O. Roy Chalk, industrialist of Washington, D. C. and prominent communal and civil leader, has been named national chairman of the Welfare Fund Cities Appeal of the American Jewish Committee’s 1963 Appeal for Human Relations, it was announced here today by A. M. Sonnabend, president of the Committee and national general chairman of the Appeal. The 1963 Appeal goal of $3, 767, 000 will support the Committee’s worldwide human relations program.
Mr. Chalk is president and chairman of the Board of the Transportation Corporation of America, D. C. Transit System, Inc., Trans Caribbean Airways, and the O. Roy Chalk Realty and Construction Corporation, Capital Transit Corporation. He is a director of the Washington Board of Trade and publisher of two Spanish language newspapers, El Diario an La Prensa. A civilian consultant to the United States Navy Bureau of Aeronatics during World War II, he received the USN Merit Award in 1945.
More than 500 communities throughout the country will participate in the Welfare Fund Cities Appeal. In addition, the Committee’s 1963 Appeal for Human Relations will conduct fund-raising campaigns for New York and Chicago.
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