Descriptive Summary

Sidney Hollander Collection, 1926-1972

MS 2044

Maryland Historical Society

Baltimore MD 21201-4674

8. Information on literary rights available in repository: YesX_, Do not know__.

9. Nature of acquisition (gift, permanent deposit, etc.), date(s) and source(s) of acquisition and former owner(s):

Mr. Sidney Hollander, Jr.

2501 Talbot Road

Baltimore, Maryland 21216

April, 1974

10. If this is, or was, part of another collection, state name and relationship:

11. DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT AND SCOPE OF THE COLLECTION.

This description should cover: types of papers (e.g., correspondence, letters, diaries, documents, etc.); dates, subjects, and types of groups of materials that bulk largest; relationship of the material to specific phases of the career or activity of the principal named in item 2; full names, dates, and biographical identification of other persons and names of corporate bodies significant (by quality and quantity of material) to the collection, showing dates, types, and subject matter; geographical areas covered; specific events, topics, and historical periods with which the materials deal; and particular items of extraordinary interest.

Sidney Hollander was a Baltimore (Md.) businessman (owner of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Company) who devoted most of his spare time and much of his retirement to volunteer work in the fields of social welfare and social reform. He served numerous private and public philanthropic organizations as an officer and board member and gained prominence on both the local and national welfare scenes. This large collection deals almost exclusively with his long career as a social activist and reformer - a career which spanned the years from 1938 to 1971 and which led Hollander to grapple with a wide variety of American social problems.

Section I (One folder in Box 1 of Section II) - Miscellaneous biographical material collected in part by Sidney Hollander, Jr. after the death of his father. This section includes copies of an article which was to appear in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, lists of positions held and awards received by Hollander, and a small amount of material gathered from the archives of the Council on Social Work Education and the National Conference of Social Work pertaining to Hollander's work with these organizations. Also included are Sidney Hollander, Jr.'s reminiscences about his father.

Section II (2 Boxes, 1932-1969) - This section consists of Hollander's formal addresses, acceptance speeches, prepared introductory remarks, and an interview conducted by WBAL-TV.

Section III (76 Boxes, c.1926-1972) - Alphabetically arranged correspondence file which includes those letters (both incoming and copies of outgoing ones) exchanged between Hollander and numerous individuals and organizations with which he worked. Hollander corresponded with representatives of the following social welfare or social action agencies: American Civil Liberties Union (Md., N.Y.), American Foundation for the Blind (N.Y.), American Friends Service Committee (Pa.), American Jewish Committee (Md., N.Y.), American Jewish Congress

(Md., N.Y.), American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (N.Y.), American Public Welfare Association (Ill.), Americans for Democratic Action (Md., District of Columbia),

Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

Baltimore City, Department of Social Services, Baltimore Fellowship, Baltimore Jewish Council, Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc., Baltimore Urban League, Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace (B.E.M.) (Md.), Catholic Interracial Council (N.Y.), Child Welfare League of America (N.Y.), Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty (District of Columbia), Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Baltimore, Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) (Md., N.Y.), Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations dealing with Employment Discrimination in War Industries (N.Y.) Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (N.Y.), Council on Social Work Education (N.Y.), Family Service Assocition of America (N.Y.), Fellowship Commission (Pa.), Graduate School for Jewish Social Work (N.Y.), Highlander Center (Tenn.), Interracial Music Council (N.Y.), Jewish Children's Society (Md.), Jewish Family and Children's Bureau (Md.), Jewish Labor Committee (Md., N.Y.), Large City Budgeting Conference [of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds] (N.Y.), League for Industrial Democracy (N.Y.), Maryland Conference of Social Concern, Maryland State Department of Employment and Social Services, National Assembly of National Health and Social Welfare Organizations (N.Y.), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.Y., Md.), National Budget and Consultation Committee (N.Y.), National Committee for the Day Care of Children (N.Y.), National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax (N.Y.), National Conference of Jewish Communal Service (N.Y.), National Conference on Social Welfare (Ohio), National Council of Senior Citizens (District of Columbia), National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (N.Y.), National Health and Welfare Retirement Association (N.Y.), National Public Relations Council of Health and Welfare Services (N.Y.), National Recreation Association (MD., N.Y.), National Refugee Service (N.Y.), National Urban League (N.Y.), Non-Sectarian Foundation for Refugee Children (N.Y.), Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland, Russian War Relief (Md.), Social Legislation Information Service (District of Columbia), Southern School for Workers (Va.), Training Bureau for Jewish Communal Service (N.Y.), Union for Democratic Action (District of Columbia, Md., N.Y.), Union of American Hebrew Congregations (N.Y.), United Community Defense Services (N.Y.), United HIAS Service (N.Y.), United Negro College Fund (Md., N.Y.), United Service for New Americans (N.Y.), United Service Organizations (Md., N.Y.), United States Committee for the Care of European Children (N.Y.), Wiltwyck School for Boys (N.Y.), Young Women's Christian Association - National Board (N.Y.), and the Zionist Organization of America (various offices).

Individuals with whom he corresponded include: Paul Baerwald (N.Y., b.1871), Jacob Blaustein (Md., 1892-1970), Isaiah Bowman (Md., 1878-1950), Alice Cope (Mrs. Oliver Cope; Mass.), Grace Coy (Mrs. Wayne Coy; D.C.), Mathilde Dreyfous (Mrs. George A. Dreyfous; La.), [Bert] H. Duschnes (N.Y.), Ludwig Edelstein (Md., N.Y., 1902-1965), Elton C. Fax (N.Y.), Eugene M. Feinblatt (Md.), Marie Louise Friedenwald (Md.), Elisabeth Gilman (Md., 1867-1950), Arnold Gurin (Mass., b.1917), Maurice B. Hexter (N.Y., b. 1891), Gustav Hirshman (Md.), Minna Hirschman (Mrs. Gustav; Md.), Jane M. Hoey (N.Y.), Donald B. Hurwitz (Pa.), Renée Hurwitz (Mrs.

Donald B. Hurwitz; Pa.), Albert David Hutzler (Md., 1888-1965), Agnes Inglis King (D.C., d.1975), Mary S. Ingraham (Mrs. Henry A.; N.Y., b.1887), Edward L. Israel (Md.), Marion E. Kenworty (N.Y.), Freda Kirchwey (N.Y., b. 1911), Lawrence S. Kubie (Md.), William Wallace Lanahan (Md.), Irving Levick (N.Y.), [Jack] L. Levin (Md.), Alexander Levy ([Md.]), Eleanor Levy (Mrs. Lester S. Levy; Md.), Lester S. Levy (Md.), James Edward Lewis (Md.), Carolyn Lisburger (Mrs. Sylvan J. Lisburger; Md.), Sylvan J. Lisburger (Calif., Md.), Joseph P. Leob (Calif.), Lillian A. Lottier (Md.), Solomon Lowenstein (N.Y., 1877-1940), Herbert Mallinson (Texas), [Betty] Mayersohn (Mrs. Stanley Mayersohn; N.Y.), Adelaide H. Mitchell (Mrs. Broadus Mitchell; Md., Conn.), Broadus Mitchell (Md., Calif., N.J., b.1892), Henry Monsky (Neb., 1890-1947), Carl Murphy (Md., d. 1967), Howard H. Murphy (Md.), Robert S. Nyburg (Md.), Sidney L. Nyburg (Md., 1880-1957), Herbert R. O'Conor (Md., 1896-1959), [Kate] Ostwald (Calif.), Clarence E. Pickett (Pa., 1884-1965), Justine Wise Polier (Mrs. Shad Polier; N.Y., b.1903), Bertha B. Proctor (Mrs. Wm. Proctor; Md.), Caroline Ramsay (Mrs. John B. Ramsay, Jr.; Md.), David Rosenstein (N.Y., 1895-1963), Else Rosenthal (Mrs. Leo Rosenthal; N.Y.), William Rosenwald (N.Y., b.1903), Jean Rubin (N.Y.), [Ben] Sadowski (Canada), Paul S. Sarbanes (Md., b.1933), Gloria Walinsky Schaffer (Conn., b.1930), Ernest Schwarz (D.C.), Gladys Secoles (N.Y.), Pauline Sherashefsky (Mrs. Leon Sherashefsky; D.C., Md.), Evelyn Sherwin (Mrs. Vernon Sherwin; Md.), Vernon Sherwin (Md.), Carlton R. Sickles (Md., b.1921), Abba Hillel Silver (Ohio, 1893-1963), Asbury Smith (Md.), Bessie C. Stern (Md., b.1880), Maurice Taylor (Pa., 1895-1955), Alvin Thalheimer (Md., 1894-1965) Norman Thomas (N.Y., 1884-1968), Joseph D. Tydings (Md., b.1928), Elinor Ulman (Md.), Joseph N. Ulman (Md., 1878-1943), Ilza Veith (Mrs. Hans Veith; Calif., b.1915), [Peggy] Waxter (Mrs. Thomas J. S. Waxter, Sr.; Md.), Thomas J. S. Waxter, Sr. (Md., d.1962), Joseph L. Willen (N.Y., b.1897), Pearl Willen (Mrs. Joseph Willen; N.Y.), Lawrence M. Williams (La.), and Stephen S. Wise (N.Y., 1874-1949).

Also included in this section is correspondence exchanged between Hollander and members of his family.

Section IV (3 Boxes and 1 vol., c.1938-1972) - This section consists mainly of receipts, membership cards, letters of acknowledgement, and invoices which pertain primarily to Hollander's charitable contributions and, infrequently, to personal business transactions. Also included are a few miscellaneous items relating to the estates of Sidney Hollander and Clara Drey Hollander and a ledger which records contributions made by Hollander during the period from 1957 to 1972.

Section V (1 Box, c.1960-1971) - This section consists of invoices, receipts, and other miscellaneous records of transactions between Sidney Hollander, his medical advisors, Maryland Blue Cross, Inc./ Maryland Blue Shield, Inc., and Medicare.

Section VI (3 Boxes, c.1951-1972) - This section is composed of some of the awards (REMOVED TO THE GRAPHICS DIVISION - SEE THE SIDNEY HOLLANDER GRAPHICS COLLECTION) and tributes received by Sidney Hollander. Included is a volume of letters of tribute presented to Hollander on the occasion of the joint celebration of his 70th birthday and the 20th anniversary of his association with the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Included also are two volumes of letters delivered to Hollander on his 90th birthday, some miscellaneous materials such as newspaper clippings and programs which pertain to the awards he received, and materials which commemorate the presentation of the Sidney Hollander Award to the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) in 1954.

Section VII (2 Boxes, 1938-1971) - The material in this section pertains to the holiday plans and travel arrangements made by Sidney Hollander along with Clara Drey Hollander and assorted members of the Hollander family.

Section VIII (1 Box, 1927-1972) - A collection of miscellany composed of passports and visas (1927-1972), Sidney Hollander's desk calendars (1953, 1954, 1956, 1962), christmas gift lists (1929-1970), a notebook recording personal expenses kept by Clara Drey Hollander, and a report card from the University of Wisconsin belonging to Emily D. Hollander (1939-1940).

Section IX (2 Boxes, 1972) - Letters of condolence and tribute sent to Mrs. Clara Hollander and the Hollander family upon the occasion of Sidney Hollander's death in 1972.

Sidney Hollander: A Biographical Sketch December 29, 1881 - February 23, 1972

My father was a big man, six feet two in his prime, and he weighed an athletic 200 pounds. His features were large and craggy. One of his acquaintances once remarked that he looked like “a fugitive from Mt. Rushmore”. His stature, his physiognomy, his erect bearing, his long stride and quick gait made him distinguished and unforgettable. His commanding presence stood out in any gathering and made it difficult for him to be denied. His success in obtaining the unobtainable in tickets, accommodations or objects which were not to be had was legendary.

In one respect his memorable appearance had a disadvantage; it overtaxed his unusually poor memory for names and faces. Throughout his life, and more so as he became a public figure, people he didn't recognize would greet him at any gathering or public place. Sometimes they had heard him speak or chair a meeting; sometimes, alas, they had been his house guests or dinner companions only a short time before. In later years he took refuge in a gag which sometimes charmed away the embarrassment: “I can't remember your name, but I forget your face”.

He was always a free thinker, a rebel and an iconoclast. In his high school, then as now referred to quaintly as “Baltimore City College”, he was one of eight year-book editors in the class of 1900 who were denied diplomas because they refused to submit their publication to faculty censorship. His own father, however, replaced a $50 Peabody Prize which he had won for scholarship but which had also been withheld by the authorities.

Details of this cause celebre would be revived at intervals in the local press, and was particularly featured on the occasion of the class's 50th reunion, when the school board, with straight-faced good will, presented diplomas to the survivors. In his later years, this led him to observe that he had no quarrel with the youthful

protesters of U.S. intervention in Indochina because he had made similar protest against the Spanish American War, which he recognized earlier than most as a Hearst-inspired adventure in jingoism.

His early reading and associations inevitably led him to champion the underdog and decry privilege, resulting in membership and eventually leadership roles in literally dozens of organizations. I was told after his death that he had been the first Jewish scoutmaster in Baltimore. And the eventual range of his interests spanned the political, cultural, philanthropic, humanitarian and denominational.

His religious upbringing was conventional for one of his German Jewish background; he went to Sabbath School and was bar mitzvah in a Reform Jewish synagogue. As a young man, he taught Sunday School. Believing organized religion a potential force for social justice, he infused his teaching with concern for the factory help and domestic servants employed by families of his well-to-do charges. This was considered too radical by their parents and he was dismissed. As a consequence, our family was never affiliated with any religious institution and there was no formal religious training or identification. Nevertheless, it is characteristic of both the man and of the secular aspects of Judaism that he became a leader in the local and national Jewish communities, holding such position as:

President of the Baltimore Jewish Council

President of the Baltimore Jewish Family & Childrens Society

Board member of the American Jewish Congress and President of its Baltimore Chapter

President of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds for seven years.

Indeed, he was instrumental in founding the last of these and helped set policy in its formative years. Although his statesmanship aroused ardent admiration among many whose Judaism was foremost, he was too much the humanitarian to be as parochial as they. He

enjoyed shocking the more doctrinaire Jews with reference to the family Christmas celebration, which was an elaborate affair with tree, stockings, presents piled ever higher as the clan grew to four generations, and a rhymefest in which foibles of family members were exposed with witty doggerel of varying quality.

As a member of the elitist German Jewish community, he resented and combatted prejudice against Jews of Eastern European origin and was instrumental in bringing the two groups together, locally and nationally, for community and philanthropic undertakings. At the same time he defied Jewish religious exclusionists with an ecumenical array of his descendants' spouses which included (besides both Orthodox and Reform Jews) Baptist, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopalean and Quaker, representing varying degrees of observance.

At the same time, he took great pride in Jewish achievement in cultural and intellectual pursuits as well as in its traditional support for racial reform and social justice. His leadership in national Jewish affairs inevitably made him an ardent champion of Israel, though without Zionist mystique, as a practical solution to the refugee problem. He was impressed with Israeli accomplishment but strongly opposed theocratic manifestations he observed on his trips to Israel.

My father had grown up in comfortable circumstances, but his own father was an occupational drifter and so the family fortunes were always uncertain, prosperous and impoverished by turns. As the oldest living son (an older brother died as a child) he felt responsibility for the family finances and throughout his life looked upon money as a source of security and a resource to permit him to do what he wanted to do -- especially in the field of social concerns. He was never interested in amassing a fortune for its own sake and once he had enough to make the family secure and to indulge his social reform interests, he lost interest in pushing or investing for the maximum.

Although the close friends of his youth were intellectuals and went into professions, when he finished high school in 1900 there was a business depression. His father and uncle had acquired a drug business, The Maryland Pharmaceutical Company, which they were unable either to sell or to operate. My father at age nineteen took over the operation of this business, attending pharmacy school at night, and by hard work kept it going.

The company was a general drug manufacturing business, making scores of products from laxatives and hair restorers to insect repellents and cough medicines. They would sell their line to drug stores under the Maryland Pharmaceutical name or, for those customers who would order a sufficient quantity, they would put the druggist's name on the products. Their market was mostly around Baltimore and in certain Southern cities.

My grandfather and his brother eventually worked for the business in one capacity or another, but my father was president. Around 1905 his brother Walter graduated from high school and joined the firm, proving to be a formidable salesman and promoter. The business ran afoul hard times in the panic of 1907 and was reorganized as the Hollander-Koshland Company (Koshland was the name of his maternal uncle, who had also joined the firm).

The Hollander-Koshland Company expanded its line by virtue of my father's pharmaceutical training, and its sales territory by virtue of his brother's salesmanship. By the end of World War I they were doing so well that my uncle had planned a daring move: to take a single product and advertise it heavily in a few cities, relying on generating consumer demand to pull it through the channels of distribution instead of on salesmanship to push it through. The product for this experiment was one of the company's dozen cough medicine products, one which my father had improved so that stores which bought the Hollander-Koshland line generally ordered more of this than any other product, and some which did not buy the line nevertheless bought this single

item. It was launched in Pittsburgh with an advertising campaign, a modern-looking flashy package, and a coined name: REM. After an unsuccessful season (I believe it was 1920-21) which left my father and the other investors discouraged, my uncle turned his salesmanship on his partners and convinced them to try for one more season which turned the tide as he predicted.

From there on, it was a question of how fast they could open new markets. By the mid-twenties, REM was being sold in all major cities of the north-east and mid-west. The firm also attempted to open markets in the south and west, but for some reason these never were successful. Although gross sales seldom reached as much as a million dollars a year, it was a profitable business and made both brothers wealthy. My father, particularly, was surprised to see that the business held up during the Great Depression of the thirties, when older firms operated by those he regarded as better businessmen did not, and it thus provided the security he had sought since childhood.

At the same time, the Depression intensified the social problems in which he had always been interested. Governor Albert C. Ritchie had appointed him in 1920 to the first of his successive terms on the Board of State Aid & Charities, which was making initial moves toward developing a public welfare system and which was later to become the State Department of Welfare. Here he began his intensive efforts to have public funds used for relief of the needy, setting himself as a foremost and sometimes single-handed champion against those who were more interested in conserving wealth and holding down tax rates. During these years he also served on the board of the local chamber of commerce and, not surprisingly, found himself a minority of one on many legislative issues.

He acknowledged later in life that the impersonal nature of his business permitted him to be an independent advocate because the people who bought his products had no way of connecting them with his political and sociological heresies. My mother once

observed that he had had only self discipline from childhood on, since he was largely ignored by his father and because he was his own employer by the time he was twenty. In any case, he lost interest in further expansion of his business as he moved further into these activities and became involved successively in more philanthropic and social action causes: first, those spawned by the misery of the Depression; then, as Hitler took over Germany, those involving Jewish refugees; then into a more professional role as he outlined a philosophy -- a virtual syllabus -- for the role of the board member of social agencies. In 1937, he gave a keynote address to the National Conference of Social Work: “CONFESSIONS OF A BOARD MEMBER” which launched him as a national figure. He became the first layman to be elected a vice-president of that body and he was in demand as a speaker all over the country, addressing one social agency group after another.

His speeches contain a number of recurrent themes that mark his philosophy as a social welfare advocate and as a human being:

• The interest and welfare of the client should not be submerged in the institutional pride of board members nor in the professional pride of social workers;

• Private social agencies, free to pick and choose their intake to fit their budgetary needs, should become partisan advocates of better public welfare standards for those rejected by private agencies and forced to depend on public funds;

• Jews, a minority subject to persecution through the ages, have a special obligation as humanitarians in a country like this where most of them have taken advantage of the freedom it affords to achieve material rewards above the average;

• Much of what makes people poor is beyond their control, but being poor denies many of them opportunity to improve their lot;

• We should regard the black, the poor, the old, the retarded, the helpless young, the victims of racial or religious persecution as human beings with human dignity, and our task is to give them opportunity, not shut them out of society.

One reason for his popularity as a speaker, as well as a board member, was his celebrated wit and humor. He was a raconteur who collected jokes and anecdotes and he used them not only to keep his audiences awake, but also to drive home points. Indeed, he sometimes confessed privately that what passed for humor was simply his desire to tell the truth so much more bluntly than people were used to hearing it.

The breadth of his interests and the extent of his involvement were endless. His memberships and subscriptions included such disparate groups as the Association of Railroad Passengers, the Appalachian Club, the Bach Society, the Children's Day Care movement, the museums of Modern Art and of Natural History, the Audubon Society, and innumerable do-good organizations in social service, social action, civil rights, civil liberties and many denominational groups, Jewish and otherwise. One never knew which of these would prompt his next letter of commendation or indignation, plea to his congressman, or elucidation at the next family gathering. He read stacks of literature related to his infinite interests and seemed to remember all he read. While most people regard non-confidence in a group as reason for staying away, he would join organizations to reform them, often getting elected to a board by sheer eloquence, superior knowledge and willingness. Once on the board, however, he worked relentlessly, slicing thru internecine obstacles. He had a gift for pursuit of the objective.

His first step up the social service ladder occurred when, through the persuasive common sense of his friend Louis Levin, the fractious German and Eastern Jewish charitable organizations merged into the Associated Jewish Charities. My father had been a board member of one of the two child care agencies, and Mr. Levin asked him to serve as president of the combined board. Surprised, he asked why he was singled out for this honor. According to legend, Mr. Levin replied solemnly, “Every other candidate we could think of was unacceptable to one faction or the other, but you are the only one who is unacceptable to both.”

By nature an activist, he worked as hard in pursuit of his own forms of recreation and cultural pursuits as he did in his civic and social reform interests. Indeed it was sometimes hard to tell where one left off and the other began, because his role was patron as much as connoisseur. He was passionately fond of music and subscribed to virtually all local concert series, often leaving a meeting in New York and going right from the train to the concert on his return. He also felt an obligation to subscribe to local theatre series. In all these he bought extra tickets and much of my parents' social life involved inviting guests to share dinner followed by an event. Again, this often meant a patronage relationship and many of the recipients were appropriately younger and/or less affluent professionals whose interests were shared -- social workers, academicians, journalists, artists. Sometimes recreation conformed to reform interest, as it did the year he was persuaded to buy, and sometimes to use, season football tickets for the local black college. Sometimes he used tickets to achieve social reform, as when he broke the color barrier at the Peabody Institute concerts by inviting black guests. There was said to be a rule against this, but no usher was likely to stop an imposing-looking group whose host was a long-time patron. Sometimes, too, he used his patronage position as a lever, as when he refused to renew his usual season subscription and joined an interracial picket line until the local theatre removed racial barriers. And sometimes he was the beneficiary of community recalcitrance, as when he and my mother were privileged to give a post-concert reception for Marian Anderson in their home because no local hotel would admit her.

Outdoors and nature were much a part of my parents' life. In their younger and less prosperous days, vacation consisted of camping out, much in the fashion of today's young but less commonplace then. At least once they paddled rented canoes the length of the C & O Canal, latterly celebrated by Justice Douglas, from Cumberland to Georgetown, in company with their close friends and neighbors, the Joseph Ulmans.

It was Judge Ulman, too, who initiated my parents into bird-watching and many spring Sunday mornings the two couples would go out before sun-up in pursuit of migratory warblers and other early arrivals. These four provided half the initials for an ill-fitting acronym HUSH (Stein & Hutzler were the other two) which designated four prominent families in sylvan Windsor Hills who customarily hiked together Sunday mornings and again in the afternoon. By tradition the morning walk was sacred to the eight adults, or perhaps as a concession a house guest would be tolerated. In the afternoon they welcomed children, dogs, dinner guests or others invited as intellectual companions, the whole stretched out over a block or more in conversational ganglia constituting a peripatetic soiree.

Similarly my parents' trips to Europe were spent less in cities and museums than with knapsacks in rustic mountain retreats, hiking ten to twenty Alpine miles a day until eventual reunion was achieved with their baggage a week or so later. And, in defiance or mortification of his early acrophobia, my father took up mountain climbing in middle life, punishing my mother as well as himself with strenuous and occasionally dangerous treks. They were also loyal members of the Trail Rides, horseback camping tours of the Canadian Rockies organized by the Canadian Pacific Railroad. His purpose in these wilderness expeditions was to retreat from the arduous organizational responsibilities but it is characteristic of the man that in his second or third year of this recreation he was elected President of the Trail Ride Association. We were told that in recognition of these services a lake was named after him; to the best of my memory it in Alberta.

As the foregoing makes clear, my father was a man of unusual stamina and energy. This was most remarkable in his later years. Even in his late eighties, up to the time that his terminal illness set in, he would walk faster than most people and would put in a long day.

I recall an incident that must have been when he was over eighty-five. He asked me to take him to the terminal for an 8:30 A.M. bus to New York. As he got out, he remarked breezily “If you want to call for me, I'll be back at four o'clock tomorrow morning.” I had no difficulty in resisting this invitation, but I learned later from an acquaintance that he had returned on the midnight bus from New York (there were no trains that late) and had indeed got in around four. The occasion had been a testimonial dinner for a friend, but it was not his style to invest a whole trip in that. I don't know what else he did in New York that day, but I suspect he dropped in at the offices of one or more of the social agencies he served as board member to make sure that the staff was carrying out his latest suggested project. He was never a passive or rubber-stamp board member.

Another instance took place when he was 88, if I recall. My office colleagues told me they had seen him on the local TV news. He went with a delegation to a hearing of the State Legislature to campaign against further budget cuts in welfare. Notwithstanding his age, he was selected as spokesman for the group simply because he was recognized as the best informed and most forceful speaker.

Although he had served on many kinds of social agencies throughout his life -- those interested in children, in travelers aid, in USO, in family service, he appeared so ageless that he was in his upper eighties before anyone thought to interest him in the problems of the aged and he was asked to serve on some activity having to do with problems of so-called senior citizens. I suspect that he was finally drawn into this field only because some one had found out he had a son who was then past age sixty!

SHjr

December 1981

SCOPE NOTE

The Sidney Hollander Foundation Records consist of ca. 1,500 items and span the period 1947 to 1964. The Foundation was established in December, 1941, as a sixtieth birthday gift from the children and children-in-law of the Baltimore humanitarian whose name it honors. No use was made of the funds until after World War II when it was agreed to present an annual award for “an outstanding contribution toward the achievement of equal rights and opportunities for Negroes in Maryland.” Each year a jury of interested Marylanders selected the recipient of the award, and, at its discretion, one or more honorable mentions. The trustees took no part in the selection beyond interpreting the criteria established for the award. After twelve years it was clear that the nominations themselves were a documentary of civil rights history in Baltimore. The Foundation's records were turned over to Baltimore Sun reporter, Edgar Jones, who wrote a history of desegregation in Baltimore, entitled, “Toward Equality; Baltimore's Progress Report.” This publication and its supplements are a part of the collection. Included also are the nominations for recipients of the annual award, correspondence, minutes of meetings, speeches of recipients, reports, invitations, programs, press releases and clippings. There are also phonograph and tape recordings of some of the annual presentation ceremonies.

In 1964 it was decided that the award was an anachronism - that the cause had been taken up by religious denominations, courts, legislative bodies and political party platforms. It was discontinued in that year.

2/1972

History of the awards

Minutes, 1947-1964

Board of Trustees

Correspondence, 1941-1963

Mailing list

1946 Award (Recipient: The Sunpapers of Baltimore)

Correspondence

Clippings

Speech

1947 Award (Recipient: Dr. William H. Lemmel, Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools)

Correspondence

Certificate to Hollander Foundation from the Afro-American, 1947

Invitations

1948 Award (No award presented)

Blank questionnaires

1949 Award (Recipient: Baltimore City Medical Society)

Correspondence, including nominations

Clippings

Invitations

Notes

Press release

Receipt

Speech

1950 Award (Recipient: Loyola College)

Correspondence

Blank questionnaires

Invitations

Program

1951 Award (Recipient: Robert Freedman, President of the Yellow Cab Co

Correspondence, including nominations

Blank questionnaires

Clippings

Invitations

List

Press releases

Speeches

Statement

1952 Award (Recipient: Hon. Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor of Maryland)

Correspondence, including nominations

Blank questionnaires

Press releases

Tickets

BOX 2

1953 Award (Recipient: Congress of Racial Equality)

Correspondence, including nominations

Clippings

Invitations

Lists

Photograph

Programs

Speech

1954 Award (Recipient: Dr. John H. Fischer, Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools)

Correspondence, including nominations

Blank questionnaires

Clippings

Invitations

Press book

1955 Award (Recipient: The Housing Authority of Baltimore City)

Correspondence, including nominations

Certificate

Clippings

Programs

Speeches

BOX 3

1956 Award (Recipient: The Northeast Baltimore Intergroup Council)

Correspondence, including nominations

Blank questionnaire

Certificates

Clippings

Invitations

Notes

Reports

1957 Award (Recipient: The Annapolis Chapter, Association of University Women)

Correspondence, including nominations)

Invitation

1958 Award (Recipient: Baltimore Y.W.C.A.)

Correspondence, including nominations

Clippings

Invitations

Press release

Reports

1959 Award (No award presented)

Correspondence, including nominations

1960 Award (Recipient: Civic Interest Group)

Correspondence, including nominations

Blank questionnaire

Clippings

Reports

1961 Award (Recipient: Salisbury-Wicomico Commission on Interracial Problems)

Correspondence, including nominations

Announcements

Blank questionnaire

Certificate

Clippings

Press release

Program

Speech

1962 Award (Recipient: Thomas J. S. Waxter)

Correspondence

Certificate

Clippings

Press release

BOX 4

Toward Equality; Baltimore's Progress Report

Copy of publication

Correspondence, business

Correspondence, responses

Draft of publication

Report of distribution

Library of Congress records

Clippings

Toward Equality - 1960 Supplement

Draft of publication

Toward Equality - 1961 Supplement

Copy of publication

Draft of publication

Correspondence

Receipts

Clippings

Toward Equality - 1962 (Supplement

Copy of publication

Draft of publication

Correspondence

Maryland Senate Joint Resolution, No. 3, 1965

WBAL-TV Program, December 7, 1964

Correspondence

Clippings

Invitations

Lists

Tape recordings of award programs

1951 Award

1954 Award

1957 Award

Phonograph recordings of award programs

1948 Award

1949 Award

1951 Award

1952 Award

1953 Award

Records of Mr. Hollander's involvement in the Sidney Hollander Foundation, an organization which presented awards for the encouragement of better race relations in Maryland from 1947-ca.1965, are held by:

Howard University

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Manuscript Division

500 Howard Place, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20059

tel. (202) 636-7239

An Inventory of the Maynard Family Papers, MS. 2049

1732 Nov. 29

Patent of Survey to Edward Beatty of Prince Georges Co. (for “Well-water'd Bottom”)

1740 Nov. 20

Deed between Edward Beatty and Thomas Beatty of Prince Georges Co. (for “Well-water'd Bottom”)

1747 Aug. 1

Deed between Patrick Hollowgun and Henry Karly of Prince Georges Co. (in poor condition, manor not known)

1749 Aug. 14

Deed to John Martin of Prince Georges Co. (for “Johnsons Chance”)

1752 Jan. 29

“Land of Valleys” surveyed for William Cummings; also course of a tract of land called “Patricks Colt”

1755 May 8

Deed to William Cumming of Annapolis for land in Frederick Co. (for “Land of Vallies”)

1755 Oct. 21

Receipt of payment for Nathan Maynard for rent (for “Maynards Goodwill”)

1756 Jan. 29

Receipt of payment from Nathan Maynard for surveying (for “Maynards Goodwill”)

1768 April 7

Resurvey for Thomas Maynard on “Land of Vallies” now to be called “Maynards Right”

1768 Aug. 20

William Cummings' deposition of the resurvey of “Land of Valleys” in Frederick Co.

1770 Dec.12

Benjamin Maynard's part of “Maynards Right”

1774 Jan. 27

Deed between James Beatty and Susanna Maynard of Frederick Co. for land there (for “Well-water'd Bottom”)

1774 Aug. 17

Extract of deed from John Hall to Thomas Walters (for “Middle Plantation”)

1776?

Deed between Ezekiel and Elizah Beatty and Susanna Maynard for land in Frederick Co. (for “Middle Plantation”)