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At the Sheraton Hotel in Dallas, several hundred
testimonial
persons N are present for a -ndinner
onrig businessman and philanthropist J.K. Wadley,
at left, seated alongside Baylor University President
Abner McCall. The dinner was planned after the
- .honoring
- Leukemia Society announced it was Wadley
with it's highest award, because of his humanitarium
service in the fight against leukemia. Wadley is
praised by Doctor Joseph Hill, president of the
Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank, founded by
Wadley and his late wife. Wadley, 88 years old, and
his wife made the original gift which established the
Institute in 1951, several years after the couple's
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Wadley], item, May 26, 1965; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc975565/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.