LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

AUGUST 4, 5, AND 6, 1959

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan, Chairman

SIDNEY SPECTOR, Staff Director
HAROLD L. SHEPPARD, Research Director

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

AUGUST 4, 1959

Cowan, Nathan, chairman; accompanied by James C. O'Brien, assistant

chairman, Committee of Retired Workers, United Steelworkers of

America...

Carey, Mrs. Jean Wallace, director, division of aging, Federation of

Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc.

Morgan, Dr. Joy Elmer, president, Senior Citizens of America..

Spilman, Joseph L., first vice president, National Association of Retired

Civil Employees---

Dunn, William, assistant to President Joseph A. Beirne; accompanied by

Mrs. Helen Berthelot, legislative representative, Communications

Workers of America, AFL-CIO....

Van Orman, Dr. William, National Education Association of the United

States; accompanied by Dr. Henrietta Rabe, supervisor of education

for the aging, bureau of adult education___.

Carter, Henry, president National Conference of 40 Plus Clubs of the
United States_

Krettek, Miss Germaine, director, Washington office, American Library

Association.

Larsson, Mrs. Nelda Ross, American Dietetic Association.

Hoffman, Mrs. Helen Duey, the Friendly Seniors of All Souls Church

(Unitarian)

AUGUST 5, 1959

Andrus, Dr. Ethel Percy, president; accompanied by Mrs. Ruth Lana,

executive_secretary, and Leonard Davis, business adviser, National

Retired Teachers Association and American Association of Retired

Persons...

Mathiasen, Geneva, executive secretary, National Committee on the

Aging

Swartz, Dr. Frederick C., chairman; accompanied by John Guy Miller, staff

associate, Committee on Aging, American Medical Association..

Mattison, Berwyn F., executive director, American Public Health Asso-

ciation

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77

87

95

Williamson, Kenneth, associate director, American Hospital Association--

Thompson, Julia C., Washington representative, American Nurses'

Association_

105

119

O'Grady, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John, secretary, National Conference of Catholic

Charities

126

AUGUST 6, 1959

Ellickson, Mrs. Katherine, assistant director, Department of Social

Security, AFL-CIO.

135

Gifford, Chloe, president, General Federation of Women's Clubs..

McMahon, Gen. John P., commander in chief, Volunteers of America_

Bortz, Edward L., M.D., president-elect, American Geriatrics Society-

McGuire, Marie C., executive director, Housing Authority of the City of

San Antonio, Tex...

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