Msgr. Richard Barry-Doyle founded an organization that was the prototype for CNEWA. (photo: CNEWA Archives)

Father Paul Wattson, S.A., the noted ecumenist, served CNEWA as its first Vice President. (photo: CNEWA ArchivesCNEWA Archives, Graymoor, NY)

Board of Trustees meeting of CNEWA in New York City, January 1927.

Prior to his selection as the first President of CNEWA, Father Edmund Walsh, S.J., center, served the American Relief Mission in Moscow. (photo: CNEWA ArchivesCNEWA Archives, Graymoor, NY)