Dear Friends

In North Belfast, the intersection of the Woodvale Road and the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne is known as ‘the Ardoyne shops’. Every year for the last 30 years this intersection has been the focal point for major rioting at the time of the ‘twelfth’ marches. Each year coming up to the ‘twelfth’ there are major discussions between Police, Parades’ Commission, Orange Order and local residents to negotiate a resolution, so far without success.

The Flax Trust proposes to build at this intersection the George Mitchell Centre for reconciliation, personal development and community care. The outreach of this centre will be year round and into both communities, developing leadership, dialogue and positive cross-community activity. The project will house an ‘all kids crèche’ which will bring together preschool children from both communities as well as their parents who will engage in personal development programmes, anger management, home economics, mutual understanding, inter-cultural appreciation with a view to developing an inter-cultural programme which will be mutually enriching.

The centre will have an auditorium and catering facility as well as administrative offi ces and workshops. A signifi cant part of the exercise will be the Ardoyne/Shankill Healthy Living Partnership which focuses on inter-community concerns for health improvement in both Ardoyne and the Shankill neighbourhoods. The centre will have a main entrance on the Woodvale Road and a main entrance on the Crumlin road to facilitate both communities.

It is hoped that when this project is completed that Senator George Mitchell will return to Belfast and the scene of his Good Friday Agreement to open the new Centre.

Thank you for all your continuing generous support of the Flax Trust.

Fr Myles Kavanagh CPChairmanFlax Trust/Belfast

Message from Fr Myles

The Flax Trust as a registered charity, formed

in Belfast in 1977, has as its Mission the reduction

and, if possible, the elimination of community

tensions and religious prejudices by creative

engagement in economic and social development,

education and training with inter-community

activities including culture, the Arts, sport, health,

social programmes, personal development and

dedicated communication projects

Mission

The Flax Trust, 333 Crumlin Road, Belfast BT14 7EA

Tel:+44 (028) 9074 5241Fax:+44 (028) 90748025

www.fl axtrust.comCharity No. XN 48703

FLAX TRUST

Flax Trust/America c/o Mutual of America 4th Floor, 320 Park Ave.

New York, NY 10022 Tel: 212 224 1208 Fax: 212 224 2523

Email: albafl axtrust1@verizon.net

501(C) 3 Charitable Organisation

We are very grateful to Mutual of America for this invaluable facility.

Background: Belfast City Hall

JOHN D. FEERICK

GUEST OF HONOR

Welcome to the Twentieth New York Annual Event

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Enrichment Through Respect for Difference

BANQUET CHAIRMAN WILLIAM J. FLYNN Chairman Emeritus, Mutual of America Chairman National Committee on American Foreign Policy President Flax Trust/America

Honorary Banquet Co-Chairpersons Sir Alan Collins, KCVO CMG Noel Kilkenny British Consul General Consul General of Ireland

Margaret F. Grace Mary Higgins Clark President Grace Institute Author

John T. Sharkey, CEO James E. Quinn, President SunEnergy, Inc. Tiffany & Co. Loretta Brennan Glucksman Senator George Mitchell Chairman, American Ireland Fund DLA Piper

Thomas M. O’Brien Diarmuid M. Hogan President & CEO President & CEO State Bank of Long Island Global Excess Partners LLC John Kelly, Manager Director Denis Curran, CEO Hanover Stone Partners, LLC Willowfield Ventures LLC

John Paul Macdonald Donald R. Keough Senior Vice President Bombardier Inc Chairman, Allen & Co. John Fitzpatrick CEO Michael Gibbons, Chairman North America Fitzpatrick Hotel Group The Ireland-US Council

Doug Benson Dr. John Brennan Patricia Brennan John ConlonCarol Higgins ClarkMary J. GraceAlba Goebel

James Griffi nShawn Griffi nMary HartGary HanleyNorman HoustonFr Myles KavanaghEdward J. Kenney

Banquet Committee

Ed. McDermottThomas J. MoranAnne Marie MoriartyNiall MurrayCarl ShanahanSr. Mary Turley Beverley Owen Stone

Banquet Menu

Smoked Irish Salmon With Red Onion, Shaved Fennel Salad, Grapefruit and Chive Sour Cream

Seared Tenderloin of Beef wth Red Wine Bordelaise Sauce Chef’s Selection of Starch and Vegetable

Creme Brulee with Espresso Bean Biscotti

Coffee Service

John D. Feerick is currently the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service at Fordham University School of Law and is the Director and Founder of the Center for Social Justice at the Law School. Mr. Feerick previously served as the Dean of the law school from 1982 to 2002. Before coming to Fordham, Mr. Feerick was a partner at the fi rm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (1961-1982), where he headed the labor and employment practice. He was the chair of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Feerick has served as both an arbitrator and mediator of diffi cult disputes in both the public and private sectors.

Throughout his career, Mr. Feerick has remained committed to public service and has served in a number of public capacities. He has served as a member of the New York State Law Revision Commission (1982-1987) and as one of New York City’s two representatives to the New York City Offi ce of Collective Bargaining (1980-1987). From 1987 to 1990, he chaired the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, a commission whose task was to investigate systemic corruption and make recommendations for reform. That role carried the additional title of State Special Deputy Attorney General. Mr. Feerick also served as President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1992-1994), Chair of the New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings (1996-1997), President of the Citizen’s Union Foundation (1987-1999), Chair of the Fund for Modern Courts (1995-1999), Chair of the New York State Commission to Promote Public Confidence in the Judiciary (2003-2004), Chair of the New York State Ethics Commission (2007), and Chair of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity (2007-

Twentieth Annual Washington DC Event November 17th, 2010

The Hay-Adams The Lafayette Room

Guests of Honor:Hon. Richard Neal (D) U.S. Congressman for the 2nd District of Massachusetts

Chair DC Friends of Ireland Hon. Tim F Murphy (R) U.S. Congressman for the 18th District of Pennsylvania

Vice Chair DC Friends of IrelandJohn Cosgrove, Former President of the National Press Club

2009). He was a member of the New York State Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confi dence in the Legal System and he served as a member of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board (1998-2002). He served as a member of the Special Master Panel on

Family Homelessness in New York City and as a referee in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v The State of New York school-funding case.

Mr. Feerick’s publications include: “From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession” (1965), “The Twenty Fifth Amendment,” which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (1976 & 1992 ed.), “The Vice Presidents of the United States,” (co-authored with Emalie P. Feerick, 1967), and “NLRB Representation Elections-Law, Practice & Procedure,” (co-authored with Henry P. Baer and Jonathan P. Arfa, 1979-1980).

Mr. Feerick is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham College (B.S.), and he received his LL.B. from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the law review. Mr. Feerick has been the recipient of various awards and honorary degrees.

JOHN D. FEERICKSidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service

Fordham University School of Law

SNAPSHOT

William J. Flynn Banquet Chairman

President Flax Trust/America welcomes guests

Oakley Brooks, VP Government Affairs, Bombardier Transit Group and Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan, Former Auxillary Bishop Diocese of Brooklyn

receive the Flax Trust Award from Sr Mary Turley

Jim Quinn, President Tiffancy & Co. Director Flax Trust/America toasts

peace in Northern Ireland

2009 New York Banquet at The “21” Club

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12. John and Helen Sharkey13. John Kelly14. Mary J. Grace, Alba Goebal15. Tom O’Brien16. Msgr. Charles Fahey17. Ambassador Niall Burgess, William Flynn18. William Guarinello, Bishop J. Sullivan, George A. Cincotta, Jr.19. Martin Rowlings, Oakley and Sydney Brooks20. Maeve O’Malley, Bernadette Davida21. Sam Brooks, Louise Nelson

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