[Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Receives Award from Cardinal Spellman]

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Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz receiving the 1946 Club of Champions Award of the Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of New York from Cardinal Francis Spellman. Chester W. Nimitz stands on the left in a dark Navy uniform with a white undershirt, a bow tie, six buttons on the front, four stripes and then a bigger band and a star on his sleeves. Cardinal Spellman is on the right pinning a medal to Adm. Nimitz in a long dark coat and clerical collar and glasses.

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United States. Navy January 21, 1947.

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Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz receiving the 1946 Club of Champions Award of the Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of New York from Cardinal Francis Spellman. Chester W. Nimitz stands on the left in a dark Navy uniform with a white undershirt, a bow tie, six buttons on the front, four stripes and then a bigger band and a star on his sleeves. Cardinal Spellman is on the right pinning a medal to Adm. Nimitz in a long dark coat and clerical collar and glasses.

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Printed on the reverse: "22 Jan. 1947, His Eminence, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, presents the 1946 Club of Champion Award of the Catholic youth Organization of the Archdiocese of New York to fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations at the annual dinner meeting of the Catholic Youth Organization board of directors in the university Club on Tuesday Evening, January 21. The presentation program will be broadcast on WMCA from 11:30 p.m. to 12 midnight. Cardinal Spellman, honorary chairman of the Catholic Youth Organization is a former recipient of the award initiated by the Catholic Youth Organization board in 1936. It is given annually to the person who, in the opinion of the Board, has made an outstanding contribution to youth during the year. The election of officers and now members will take place at a business meeting which will precede the dinner. Former recipients of the award include Jospeh P. grace, 1936; the late [illegible] O. Anderson, 1936; William Edwin Hall, 1937; Harold J. Brown, 1937; the late Paul T. Kammerer, 1938; John S. Burko, 1939; John J. Falahee, 1940; Albert Hinen, 1941; the late Charles Hayden, 1942; Very Rev. Monsignor Edward Roberts Moore, 1943; Cardinal Spellman, 1944; and J. Edgar Hoover, 1945. Official Photograph From Public Information Office, 3rd Naval District, 90 Church Street, New York, N. Y., WATCH YOUR CREDIT! Official U.S. Navy Photograph".

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United States. Navy. [Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Receives Award from Cardinal Spellman], photograph, January 21, 1947; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1629114/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.

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