Minutes (55 pages). Includes 4-page memorandum to the Social Planning Council; 3-page report on Jewish Medical Social Service Bureau; 2-page report on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; 2-page prepared statement for the state legislature urging the Appropriation Committee to approve a certain amount of money for General Relief for 1945; a pamphlet from the Central Volunteer Bureau of the Social Planning Council about Men and Women at Work; 6-page report from the Missouri Citizens Committee for the organization of a Department of Public Health and Welfare; letter from the St. Louis City Social Security Commission; 2-page memorandum of postwar planning, mentions the Greater St. Louis War Chest., 1945 Apr 17, May 15, June 26

File — Box: 2, Folder: 16

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains monthly typescript minutes and financial statements of the Board of Directors of the Social Planning Council, dated October 1941 to December 1945. These minutes include reports of hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, camps and several other types of institutions in St. Louis City and County. The following individuals served as officers of the organization: Dr. Llewellyn Sale (president), Dr. Walter B. Bodenhafer, R. Walston Chubb, John L. Bracken, Rev. Fr. John J. Butler, Rev. Richard R. Caemmerer, Harry W. Castlen, Julian B Cohn, Scott R. Dekins, Samuel Gerson, Mrs. John A. Haskell, Judge Fred J. Hoffmeister, Henry F. Chadeayne, Father A. M. Schwitalla, E. G. Steger, Myron Gwinner, Harry G. Koerber, Joseph W. McClain, Mrs. Arthur Stockstrom, Mrs. J. Eldred Newton, and Dean Sidney E. Sweet.