Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7209-B
President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the United States Industrial Mission to Korea, a group of businessmen interested in trade and development in Korea, prior to the group’s departure for Seoul, Korea. Those listed in the President's schedule include: head of the Industrial Mission, General James A. Van Fleet (front row, right of President Kennedy); Vice President of Vitro Corporation of America International, Ralph L. Brown (center, in back); co-sponsor of the Industrial Mission and Vice President of the International Agriculture Corporation, Ernest Barth; President of Alaska Airlines, Inc., Charles Willis; Harold Gibson, of Armour and Company; Vice President of Blaw-Knox Company, Buckley M. Byers; Vice President of Blaw-Knox Company, Charles F. Hauck; President of Cary Chemicals Inc., George F. Blasius; Director of Chemtex, Inc., Robert Milne; counsel to the sponsor of the Industrial Mission, David Ginsburg; D. J. Spiegel, of the International Agricultural Corporation; Vice President of Koppers Company, Inc., Frank B. Varga; financial consultant to the Chairman of the Board, Vance Brand; Executive Vice President of Parsons and Whittemore and Black-Clawson Company, Samuel Efron; Far East Resident Executive for Parsons and Whittemore and Black-Clawson Company, Ralph Phillips; President of the Pacific Vegetable Oil Corporation, Curt Rocca; Fletcher Plumley, of Reynolds Metals Company; O. B. Pollock, of Reynolds Metals Company; Chief of Economic Coordination of the Industrial Mission, C. R. Williams, of Socony Mobil Oil Company; Chief of Marketing Coordination for St. Regis Paper Co., Morlan J. Grandbois; Chairman of the Board of Standard Milling Company, Ralph Friedman; President of Vitro Corporation of America International, Norman A. Spector; Vice President of Westinghouse Electric International, Robert Jeans; Vice President of Bank of America, George Curran; Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, W. J. Lamneck; Vice President of First National City Bank of New York, R. A. Kathe; Vice President of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Tristan E. Beplat. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.