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The President's Birthday Ball At The Waldorf-Astoria

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Date: January 30, 1939
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Figures From This Artifact: Figure 2

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The President's Birthday Ball
1939

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THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALL
WALDORF-ASTORIA
JANUARY 30TH, 1939

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FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEW YORK FUND FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS

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THE COMMITTEE

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MRS. JAMES ROOSEVELT, Honorary Chairman
MRS. SUMNER W. TAYLOR, Chairman
MRS. NEVIL MONROE HOPKINS, Vice-Chairman
Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss
Mrs. James G. Blaine
Madame Alma Clayburgh
Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin
Mrs. Henry Anderson Goman
Mrs. William Averell Harriman
Mrs. Edward M. House
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
Mrs. J. Couper Lord
Mrs. Henry Parish
Mrs. Edgerton Parsons
Mrs. Juan T. Trippe
Mrs. Harold S. Vaughan
Mrs. Thomas J. Watson

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JUNIOR COMMITTEE

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MISS RITA SINGSTAD, Chairman
Miss Mary Bennett
Miss Mary Benzell
Miss Dorothy Berkfield
Miss Ann Chalmers
Miss Jean Crump
Miss Cecile Dudley
Miss Sheila Emmet
Miss Eileen S. Gillespie
Miss Audrey Gray
Miss Milo Gray
Miss Anne Grosvenor
Miss Eileen Herrick
Miss Hilda Hutchinson
Miss Lucy Hutchinson
Miss Zaida M. Jones
Miss Helen Judge
Miss Helen Kiendl
Miss Rosamond Murray
Miss Theresa Murray
Miss Elizabeth O'Brien
Miss Esme O'Brien
Miss Barbara Orvis
Miss Helen Roosevelt
Miss Margaret Sanborn
Miss Theresa Schey
Miss Margery Schlesinger
Miss Mary W. VanderPoel
Miss Jane Watson
Miss Mary Zabriskie

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DEBUTANTE COMMITTEE

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MISS ELAINE FRUEAUFF, Chairman
Miss MARY AUGUSTA KINNAN
Miss ANNE L. WISNER Co-Chairmen

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Miss Ann Amory
Miss Eileen Balfe
Miss Willa Blake
Miss Amanda Cecil
Miss Patricia Delehanty
Miss Julia M. de Viry
Miss Diana Dilworth
Miss Rosamond Ely
Miss Barbara Erstein
Miss Mimi Francis
Miss Elizabeth Fuller
Miss Catherine Bruce Gamble
Miss Annette Gignoux
Miss Marjorie Sloane Handy
Miss Margaret Higgins
Miss Elizabeth Howe
Miss Elizabeth Irion
Miss Shirley Keeler
Miss Barbara King
Miss Virginia June Lewis
Miss Helen Macdonald
Miss Annetta McDowell
Miss Constance Mitler
Miss Daphne Nelson
Miss Lyda Palmer
Miss Ruth E. Robinson
Miss Joan Sawyer
Miss Constance Sherwin
Miss Dorothy Stafford
Miss Jean Stark
Miss Helen Stedman
Miss Carol Streuber
Miss Donna Walton
Miss Ann Whitmarsh
Miss Caryl Wood

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AUXILIARY COMMITTEE

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Miss MARY T. EDWARDS, Chairman
MRS. ROGER FARQUHAR, Co-Chairman
Mrs. Harold Bloch
Mrs. John Collins
Mrs. Gurnee Cummings
Mrs. J. Holmes Daly
Miss Christie Gillespie
Miss Julie Gillespie
Mrs. Robert Grimes
Mrs. Kenneth Slawson Hobbs
Miss Beatrice Joyce
Mrs. J. Arthur Leve
Mrs. Paul Listen
Miss Mariquitta MacManus
Miss Patricia MacManus
Mrs. William Merrill
Mrs. Jordan L. Mott
Mrs. George Pettengill
Mrs. E. Nielsen Streuber

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FLOOR COMMITTEE

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FRANK VANDERLIP, Chairman
Kichard Aldrich
Charles J. Aufferth, Jr.
John J. Bame
John M. Begg
Pierre Blanchet
Victor Bowman
Laurence F. Butler
Baron Adrian Cacace
Richard Candrit, Jr.
Thomas G. Chamberlain
James W. Duff
Hugh Gaffney
Theodore Gaillard
Henry A. Goman
Benjamin Grad
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
Dr. J. Ralph Jacoby
Raymond Jones
Lieutenant Commander Roland Kauffman
Rodney Kleinhans
Edwin Philips Kohl
Henry Theodore Leggett
A. Gunning Loomis
Walter Martin, Jr.
Arthur Menken
Paul Miller
Edward S. Morgan
Lawrence Morris
John C. Newington
James St. Lawrence O'Toole
Dale Parker
Saul E. Rogers
Martin L. Scott
Henry Eyland Simmons
L. Gordon Slutz
Rudolf G. Sonneborn
Ludlow P. Strong
Kelvin Vanderlip
R. Drace White
Frederick Williams
Walter J. Wolf
Dr. Shirley Wynne

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PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

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Miss ANITA VILLAR, Chairman

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PRIZE COMMITTEE

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Mrs. OSCAR E. STEVENS, Chairman

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ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE

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JAMES B. SAUTER, Chairman

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GREATER NEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS

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GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON, Chairman
CHARLES F. HORNER, Vice-Chairman
WM. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, Treasurer
DR. LEO MAYER, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee
M. H. Aylesworth
Jules Bache
George W. Baker, Jr.
Ellsworth Bunker
Eddie Cantor
Barron G. Collier
Jack Dempsey
Thomas E. Dewey
Most Rev. Stephen J. Donohue
Eddie Dowling
Major Gen. Hugh A. Drum
David Dubinsky
Daniel E. Finn
Harold Franklin
Douglas Gibbons
Major Gen. Geo. S. Gibbs
Walter Gifford
Bernard F. Gimbel
John Golden
Albert Goldman
Max Gordon
W. Averell Harriman
George U. Harvey
Sidney Hillman
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Stanley N. Isaacs
Dr. S. D. Kramer
Mrs. Isaac Kubie
Arthur Kudner
Hon. F. H. LaGuardia
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
Isaac Liberman
Mrs. Johanna M. Lindlof
Clare Brokaw Luce
James J. Lyons
James F. Marshall
Alfred J. McCosker
Edward F. McGrady
George Meany
Robert Moses
Benjamin Namm
Mrs. Hortense M. Odlum
William S. Paley
Joseph A. Palma
Sol A. Rosenblatt
David Sarnoff
Joseph M. Schenck
Michael Schoenfeld
Gerard Swope
Herbert Bayard Swope
Walter C. Teagle
Lowell Thomas
Dorothy Thompson
Sidney J. Weinberg
Arthur D. Whiteside
Dr. Stephen S. Wise
Admiral Clark H. Woodward
Owen D. Young

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WOMEN'S DIVISION

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MRS. DOUGLAS GIBBONS, Honorary Chairman
MRS. KELVIN C. VANDERLIP, Chairman
MRS. SUMNER W. TAYLOR, Chairman Birthday Ball
MARGARET MABON, Chairman Junior Deb Committee

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS

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