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Appendix 3:
Members of the President's commission and Its Committees

The names of the men and women appointed to the Commission, and the posts they occupied at the time of their appointment, were:

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairman
(deceased )

Mrs. Esther Peterson
Executive Vice Chairman
Assistant Secretary of Labor

Dr. Richard A. Lester, Vice Chairman
Chairman, Department of Economics
Princeton University

The Attorney General
Honorable Robert F. Kennedy

The Secretary of Agriculture
Honorable Orville L. Freeman

The Secretary of Commerce
Honorable Luther H. Hodges

The Secretary of Labor
Honorable Arthur J. Goldberg
Honorable W. Willard Wirtz

The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Honorable Abraham A. Ribicoff
Honorable Anthony L. Celebrezze

Honorable George D. Aiken
U.S. Senate

Honorable Maurine B. Neuberger
U.S. Senate

Honorable Edith Green
U.S. House of Representatives

Honorable Jessica M. Weis
(deceased )
U.S. House of Representatives

The Chairman of the Civil Service Commission
Honorable John W. Macy, Jr.

Mrs. Macon Boddy
Henrietta, Tex.

Dr. Mary I. Bunting
President
Radcliffe College

Mrs. Mary E. Callahan
Member, Executive Board
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers


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Dr. Henry David
President
New School for Social Research

Miss Dorothy Height
President
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

Miss Margaret Hickey
Public Affairs Editor
Ladies' Home Journal

Mrs. Viola H. Hymes
President
National Council for Jewish Women, Inc.

Miss Margaret J. Mealey
Executive Director
National Council of Catholic Women

Mr. Norman E. Nicholson
Administrative Assistant
Kaiser Industries Corp.
Oakland, Calif.

Miss Marguerite Rawalt
Attorney; past president: Federal Bar Association, National Association of Women Lawyers, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.

Mr. William F. Schnitzler
Secretary-Treasurer
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Dr. Caroline F. Ware
Vienna, Va.

Dr. Cynthia C. Wedel
Assistant General Secretary for Program
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.


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Committee on Civil and Political Rights

Honorable Edith Green, Chairman and Commission Member

Miss Marguerite Rawalt, Co-Chairman and Commission Member

Mrs. Harper Andrews, Former President, Illinois League of Women Voters, Kewanee, Ill.

Mrs. Angela Bambace, Manager, Upper South Department, and Vice President, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union

James B. Carey, President, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers

Miss Gladys Everett, Attorney, Portland, Oreg.

Mrs. Yarnall Jacobs, President, National Council of Women of the United States, Inc.

John M. Kernochan, Director, Legislative Drafting Research Fund, Columbia University

Judge Florence Kerins Murray, Associate Justice, Rhode Island Superior Court

Miss Pauli Murray, Senior Fellow, Law School, Yale University

Mrs. E. Lee Ozbirn, President, General Federation of Women's Clubs

Miss Katherine Peden, President, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.

Mrs. Harriet F. Pilpel, Attorney, Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst, New York

Frank E. A. Sander, Professor of Law, Law School of Harvard University

Technical Secretary , Miss Mary Eastwood


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Committee on Education

Dr. Mary I. Bunting, Chairman and Commission Member

Miss Edna P. Amidon, Director, Home Economics Education Branch, U.S. Office of Education

Mrs. Algie E. Ballif, Former President, Utah School Board Association

Mrs. John D. Briscoe, Board of Directors, League of Women Voters of the United States

Mrs. Opal D. David, Former Director, Commission on the Education of Women, American Council on Education

Dr. Elizabeth M. Drews, Professor, College of Education, Michigan State University

Dr. Seymour M. Farber, Assistant Dean for Continuing Education in Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center

Mrs. Raymond Harvey, Dean, School of Nursing, Tuskegee Institute

Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Kenneth E. Oberholtzer, Superintendent, Denver Public Schools

Dr. Esther Raushenbush, Director, Center of Continuing Education, Sarah Lawrence College

Lawrence Rogin, Director of Education, AFL-CIO

Miss Helen B. Schleman, Dean of Women, Purdue University

Dr. Virginia L. Senders, Lecturer, Former Coordinator of Minnesota Plan, Lincoln, Mass.

Dr. Pauline Tompkins, General Director, American Association of University Women

Technical Secretary , Mrs. Antonia H. Chayes


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Committee on Federal Employment

Miss Margaret Hickey, Chairman and Commission Member

E. C. Hallbeck, Chairman, Government Employes Council, AFL-CIO

Judge Lucy Somerville Howorth, Former General Counsel, War Claims Commission, Cleveland, Miss.

Honorable Stephen S. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, U.S. Department of Defense

Mrs. Esther Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Government Employees

Honorable Roger W. Jones, Bureau of the Budget

Dr. Esther Lloyd-Jones, Head, Department of Guidance and Student Personnel Administration, Columbia University

Honorable John W. Macy, Jr., Commission Member

Dr. Jeanne L. Noble, President, Delta Sigma Theta, and Assistant Professor, Center for Human Relations Studies, New York University

Dr. Peter H. Rossi, Director, National Opinion Research Center, Chicago

Honorable Kathryn H. Stone, Virginia House of Delegates, and Director, Human Resources Program, Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies

Honorable Tyler Thompson, Director General of the Foreign Service, U.S. Department of State

Dr. Kenneth O. Warner, Director, Public Personnel Association

Technical Secretary, Mrs. Catherine S. East


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Committee on Home and Community

Dr. Cynthia C. Wedel, Chairman and Commission Member

Mrs. Marguerite H. Coleman, Supervisor of Special Placement Services, New York State Division of Employment

Dr. Rosa L. Gragg, President, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.

Mrs. Randolph Guggenheimer, President, National Committee for Day Care of Children, Inc.

Mrs. Viola H. Hymes, Commission Member

Mrs. Emerson Hynes, Arlington, Va.

Maurice Lazarus, President, Wm. Filene's Sons Co., Boston

Mrs. Martha Reynolds, United Community Services, AFL-CIO, Grand Rapids

Charles I. Schottland, Dean of Faculty, Brandeis University

Miss Ella V. Stonsby, Dean of College of Nursing, Rutgers University

Dr. Caroline F. Ware, Commission Member

Dr. Esther M. Westervelt, Instructor, Guidance and Personnel Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University

Technical Secretaries, Miss Ella C. Ketchin and Mrs. Margaret M. Morris

Committee on Private Employment

Dr. Richard A. Lester, Chairman and Commission Member

Jacob Clayman, Administrative Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO

Miss Caroline Davis, Director, Women's Department, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Miss Muriel Ferris, Legislative Assistant to Honorable Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senate

Charles W. Gasque, Jr., Assistant Commissioner for Procurement Policy, General Services Administration

Miss Dorothy Height, Commission Member

Joseph D. Keenan, Secretary, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Norman E. Nicholson, Commission Member

Frank Pace, Jr., General Dynamics Corp., New York

Mrs. Ogden Reid, Former President, Board Chairman, New York Herald Tribune

John A. Roosevelt, Bache and Co., New York


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Samuel Silver, Industrial Relations Adviser, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, U.S. Department of Defense

Technical Secretary, Sam A. Morgenstein

Committee on Protective Labor Legislation

Miss Margaret J. Mealey, Chairman and Commission Member

Mrs. Margaret F. Ackroyd, Chief, Division of Women and Children, Rhode Island State Department of Labor

Dr. Doris Boyle, Professor of Economics, Loyola College, Baltimore

Mrs. Mary E. Callahan, Commission Member

Dr. Henry David, Commission Member

Mrs. Bessie Hillman, Vice President, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Mrs. Paul McClellan Jones, Vice President, National Board, Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

Mrs. Mary Dublin Keyserling, Associate Director, Conference on Economic Progress

Carl A. McPeak, Special Representative on State Legislation, AFL-CIO

Clarence R. Thornbrough, Commissioner, Arkansas State Department of Labor

S. A. Wesolowski, Assistant to President, Brookshire Knitting Mills, Inc., Manchester, N.H.

Mrs. Addie Wyatt, Field Representative, United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers

Technical Secretary, Miss Ella C. Ketchin


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Committee on Social Insurance and Taxes

Honorable Maurine B. Neuberger, Chairman and Commission Member

Honorable Jessica M. Weis, Associate Chairman and Commission Member (deceased )

Dr. Eveline M. Burns, Professor of Social Work, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University

Mrs. Margaret B. Dolan, Chairman, Department of Public Health Nursing, University of North Carolina

Dean Fedele F. Fauri, School of Social Work, University of Michigan

Dr. Richard B. Goode, Brookings Institution

Miss Fannie Hardy, Executive Assistant, Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner

Miss Nina Miglionico, Attorney, Birmingham, Ala.

J. Wade Miller, Vice President, W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass.

Dr. Raymond Munts, Assistant Director, Social Security Department, AFL-CIO

Mrs. Richard B. Persinger, Chariman, National Public Affairs Committee, Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

Technical Secretary, Dr. Merrill G. Murray


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