George Cabot Lodge Heads New England LDF Fund Drive
Press Release
April 8, 1967
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Hon. Francis E. Rivers
PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel
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Director, Public Relations
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Joes DaVare Jr.
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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.
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