NYC Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi
(left) and luncheon chairman Brian
McLaughlin, president of the NYC
Central Labor Council. |
ISRAEL BONDS
Thomas Van
Arsdale
Raises $5 Mil for Israel
Photos by Richard Lobell
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than 400 labor and management leaders of the electrical industry
purchased $5,044,000 of Israel Bonds at a luncheon at the New York
Hilton honoring Thomas Van Arsdale, business manager
of Local Union 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
“I hope all of today’s
contributors,” Van Arsdale quipped, “are not financing their
Bond purchases on a credit card – that is not a good financial
move.”
Thomas Van
Arsdale (left) and
William C. Thompson Jr., president
of NYC Board of Education. |
Van Arsdale was present in
the early 1950s when his father, Harry Van Arsdale Jr., Armand
D’Angelo and several other labor and management leaders
founded the Electrical Division as the first industry campaign in
Israel Bond history.
Since then, he has been a
major leader of the campaign, which has provided many millions of
dollars in investment capital to build Israel’s economy.
Howard Hirsch
of Forest Electric Corp., chairman of Israel Bonds New York
Metropolitan Region, and Matthew Gold of Midtown Electric
Supply Co. served as general chairmen of the event.
From
left: Campaign chairmen Howard Hirsch and
Matthew Gold, Thomas Van Arsdale, and Todd
Hirsch, co-chairman of the Electrical Division’s New
Leadership Steering Committee. |
New York City Comptroller Alan
Hevesi, the guest speaker, recalled what former Senator Patrick
Moynihan once noted: “Since the time of the Pharaohs, there
has been 15 democratic elections in the Middle East – all of them
in the State of Israel.”
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