The appointment of Sydney Nelson, Joint Distribution Committee director for Latin America, as director of JDC operations in France, was announced here today by Charles H. Jordan, JDC director general.
A native of New York, Mr. Nelson taught sociology in several American universities and directed YMHA’s in Buffalo, N. Y., and New Haven, Connecticut, before Joining the JDC.
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