Cuban Honor

O'Connor '12, leader of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, has had another honor heaped upon his efficient head. Early in January he was named president of the executive council of the Finlay Institute of the Americas which was recently organized by Cuban and United States physicians to foster research and scientific development in the Caribbean area. The Institute was named in honor of the late Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban physician, who is reputed to have first suspected the mosquito as a carrier of yellow fever and who served as chief health officer of Cuba from 1902 to 1909.

Before leaving the island, where he had gone to help organize the Institute, Mr. O'Connor was granted a decoration as Commander of the Order of Finlay by President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba.

The executive committee, besides Mr. O'Connor, includes Donald Nelson, chief of the newly organized War Production Board; and six doctors, three from the United States and three from Cuba. Sponsors of the Finlay Institute of the Americas feel "there is no reason why all the nations of the hemisphere cannot participate."