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and put something back into the area where the profit was gained. Corporate America has accomplished this in many ways such as corporate gifts of various denominations, service on community boards, and the like. Our new thrust is to lend expertise to organizations that will improve the economic life of the individual and the com-community. My placement with the Westchester Coalition is ITT Baking Company's commitment to economic change and growth. This assignment demonstrates corporate opportunity, which is America's response to the basic facts that no market segment can remain ignored or under-developed; thus we shall endeavor to strengthen the Westchester Coalition in order to make an even greater economic impact in the period ahead."
  
Mr. Toles was named vice president at ITT Continental Baking Co. in April, 1977. He joined the company in 1967, advancing to urban affairs director in 1974. Before coming to ITT Continental Baking, he had been associate director of the New York Urban League, and was Chairman of its Board from 1972 to 1974. Holder of bachelor's and master's degrees from the Howard University School of Social Work, he was involved professionally in community service. Upon graduation, having won acclaim as a college athlete, he played professional football with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the All-American Conference.
  
He was distinguished for his accomplishments in the fields of civic rights and equal opportunity and was honored in 1979 by the Ministerial Conference on Race Relations with its Humanitarian Award. Earlier this year, Toles was named a Black Achiever in Business by the Harlem YMCA. A holder of many citations including the Urban League, NAACP and National Conference of Christians and Jews, Toles was Lt. Governor for N.Y. State Kiwanis International from 1973 to 1974, and was elected president of the Greater Jamaica (N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce in 1975 and 1976.
  
A resident of Queens, N.Y., Toles is married to Dr. Gloria Allen Toles and is the father of two sons.

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