An agreement for cooperation in the expansion of research and education for mentally retarded children was signed here yesterday by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, and Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, in his capacity as head of the governing board of the Kennedy Child Study Center conducted in this city by the Catholic Charities.
Participating in the ceremony were Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, who is also director of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, and Sister Patricia, administrator of a day care center where the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul teach about 800 pre-school children.
Under the agreement, the Yeshiva’s Albert Einstein School of Medicine and the Catholic Charities will cooperate in a research program to be developed by the medical school to aid the education of retarded children. Mr. Shriver, calling the pact “most significant,” said that “now, the two organizations will be doing something together which neither could do separately.”
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