Spesard L. Holland
U.S. Senator Spessard Lindsey Holland- a man of courage, stubbornness and integrity.
Courage... of the kind that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I....
that twice stopped lynch mobs at the jail door.... that enabled him to stand queitly on the floor of the Florida Senate while bystanders quelled a fellow legislator who had struck Holland with his cane, and threatened to kill him.
Stubbornness... of the kind that kept him working for 13 years and finally succeeding- to get through Congress a Constitutional amendment to outlaw the poll tax... that made him a leader in preserving the right to conduct a filibuster, the device that gives the minority a loud enough voice to be heard in the Senate.
Integrity... of the kind that keeps him true to his principles, regardless of how the tides of fickle publix favor may run... that brings him home after 24 years in Washington no wealthier than the day he was elected.
In more than 50 years of public service. Spessard Holland has been showered with almost every honor a man could receive, from his medal for bravery as an aerial observer over the German lines in 1918, to eight honorary college degrees. Yet he still is modest, unassuming, quick to give credit to others.
Tampa Tribue Editor James A. Clendinen, presenting a plaque from the Florida Press Association, summed it all up by saying: "This a remarkable man we honor here."
This is U.S. Senartor Spessard L. Holland- a man of courage, stubbornness and integrity- a man as loved by his homefold today as when he returned a hero from war.
By Loyal Frisbie
Editor & Publisher
POLK COUNTY DEMOCRAT
PROGRAM
Master of Ceremonis
P. Scott Linder
6:30 p.m. RECEPTION AND DINNER
8:00 PRESENTATION OF COLORS by the United States Naval Training Center Color Guard
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
INVOCATION- Reverend Lee R. Van Sickle
WELCOME- Ben Hill Griffin, Jr.
INTRODUCTIONS - P. Scott Linder
PRESENTATIONS- W. H. Stuart
INTRODUCTION OF SENATOR CHILES by Ben Hill Griffin, Jr.
INTRODUCTION OF SENATOR HOLLAND by Senator Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
RESPONSE by Senator Holland
9:15 ADJOURNMENT
Music by United States Naval Training Center Band from Orlando and the K-Powell Five.
SPONOSRED by
Polk Association of Chambers of Commerce
SPONSORING COMMITTEE
Ben Hill Griffin, Jr.
General Chairman
James C. Byrd,
Vice Chairman
Isaac F. Albritton
Hugh B. Alexander
J. Everett Allen
Jere W. Annis, M.D.
Dickwin D. Armstrong
W.S. Badcock, Sr.
Sam A. Banks
Richard K. Barton
Jack M. Berry
Loren T. Bice
Gen. A.H. Blandin
U.S.A.- Retired
Walker E. Blound, Jr.
Fred J. Bohde
E.A. Bosarge
Guy Bostick
C.A. Boswell, Sr.
Rev. Carl Brewington
Thomas O. Brown
Mayme S. Burdin
Thomas W. Bryany
Sam J. Clark, M.D.
Paul F. Collins
Walter Coleman
James L. Cox
John Dillin
L.W. Dunson
Julian C. Durrance
W. Ralph Durrance
Robert Eastman
Marshall Edwards
A. Tillis Edwards, Jr.
Richard E. Ehlis
Robert P. Evans
Bill Francisco
H. H. Fulton
Capt. R. T. Gallemore
U.S.N.- Retired
Clyde Gibson
Albert Griffin
Eugene F. Griffin, Sr.
Joseph E. Griffin
Stapleton D. Gooch, Jr.
William R. Gooch
W. Buford Gum
Willard V. Hallam
George W. Harris, Jr.
R. C. Hatton
C.A. Haupert
Horace F. Herndon
Betty B. Hicks
William M. Hollis
Homer E. Hooks
Bolivar F. Hyde, Jr.
George W. Jenkins
E. E. Kelley
D. B. Kibler, Jr.
Kacl A. Kider
Richard H. Langford
Richard C. Lewis
P. Scott Linder
E. Snow Martin, Sr.
Ernest C. McClurg
John H. Miller, M.D.
W. B. Mitchell
George P. Moore
Bob Paul
J. Hardin Peterson, Sr.
Roy Perdue
Dick Pope
Dudle A. Putnam
Willard E. Roe
Robert W. Rutledge
William E. Rynerson
Joe L. Sharit, Jr.
James W. Sikes
Harvey B. Snively, Jr.
Thomas V. Snively, Sr.
Kingswood Sprott
Jere L. Strambaugh, Sr.
Jack Staughn
J.K. Stuart
W. H. Stuart
Tom B. Swann
Edward A. Taylor
Charles T. Thrift, PHD.
Charles M. Tillman
Rev. Robery Updegraff
A. R. Updike, Jr.
John C. Updike
David H. Varn, Sr.
James M. Wellman
E. Meade Wilson
A. C. Wright, Sr.
John C. Yost
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