ladies and gentleman it's a great pleasure for me to pinch hit for the call had about two days ago I discussed this project with aimed at his twenty second anniversary party and a fellow that will take time out to discuss a project of this nature and my book and your book deserves a great kudos and a great welcome and a great reception Thank you. Mr and Mrs General Goldstein I think they will minute another member of your family Lois the seventeen year old Goldstein recipe Thank you I too want to thank you Max you did a magnificent job you and your gang and also to Sally partake in the stagehands union and the lovely white uniforms of the water and I. Thank you now ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure and privilege to at this time to introduce a man. Whom there were many folks said yes then said no and so here he is ladies and gentlemen his honor them a. Vincent and teletype. Thank you. Thank you. Like the government. Talked about kind of Our guest of honor not Goldstein Stingaree status and gentlemen of the day yes ladies and gents after all it's going on here tonight with this perfectly wonderful physical demonstration of what the medical college will look like when completed I would say that it's rather tough for me to get up and have anything more. Than what you have already heard except one thing that you do not know is that this exit while it was planned by architects and assembled by others was also the idea of your national chairman not ghost. I do think at this time that one thing should be made clear to this audience. And that is when Lee College of Medicine was first project the people responsible for its projects where the best background. The history of medical schools throughout the United States of America including the very liberal city of New York came to certain conclusions and they set up for cardinal principles which state put up and right I'd like to read those four principles to you number one the medical center will be a non sectarian institution devoted to medical science as a contribution by American jury to the medical center where that separate and distinct of name well have a board of overseers. Of outstanding SEPIC and Camilo leaders representing all fakes three thanks to medical center will be national in scope and both faculty and students will be selected solely on the basis of scholarship and character regardless of race color creed or sex for the medical center will seek to serve humanity through a comprehensive scientific program and further the front tears of medical research and training those are the four principles that attracted my attention to the medical school of your Shiva university when I was first brought to my attention and I have been very active. And progressing the medical school of your Shiva University ever since those of us who know anything at all about the history of medical schools throughout the country including the city of New York know that it's been one of the most pathetic pictures that devoted fathers and mothers have experienced for a great number of years and for many cause what it cell of an said about nine medical schools strewn except that he didn't mean one medical schools here in the city of New York he meant nine medical schools in the entire state of New York and another thing that's very important to bear in mind is that when he talked about the total enrollment that did not give the correct picture either because the fact is that the very largest medical schools only take in annually and its in its first year first year class A total of not more than one hundred so that if you take all nine medical schools and lump and they get only nine hundred applicants throughout the entire stay can be admitted to a medical school for a first term student so you can a match they try man this crisis that develops in the hearts of thousands upon thousands of devoted fathers and mothers who have nursed an ambition for a bright boy or a bright girl who desired a medical education and. All too many of them have never never achieved remember this too and this applies to New York City as well as a great number of other large cities throughout the United States when these hundred new medical students are admitted every year the enrollment is not limited to students from the city of New York or from the state of New York and the hundred new students I told you about first some liked it from all over the United States so that sometimes and very frequently in a new class of one hundred in a medical school you will find that. A quota up to Sept for the city of New York another two from the state of Connecticut another two from California so they run total of one hundred what probably had met from the city of New York in that beginning place a total of about two or maybe three or maybe four and then I'm getting up into really high figures when I say fall so that there has been from man that's done my far a medical college here in the city of New York. You've heard the figures analyzed if you were told that I said I said get five the border regions hasn't been issued here in the city of New York for well over a century and a half that no new medical school has been built in the city of New York since I think ninety eight and that's true and the fact is that. Some large medical schools in the intervening years that once existed here in the city have actually closed down and when you figure the population of the city of New York in one thousand ninety eight and compare it with the population of the city of New York today then you can well realize all along that tremendously for a medical college such as the one of his project now I don't want to be an alarmist at all I'll try not to but the fact is that through this tremendous Shaviv our ambulances today have to go out on call without in terms that's pathetic it shouldn't be if we have more medical schools such as this that would not be in addition to that the armed forces have taken up the available supply to the large part of the available supply both of internes and resident physician so that all in all there's a tremendous need for a hospital such as this we want to try to get more of our young more of our deserving young players into a field where there is such a critical shot off some time ago when the trustees of U.C. of the university called upon me and I took it up with my colleagues around the Board of Estimate number of homework present this evening. The distinguished comptroller of the city of New York letters just a thank you thank you. Thank God for president of the Bronx Jim Why thank you. And the trustees of fever universe of the discussion with me the possibility of an affiliation with the new hospital that week for jacked it up and Bronx County to be known as the Bronx non-S. a full Hospital Center where they medical school if they wish to establish a new connection with you Shiva universe fit looks good to me it made sense to me fit because no medical school can mean anything at all unless it has the right kind of hospital affiliate every large medical school in our city has an affiliation with one of our large miniscule hospitals that goes for Carmel for Columbia from New York University and fought for all the others while I thought it was a good idea if my colleagues on the Board of Estimate thought it was a good idea so they authorize me to extend to the trustees of your Shiva University FIS affiliation with the new Bronx municipal Hospital Center which will cost they said this ins of the city of New York approximately thirty six million dollars by the time of its completion the figure the Clinton revenue Reynolds gave a fourteen million will probably be more like but in that new Bronx municipal Hospital Center the new medical college will have the very best. Hospital affiliate not only in the entire city of New York but throughout the end I did spite of armor. And when I say that. I meant to say and the entire world because. New York City is at play the medical center of the entire world that you mean if. By and by it's different face first it's well on its way the matter of fact. May seem. Like the. First of that you and if the second phase. But it was already out for the first play we'll be ready for occupancy we hope and early nineteenth fifty three when. The city opens that first phase early in one thousand fifty three Dr Phelps can. We expect and hope that the Medical College obvious fever universe will be ready to staff that first phase of the. Ladies and gentlemen. Have already taken up a lot of her time but it's something that I think this serves your attention because it's something that's been needed for a long long time the last time that I spoke and be happy with this medical school. We had a little fund raising party over and just a little family gathering. I spoke extemporaneously and some of the people liked what I had to say and that night one person in the audience like that so much that he contributed that night a check in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars it was very nice I know that there's people in this audience tonight that will make contributions to this medical college I know that they're going to do it and some of them might do it tonight some of them might put it off until tomorrow or a week from them or but the only thing that's holding up the progressing of the full plans for this college is your voluntary contribution knowing the people of my city I know that this college will be erected because we have the type of citizen in the city of New York that believes in his community and this is a sensually a community project you know if I are wearing your place and I intended to make a contribution I wouldn't put it off until a moron I do it right tonight. And I and I do it tonight for a very sentimental reasons I wouldn't do it for him that Goldstein He's only the national chairman I wouldn't do it for his wife she's a beautiful woman very wonderful mother. But I do it tonight because of that very beautiful lady who stood up just a short time ago the mother of the attorney general seventy seven years of a. The be just come at him how happy she would be if tonight many of you people unless it's my couch your checks and. I'm sure that's one of the probably that's what I'd like to have you do not I'm not going to say a thing about you all I can say to you is that this college has my whole heart it fought it will continue to receive my whole heart of thought and may I hope for you your committee and for the college Sperry successful campaign. We have one more event on our program and our next speaker I have known many years in fact you probably know me when I didn't know him I was too young to know but in a life time spent in community service of every philanthropic nature and addition to which an urge for fabric service took him into public office with such a background he is now the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university and it was his vision and courage together with his trustees which launched this great project I have the honor to introduce the honorable Samuel Levy. Mr Chairman Fabian our friend our benefactor our Mr Mayor. Mr Lieutenant Governor Mr control of the state of New York the mystical fellow of the city of New York. And my own power. On the Board of Estimate and the portion the president of the power of the Jim Lyons. Honored guest and guest of honor ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasant duty as chairman of the Board of Trustees of your Surely you want to personally to greet you all as friends and benefactors of our great cause it is not necessary for me at this time to speak in further praise I have the distinguished guest of honor Attorney General Nathan the Faneuil Goldstein for prior to this banquet at the most impressive convocation he was inducted as the recipient of an honorary degree into the honorary alumni University Mr Attorney General you have won many honors in the course of your distinguished public career you have been thrice elected as the attorney general of the Empire State but you will agree that your new honor as MASH as doctor of law of your shaver University of forgery you the deepest personal gratification and remember you didn't have to run for this office. But the significance of this occasion it seems to me is threefold in character first it affords an opportunity to pay tribute to one whole supremely deserved. Second it advances the cause and contribution to the establishment of the issue of a University Medical School but above all it brings us nearer and cement our association with the first and foremost university under Jewish auspices in this land it is impractical at this time for me to give an adequate evaluation of this institution There are however a few thoughts that should be expressed. Like all great and all universities of America you know Shiva university to came into being under religious sponsorship it is to the everlasting glory of our institution that it hopes to remain ever faithful to the religious Arjun's and purpose there are many schools of learning in this land there are even a great number of medical schools that serve the needs of the American people this however is the first that represents the contribution of the Jews of America to all citizens of America that implies a great responsibility it must be the best it must be the finest it much scientifically be the Sounders and medically the most advanced school of learning on this continent Second it must be a school that in the constituency of each student body and in the composition of its professed purpose or your own staff must reflect the principles of American democracy and the ideals of Judaism throughout the ages. Marriage shall be the sole condition for admission to this school medical eminence shall be the sole criteria for appointment to the professional staff school neither race nor power nor creed nor National Arjun nor financial position shall ever be the keys by which admission shall be game this my friends is just what I mean when I say the principles of American democracy and the ideals of Judaism finally the medical school was not born in a vacuum it was not conceived by chance it is the result of painful planning and dedicated service by an entire generation of American Jews our founders laid the foundation for a great citadel of comprehensive learning we their children. Reared the walls and raise the pillars of this temple of knowledge now all of us together a wrecking the capital which is the crowning glory of the first medical school and the Jewish auspices Let us then be grateful to know who labored to make this possible let us rejoice in our share in it and let us proudly and patriotically proclaim that this institution is to be wrecked it. Up Judaism and the glory of America thanks. Ladies and gentlemen we have come to the close of our program and one of the most pleasant highlights I have known that Goldstein many of you in the room have known him for a long time worked together with him and community projects watched his great progress in the office of the state and the state office he handled has seen the amount of victories he has won in the Supreme Court and in other places only recently he want to very big one this week all of these things he has accomplished yet he has kept that simplicity of character that simplicity that easy to get along with attitude and I am proud to know that I'm going to say to you that this outpouring of your friends as I said before is for two purposes it was by the purpose of supporting this worthy cause but also every man and woman in this room was here also to pay you want and I now ask you to step up and take the microphone. Nescafe B.M. distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen and friends all at either mastery of it I must on a. On a scale of assessor out. Believe me I could not but I thank you and or say I love you off the bottom of my heart Yep and gracious you have been generous yet been fine you have been nice tonight you know what messed up my life and a great school like shall sav it's a lasting memorial in the show American tradition. A nonsectarian College of Medicine and we are conceiving as all part of a contribution by American Jewry to our place and land America we here tonight dedicated like consecrated a living example of what can be done if we want to and I say to you know they are always late but as the curtain falls upon this era we all of us here Jeff left a lasting imprint upon the fabric of America one which neither time nor tide can erase as long as free man stalked us. That's a something which comes once in a lifetime as one single capital investment you'll make it once every death it ends for ever we shall leave on the pages of history another great event and we shall say when the time is up another mission accomplished and I say to you all thank you all from the bottom of my heart to you know sign my best for this great honor to Dr Balloch and Mr Levy his fellow members aboard for having Invision of great dream which now becomes a reality Let us make this your college in my college but as far as I remember that this is a heritage spot to morrow thank you ever so much. Ladies and gentlemen that was a sincere talk right from the bottom of next heart. Would you please rise for the Benedict benediction by Rabbi Jones reflects the. May I make an announcement Rabbi before the benediction I got home everything was found police come to their side door to identify a part of me rather. Than have extreme detail like a. Gentle ladies and gentlemen we have heard so much all evening about the great president of this school man who greatly responsible for the inspiration and courage to go forward I would like to ask Dr balcony to take a bow. Rather. The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord causes face to shine upon you and be gracious to you a large lift up the light of his countenance and to you and give you how a blessing the land and all the world everlasting peace. The evening is a very. Beautiful.