Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7543-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation who presented him with their report, "A Proposed Program for National Action to Combat Mental Retardation." The Panel's Chair and Executive Director of the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children of New York City, Dr. Leonard W. Mayo, stands left of President Kennedy, and the Panel's Vice-Chair and Superintendent and Medical Director of the Pacific State Hospital in Pomona, California, Dr. George Tarjan, sits right of the President. Other members of the Panel pictured include: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, David L. Bazelon; Associate Secretary for Special Education for the National Catholic Educational Association and Director of the Department of Special Education at the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the Reverend Monsignor Elmer H. Behrmann; Research Chair and Past President of the National Association for Retarded Children, Dr. Elizabeth M. Boggs; Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Robert E. Cooke; Secretary and Director of Research at the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.; New York State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe; Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Horace Magoun; Director of Psychological Services at the Kennedy Child Study Center, Dr. Anne M. Ritter; Consultant to the Panel and Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation, Eunice Shriver; Chair of the Department of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wendell M. Stanley; Director of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Harold W. Stevenson; President of Abilities, Inc., Dr. Henry Viscardi, Jr.; and speech pathologist, Dr. Irene Wright. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.