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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20901
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, Executive Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal (left), reads from a paper upon presenting President John F. Kennedy (center, back to camera) with a framed scroll citing his "vigorous championship of constructive assistance to the needy abroad" during the signing of the Proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. Other leaders of American humanitarian and religious organizations look on. (L-R) Unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Rabbi Friedman; 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 (in back, mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; Rt. Rev. John F. McCarthy, Assistant Executive Director of Catholic Relief Services; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); Director of Food for Peace George McGovern; and unidentified. According to the President's 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, D.C.