Wise Award for outstanding leadership "in a program which contributes to the welfare of people and thus furthers the goals of social work" was awarded to Miss Frances Davis. director of the Child Welfare Division of the Florida Department of Public Welfare. As director. Miss Davis is responsible for the organization and maintenance of a program by public and private welfare agencies for the placement and care of unaccompanied refugee children. Since the initiation of the program in the United States. more than 8.000 Cuban children have been cared for--as of February 1963. 1.177 children were in Dade County. The Florida Department of Public Welfare. acting as agent for the Department of Health.