Cuttington College Development Campaign Director Named
Diocesan Press Service. April 1, 1975 [75125]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Mr. Marvin C. Josephson has become director of the Episcopal Church's Cuttington College development campaign which has just been launched.
Founded in 1889 as part of the Episcopal Church's missionary effort in Liberia, Cuttington is seeking to raise $3. 1 million over the next three years to increase its endowment and for capital improvements.
Mr. Josephson, a retired official at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in New York City, was formerly on the staff of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church. He came to the Council in 1955 as personnel officer and assistant treasurer and became director of the American Church Institute (ACI) in 1960.
As director of the ACI, a former Episcopal Church corporation, he sought to improve education opportunities for blacks.
At the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Mr. Josephson served in the personnel department, conducting seminars for the bank's management trainees. Prior to his service with the Executive Council, he was with the First National City Bank of New York for 15 years, where he held various supervisory positions in the foreign department, dealing with personnel, training, and credit reporting.
After retiring from the bank in early 1973, Mr. Josephson spend five months in Singapore in service with the International Executive Service Corps, a New York-based non-profit organization that recruits experienced executives for short-term volunteer assignments abroad. Through IESC, he assisted in the establishment of training facilities for the middle-management of the 47 domestic and foreign banks with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank).
Mr. Josephson will work closely with Dr. Oscar C. Carr, Jr., national executive for development, and with Marts and Lundy, the fund-raising firm which will direct the campaign. Mr. Josephson will have an office at the Episcopal Church Center, the national headquarters of the Episcopal Church, in New York City.
Mr. Carr said concerning the appointment of Mr. Josephson: "I am extremely pleased that Marvin Josephson will be directing the Cuttington College development campaign. He is a great servant of the Church and an extraordinarily talented organizer. I feel that his talents will be utilized in a job suited to him. I am sure that under his guidance the $3. 1 million development campaign will be a success. "
Born in Newark, N. J., December 19, 1910, Mr. Josephson received his B. S. degree and his master's degree in sociology from New York University, where he was an instructor in industrial sociology in the School of Commerce.
He is a member of the American Sociological Society and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
He has been an active lay worker in his parish and in the Diocese of Long Island. Mr. Josephson is married to the former Helen Rafaella Drozd and they have one daughter.