Mrs. Richard C. Hart and Judge Leah B. McCartney have been appointed cochairmen of the 8th annual Medal of Valor awards sponsored by The Women’s Crusade Against Crime to be held on Wednesday, October 6, 1976 at 4:00 P.M. in the Pavilion Theater of the Breckenridge Pavilion Inn in Downtown St. Louis.
The Medal of Valor is awarded both to Police officers and private citizens. The police awards recognize “heroic action beyond the call of normal police duty” and citizen winners are selected for a “heroic act within lawful conduct and primarily motivated by an instinctive concern for the safety of a police officer or the prevention of a crime,” according to Mrs. Hart.
Recommendations for the awards are being received from the 141 police departments in the metropolitan St. Louis area.
Mrs. Richard C. Hart is co-chairman of the Police Committee of The Women’s Crusade Against Crime and Judge Leah B. McCartney is a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Kinloch.
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Mrs. Richard C. Hart. The Paper, September 1976, page 1. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1976.
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