Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7412-A
President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony honoring the achievements of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The ceremony commemorated the program’s rehabilitation of 100,000 people who were trained for a new vocation after becoming disabled. (L-R): Unidentified; Anthony Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Mary K. Friskie; President Kennedy; Edward A. Friskie of Boswell, Pennsylvania (“Mr. Rehabilitation” of 1962), the representative of participants in the Rehabilitation program; Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Reporters, including White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) Helen Thomas, look on from behind the group. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.