Dear Rabbi Lamm: As you will note from the contents of the enclosed materials, the National Day School movement is on the threshold of an hour of historic decision. At the forthcoming First National Planning Conference of Torah Umesorah, to be held please G-d, the weekend of May 22-24 at the Pine View Hotel in Fallsburg, New York, the ranking lay and professional leadership of the entire movement will convene to deliberate on ways and means of bringing the national strength of the movement to bear on the resolution of its material and spiritual problems. Our Program Committee is agreed that you are one of a highly select group of leading personages in the American Torah community whose contribution to the forthcoming Conference would be of outstanding significance. May we, therefore, in the name of Torah Umesorah, invite you to deliver the sermon Shabbos morning May 23rd. Since that Shabbos is Parshat Naso, we have announced the sermon theme as: "And They Shall Put My Name Upon the Children of Israel," but this is by no means intended to restrict you.To help place your specific assignment in proper perspective, we are enclosing an outline of the program highlights.We earnestly look forward to an early, affirmative reply to this invitation - the sooner the better, as we are now preparing the full program for the printer.With all good wishes and Torah greetings, we areCo-chairmanSincerelyReuben E.Chairmanyours,Gross

Dear Father Crehan: I was enormously delighted by your letter. I did not know that in this busy city of ours there was anyone left with his humor intact! The Tradition magazine was sent to you at my request, but the solicitation for a subscription was automatic and certainly not by my request. Please, therefore, do not consider the tragic choice between Life and Tradition. My colleagues tell me that Tradition should reinforce Life and not supplant it... All best wishes. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm