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International Relations April 1988NAMES , A D' N FACES 0 h 0 0 Lonatime umani'tarian C7 honored by B nai B rith Since Harriette Glasner moved to West Palm Beach 38 years ago, she's seen to the welfare of hun- dreds, of children and adults through the founding of many so- cial service groups. She has been honored many times for her volunteer work, most recently at a luncheon given by the Ohav chapter of B'nai B'rith'Wom- en. The benefit luncheon Thursday was for the Children's Home in Is- rael, a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed boys. In the early '60s, when Palm 713each County had two children's homes, Glasner brought them to- gether as one. "One of those homes was for white children, which g6t funds, and the other was for black chil- dren, which didn't receive much," she said. "I f fled a suit and got the county to integrate them." Glasner helped found Friends of Abused Children, and began Planned Parenthood of the Palm Beach Area Inc. in 1972, serving as president and executive director. She also founded the American Civil Liberties Union here 25 years G- go, after having worked for the ACLU while living in Chicago dur- ing the Depression. Glasner, who also works in the Guardian Ad Litem program, has ACLU meetings in her home and it's there that she receives many calls from people who need help -- people who have been evicted frorn homes without notice, people who are in jail and who are not getting Harriette Glasner moved to West Palm Beach 38 years ago. proper medical attention, or people who are being deported. "I know what it is to be poor, and that when you are poor you don't have the freedom to live your life doing what you want to do," - she said. "Now that I have that free- dom, I do what I can for those who don't. IRA$ 4- 1 Aelt 11-k ,�pr.IgBg' :Icn, ernafrvna(Re.�a�ions• �ie��.Crabfvetrdevntce.C�evers�ein,I�bef1�,[�ur�,�el►�a�be�}- ,nypeal. er.U�r�tt1eat, <q=w-f �.Thndin�i 4L aetEJ 6dean Nhfr cm. Paf al4ets bllo�len cri �,I�ra4ure,- 7hc/ma . 66erf �Oer or A&& iee� Ve rkft �t, 11 ab 46)eel 61ke'a- I N k ILI 10 10