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respects.!! tremendous success� Gerhard Oppitz, the 1977 Rubinstein
International piano competition winner, presented a truly exemplary
performance of excellence.
As a result of this concert, the highest strata of New York City now
recognizes AICF as a humanitarian, giving, working, outgoing group
of church members who are dedicated to helping our fellow human
beings. This concert gave church members an opportunity to serve
and to work with top community personalities. It is very impressive
to these people to see, face to face, the deep,sincere attitudes of
our church members -- to see God's way of life in action.
At the reception following the concert, awards were presented to
the New York school children who won prizes for their demonstrations
of excellence in painting pictures of Jerusalem. Over 1.3 million
school children were represented there, and the Board of Education
officials gave highest acclaim to the Ambassador Foundation for its
aims and goals.
--Dan Spencer, AICF Human Potential Center
GENE KELLY SPECIAL TO BE TAPED IN AMBASSADOR AUDITORIUM Once again
nationwide attention will soon be focused on Ambassador Auditorium.
Thursday evening, December 15th, GENE KELLY -- AN AMERICAN IN
PASADENA, a star-studded TV special, will be taped in
,
Ambassador
Auditorium for airing on the CBS television network in March, 1978.
Appearing with Gene Kelly will be June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Cyd
Charisse, Betty Garrett, Kathryn Grayson, Janet Leigh, Liza Minnelli,
and in a pre-taped performance Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Cindy
Williams and Natalie Wood will also appear. Also to be featured are
Danny Daniels, Bridgit Kelly, Alex Romero and the Irish Pipers Band
of San Francisco. The special is being produced by Marty Pasetta
and Frank Konigsberg, producers of last season's BING!, celebrating
Bing Crosby's 50th year in show business, which was also taped in
Ambassador Auditorium.
Arranged for by Henry Cornwall, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ambassador
International Cultural Foundation, GENE KELLY -- AN AMERICAN IN
PASADENA is the second in a series of annual galas benefiting WAIF, Inc.
(a nationally noted organization benefiting homeless children) and the
Foundation. Patrons of the reception -- irrnnediately following the
taping -- and the souvenir program will receive free admission to the
taping.
--William Wiemhoff, Performing Arts, AICF