Standing, left to right: the Honorable William A.M. Burden, Special Aviation Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce; Willard E. Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association; John W. Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education. Seated, left to right: the Honorable Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission (WMC); Robert P. Patterson, the Undersecretary of War