Willis C. Gorthy and Orin Lehman presenting awards during neph week

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Title:
Willis C. Gorthy and Orin Lehman presenting awards during neph week
Description:
The New York observance of National Employ the Physically Handicaped Week (NEPH) got under way yesterday (October 5) at the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled with the presentation of special awards to two New York City employees for outstanding work in hiring the handicapped. Fred C. Board (left) Commander of the Advertising Men's Post, American Legion; Willis C. Gorthy (center) Director of the Institute, and Orin Lehman (right), Chairman of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's Committee of Employment of the Handicapped presented the awards to handicaped Joseph Grant, (second from left) employee of Millard Hannenson, Inc., Leathergoods Manufacturers, and to Chil Kopel, (second from right), employee of the Shelley Jewelry Manufacturing Company.
Creator:
United Press International
Date:
1959
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 32 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
International Center for the Disabled Records
Subjects:
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
People with disabilities--Employment
Gorthy, Willis C.
Lehman, Orin, 1920-2008
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums792-b032-i184
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums792-b032-i184