Evening star., 1953-06-27
|Dr. Veal Elected
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Head Of UCS
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Health Section
Mrs. J. H. Ferguson
Is Named Units
Vice Chuirmun

elected chairman Of the Health
Section of United Community
Services at q meeting in the
YWCA, Seventeenth and x
streets NV.
DR.. <VeaLis former president Of
the Federation, Of Citizens AS
sociations and chairman Of the
Board Of Trades public health
committee.
4 Named vice chairman was Mrs.
John II. Ferguson, former presi-
dent of the board of managers
Of the Children's Convalescent
Home and q member of the
Health Sections executive COM
n1ittee for the last two years.
Elected to the executive CONF
rnittee were Mrs. Henry A. Bart
lett, outgoing section chairman.
and first vice president Of the
citizens federation; DR.. Paul B.
Cornely, medical director of
Freedmen's Hospital, and Dr..
Wallace M. Yater, president Of
the District Medical Society.
Committee Reflections.
Reelected to the executive
committee were DIR. E. H. Cush-
ing, DR.. William L. Granatir.
Joseph w. Leverenz, Myron Mills,
DR.. Alice M. Waterhouse and
Mrs. Theodore o. Wedel.
Ex-officio members are Ferdi-
nand v. Grayson, UCS executive
director; Health Director Daniel
L. Seckinger. Fisher Howe, chair
man of the disqualification COM
mittee; George c. Pendleton.
chairman Of the committee on
nursing care in the home, and
M. D. Rayner, chairman of the
committee on rehabilitation.
Delegates from the section to
the, UCS board of trustees are
DR.. Josephine j. Buchanan, chief
of the department of rehabilita-
ton and physician medicine, CAL
linger Hospital; Miss Clarissa
Gibson, executive director of the
Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety; Miss Beatrice Hodgson.
executive director of the Wash
ington Heart Association. Inc;
DR.. Howard M. Payne, chief of
the tuberculosis division of
Freedmen's Hospital, and George
H. Pennell, jr., executive vice
president of the District Society
for Crippled Children. Inc.
Miss Hodgson and DR.. Bu-
chanan were selected as the
delegates to serve on 1.-The Sec
ton executive committee.
Public Members.
Public -at-large members of
the section are Mrs. j. Shepard
Bartlett, member of the board of
directors of the United Cerebral
Palsy Association Of the District:
Mrs. Montgomery Blair. past
president of the Junior League
Of Washington; Miss Lois M
Burman, nutrition consultant at
the Bureau Of Maternal and
Child Welfare of the Health De-
partment; DR.. Charlotte P.
Donlan. director of the Warwick
Cancer Detection Clinic of
George Washington University;
the Rev. Andrew Fowler, pastor
of the Capitol View Baptist
Church; Mrs. Louisa Eskridge
Hass, education specialist of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Also Attorney Frederick c.
LIE Comte, DR.. william r. Mer-
chant. DR.. Frederick D. Mott,
Mrs. Grace G. Parr, director of
medical social service of the Bu-
reau of Maternal and Child We'll
fare; Mrs. George w. Petticord,
jr., member of the board of di-
rectorS of the Children's Conva-
lescent Home; Mrs. Margaret N.
Taliaferro of the Freedmen's
Hospital Chest clinics, and Miss
Ellen Walsh, assistant social
service chief, Clinical Center,
National Institute of Health.
On Nominating Committee.
Continued on the Nominating
Committee were:
Mrs. William S. Anderson,
member Of the board of directors,
Travellers Aid Society; Miss
Edith M Beattie, executive Sec
retary of the Graduate Nurses
Association: Mrs. Robert F..
Leonard, League of Women
Voters; Mrs. C.. D. Lowe, past |
president, board of directors,
District of Columbia Tubercu-
losiS Association.
Also Mrs. Warren A. McNeill, |
Junior League of Washington;
DR.. Payne and Theodore Wiprud,
executive director, District Med
ical Society.