Proclamation signing - Voluntary Overseas Aid Week, 11:30AM. President John F. Kennedy (seated) delivers remarks at the signing of the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. Standing, (L-R): Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Ra
Proclamation signing - Voluntary Overseas Aid Week, 11:30AM. President John F. Kennedy (seated) delivers remarks at the signing of the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. Standing, (L-R): Richard W. Reuter, Executive Director of CARE; Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, President of Lutheran World Relief; Joseph Meyerhoff, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; unidentified; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President\u0027s schedule, also present at the signing ceremony are: Gilbert E. Blackford, Public Relations, Church World Service; Harold Evans, Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee; Raphael Levy, Director of Publicity for the United Jewish Appeal; William Maier, Chairman of International Services and Affairs of the American Friends Service Committee; William H. McCahon, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; and Canon Almon Pepper, Chairman of the National Council of Churches. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington,
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