Part 24 (2/2)

1917: Member of National Y M C A War Work Council

1917: State chairman for Pennsylvania of Y M C A War Work Council

1918: Member of Executive Committee and chairman of Publicity Committee, Philadelphia War Chest

1918: Chair Committee

1918: State chairn

1918: August-Noveuest of the British Government

1918: September 22: Relinquished editorshi+p of _The Ladies'

Ho thirty years of service

1920: September 20: Upon the 50th anniversary of arrival in the United States, published _The Americanization of Edward Bok_

1921: May 30: Awarded the one thousand dollar Joseph Pulitzer Prize for _The Americanization of Edward Bok_

THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSONAL PLEASURE

I cannot close this record of a boy's developest the sense of deep personal pleasure which I feel that the ie of this book should be that of the publishi+ng house which, thirty-six years ago, I entered as stenographer It was there I received my start; it was there I laid the foundation of that future career then so hidden fro an friendshi+ps which have grown closer with each passing year And one ofall the thirty-one years which have followed ood fortune to hold the friendshi+p, and, as I have been led to believe, the respect of my former employers That they should now beives ratification difficult of expression

Edward W Bok