Hope for Humanity Dinner, honoring Don Glendenning
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Dallas Fairmont Hotel
Dinner 7 p.m., VIP Reception 6 p.m.
214-741-7500
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HOPE FOR HUMANITY
Sponsorships as of October 30, 2012
UPSTANDER $25,000
Nancy Cain Marcus and Nelda Cain Pickens
Carol and Don Glendenning
The Eugene McDermott Foundation
The Glendenning Family
Chai $18,000
ALON USA
Louise Gartner and Gigi Gartner
Ebby Halliday Acers and Ebby Halliday Realtors
Locke Lord LLP
Barbara and Stan Rabin
Ambassador of Hope $10,000
Carol and Steve Aaron
Ruth and Jack Altman
Bank of America
Janet and Jeffrey Beck
Crow Holdings
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Funk Family
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP/Celia and Larry Schoenbrun/Rena and Ken Glaser
Glazer’s
Neil and Ken Goldberg Families
Liz and Tom Halsey
Ynette and Jim Hogue
Ann Levy, Walter Levy, and Sam Piassick
Joy and Ronald Mankoff/Robbie and John Raphael
The Neiman Marcus Group
Plains Capital Bank/LeeAnn and Alan B. White
Helen and Frank Risch
Peggy and Mark Zilbermann
Butterfly of Freedom $5,000
Drs. Michelle and Benjamin Bassichis
Fran and Mark Berg/Sheila and Jeff Chapman
Diane and Hal Brierley
Comerica Bank
Corgan/The Beck Group
Berry R. Cox Family Foundation
Steven H. Durham Family Foundation
Jennifer and John Eagle
The Fagadau Family
The Fairmont Dallas
The Feldman Family Foundation
Friends of Thanks-Giving Square
Haynes and Boone, LLP & Dr. Jim and Karen Cortell Reisman
Lori and Honorable Randall Isenberg/Karla and Larry Steinberg
Jackson Walker L.L.P
Jane and Pat Jenevein
Veronique and Hylton Jonas
The Kayser Foundation
Kerri and Rick Lacher /Sandra and David Veeder
Ann and Nate Levine
Carol and John I. Levy/Elaine and Trevor Pearlman
Jeff B. and Katherine B. Love Foundation
Mary Kay Inc.
Bobbi and Richard Massman
Michael Meadows and Friends of the Dallas Zoological Society
Harriet Miers
The Muse Educational Foundation
Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger
The Nowak Family Foundation
Park Place Dealerships
Dan Patterson
Pegasus Bank
Sheri and Andrew Rosen
Barbara and Dr. Randall Rosenblatt
Lisa and Jim Rosenthal
Leslie and Howard Schultz
Honorable Florence and Howard Shapiro
Harold Simmons Foundation
J. Stephen and Susan G. Simon Family Charitable Fund
Alice and Jim Skinner
Sloan Wealth Management, LLC
Marianne and Roger Staubach
Strasburger & Price, LLP
Joanne and Charles Teichman
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
Vinson & Elkins
Waldman Bros
Alison and Michael Weinstein
Donna and Herb Weitzman/The Weitzman Group/Cencor Realty Services
Abe Zale Foundation
Ann Donald and Leon Zetle
Media Partner
CBS 11
D Magazine
TJP
In a city known for its can-do outlook, one shining example of Dallas’ giving spirit rises to the top on a regular basis, just as he has for nearly a generation now: Don Glendenning.
“When I’m not serving clients,” says Don, Managing Partner of the Dallas Office of Locke Lord LLP in his typical straightforward manner, “I am out pursuing causes that I believe matter. That brings me a great deal of life satisfaction.”
One of the major causes to which Don has devoted his tireless passion is the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, which honors him with the 2012 Hope for Humanity Award. A member of the Museum’s Board of Directors since 2007, Don currently serves as a board Vice President. He is a tireless advocate in advancing the Museum’s mission of preserving the memory of the Holocaust and teaching the moral and ethical response to hatred, prejudice and indifference, for the benefit of all humanity.
Don lives the motto he observes: While it’s fine to be different…it’s better to make a difference. “I may be a bit of an odd duck to some,” said Don, his self-effacing humor on grand display. “But I am a happy duck.”
Indeed, when accused of being modest about his many accomplishments, Don—co-opting Winston Churchill’s famous quip—replies: “I have so much to be modest about.”
Don currently serves as Co-Chair of the Campaign for the New Parkland; President of Scenic Texas and Scenic Dallas; and is on the boards of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the Dallas Theater Center, KERA, Parkland Foundation, TACA, Texas Trees Foundation and Arbor Day Foundation. He is a Past Chairman of the Dallas Zoological Society and Thanks-Giving Square Foundation, Past President of Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, and the Rice University DFW Alumni, and a former director of the National Tree Trust and the Tocqueville Cabinet of the United Way.
He is a recipient of the 2011 Justinian Award from the Dallas Lawyers Auxilliary, the Anti-Defamation League of Dallas Schoenbrun Jurisprudence Award, the Dallas Zoological Society Good Egg Award, the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas Angel of Freedom and Distinguished Lifetime Service Awards and the Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas Pro Bono Award.
Service. Acceptance. Compassion. Humor. These are the tenets that define Don’s character—especially humor about himself.
The eldest of five children in a long-time Celina, Texas farming family, Don said he often found himself odd man out—“the runt of the litter”—whom his parents did not particularly point to with pride. “Bookish and serious,” Don, who played all sports—badly—was no match for the exceptional athletes in his family, especially high school football on Friday nights. While growing up, he spent considerable time with his paternal grandparents, who taught him that joy came in serving others, especially those in need.
While his younger siblings were football captains and head cheerleaders, Don excelled in the classroom—first at Rice University and then Stanford Law School, where he served on the law review. By marrying his fellow Stanford law student, Carol, Don said his family thought the match was far better than they ever thought he could do, a sentiment to which Don ascribes.
Immediately following law school, Don and Carol settled in Dallas 33 years ago. Both are still at the same firms they joined in 1979. Carol now serves as Chair of Strasburger & Price. They practice a strict “no shop talk” policy at their high-rise home on Turtle Creek.
Although they have no children of their own, the Glendennings are the official and unofficial godparents of many friends’ children. Saying “no” is not one of his strengths, Don concedes.
Both are diligent about scheduling time together—including a five star vacation at the end of every year to celebrate their anniversary and birthdays. Don said the couple’s “personal elevator speech” has been that “Don is out to save the world, and Carol is out to see it.” Carol, he said, now has a whole host of her own charitable involvements, in addition to those she inherits from him from time to time.
“My grandparents gave generously to everyone they encountered who needed assistance regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, background and social standing,” Don said. ‘They did so quietly, discreetly and with motives that were pure. I find that a model for an ideal life, which I hope to emulate as best I can.”
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The Hope for Humanity Dinner, a highly anticipated annual charity event, benefits the educational programs of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance. A member of our community is honored each year with the Hope for Humanity Award, given to those who are a testament to the Museum’s mission of tolerance. Click here for information on 2010 sponsorship opportunities.
Focused on bringing the legacy of the Holocaust to the next generation, the 2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner on November 11 at the Dallas Fairmont Hotel will offer a program that honors the memory of those whose lives ended during the Holocaust, but whose memory endures through their artistic creations. Further, a special presentation honoring our Holocaust Survivors will be a focal point of the evening. Our featured entertainment includes performances by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in both a poetry reading of Pavel Friedmann’s The Butterfly and a performance of select scenes from Hans Krása’s opera Brundibár, presented in conjunction with the University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theater. Here’s an overview of the evening’s events:
2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner
L’dor V’dor (from Generation to Generation)
For inspiring background and important information about our entertainment program please watch the CBS 60 Minutes video of child survivors of Terezin: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
Evening Program: Overview
Focused on bringing the legacy of the Holocaust to the next generation, the 2010 Hope for Humanity Dinner will offer a program that honors the memory of those whose lives ended during the Holocaust, but whose memory endures through their artistic creations. Further, a special presentation honoring our Holocaust Survivors will be a focal point of the evening. Our featured entertainment includes performances by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in both a poetry reading of Pavel Friedmann’s The Butterfly and a performance of select scenes from Hans Krása’s opera Brundibár, presented in conjunction with the University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theater. Our closing act will include musician and SMU Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, José Bowen, Ph.D., performing an inspired, modern variation of the Hebrew classic L’dor V’dor. Two brief video presentations will also be shown: an informational video about the Museum and an inspiring tribute to this year’s honoree, Roger Staubach.
The evening’s entertainment spotlights the amazing talent of the artists and intellectuals of the Terezin Ghetto who, being aware that fate was likely to bring them to the gas chambers, and while suffering the ghastly conditions of the Terezin Ghetto and grisly treatment by the Nazis, rose above this cruel reality to create a repertoire of artistic achievement still performed, published and celebrated today. These exceptional minds deserve to be remembered; for through their suffering remains a legacy of brilliance and a testament to the human condition.
*Read journal entries of Terezin prisoners. Be sure to read Part 2 for demonstration of how music and art fed the soul of the victims:
http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/place/words.html
The Terezin Concentration Camp (also known as Theresienstadt) of the Czech Rebulic existed as a contrast of public display and private reality. Publically, Terezin was presented as a “model camp” or a “resort” and deemed “Hilter’s gift to the Jews.” Privately however, victims of Terezin toiled in the most deplorable conditions of filth and disease where extermination was not merely a threat but a certainty.
While exact numbers vary, approximately 150,000 Jews entered through the gates of Terezin. Only about ten percent survived. Those who did not die of illness or starvation were transported to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. The fate of children at Terezin was even more gruesome: less than 100 of the 15,000 children imprisoned at Terezin lived to tell their story. None of the survivors were under the age of 15.
Recommended Reading:
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Poetry and art by the children
imprisoned in Terezin
$20
The DHM/CET offers I Never Saw Another Butterfly and a variety of other books about the Holocaust, many not available online or in bookstores. Please see our list of current titles and how-to-order information.
Further Reading:
(*The DHM/CET offers links to websites with information for further reading about subject matter related to the entertainment program described herein. The content on the web pages was not prepared by the DHM/CET. The DHM/CET is not responsible for errors and/or conflicting information on the web pages.)
*Read the history of the Terezin Concentration Camp and get statistical information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp
*Read journal entries of Terezin prisoners. Be sure to read Part 2 for demonstration of how music and art fed the soul of the victims:
http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/place/words.html
*Learn more about Terezin, including art and music information:
http://www.shoaheducation.com/terezin.html
*View a list of musical artists and their accomplishments:
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/theresienstadt/
*A “must read”: the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, victim of Terezin who nurtured the children of Terezin through art and poetic expression:
http://art-education.concordia.ca/facultystaff/pdfs/A%20Woman%20of%20Valor,%20David%20Pariser.pdf
*Learn the inspiring true story of Ilse Weber, poet and nurse-mother to the children of Terezin who cared for them in life and volunteered to die with them in the gas chambers of Auschwitz so that they would not die alone and afraid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Weber
*Watch a performance of Ilse Weber’s “Wiegala” lullaby reportedly sung by Weber to the children of Terezin as Weber and the children, including her own son, awaited their deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz:
Listen to a performance of Ilse Weber’s “Ich wander durch Theresienstadt” (I wander through Theresienstadt), music featured in the DHM/CET video presentation:
http://www.boosey.com/cr/sample_detail/Weber-Ich-wandre-durch-Theresienstadt/12550
*Weblinks to a variety of artwork from Terezin:
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/arts/ARTVICTI.HTM
http://holocaust-education.net/explore.asp?langid=1&submenu=205&searchtype=simple&searchtopic=5&id=7
Evening Program: Entertainment in detail
Act I: Honor and Remembrance
“The Butterfly”
http://www.shoaheducation.com/butterfly.html
A poem by Pavel Friedmann,
Poet and Prisoner of Terezin who perished at Auschwitz
About the poetry and the poet
The struggles of the internal versus the external are revealed through the creativity and imaginations of the children who perished during the Holocaust. Through their art, music and poetry, these children shared with us not only their experiences but also the beauty of their souls. In doing so, they have left to us a most precious gift: the miracle of how children can change the world.
Through his poem, The Butterfly, Pavel Friedmann gave us an inside glimpse of the world where he lived, how that world affected him and his thoughts about his own future. He recalls beauty that he is no longer able to see; he believes that the butterfly left Terezin, left the world, taking its beauty with it, kissing the world good-bye as if it no longer could bear what life had become. He understands the gravity of his situation and perhaps wishes for it to be over. Pavel Friedmann composed this poem just seven weeks into his 29-month imprisonment at Terezin. He was a victim of Auschwitz on September 29, 1944.
If Pavel Friedmann had survived what would his life be now? Would he have located relatives, rebuilt his life, and evolved into the full promise of his talents and abilities? We will never know for sure those answers, but we can be certain that his legacy—and the legacy of all victims and survivors—will be preserved and handed down to the next generation.
Read the poem, “The Butterfly”, by Pavel Friedman:
http://www.shoaheducation.com/butterfly.html
Pavel Friedmann was born in Prague on January 7, 1921. He was deported to Terezin on April 26, 1942 and later to Auschwitz, where he died on September 29, 1944.
Recommended Reading:
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Poetry and art by the children
imprisoned in Terezin
$20
The DHM/CET offers I Never Saw Another Butterfly and a variety of other books about the Holocaust, many not available online or in bookstores. Please see our list of current titles and how-to-order information.
Act II: Upstanders
Select scenes from
Brundibár, an Opera for Children
By Hans Krása
A performance by the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas in conjunction with the Lyric Theater of the University of Texas at San Antonio
“Music meant such a lot for us because we felt like human beings again. We didn’t feel like animals. You could cry, you could open your heart…. For moments to forget, for half an hour to forget. We could cry there, we could be happy there. We could remember and we could hope——And all of us tried to take part. It was not so easy.”—Zuzana Podmelova, Terezin prisoner
Several of the original cast survived Terezin.
Their story can be found at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
About the Brundibar Opera
The opera Brundibár was written by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása in 1938. In 1942, he was deported to Terezín (or Theresienstadt), a ghetto created by the Nazis to amass European Jews in one location prior to transportation to the East for the “final solution.” In Terezín, Krása’s opera, Brundibár, was performed more than 50 times by children and musicians from the ghetto, including performances for Hilter. During the rehearsals and performances, as the transports to the East were in progress, there was a constant stream of new performers, replacing the previous performers who were being shipped to Auschwitz for extermination.
The opera itself is a story about friendship, good winning over evil and standing up to bullies. The final chorus says it best: “Victory spectacular, Goodbye to Brundibár, Never afraid of him, battle won, war is done, now we are number one. Our song is strong and clear, our voices without fear, what a phenomenon. Whoever loves justice and will defend it and is not afraid is our friend and may play with us”.
What is particularly significant and moving is the historical context in which it was originally performed—in a concentration camp, under the noses of the Nazis, who either were not listening or did not see the significance of the opera’s lyrics. The opera speaks to today’s children as well. It shows that if we pull together, we can overcome even the meanest bully.
Of course we children recognized the absurdity of this spectacle…but we also loved performing Brundibár. When you are making music, you are no longer a prisoner. You are free for a time.”—Paul Aron Sandfort (born Paul Rabinowitsch): Survivor of the Terezín ghetto, performed Brundibár in Terezin.
The opera exemplifies the mission of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance and demonstrates the need—then and now—for UPSTANDERS. Learn more about becoming an UPSTANDER at:
(Summary content provided in part by http://www.brundibar.ca/info.html)
Watch the CBS 60 Minutes video of child survivors of Terezin: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/60minutes/main2508458.shtml
*Review a study guide to Brundibar:
Act III: Legacy
Performance of
“L’dor V’dor”
A performance by José Bowen, Ph.D., Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU
accompanied by Keris Patterson and Seth Ordiway of SMU
Arrangement for piano provided by The Josh Nelson Project
*Read more about José Bowen, Ph.D.:
*Read more about The Josh Nelson Project:
http://joshnelsonproject.com/music/
About L’dor V’dor
Storytelling is one of humanity’s most cherished methods of teaching. Parents, children, grandparents, nurses, doctors, rabbis, priests and the like revel in relaying a story to those we nurture, to those we guide, to those we hold most dear. We are inspired by stories throughout life—cradle-to-grave sharing and receiving what has gone before us in order to be closer to our ancestors, to make wiser choices in the future, to leave the world a little better than we found it. The theme of our evening, L’dor V’dor, translates to “from generation to generation.” For our purposes, it means we are offering a legacy of learning about the Holocaust through the art, music and stories of those who endured it. By giving this “gift” to each subsequent generation, we are not only educating the world but also improving it. The music of L’dor V’dor has survived many generations, and on November 11th it shall survive one more.
L’dor V’dor
We are gifts and we are blessings, we are history in song
We are hope and we are healing, we are learning to be strong
We are words and we are stories, we are pictures of the past
We are carriers of wisdom, not the first and not the last
L’dor vador nagid godlecha
(From generation to generation, we will tell of Your greatness)
L’dor vador… we protect this chain
From generation to generation
L’dor vador, these lips will praise Your name
Looking back on the journey that we carry in our heart
From the shadow of the mountain to the waters that would part
We are blessed and we are holy, we are children of Your way
And the words that bring us meaning, we will have the strength to say
L’dor vador…
