Birth Control Organizations > Planned Parenthood Federation of America
History
At a special membership meeting on January 29, 1942, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) changed its name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). The BCFA was established in 1939 through a merger of the American Birth Control League and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau engineered by the management firm of John Price Jones, Inc. The
name change reflected a redefinition of the organization's goals from family limitation to child spacing. While PPFA continued to
function as the largest birth control organization in the country, it sought to position itself as a more mainstream and moderate
organization committed to a broad range of programs related to reproductive health.
Under the leadership of National Director D. Kenneth Rose of the John Price Jones Company, the PPFA expanded its programs and services through the 1940s, adding affiliate organizations throughout the country. By the end of the Second World War, the Federation was no longer solely a center for birth control services or a clearing house for contraceptive information but had emerged as a major national health organization. PPFA's programs included a full range of family planning services, including marriage education and counseling, and infertility services. The leadership of PPFA, largely consisting of businessmen and male physicians, endeavored to incorporate its contraceptive services unofficially into regional and national public health programs by emphasizing less politicized aspects, such as child spacing. During the 1950s, the Federation further adjusted its programs and message to appeal to a family-centered, more conservative post-war populace, while continuing to function, through its affiliated clinics, as the most reliable source of contraceptives in the country.
From 1942 until 1962, the last year of Sanger's active participation in the birth control movement, PPFA concentrated its efforts on strengthening its ties to affiliates, expanding public education programs, and improving its medical and research work. It continued to operate a Negro Service and other rural health projects in the South through the early 1940s and working in conjunction with the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau (MSRB) and regional agencies, tested new contraceptives in the field. PPFA also gave financial assistance to the MSRB in return for the use of research facilities and its participation in cooperative research projects. By 1960, visitors to PPFA centers across the nation numbered over 300,000 per year. That number increased by a third in 1961 when the anovulant pill was introduced in most of the affiliated clinics. However, PPFA was not able to increase the number of its clinics in those years.
PPFA began focusing greater attention on global population issues in the 1950s as new concerns arose over the political, social and cultural implications of over-population in Asia and other parts of the world and became active in international birth control work through its membership in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which Margaret Sanger helped to found in 1952. National interest in population problems, spurred by the Draper report in 1959 (recommending U.S. assistance to foreign governments seeking population reductions), and the 1960 presidential elections, prompted PPFA to devote even more of its resources to international work, enlarge its training programs for visiting foreign doctors, and send field workers outside the U.S.. In 1961, the population-crisis debate, along with funding shortages, convinced PPFA to merge with the World Population Emergency Campaign (WPEC), a citizens' fund-raising organization that grew out of the IPPF-Western Hemisphere Region.
In changing its name to PPFA, the Federation signaled its shift away from Sanger's feminist focus on women's quest for reproductive freedom. Though she objected to the abandonment of birth control", a term she identified in name and spirit as reflective of women's empowerment, and characterized the organization as complacent and overly cautious, Margaret Sanger did agree to serve as the honorary president of PPFA. She also served on the board of directors and, until the mid-1950s, on the Long Range Planning Committee. Sanger still constituted the primary link between the PPFA and many of its major financial contributors. However, her work with PPFA focused largely on efforts to develop an oral contraceptive pill (Sanger helped arrange funding for much of the early research on the anovulant pill) and on PPFA's international work. Not until the mid-1960s did PPFA reassert its primary commitment to championing women's reproductive rights.
Organizational Structure, Major Departments and Committees:
Affiliates (Membership):
State and local planned parenthood organizations which were certified by the Federation. PPFA required that the constitution, by-laws and policy of an Affiliate organization be consistent with that of the Federation. Each Affiliate appointed two delegates to represent it at all member meetings, including the annual membership meeting. Affiliates received a variety of assistance from the Federation -- depending on their staff size and budgets -- including educational materials, visits from field workers, and program proposals. Rules and regulations governing Affiliate members and the process of affiliation changed periodically and resulted in a fluctuating number of Affiliates. The Federation also
encouraged various forms of individual membership.
Board of Directors:
Usually consisted of between 45 and 75 state representatives and directors-at-large who were responsible for the management of the Federation, including the appointment of officers, the adoption of the annual budget, and the supervision of the national director and committees.
Budget and Finance Committee:
Approximately 9 or 10 members, including several officers, directors, and appropriate committee chairman who recommended an annual budget and were responsible for investing the Federation's funds.
Clergymen's Advisory Committee:
National Committee that coordinated relations between PPFA and the religious community. Specifically, the Committee worked with the National Council of Churches, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the World Council of Churches, among other groups. The Committee also assisted in developing educational materials and issued public statements on religious support for family planning.
Executive Committee:
Approximately 10 members, usually including directors, several officers, and committee chairman who managed the organization and retained the powers of the Board of Directors between directors' meetings.
Field Committee:
Delegates representing each Affiliate member. The Committee coordinated relations between the Federation and its affiliates, reviewed policies governing affiliation, and recommended new members to the Board of Directors.
Field Department/Field Service:
Field workers primarily visited local committees and state leagues to help improve and develop their programs. The Department also coordinated field work projects such as the Negro Project, and other rural health projects, including work with migrant workers; and supervised committees such as the Clergymen's Committee, the Committee on Work with Negroes, and the Social Work Advisory Committee.
Fund Raising Committee/Campaign Committee:
Approximately 7 members, including the Budget and Finance Committee chairman and officers and directors who coordinated the Federation's annual fund-raising campaign.
Human Fertility:
Published articles about research on contraception, sterility, and other biological aspects of reproduction. The journal was initially published from 1935 until 1939 by the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau under the title
Journal of Contraception. The journal was discontinued in 1945.
Long Range Planning Committee:
Developed the program of the organization, working closely with the other committees, along with providing proposals for revisions to the by-laws and constitution.
Medical Committee:
Medical professionals ranging in number from approximately 12 to 25 who were responsible for developing all phases of the medical program, including formation of medical procedures and policy, the formulation of a research program, and the appointment of a medical director and National Medical Council. The Committee also worked to win the endorsements of and improve relations with national medical organizations.
Medical Council/National Medical Advisory Council:
Considered issues of broad policy and advised the Federation on specific medical problems.
Medical Department:
Under the direction of the Medical Committee and medical director, carried out educational campaigns in medical and
nursing schools and public health departments, field demonstrations and testing of new contraceptive products, and the
development of educational materials on contraception and infertility, among other work.
National Advisory Council:
A small group of prominent citizens organized to advise PPFA and improve the public image of birth control. The Council
was disbanded and replaced by the Medical Advisory Council shortly after the Federation changed its name in 1942.
Nominating Committee:
Approximately 5 members (including at least two directors) who were responsible for nominations to the Board of
Directors.
Public Information Department/Publicity/Education:
Provided news releases, scripts, articles, pamphlets, and other educational material for the general public and the press;
assisted local committees and state leagues with securing speakers; produced educational films, exhibits and public
outreach programs; and handled public relations problems.
Research Committee/Biologic Research Committee/Social Research Committee:
Experts in their field who proposed and helped supervise various research projects, and allocated funds for research
conducted outside of the Federation. The research committees also organized symposiums and conferences.
Special Projects Department:
Coordinated the Negro Project (Division of Negro Service) which supervised demonstration projects in black
communities in the South, including Berkeley County, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee; and worked to publicize
health problems of African Americans and the scarcity of contraceptive services in black communities. The Special
Projects Department also organized the Clergymen's Committee and supervised the Public Progress Committee, which
undertook letter writing campaigns and funded specific programs at the Federation. The Department was phased out in
1943 when its chief administrator, Florence Rose, left the Federation.
Staff and Officers:
A national director, medical director, approximately 9 officers, and a small administrative staff that fluctuated in number.
The national director was responsible for the administration, interpretation and development of the Federation's program;
for personnel decisions; and for overseeing much of the fund-raising. The medical director was responsible for developing
medical programs in accordance with the Medical Committee. The officers generally consisted of an honorary chairman,
a chairman of the Board of Directors, president (later changed to chairman), vice presidents (varied in number; later
changed to vice chairman), a secretary, and a treasurer.
PPFA's organization structure included many other smaller and short-term committees and councils, including: Annual
Meeting, Nurses, Personnel, Post-War, International, By-Laws Revision, Lasker Awards, Travel, Manuals and Policy
Revision, Minorities, Directorship, Headquarters, Review, Affiliates, Public Relations, PPFA-MSRB, and Study
Committees, among others.
PPFA Staff, Officers, Board and Select Committee Members:
Abbott, Lois Pennypacker - Board of Directors
Abrams, Ray H. - Board of Directors
Adams, Margaret C. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Field Committee
Aitken, Katharine - Administrative Staff?
Ames, Amyas - Board of Directors
Ammidon, Hoyt - Executive Committee
Anderson, Samuel W. - Board of Directors
Andrews, Mrs. Walter P. - Board of Directors
Arffman, Leo - Assistant Director of Fund-Raising
Armstrong, Mrs. C. Dudley - Board of Directors
Atlee, Elinore - Administrative Staff
Babcock, Caroline Lexow - Board of Directors
Baird, Janet - Public Information Department
Bangs, Catherine Clement - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Lasker Award Committee
Banks, Mrs. Henrine Ward - Board of Directors
Barclay, Elizabeth M. - Board of Directors
Barnes, Carolyn Payne - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Barnes, Janet W. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Barstow, Rev. Robbins W. - Board of Directors
Baruch, Margot - Administrative Staff
Bastedo, Helen W. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee; Chairman, Affiliates
Relations Committee; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Baum, Margaret Hays - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Field Committee
Bean, Lillian - Director of Fund-Raising
Behnke, John A. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Personnel Committee
Bernard, Laura Pincus - Administrative Staff?
Best, Winfield - Assistant to Director; Director, Public Relations/Information and Education
Bigelow, Mrs. Herbert H.- Board of Directors
Blagden, Mabel Whitney - Vice President; Board of Directors
Blair, Virginia - Board of Directors
Blair-Smith, Dallas - Treasurer; Board of Directors
Blaisdell, Mrs. Allen C. - Board of Directors
Blanchard, Mary Hillyer - Field Organizer
Borden, Mrs. Richard - Board of Directors
Breed, Frances - Administrative Staff?
Briggs, Eleanor Morse - Assistant to Director
Broaddus, Mrs. T. Nash - Board of Directors
Browne, Jane C. - Administrative Staff
Brownlee, James F. - Board of Directors
Bruce, John McKamey - Board of Directors
Buchman, Myron I. - Board of Directors
Bunker, Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Burdick, C. Lalor - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Burke, Helen - Administrative Staff
Cabot, Blake - Director, Public Information Department
Cabot, Henry B. - Board of Directors
Calderone, Mary Steichen - Medical Director
Calhoun, Mrs. Ernest N. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Callaway, S. Rodger - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee
Campbell, Catherine Hartshorn - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Campbell, Lorraine Leeson - President; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Canfield, Cass - President; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Canfield, Jane - Board of Directors
Carr, Mrs. Robert A. - Board of Directors
Carroll, ? - Administrative Staff
Cassard, Mrs. Edward - Board of Directors
Chase, Ilka - Board of Directors
Chase, W. Rowell - Board of Directors
Child, ? - Field Organizer
Clark, Mrs. Gaylord Lee - Board of Directors
Clayton, Will L. - Board of Directors
Clisby, Vesta J. - Board of Directors
Coffin, Henry Sloane - Chairman, National Clergymen's Advisory Council
Colgate, Gilbert - Vice President; Treasurer; Board of Directors
Collisi, Harrison S. - Medical Director
Compton, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors
Condit, Hortense B. ? - Board of Directors
Conry, Mrs. Clifford - Board of Directors
Cook, Charles - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Cooper, Nathaniel H. - Chairman, Medical Committee
Copeland, Lammot DuPont - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors
Cowles, Sage F. - Board of Directors
Craig, Mrs. David R. - Board of Directors
Cushman, Howard - Director of Public Relations
Cushman Jr., Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Cutler, Mrs John W. - Board of Directors
Dalrymple, Mrs. John S. - Board of Directors
Darrach, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Dawson, Mrs. Rapier - Board of Directors
Day, Rufus S. Jr. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
De Beck, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Derby, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Dickinson, Robert Latou - Vice President; Board of Directors
Dixon, Arthur - Board of Directors
Dodge, Eva F. - Associate Medical Director
Draper, William H. Jr. - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
DuPont, Katharine L. - Secretary; Board of Directors
DuPont, Pierre S., 3rd - Vice President; Board of Directors
Eastman, Nicholson J. - Chairman, National Medical Council
Ecsedy, Marlee M. - Administrative Staff
Elliott, Elmira - Board of Directors
Elting, Victor - Board of Directors
Emerson, Haven - Chairman, National Medical Council
Ettenheim, Mrs. George - Board of Directors
Ewenstein, Janice - Administrative Staff
Fairchild, Henry Pratt - Vice President; Board of Directors
Fansler, John B. - Board of Directors; Vice President
Ferguson, Frances Hand - President; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman,
International Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee; Chairman, Field Committee
Ferguson, Mrs. Walter - Board of Directors
Fleet, Mrs. S. Douglas - Board of Directors
Forsling, Elizabeth - Board of Directors
Fox, R. K. Jr. - Board of Directors
Freedheim, Mrs. Eugene H. - Board of Directors; Chairman, By-Laws Committee
French, Mrs. Graham - Board of Directors
Gamble, Clarence James - Board of Directors
Garver, Chauncey B. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Garwood, Miriam F. - Field Service Representative
Gibson, T. K. - Board of Directors
Gill, L. - ?
Gillespie, Mrs. George E. Jr. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Affiliates Committee
Goetting, Betty-Mary - Board of Directors
Goldstein, Rabbi Sidney E. - Board of Directors
Goodhue, Francis A. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Gray, Naomi Thomas - Administrative Staff; Field Service Representative
Grubstein, ? - Board of Directors
Guthrie, Molly Danforth - Board of Directors
Guttmacher, Alan F. - President; Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Medical Committee
Guyer, David - Board of Directors
Gwinn, David Marshall - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Hadley, Katherine Blodgett - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Public Information
Committee
Hale, Grace - Field Representative
Hamlin, Mrs. Hannibal - Board of Directors
Hampton, Marion - Administrative Staff
Handloser, Mrs. R. F. - Board of Directors
Harris, Mrs. Leon A. Jr. - Board of Directors
Harrison, Mrs. Joseph Jr. - Board of Directors
Harrison, Pauline L. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Hart, Mrs. Lawrence - Board of Directors
Hartman, Carl G. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Biological Research Committee
Harvey, Dorothy D. - Board of Directors
Hellman, Louis - Board of Directors
Hemingburg, Alphonse - Board of Directors
Henshaw, Paul S. - Director of Research
Herz, Herbert - Executive Committee; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Hessel, Mrs. Sidney A. - Board of Directors
Hildreth, Mrs. H. Rommel - Board of Directors
Hill, Mozell C. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Social Research Committee
Holden, Frederick C. - Vice-president; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Holladay, Mrs. A. Randolph - Board of Directors
Holland, Jerome H. - Board of Directors
Hommel, Mrs. Carlton L. - Board of Directors
Howland, Nancy - Administrative Staff
Huse, Penelope B. P. - Public Information Department
Ingalls, Mabel S. - Board of Directors
Ives, Kenneth A. - Treasurer; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Jaffe, Frederick S. - Assistant Director, Public Relations/Information and Education Department
Janney, Mrs. L. A. - Board of Directors
Johnson, Mrs. Arthur - Board of Directors
Johnson, Mrs. J. Burlin - Board of Directors
Jones, Eleanor Dwight - Vice President; Board of Directors
Joshel, Vera M. - Administrative Staff
Kammen, ? - Administrative Staff
Katz, Arthur Joel - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Kelly, Nicholas - Board of Directors
Kennedy, William T. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Medical Committee
Kennedy, Mrs. Donald S. - Board of Directors
Kerns, Rolland E. - Board of Directors
Kingsley, Elizabeth S. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman
Kinsolving, Rev. Arthur B. - Board of Directors
Kleeman, Richard P. - Board of Directors
Klein, Alice Campbell - Administrative Staff
Kling, L. E. - Medical Director
Knight, Mrs. Richard B. - Board of Directors
Kyle, Richard S. - Executive Committee
Lamont, Florence Haskell Corliss - Board of Directors
Langford, Mary - Field Service Representative
Lasker, Mary Reinhardt - Executive Committee; Secretary; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Fund-Raising
Committee
Latshaw, John - Board of Directors
Lawrence, L. - Board of Directors
Lazarus, Hattie. W. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Leake, Chauncey D. - Board of Directors
Leighton, Isabel - Board of Directors
Leiss, Eleanor - Social Work Consultant
LeVan, Katherine - Field Consultant
Levy, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Lindabury, Mrs. Richard H. - Board of Directors
Lindsay, George N. Jr. - Board of Directors
Lingo, Mrs. Lord - Board of Directors
Lisle, Mrs. Richard W. - Board of Directors
Livingston, Goodhue - Board of Directors
Loop, Mrs. Alan B. - Board of Directors
Lore, ? - Administrative Staff
Loth, David - Director, Public Information Department; Acting National Director
Mackie, Mrs. David I. - Board of Directors
MacLingo, Mrs. William - Board of Directors
Mali, Henry J. - Treasurer; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Mali, Katharine - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Affiliates Committee
Mallinson, Mrs. Hiram - Board of Directors
Mannheimer, Mrs. Robert E. - Board of Directors
Marsh, Charlotte Delafield - Board of Directors
Martin, Mrs. John B. Jr. - Board of Directors
Masback, Harold E. - Board of Directors
Mauck, Harriett - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee
McCallum, M. E. Revell - Board of Directors
McCarroll, E. Mae - Field Representative, Special Projects Department
McClintock, Beatrice - Board of Directors
McEvoy, Ruth - Board of Directors
McGinley, Sandra M. - Board of Directors
McGreevy, Mrs. Milton W. - Board of Directors
McIntyre, James H. - Field Service Representative
McKinnon, Edna Rankin - Field Service Representative
McLane, Charles M. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Medical Committee
McLaurin, B. F. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
McPheeters, Mrs. Samuel B. - Board of Directors
Mellon, Mrs. A. E. - Board of Directors
Mendoza, Ofelia - Field Service Representative
Milam, D. F. - National Director; Board of Directors
Miles, Mrs. Rufus E. Jr. - Board of Directors
Miller, Florence - Administrative Staff, Special Projects Department
Miller, Mrs. Harlan - Board of Director
Mills, Leslie - Treasurer; Board of Directors; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Mills, Mrs. Dudley H.- Board of Directors
Mills, Mrs. George S. - Board of Directors
Mills, Mrs. James Paul - Board of Directors
Milmine, Mary P. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Minton, Mrs. Henry M. - Board of Directors
Montgomery, Charlotte - Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee
Morain, Lloyd L. - Board of Directors
Morrison, Dean - Board of Directors
Mumm, Louise N. - Director of Field Services
Munsell, Elizabeth - Board of Directors
Myers, Clifford - Director, Public Relations Department
Nelms, Agnese Carter - Board of Directors ; Vice President
Nelson, George I. - Board of Directors
Nelson, Warren Otto - Board of Directors; Chairman, Biological Research Committee
Newkirk, ? - Board of Directors
Nokes, John M. - Board of Directors
Norcross, Mrs. Hiram - Board of Directors
Norton, Roy - Board of Directors
Nuveen, Grace Bennet - Board of Directors
Nuveen, John - Executive Committee
Nyburg, Mrs. Robert S. - Board of Directors
Obre, Henry - Board of Directors
Orr, Robert D. - Board of Directors, Personnel Committee
Peters, Thomas M. - Board of Directors; Chairman Budget and Finance Committee
Phelps, Mrs. Stowe C. - Chairman, Executive Committee; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Review
Committee; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Pierce, Claude C. - Executive Committee; Medical Director
Pierson, Richard N. - President; Board of Directors
Pike, Rev. James - Chairman, Clergymen's Committee
Pillsbury, Eleanor Bellows - President; Vice Chairman; Chairman, Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman,
Fund-Raising Council
Plimpton, Pauline Ames - Board of Directors
Pool, Beekman H. - Assistant Director
Pool, Mrs. Beekman H. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Information Committee
Potter, Rose - Executive Committee
Prentice, Miriam - Administrative Staff
Procope, John L. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Minorities Committee
Pugh, Dorothy - Board of Directors
Reid, Ira DeA. - Board of Directors
Renner, Renee - Administrative Staff
Rice, Otis R. - Board of Directors
Rice, Smith - Board of Directors
Richardson, Mark E. - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Treasurer
Riddle, Estelle M. - Board of Directors
Ringrose, A. - Administrative Staff
Robertson, Mrs. N. G. - Board of Directors
Robie, Mrs. Theodore R. - Board of Directors
Rock, John - Board of Directors
Rodman, Julius - Administrative Staff
Rogers, Helen E.? - Board of Directors
Rogers, Maud - Director of Field Service; Acting Director of Fund-Raising
Romberg, Margaret - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Roper, Elmo - Board of Directors
Rose, D. Kenneth - National Director; Board of Directors, Executive Committee
Rose, Florence - Director of Special Projects; Administrative Staff
Roseberry, Eleanor -Social Work Consultant; Field Service Representative
Roth, Edith - Assistant to the National Director
Rothschild, Carola Warburg - Vice President; Secretary; Board of Directors
Rutledge, Doris L. - Administrative Staff
Rutledge, Peggy - Administrative Staff
Saltzman, Charles E. - Board of Directors
Sanger, Margaret - Honorary President/Chairman; Board of Directors
Scheidemann, M. - Administrative Staff
Schieffelin, Bayard - Board of Directors
Schilling, Francis W. - Chairman, By-Laws Revision Committee
Schneider, ? - Administrative Staff
Schumacher, Mrs. Fred W. - Board of Directors
Scott, Katherine Miller - Executive Committee; Vice President; Board of Directors
Scribner, Charles Edwin - Chairman; Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Scull, James H. - Director of Public Information
Secor, Mrs. G. R. - Board of Directors
Seissler, ? - Administrative Staff
Selinger, Mrs. M. A. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Fund-Raising Committee
Senior, Clarence - Board of Directors
Shamburger, L. L. - Board of Directors
Shepard, Mrs. Frank P. - Secretary; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Shuman, Anna Jane Phillips - Board of Directors
Smillie, Wilson G. - Chairman, Lasker Award Committee
Smith, James Hopkins, Jr. - Board of Directors
Smith, Mrs. Gordon H. - Board of Directors
Snodgrass, Marie - Board of Directors
Snyder, Margaret - Research Assistant
Solomon, Edward - Executive Committee; Chairman, Social Research Committee
Spencer, Georgia C. - Board of Directors
Spingarn, Hope Malik - Assistant Director/Director, Public Information Department; Educational Consultant
Starr, Martha Jane - Board of Directors
Stern, Jerome - Administrative Staff
Stern, Mrs. Julius Long - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Annual Meeting Committee; Chairman,
Information and Education Committee
Stewart, Margaret M. - Social Work Consultant
Stewart, Mrs. Roy - Board of Directors
Stockstrom, Gladys - Board of Directors; Chairman, Study Committee
Stone, Abraham - Vice President; Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Stopford, Mrs. Robert M. - Chairman, Annual Meeting Committee
Stott, Mrs. Louis L. - Board of Directors
Straus, Mrs. Robert - Board of Directors
Strauss, Donald B. - Vice Chairman; Board of Directors; Chairman, Information and Education Committee
Stuart, Ida L. - Administrative Staff
Stubblefield, Mrs. D. W. - Board of Directors
Suarez, Evelyn - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Information Committee
Taylor, Jeanette J. - Executive Committee; Secretary; Board of Directors
Test, Alfred L. - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Budget and Finance Committee
Thetaz, Marius - Administrative Staff
Thomas, Mrs. Owen - Board of Directors
Tompkins, Sally Bates - Board of Directors; Chairman, Public Education Committee
Townend, Mrs. Henry - Board of Directors
Trane, Mrs. James - Board of Directors
Tree, Ronald - Vice-President; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Trent, Kathryn - Director, Field Department
Trent, William Jr. - Board of Directors
Trisko, Jean - Field Service Representative
Trowbridge, Rev. Cornelius P. - President; Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Turlington, Lee F. - Board of Directors
Tyler, Edward T. - Board of Directors
Upham, John H. J. - President/Chairman; Board of Directors; Chairman, National Medical Council
Valentine, Mrs. Alan - Vice President; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Van Slyck, Lucia Norton - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Social Work Advisory Committee
Van Vleck, Joseph, Jr. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Personnel Committee
Vanderbilt, William H. - Board of Directors
Vogt, Johanna Von Goeckingk - Administrative Staff
Vogt, William - National Director; Board of Directors; Executive Committee
Wallace, Mrs. Richard H. - Board of Directors
Ward, Mary Van Ellen - Board of Directors
Ware, H. Hudnall - Board of Directors
Weir, Roslyn C. - Board of Directors
Wells, Mrs. Herbert C. Jr. - Board of Directors
Whelpton, Pascal K. - Executive Committee; Board of Directors
Whitelaw, Mrs. John B. - Board of Directors
Wile, Ira Solomon - Chairman; Executive Committee
Williams, Ben C. - Board of Directors
Williams, C. Dickerman - Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Chairman, Finance and Budget Committee
Williams, Mrs. I. T. - Board of Directors
Willson, Edith E. - Board of Directors
Wilson, Eileen - Assistant to National Director
Wilson, John P. Jr. - Board of Directors
Wilson, Mrs. Gerald - Executive Committee; Board of Directors; Chairman, Nominating Committee
Winslow, C. E. A. - Vice President; Board of Directors
Wohlforth, Mildred Gilman - Public Relations Department
Workum, Emily Harneill - Board of Directors; Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Public Relations Committee;
Chairman, Field Committee
Workum, Fifield - Board of Directors
Worthington, Mrs. Union - Board of Directors
Wright, Cecil Damon - Assistant to the Director; Executive Committee
Wright, Mrs. R. Stephens - Board of Directors
Young, Whitney M. Jr. - Board of Directors
Zulandi, Connie - Administrative Staff
Sources
The Smith College Collections Series contains a large number of PPFA records, including minutes, reports, form letters, organizational memos, and publications. This Series also contains Sanger's correspondence with PPFA officers and directors, funders, and other relevant parties. The Records of PPFA, of which only a small number were included in this edition, are available for research in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. The Library of Congress microfilm contains a smaller collection of PPFA records, mostly concentrated between 1942 and the early-1950s. The Collected Documents Series also has some PPFA records and correspondence with PPFA officers
For other organizations involved with PPFA, see:
BCFA for records of the preceding organization
MSRB for records of affiliated organization that served as the research arm of the Federation
IPPF for records related to PPFA's international work
For conferences associated with PPFA, see:
1948 International Congress on Population and World Resources
1952 3rd International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1953 4th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1955 5th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1957 Proposed 6th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1959 6th International Conference on Planned Parenthood
1960 New Look at the Population Crisis Conference
For tributes sponsored by or associated with PPFA, see:
1961 World Tribute to Margaret Sanger
1966 PPFA International Sponsors Council Tribute
Planned Parenthood flyer cover courtesy of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Revised: May 3, 2010