Oveta Culp Hobby
Dublin Core
Title
Oveta Culp Hobby
Contributor
Jessica Weng
Collection Items
![Social-Welfare "Jungle": How a Government Department Grows and Grows](https://exhibits.library.rice.edu/wrc/Secretary-Hobby-HEW/files/square_thumbnails/de2d95f53346366c5d328137fccab6f3.jpg "Social-Welfare "Jungle": How a Government Department Grows and Grows")
Handwritten note to Oveta Culp Hobby on the Seal of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Department of HEW seal with a note to Hobby under it from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, saying "For Oveta Hobby, First Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with admiration and best wishes from a devoted friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower"
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare diagram on past and proposed programs for vocational rehabilitation
Data from the Statement by Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare in Support of S. 2759
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare diagram on expanded rehabilitation program
Data from the Statement by Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare in Support of S. 2759
Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby meeting with officials from World Health Organization
Photograph of Oveta sitting at a table with 3 other men at right is Leonard A. Scheele, Surgeon General of Public Health Service
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby takes her oath of office before President Eisenhower and becomes the first Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Photograph of Oveta, President Eisenhower, and Governor William P. Hobby during swearing-in ceremony