Dinners and dining

Members of Battery "D", 129th Field Artillery, meet at the Hotel President, Kansas City, Missouri, for a semi-annual banquet. Frank Spina, President Harry S. Truman's barber, is 4th from the left of those standing against the wall. The others are unidentified. From: Conrad Smith (from album that had belonged to Francis Yeager, Battery "D")

Former President Harry S. Truman makes a few remarks from behind the podium at a Young Democrats of Kansas Convention banquet held at the Town House Hotel in Kansas City, Kansas. Also at the dinner table are (left to right) Richard Shannon, President; Richard Murphy, Executive Secretary, and Mrs. Richard Shannon. From: Richard D. Shannon.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with Dr. Abram Sachar (left), President of Brandeis University, and Edward A. Smith (right), Attorney, at a Brandeis University dinner in Kansas City, Missouri. From: Ms. Judith Smith.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Isser Yehuda Unterman (center), and Rev. Elmer A. Josephson (left) of Wichita, Kansas, at a dinner at the Muehlebach Hotel. Rabbi Unterman came to Kansas City to meet Mr. Truman. The dinner was sponsored by the Rabbis and Jewish businessmen of Kansas City, Missouri. From: Chris (Mrs. Elmer) Josephson, Bible Light International, Inc.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Isser Yehuda Unterman (left), and Rev. Elmer A. Josephson of Wichita, Kansas (standing) at a dinner at the Muehlebach Hotel. The Rabbi came to Kansas City to meet Mr. Truman. The dinner was sponsored by the rabbis and Jewish business men of Kansas City, Missouri. From: Chris (Mrs. Elmer) Josephson, Bible Light International, Inc.

Clark "Tiny" Johnson, Deputy Sheriff of Jackson County, Missouri, sharpens a knife in preparation for slicing a ham at an open house at the Tapawingo Cafe, Kansas City, Missouri. From: Jenny Johnson, widow of Tiny Johnson

Former President Harry S. Truman, seated at the table for a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, is greeted by Ida R. Lyons (left), Secretary of State Committee, Congressman John W. McCormack (center), and Chairman William H. Burke, Jr. (right). From: No donor identified.

Former President Harry S. Truman, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a dinner hosted by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, converses with two members, Rev. Richard Grady (center), SJ, University of Scranton, and John Murphy (right), President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. From: George E. Clark, The Scranton Times, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Former President Harry S. Truman, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to attend a dinner hosted by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, is photographed with six members of the organization. Left to right (seated) are: Joseph Dunleavy, Mr. Truman, and John F. Murphy, President, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County; and (standing) Judge M. J. Eagen, Dr. John Corcoran, Attorney William P. Farrell, Thomas F. Murphy, and Kenneth O' Brien. From: George E. Clark, The Scranton Times, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Former President Harry S. Truman (seated at table, sixth from the left) is seated at the head table at a dinner hosted by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with members and guests shown standing behind and sitting in front of the table. From: George E. Clark, The Scranton Times, Scranton, Pennsylvania.