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[[image]] [[caption]]M. C. WOODWARD, JR. President, Chief Executive Officer, ITT Continental Baking Co.[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]DONALD H. McGANNON President Westinghouse Broadcasting[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]COY D. EKLUND President and Chief Executive Officer Equitable Life Assurance Society of U.S.[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]JOHN E. HEILMAN President and Chief Executive Officer Somerset Importers, Ltd.[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]BRUCE LUNDVALL President Columbia Records Corp.[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]ROSS MILLHISER President and Member of the Board Philip Morris, Inc.[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]JOSEPH F. CULLMAN, III Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer[[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]]JAMES CHANDLER BOWLING Member, Board of Directors, Assistant Chairman of the Board, Senior Vice President Philip Morris, Inc.[[/caption]] [[image]] HENRY FORD, II [[caption]]Chairman of the Board Ford Motor Co.[[/caption]] DELEGATE Salutes Chairmen of the Boards I am particularly pleased to say thanks to the gang from Philip Morris. Because I have had personal involvement with them and their humanness through the years. Some 30 years ago, as the advertising manager for the New York edition of the Pittsburgh Courier, I had the good fortune to be called by Herbert Wright to meet James Bowling and George Weisman to do a promotional job on a Philip Morris Radio program which, at that time, was a dramatic show which featured college thespians doing popular plays of the day with nationally known dramatic artists. Our job was to produce publicity for the show which featured Ed Hall, a black student actor from Howard University. Mr. Hall was featured in the play "Outward Bound" and his professional counterpart was Boris Karloff, the Hollywood actor. The show introduced Mr. Hall to the Broadway stage. After this initial contact, I became involved with Philip Morris. A few years later I was further convinced of the humanity of Wright, Bowling, Weisman, Millhiser, and Cullman when Philip Morris, under deepest pressure from buyers of their products in the South refused to stop their program of hiring Blacks and upgrading them within the company. For their faith in the righteousness of hiring and upgrading Blacks long before Equal Opportunity and all that jazz, I want to presonally salute them and their company, Philip Morris. Delegate Magazine also wants to say thank you to Cal Woodward of I.T.T. Continental Baking Company for being named Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Man of the Year. Delegate salutes John Heilman, the energetic President of Somerset Importers Company, the distributors of Johnny Walked Scotch for his personal involvement in contributing to finance the search for a cure for Sickle Cell Anemia which attacks us. Mr. Heilman's firm has been a large financial benefactor of the research to find a 40 [[end page]]
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Johnny Walker scotch is misspelled
