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Herbert H. Wright has been appointed Manager of Public Relations Administration for Philip Morris Incorporated. The announcement was made by James C. Bowling, Assistant to the President and Public Relations Director of the company.

Before joining the tobacco company in 1945, Mr, Wright was chief of the Civilian Payroll Division at Tuskegee Army Air Field. During his 19 years with the company, he has worked in the firm's college program, served as Assistant to the Sales Promotion Manager and was Assistant Director of Public Relations.

Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Mr. Wright attended Morehouse College, majoring in Business Administration. He also attended Brick Junior College in North Carolina, and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Active in community affairs, Mr. Wright is a 32[[degree symbol]] Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Elks, and a member of the National Association of Marketing Developers.

The tobacco executive is the son of the late Reverend John C. Wright, who was Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta, Secretary of the New York YMCA, and a former President of Brick Junior College, and Edward Watters College in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mr. Wright makes his home in New York, N.Y.

WELCOME TO NEW YORK...

The Rev. Eugene St. Clair Callender is a well known minister in the City of New York. His ministry in the overcrowded community of Harlem has gained nationwide attention.

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and was graduated 'cum laude' from Westminster Theological Seminary in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the first Negro to attend the Seminary and was president of his graduating class. He also served as president of the Student Christian Movement at Boston University.

After receiving his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Westminster Seminary, Mr. Callender accepted the appointment as the first negro home missionary of the Reformed Church of America. He served at a Paterson, New Jersey, Church which was in the process of racial change. Two years later he became the Associate Minister of the Second Christian Reformed Church of Paterson. He was the first negro to be ordained to the ministry of the church and the church's first negro member.

In 1953 Mr. Callender began graduate studies in the Church and Community at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Two years later, in 1955, he organized the Mid-Harlem Community Parish in the Central Harlem Community. This church was a pioneer program in several areas. A legal clinic, a housing clinic, and a narcotic clinic were a part of the parish's program. Mr. Callender was able to enlist the volunteer assistance of many physicians, psychiatrists, and social workers in the narcotics program. The clinic provided the addict with an opportunity to withdraw from drugs with the use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills. This method developed at the clinic was subsequently adopted by the Department of Correction to aid addicts who were arrested. Previous to this addicts who were incarcerated had to withdraw by the painful cold turkey method. During this time he also served as a part-time prison chaplain at Rikers Island penitentiary. The work of the parish grew from a small store front operation to a major religious force in the Harlem Community.

Mr. Callender became Assistant Minister of the Church of the Master in 1959. He became pastor of the Church and Executive Director of the Community Center in 1961. He is responsible for a ministry that touches the lives of 3,000 residents of Harlem and New York City each year.

In 1962 Mr. Callender was Chairman of the Committee that drafted the proposal for a Federal grant to aid the Youth of Harlem. In 1962 a planning grant of $250,000 was given to this committee to prepare a major proposal to deal with all the problems affecting the lives of Harlem's Youth. This study has been completed and is published under the title "Youth in the Ghetto, A Study in the Consequences of Powerlessness and a Blueprint for Change." The program has an $118,000,000 Budget to be administered by the Board of Directors of HARYOU (Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited). Mr. Callender is a member of that Board and Chairman of its Executive Committee.

During the riots in Harlem in the Summer of 1964 Mr. Callender organized the City-Wide Clergy Coordinating Committee. This committee, which he chaired, raised $112,000 that was distributed to 56 Churches in the Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community of Brooklyn, to create jobs for young men. The objective of this program was to get these young people off the streets and out of trouble. This program was hailed by the New York City press as one of then most significant programs ever developed in these communities.

Mr. Callender has also organized at the Church of the Master a Reading Club. This club has attracted 350 youngsters and 159 tutors. The tutors assist the Harlem youngsters with their reading problems.

The New York Times recently named Mr. Callender as one of the 26 leading religious leaders in the country. He is national president of the Presbyterian Inter-Racial Council and the recipient of many distinguished awards. He has traveled extensively throughout the country speaking at conferences and college campuses.

Mr. Callender is married and he and his wife are the proud parents of three children. He became Chairman of the Board of HARYOU-ACT in May 1965 and was elected to the Board of National Missions.

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