Evening star., 1955-02-22
Freedoms Foundation Awards
Billy Graham Special Honors

Freedoms Foundation awarded
special honors today to Evan
gelist Billy Graham and to st.
Johns University of Brooklyn
for outstanding contributions in
1854 to the American way of life.
It also honored a number of
individuals and organizations in
Washington and neighboring
areas.
One of three top awards in
the general category went to the
All = American Conference to
Combat Communism, 1924
street NV. The conference rep
resents SIS member organizations.
The award as bestowed for the
conferences Know Your Amer
ica Week program.
Vincent Godfrey Burns of An
napolis won the top honor given
for public addresses with a
speech on "The Four Funda-
mentals of American Idealism. -
$1,000 Prize Awards.
The All-Amerioan Conference
and Mr.. Burns were each given
$1,000 and an encased George
Washington Honor Medal.
The top award for 49,
milimeter movies, an encased
George Washington medal, went
to the United States Chamber of
Commerce for d film, Its Every
body's Business"
In the general category, a
second-place award, $50 and a
medal, was won by DR.. Honore
M. Catudal, who produces the
daily feature. "Our Presidents. +"
for The Star. DR.. Catudal is an
adviser in the State Depart.
ment's Trade Agreements and
Treaties Division.
Freedoms Foundation an
nounced the 1854 awards, BAL
in all. at Washington's Birthday
ceremonies at historic Valley
Forge. Clifford F. Hood, presi-
dent of the United States Steel
Corp, handed out the awards
to the top Is winners and dis
tributed $4,000 in cash prizes.
All told, the foundation will pay
$31 900 to the 1854 winners, be-
sides honoring 191 high schools.
The special awards to Billy
Graham and st. Johns Uni
versity carry with them $1,000
and medals.
Graham's Citation.
Mr.. Graham was cited for
"his application of clear strength
in the Lords work and his dis
cernment of the ways to live
in Christian dignity in times
that have bewildered so many of
eminence."
st. Johns University was hon
ored for a faculty-Written book
called Concepts of Freedom. ~
which the foundations awards
jury. headed by DR. George D.
Humphrey. president of the Uni
versity of Wyoming. said con-
tributes nightly to the knowl-
edge of men who study freedoms
hard and glorious path"
In addition to the ALL
American Conference to Combat
communism, other principal
awards of ST 900 each and med
ais in the general category went
to Hawaii Residents Association,
Inc. Honolulu, for its anti
communism program and to XII
wants International. Chicago for
its "Minutemen for American
ISM project, enlistjng 22G,000
Kiwanians to speak up for
Americanism."
Second-place awards in the
general category $50 each and
a medaD went also to the Cath
olic War Veterans of the United
States, Washington; the Good
will Industries of America. Inc i.
Washington; Maryland State
Teachers Association, Baltimore,
and the National Society. Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
Honor Medal Winners.
George Washington Honor
Medal Awards we're given in this
general category to these Wash
ington individuals and organiza- =
tions:
John Jay DAILY, for the booklet,
"Your U. S. A. VS.. Communism;
the Rev. Edward L. r. Elson, for
Americas Spiritual Recovery; !;
the National Education Associa-
ton, for it's American Education
Week observance; the Army's
Troop Information and Educa-
ton Division. for its pamphlet,
Troop Topics" and the United
States News and World Report,
for IFS reportinp on the strength