First National Advisory Council To The Peace Corps

[Jim Sheahan (Sierra Leone 1963-65) was kind enough to send me this list of the first National Advisory Council to the Peace Corps. I thought you’d like to see who what was where when.]

NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
Honorary Chairman
The Honorable William O. Douglas, Associate Justice I
Supreme Court, United States
Chairman
The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President, United
States
Vice Chairman
Dr. Mary Bunting, President, Radcliffe College
David E. Lilienthal, Chairman, Development and Resources
Corp.
Rev. James Robinson, Director, Operation Crossroads Africa
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., President, IBM Corp.
Members
Dr. Leona Baumgartner, Comm. of Health, New York City
Joseph Beirne, President, Communications Workers of
America
Harry Belafonte, New York City
Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Chaplain, Yale University
LeRoy Collins, President, Natl. Assn. of Broadcasters
Rev. John J. Considine, M.M., Director, Latin America
Bureau National Catholic Welfare Conference
Colonel Henry Crown, General Dynamics Corp.
Dr. Albert Dent, President. Dillard University
Dr. John Fischer, Dean, Teachers College, Columbia Univ.
1. Peter Grace, President, W. R. Grace & Co.
Cornelius J. Haggerty, President, Building Trades Council,
AFL-CIO
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, President, Houston Post
E. Palmer Hoyt, Publisher, Denver Post
Mrs. Robert E. Kintner, New York City
Murray D. Lincoln, Chairman, CARE, Inc.
Frederick R. Mann, Secy. of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President, Morehouse College
Dr. James A. McCain, President, Kansas State College
Franklin Murphy, Chancellor, Univ. of Calif. at Los Angeles
Mrs. E. Lee Ozbirn, International President, General Federation
of Women’s Clubs
Rev. Clarence E. Pickett, Executive Secretary, American
Friends Service Committee
Roger Revelle, Director, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
John D. Rockefeller IV, Harvard University
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, New York
Eugene V. Rostow, Dean, Yale Law School
George L. Sanches, Dept. of History, Univ. of Texas .
James Scott, U.S. National Student Association
CAREER PLANNING BOARD
Joseph Beirne, President, Communications Workers of
America and Vice President, AFL-CIO
Roger W. Jones, Under Secretary of State for Administration
Ralph Lazarus, President, Federated Department Stores
Dr. Benjamin C. Willis, President, American Association
of School Administrators