Dr. Rene Sand, Minister of Health and president of The International Conference of Social Work, announced today that Dr. Maurice J. Karpf, of Los Angeles, was elected vice president of the International Conference. He is one of six vice presidents throughout the world.
The International Conference which meets every four years, last met in London, in 1936, with delegates from more than thirty nations. The 1940 Conference was postponed because of the war. The next Conference will be held in the United States in 1948. It is expected that all the nations represented in the United Nations will send delegates. Dr. Karpf, former president of the Graduate School of Jewish Social Work, has been a member of the Executive Committee since 1934. He has been president of the International Conference of Jewish Social Work since 1932.
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