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Goldgar, McAlister named JNF peace medal recipients The Jewish National Fund will present its President’s Peace Medal to two Atlanta journalists, Vida Goldgar, editor and pub lisher of The Southern Israelite, and Durwood McAlister, editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal. The awards will be presented at the annual Jewish National Fund Dinner Tuesday, April 15, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. Proceeds from the dinner will go toward the establishment of a Durwood McAlister and Vida Goldgar project in Israel in the American Bicentennial Park. The President’s Peace Medal is awarded in the name of Theodor Herzl, father of political Zionism. Herzl was also a well-known jour nalist and playwright who covered the Dreyfus Trials in Paris from 1896 to 1906. McAlister and Goldgar are being honored for their contribu tions to the people of Atlanta and their support of the State of Israel. McAlister has served as editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal since March 1, 1978. He is a former director of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association and a member of the American Society of Newspapers Editors. He has served on the board of spon sors for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Music Festival Association. His awards include the Sigma Delta Chi “Top Commentary Award of All Media” for editorial For Lunch or Dinner German Cuisine at its Best From the same people who brought you the Brass Key Restaurant of Jctcibclbcrfl german Wcotnurant 3235 Roswell Rd. In Buckhead 262-2622 TB2 Vida Goldgar columns and the United Press International Editorial Writing Award. Goldgar joined the staff of The Southern Israelite in 1964. She became editor and publisher in 1979. She has served as president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi; and is currently vice president of the American Jewish Press Associa tion. She is also a member and former board member of the Atlanta Press Club. She was awarded the 1980 “Award for Communications Excellence” from Women in Com munications, Atlanta Chapter, and the 1983 “Best Personal Leo Frank Continued from page Alonzo Mann wept. He did noi live to see this week’s pardon of Leo Frank. After the pardon was an nounced, members of the State Pardons and Paroles Board said they were happy when Louis “Sonny” Kunian approached them to renew consideration of the case. They were Firm, however, in their view that Frank’s guilt or inno cence would not be addressed. Tuesday’s statement referred in stead to emotions fanned by “the overblown newspaper style of the day” and to the state’s failure to protect Frank, whose lynching prevented “continued legal appeal of his conviction.” Nor did the state, the release said, “bring his killers to justice.” It was on those bases and “as an effort to heal old wounds,” that the pardon was granted. At a press conference called Tuesday, shortly after the pardon was released, community leaders responded. In a room crowded with local media representatives, network television reporters and out-of- town bureau chiefs, the pardon was hailed by representatives of the three organizations which had pursued the issue over the past years. Gerald H. Cohen, president of the Atlanta Jewish Federation, expressed “a sense of gratitude” and said “a chapter of history is closing.” He said, “Today’s his toric decision takes place in a cli mate of sensitivity and compassion that our governor helped to create these past few years,” and that “We are confident that, at long last, these wounds of doubt and mis trust will now be healed.” Charles Wittenstein, Southern counsel of the Anti-Defamation League (which had its beginning in the aftermath of the Frank case), said, “(We) welcome the pardon of Leo M. Frank as an act of contri tion by the state of Georgia and as an acknowledgment by the state that a great injustice was done to him.” He also praised Alonzo Mann, who “believed devoutly in Frank’s innocence” and the Nash ville Tennessean for “reviving pub lic interest in the case.” On behalf of the American Jew ish Committee, Sherry Frank, area director, said, “For Atlanta Jewry, the Leo Frank Case caused pain, suffering, and resulted in the dislo cation of families. The soul of Leo Frank can finally rest in peace and the entire Jewish community of Atlanta no longer must fear the terrible memories and the out rageous blood libel which this nightmarish trial and lynching produced.” She also said, “Let the case be a reminder to all people of good will that mob rule and anti- Semitism, racism and bigotry have See Leo Frank, page 23. Durwood McAlister Column” Award from the Georgia Press Association. She was the recipient of the 1981 JNF “Tree of Life Award,” and was given a Cit ation of Service Award from the Georgia State Association of B’nai B’rith in 1983 and the Board of Governors award of B’nai B’rith District Five in 1985. Goldgar was recently named by Atlanta Magazine as one of 50 individuals “Who Make Atlanta Special.” Tickets for the dinner are $75 a person. For more information, call the JNF office at 633-1132. Chairman for the JNF dinner are Leon Polstein, president, Colonial Shoe; Scott Kaplan, attorney-at- law; William A. Schwartz, presi dent and chief operating officer of Cox Enterprises Inc., and Gerald Blum, vice president and general manager, WQXI. Honorary chairman is Issachar Katzir, con sul general of Israel. 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