Government officials commended the voluntary-contributions of the National Council of Jewish Women to the war on poverty during the Councils Washington institute which closed here yesterday.
Hyman Bookbinder, assistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, said in an address to the group that the NCJW “can feel particularly proud of the role it has played in WICS (Women In Community Services). And it can take a special bow for providing WICS with its dynamic president, Mrs. Joan Cooper, ” WICS has helped enroll underprivileged girls for job corps training and performed other functions.
Mrs. Mary Dublin Keyserling, director of the Womens’ Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, told the Jewish women “you are doing magnificently through your support of needed legislation, through your schools for community action, and through your participation in WICS, in the ‘Head Start’ program and in all other instruments for public and voluntary action that are moving us so encouragingly ahead in our efforts to realize more fully than ever before the wonderful promise of America.”
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