Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews since its founding in 1928, announced his resignation from that post this week-end. Dr. Clinchy, who is also president of the eight-year-old World Brotherhood, decided to drop the NCCJ post in order to devote himself full time to the brotherhood which attempts to fight racial, religious and cultural prejudice throughout the world.
A successor to Dr. Clinchy as president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews is now being sought. Leaders of the committee conducting the search are the three NCCJ co-chairmen, Benjamin F. Fairless, former board chairman of the U. S. Steel Corp. , Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and James F. Twohy. West Coast industrialist.
Commenting on Dr. Clinchy’s shift in responsibilities, the three co-chairmen of the National Conference, in a joint statement said: “The Conference is deeply grateful to Dr. Clinchy for his 30 years of dedicated service. It will have to search long and hard to find an administrator with his imagination, experience and ability who can move the organization and the brotherhood movement in the United States onward to new heights.”
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