WALTER HOVING
National Chairman

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
Chairman Advisory Committee

WILLIAM H. BALDWIN
JOHN W. HANES
C. C. SPAULDING
CHANNING H. TOBIAS
Vice-Chairmen

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
National Treasurer

## Campaign Executive Committee

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN
MRS. WILLIAM F. GIBBS

JOHN W. HANES

WALTER HOVING

THOMAS JESSE JONES

MRS. OSWALD B. LORD

HON. FRANCIS E. RIVERS

C. C. SPAULDING

CHANNING H. TOBIAS

L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD

## Committee of College Presidents
Chairman

F. D. PATTERSON, President
Tuskegee Institute

DR. MARY E. BRANCH, President
Tillotson College

JAMES P. BRAWLEY, President
Clark College

DR. RALPH P. BRIDGMAN, President
Hampton Institute

DR. RUFUS E. CLEMENT, President
Atlanta University

JAMES A. COLSTON, President
Bethune-Cookman College

DR. JUDSON L. CROSS, President
Tougaloo College

DR. ROBERT P. DANIEL, President
Shaw University

ALBERT W. DENT, President
Dillard University

REV. KARL R. DOWNS, President
Samuel Huston College

DR. J. M. ELLISON, President
Virginia Union University

BISHOP W. A. FOUNTAIN, President
Morris Brown College

D. R. GLASS, President
Texas College

DR. M. LAFAYETTE HARRIS, President
Philander Smith College

DR. WILLIAM LLOYD IMES, President
Knoxville College

DR. MORDECAI W. JOHNSON, President
Howard University

DR. DAVID D. JONES, President
Bennett College

DR. THOMAS E. JONES, President
Fisk University

DR. WILLIS J. KING, President
Gammon Theological Seminary

DR. J. F. LANE, President
Lane College

DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS, President
Morehouse College

E. C. MCLEOD, President
Wiley College

HOLLIS F. PRICE, President
LeMoyne College

MISS FLORENCE M. REED, President
Spelunk College

WILLIAM J. TRENT, President
Livingstone College

FORRESTER WASHINGTON, President
Atlanta University
School of Social Work

DR. WALTER L. WRIGHT, President
Lincoln University

# United Negro College Fund
## Campaign

38 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y.

Telephone: PLaza 5-9614

March 24, 1944

Mr. Langston Hughes
"Here to Yonder"
Chicago Defender
3435 Indiana Ave.
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Twenty-seven of the leading privately controlled Negro colleges including Howard University, Hampton Institute, Fisk University, Tuskegee Institute, and others, are pooling their resources and influence, for the first time to raise funds for their current maintenance by an annual nation-wide campaign. In a postscript I am listing all of the Negro colleges participating in this nation-wide fund drive. The colleges have contributed a large part of the money needed to finance the drive and their presidents are wholeheartedly behind the effort.

The organization known as the United Negro College Fund is in keeping with the latest methods of private financing and its efforts will economize on the time, energy and overhead which has here-tofore been expended by the individual colleges to raise funds, each in its own behalf.

The primary financial aim of the fund is to take up the gap between income and operating needs, and to raise an additional sum to meet effectively the most serious education problems imposed upon Negro colleges by the current war emergency. On the basis of careful estimates of all these factors, the total goal for the first campaign, which will terminate at the end of May, is set at $1,500,000.00.

By this new organization, Negro leaders are approaching a long-range solution for the salvation and improvement of the educational institutions. The time has now arrived it is believed, for Negroes to exercise a larger measure of self help to further their own educational progress. It is realized that by putting their colleges on a pay-as-you-go basis as far as possible, they are not only making education more accessible to the masses of Negroes, but are enabling these institutions to lift their educational standards. It is almost elementary to repeat here that

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July 17, 1945

Dear Mr. Trent:

The enclosed money order for $5.00 made out to the United Negro College Fund, fell out of a fan letter addressed to me through the CHICAGO DEFENDER as a result of my column of almost a year ago concerning the Fund's first campaign. I regret that I am so long sending it to you, but it just came to my attention today in going through a bunch of fan mail that I have not read, since I have been out of New York almost the entire year on lecture tours of the South and Mid-West.

The sender of this money order is

Pvt. Herwaldtt Auley Price - 18149331
H. and S. 1312 Eng. Regt.
APO 503 - C/o Postmaster
San Francisco, California,

He also sent the enclosed poem. Would you kindly send him an acknowledgement.

With all good wishes to the Fund, I am

Mr. William Trent
UNITED COLLEGE FUND
38 E. 57th Street
New York City

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UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, INC.

38 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y. • PLAZA 5-9613

1945 CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL OFFICERS

THOMAS A. MORGAN
Chairman

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
Chairman, Advisory Committee

WALTER HOVING
Chairman, Executive Committee

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
Treasurer

WILLIAM DEAN EMBREE
Chairman, Foundations Committee

BENJAMIN SONNENBERG
Publicity Chairman

Vice-Chairmen

J. MELVILLE BROUGHTON
ELMER A. CARTER
JOHN W. HANES
WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN
C. C. SPAULDING
EDGAR B. STERN

PAUL FRANKLIN, Campaign Director
W. J. TRENT, JR., Executive Secretary

July 24, 1945

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

This week the 92nd Division sent a gift of
$12,950.86 to the United Negro College Fund.

Those of us close to the Fund are naturally
very proud of this contribution. We feel it is
one of the most significant gestures in the 1945
campaign.

I cannot interpret all the implications in-
herent in this gift. I do know this; the 92nd
has been a much publicized Division in this war.
What America thinks of the merit of this outfit
is not a subject for discussion in this letter.
That the Negro soldier in the 92nd is giving seri-
ous thought to the future of America, however, is
self-evident.

The enclosed facts may provoke some thinking
on your part that you might wish to call to the
attention of the public. Any comment you desire
to make will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your continued interest in the
work of the Fund.

SR/aal

(National Advisory Committee listed on reverse)

May 8, 1947

Mr. Henry C. Patterson
Witherspoon Building
Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania

Dear Mr. Patterson:

I very much wish that I could accept
your kind invitation to attend a tea
for the United Negro College Fund in
Bryn Mawr on May 27, 1947.

However, I regret that I cannot do so
since that is the week of final
examinations and preparations for
commencement here at Atlanta University
where I am teaching this semester. That
week-end I have a lecture engagement in
Miami, and will then have to come back
to the campus for commencement the first
week in June. I expect to go from here
to Chicago and will not be back in the
East until about the end of June.

I attended a very successful rally at
Clark the other day for the Negro College
Fund where the students themselves raised
almost $2,000.

LH: wmb

38 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y. • PLAZA 5-9612

W. J. TRENT, JR., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PAUL FRANKLIN, DIRECTOR OF FUND RAISING

1948 CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL OFFICERS

WILLIAM E. COTTER
Chairman

C. C. SPAULDING
Vice-Chairman

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
Chairman, National Council

THOMAS A. MORGAN
Chairman, Executive Committee

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
Treasurer

THOMAS D'A. BROPHY
Chairman, Publicity Committee

MRS. WILLIAM HENRY HAYS
Chairman, Women's Committee

October 22, 1948

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 26, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We know of your interest in Negro education
because of your gift of $10 in 1947 and we feel
sure you must have heard how successful this Fund
has been in supplying the critical ten percent of
the annual budget of the thirty-two accredited
member colleges.

If you will renew your help given in the past,
it will mean a great deal to this program leading to
better education and better race relations and your
continued interest will be warmly appreciated.

Your contribution will, of course, be credited
to the total raised this year in your community.

With renewed appreciation for your help, I am

(National Council listed on reverse)

38 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y. • PLaza 5-9612

1949 CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL OFFICERS

JOHN R. SUMAN
Chairman

CLAUDE A. BARNETT
Vice-Chairman

MRS. CHAUNCEY L. WADDELL
Associate Chairman,
National Council

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
Treasurer

March 10, 1949

Mr. Langston Hughes
CHICAGO DEFENDER
3435 Indiana Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The support the national Negro Press has given the United Negro College Fund since its inception five years ago, has been a vital force in its success.

We are now preparing for our sixth annual campaign which will open nationally early in April, and ask once again that you give us such mention in your column as space commitments will allow.

The Fund's membership includes 31 private colleges and universities. Increased operating costs together with heavy enrollments in these schools have put a great strain on their budgets. This year we are seeking $1,400,000 to meet current operating expenses, and provide those necessities to insure an acceptable job of educating our students.

We hope you will find time to read our enclosed 1949 booklet, "Only A Hope-A Hundred Years Ago", which tells the story of these colleges and the job they are doing. Also enclosed is a statistical Facts Sheet covering the Fund and the colleges.

Needless to remind you, the Fund depends largely upon the generous support given by the Negro papers. Any column comment you may find possible to give to the Fund will find us deeply appreciative and grateful.

Encls: 2

(National Council Listed on Reverse)

22 EAST FIFTY-FOURTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y. • PLaza 3-4120

April 4, 1950

1950 CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL OFFICERS

THOMAS I. PARKINSON
Chairman

IRA DEA. REID
Vice-Chairman

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
Treasurer

SAMUEL D. LEIDESDORF
Chairman,
Foundations Committee

F. D. PATTERSON
Chairman,
College Presidents Committee

Mr. Langston Hughes
Chicago Defender
3435 Indiana Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Langston:

The generous support of the columnists of the national Negro press has played an important part in the success of the United Negro College Fund's campaigns over the past six years. And evaluating last year's appeal which was our most successful to date, we realize that the favorable editorial comment appearing in the regular columns gave us the added boost which helped to put us over the top in our fund-raising efforts.

The United Fund, as you know, supports the op-
erational budgets of thirty-two private, accredited Negro col-
leges and universities, and through cooperative fund-raising,
has kept these schools open to increasing numbers of students,
to whom they represent today, in many instances, the only means
of obtaining higher education.

It is unnecessary, we know, to remind you of the
pressing financial needs of all private colleges today. Those
serving the majority of Negro students, most of whom live in the
South, are particularly hard hit by high operational costs.

An appeal in support of the Fund's 1950 campaign
to help these colleges balance their budgets, would serve to
stimulate public interest. We would be most appreciative of
editorial comment, during the intensive campaign period from
April to June.

For your further information, we have enclosed
a fact sheet and leaflet which tells the story of the Fund and
its objectives in greater detail.

Again, our appreciation of your cooperation in
past years.

April 9, 1951

Mr. William Trent, Jr.,
United Negro College Fund,
22 East 54th Street,
New York 22, New York.

Dear Bill,

In sending me material in the future, please ask your secretaries
to post it to the above address, NOT to the DEFENDER, as that makes
it about ten days later reaching me. (Gullud!) I could have given
the Fund a plug coinciding with the opening of the campaign had I
known the date in time. Now this won't appear for another ten days.
But anyhow, I hope it helps a bit when it does come out. It will
be a long time, I'm afraid, before it will be too late to contribute
to the United Negro College Fund.

NATIONAL OFFICERS 1953 CAMPAIGN

F. D. PATTERSON, President
W. J. TRENT, JR., Executive Director

C. D. JACKSON
Chairman

DANIEL E. KOSHLAND
P. B. YOUNG
Vice-Chairmen

FRANK M. TOTTON
Chairman, Executive Committee

MRS. CHAUNCEY L. WADDELL
Associate Chairman
National Council

JOHN J. McCLOY
National Treasurer

EARL NEWSOM
Chairman,
Public Information Committee

PAUL FRANKLIN
Director of Fund-Raising

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, inc.

22 EAST FIFTY-FOURTH STREET, NEW YORK 22, N. Y. • PLaza 1-0700

April 27, 1953

Dear Langston:

I've decided that anniversaries are handy things to have now and then, if only because they provide good reasons for writing to old friends. This year we are celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the UNCF as America's first educational community chest, and I hope you will find some of the facts outlined here and in the enclosed material worthy of mention in your column.

The presidents and I feel that 1953 marks a significant milestone in the Fund's history, and we would be very grateful for your cooperation in helping us make this a noteworthy year.

The private Negro colleges were the first to introduce the cooperative fund-raising formula in support of privately endowed higher education. Their leadership in developing a means of voluntary support - one that is a practical alternative to government subsidy with its potential control of free education - has been widely recognized. Since the UNCF was established in 1943, some 24 groups of private colleges throughout the country have adopted its cooperative plan, as you will note from the enclosed NEWSWEEK reprint.

Some idea what the support of the Fund has meant to its colleges and to Negro higher education in general may be gained from these facts:

a) In 1943, the colleges involved could raise only $250,000 through individual fund-raising efforts.

b) In 1944, in its first united appeal, the UNCF raised $765,567 for these same institutions. Through its first nine campaigns, the Fund has raised $10,000,000 for its member institutions.

This consistent annual support has made it possible for the member colleges to maintain full accreditation, rather than a second-rate standing. It has given them the means of providing scholarship aid for qualified students who otherwise might not have been able to go to college. It has helped to keep and secure more good teachers, purchase up-to-date equipment for classrooms, science labs and libraries.

America's First Educational Community Chest

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The UNCF is concerned with helping its colleges do a first class job of training their more than 23,000 students today, and with strengthening these strategic institutions for the future when they will be recognized as excellent colleges and universities for all qualified students, without reference to race or creed. This is clearly stated in the enclosed policy statement recorded by the UNCF Board of Directors, in October 1952.

In addition to supporting the current operating budgets of the participating colleges, the UNCF has also undertaken a five year capital funds program for $25,000,000 for new buildings and improvement of the present physical plants of these institutions.

It is also noteworthy, that the Fund has served as an agency of Public Information as well as fund-raising, since its beginning. In this capacity it has served to focus national attention upon the need for greater educational opportunity for Negro youth. As part of its public information program, the Fund's annual educational symposiums held in New York each Fall have come to be recognized as authoritative yearly reports in the field of higher education for Negroes.

We are working to make this Tenth Anniversary year the most successful one to date, and for that reason I would be most grateful for your continued support.

Enclosures

1957 CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL OFFICERS

LEE HASTINGS BRISTOL
Chairman

WILLIAM T. GOSSETT
STANLEY C. HOPE
JAMES E. STAMPS
Vice-Chairmen

JOHN J. McCLOY
Treasurer

SAMUEL D. LEIDESDORF
Chairman,
Foundation Gifts Committee

FREDERICK H. SONTAG
Chairman,
Public Information

MRS. RICHARD O. LOENGARD
Chairman,
School and College Committee

JOHN E. ALSUP
CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR

F. D. PATTERSON, PRESIDENT
W. J. TRENT, JR., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

October 29, 1957

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We would like very much to enlist the services
of Jess Simple for the 1958 United Negro College Fund
appeal.

I have been a devoted and delighted reader of
Simple stories for some time. After seeing "Simply
Heavenly" it occurred to me that Simple speaking for
the Fund would have a tremendous impact.

The idea in mind is a one-minute radio spot
encompassing Simple's philosophy. We hope you will
record for Simple. The announcement will be included
in a transcription of spot announcements by well-known
personalities. The record will be distributed to radio
stations throughout the country in connection with our
1958 campaign.

I'm enclosing, along with two of our booklets, a
copy of the spot recently recorded by Pat O'Brien.
These announcements are usually prepared by this office,
but we realize that Simple would have to write his own.
We hope you will both be willing.

If you would like to discuss the idea further I
will be happy to meet with you at your convenience.

Enclosures

January 17, 1959

Dear Bill:

Please forgive me for being so long in answering
your letter of last December but I was on the
West Coast when it arrived and since the holi-
days have been off lecturing again. I have
just now gotten around to answering my mail.

In a little while I have to take off for
engagements in connection with Negro History
Week. These include Chicago, Cleveland and
Tuskegee. Since I have been out of town so
much this season I am behind on my contracted
books, not to speak of a mountain of mail
which has piled up so I dare not take on
any other commitments soon. But, if in the
spring - April or May - you would still wish
me to do a piece for the United Negro College
Fund, I would be willing to attempt it based
on the material which you say you will send
me.

I am sorry I cannot promise to do it any
sooner but, unfortunately, have no staff to
assist me so cannot cope with anything else
at the moment. I will do the radio appeal
next week with Miss Barker.

With cordial regards, I am

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March 23, 1959

Miss Dorothy Barker,
United Negro College Fund,
22 East 54th Street,
New York 22, New York.

Dear Miss Barker:

As an alumnus of Lincoln University, one of your colleges nourished by the Fund, it might be of interest to your promotion and publicity departments to know that a large number of the poems contained in my SELECTED POEMS published this week by Alfred A. Knopf were written at Lincoln University during my student days there, and some of them were first published in the campus paper, and later appeared in a college booklet, FOUR LINCOLN UNIVERSITY POETS: myself, Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, and Edward Silvera, which I edited---my first editorial experience.

Frequently in my public poetry-readings, I give credit to Lincoln for having helped me greatly in my poetic career. My second book of poems, FINE CLOTHES TO THE JEW (Knopf, 1927) was published while I was on the campus; while there I received the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for my poem "A House In Taos" contained in the SELECTED POEMS (that poem having been written at Lincoln); and I wrote my first novel, NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER (Knopf, 1930) on the campus, and it was accepted for publication before my graduation, (1929) coming out the following season.

Perhaps this information might be of use to the College Fund in helping indicate to prospective donors how one Negro institution has greatly aided in the development of a literary career.

Incidentally, my play MULATTO, which ran for a year on Broadway, and then for an 8 month tour across the country, and has since been produced in the Argentine, Brazil, Italy, and Japan; and in the opera version, THE BARRIER, first done here at Columbia University, is about to be performed on the Rome radio April 5 with an all-star Italian cast, including Magda Lazslo of the Met, in the role Muriel Rahn created---this play was first conceived at Lincoln and completed at Jasper Deeter's Hedgerow Theatre not far from Lincoln.

Cordial regards to you, as ever,

TWENTY-TWO EAST FIFTY-FOURTH STREET
NEW YORK 22, N. Y.

LINCOLNTON

BENJAMIN E. MAYS, President

L. H. FOSTER, Vice President

JESSE H. LAWRENCE, Treasurer

E. CLAYTON CALHOUN, Secretary

DIVISION OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

STANLEY C. HOPE
Chairman
Board of Directors

FREDERICK D. PATTERSON
Vice Chairman
Board of Directors

WILLIAM J. TRENT, JR.
Executive Director

CALVIN H. RAULLERSON
Director

March 4, 1960

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 E. 127th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

During the past six months, Dr. Rosey E. Pool of Amsterdam, Holland has been lecturing at a number of educational institutions in the United States on the contributions of Negro writers and artists. The institutions included many of the member colleges of the United Negro College Fund.

I have asked Dr. Pool to outline some impressions of her American visit, and particularly those of her trip through the South, at a small dinner meeting on Monday, April 4. It is a pleasure to invite you to join with the Fund staff and a few of our friends on this occasion. Dinner will be in Parlors E and F at the Hotel Roosevelt, Madison Avenue at 45th Street. We will be serving promptly at 6:00 p.m. This promises to be an interesting and enlightening experience. We hope you will be able to share it with us.

WJT:m

UNITED NEGRO
COLLEGE FUND
FOUNDERS 1944

COOPERATIVE INTERCOLLEGIATE EXAMINATION PROGRAM
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
FLORINA LASKER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

UNCF PARTICIPATING COLLEGES

**ATLANTA UNIVERSITY**
Atlanta, Ga.
Rufus E. Clement, President

**BARBER-SCOTIA COLLEGE**
Concord, N. C.
L. S. Cozart, President

**BENEDICT COLLEGE**
Columbia, S. C.
J. A. Bacoats, President

**BENNETT COLLEGE**
Greensboro, N. C.
Willa B. Player, President

**BETHUNE-COCKMAN COLLEGE**
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Richard V. Moore, President

**BISHOP COLLEGE**
Marshall, Texas
Milton K. Curry, Jr., President

**CLARK COLLEGE**
Atlanta, Ga.
James P. Brawley, President

**DILLARD UNIVERSITY**
New Orleans, La.
Albert W. Dent, President

**FISK UNIVERSITY**
Nashville, Tenn.
Stephen J. Wright, President

**HAMPTON INSTITUTE**
Hampton, Va.
William H. Martin, Acting President

**HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE**
Austin, Texas
J. J. Seabrook, President

**INTERDENOMINATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CENTER**
Atlanta, Ga.
Harry V. Richardson, President

**JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY**
Charlotte, N. C.
Rufus P. Perry, President

**KNOXVILLE COLLEGE**
Knoxville, Tenn.
James A. Colston, President

**LANE COLLEGE**
Jackson, Tenn.
C. A. Kirkendoll, President

**LEMOYNE COLLEGE**
Memphis, Tenn.
Hollis F. Price, President

**LINCOLN UNIVERSITY**
Lincoln University, Pa.
A. O. Grubb, Acting President

**LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE**
Salisbury, N. C.
Samuel E. Duncan, President

**MOREHOUSE COLLEGE**
Atlanta, Ga.
Benjamin E. Mays, President

**MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE**
Atlanta, Ga.
Frank J. Cunningham, President

**PAINE COLLEGE**
Augusta, Ga.
E. Clayton Calhoun, President

**PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE**
Little Rock, Ark.
M. LaFayette Harris, President

**ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE**
Raleigh, N. C.
James A. Boyer, President

**ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE**
Lawrenceville, Va.
Earl H. McClenney, President

**SHAW UNIVERSITY**
Raleigh, N. C.
W. R. Strassner, President

**SPELMAN COLLEGE**
Atlanta, Ga.
Albert E. Manley, President

**TALLADEGA COLLEGE**
Talladega, Ala.
A. D. Gray, President

**TEXAS COLLEGE**
Tyler, Texas
D. R. Glass, President

**TOUGALOO SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE**
Tougaloo, Miss.
S. C. Kincheloe, President

**TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE**
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
L. H. Foster, President

**VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY**
Richmond, Va.
Samuel D. Proctor, President

**WILEY COLLEGE**
Marshall, Texas
T. W. Cole, Sr., President

**XAVIER UNIVERSITY**
New Orleans, La.
Sister M. Josephina, President

UNCF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

STANLEY C. HOPE, Chairman
FREDERICK D. PATTERSON, Vice Chairman

PRESIDENTS OF THE MEMBER COLLEGES
AND
THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE

**MRS. BEN CHERRINGTON**
Denver, Colo.

**GEORGE DEMPSTER**
Knoxville, Tenn.

**C. D. JACKSON**
New York, N. Y.

**HOBART JACKSON**
Philadelphia, Pa.

**LESTER E. KABACOFF**
New Orleans, La.

**LINDSLEY F. KIMBALL**
New York, N. Y.

**JESSE H. LAWRENCE**
New York, N. Y.

**LAWRENCE MACGREGOR**
Summit, N. J.

**THOMAS A. MORGAN**
New York, N. Y.

**CHARLES A. ROBINSON**
Wilmington, Del.

**HOBART TAYLOR**
Houston, Texas

**WALTER WASHINGTON**
Utica, Miss.

**EDWARD A. WEEKS**
Boston, Mass.

**JOHN H. WHEELER**
Durham, N. C.

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March 5, 1960

Mr. W. J. Trent, Jr.,
United Negro College Fund,
22 East 54th Street,
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Bill:

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to attend the Rosey Pool dinner on Monday, April 4.

I regret very much I cannot be there. I will be in the midst of my North Carolina lecture tour at that time---at Fayetteville State Teachers College that day, with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and five other dates to follow during the week. I won't be back in New York until Easter.

Again with thanks and cordial regards,

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND

TWENTY-TWO EAST FIFTY-FOURTH STREET
NEW YORK 22, NEW YORK

May 19, 1961

Dear Langston:

I am writing very cordially to invite you to join us at
Luncheon on Thursday, June first, in the Carpenter Suite
of The Waldorf-Astoria, at twelve forty-five o'Clock.

The occasion will honor the three top winners of the
READER'S DIGEST-UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND CREATIVE
WRITING CONTEST during a three-day visit to New York.
There were some two hundred entries in this contest, all
submitted by undergraduate students in the UNCF colleges.
The categories were three: *Essay*, *Short Story*, and
*Poetry*. Heading the panel of judges for the awards was
Mr. Edward Weeks, editor of *The Atlantic Monthly*.

I think you will also be interested to know that the
three top winners come from Tougaloo Southern Christian
College, Tougaloo, Mississippi; Xavier University, New
Orleans; and LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tennessee in the
respective categories listed above.

We hope so very much that you will be able to come. Will
you call to let me know, or, if I am out, ask for Miss
Jones?

With kind personal regards,

WJT:jt