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[typed text] UNITED NEGRO COLLECT CONVOCATION COMMITTEE [centered] [space] Twenty-Two East Forty-Fourth Street, New York 22, NY . Plaza 1-0700 [smaller text, centered] [double spaced] MEMO TO CITY EDITOR [underlined, centered] [double spaced] 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 [double spaced] 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] [double spaced] FRIDAY, MARCH 18 [underlined] [double spaced] 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] #1 typed text on paper placed over letter to right side 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