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O'CONOR APPOINTS GROUP TO
STUDY ADOPTION LAWS
Representatives of Bench, Bar, Civic
and Welfare Groups Included

| and welfare Groups Included
Appointment of a statewide com
mittee, whose function it will be tc
consider changes of state legislation
governing the adoption of children
has been announced by Governor
Herbert r. O'Conor.
Widespread interest Las been evil
denced throughout the State for
some time in the matter of adoption
laws, Givernor O'Conor pointed out.
One result of this interest, he said,
was resolution passed by the House
of Delegates in TIE recent Session
asking the Governor to appoint a
committee to study revision Of the
| adoption laws and to report to the
Legislative Council and the 1947 ses-
sion of the General Assembly on it's
findings. The resolution declared, the
| Governor said, that these adoption
laws are greatly in need of careful
study, looking toward extensive re
vision
Various civic and welfare organi-
cations throughout the State, like
wise, have been actively interested in
the matter, Governor O'Conor declar-
ed, including the Baltimore Council
of Social Agencies, the Jewish Fam
lily and Chiidren's bureau OF Balti-
more, the Family and Cfildren's So
ciety of Baltimore, the Church Mis-
sion of Help of the Diocese of Mary
land, the Womens' Bar Association
of Baltimore, the League of Women
Voters, the Ministerial Union of
Montgomery County, representing
some sixty churches. the Montgomery
County Civic Federation and the
Montgomery County Federation Of
Women's Clubs.
AS expressive of the interest of
his Council in such study as is pro-
posed, L. Edwin Goldman, President
of the Baltimore Council of Social
Agencies, informed Governor O'Con-
or that a committee of the Council
of Social Agencies on Legal-Social
Problems had been giving serious
consideration to TIE matter of adop-
ton law changes over a period of
several years. In appointing his COM
mission, the Governor made clear,
he had been careful to include rep
resentatives of certain of these or
CARNATIONS which had been giving
consideration to the problem to the
end that the results of their findings
might be utilized in the new groups
studies and recommendations.
Because of the Importance of this
meeting" Governor O'Conor said, q
have asked former Judge Eugene o.
Dunne to accept appointment as
Chairman of the Commission. With
can contribute greatly to the direc-
ton of and success of the study to be
initiated. l shall ask him to call a
meeting of the group so that the full
est consideration may bc given to all
phases of the matter in time for
report to be made to the Legislative
Council by September 1, 1916, as re-
quired by the Legislative resolution"
Committee To Study Revision of
Adoption Laws
Eugene O'Dunne, ESQ.,, Chairman;
Gerald Monsman, Chairman, Sab
committee, Baltimore Council OF So
,ial Agencies, Baltimore City; Judge
John b. Centrum, Court House, Tow
son, Maryland; Mrs. Howard V. San
differ, President, Maryland League
of Women Voters, Silver Spring,
Montgomery County, Maryland; L..
Edwin Goldman, President, Balti-
more Council if Social Agencies, Bal
timore City; Rev. John K. Mount,
Jr., President, Church Mission of
Help, Diocese of Maryland; Joseph
NJ Brunsman, 1928 Fidelity Build
ing, Baltimore, Maryland; Hughlett
Henry, Easton, Maryland Richard
B. Barker, Montgomery county.
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