Gordon Berry

Gordon Berry served as the American delegate and executive secretary of the International Near East Association, a body formed in Geneva from the American and European societies working for relief in the Near East. From a small office in Geneva, and later in Paris, he kept Americans across Europe informed of the Association’s work and forwarded its annual contributions to the American Committee for distribution. As the representative of the New York office, Berry opened the way for more than a thousand Armenian boys, survivors of the Armenian Genocide and the refugee dispersion, to go to France as workers and residents, and he supervised their adjustment to self-support. His work joined Near East Relief’s effort in the wider European refugee-settlement programs of the early 1920s.