In 1967, on the occasion of the AFSC's 50th anniversary the Service Committee released a recording of reminiscences from some of its founders.
Clarence Pickett: From the album cover:
Clarence Pickett came to the AFSC as executive secretary in 1929. One-time pastor of a Friends Meeting, he came to the Committee from the position of professor of Bible at Earlham, a Quaker college in Indiana Clarence Pickett began his service as the AFSC entered a new era in its history. As early as 1924, when post-World War I relief work seemed over, there were special meetings to decide whether to lay down the Committee or to look for new fields of service. The decision was made to continue, and when Clarence Pickett took up his work he headed a Committee that was moving into peace education work, service projects in the United States, and programs in community relations. He and Rufus Jones worked very closely until Rufus' death in 1948, a year after the AFSC had received the Nobel Peace Prize. Clarence Pickett's quiet sensitivity, patience, and gentle humor directed the Committee through the relief work of the Depression years, through the difficult years of the war, and into the trying years of the Cold War. It was during his years of service that the Committee grew to its present size and scope with ten regional offices in the U.S. and programs in 18 countries around the world. Clarence Pickett died in 1965.