Cuttington Campaign Chairman Named
Diocesan Press Service. May 15, 1975 [75196]
DENVER, Colo. -- The national chairman of the $3.1 million development campaign on behalf of Cuttington College, Suacoco, Liberia, is Dr. John T. Fey of New York City, according to an announcement to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, meeting here May 14-15.
The announcement was made by Dr. Oscar C. Carr, Jr., executive for development of the Episcopal Church Center staff.
Dr. Fey, who is chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S., will head the three-year campaign to provide funds to increase the endowment and to make capital improvements at the Episcopal Church-related college.
Dr. Fey holds graduate degrees from the University of Maryland (LLB), Harvard (MBA), and Yale (JSD). He is the former president of the University of Vermont and of the University of Wyoming.
Dr. Fey is a member of the vestry of Trinity Church, New York City, and of the board of trustees of the Church Pension Fund of the Episcopal Church.
Honorary chairmen of the development campaign are the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; the Rev. Dr. John B. Coburn, rector of St. James' Church, New York City, and president of the House of Deputies of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church; the Hon. William R. Tolbert, Jr., president of the Republic of Liberia; and Mrs. Margaret Bush Wilson, a communicant of All Saints Episcopal Church in St. Louis, and national chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The Rev. Robert R. Parks, rector of Trinity Church, New York City, is leadership gifts chairman, and Mr. James H.W. Jacks, business executive of Dallas, Tex., is special gifts chairman.
The Rt. Rev. George D. Browne, Bishop of Liberia, and chairman of the board of trustees of Cuttington college, will preach at St. James' Episcopal Church, New York City, on September 28, and the active campaign will begin in the fall. Dr. Marvin Josephson, whose office is at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, is executive director of the campaign.