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FEDER!J., WOR:CS AGEHCY
WORK P:rl.OJZCTS .AIJMINISTRA:VION
For I mmediato Release
Monday, September 29, 1941
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.AJJVI SORY COl1.[MITTEE ON COMI,fuNITY SERVICE '.CO ~ET IN WASHn;r}TON OCTOBETI 1 .Alw 2
Th e third annual me eting of the lfational Ad.visory Committee of the
WPA Community Service Program, of which Dr . J ay B. Nash of Hew York University
is ·c hainwn, _will be held. in Washington on October 1 and 2, it was announced
today by Mrs . Florence Ker~~, Assistant WPA Commissioner in charge
r)f
the
Community Service Division.
Highlight of the t wo- day session will be a luncheon at the \'Thi Jee
House on Thursday, Octo"ber 2, when the group will be the guest of Mrs. Rooseve lt,.
Precedi ng the luncheon, t her e i·:i ll be a general discussion by committee momoors
and Mrs. Roosevelt of the part WP.A should play in thG defense progTam.
Tho puxpose of tho Ad.v5.sory Committee, Mrs. Korr pointed. out, is to
assist in fe.shioning the WPA Community Service Program to meot the widest
needs of the public in tho fields of educa tion, recreat ion, librai~y service
and tho arts , and to indicate general directions which those projects should
take in order to servo the largest :possible number of persons in local
comnruniti os .
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said,
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11 it
the last meeting of our national Advisory Committo e, 11 Mrs. Kerr
was recommended that all sponsors of our projec t s be informed of the
committoc 1 s considered judgment of the importance of t his work in th~proscnt
emergency.
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Tho commi tteo stated its belief in the principle that t he cl"U.cial
factor in tho defense of a nation against possible foreign aggression is
precisely tho same factor as that needed for achieving the purposes of a
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democrac;y in time of peace.
.ll:ny pro{;,;r-am of nf.'..tional defense whi ch disregC'.J.· ds
the rights and obli gati ons of ~oalthful living , ?ro1~ctivo labor anQ i ndividual
development of a poop lo is no defense at all•
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At our f orthcoming meeting," Mrs. Kerr continued ,
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expect to
meas,.u· e t he accomplishment of t he Community Service Pro gram in the light of that
princip l e m1d. to dev ise further means of extend.ing the benefits of t he :program
in a ccor danc e with the demands of national d.ef onse .
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Tho first day 1 s session ~nll be held i n Conference Room A adjacent
to t he DepBrtment a l Auditorium, on Constitutivn Avenue .
The mee ti ng wi ll be
opene d at 9 : ~O o ' clock with a shor t e,d.dross of welcome by Dr . Nash and Mrs . Kerr ,.
This will be followed by an exe cu.tiv u sess ion a t which new officers will be
electe d, and b;-,r a luncheon dis cussi on with staff consult ants of the WPA Community Service Program.
The afternoon session , beginning a t 2: 15 o 1 clock , wilJ. be o·,? on to
tho press and wi ll b e featured by add.rossos b y Jacob Baker, of t ho Public Work
Re serve ; Dean William F . Russel l and Marshall E. DiI!'.mock of t ho lfo..tional Ci tizenship Educa tion Progrrun; Dr . Stella _L oche Deignan , director of t he WPA 2Jroject
for S~anish instruction for tho Army a n d Navy ~ir forces, and G. Ott Romney, WPA
Director of Recreation .
A d.in:ner meeting will be hold 2.t 7 o 1 clock at whi9h
Maury M2.v orick , former Toxns Co ngressman and offici al of OP.ACS , vrill s:poa.."lc~
The second dayt s progrrun, followin g t ho Whi to House lunc;:1eon, . will
conclud.o with a gener a l summary of t ho mee ting ana. ad.j ournment a t 4 : 30 p . m~
The following mombe1· s of tho lfationa.l Advisory Commit tee have indicated tha t t hey would attend the mooting:
D:i; . Harold R. Benjamin , College Park, Md.; Miss Char l otte Ca rr ,
Chicago , I l l .; Miss Mar t ha Deane , Los A.v1go l os , Calif.; Doro thy Canfield Fisher ,
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Ar lington, Vt .; Holon Gcllagan, Los Ange l es , Ca lif.; D-.c . Gco :i. gc Ge..~lo wo,;y-,
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Washing to1~, D.
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Rosamond Gilder , Now York City; 1\..11nio Goo drich, Qolcl1<?st<?r ,
Conn.; Dr . Arthur Ho lt, Cl1ico.go, Ill.; Yir . C2.rl Milam, Ch ic;,,go , Ill.; Dr . J . B.
Nash, Now. York City; Cho.rlotto Partridge , Milwau..keo , Wis .; James ?att on , Denver ,
Co l o.; Dr ~ Milton Jo seph Rosenau , Univer s ity of North Carolina; M:cs . Isn..."..c B.
Tigrott , Jt,cks on, Tonn.; Mr . Brnd.loy Twitty, Turrnaloosa, Aln.• ; Ed.na J ane
Hunter , Cleveland, Oh io , and Genevieve Fi sher , ..'\mos , Io wa.,
A number of Str.>.te and regi onal officia ls of the WPA a lso a rc oxpoctod to attend t ho sess ions .
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