Department of Correction
CITY of NEW YORK

PROMOTION EXERCISES
at
Councilmanic Chamber,
City Hall

Saturday Morning, February 5th, 1944
at Eleven O'Clock

Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Mayor

Hon. Peter F. Amoroso, M.D.
Commissioner


PROMOTIONS

WARDEN
Thomas McDonnell


DEPUTY WARDENS
Edward F. Johnston
Randolph Grasheim
Michael J. Sullivan
Eugene M. Slattery
Herman Rothazer
Joseph V. Joyce


CAPTAINS
Alexander Koson
Joseph Batka, Jr.

James S. Millar

CERTIFICATE OF MERITIOUS SERVICE
James E. Elliott

PROGRAM

1. PRESENTATION
2. INVOCATION
3. ADDRESSES
--- NATIONAL ANTHEM
--- Rt. Rev. William E. Cashin
---

HON. PETER F. AMOROSO, M.D.
Commissioner of Correction

HON. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA
Mayor of the City of New York

4. PRAYER--- Rabbi Samuel L. Levinson

5. PRESENTATION
OF CERTIFICATES
OF PROMOTION
6. PRESENTATION
OF CERTIFICATE OF
MERITIOUS SERVICE
by Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Mayor of the City of New York


7. BENEDICTION
8. God Bless America
--- Rev. Horace T. Owen
--- Chorus and Audience

Choral Society and Orchestra of the Department of Correction
Directed by Professor Fritz Forsch

To more about Thomas McDonnell
To more about Joseph Batka Jr.

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EXCERPT IMAGE OF PROMOTION CERTIFICATE.
CLOSE
EXCERPT IMAGE OF PROMOTION CERTIFICATE.
The New York Correction History Society expresses appreciation to the Joseph Batka family for providing the original printed program and promotion certificate images from which the images used here were excerpted.

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