Exchange with Theodore Silverman about Providing Thoughts for R. Smith Testimonial Dinner (1967)
Dear Rabbi Lamm: We are honoring our Rabbi Harold P. Smith with a Chai Testimonial Dinner on Sunday, September 17, please G-d, in honor of his eighteen years of dedicated and very able leadership of our congregation. We would very much appreciate it if you would send either a telegram or a letter about your feelings concerning Rabbi Smith. Some will be read at the Testimonial Dinner on Sunday, and all will be included in a Golden Book which will be given to him as a permanent token of the great esteem in which he is held both by our congregation and by his colleagues all over the country. (It will be especially fitting for him to read while he travels to and from Israel, which we will make possible as our gift to him on that night). Please address your letters or telegrams as follows: Congregation Agudath Achim of South Shore Rabbi Smith Testimonial c/o Sherman House Clark and Randolph Chicago, Illinois. Your cooperation and friendship will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Theodore N. Silverman