Executive Order 10510

Establishing a Seal for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

WHEREAS the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare has adopted and has recommended that I approve a seal of office for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this order, and which is described in heraldic terms as follows:

SHIELD: Argent an open book with sanguine binding charged overall with a staff of Aesculapius paleways within an annulet of chain all proper.

CREST: On a wreath argent and sanguine an American bald eagle displayed and wings partially inverted proper.

Below the shield a white scroll inscribed with the motto "SPES ANCHORA VITAE"^[1] in black letters, all on a circular sanguine background within a white band, inner edge white, outer edge sanguine, and inscribed "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. A.";

AND WHEREAS it appears that such seal is of suitable design an appropriate for adoption as the official seal of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby approve such seal as the official seal of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The White House

December 17, 1953

Notes

1. Hope is the anchor of life