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UNITED NEGRO COLLECT CONVOCATION COMMITTEE  [centered]
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Twenty-Two East Forty-Fourth Street, New York 22, NY . Plaza 1-0700  [smaller text, centered]
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MEMO TO CITY EDITOR [underlined, centered]
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You are invited to send reporters and photographers to
cover the events schedule for the three-day Convocation
honoring the 31 presidents of the [text block by #1 below]
United Negro College Fund, who will [text blocked by #1]
for the first time during the weeke [text blocked by #1
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NOTE:  These events precede the off [text blocked by #1]
       United Negro College Fund Ne [text blocked by #1]
       $1,750,000 on Monday, March [text blocked by #1]
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FRIDAY, MARCH 18 [underlined]
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Reception by Mayor Wagner at City H [text blocked by #1]
Columbia University Luncheon, 12:30 [text blocked by #1]
United Nations Reception and Open [text blocked by #1]
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19 [underlined]
Dinner honoring the presidents by N [text blocked by #1]
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THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
22 East 54th Street, NYC
PL 1-0700
                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Mayor Wagner officially welcomed the 31 college
presidents who arrived in New York today (March 18)
to attend the United Negro College [text blocked by picture overlaid on above letter & #1]
picture 1/2 page   6 people  Has label with 1955 upper left
lower right of picture  typed text
L - R.  Anna A. Hedgeman,
Mayor Wagner, W. J. Trent, jr.,
Benjamin E. Mays, M. LaFayette
Harris, Ruth W.Whaley.

listed in column to left of letter starting on "Memo to City Editor" line
C.D.Jackson
  Chairman [italic]
Frank W. Abrahms
James E. Allen
Harry Carman
Charles Dollard
John W. Hanes
Mrs. Douglas Horton
Mrs. Phillip C. Jessup
Mrs. R. Keith Kane
Lindsley R. Kimball
Mrs. Erik T. H. Kjellstrom
Mrs. Albert D. Lasker
Samuel D. Leidesdorf
Mrs. Richard O. Loengard
John J. McCloy
Mrs. Louise F. Morris
Mrs. Edward R. Murrow
F. D. Patterson
Francis Henry Taylor
Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell
Mrs. Frederick M. Warburg
Thomas G. Weaver
William Zeckendorf