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Show Says Mr.Flood, “‘Naturally thetitle represents a challenge. But onething's for sure... it’s not at all embarrassing to be honored for being ‘typically American’ ” Meet the Bernard Floods: Our “Most Typical American Family” When youaddup to thirty plus... By Ted Otis of the Family Weekly Staff A shiny new automobile turns into the driveway of a modest ranch-style home in the add some more peaceof mind. Mirror, mirror on the wall, thirty plus is the best age ofall. It’s the good age when you're on your way up. When the awkwardness of your your better wayoflife. How do you protect all this? By the simplest, safest way possible—with morelife insurance. This birthday, treat yourself to zarlier youth is behind you. greater peace of mind. When your dreams are beginning to show fulfillment. It is also the age of more responsibility. Call your New York Life Agent. He's a good man to know. New York Life Insurance Company Maybe second child, a bigger 51 Madison Ave., N.Y., N.Y. roo10 and more expensive home, a sweet wife who has grown accustomed to Life, Group and Health Insurance, Annuities, Pension Plans. Fora happier life small, almost rural, town of Parkersburg, W.Va. As the man climbs out of the car, a woman and two clean-cut boys come running out of the house to greet him. “Hi, Dad!” the younger boy shouts. “Did you bring us any presents?” It’s the kind of scene that takes place in front of millions of American homes on anygiven day. A typical family, you might say. And in a sense you'd be right. But in another sense you’d be wrong; for this is the family of Bernard F. Flood, Jr., and he and his wife Margaret, with their two sons, John, 10, and James, eight, are the official All-American Family of 1970. Whywere the Floods chosen? Not because they are particularly exceptional. They were chosen precisely because they are so “typicaliy American”—in the best sense of that term. As a family, they represent, in the opinion of a panel of distinguished judges, the best example of America’s most basic values and institutions. The Floods’story starts last spring, when they received a batch of lengthy questionnaires from the All-Amercian Family Institute, sponsors of the Family Search. “ We had never heard of the Institute,” confesses Bernard Flood. “But we (Continued on page 8) 6 Family Weekly, April 25, 1971 |