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Bottle & Cork dinner benefits Negro Fund

 The Bottle & Cork Sales Club of New York, Inc. held its eighth annual dinner to benefit the United Negro College Fund last Thursday evening at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
The dinner, billed as "A Salute To Dr.Martin Luther King," raised over $50,000 for UNCF's member colleges and universities.
 Herman I. Merindoff, who is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Renfield Importers Ltd., was honored with the club's "Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award." The award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding humanitarian service.
 Robert A. Monroe, who is president of Summit Sales (a Joseph A. Seagrams and Sons, Inc. Company), served as Dinner Chairman.
 Founded in 1937, the Bottle & Cork Sales Club of New York is dedicated to providing and supporting humanitarian and social programs. In the past, funds raised by the club have assisted the NAACP the National Urban League, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, Harlem Hospital and various community based organizations.
 More that $200,000 has been contributed to UNCF since the club's first benefit dinner in 1979. Funds contributed by the Bottle & Cork Sales Club of New York, Inc. will help support UNCF's 43 private, historically Black colleges and universities. Edward Waters College in Florida became UNCF's newest member college, as of January 1.
  Currently some 45,000 students are enrolled in these institutions. Over 90% of these young people require financial assistance, and half come from families earning less than $14,000 annually. Were it not for UNCF and its supporters, many of these young people would not have an opportunity to attend college.
  The United Negro College Fund is known by its motto: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
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