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Presentation of Scholastic Achievement Awards to three students graduating in June 1961, given by Recording for the Blind, Inc., and presented by President John F. Kennedy. L-R: unidentified; Senator Kenneth B. Keating (New York); award recipient, Daniel R. Webber; President John F. Kennedy; award recipient, Cheryl Lynn Martin; Cheryl’s mother, Mrs. James Martin; award recipient, Helen Vivian Aareskjold; several unidentified. Also included in the President’s schedule: President of Recording for the Blind, Inc., Mrs. Frederick B. Payne; member of the Board of Directors, Henry C. Breck; member of the Board of Directors, Walker C. Buckner; Chairman of the Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Unit of Recording for the Blind, Inc., Mrs. John M. Deely; Chairman of the Detroit Unit, Godfrey Strelinger; National Director, Burnham Carter; Assistant for Recording for the Blind, Inc., Jeanne MacDaniels; Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Mary Switzer. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6595-A
Presentation of Scholastic Achievement Awards to three students graduating in June 1961, given by Recording for the Blind, Inc., and presented by President John F. Kennedy. L-R: two unidentified; Senator Kenneth B. Keating (New York); award recipient, Daniel R. Webber; President John F. Kennedy; award recipient, Cheryl Lynn Martin; Cheryl's mother, Mrs. James Martin; award recipient, Helen Vivian Aareskjold; several unidentified. Also included in the President’s schedule: President of Recording for the Blind, Inc., Mrs. Frederick B. Payne; member of the Board of Directors, Henry C. Breck; member of the Board of Directors, Walker C. Buckner; Chairman of the Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Unit of Recording for the Blind, Inc., Mrs. John M. Deely; Chairman of the Detroit Unit, Godfrey Strelinger; National Director, Burnham Carter; Assistant for Recording for the Blind, Inc., Jeanne MacDaniels; Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Mary Switzer. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7943-C
President John F. Kennedy visits with winners of the Recording for the Blind Scholastic Achievement Awards in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: three unidentified persons; award winner Jean Holland “Holly” Van Ormer and her mother, Jean Holland Van Ormer; award winner Charles Edwin Vaughan (in back) and his wife, Mrs. Vaughan (mostly hidden); award winner Patrick V. Peppe; President Kennedy; award winner Richard H. Fidler and his father, Wilbert C. Fidler (in back); two unidentified persons; National Director of Recording for the Blind, Inc., Burnham Carter. Also included in the President’s schedule: Joseph Peppe, father of award winner Patrick V. Peppe; President of the Board of Trustees of Recording for the Blind, Allen H. Merrill; Recording for the Blind Board members, Mary Howard de Liagre, Mary K. Knowles, and Peter B. Putnam; assistant from Recording for the Blind, M. B. Zerwick.