Memo: Gold Seal Request from Betty Meyer
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- c021_001_001_019_tr
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- c021_001_001_019_tr
- Extent (Dublin Core)
- 2 pages
- File Name (Dublin Core)
- c021_001_001_019
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Memo: Gold Seal Request from Betty Meyer
- Description (Dublin Core)
- Dole writes congratulations letter to a man with disabilities for winning an award from his local Lions Club
- Date (Dublin Core)
- 1994-06-17
- Date Created (Dublin Core)
- 1994-06-17
- Congress (Dublin Core)
- 103rd (1993-1995)
- Topics (Dublin Core)
- See all items with this valueHodgkin's disease
- Policy Area (Curation)
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Creator (Dublin Core)
- Vachon, Alexander
- Record Type (Dublin Core)
- memorandum
- Names (Dublin Core)
- See all items with this valueDole, Robert J., 1923-2021
- Location representation (Dublin Core)
- Hurricane Deck (inhabited place)
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core)
- https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=54&q=
- Physical Location (Dublin Core)
- Collection 021, Box 1, Folder 1
- Institution (Dublin Core)
- Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Archival Collection (Dublin Core)
- Alec Vachon Papers, 1969-2006
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Date: June 17, 1994
To: Senator Dole
From: Alec Vachon
Re: Gold Seal Request from Betty Meyer
(End of Letterhead)
Attached is a GS for your approval. Betty Meyer requested this note of congratulation on behalf of the son of a colleague, who is receiving the highest award of his local Lions Club for his volunteer service. This young man (age 30) has also been disabled since age 12. He developed Hodgkin's Disease, and although cured, developed a heart condition from treatment. He is currently on SSI.
BOB DOLE
UNITED STATES SENATE
June 17, 1994
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Dear Rick,
Congratulations on receiving the Melvin Jones Award from the Hurricane Deck Lions Multiple District 26 for your volunteer service. In my view, there can be no higher honor than recognition by one's peers, and you should be very proud.
I also understand that you have had a disability since childhood. As you may know, I have a disability, too. So as someone who also knows disability from the inside out, I want to especially commend you. In the past, people with disabilities often have been the objects of volunteer efforts, rather than providers. But through your good works, you show how much people with disabilities can contribute as well.
Once again, I salute you. And please extend my very best wishes to the other members of the Hurricane Deck Lions.
Sincerely,
Bob Dole
Mr. Richard C. Vick, Jr.
Hurricane Deck Lions Multiple District 26
Hurricane Deck, Missouri
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