Freedom's His Job

WILBUR H. (Ping) FERRY '32 has been elected Vice President of The Fund for the Republic, a non-profit organization of which Robert M. Hutchins is president and Paul G. Hoffman chairman of the board. In order to accept his new post, Mr. Ferry withdrew from partnership in Earl Newsom & Co., New York public relations counsel.

A newspaperman who later went into the publicity field, Ping Ferry has worked in Detroit, Puerto Rico, Concord, N. H., and other cities. The Fund of the Republic, established in 1952 by the Ford Foundation with a grant of $15 million, is devoted to the promotion "of the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights . . . to support activities directed toward the elimination of restrictions on freedom of thought, inquiry and expression in the United States, and the development of policies and procedures best adapted to protect those rights."