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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.