News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. August 12, 1963 [XII-4]
ALCOHOLISM COMMITTEE
The Rt. Rev. Frederick J. Warnecke, Bishop of Bethlehem and chairman of the National Council's Department of Christian Social Relations, has announced the formation of a 10-member Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Alcohol Education.
Primary function of the committee, Bishop Warnecke said, shall be to advise the staff of the Division of Church and Community Studies on its program activities and to make recommendations to the Department of Christian Social Relations. The Division of Church and Community Studies is headed by John V. P. Lassoe, Jr., and is a part of the CSR department.
WOMEN AT WHITE HOUSE
Leaders of women's organizations in the United States met July 9 at the White House with President Kennedy and were asked to become members of biracial committees in their community to help wipe out local discrimination against minority group members.
The President also enlisted their help in supporting civil rights legislation, with particular emphasis to be put on the public accommodations bill, and urged them to do all they could in preventing high school drop-outs. The women present represented 50,000,000 members of American organizations for women.
Among those present was a national vice-president of GFS Society for Girls, Miss Julia M. Porter of Philadelphia, a teacher in the public school system and leader of GFS chapters in Province II.