Mrs. Richard Hart has been named chairperson, and Mrs. Horace Busch is serving as co-chairperson of the 1974 Medal of Valor awards ceremonies to be sponsored this year, for the first time, by the Women’s Crusade Against Crime.
The Medal of Valor was sponsored for five years by the Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis before its dissolvement into the Regional Commerce and Growth Association a year ago. The St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association named the Women’s Crusade to carry on this civic program.
Mrs. Richard Hart reported, for the first time, a citizen or citizens will also be presented a Medal of Valor award according to guidelines sent area police officials and based on the performance of a heroic act “Within lawful conduct and primarily motivated by an instinctive concern for the safety of a police officer, or prevention of a crime.”
Beribboned medallions will be presented to a yet undetermined number of police officers, in the rotunda of the Old Courthouse, Wednesday, October 23, 1974. These awards represent “beyond the call of duty” performances by police officers throughout the metropolitan area.
Serving as judges of the twenty eight 1974 Medal of Valor nominees are Harold Thayer, chairman of the board, Mallinkrodt Chemical Works, and president of the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association; Judge Joseph Simeone of the Missouri Court of Appeals; Clyde Cahill, director of Legal Aid Society; Delmar Valine, Sr., vice-president, First National Bank of East St. Louis; and Mrs. James S. McClellan and Mrs. Ann Slaughter, co-chairperson of the Women’s Crusade.
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Suzanne Hart, Chairperson; Anna Busch, Co-Chairperson. Photo by Stu West. The Paper, October 1974, printed page 6 (PDF page 7).
Originally published in The Paper, October 1974.
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