Webb Elected Chairman of Church World Service
Diocesan Press Service. January 23, 1970 [83-8]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Mrs. Robert W. Webb, director of Experimental and Specialized Services of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, has been elected chairman of Church World Service, an agency of the National Council of Churches.
Church World Service, providing international relief and rehabilitation services for Protestant and Orthodox churches in the United States, maintains programs of food, clothing and medical distribution in six continents. It supports agricultural and social development activities throughout the world and has maintained a program of refugee resettlement since the close of World War II.
Church World Service, in cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church, has participated in a major airlift of medical supplies, food and clothing to Biafra and Nigeria.
Mrs. Webb has long been active in world relief and refugee programs and as an officer of Executive Council has general supervision over the Episcopal Church's international relief program.
In the summer of 1966 Mrs. Webb and her husband, an executive with the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies in New York City, served as consultants to "Operation Catapult," a C.W. S. rehabilitation project on the island of Symi, Greece, which was heavily damaged by bombing during World War II.