[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9, January 10, 1936 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO BE KNOWN AS THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ™S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION



There is hereby created a committee to be known as the General Committee on President Roosevelt ™s Birthday Celebration, to be composed of the following members:

Honorable Juan Posadas, Chairman; Hon. Teofilo Sison; Mr. Arsenio N. Luz; Mr. Samuel Gaches; Dr. Tirso Abad; Gen. Basilio J. Valdes; Dr. Jose Fabella; Col. Paulino Santos; Father Henry C. Avery; Mrs. Jaime C. de Veyra; Miss Bessie A. Dwyer; Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo Lim; Mrs. Josefa Llanes Escoda; Judge Manuel Camus; Mr. E. S. Turner; Mr. E. E. Voss; Mrs. Asuncion A. Perez; Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson; Mrs. Josefa Jara Martinez; Miss Rosa Militar; Mr. H. M. Cavender; Mrs. J. J. Elizalde; Mr. Andres Soriano; Mr. Enrique Vasquez-Frada; Miss Guillermina Mendoza; Dr. Jorge Bocobo; Maj. J. E. H. Stevenot; Mr. Joaquin B. de Tavera; Miss Marguerite Wolfson; Miss Macaria Madrigal; Miss Maria Marta Albert; Miss Eloisa Burgos; Mr. Pedro Syquia; Mr. Alfonzo Sy Cip; Mr. Dee C. Chuan; Mr. S. Dazai; Mr. Alejandro Roces, Sr.; Mr. Roy C. Bennett; Mr. W. W. Larkin; Mr. Thomas J. Wolff; Mr. Salvador Araneta; Capt. J. V. Ogan, representing United States High Commissioner Murphy; Maj. C. H. Gerhardt, U. S. A., representing General Kilbourne; Lt. B. R. Harrison, U. S. N., representing Admiral Marquart; and Mr. Vicente Bunuan, Secretary.

The Committee is created for the purpose of making arrangements for and attending to giving a ball in honor of President Roosevelt ™s Birthday on January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, to raise funds for the promotion of research work in the control of poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis.

Done at the City of Manila, this tenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEOFILO SISON
Secretary of the Interior