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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 4, folder \"1/24/75 - Farewell Party for\nSandy Fox\" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald R. Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nSome items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted\nmaterials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials.\nDigitized from Box 4 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nJan. 24, 1975\nOfficial White House Photo\nby Karl Schumacher\nFOR RELEASE AFTER 7.P.M. FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1975\nA2915-11a First Lady Betty Ford, Sanford Fox and past\nand present press and social secretaries to the First Lady.\nThe occasion was a party for Fox, who retired after 32\nyears of government service, 16 as chief of the White House\nSocial Entertainments office. L. to r., Mrs. Lucy Winchester,\nsocial secretary to Mrs. Nixon; Mrs. Liz Carpenter.\npress secretary to Mrs. Johnson; Mrs. Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld,\npress secretary to Mrs. Ford; Mrs. Mary Jane McCaffree,\npress secretary to Mrs. Eisenhower; Connie Stuart, staff\ndirector and press secretary to Mrs. Nixon; First Lady\nBetty Ford; Helen Smith, press secretary to Mrs. Nixon;\nSanford Fox; Mrs. Bess Abell, social secretary to Mrs.\nJohnson; Miss Reathel Odum, social secretary to Mrs. Eisenhower;\nand Nancy Lammerding, social secretary to Mrs. Ford.\nMR. FOX\nHER MAJESTY\nTHE QUEEN OF ENGLAND\nMRS. FORD\nHIS MAJESTY\nTHE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF TH\nOPLES' REPUBLIC OF\nHER MAJESTY\nTHE QUEEN OF THE\nETHERLANDS\nMADAME BREZHNEV\nTHE PRESIDENT\nPOPE XXIII\nHIS PAUL INESS\nMRS. FOX\nsandis minr 79\n4:20\nmorgrtan wva\nby mess him Terribly farms\nev one got to M past adm may\ntoo yng retire, Fox\nfrom beaut gold clock in Eberly\nPt t for glass case ATMOS\nclock -\nbe oil pant by the # eet\nto keep busy dur\nof deterent'\nSF- thanked\nspec win th X of\nTo Sanf ( Fox 9\"x7\" 7\"\nEd Savage\nTHE\nSH\nDec from 31 your 974 friends The WH w\nYT23TAM янн\n18EM\nPost\nOb\n\" ood dominion news\"\nTHE\n(304) 292 6301\nCHIXV\nThe following will enter the East Entrance Friday, January 24, 1975 at 3:00 p.m. of\nand go to the Family Theater to attend the retirement party for Sanford L. Fox\nAlril, Sowel Entertainments offer\nAbell, Mrs. Bess Johnson\nSpencer, Mr. Leon -\nArmentrout, Mr. Russell H.\nskiff Direchs\nSands, Former Aist\nStuart, Mrs. Constance\nfor Mr. Nixa\nSzego, Mr. Paul\nBakos, Mr. Joseph\nBaldridge, Miss Letitia hunned\nWallace, Mr. Robert - Engranes\nBehn, Mr. Gerald (Pus, deki\nWest, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.- forme head\nBisgood, Mr. William\nWilcox, Mr. Robert K.\nusher\nBoland, Mrs. Myra J. hand letterer\nx\nVinchester, Mrs. Lucy.\nBoring, Mr. Floyd Secret service\nWong, Mr. Alfred SS\nBreeden, Mr. Robert\nWorley, Mr. Robert Govt\nCarpenter, Mrs. Elizabeth x Dohnson\nCrump, Mr. Donald\nDempsher, Miss Eve form Secrit Service\nDelobois, Mrs. Susan\nDuckett, Mrs. Harriet\nFelver, Mr. Edward\nFisher, Mr. James J.\nWH\nFox, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford L. X 1959\nSul Roosevelt detailed 143\nFox, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Son\nGodfrey, Mr. Arthur ss upnow\nHarpham, Mr. Dale Former Div. of Marine Orchesting\nHenry, Mr. Paul Former Accting office.\nHopkins, Mr. William J. Executive Clerk-\nVHudson, Mr. Frank\nJordan, Mr. A. Deck\nKeehh, Kaisley, Mr. Mrs. Hugh Barbara - wahed with Bess Abel\nKelley, Mr. Thomas\nKelly, Mr. Matthew\nKetchum, Mr. James R.\nfarmer WH curatos\nKing, Mr. David\nKing, Mrs. Gwen\nKnudsen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Former photographer - receive left\nLudlam, Mr. William\nPrep\nMcCaffree, Mrs. Mary Jane Mr Eisenhmen Social Service\nMcKendry, Mr. Robert - govt pnuhip o this\nMickelson, Mr. Morris framers\nMickelson, Mr. Sidney\nNichols, Miss Louise - Protocel office at state -\nwhiched Liz\nOdum, Miss Reathel - worked with Bess Truman's social secy\nPainę, Mr. Howard -\nPaskus, Mrs. Mary Kay\nPayne, Mr. James\nRaff, Mr. Alton\nSERVICE\nRuwe, Mr. Nicholas - Protocel\nScriven, Mrs. Grace protocel at state\nSeay, Mr. Charles\nShea, Mr. Daniel\nSmith, Mrs. Helen McC. Nixon\nhelped ant off and on when a calipraphs\nwas necessary.\nNY\"d so wish thes d old be w you\nTish spoke\ntoday on very\nspecial occasion d kno\nJ. Onasses pent teleg\nhow much will\nhow much you will he\nmissed at the WH, but\nwe missed\nhope your future\nspecial ones.\nyears will be \" very\ngave seating chart QE\non for it bf\n0\nFrom GF\nmad bresh\nleing\ns\ncertif of ment Service\n0\nOne hol\n\"for outst devot to duty\nduring 32 yrs of logal\nof pope pick\n+ competent service\nP/C\nto -che us Gou\"\nYesrs.\nSusan of at 3:45\n3\n\"There may be as many as eight such trips but not that many\nin the immediate future,\" Nessen said.\nHe said Ford wants to be in Washington during Congressional\nsessions.\nWhite House sources said the Atlanta trip probably would\nbe Feb. 3-4. Nessen said if Ford goes to Atlanta, he would\naddress a meeting of the Opportunities Industrial Corporation,\na black self-help group he has aided since before becoming\nPresident.\n---\nAtomic Bombs to Kill Cancer\nPalo Alto, Calif. (UPI) -- Cancer researchers at Stanford\nUniversity said today they had developed a radiation device\nthat would kill cancer cells with \"miniature nuclear explosions.\"\nDr. Henry Kaplan, a leading expert on Hodgkins disease,\nsaid the approach was \"absolutely unique\" and would produce\nlittle or no damage to nearby healthy organs or tissue.\nThe device is designed for use on cancers of the mouth and\nthroat, certain tumors of the brain and lungs and those which\npresently resist conventional radiation.\n-------------------------\nNew, Summary\nOld Timers Bid Fox Farewell\nJan.24,\nWashington (UPI) -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sent a 75\ntelegram and White House social secretaries and press secretaries\ndating back to the Truman era showed up Friday for Betty Ford's\nfarewell party for Sanford Fox, retiring chief of the Presi-\ndential Entertainment Office.\nMore than 100 persons who had known Fox through his White\nHouse years helped salute him on the occasion of his retirement\nafter 32 years in government.\nFox has had charge of the handlettering of White House\ninvitations and placecards at all of the State functions.\nIn her telegram, Mrs. Onassis said: \"I wish I could be with\nyou today on this very special occasion. I know how much you\nwill be missed at the White House. But I hope your future years\nwill be very special ones.\"\nMrs. Ford presented Fox with a certificate of meritorious\nservice from the President and a numbered oil painting.\n---\nFrank Wisner III, a State\nDepartment official here,\nsaid yesterday his mother\nwent to London to avoid\nTHE WASHINGTON POST\npublicity over the marriage.\nE2\nSaturday, Jan. 25, 1975\nA New Columnist\nR\nFormer White House aide\nPat Buchanan has found\nPersonalities\nhimself a job. Starting the\nfirst week in March he'll\nbe writing a column three\ntimes a week for both the\nSt. Louis Globe-Democrat\nFritchey,\nand the Special Features\nSyndicate of the New York\nTimes News Service.\nBuchanan will report out\n.Wisner\nof Washington on \"the en-\ntire spectrum of human\nfairs\" and matters national\nTo Wed\nand international, according\nto a spokesman for the\nGlobe-Democrat.\nFestive Farewell\nSyndicated columnist Clay-\nSanford L Fox, the White\nton Fritchey and prominent\nHouse calligrapher who has\nGeorgetown hostess Mary\nhad a hand in presidential in-\n\"Polly\" Wisner expect to be\nvitations since the days of\nmarried today in a quiet cer-\nFDR, was honored at à fare-\nemony in London.\nwell retirement party yester-\nFritchey, a onetime White\nday. Ending 32 years of gov.\nHouse aide during the Tru-\nernment service, Fox was\nman administration, Assist-\nchief of the social entertain-\nant Secretary of Defense un-\nments office at the White\nder George C. Marshall, for-\nHouse.\nmer deputy chairman of the\nFirst Lady Betty Ford and\nDemocratic National Com-\nher daughter, Susan, were\nmittee and presidential cam-\namong the 100 guests in the\npaign aide to the late Adlai\nWhite House theater where\nStevenson, now writes a col-\nthere were special gifts for\numn syndicated by the Los\nFox and a certificate of meri-\nAngeles Times.\ntorious service from President\nMrs. Wisner, whose late\nFord.\nhusband, Frank. Wisner, was\nLetitia Baldridge, White\nfor many years one of the\nHouse social secretary in the\nleading figures in the Central\nKennedy administration,\nIntelligence Agency, has\nbrought a special message\nthree sons and.a daughter,\nfrom Jacqueline Kennedy\nOnassis.\nFrom staff reports and news dispatches\nTHE WASHINGTON POST\nKEEPING POSTED.\nG 10\nSunday, Feb. 2,1975\nA Polar. Visit With Steak and Lobster\nBy Dorothy McCardle\nhome as a great conversation piece-\nwill be here for the March 9 benefit.\nand dust catcher.\nthe Kennedy Center to raise funds for\nMrs. Paul A. Siple of Arlington,\nNow, Mrs. Siple, who works in the\nSpecial Olympics Inc., an athletic pro-\nwidow of the Antarctic explorer and\nlibrary of the National Geographic So-\ncram of training for the retarded.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nwashington\nJanuary 27th\nPatti,\nSandy Fox called. His\ndaughter and son-in- law,\nDebby and Henry Edwards,\nhad flown in from atlanta\nto attend his WH party.\nThey were not mentioned in\nany releases and he was\nwondering if you could do\nanything about letting the\natlasta papers know.\nNancy\nSEAL FORD\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\nThe item described below has been transferred from this file to:\nAudiovisual Unit\nBook Collection\nFord Museum in Grand Rapids\nItem: Black? White Photos of Sanford Fox's retirement party 1/24/75\nwhite House\nPhotos: A2915-27A ($(copries)\nA2915-11A (1copy)\nA2915-03A (6 copies)\nA2915-16A (4 copies)\nA2915-22A (4copies)\nA2915-17A (4 copies)\nThe item was transferred from: Weidenfeld Bn 4\n1/24/75 Sanford Fox Farewell\nInitials/Date let 2/86"
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