Casper K. Naumann was Elected president of the Greater New Orleans Association for Retarded Children, Inc., at a meeting in the Roosevelt hotel.
Other officers elected were Dan B. LeGardeur, vice-president; Mrs. W. E. Padel, corresponding secretary, and Robert W. Breeden Jr., treasurer.
Naumann succeeds Dr. Ri^s-sel L. Holman as president.
Association members were urged by Morley A. Hudson, Shreveport, a member of the board for the National Association for Retarded Children, to stimulate and support research, in the prevention and amelio-/j ration of retardation. He point/ ed out that the national boar$ approved a national research foundation last April.
Some 90,000 persons in Louipi-j ana are mentally retarded, he j said, totaling more than ^11 i other handicapped people com-| bined.
. "A retarded child is part of God's plan," Hudson said. "The parents should feel that the^y were given such a child for a reason and they should join with others in a collective effort to help all retarded children. In turn, they wiil know that someone is helping their child."
He said the national association now represents some 550 local units made up of members from some 60,000 families across the nation. Yet, he added, the association has the smallest budget of any such organization, totaling only $350,-1 000 annually.
"As a result, about 80 per cent of the work is done by volunteers," he said.
