The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-03-25
JACKSON WELCOMES STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Negro Colleges Unite to Launch
First of Annual Fund Drives
Tougaloo One of II Schools
To Raise More Than Million

For the first time in the history
of Negro education, twenty-seven
of the leading privately-controlled
Negro colleges and universities are
pooling their resources and ener-
gies to raise $1,500,0O0 for their
current maintenance, in a nation
wide fund drive through a newly
created organization, the United
Negro College Fund, is was an
nounced this week.
Walter Hoving, a prominent New
York merchant and chairman of
the national board of the United
Service Organizations, yesterday
accepted the national craftsmanship
of the United Negro College Fund
Campaign Committee This fund
campaign committee will be inter-
racial in character Mr. Hoving
said that he would name the mem
bers of his national committee
within a few weeks. The cam
paign for $1,5000OO will be con-
Quoted by local committees thru
out the nation. The drive will ter
inmate at the end of May.
In accepting the national chair
manship of the fun draising COM
mittee, Mr.. Hoving, a graduate of
Brown University, Providence, r.
T., said, In my opinion this is one
of the most forward looking steps
taken recently in America to help
Negroes help themselves by max
ing it possible for them through
higher education to develop sound
Negro leadership, which will 60 far
toward creating better under
standing between the Negro and
white races in America"
Organization headquarters for
the United Negro College Fund
campaign have been opened at 38
East 57th Street, New York City,
and Winthrop w. Aldrich, chair
man of the board of directors of
the Chase National Bank, New
York City, who also heads the
National War Fund, has accepted
the voluntary position of treas
urer of the College Fund.
A number of prominent persons
of both races have joined the spon-
soring committee of the United
Negro College Fund, among whom
are c. G. Spaulding, President of
the North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company; Will w. Alexan-
der, vice president of the Rosen-
wald Fund; P. B. Young, Sr., Rob-
ert Ogden Purves, Bishop Lorenzo
S. King, DR.. Mary Mcleod Be
thune, Dr. M S. Savage, William
J. Schieffelin.
DR.. F. D. Patterson, president of
Tuskegee Institute, who has work
ed untiringly with the presidents
of the affiliating colleges in the
formation of the United Negro Col
1ege Fund, expressed his enthu-
siasm for the project, by saying
that the United Negro College
Fund sponsoring committee was
convinced that the step is one of
the most important undertaken in
the history of Negro education. 1t
is in keeping with the latest meth
DDS of financing the country, he
said. and will effect huge saving
in the finance and energy hereto
fore expended by the individual
schools in their efforts to keep
their institutions operating, there
by enabling them to spend more
money on the actual and real needs
of education, modern equipment, a
well-trained teaching staff, student
aid, and the making of education
more accessible to the masses.
The participating institutions of
the United Negro College Fund
campaign are: Howard, Fisk, At
lanta, billiard, Lincoln, Virginia I'm
ion and Shaw universities; Ben
nett, Bethune Goodman, Clark,
Samuel Huston, Knoxville, Lane,
LeMoyne, Livingstone, Morehouse,
Morris Brown, Philander Smith,
Spelman, Texas, Tillotson, Wiley
and Tougaloo colleges; Atlanta
University School of Social Work,
Gammcn Theological Seminary,
Hampton Institute, and Tuskegee
Institute.