Consolidation of the programs of the National Refugee Service and the National Service to Foreign-Born Department of the National Council of Jewish Women into a single welfare service for immigrants was unanimously endorsed yesterday at a membership meeting of NRS at the Essex House Hotel. Previously the consolidation had been approved by the National Council of Jewish Women.
The consolidated program will “serve the community as a whole and the newcomers finding haven in our country better and more efficiently than ever,” Charles A. Riegelman, president of NRS, declared in an address to the meeting marking the completion of his service in the office, which he has held since 1943. Final arrangements for the consolidation will be worked out at a conference of the two organizations in the near future.
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