George Cabot Lodge Heads New England LDF Fund Drive
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April 8, 1967

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President Hon. Francis E. Rivers PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel egal efense und Jack Greenberg Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Joes DaVare Jr. 10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 » JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 4 FOR RELEASE oes 8 WEDNESDAY April 8, 1967 a Pad GEORGE CABOT LODGE HEADS NEW ENGLAND LDF FUND DRIVE BOSTON---Announcement that George Cabot Lodge has been named Chairman of the New England Fund Raising Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was made here this week. The goal this year is $100,000.00. Mr. Lodge, son of outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, replaces the Rev. John Crocker who retired. Rev. Crocker is former headmaster of the Groton School. Young Lodge is now a lecturer at Harvard Business School and Director of the Division of International Affairs. He formerly served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Inter- national Affairs. Gustav Heningburg, assistant to the president of the LDF, serves as coordinator for the New England Committee, part of the LDF's net- work of out-of-town fund raising campaigns. These drives are currently in progress in Chicago, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Providence, and Detroit. 220 ES