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Elizabeth Wickenden with Arthur Altmeyer
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Elizabeth Wickenden, standing to the left of Arthur Altmeyer, was a social welfare and Social Security policy consultant, analyst, and writer, and professor of public policy and urban studies. Two women are unidentified.She was a member of the federal Advisory Council on Public Welfare during the 1960s and President Kennedy's Task Force on Health and Social Security Legislation (1960-1961). As a consultant on public social policy, Wickenden analyzed and interpreted policy and legislation, studied problems, helped formulate goals and strategies, and promoted social action.In 1978 she took on a leading role in the Study Group on Social Security and the Save Our Security Coalition.
circa 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Wickenden
1960
Quarter-length studio portrait of Professor Elizabeth Wickenden, professor of urban studies and technical consultant on public social policy to the National Assembly for Social Policy and Developme...
Social Security Anniversary
August 14, 1968
Arthur Altmeyer and Wilbur Cohen on the set of the "Today" show, talking about the 33rd anniversary of the Social Security bill.
Altmeyer and Signers of Medicare Bill
July 30, 1965
Caption reads: "Arthur Altmeyer poses outdoors with John Engell (last name?), Paul Douglas, and Oscar Ewing at the signing of the Medicare Bill." Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) was the United Stat...
Salzburg Seminar
1962
Arthur Altmeyer standing at a blackboard speaking at the Salzburg seminar in American studies.Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) was the United States Commissioner for Social Security from 1946 to 1953...
Social Security Anniversary
August 14, 1968
View towards podium of Wilbur Cohen presenting Arthur Altmeyer, the first director of the Social Security Board, with a plaque at the anniversary celebration of "a third of a century" of the social...
Arthur J. Altmeyer
1963
Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his honor.
