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The Report of the President's Committee on Health Education Transmittal letter to the President
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- Named Organization
- A.C. Nielsen
- AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organiza)Labor Union
- Agency for International Development
- Albany Medical College
- Aluminum Company of America
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Association of Advertising Agencies
- American Bar Foundation
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Cancer Society
- American College of Preventive Medicine
- American Dental Association
- American Heart Association (Voluntary health organization that focuses on cardiac health)Voluntary health organization that focuses on cardiac health and stroke. AHA occasionally teams with tobacco retailers to engage in promotions/fund-raisers (see http://www.smokefree.net/doc-alert/messages/247136.html and http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html).
- American Hospital Association
- American Marketing Association
- American Medical Association (physicians group)Professional trade group representing American physicians.
- American Optometric Association
- American Public Health Association (Public health organization)Professional organization for people working in public health
- American Society of Internal Medicine
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
- Arizona Medical Association
- Arkansas Medical Society
- Auburn University
- Basic Research
- Baylor University (Baptist university in Waco, TX)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Boston City Hospital
- Boston Globe
- Brooklyn College
- Bureau of Health Education
- California Medical Association
- Celanese Corporation (Sold materials for cigarette filters)sold materials for cigarette filters
- *Center for Disease Control (Use United States Centers for Disease Control and PNow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Formerly Communicable Disease Center
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Chamber of Commerce
- Chapel Hill
- CIBA-GEIGY Corporation (Parent co. of Habitrol mfg)The parent company of Basel Pharmaceuticals in Summit, NJ. the distributor of Habitrol (TM) nicotine transdermal system ("the patch").
- City Hospital (California)
- City University
- Civil Aeronautics Board (Ruled on smoking in U.S. airplanes)
- Colorado State University
- Commonwealth Fund
- Communications Workers of America (CWA)
- Dell
- Denver General Hospital
- Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- *Department of Education (use United States Department of Health, Education & We
- *Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) (use United States Departmen (use @hew_dept)
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- *Department of Labor (use United States Department of Labor)
- Department of State (DOS)
- Department of the Treasury
- *Department of Transportation (use United States Department of Transportation)
- Duke University
- Dun & Bradstreet (Credited rating service)
- Education Department (ED)
- Eli Lilly (pharmaceutical company)
- Emory University
- Environmental Management (Energy Department)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Farm Bureau
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal Trade Commission (Enforcement agency for laws against deceptive advertising)Enforces laws against false and deceptive advertising, including ads for tobacco products. Ensures proper display of health warnings in ads and on tobacco products;collects and reports to Congress information concerning cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising, sales expenditures, and the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of cigarettes.
- Florida International University
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Franklin and Marshall College
- General Electric Company (appliance company)
- General Services Administration (GSA)
- Georgia State University
- Girl Scouts of America
- Harvard College (Harvard Collge is the undergraduate branch of Harvard Univer)
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Health Services and Mental Health Administration (U.S. Public Health Service)
- Houston Post (newspaper)
- Hunter College
- Indian Health Service
- Indiana University (Located in Bloomington, Indiana)
- Institute of Medicine
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- J. Walter Thompson (Advertising agency)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kaiser-Permanente
- Kansas State University
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Specializes in the tobacco reconstitution process)Specializes in the tobacco reconstitution process and in helping the tobacco companies control their nicotine
- Loma Linda University
- March of Dimes (Voluntary health organzation concerned with birth defects)
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Medical College of Georgia (Did youth recognition studies of Joe Camel, Mickey Mouse)Reported circa 1994 that almost as many 6-year-olds recognized Joe Camel as know Mickey Mouse
- Medical World News (scientific periodical)
- Memorial Hospital
- Merck (pharmaceutical company)
- Methodist Hospital
- Metropolitan Life Insurance (Insurance Company)
- Milbank Memorial Fund
- Mobil Oil
- Mt. Sinai Hospital
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Advisory Council
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Health Service
- National Science Foundation
- New England Deaconess Hospital
- New York Life Insurance Co.
- New York State Public Health Association
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Oklahoma State Medical Association
- Pan-American Health Organization
- Peace Corps
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pittsburgh Press (Newspaper)
- Preventive Medicine (periodical)
- Public Health University (Located in Bangkok, Thailand)
- Purdue University
- Railroad Retirement Board
- Red Cross
- Rice University
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Selective Service System
- Senate
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Society for Public Health Education
- Southern Illinois University
- St. Louis University
- State Department
- Texas A & M University
- Texas Education Agency (Runs public schools in Texas)Develops and supports a learning environment for students of all ages served by the Texas Public Education systems.
- Texas Public Health Association
- Texas School of Public Health
- Texas Woman's University
- The Shield (anti-tobacco and alcohol publication of the 1920s)
- Travelers Insurance Company
- Treasury Department
- Tufts University
- Tufts University Medical School
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Steel
- United Hospitals
- United States Information Agency
- United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
- University of Alabama-Birmingham
- University of Arkansas
- *University of California (use specific branch)
- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of California at Los Angeles
- *University of California Berkeley (use University of California at Berkeley)
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Colorado
- University of Florida
- University of Hawaii
- University of Iowa
- University of Maryland
- University of Maryland College Park
- University of Michigan
- University of Missouri
- University of Missouri - Columbia
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- University of North Carolina
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- University of Northern Colorado
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Tennessee
- University of Texas
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Houston
- University of Texas Medical School
- University of the Pacific
- University of Utah
- University of Vermont
- University of Washington - Seattle
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Veterans Administration
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (commonly known as Virginia Tech)
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Westinghouse
- White House
- Woodruff Foundation
- World Health Organization (Concerned with global public health)International organization concered with public health worldwide
- Xerox
- Yolo County Health Department
- Named Person
- Accardi, Patrick
- Aldridge, M. Gene
- Amundson, George
- Anderson, Stanley B., Jr.
- Antoine, Harold
- Arnold, W. Brent
- Atkisson, Arthur A.
- Augusta, Georgia
- Aune, Eugene W.
- Austin, Mary
- Baca, C. John
- Bank, Loan
- Banton, William C., II
- Barlow, Melvin L.
- Barnes, Byron A.
- Barr, Harriet
- Beirne, Joseph A.
- Bernstein, Lynne
- Birnbaum, Z. William
- Blair, James
- Brady, Phyllis Ann
- Brand, Mary Lou
- Breslow, Lester, M.D. (CA Director of Public Health (1960s-70s), Plaintiff Expert)Plaintiff
- Brigham, Peter Bent
- Brill, Martha
- Brown, Emory J.
- Burney, Leroy E., M.D. (U.S. Surgeon General 1957)Dr. Leroy E. Burney was the United States Surgeon General under Eisenhower (1957) (E. Whelan 1984; Dallas MN 1/12/94).
- Burns, Eveline M.
- Burton, Grant
- Bybee, Dan
- Bybee, Don R.
- Byrnes, John
- Campbell, Ernest B.
- Campbell, Helen
- Campbell, John E.
- Carlyon, William
- Casper, Richard
- Cauffman, Joy G.
- Cervantes, Robert
- Chambers, Frank M.
- Chavez, James
- Clark, Dale
- Cleary, Helen P.
- Clemens, Margaret
- Clemons, Margaret
- Conant, Richard K., Jr.
- Conrath, Cecilia C.
- Cook, Ernest
- Corcoran, Lawrence J.
- Cortez, Irma
- Craig, Marjorie
- Crawford, Dawn
- Danforth, Janet E.
- Dedek, Milton
- Denver, Denver
- Dix, Julius C.
- Donnelley, Reuben H.
- Drew, Charles R.
- Dreyfus, Edward G.
- Duffy, Benedict
- Eiseman, Seymour
- Elias, James
- Eller, C. Howe
- Ensz, Elmer
- Erickson, Charles
- Erickson, Donald
- Evans, Shirley
- Evans, William
- Fast, Charles G.
- Favela, Carmen
- Felix, Robert
- Fenlon, Roberta
- Ferro, Frank
- Fisher, Ralph T.
- Fitz, Reginald
- Fodor, John T.
- Ford, Hugh H.
- Fulton, Wallace
- Garcia, Angelita
- Garcia, Hector
- Garrison, Dorothy B.
- Geiger, Jack
- Gibson, Cecil
- Gifford, Seth
- Giorgi, Elsie
- Gordon, Ira J.
- Green, Lawrence W.
- Griffin, Hershel
- Griffin, Marilyn
- Griffiths, William
- Grogan, Dean
- Grossman, Jerome
- Guy, Margaret
- Haag, Jessie Helen
- Hale, William
- Hamburg, Marian
- Hamburg, Marian V.
- Hankins, Eunice
- Hanson, Nathan C.
- Hardy, Tim, Jr.
- Harris, Franklin D.
- Harrison, James T.
- Haverty, John Rhodes
- Haynes, M. Alfred
- Heart, Louis
- Henry, Wilma Dean
- Hildebrand, Glenn
- Hill, Patricia
- Hoff, Wilbur
- Homer, Maxine
- Horton, Eugene Keith
- Houston, Gloria
- Houston, Gloria F.
- Houston, Sam
- Hubbard, Fred
- Humphrey, Charles R.
- Hunter, Gertrude
- Irving, John
- Jennings, Paul B.
- Jennison, M. Harry
- Jeter, Howard P.
- Jones, Elois H.
- Kaiser, Leland R.
- Kaiser, Lloyd
- Kauffman, Raymond
- Keil, David
- Kemp, William N.
- King, Bryant E.
- King, Mary Lou
- Klein, David
- Kline, Paul
- Knott, Veronica
- Lampe, John
- Larry, R. Heath
- Lasser, Terese
- Lawrence, Arthur M.
- Lennon, Mary Louise
- Lewis, Robert
- Life, Liberty
- Lim, V. Joyce
- Lockhart, Richard
- Low, Florence W.
- Lyons, Dorothy J.
- Maccoll, Caroline
- Malloy, Helena V.
- Massengale, Helen
- Mauer, Alison
- Mcgrail, Richard P.
- Mckay, Carmel
- Mcmahon, John Alexander
- Mcnerney, Walter J.
- Mcvey, Francis A.
- Meador, Clifton
- Medearis, Donald M., Jr.
- Miller, A., M.D. (Asbestos researcher)
- Miller, Alene
- Miller, Charles T.
- Miller, Eugene
- Miller, Richard E.
- Miner, Wayne
- Moos, Madeline E.
- Mumm, Elizabeth
- Nader, Ralph (Consumer Activist)Consumer activist long renowned for a career of exposing corporate deception and wrongdoing that result in human harm.
- Nelson, J. Robert
- Newman, Donald
- Nixon, Richard Milhous (U.S. President, 1969-1974)
- Nolte, Ann
- Oligschlaeger, Herman
- Orozco, Ruben
- Owens, Mitchell V.
- Painter, Joseph T.
- Paley, Martin
- Palmquist, Emil
- Parham, Jim
- Patty, Dr.
- Pavlich, Anne
- Pendleton, Donald E.
- Pepper, Max
- Perez, Carlos
- Pike, Katherine
- Popkin, Jordan
- Powell, Jesse
- Raya, Arthur E.
- Raz, Sam
- Reid, Sondra
- Rhodes, Carl
- Richardson, Arthur P.
- Richardson, Elliot Lee
- Richman, Julia
- River, Savannah
- Robbins, Janet Jo
- Roberson, Carol
- Robinson, Mary E.
- Rodriguez, Estelle
- Sachs, David
- Sarracino, Emmett
- Saucedo, Vera
- Schneider, Elsa
- Schneider, Estella
- Sconce, Shane
- Sellers, Thomas F., Jr.
- Seymour, Dan
- Shank, Robert E.
- Shapiro, Irving S.
- Siegfried, Charles A.
- Simmons, Jeanette
- Simonds, Scott K.
- Skiff, Anna
- Skinner, Lou
- Smith, Eddie G., Jr.
- Smith, J. Henry
- Spencer, Mary
- Steel, Mary E.
- Stephens, William J.
- Steuart, Guy
- Stevenson, Gale
- Stickle, Gabriel
- Strother, Ella L.
- Strother, Ella Louise
- Sullivan, Daniel
- Tait, Emily
- Taussig, William
- Temple, Patty
- Tess, Ronald C.
- Tharpe, Lula
- Toland, Kathy
- Tritsch, Len
- Upchurch, Marian
- Valdez, Valeri
- Valley, Fernando
- Van, John
- Velez, Carlos
- Walker, Mabel
- Walker, Matthew
- Ward, Graham W.
- Ward, Paul D.
- Waring, William W.
- Washburn, Virginia E.
- Watson, Diane E.
- Watson, Jack H., Jr.
- Wechsler, Henry
- Weiner, Sharon
- Weingarten, Victor
- Weiss, Robert L.
- Wheatley, George M.
- Wilcox, Frances
- Williams, Alexander
- Williams, George
- Williams, Margaret
- Wilson, Joseph C.
- Winarski, Walter
- Wong, Mary
- Wood, Courtney
- Wood, Peggy Wright
- Zumbrunnen, Charles E.
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The Report of the President's Committee on Health Education
Transmittal letter to the President signed by R. Heath Larry
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The information cited and the opinions expressed in this publication
are those of the President's Committee on Health Education and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the Health Services and Mental
Health Administration nor of the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare.
The Report
Of The President's Committee
On Health Education
801 Second Avenue
New York, New York 10017
212/889-6760
,..A,Comprehensive Health Education Program."
In the final analysis, each individual bears the major re-
sponsibility for his own health. Unfortunately, too many of us fail
to meet that responsibility. Too many Americans eat too much,
drink too much, work too hard and exercise too little. Too
many are careless drivers.
These are personal questions, to be sure; but they are also
public questions. For the whole society has a stake in the health
of the individual. Ultimately, everyone shares in the cost of his
illnesses or accidents. Through tax payments and through insur-
ance premiums, the careful subsidize the careless; the non-
smokers subsidize those who smoke; the physically fit subsidize
the rundown and the overweight; the knowledgeable subsidize
the ignorant and the vulnerable.
It is in the interest of our entire country, therefore, to
educate and encourage each of our citizens to develop sensible
health practices. Yet we have given remarkably little attention
to the health education of our people.
Most of our current efforts in this area are fragmented and
haphazard-a public service advertisement one week, a news-
paper article another, a short lecture now and then from the
doctor.
There is no national instrument, no central force to stimu-
late and coordinate a comprehensive health education program.
Richard Nixon
Health message to the Congress
Februa;y 15, ;.~7;
Contents
Statement by President Nixon ....................... Page 2
Dedication and In Memoriam ........................ 9
Acknowledgements ................................ 10
Letter of Transmittal ............................... 11
Charge to the Committee ........................... 13
Activities of the Committee ......................... 14
THE REPORT
Section I -Changing Needs for Health Education ..... 15
Section II - Purposes and Challenges of Health
Education ............................. 17
Section III - Findings and Recommendations:
National Activities in Support of
Health Education ....................... 22
Section IV - Findings and Recommendations:
National Center for Health Education ..... 28
Chart of Organization .............................. 34-35
Supplementary Statements ..........................
Dissents ..........................................
APPENDICES
States Represented at Regional Hearings .............
Planning Councils for Regional Hearings .............
Neighborhood Health Center Directors Who Attended
Special Meeting December 6-7, 1971 ............
Governmental Agencies Represented at Sub-Committee
Discussions of Their Possible Role in Health
Education .....................................
Organizations Which Responded to Questionnaires .... •
Governmental Agencies Which Responded to Chairman's
Request for Information ........................
Persons Who Gave Testimony Written and/or Oral at Regional Hearings ...........................
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Members Of The President's
Committee O,n Health Education
R. HEATH LARRY, chairman of the Presi-
dent's Committee on Health Education, is
vice chairman of the board of directors of
U.S. Steel. Mr. Larry is a member of the
~ National Commission on Productivity, ap-
pointed to that body by President Nixon,
and a member of Governor Rockefeller°s
Steering Committee on Social Problems.
He also serves as a board member of the
Bituminous Coal Operators Association.
R. HEATH LARRY He is a president of the Hospital Council
of Western Pennsylvania and is a trustee of Grove City College,
the National YMCA Retirement Fund, and the U.S. Council of the
international Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
LEROY E. BURNEY, M.D. is President of
the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York
City. Dr. Burney was appointed Surgeon
General of the U.S. Public Health Service
by President Eisenhower in 1956 and
served in that assignment until 1961. Dur-
ing that time he also was chairman of the
U.S.delegation to the World Health As-
sembly and was its President in 1957. Dr.
Burney is a former President of the Na-
tional Health Council and the Association
of State and Territorial Health Officers,
National Commission for the Study of
Education.
LEROY E. BURNEY
and President of the
Nursing and Nursing
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WALTER J. McNERNEY
Secretary Finch's Task
WALTER J. McNERNEY, President of the
Blue Cross Association, is vice chairman
of the President's Committee on Health
Education. He is president of the National
Health Council, a member of the program
committee of the Institute of Medicine, Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, and president
and chairman, Council ef Management of
the International Federation of Voluntary
Health Service Funds. In 1970, Mr.
McNerney served as chairman of HEW
Force on Medicaid and Related Programs•
JOSEPH A. BEIRNE
JOSEPH A. BEIRNE is President of the
Communications Workers of America and
a member of the Executive Council of the
AFL-CIO, serving as chairman of its Inter-
national Affairs Committee. He also is pres-
ident of Postal, Telegraph & Telephone
International, secretary-treasurer of the
American Institute for Free Labor Develop-
ment and a member of the National Com-
mission on Productivity.
JOY G. CAUFFMAN, Ph.D. is an associate
professor in the School of Medicine at the
University of Southern California. She has
served as president or chairman of health
education associations on state, district,
and national Im/els and currently is coor-
dinator of the Coalition of National Health
Education Organizations. Also, she cur-
rently is Director of Search: A Link to
Services.
M. ALFRED HAYNES, M.D. is chairman of
the Department of Community Medicine
and Associate Dean of the Charles R. Drew
Postgradute Medic.al School, Los Angeles,
and Chief of Community Medicine at the
Martin Luther King Hospital, Los Angeles.
JOY G. CAUFFMAN
M. ALFRED HAYNES
JOHN ALEXANDER McMAHON is President
of the American Hospital Association and
former president of North Carolina Blue
Cross and Blue Shield, Inc., Durham and
Chapel Hill, N.C. He is chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Duke University;
chairman of the Governor's Advisory
Council on Comprehensive Health Plan-
ning, and former chairman, Health Plan-
ning Council for Central North Carolina,
J. ALEXANDER McMAHON the State's first regional health planning
agency; member, Board of Governors and Executive Committee
of the Blue Cross Association; member, House of Delegates and
Council on Financing, American Hospital Association; and mem-
ber, Committee on the Health Services Industry, an advisory group
to the agencies involved in Phase II of the Economic Stabilization
Program.
A. C. NIELSEN, JR, ~s President of A. C.
Nielsen Company, internationa[ market
• research organization. He is a member of
the National Marketing Advisory Commit-
tee of the U.S. Department of Commerce,
the Presidential Advisory Council for Mi-
nority Enterprise and the Peace Corps
National Advisory Council, and serves as
Chairman of the Census Advisory Commit-
A. C. NIELSEN, JR. tee on Privacy and Confidentiality.
JOSEPH T. PAINTER
JOSEPH T. PAINTER, M.D. practices in-
ternal medicine in the Ledbetter Clinic
Association and is a Diplomate of the
American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr.
Painter is a past president of the American
Society of Internal Medicine, having been
a member of its Board of Trustees for six
years, chairman of the Health Advisory
Committee of the Texas State Office of
Comprehensive Planning, and a member
of the Medical Care Advisory Committee
of the Texas State Department of Welfare for Medicaid and of
the Board of Directors for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas,
C, WREDE PETERSMEYER is Chairman
and President of Corinthian Broadcasting
Corporation and Executive Vice President
and Director of Corporate Planning and
Development of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. He
is a Director of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., and
The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation. He
is a Trustee of the Committee for Eco-
nomic Development and is a member of
its Research and Policy Committee. He is
also a Trustee of The Greenwich Savings
Bank.
C, WREDE PETERSMEYER
DAN SEYMOUR is chairman and chief
executive officer of the J.WalterThompson
Co. He was a member of the President's ~
Council on Youth Opportunity and was the •
National Communications Coordinator of i..~
the Council's summer programs. He is a
member of the Ad Hoc Advisory GroHp on
the Presidential Vote for Puerto Rico, and
a member of the Public Advisory Commit-
tee on Trade Policy, and a Trustee and
member of the Executive Committee of the DAN SEYMOUR
Council of the Americas. He is also a Director and member of the
Executive Committee of the Boys' Clubs of America, and a Direc-
tor of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
IRVING S. SHAPIRO, Ph.D. is Director of
the Health Education Division of the Health
Insurance Plan of Greater New York. He
holds faculty appointments at the Colum-
bia School of Public Health, The Down-
state Medical School in Brooklyn, and
Hunter College. He is a member of the
Health Advisory Committee of the Public
Affairs Committee, Inc., and of the New
York State Board of Examiners for Nursing
iRVING S. SHAPIRO Home Administrators. He is a Fellow of the
American Public Health Association and of the Society of Public
Health Education, and is a member of the Association of Teachers
of Preventive Medicine.
CHARLES A, SIEGFRIED is Vice-Chairman
of the Board and Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee of Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company. He has served on HEW's
Advisory Council on Social Security, on
the Department of Labor's Advisory Coun-
.:. cil on Employee Welfare and Pension Ben-
efit Plans, and as president of the Health
Insurance Association of America. Cur-
rently, Mr. Siegfried is a director of the
CHARLES A. SIEGFRIED Anaconda Company and the Economic
Development Council of New York City, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, and a member of the
National Advisory Council of Opportunities Industrialization Cen-
ters of America.
SCOTT K. SIMONDS, Dr. P.H., is Professor
of Health Education and Director of the
Health Education Program at the Univer-
sity of Michigan School of Public Health.
He is on the Board of Directors of the
Epilepsy Foundation of America, and a
member of the Advisory Committee on
Community Health of the National Com-
mission for the Study of Nursing and Nurs-
ing Education. Dr. Simonds is the imme-
diate past president of the Society for SCOTT K. SlMONDS
Public Health Education, and has served recently as consultant for
the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organi-
zation, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Health Service
Corps, and the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and
Health.
J, HENRY SMITH is President of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society, New York
City, and serves as a director of the Life
Insurance Association of America and
The Institute of Life Insurance. In addition,
he is a member of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Association of New York State
Life Insurance Companies. Mr. Smith has
been chairman of the Health Insurance
Council and is past president of the Health
Insurance Association of America. He was J. HENRY SMITH
appointed to the President's Commission on Income Mainte-
nance Programs in 1968 and to the Governor's Advisory Com-
mission on Social Concerns in 1970.
ELLA L. STROTHER
ELLA LOUISE STROTHER is President of
the Provident Comprehensive Neighbor-
hood Hea~th Council, Baltimore, Md., and
executive vice president of Girl Scouts of
Central Maryland. She also serves as a
board member of the National Consumers
Health Committee and was a member
of the resident advisory board to the
Commission of Housing and Urban
Development.
PEGGY WRIGHT WOOD is Director of Pub-
lic Health Social Work for the Onondaga
County Department of Health in Syracuse,
N.Y. She was formerly a member of the
National Advisory Board Planned Parent-
hood of America, National Committee for
Publications, Girl Scouts of America, Syr-
acuse and Onondaga County Commission
for Human Rights and the Governor's
Committee to Review New York Laws and
PEGGY WRIGHT WOOD Procedures in the Area of Human Rights.
She is a member of the American Public Health Association, New
York State Public Health Association, and the National Associ-
ation of Social Workers, Central N.Y. Chapter.
Ex Officio
RICHARD P. McGRAIL has been Deputy
Executive Vice President of the American
Cancer Society, Inc., since 1961 and has
served the Society in various capacities
since 1946. A member of the New York
County Lawyers Association and the Nas-
sau Bar Association, Mr. McGrail is Imme-
diate Past President of the National Health
Council, and now serves on its Board.
RICHARD P. McGRAIL
ELLIOT LEE RICHARDSON served as
United States Secretary of Health, Educa-
tion, and Welfare from June 6, 1970, until
his confirmation as Secretary of Defense
in 1973. Prior to that he was Under Sec-
retary of State. From 1964 to 1966, as
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, he
coordinated the state's health, education
and welfare programs and headed the
task force which produced the Commu-
nity Mental Health Act and developed a ELLIOT L. RICHARDSON
multi-service agency program. He was elected Attorney General
of the Commonwealth in 1966. The Secretary is a former member
of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College and is a mem-
ber of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Bar
Foundation. He was appointed by President Nixon to the Board
of Governors of the American National Red Cross.
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